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Originally posted by xenophobe
The AK series, on the other hand, is the cheaply stamped out and mass produced weapon of a failed superpower. It was intended to be placed in the hands of poorly trained conscripts and farmers en masse, so as to create a large amount of fire power with little monetary expenditure. In an old style army there is no telling how long the troops will need to stay in the field, so the weapon has to take abuse, mistreatment and abuse with aplomb. Likewise, in an old style army more weight is hung from quantity of men than quality of training, so as likely as not the soldiers have only a basic idea of how to take care of thier weapon. The solution to this problem also reduces manufacturing costs, and is thus predictable: make it really goddamn simple. No, it might not hit a target at 100 yards... but if the soldier is lined up with five buddies, and all of thier AKs are vomiting out rounds at (the AK does around 700 RPM, I think?) then the law of averages strongly suggests that the target is going to be eliminated.
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That sounds exactly like the Soviet Union style of fighting a war. I'd just like to comment on that.