Is the AK-47 The Ultimate Assault Rifle? | Weapons That Changed The World | War Stories

meet an infantryman's best friend the

assault

rifle

is light, easy to load and Rapid Fire is no one's business no

assault

rifle

is a spear, this is the Russian AK-47 and it has the highest body count of any firearm in history, the AK revolutionized the

world

since its explosive Cold War debut the rest of the

world

has tried to match and surpass it now we are pitting the AK against the best rifles in the West in a series of head-to-head tests to determine today's

ultimate

combat weapon this is the assault rifle nothing has shaped history more than the weapon.

I'm Willis, a former Army Ranger and Air Force Ranger. I have trained with modern

weapons

until shooting them is second nature. Now I am ready to dominate the best army. Firearms of all time and see how these

weapons

change the world. No firearm is more feared and misunderstood than the assault rifle. It is the primary weapon carried by most soldiers today. It is effective in almost any environment, from desert expanses to urban combat zones. The effectiveness of the assault rifle. was demonstrated once again in Seal Team 6's mission to hunt down the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, a decade after the 9/11 attacks.

Coalition forces track Bin Laden to a secret compound in a Pakistani babad on May 1, 2011, two elite teams of Navy Seals. armed with assault rifles Infiltrate the hideout Bin Laden's courier leaves his guest house armed with an AK-47 at the same time the second team of seals places charges in the main interior building they sweep the house one of the sons of Bin Laden confronts them the seals move quickly towards a door on the top floor of the house inside bin Laden, a daughter and one of his many wives, two precision shots and the mission is complete, it is reported that the weapon of choice for stamps was the Heckler and Coke 416, a modern high-tech machine.

Version of a classic weapon that dates back almost 70 years, the assault rifle, but even a weapon is high velocity and modern, since this one was inspired by a 4Runner and, when it comes to assault weapons, none project a longer shadow than the AK. 47 The AK-47 is the most recognizable assault rifle in the world, it is resistant and easy to use. Armies and rebel forces have been using it for the past 60 years and it is said to be manufactured by so many countries that there are almost 100 million in circulation today. The AK was carried by Osama Bin Laden himself and is the primary weapon of Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan.

In 2001, when Coalition forces first hunted down Bin Laden, they pursued Al-Qaeda fighters toward An underground network of caves and tunnels twisted into intense firefights between two classes of assault rifles, the 60-year-old AK-47 continues to prove deadly even though they have a wide range of assault rifles to choose from. AK-47 users hold on to their guns and I want to see why this is done. stamped steel, the wood makes it heavy about 12 pounds, which is about the same weight as the M1 fires a larger caliber 762 round, much more knockdown power, muscle speed similar to an M4, weight aside .

I really like to know more about the AK I will meet with Deer Marinov who served in the Bulgarian army during the Cold War. What I like about the AK-47 is the simplicity, it is the easiest weapon to maintain, the weapon that will always fire no matter what you do now that you are part of an Intelligence Unit in the Bulgarian Army when it was still under the military regime Soviet yes, I was drafted when I was 18 during the Soviet era, it was mandatory, in fact I was not supposed to report on my report date, so they arrived the next morning. my house handcuffed me and locked me up they were playing no so can you tell me a little bit about the origins of the AK-47?

Yes, believe it or not. Mel Kalashnikov was a Red Army soldier, but he was never trained to build weapons. In fact, he was a tank mechanic and began drafting and sketching some ideas for a new assault rifle while recovering from serious wounds he received during a fight with the Germans in 1941. He had now seen weapons fail in combat conditions and during the harsh Russian war. winter, so he knew there was a need for a gun that was simple, tough and reliable, absolutely correct, when you pull the trigger on the AK, the hammer hits the firing pin and detonates the bullet in the chamber.

Firing the bullet creates gas in the barrel that pushes a piston back the piston pushes the bolt back that is what ejects the used casing out of the rifle and loads a new bullet into the chamber one of the keys to the AK's robustness is which has only eight parts, that's right, let me show you the bito magazine dust cover, the recoil spring, you have two parts here, the Bo cylinder bolt carrier, but the boy bolt, the chamber gas tube gazova and finally the lower receiver of the cleaning rod, it is made of wood steel and all assembled, it is quite heavy, even 12 lb. so it offers a fairly deadly blow, although it is not the most accurate assault rifle.

