The History of the AK-74
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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At 9:08 that pic of the AKS-74 is from Will Scary's channel: www.youtube.com/@WillScaryForCandy
One small note that in no way should detract from the quality and effort of the result. You kept saying "automatov kalashnikov". "Automatov" is not a word. The word you were looking for is "avtomat".
@@AB0BA_69 "Avtomatov" is correct and it's one of the plurals of "Avtomat" the other being "Avtomaty", but slap did use it incorrectly, he already has enough trouble pronouncing Russian words and names but he did give it a good try
@@corporalcorgi4948 You are right, "avtomatov" is plural in the *genitive* case. It's not a case that I have ever heard used for this topic - hence my assumption. My point was that it is incorrect to use any plural for "avtomat" when you are just referring to the rifle by name.
Hey could you make this kind of videos an April fools tradition?
@@Atomic_Pinneaple It already is, my friend
The fact this uses Ahoy's music makes this even better, well done.
ICONIC ARMS!
yo I heard that!!! I love Ahoy. Best videos about firearms I've ever seen. I mainly like him because I'm a game developer and it just shows me how they snuck into the games, and why.
@@totallynotaurexiusfrfr seen all of 'em
I was just about to comment the same thing lol love that series (and of course the channel too)
As a firearms and history lover I was completely dumbfounded when I went to look for more videos like this and noticed the entire catalog was 99% Nascar. This is one of the best videos I have ever seen on youtube. Please do more on guns and maybe even guitars or something. I'd be your number 1 fan
you havent probably seen a lot of real good videos. this is bullshit.
same
Same
Guitars?! Thats random although I love it!!!
@@Middyman43 a lot of history out there about guitars
This is the best type of April Fools video, one that's completely serious and in line with what the creator makes but just of a different topic out of left field.
A lot of fuddlore sadly, but good enough for someone who doesn't really care about guns, better tha nexpected. For an april 1st joke video this is actually great!
This video is honestly better as a basics video for new gun hobbyists than the crap we had as kids in the early 2000s TV documentaries.
Alternative title : history of all modern Soviet assault rifles in a nutshell
I still dont know what the joke was T_T
@@simonw0131 the video isn't straight to the point, it's all about the roundabouts
LoL👍🏻
It caught me so off guard that one of the most amazing firearm videos I’ve seen is on a profile of mainly nascar/racing, such a good video and teaches quite a lot
I’m into motorsports and I didn’t even know this was a racing related channel
And then there's "the brief history of Spam"
If there are two things southern boys like...
The AK-74. Half the worlds supply of them are sitting in my Tarkov stash right now
Lmao
It's a workhorse in that game.
I tend not to buy guns, but find and loot and fix them. Other folks might be running meta kits, but their overhead is insane. AK-74s are easy to use, cheap to feed, and they're *everywhere*.
@@Mikesulli90 yep, get some decent cheap mods and load some high-mid tier ammo like some BP and for 75-100k ish you got a rifle that can carry you all wipe for a reasonable price. You can get a good rifle early wipe too, and usually people won’t take them so you’ll get them back in insurance
3:42 my favorite moment
"Enter one Mikhail Kalashnikov"
*Ahoy's Iconic Arms theme plays*
All the OGs know the xbox ahoy music
@@the_neo_crusader I first watched His Bow and Minigun videos than from there I watched others like the M1911, Spas 12 etc
No joke, you seriously have a gift. You could narrate anything and make it interesting, but combine that with your video skills and you are a notch above the rest. I mean that.
Also, add to that his attention to detail and factual accuracy. Top notch
I agree!
I think the simple advantages of ease of handling recoil for repeated shots, larger magazine capacities, and substantially lighter ammunition per round are a lot more important than the whole 'injuring not killing' thing
Ya he purported an absolute mythology instead of the facts.
5.56/5.45 Injuring not killing is long-standing fudd-lore
The mag capacity is the same...
@@alijankhan3330 The 20 round magazine of an M14, FAL, G3, or any other full caliber service weapon is not the same capacity as a 30 round STANAG or AK magazine.
