The Kalashnikov Tapes - Part 1: Life Before the AK

[@Barbaroossa]

Bless you, my glorious child. I'm archiving all of this for posterity.

[@randywatson8347]

The love for engineering is universal. Wonderfull to hear how mr. Kalashnikov persuaded his goal.

[@KinoTechUSA69]

I've heard about this meeting but was never able to find it previously, thank you SO MUCH for uploading these.

[@ozo310sk8]

Amazing. Having some beers and watching history on a Saturday night.

[@AA-dn8dj]

Amazing, thanks so much for getting and putting this out.

[@Shellshock1918]

MK seems like he was such a down-to-Earth guy, very modest. He obviously came from humble means.

[@keb5654]

Thank you anon

[@matt4952]

Thank you for posting these videos!

[@NEKOUFar]

The fact that his early prototypes were made by women is a crazy historical detail 35:12, and you can see Kalashnikov smiling wryly as that's being explained

[@anandanurag]

Thank you very much!

[@NEKOUFar]

Oh, I didn't know Ezell died like three years after all these videos he filmed

[@josephk.4200]

I just wish we had a Russian-English speaker who could help give subtitles.

[@StrangerOman]

Translation was quite on point, missing some minor details, but as Russian native myself and with good English skills I see why this is quite difficult to watch without subtitles. You can feel that tension in the air when you have to listen and expect translation from the language you don't know.

[@randywatson8347]

I turned on the translator CC

[@realRainz]

KGB agents sitting on both sides of Kalashnikov

[@Chiller01]

Early shaky cam technique.

[@Cheka__]

Did Kalashnikov steal the mp 44 design

[@Ingsoc75]

Depends on who you ask.

[@user-di5rm9ee1p]

Nope

[@rozkaz661]

The requirement for an automatic weapon in an intermediate cartrige was put foreward by the army and those requirements were likely influenced by the success of the mp44 but the design of the gun that kalashnikov came up with to meet those requirements was not inspired by the mp44 very much at all. He was quite clearly much more inspired by the operating mechanism of the american m1 garand and kalashnikovs operating system is very similar to a garand turned upside down and shares much less comonality with the mp44. Ak's construction, takedown, operation and controlls do not share much comonality with the german design and despite rumours that captured german engineers helped with the ak the soviets considered them a spying danger and did not disclose any secret information to them or involve them in secret projects like the ak47 was at the time.

[@TheSundayShooter]

Winchester 1907 + M1 Garand + STG-44 = AK

[@MrCarGuy]

​@@rozkaz661German engineers were involved in many secret projects post-war. They were very insecure about it, though