Well, I'm excited to see what you can do to put the AK to the test, Stag, and I'll be racing to assemble its eight pieces and then see how well it takes out some. Pick targets so demer what is the maximum effective range of this weapon would be about 350 to 400 m. Okay, we have some targets here about 60M away. There should be no problem. Not at all. You're ready, do this. Let's say it. All in all, the AK-47 is a proven killer, but this test will demonstrate the horrible ballistic effect of its 762 bullet dropping on impact.

If you think of clay as soft tissue, water as blood, and cement block as bone, you can imagine how much. damage the AK4 47 can do sure, sure, check it out, it was good. I guess total chaos and destruction is something you want to see with this weapons system, that's the power of the AK47, that's what it can do well here, yeah. you have the small entrance here, this clay expands, the larger exit in the back and then you know that the center block is nothing, which is what you would expect to see from that 762 round, it is a great gun with great power, but when it comes to Accuracy you need some good training for that baby when the AK was introduced in 1947 other armies were still using semi-automatic rifles for the US Army the standard weapon was the M1 grand known as the rifle that won World War II, now uses the M1. an eight round magazine on the AK a 30 round magazine, so if you're fighting in an urban environment, say house to house, things are a little unbalanced if you're using a one shot bold action rifle, even this one semi-auto you are definitely at a disadvantage but does the AK-47 really have an advantage over the M1 when fighting in an urban combat zone?

What are you saying? Let's take a look at the differences. I'm way ahead of you. What I have done for you I now establish. Up four stations zigzag cores one h 75 50 y 25 Ys all you have to do is run as fast as you can to each station and hit the corresponding target. How does that sound sound? I'm excited to see how you were trained to do it. I'm going to use the kitnik to time you, so now you're under pressure and then I'll follow you using the M1 Grand. Sounds great, okay, time to see how these two game changers compare. ready, yeah, I'm ready, okay, ready, set, let's go, here we go, moving forward to the first obstacle, Tippy Toe, every time we move forward, the first round moves towards the second objective through the car door, It's not very accurate, oh there we go, now it's pinging them.

Look at it, it's moving and it can get very close to those barriers. One of the benefits of that shorter weapon system from the knees. He's really starting to drift away. Now it moves towards the wall, right against the wall. More rounds. On target, it doesn't move. very stable but is spitting out rounds, seems to have 47 seconds left to complete the entire course most rounds. On target, good job, what do you have there? Well, I have one and two on the peripheral, that's fine, and we met our goal of 75. You got one, two, three rounds on target there and then here on the 50.

I think you only fired three rounds and all three rounds hit the target. That's right when you hit the 25 yard mark. I think the adrenaline and fatigue are over. The best thing about you was that I ran out of air, my body was shaking and here we go, that's the result, yeah, and that's why we have these rounds up here, yeah, every time you run out of breath, you gotta control that breathing, change the elevation of your round shot. so let's see how I do in this same test with the M1 Grand. I can not wait to see him.

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of this extraordinary era by registering through the link in the description Well, are you ready? Let's do it. Come on, safe move 100, very good job, safe move, safe move 50, that was a good malfunction, come on baby, great job, one minute and 17 seconds, yeah, I had a little malfunction back there.

I couldn't feed the wall so it slowed me down a little bit, but I think I did well considering let's see what we get at the 100. From the 100 I got four rounds on target, these first two from the position at the 100, let's see the 75, you have a great one right here, the kneeling position is a really stable position, I had a great core mass round, and look at the 50, what's missing here is the fourth round and when I was moving I could have done it. threw that round to the left or to the right, possibly this high target was probably that and here's the 25, the closest key now now at the 25, that's where we got the malfunction.