@@alijankhan3330 the Russian military does make use of 60 round quad stacks but yes magazine capacity is the same between 47-74 though the weight of the ammo is nearly halved. typically that 60 round casket mag is used for the RPK
This is like a better, more in depth version of Ahoys videos. Can tell it's made by a gun owner instead of a gamer.
For me, the AK-74 is by far one of the most beautiful assault rifles that has ever existed, the beautiful wood, the 5.45x39mm caliber and the characteristic muzzle brake make this assault rifle one of the most beautiful weapons ever for me! I can't really put into words how much I love this weapon.....just a great instrument full of love and charm.
How about Type-81😁😁?
Same to be honest
You do realize googling brand names isn’t impressive, right?
You’re literally just a Soviet fetishist who have never touched a gun in his life and saw the gun in call of duty.
A few people have mentioned it already, but I love how this is inspired by Ahoy's Iconic Arms series. From the background music, the history, and the profound conclusion. Great work.
As someone who is into both NASCAR and firearms, this was a very surprising video to see come from you, but it was a welcome one! Thanks S1ap!!!
Hey! Cool video, I wanted to correct the misconception that the 5.56 round was developed and adopted because of its greater wounding potential.
The initial US military requirements for an improvement to the M14 led to a joint development between Fairchild industries (who owned Armalite) who developed the M-16, and Remington who developed a cartridge to go along with the gun. The key points of the program's requirements were the very low maximum weight of the rifle, and the very high muzzle velocity (needed because speed defeats armor) So obviously the mechanisms to handle a heavy, high recoil bullet like a 7.62x51 round were out of the question, and they drew upon inspiration from the UK's experimentation with a .280 caliber round just after the war.
High velocity also increases effective range given the light weight of the bullets. Both the M16 and AK74 have further effective range than the akm and carry more ammunition.
I cringed when I heard that lol
Yes, he was spouting some horse manure there!
When the April fools video is better made and more accurate then 90% of Gun tuber videos. Love it
One thing I'll point out though, the "74" isn't just coincidence. It's referring to 1974.
@@RT-qd8ylThis is stated in the video: the "coincidence" is just that the models were yeared as 1947 and 1974 which are the same numbers in a different order.
Aside from the "5.56mm was designed to wound" myth, it's not bad. The wound argument was invented to sell the concept to the brass and Congress (an argument which had been going on since WWII), but it was never actually true. 5.56mm is very effective at killing, as it was designed to do, and the true purpose of going to lighter ammunition was simply to carry and fire more rounds per person.
There's also a slew of minor errors and nitpicks. AK-47 is a misnomer, the correct designation is simply AK (milled receiver) or AKM (stamped receiver). The Type 56 is more closely related to the SKS in its mechanical function, although it appears and is furnished like an AK. He misidentifies "green tip" as M85 instead of M855, which itself is technically a derivation of Belgian SS109 ammunition. The AK-12 program's final production model was deemed AK-15, but this isn't mentioned.
But I won't harp on him for pronunciation of all the foreign words in the video, I can read a little Cyrillic and speak very poor French but I probably couldn't do much better.
@@ChrisSmith-mi2zo the Type 56 is very much a Chinese version of the Russian AK47 Type 3 (milled receiver, type 1 were stamped that had major rivet issues). The Chinese rifle you’re thinking of that closely resembles the SKS is the Type 81, not the Type 56 mentioned in this video.
@@ChrisSmith-mi2zo The AK Type 1 is stamped, the Type 2 and 3 AK's are milled
Today isn’t just April Fool’s Day
It’s National S1apSh0es posts anything non-motorsports related Day!
he needs to pin this comment
Great video, but there is one key piece of info you missed. The PK, AK, and SKS were all requested about the same time, they were meant to complement the squad you talked about earlier. The AK was supposed to fill the role of a SMG but have ammo interchangeably with the SKS. But the Soviets found that the AK could full the role of the SKS too, so they started to manufacture it over the SKS
Just to add to this, the SKS was produced in 1945 and technically saw a little use at the end of WWII. The AK entered service in 1947 as an SMG like you say, but only when the stamped AKM was produced in 1956 was it used in the role of a rifle and made standard, replacing the SKS.
actually, the MG platform that was supposed to compliment AK and SKS when those two were adopted was RPD, PK platform was developed closer to the end of 1960s along with AKM
@@ChrisSmith-mi2zo Not quite. In 1945 the 7.62 cartridge was actually 7.62x41, not 7.62x39, so the prototype SKS at that time was chambered in a prototype round. The production SKS as we now see it, in 7.62x39, was adopted in 1949.
