A video of the "extreme test" of the AK-74M Kalashnikov assault rifle appeared on the Web

The legendary Kalashnikov AK-74M assault rifle was tested for strength in continuous burst mode. The video of the "extreme test" on its channel on Youtube was posted by the Kalashnikov concern.

The Kalashnikov concern tested the strength of the AK-74M assault rifle. To carry out the test, the testers from the concern took the first AK-74M 2014 submachine gun that came across, according to the video, already having a certain degree of wear and equipped 26 stores with 30 cartridges for continuous firing in bursts.

During the test, the concern’s specialist conducted continuous bursts of fire, quickly changing stores, to a complete failure weaponsthat came on the xnumx shot. The reason for the refusal was a rupture of the trunk in the region of the fore foreskin. The forend and the gas tube overlay melted from high temperature, the barrel of the machine gun "led". In this case, the return and trigger mechanisms of the machine and the bolt with the slide frame remained intact.

According to the requirements of the Ministry of Defense, the Kalashnikov assault rifle must withstand 180 rounds in non-stop burst mode. This rate of fire is not normal for a weapon and sooner or later leads to its destruction.

- stated in the concern.

We add that according to this video, the AK-74M assault rifle not only complied with the requirements of the military department, but also exceeded them three times.

Comments

[Theodore]

Already a week, this news!

[Thrifty]

Theodore - from this she did not become less interesting! such a video fact only confirms the common truth that a weapon, like a person, has its own chapel, that you can’t jump above your head.

[venik]

Quote: Thrifty

Theodore - from this she did not become less interesting! such a video fact only confirms the common truth that a weapon, like a person, has its own chapel, that you can’t jump above your head.

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But nevertheless, "Kalash" is a MACHINE !!!!! Checked!

[APASUS]

Quote: Theodore

Already a week, this news!

And what did this news for the week change in the performance characteristics of the machine?

[Theodore]

Did you hope so?

[Geo]

Quote: APASUS

What did this news change in the TTX of the machine in a week?

It does not take a week, it is obvious that the performance characteristics of the machine have changed by the end of the test
Well, at least the news should be new. If Kalashnikov’s PR specialists consider VO to be a third-rate resource on which content can be uploaded a week after its placement on other resources, then VO users should tell fi to such PR specialists, because in this case all the cream from this content went to other resources. For content, uniqueness and / or efficiency of placement are key concepts.

[Cat man null]

Quote: Geo

keyed concepts ... what-nibut

Quote: Geo

Believe the poor quality of education today, this is not only problemma VKS or army - at problemma whole Russia

Md

[Dreama]

Dear Geo,
but it never occurred to you that someone does not jump from resource to resource in search of "fresh food", but from time to time visits their own - loved ones, and if the information is interesting, then it is absolutely purple that she is "not a girl", and where exactly it was first "capitalized".

[Geo]

How it works (example):
A person flips through Yandex.news, sees an interesting topic, opens, sees a list of sources - there VO. He does this several times, notices that he often turns to the source of VO - switches to VO (there, you see, it is interesting) and becomes a user. VO - prfit (users = money), an interesting source for a person. But if VO appears in the source lists after a week - the user and VO do not find each other

[Agronom]

Quote: Theodore

Already a week, this news!

Yes, perhaps seventy years old ...

And it is precisely the Soviet and Russian ones that the rest are valued all over the world, this is a copy and not the best .. The mechanism itself is certainly unique, but the alloy has become the optimal barrel and other details .. This is clearly monitored in our OTC!

[parkello]

and it’s nothing that the Bulgarians themselves make an exact copy of the AK. Moreover, they transferred the entire production technology, up to forged trunks, and the bluing of the bolts. it is the Bulgarian AK that are the absolute copy of Soviet Kalash. .

[tracer]

In the USA, there are many copies you want besides the Ktiai ones. The most accurate thing I've seen is the Bulgarian assault rifles. And made something better than the rest.

[parkello]

Well, what am I for? I say the same thing ...