I shot one from the malfunctioning position and then looked out again. I got another round,

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magazines again, that's true, and then when I got up to move a round here and fired that round, overall a lot slower than your time, but I think as far as accuracy and For ranged combat, we have proven that the M1 grand is a better weapon, but for a close combat environment, the AK is the way to go. Of the estimated 500 million firearms worldwide, one in five comes from the AK family, the AK-47 was not. The granddaddy of them all's first assault rifle was actually a German-made WWII weapon, the Sturm gav 44 to help me appreciate the original that I brought to German weapons historian Zan Storm G, it was the original assault rifle and if you translate storm that means assault an enemy position G is a rifle so you have the assault rifle and the way we translate it in English is assault rifle so Zan is it true that this weapon that changes The game almost died on the drawing board and to take it out to the troops, the weapons designers actually had to make a quick play on Adolf Hitler himself, that's completely true, in fact the Storm G 44 was originally developed in 1942 and it was designated as the mkb 42 mkb, which means machine carbine, which is German for machine carbine, which was actually, on a list of weapons that Hitler had banned because they required a non-standard caliber cartridge, so what the designers did It was just a name change and the original brand name was MP for machine gun and that was on a list of weapons. that could develop then, in 1943, Hitler was visiting his generals on the Eastern Front and asked them what it would take to achieve victory in Russia and one of the generals raised his voice and said we need more of these new rifles and Por Of course, they had hidden the project from Hitler the whole time and he was initially very angry about this, but they made him try it and he was very impressed.

He ordered its production that same year and in December 1943 named it. The St, a prototype of the stg44, helped German soldiers contain the Red Army in Russia during World War II, but was not deployed in large numbers until the end of the war. Some historians believe that if the rifle had appeared earlier, the Germans could have made it. defeated Russia and

changed

the course of history the storm G did not appear out of nowhere no, of course not, we actually have here two weapons that led to the development of the storm G, the first of which was the MAA 98k rifle that was the standard weapon for German infantrymen.

High speed, very accurate but it is heavy, it has an internal magazine of five bullets and it is bolt-action exactly, it is quite slow if you face entire units armed with submachine guns, you are not going to have very good chances with this type of weapon. They later developed the G 43. It's lighter than the 98k and has a 10-round magazine and is semi-automatic, so you might have a fighting chance if that's you. You know, in an urban environment and on footFiring round after round, the problem with the G 43 was that it was mechanically very complicated and actually jammed quite frequently, which of course led to the development of the world's first true assault rifle.

German versions of a one-man machine gun failed because the powerful 8X 57 bullet produced uncontrollable recoil during automatic firing. The designers solved that problem by roughly halfway between a rifle cartridge and pistol ammunition, the stg44 fires a 7.92x33mm cartridge configured to maintain accuracy in full automatic mode. mode to see how big and advanced the STG is, let's test it against these other German rifles, are you ready, let's shoot some, let's make it happen, okay Zan, we've set up six targets on the range, the first three ? you're yours, you're going to attack from left to right, okay, first, the Mouser 98k, the change from bolt action to fully automatic firing took place over the course of 50 years, while these early rifles are very accurate, its length and weight. make them unwi for many combat situations on the gav 43 very low and well left, that was terrible, the change from bolt action to semi-automatic allowed soldiers and the field to maintain their aim while firing several shots, but these early versions were prone to failure, another reason why germany lost and finally d stg44 the compact and sturdy design of the stg44 was a breakthrough in weapons development, there it is, it's a success, great shooter, good job, it represents the birth of the assault rifle, let's take a look a look at what we have right, the first is the k98 bolt action rifle I found that gun to be very heavy, very heavy, which makes the front sight want to go down and you have a low shot here.

I was trying to overcompensate for my front shot and then you know we both went in and Ding the target made adjustments on the flies really nice next gun g43 an equally heavenly gun system for the bolt action I found so yeah it's well and you know, I have to say it was actually a relief to get to the Str G, it felt like I did it. a much smoother action, yes I agree with you 100%. The only problem I noticed with this is that it has a sight that is about 3 inches above the barrel, we can see the point of aim and point of impact issue demonstrated.

Right here you are aiming here, but your bullet is hitting here. I think once you made that adjustment, your bullet will impact here and then I was taunting the target for a while before hitting it. It seems like once, twice, three times, I can imagine. Being a soldier and being in a combat situation, you definitely don't want to have a rifle. That's heavy and hard to aim. It's basically an evolution from when you know this bolt-action weapon to the storm, but how devastating it is. first assault rifle is good to test the effectiveness of the stg44, we have a model street.