The "AK47" was a prototype in 1947 and wasn't adopted until 1949, being simply called AK.
@DOOMAO the PKM wasn’t completely replaced tho, as the heavier round is better for some things. For example the vehicle mounted version. But yes for infantry for the most part it was replaced by the RPD/RPK
Edit (yes I know the RPD and RPK aren’t the same gun)
@Doom The RPD replaced the DPM at squad level alongside the other 7.62x39 weapons. The PK replaced the carriage mounted Maxim at platoon level.
The PK was issued to the support squad of a platoon which included the grenadier (RPG gunner) the Sniper (SVD replaced the PU Mosin), and platoon leaders. As well as radioman etc.
The RPD and later RPK was issued to the rest of the platoon's squads which were called the assault squads. These had the Riflemen (AK) and so-called hand held machine gunners (RPD/RPK).
The thing about 5.56 being "designed to wound instead of kill" is completely false. All rounds tumble on impact. The reason that 5.56 is so special is that a soldier can carry much more of it without sacrificing too much lethality. The lesser recoil also makes it easier for someone to put multiple rounds on target.
Everyone in the military know that the 556 is made to wound. Older more powerful rounds just over penetrate with large amounts of energy left in the bullet has it keeps traveling beyond the target.
556 is less stable and more easily dump all the energy in the target. Doing more damage than larger calibers.
@@RoniiNNAre you really that stupid? Please say no.
Exactly. Such a dumb myth that persists.
@@RoniiNNexcept it’s not made to wound and literally no one in the military or with any firearm knowledge thinks that it is. Nor does anyone care what you or anyone else “thinks”. The facts aren’t on your side. There is no such thing as the standard caliber of an army “being meant to wound and not kill”.
@@cococock2418 The standard NATO caliber is the 556.
Maneuver and suppression is more important than having a big round that "kills".
The infantry pins the opposition in place while the artillery kills the enemy not rifles. rifles is just self defense weapon in a strategic contexts of a army for the individual soldier.
Didn't expect this video to be as comprehensive, coherent, or as well-produced as it was. Well done.
I guess because of the engineering background.
I am a big supporter of people branching out on this platform, so bravo Slap. I've always wanted an AK-74, I even ordered one once but the stupid gun shop didn't come through and I got my deposit refunded after like 8 months. I had to settle for buying a stripped AR lower and getting the parts to build an AR that is chambered in 5.45x39. I call it my AR-74. Keep up the good work.
You can get ak's now in all sorts of wacky chambers and sizes. It's pretty awesome what some companies have done with the platform. From the draco in 9mm to the saiga 12 semi auto shotgun. You can also find them fairly cheap nowadays, not like 10 years ago when you were looking to spend thousands.
😂😂😂
This is a video I never expected to see from this channel whatsoever.
Next year needs to be like an overview on prepping 😂
He shuld have made that prepper video this year. We might not have a next year........
0:10 civ div
Honestly would not mind your narration style on videos outside of NASCAR like this, really excellent video overall
Even knowing S1ap makes a non-racing video on April Fools, I saw the thumbnail and title (not who it was by), and thought, "Oh, Garand Thumb posted a video." Then I saw it was by S1apSh0es. I'm impressed! Well done!
Incidentally Garand Thumb DID upload as well. Highly recommend it if you haven't seen it yet
This is what my teacher in presentation class had always talked, referenced and bolstered about. An ideal presentation by the book. You captivated me by the curiosity of why this model was made and not this model made what. Its truly an impressive video not about the contents alone but the execution of context you instill in a receiver's mind. Ochen Khoroshiy Tovarish!
When I first got to my unit in Viet Nam they warmed me the M16 was prone to jamming!! No good...some Special Forces guys carried AK47's for its reliability but they could get into real trouble if caught by our superiors......outstanding video!!