[bubalik]

complete failure of the weapon, which came on 587 shot

,,, the concern can "cut" a magazine for 500 rounds

[poquello]

Quote: bubalik

complete failure of the weapon, which came on 587 shot

,,, the concern can "cut" a magazine for 500 rounds

Well, do not saw, but it’s worth thinking about pinning a scorpion to a Kalash, about six meters

[reservist]

I wonder on which cartridge the machine gun stopped shooting aimingly and just began to "spit out" bullets ...

[parkello]

after the 3rd store I think (90 shots) it’s already losing a bit of strength, because the barrel is warming up and getting wider by 01-02 mm, but still does not spit. spit starts when the barrel will burn your hands. but if you give the trunk a break, then you’ll shoot 8 stores for yourself. and for continuous fire there are light machine guns and easel, with thicker and longer trunks, and a receiver. I don’t know at all how in Russia, but it’s forbidden to put auto fire on us. whether it’s anything at least FN at least G3 at least M-16. even on machine guns after 2-3 tapes change the barrel. so we had 2 tapes of 50 rounds each and no one would let them fire in one turn, this was only a last resort (if there was a clash) because then all the weapons that were involved were decommissioned. even if you didn’t have time to shoot him. it is so with us, but in Russia I don’t know, I didn’t serve there.

[reservist]

Quote: parkello

... all weapons that were involved are decommissioned. even if you didn’t have time to shoot him

This is where they live so "richly"?

[parkello]

Yes almost everywhere. left a group of 12 people. turned back 8 let's say the rest of the 300th .200th. their weapons will no longer go to the platoon or company warehouse. it is simply written off to West with the participants of the war.

[rocket757]

I wonder what other weapon was "killed" so differently ???

[ohka_new]

On Discovery, Boys with Cannons tortured AR-15. On 280 shots, the barrel glowed red. They were not brought to failure.

[donavi49]

Yes. Here is a rival friend.

If anything, here the Boar from him lived even more with automatic shooting, though there the trunk from the PKK was cut off.

[rocket757]

Exactly, different bloggers, experimenters .... they can !!!
Of course, a slaughter test, the test is not real, in the normal way it is necessary to monitor the shooting characteristics, take measurements ... shorter than boring.

[Ural-4320]

Impressive! How long can a machine gun survive?

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Ural-4320

Impressive! How long can a machine gun survive?

According to rumors, "Pecheneg" has a full barrel resource ... It doesn't even have a removable barrel.
10 shots.

[Ural-4320]

Generally fire !!! I remember in childhood Dad said that no one came close to the quality of AK steel trunks.

[SNEAKY]

Yeah. They probably, like zircons (tape.ru) are made of carbon-carbon alloy. In general, the resource is inexhaustible

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: SNEAKY

Yeah. They probably, like zircons (tape.ru) are made of carbon-carbon alloy. In general, the resource is inexhaustible

What to talk about, look at the net. Resource 25-30 thousand shots. One line - wearable ammunition - 2 belts of 100 and 2 of 200. By the way, the term "carbon-carbon" composite is used. We make vacuum heating elements from such heating elements. Unique material ...

[SNEAKY]

Well, I looked in. The barrel life was increased due to original design solutions for cooling the barrel. But he was a machine gun in order to let out the max without problems. On the AK there is no such thing because of TK by weight.

[Severok]

Convective forced air (due to the vacuum created by the shot near the muzzle), this barrel cooling system was used by Lewis in his machine gun (in the film White Desert Sun, Comrade Sukhov uses a Lewis machine gun). Air passes between the barrel and its casing in the direction of the muzzle end.

[Piramidon]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

According to rumors, "Pecheneg" has a full barrel resource ... It doesn't even have a removable barrel.
10 shots.

10 shots are probably not continuous firing, but in general a lifetime.

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Piramidon

10 shots is probably not continuous shooting, but in general the life of

Yes. Less of course. But a minute can work continuously. Wearable ammunition - 600 in one burst. Unique machine gun. Unique steel. The barrel is chrome plated.

[ssergey1978]

The thinker AK103 under 7.62x39 would live longer. IMHO.

[garri-lin]

It was already enviable.