I will engage targets at each station and on the move, ending in a powered torso target. I have to reach that goal before he hides behind that wall. over there What is this called again? St, it feels like it's fun to say you have time. I do it right, let's make it rock and roll, ready, set, let's go with this new generation of weapons, soldiers could load a full magazine of automatic suppressive fire in seconds, it's quick and easy to reload and returning to semi-automatic mode gives you the precision you need in a rifle. The intermediate cartridge maintains a rifle's power out to 300 yards.

One final goal and this test is done. CLE, a good shot will prove it. clear gun thanks, okay, I think you got it. This is an effective weapon because the bullet is very short. The recoil is also nice and short, making it easy to control any type of muzzle roll or anything like that. You can reassess your targets very easily and it worked very well, generally, where would this weapon be employed when the Germans invaded Russia? What they noticed was that they were facing entire Russian units that were all equipped with a ppsh that had a 70-round drum and fired, you know, 800. rounds a minute and it was very easy to maintain and you're facing that with rifles of bolt you're dead mhm so what you have is a necessity based evolution into an exactly correct automatic weapon, the stg44 struck fear into all those who faced it. and we still feel its impact today, once the Russians saw the STG they rushed to develop their own assault rifle, this effort eventually resulted in the innovative design of the Kalishnikov AK-47 which in turn forced the United States United joined the arms race with an assault rifle of their own when American troops entered Vietnam in the early 1960s.

They carried a rifle called the M14. I brought in a 20-year Navy veteran to show us how it works. Former Navy SEAL Rob Roy is an expert on powerful weapons like this because it's been around since 1960. It's a really effective weapon that people like to have, you know, a 762 and if someone runs away from you, I call them that killer. zombies Excellent shooting, you have been well trained, as you can see, the M14 was the US Army's first attempt at an assault rifle, it is that correct, it is correct, it replaced the M1 grand and from the muzzle to the stock What's different about this weapon?

Well, there are a few different features that make it great. We start here, much more. The barrel allows you to reach out and touch it when approximately 800M, like the AK-47, the M14 is gas-powered and fires from the closed bolt position, but uses standard 7.62 NATO rifle ammunition. Each bullet is approximately 2 inches long, giving the M14 greater range and penetrating power. The second thing you have here is a new gas piston that allows you to fire fully automatically. That's a big thing for US forces, they wanted a fully automatic weapon, because if you have full automatic capability across your entire squad, one guy can suppress. the target while one guy moves and then on auto and another guy moves if necessary, the good thing about this is that it takes more bullets than the big one, it takes 20 bullets for this particular gun.

It's a quick reload, you take out the Box magazine and take out the boom jam. It's there and you're doing it right and what about the weight of this whole weapons system? What are we watching? This is wood. Mhm, you know, like the AK, it's built with materials that they had during that time period. This weapons system itself. With the magazine and weighing about 11 pounds, the M14 was the standard rifle for American soldiers at the beginning of the Vietnam War, where it faced the AK-47. The M14 was accurate, but some felt its length and weight were not suitable for jungle combat, but the story of the M14 does not end there.

The current version has been updated with 21st century technology. It's called Socom 16. Well, this little baby is a new and improved M14. They're pretty much the same weapon with new technology, maybe. The most important advance is the sighting system. Previous rifles had iron sights, a metal post or fin sits in the muzzle and a small notched metal plate sits in the breach. When the two line up, the gun points. Iron sights are not known for their accuracy. Weapons like Rob Roy's high-speed M14 use optics for precise target acquisition, let's talk about how it's built from the real materials.

Now here I have a wooden stock all the way and this one here is a man made material and what it allows you to do is take weight off even though I have a lot of accessories it's still about a pound lighter than this gun in particular. The shorter barrel allows me to get into rooms and clear rooms with it. Is CQB perfect? pend weapon who holds it well? I've prepared a little challenge for us, okay, okay, you're going to use your M14. I'm going to use this AK. Alright. I'm going to use iron sights. You have the loop. range I'm shooting 762 by 39 you're 762 by 51 right and you've got 30 rounds and I've got 20 I think the lead is all mine okay we'll see okay Rob so what I came up with now is a combat scenario simulated.