Reminds me of that one soldier in Skull Island that prefered the AK better
Some Special Forces did carry the AK 47 in Vietnam but it wasnt because the M16 had reliability issues. Most all special units in Vietnam speak favorably of the M16. If you look, most of the personnell in Vietnam that carried foreign weapons werent American soldiers at all, but were indigenous troops attached to US units.
I was there and I know what I experienced there.@@brucecamparmament3728
3:00 actually StG44 production was limited by ammunition supply, because while eventually, sure it could've replaced two roles… while it's being rolled out, it's just yet another new type of round, in yet another new pattern of magazine. The Germans didn't want to disrupt supply of existing proven rounds for the small arms already in the field.
Contrary to popular belief, the STG wasn't the first.
The STG was actually designed to use already existing ammo and magazines in use in MKb42 rifles. So in other words STG magazines are actually MKb magazines.
The reason why the STG exists in the first place was because the MKb and its round proved itself against the soviets.
@@Turgz That's true. The StG-44 is a further development of the MKb rifles. The StG-44 was still the first assault rifle to be put into large scale production, and adopted on a large scale.
There is also the equally interesting StG-45(M), which uses a roller-delayed blowback system. It was a refinement of the MKb Gerät 06 prototype. It was cheaper and easier to produce but came too late in the war to see wider use. But it would eventually lead to the development of the CETME rifle, and the better known HK G3 rifle.
@@Bagster321 Yes the key point is that the Stg was the first mass issued intermediate rifle, not the first to be used.
Didn't expecting a gun video from a Nascar channel
I didn’t expect it to take this long
Guns ✅
NASCAR ✅
Yep, this indeed is ‘Murica 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@sandalogaming6766 You forgot the beer, homefry! That's just un-American!
@@sandalogaming6766 MURICA BABY RAAAAAHHHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅
@@darksu6947 S1ap has mentioned his love for Miller Lite on the channel several times.
I see you did some cursory research, but fell for a few popular misconceptions.
1) Mikhail didn't develop the AK-47 out of nowhere on his first try. He tried to design several types of firearms for different weapons trials (sometimes as part of the team, sometimes heading it) and was consistently rejected before finding success with the AK-47.
2) There's a lot of back and forth about the development and adoption of 7.62x51mm, the FAL and the M14 with a lot of bitter piss and vinegar poured on the M14 we ultimately got. It's really not a terrible weapon and it was selected largely due to better resilience in arctic conditions. A lot of people who generally do know what they're talking about still hold this view, but in my opinion you'd have to intentionally misread history to get there. The M14 did have huge problems during and after development, but there were reasons for the adoption of both it and it's caliber beyond the US Ordnance Board being dumb, corrupt or lacking imagination.
3) 5.56mm wasn't designed to wound. There may have been some cope rationale about the secondary benefits of wounding an enemy but really it's about tricking physics. You see, the big advantage is lighter ammunition, lighter gun and lighter recoil. But in order to not have performance be completely useless, they found that at high enough velocity the small caliber bullet tumbles and fragments. This doesn't deliver the same power as say 7.62x51mm, but by stopping inside the target instead of plowing through it is able to transfer a larger proportion of the energy it has. This is similar to the concept of using hollow-point handgun ammunition for self defense, only while retaining the use of FMJ ammunition as required under the Hauge Convention. Soviets doubled down on this concept with 5.45x39mm by adding a hollow cavity under the bullet jacket primarily to shift the center of gravity towards the back for better ballistics, but it also allows the bullet's nose to crush or bend on impact so that it can veer off and tumble more reliably inside the target.
All of this is to make up a bit for the disparity from moving away from full size battle rifle cartridges, and they still aren't as powerful, but plenty lethal. Intermediate calibers are absolutely designed to kill as much as possible within their size/weight/recoil constraints.
4) The AK-74 is a bit more than a re-chambered AK-47 with a different magazine, although that is possible. While it works pretty much the same way, the AK-74 was re-designed completely from the inside out with very few parts backwards interchangeable with the AKM (which was the stamped steel AK-47 in widespread use at the time).
