Mikhail Kalashnikov won't be down for Breakfast

[68sportsatelliteragtop]

Too bad he didn't have a dollar for everyone of his AK's built......

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/w...-era-ak-47-weapon-is-dead-at-age-94.html?_r=0

 

[Budnicks]

He was a great gun/rifle designer it seems, lived a long life & died @ 94 y/o & yeah that was a iconic weapon AK-47, especially in the cold war era, socialism has a way of not letting their people reap the benefits of all of their hard labor/work/time...

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Probably the most copied weapon/riffle/gun too

 

[Richard Cranium]

Someone like him should have gone out out with a bang.

 

[68sportsatelliteragtop]

Someone like him should have gone out out with a bang.

He probably would have preferred that to a month in the ICU.......

 

[Meep-Meep]

WOW! Shocking but not so shocking. Brilliant machinist, inventor and technician. RIP.

 

[Moparsmitty]

A brilliant inventor, and general all around tinkerer. Not many serious gun guys that I know that don't know all about Mr. K.

 

[MarPar]

RIP commie boy. and all this time I thought his first name was Alexander for the "A" in AK...

 

[S.I. Coronet]

This person actually affected the human race, whether good or bad, unlike Justin Beiber or Kayne West and their fake media propaganda following.

 

['67Satellite]

RIP commie boy. and all this time I thought his first name was Alexander for the "A" in AK...

A is for avtomat, as in automatic. Too bad for Mikhail, but old people have been known to die.

 

[cryplydog]

he was just another copycat commie, I think the story was that in ww- II he was a tanker and had came across one of the very few produced Nazi assult rifles called the stermgravere or something meaning night wolf. this was the first assult rifle and the commie basically copied the design. this was well documented on the history channel. the primitive tooling and fixtureing was unbeleiveable. not trying to ruffle feathers here but I 'll keep my brown rifles and I guess the black ones too.

 

[Photon440]

he was just another copycat commie, I think the story was that in ww- II he was a tanker and had came across one of the very few produced Nazi assult rifles called the stermgravere or something meaning night wolf. this was the first assult rifle and the commie basically copied the design. this was well documented on the history channel. the primitive tooling and fixtureing was unbeleiveable. not trying to ruffle feathers here but I 'll keep my brown rifles and I guess the black ones too.

While it's likely that Kalashnikov was influenced by the German Sturmgewehr, he didn't copy it. Already designing weapons at the time (his tank days ended a couple of years earlier due to injuries) his own assault rifle was vastly different mechanically from the Nazi weapon. Besides the German gun, while an advanced idea, suffered by coming out too late in the war when precision machine shops and high quality steel were hard to come by, so the weapon was heavier and more fragile that it should have been. The AK-47 was famous for being able to withstand rugged conditions and dirt.

But that's not what I was thinking about when I heard of his death. I was thinking of his vodka.