We are going to shoot from this Foxhole position by shooting moving targets. As you can see, they are coconuts tied to a rope. I'm going to use the AK-47. You are going to use the updated version. of the M14, look how we do it, it's going to be difficult, but I'm looking forward to it, okay, you're ready, at a much higher speed than yes, okay, logging in and hot loading did you good, that hit, if you. You're there, okay, you're punching a hole through it, but it's not falling, oh boy, oh boy, it's hard to pick that up with those iron sights, yeah, I mean, it feels like it's on Ah, that That's all, it's those short rounds, man.

Yeah, so how many hits was it? I think you got a couple hits out of those just two hits. Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed overall, but I mean, two shots out of 30 rounds isn't my best performance, so let's see what you've got right. a little improvement, okay, I have a two power scope, see what I can do, you know, the only thing the scope doesn't help at all, lock it and load it, okay, shoot when I'm ready, yeah, they're moving quite a bit. well, oh yeah, there's a punch, ready, there's two on the ground, right there, hit them, nice, well done, good heavens, buddy, five rounds, five punches.

I think I hate you, it's all the Optics man. Do you think he had anything to do with the knockdown power? Because I noticed your Co coconuts exploded and mine just went into that, yeah, that has a lot to do with the round, you know, it's like a 45 round versus a 9mm, so you had a lot more energy behind your La Ronda just smashed that coconut, oh yeah, I mean it was beautiful and ugly at the same time. I'll take the ugly, you could be beautiful, but, good job, what do you say? We'll get out of here, okay, let's do it.

Because the original M14 fired such a heavy cartridge, American soldiers could not carry enough ammunition to match the AK-47's bullet. The US Army needed a more portable rifle for its troops. In 1963, they began to gradually introduce a new one based on the M16. In the ArmaLite AR-15, the original M16 is gas-powered and features semi-automatic or fully automatic selective fire. It is later modified to allow a three-round burst, so let's talk a little about the differences between these two weapon systems. Unlike the AK-47, the M16 is not constructed of steel and wood, it is actually lightweight aluminum and plastic which sounds like a bad word when you say it, but what they did was they wanted to make it as light as possible for the troops that actually they were.

I'm going to fight well and it makes it about three pounds lighter than the AK which doesn't seem like much but over time and distance those things add up so I noticed this one has a knob on the side right here on the El right side is also known as brass deflector, so yes, it has a deflector that prevents the grass from hitting the person in the face, so I can shoot him with my left hand or my right hand, without any problem to test the precision. We are going to subject the M16 to a night fire exercise.

Well, down here we have some strobe lights set up. Imagine that you are a soldier in the jungles of Vietnam and the only thing you can see is the enemy cannon. flashes, can you take on the bad guys before they move to another position? There's like 10 15 of those targets down there, well there's two of us 10 of them I think it's the same from Foxhole, okay, let's do it, we'll have 20 seconds to take them all out, done, yeah, rock and roll, three, two , one, join in, good ones, good ones, bad ones, they're all gone, well, hot diggity dog, buddy, do you know what that kicked up dust is?

In reality, it became much easier. I felt like we could concentrate on a target just to just illuminate, not all the things in the background, I guess that's what they did in Vietnam and those areas, yeah, I mean, this is a perfectly capable weapons system even with little light, like the one we have now. I'll tell you. The 16-inch barrel and this long sight alignment here is what made the difference tonight. One of the best things about this weapon system is that in almost 50 years it hasn't changed much and is still in use today since it hit the market. scene in 1957 the M16 has seen action in all corners of the world a battle that took place in Somalia in 1993 was made famous by the Blackhawk Down incident Army Rangers head to Mogadishu to capture the lieutenants of a lord Somali war, but the operation turns into a rescue mission after a rocket-propelled grenade shoots down one of the Blackhawk helicopters during the Close Quarters battle, the M16 is the Rangers' primary rifle, although the Rangers eventually overtake the hunting with AK, mission reveals need for even more effective rifle for years, any grunt I joined the army, learned how to take it apart, reassemble it cleanly and shoot with the M6 ​​assault rifle, but as a former army ranger and The Air Force rescue team carried the more compact version known as the M4 Carby.