Some of this was done on purpose because the USSR was actually looking to license the design to other socialist countries already using AKM derivatives, so that they would have to pay to use new tooling which the USSR wanted a fortune for. To clarify this wasn't for patents, but rather a comprehensive technical data package (plans, tooling and expert assistance), which was common practice for aircraft and armored vehicles as well. Several countries like Bulgaria and East Germany forked up a good chunk of foreign reserve currency for this task which the USSR badly needed in the 1970s and 1980s, but Romania is a notable exception. They reverse engineered a local design based on their existing locally made AKMs which was adapted to the new caliber and magazine pattern. Poland also designed their own just in time for communism to collapse and for the whole project to end up being pointless.
5) The use of the AK-74 nowadays is actually kind of rare outside of ex-USSR nations. 5.45mm came pretty late in the game and partially due to the licensing fees few countries really wanted to adopt it or pay for the new rifle design. 7.62x39mm remains by far the more common rifle cartridge worldwide and is still abundant within Russian stockpiles. We are seeing plenty of 74s in use in the current Russo-Ukrainian war but that's pretty much the exception. Everyone else has for the most part either stuck with 7.62x39mm or moved on to 5.56mm which is far more abundant and with a far more fleshed out developmental ecosystem.
6) The SKS was not the Soviet equivalent to the M1 Garand, that would have been the SVT-40. Instead the SKS would have been a replacement for the M44 Carbine, putting itself as more of an equivalent to the M1 Carbine. This is kind of strange since it is obviously much bulkier than the M1 Carbine, and it really didn't have a place in Soviet infantry doctrine once the AK-47/AKM came along. It was licensed out and saw a lot of success particularly with the Chinese, but was always kind of an odd duck. The Chinese actually used it rather than the AK as the basis for their Type 81 family of assault rifles, so there's that.
i believe china has a version of a "74" as well as north korea as well. The dominant firearm is however still the 47/akm.
They are not misconceptions, they are just the same old tired 20th century tropes. Western idea of the SKS is a misconception. SKS was a field army carbine, supported by RPD as LMG and SG-43 as field MMG. AK was a mechanized army select fire carbine, supported by unified GPMG PK-M platform. SKS /RPD had their place during the development of the entirely new industrial process that AK/PK required, a process which took a decade to complete.
Thanks for your interesting comments. You explain something I've wonder about for a long time, as to why there is no "milspec" AK. I assumed in the interest of "socialist brotherhood" the Soviet Union would be glad to license the AK47, and the AK74 free of charge is for no other reason that to have massive standardized production capability.
It's east to forget some of the Warsaw Pact countries were actually richer per capita than the USSR and Russia was more than willing to milk them, socialist brotherhood or not.
Chill dude he normally does nascar videos he did a pretty good job for a April fools joke
I think he said after countless designs in the ak 47 part.
7:20 Doesn't kill instantly? WTF are you talking about? In theory a smaller bullet will do less damage but it's still more than enough to kill a human. Also that smaller bullet is travelling at a higher velocity. The thinking was more along the lines of being able to carry more ammo and having less recoil.
Found this video on a whim, I am never unsubbing now.
This is hands down the best, most well done and time efficient video I have ever seen on youtube. Extremely well done video, good information, great music choice, amazing narration.
11/10.
One of the best damn videos on this platform, and extremely deserving of my "Gems of UA-cam" playlist.
Thank you for this video ❤
I can hear the "Iconic Arms" music in the background. You're a even bigger man of culture than I expected, still a great April Fool's video too
Love how Slap always makes a crazy video but the only meme is the topic, and it’s still a well-made, high-quality video on something he’s passionate about, just not NASCAR.
I'm late to the party, but I didn't expect an actual, informative video as an April Fools joke. Seeing a refresher of the AK's history was neat to hear in Slap's voice.
The "calibers designed to wound" narrative is a joke derived from Boomer lore and Vietnam memes
@@TheSundayShooter Thanks for dissecting the boomer lore from the rest of the informative video. I would've never known about it without your insight.
@@aggrodkreg4321 Bet
5:14 *known as the AVTOMAT Kalashnikova (meaning the automatic (rifle) of Kalashnikov).
