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August 24th, 2006 11:34 |
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Originally Posted by LUTNIT
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Originally Posted by memel
It's OK Koopa, most fans of the AK get a little sensitive when the StG44 is mentioned.
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I love the AK series and know that its a Russianized version of the StG44, they even use the exact same rounds! The engineers that made the StG44 for the nazis eventually where on the team that made the G3 which is the grandfather of pretty much all H&K guns and they used a lot of the lessons learned from the StG44 in its design. The StG44 is a distant relative to a lot of guns.
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The AK may certainly be based on the StG44. They do not use the same rounds, as is clear to any moron 7.92x33mm is not the same as 7.62x39mm. The operating system is similar but construction is rather different, i.e. the distinctive AK profile and the field-stripping.
In terms of what was copied, that is not about the operation but more about the fact that the AK used the same assault rifle concept as the StG44. You can condemn a lot of fine weapons that way.
As for the operating system even that was not first used in the StG or MP44, so that isn't really much of an argument.
I am not trying to be an "AK fanboy". I accept that the AK-47 was based on the assault rifle concept originating in the StG44. But then, so are many guns.
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