Few have relied more on the M4 than the members of Seal Team 6. including Tony Rinsky, who served as the development group's operator, the M4 replaced the M16, continuesbeing a 5.56 bullet, but now you have the ability to add sights, optics and lasers. It's a very, very stable platform, you obviously have some skill with that thing. but in your personal opinion, what makes the M4 better than the M16 A2. Well, the first thing you'll notice with these two weapon systems is that this one is actually much smaller than the M16, allowing you to go into tighter environments. Vehicle buildings to the next.

What you will notice is the rail system that allows you to use different types of scope systems, we mainly use the EOTech holographic scope, but we also have aogs um sights and other scopes that go with it, so the lower receiver is almost identical in reality. In fact, it's identical, it's the lower receiver, there's really no change and in terms of the internal mechanisms of the gun, like the bolt, the bolt carrier group, the gas tube, everything is identical and exactly identical. Okay, now that gun. much sexier than this, do you want to exchange? uh I don't think so come on buddy I'm the host with a muzzle velocity of around 2800 feet per second semi-automatic fire gives you control and accuracy up to 600 y but when you need to suppress a hidden position clear the grass with Up to 750 rounds of 5.56 per minute in battle zones like Afghanistan, the M4 has proven its reliability under fire, even with a magazine full of 30 rounds, its weight is only about 7 pounds at the moment.

With its adjustable stock it makes it easy to maneuver in tight spaces, but did the M4 outperform the AK-47? Tony and I are about to find out with a shoot-and-move test similar to what special operators might take in a tactical weapons course. We will move from left to right and back in this range when I say shoot, take a shooting position of your choice, engage a target of your choice, you will have 30 rounds, 30 targets now. Since you are an M4 expert, I will take you a little out of your comfort zone and I'll ask you to fire the AK.

I'm going to use the M4, how does that sound? Let's do it right, ready, moving to the right, activate, activate, activate there. go, move left, shoot back, shoot right, shoot again, shoot, move back, take them out, okay man, not bad, all but 1 2 3 4, eight targets, so 22 out of 30, I mean, that's a pretty good shot, what do you think? that weapon system compared to the M4 well I'll tell you this is definitely not as accurate so I hope you hit them all this time with that weapon system yeah okay move right activate move back, activate, activate, activate again. left activate move right unload ah just one just one just one I think some of those bottles were knocked over by his friend who was exploding but it works works well well um great test man I like the accuracy of this obviously, in motion, the iron sights they are always much harder nowadays with the M4 and the pck aenny rail system you can throw that EOTech or an aimo it will be much more accurate yeah well good weapon system good test well cool the M4 .

The system has inspired several variations, including the Heckler and Coke 416, one of the new generation of modern assault rifles, it is compact, lightweight and has as much power as other assault rifles. The HK416 is gas powered, but restricts the gas to a small forward section of the barrel, the force of the gas recoiling a wide piston which ejects the projectile and loads the next bullet. Tony and I will see if the HK 416's advanced sight feather trigger and minimal recoil help us lock on to targets the size of a human heart at 50 yards. You're going to engage those targets while I call off color, how does that sound sound?

Okay, ready to shoot Tony, yeah, yeah, yellow, white, there you go, red, brown, blue, there you go, he's a great man, you got some good shots. all the way that yellow just went everywhere yeah, okay, great test, okay, I want to try it, do it, okay, you just called them, I'll face it, red, there you go, white, you got it, yellow, perfect. shoot down the nice white, perfect brown, nice blue, that's clear, sure, good job, okay, that's pretty impressive, so with the HK416 it's a very accurate weapon, but because it has a selective fire switch, You can go from firing single shots to burst firing or fully automatic. fire to suppress a target, there is a lot of bad business coming out of the end of that barrel.

Impressive despite the advances offered by the 416 and the M4, the AK-47 is still in the fight for which we have been on a dizzying tour. assault rifles from early prototypes to today's combat-proven weapons systems. We start this journey with the M1 grand. Its eight-round magazine and semi-automatic action were a vast improvement over previous bolt-action rifles, but it was still too long and heavy for modern hand-to-hand combat, so during World War II the Germans invented the first rifle. assault weapon in the world, the STG 44. The weapon was not produced in large quantities until 1944, but even then it almost turned the tide in favor of the Third Reich.