I wish Slap not only made NASCAR videos but all videos alike he is great at these kinds of videos and it would bring in a wider fan base. This video was really entertaining but also gave cool facts.
This is part of what I love about S1ap; his April Fool's videos are held to the same high standard as his regular output, but with a topic that's completely different to NASCAR and racing in general.
As someone with an interest in firearms, I'd be happy to see more gun content from you.
The Ahoy-esque backround music makes this even better! Truely a high effort sh!tpost.
This really feels like a sequal to his AK-47 video. Well done S1ap.
Bruh it does not feel right calling this a shitpost. I know he's a racing YTer, but DAMN.
It isn't just "Ahoy-esque" the music is from Ahoy. He has a bandcamp page where you can buy it.
Always used the Ak-74 on COD Black Ops, was one of my favorites, but never knew the histoy. Loved this video because i'm a history nut, especially a war history nut. Always love learning about the guns, planes, ships, and the equipment used.
also this is an april fools video
On Black Ops. It’s not the correct name.
It’s actually AKS-74u
Its a great video, and im finishing it, and i really appreciate your effort to say it in Rusian but its "avtomat" not "avtomatov". One more time, you great!
Well if NASCAR videos ever stop working for you, this was incredible. Well done.
Those who don't know Slapshoes always does a random topic for April 1st every year. Last year was on Spam, before that was a Smash Bros Tournement. So everyone who's triggered/confused hope this clears this up.
Slap is no longer asking to keep the short tracks open
brandon herrera wants to know your location
We need more iconic arms style videos. I’d love to see more of this!
Ah yes, the April fools slap upload, quality as always
Bro came out of nowhere and made a masterpiece of a video for an April fools joke. Well done sir.
Excellent video on the AK-74 best one Ive seen yet, well done.
>cars channel
>makes the most interesting documentary about a gun for april fools
>the most popular video in the last ~3 years
>back to cars
Absolute chad
Slap, you absolutely have the editing and writing skills to make an entertaining video on something completely out of your typical wheel house. I know this was just a 4/1 joke, but please consider uploading videos on non-track/race topics IF there's something out there that happens to interest you. Awesome job, mate!
IMO the whole "shoot to wound" thing is complete fuddlore. The rationale with both the 5.45 and 5.56 is that they offer good enough performance in a light package and allow people to carry more rounds compared to a similar number of a heavier gun/ammo.
I remember telling some kids about it. They laughed and called me a liar. They said I had just swapped the numbers around.
This is an April Fools video? Dude, this is so good, imagine my surprise when I found out you made this mostly as a joke to what you normally do. This is probably the most informative April Fools joke video I have ever seen. So, thanks for sharing it!
One thing that was not mentioned is that, as far as I know, the AK-12 doesn't have a universally bad rep in the current conflict, but the early versions (you can tell them apart by the M4-buffer-tube style stocks) are hated as they tend to be the ones with the most issues while soldiers are more than happy to grab the modernised version instead
Well, this is what I could gather from following the war myself atleast
The modernized version also dropped the burst feature
A misconception about the AK 47 is that it was based on the Sturmgewehr 44 but actually it’s much closer in design to the M1 Garand but with full auto capabilities
More of an inspiration rather being based on it
@@rocky-zx6kq if you look at the gas system of the Automat Kolashnikova it’s pretty much identical to that of the M1 except flipped over.
Getting this recommended and not realize your getting trolled is hilarious
Honestly its one of the best, and most objective documentary on an Ak74
This is a fantastic video. As always.
Outstanding video, you managed to fit the right amount of technical informations and
Historical background in a very compact and cohesive video that gives an olistic view on the history of the rifle and why/how it came to be.
Simple and effective editing.
Love from Italy
PS: I just realized from the comments that firearms are not your usual topic. You should seriously consider opening another channel based on them. I would whatch your videos anytime!
I never know what Slap is going to deliver on April 1st, I know it won't be NASCAR but I also know it won't disappoint and this year was no exception.
Excellent video, brief note. The AK-47 is not designed to replace the rifle in soviet squads, it's made to replace the submachine gun. The SKS replaced the rifle, and a change in doctrine from accurate, precise fire to covering fire makes the SKS, with its ten round internal magazine, insufficient. Good video overall.
wait, this is a NASCAR channel?? i can even consider this an April fools joke because of how well made it is, lol!
