He was a good weapons engineer because he knew how to implement good ideas when he saw them. Since the invention of the small arm every improvement has been just that, an improvement or iteration on a previous design or design(s). He was very open about who he took inspiration from, mainly about him borrowing the AKs operating mechanism from the M1 Garand. He was always well respected amongst weapon engineers worldwide.
>Since the invention of the small arm every improvement has been just that, an improvement or iteration on a previous design or design(s).
Yeah this. It's not like the Russians reinvented the wheel but military stuff tends to dovetail into nationalism and jingoism and it becomes a dick-measuring contest although the high-level engineers involved are probably more indifferent to all that.
>Where did MTK get to see a M1 Garand? >Did the US send them to the Soviets as Lend-lease? >in .30-06 it's unlikely
Thats where I doubt some of the "proletariat Tank-driver in hospital sketches wunderwaffe" propaganda.
Maybe he did make some preliminary idea, but the trigger details are suHispanicious.
I could see actual weapon design bureaus having acquired an M1 to study and copy the trigger mechanism.
So at the very least one of the established design bureaus had to have tidied up MTKs rough hospital idea into a workable rifle by copying the M1 trigger mechanism.
Or is the "best american battle-rifle" M1 rrigger design a copy of the Fedorov or SVT that they got an example to copy pre-war?
He had worked as a tractor mechanic and at a low level in a weapons design bureau before being sent to the front as a tanker. Hardly an established genius like JMB but not just some slack-jawed peasant who came up with the idea while staring at the sky.
The design bureau is probably where he got access to the Garand as well, the US was allied with the USSR and while I don’t believe big shipments arrived through lend lease it’s not inconceivable that the designers would get their hands on one or two for testing.
While I understand that you are trying to be cheeky, it was likely a lend lease M1 Garand that Kalashnikov actually copied. >M1 Garand action and trigger + STG44 ergonomics = AK47
>STG44 ergonomics
Might as well be PPSH ergonomics. Or Fedorov ergonomics. Or Mondragon ergonomics. Or Vetterli ergonomics, because, you know, magazine rifles weren't new.
>I wonder how he came up with his brilliant designs?
Well Op... I don't see parts that will fit im my AK's.
Maybe the safety lever or trigger if I install them with a 2Lb blacksmith hammer.
He was a good weapons engineer because he knew how to implement good ideas when he saw them. Since the invention of the small arm every improvement has been just that, an improvement or iteration on a previous design or design(s). He was very open about who he took inspiration from, mainly about him borrowing the AKs operating mechanism from the M1 Garand. He was always well respected amongst weapon engineers worldwide.
uhm acktually he based his design off the stg 44. we know this because the two rifles look the same. maybe look at wikipedia sometime before posting
isn't it a bit late for you to be posting here? Don't you have school tomorrow?
You buffoon, hes being sarcastic
Didn't the m1 itself borrow elements of its gas system from the rsc1918?
Correct
>Since the invention of the small arm every improvement has been just that, an improvement or iteration on a previous design or design(s).
Yeah this. It's not like the Russians reinvented the wheel but military stuff tends to dovetail into nationalism and jingoism and it becomes a dick-measuring contest although the high-level engineers involved are probably more indifferent to all that.
>Where did MTK get to see a M1 Garand?
>Did the US send them to the Soviets as Lend-lease?
>in .30-06 it's unlikely
Thats where I doubt some of the "proletariat Tank-driver in hospital sketches wunderwaffe" propaganda.
Maybe he did make some preliminary idea, but the trigger details are suHispanicious.
I could see actual weapon design bureaus having acquired an M1 to study and copy the trigger mechanism.
So at the very least one of the established design bureaus had to have tidied up MTKs rough hospital idea into a workable rifle by copying the M1 trigger mechanism.
Or is the "best american battle-rifle" M1 rrigger design a copy of the Fedorov or SVT that they got an example to copy pre-war?
He had worked as a tractor mechanic and at a low level in a weapons design bureau before being sent to the front as a tanker. Hardly an established genius like JMB but not just some slack-jawed peasant who came up with the idea while staring at the sky.
The design bureau is probably where he got access to the Garand as well, the US was allied with the USSR and while I don’t believe big shipments arrived through lend lease it’s not inconceivable that the designers would get their hands on one or two for testing.
While I understand that you are trying to be cheeky, it was likely a lend lease M1 Garand that Kalashnikov actually copied.
>M1 Garand action and trigger + STG44 ergonomics = AK47
thanks Brandon
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Plus Remington 8 safety.
>STG44 ergonomics
Might as well be PPSH ergonomics. Or Fedorov ergonomics. Or Mondragon ergonomics. Or Vetterli ergonomics, because, you know, magazine rifles weren't new.
Where would he have gotten access to a Model 8? Even the FN produced ones would have been rare I imagine.
My dream gun is this rechambered in 350 legend. I will make it happen even if I need to buy a mill/CNC and learn gunsmithing myself
I want one in 7.62x39
Would you a sporter stock AK?
These are chambered in the (No Joke) 300 Savage cartage.
>I wonder how he came up with his brilliant designs?
Well Op... I don't see parts that will fit im my AK's.
Maybe the safety lever or trigger if I install them with a 2Lb blacksmith hammer.
my god it has a similar safety!
Also nothing else in common, you fucking idiot.