[Klingon]

it’s already with a beard, these tests are full in Youtube, I won’t say anything bad about Kalash, he’s good at everything, just tired of this kind of news

[English tarantas]

Alas, only on the official QC channel you can see the test, not an American copy, or an ancient gift by some Iraq, but the original AK, domestic production.

[Geo]

until the complete failure of the weapon, which came on a 587 shot

According to the requirements of the Ministry of Defense, the Kalashnikov assault rifle must withstand 180 rounds

from the high temperature, the barrel of the machine gun "led"

I wonder on which shot the barrel was so driven that effective targeted shooting became difficult? And is there anything said about this in the requirements of the MO?

[SSR]

Quote: Geo

I wonder on which shot the barrel was so driven that effective targeted shooting became difficult? And is there anything said about this in the requirements of the MO?

You quoted the answer yourself.

Quote: Geo

According to the requirements of the Ministry of Defense, Kalashnikov assault rifle must withstand 180 shots

180 without changing the characteristics of accuracy, accuracy, etc.

[Geo]

Well, like a "hint". In this scenario, the corporation's statement about the fulfillment (and especially exceeding by more than 3 times) the requirements of the MO, shown in this video, looks strange.

[SSR]

Quote: Geo

Well, like a "hint". In this scenario, the corporation's statement about the fulfillment (and especially exceeding by more than 3 times) the requirements of the MO, shown in this video, looks strange.

The comrades above unsubscribed, Ar "caught fire" earlier, the tests were for destruction.

[Geo]

Quote from S.S.R.

AR "lit up" earlier

Ar is an illustration of what weapons should be like in a market economy. Safety margin and low cost are the lost profits of beneficiaries. The stock will become smaller, the cost higher.

Quote from S.S.R.

tests were for destruction.

Then the accompanying text for the video is completely out of place.

[ROSS_51]

A stupid test, thoroughly propaganda and having nothing to do with the real application .. It makes sense to test how much the aiming range and energy of the shot will not suffer. Who needs this trash?
Product of the 14th year. I don't know how true, but I heard that the quality of AK barrels has dropped dramatically lately. Who knows, correct, if not right. But only if someone knows how things are with AK, it's really interesting ... patriots, choking with delight about "we are ahead of the rest", please do not worry ..

[Evil 55]

I personally experienced the AKS-74, 1994, 18 stores, in short, three and long bursts ... everything was fine, without breaks and poking, the plastic pads warmed up and smelled, and in the third hundred they started to spit bullets, like the ZU-23. .

[dmmyak40]

Quote: parkello

and it’s nothing that the Bulgarians themselves make an exact copy of the AK. Moreover, they transferred the entire production technology, up to forged trunks, and the bluing of the bolts. it is the Bulgarian AK that are the absolute copy of Soviet Kalash. .

Nothing. But the quality of all these "almost originals" is very different from the native AK.
For example: during the Ossetian-Ingush conflict, my classmate went to see his grandmother in some village in the North Ossetia. He knocked on the locked gate for a long time, and then the grandma opened the gate with an AK in her hands. The comrade almost raised his hands up - it was so unexpected. Then, over dinner, when shooting suddenly started somewhere, the grandmother said: “Do you hear, granddaughters, the Ingush are shooting.
- Why did you decide that the Ingush?
- And they have a lot of Chinese, Romanian and Bulgarian Kalash, they have a completely different sound of a shot. But now the AK of the Soviet assembly, these are ours, see the difference? "
A friend, no matter how hard he tried, could not distinguish. And granny did it easily.

[reservist]

Quote: dmmyak40

A friend, no matter how hard he tried, could not distinguish. And granny did it easily.

so maybe he ...

[dmmyak40]

Well no! It's just that my grandmother has already learned to distinguish the sounds of AK: the Chinese and Romanians / Bulgarians seem to "clap" a little, and ours - the sound is more solid.

[reservist]

Interestingly, the difference in "sounding" is only due to the difference in materials / technology, or the "clones" have slightly "optimized" the design?

[dmmyak40]

Knowledgeable people tend to the version about materials and technology.

[Machine gun]

Ak47 Topek