Avg engagement 400 yards? ..That's a very misleading thing to say in regards to that gun.
I thought this was a nascar channel but I like guns so I'll take it 😂😂😂
I would love this to be more than an April fool's joke
The StG looks so unlike its WW2 contemporaries that I still sometimes do a double take when I see a photo from the period and go like "A WW2 soldier with a modern assault rifle? Nope, just the StG."
Fantastic mini-doc. Never saw this content coming. Hope you’ll consider doing more like it along with your great NASCAR content.
I’d love to see a similar video on the venerable CZ-75 or the Galil
Ace video, thanks. Make more!
Really good video overall with a couple small issues with fuddlore.
556/5.45 main advantage is weight savings which translates into soldier loadouts being much higher.
100 rnds of 308 in mags = same weight as 330 rnds of 556 loaded.
5.45 is even noticably lighter than 7.62x39 let alone x54r.
AKs were not cheap to produce, AKM stamped receivers were cheaper to produce, but still required large complex factories.
Many were sold cheap as surplus post Soviet Union or given away to friendly nations as aid deflating the market and making them sell cheap.
I run an SLR 106 and SLR 107 in carbine competitions. Live the AK-74/100 lineup.
The Type 56 is also not really an AK, its operation is closer to an SKS with the tilting bolt.
bro was really playing the iconic arms theme
I can see the Ahoy influence. Great video.
The Ahoy Iconic Guns music XD
Absolutely fantastic work. A great overview with only 1 or 2 oversimplifications
Genuine question, what makes this an april fools video? That it doesnt align with his usual content?
As a self diagnosed gun nut I didn't find anything untrue in the video. I was actually pretty amazed as to how well it was made, and if it werent for the comments i wouldnt have even noticed it was posted on april 1st.
Yeah, on April Fool's Day every year I just make a video completely disconnected from motorsports.
MAKE THIS CONTENT MORE THAN AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE BRO THIS IS GOOD
Another very important point regarding the switch from 7.62 to 5.45 is that 5.45 is a smaller and lighter cartridge, meaning you can transport more for the same cost and fit more in the same space.
Especially in the case of the Soviet where ammo is stored in tin cans and air dropped in Afghanistan. Switching to 545 almost doubled the ammo inside each cans.
It ain't April Fools without a Slapshoes video on the most random thing in the world. 😅
That background music/sound. Ahoy vibes intensify
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan was actually in support of the peoples army they were rebelling against an extreme far right islamist government. The US responded by training Mujahedeen fighters to resist and that famously worked out quite well for them /s
copege
Kinda crazy how people just forget this
@just_a_turtle_chad people also forget the US plan to commit terrorist attacks on their own people to justify invading Cuba.. surely they wouldn't try that again in 2001 with CIA assets trained in Florida to justify the invasion of Iraq which at the time was ripe with natural resources such as oil. Don't say that, because they definitely wouldn't do that.
On the German squad logistics: it's absurd to think the rifle and machine gun may as well use different cartridges because one uses stripper clips, the other belts. It still massively simplifies industrial and logistical operations. The point is that it removes a whole layer of complexity in the logistical network.
Any frontline soldier can load a belt or a clip. It's very simple to allocate those rounds. Also, most of the actual firepower was in the machine gun. A rifleman might carry 50 rounds. A machinegunner, far more.
Wow .. I didn’t expect a very good and articulate video of an eastern weapon from a western perspective..
one of the best videos of Ak74 out here in UA-cam !!
So I guess this is the April fools vid?
#10:20 great video but you are wrong here the Soviets went in to protect a secular government in Afghanistan that was under siege by fundamentalist muslims armed and trained by the cia.
I love how ppl say 74 is 47’s little brother its weirdly wholesome to me
Bros content is:
NASCAR>NASCAR>AK74>NASCAR>NASCAR
Genius.
The tip of the bullet does NOT crumble, the secret to the 5.45 bullets lethality was the air space in front allowed the steel core to move forward on impact and destabilize the bullet, giving it a tumble, a huge wound cavity, and an unpredictable path.