The assault weapon gradually became more focused, it was not very light, its ammunition was housed in a detachable magazine that facilitated loading and the rate of fire could be selected from semi to fully automatic, the most popular assault rifle in the world arrived the Russian AK-47. On the battlefield more than 50 years ago and still in use today, the US military responded to its development with a series of selective fire rifles from the first M14 to the shorter and lighter M16, and then Close weapons Even smaller quarters like the HK416, now when I was in uniform, we carried the M4 carbine, is one of the preferred weapon systems for Special Operations as part of the Air Force as a rescue man.

I carried the M4 to deal with any situation in a still fluid tactical environment to get a little help with the following. challenge I've recruited our AK-47 expert, Demeter Marinov, now you know the AK inside and out, oh yeah, I do what we say in Old Country, the unstoppable shot of the AK-47, okay, let's see if you can make the M4 sing. because we will use this in the next challenge, but first I have to show you how it works. I'm very excited, let's do it. So, right off the bat, this is your lock. Here you see it on the back of your weapon. go ahead, hook this thing with your fingers, pull the bolt back, push the latch, there you go, now, your bolts are locked back, okay, grab your magazine, put the magazine in the magazine, press the latch right there now . you have a bullet in the chamber, that's the end of the business, the stock goes in the shoulder, just like the AK, make it happen.

C de meter is firing simmunition, a bullet replacement that we will use in our next test, these non-lethal bullets can be fired through the real weapon and simulate the accuracy and rate of fire of the weapon system. These rounds are normally only available to military and law enforcement personnel for training. They leave a visible mark on impact in this final test. Demer and I must fight our way. Through a combat zone against enemies armed with the AK-47, our objective is the LZ extraction zone on the opposite side of the starting point. Both sides will be armed with ammunition and for today's test, two hits equals one kill in terms of this particular test.

One thing I felt we had to keep in mind with the AK was its high rate of fire and large magazine capacity, armed with m4 and 60 rounds between us deer and they may outnumber me but they don't outnumber us in weapons, the key to gaining an advantage. in any situation is to use suppressive fire, keep the enemy's head down, then close in and destroy. Demer was able to flank to the sides while I suppress the exposed targets on you. Sometimes that's a chance you take when you're number one and then we start that Leap Frog technique moving around, this is the moment when you suddenly realize I can get hit, suddenly everything becomes real.

It takes two hits to take a man down, luckily I think the M4 is the most accurate weapon, the ATV guy came in, he didn't have a weapons system he could use effectively, at best he could have tried to use the ATV as a weapon. Now we got into some conx boxes, it's almost the CQB type environment where we're dealing with hallways, tight spaces, unknown areas that were attacked, yes, yes, one more inside. I'm out, you have to move to domination points to control the flow of the battle. I faced the target between the two conx boxes and the target.

He was still a little bit whining and yelling, so you always throw a bullet at that guy, he can still be a threat. I knew there was only a small open area we had to cover to get to the LZ. I'll go down. high around the corner, you come high, I'll go down, I stepped on that corner, it was low on a subway KNE, I pushed it right behind me and of course the targets appeared, I provided suppressive fire, we approached that distance and destroy the targets. I got home free, sweet, yeah, okay, I still have five bullets left.

Demer didn't change the magazines either, so the M4 matches the AK-47's firepower more accurately after all, what do you think of the M4 auto being compared to the AK? -47 well, to be honest, you will compare the Cadillac with the Yugo. It's good, so you like it, so where would you prefer to drive a Yugo? Well, it depends on the situation I have for you, but still the AK is a great weapon, yes, yes, it is a very functional weapon this works very well for us and good job man, we took out the bad guys, we did well.

I couldn't have done it without you, thank you very much, without you, personal preferences aside, the AK-47 is the poster child. Assault Rifle Gun This legendary weapon can be found virtually anywhere on the planet and is likely to be a force to be reckoned with decades into the future. Willis will be blocked and cleared. See you next time at the shooting range.