The rest of the show was awesome.
7N6 (the original service cartridge) was actually fairly atrocious from a terminal ballistics standpoint. It fragments around 1/3rd of the rate that M193 (original 5.56 service cartridge) does.
Man the GP series of underbarrel grenade launchers go with AK74 rifles so well aesthetically, like it’s just so smoothly united with its rifle, the M203, in my opinion at least, looks like it’s awkwardly fitted and cumbersome on M4/M16/AR15 pattern rifles.
The development of the StG-44 was a revolution in land warfare. It’s impact was on the same level as the jet-engine, proximity-fuse, and the XXI submarine. Each one made everything that came before irrelevant.
BTW- many firearms historians now doubt that Kalashnikov actually had anything to do with the AK-47. The true developer was almost certainly the German genius firearms designer Hugo (?) Schmisser who happened to have been conveniently kidnapped by the NKVD and forcible relocated to the Soviet Union to work for the USSR and magically never credited with any future designs. He worked at the same time as the Kalashnikov came into existence. Schmisser was never allowed to return to his homeland in Germany, and as I said, never actually credited with any work, what do you think he was doing for those 20 years?
This is a myth. The AK was designed and prototyped at factory No 2 in Kovrov. Kalashnikov didn't move to Izhevsk (where Hugo was detained) until 1948, when the AK-47 was being ordered already.
@@dos_gringos9853 isn’t it interesting though that Kalashnikov never invented anything else after that? Also Kalashnikov made the original sketch’s for the assault rifle that bears his name, but ones it was approve it’s development was taken away from him and completed by another Soviet designer whose name escapes me. It was during this time that I suspect Schmisser could have been used to complete the refinement of the rifle and evolved into its publicly announced form.
I always considered this a conspiracy theory myself. But slowly I am beginning to think that there is something to it. The dates and projects line up very nicely. Plus what was he doing there then? And why didn’t Kalashnikov ever design anything else? It’s too convenient to be a convenience.
@@WorshipinIdols He was the lead designer of the AKM and the AK-74 project, as well as the PK series of belt fed machine guns(after the completion of the AK-47). The AK bolt locking system is fundamentally different than the STG 44 or Hugo's previous designs, as it uses a long stroke piston and a rotating bolt. Mikhail Kalashnikov however, had already used that long stroke gas piston rotating bolt combo in his previous design, a self-loading rifle that lost out to the SKS. In addition he also drew inspiration from the M1 Garand's design, which uses a long stroke gas piston and a rotating bolt. One of these weapon designers has a history behind the design of the AK and the other does not.
@@dos_gringos9853 this is true, the second part. The first I never heard of. Thank you I’ll look it up on my own time. Take care.
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You voice look like Morgan Freeman.
I want to correct something:
The US adopted the 5.56x45 cartridge for its comprable stopping power from the tumbling and yaw it causes, not because it would “wound” a target instead of killing.
Another thing is that the new cartridge would allow people to carry double the ammunition for nearly the same weight.
Great material, not overtalked, to the point yet specific and acurate. Thank you
I've watched many videos about fire arms but I learned a lot in this one
Bruh the fact that this reeled in way more than his usual videos... Damn I love your regular content, but this is good, keep that in mind. Although I must say I for large parts of the videos almost started thinking I was watching Ahoy
The Chinese plagiarism of the Soviet AK47 for their Type 56 was no where close to the extent of your copied editing from Ahoy.
7n6 is no joke it punches steel shooting targets ive retired a few with that ammo.
I went thru basic training during the late 70s and was told somewhat repeatedly it's better to wound than to kill -- not out of humanity -- because a wounded soldier exhaust more of the opponent's human capital in giving assistance and reduce fighting power. so this video got it right in this aspect.
I've never heard this argument for adopting 5.56 before. All I've ever heard about it before is that people liked the idea of carrying more ammo for the same weight.
Great presentation brother! My next rifle will be the AK. Gotta love those 7.62.
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east meets west made this rifle now it fights for east and west thats a hard line based in truth ak platform prolific used the world over for good and bad a real piece of history this was a great video
The 74 is probably the beat gun ever made.