first one here, you like your own comments confirmed

Yo what do you think of the challenger

@@booran. I like my own videos too : x I feel like its the same as when someone votes for themselves or gives themselves a nice hard pat on the back or some self love.

You can't spell "DAKKA" without "AK".

I wouldn't say they're the best because they obviously lack some of the modern solutions, however I do love them (and AKS74 was the first assault rifle I've ever shot). I adore the caliber, though, 5,45 is really funny when it comes to penetration of hard obstacles because it doesn't disintegrate like 5,56NATO* nor does it quickly lose all the energy and deform like the 7,62. In fact I've seen some experiments with AP rounds vs steel body armour, and, at certain ranges, after penetrating the front plate 5,45x39 would bounce back from the back plate, ripping a secondary wound channel. Dope and probably irrelevant in real life but looks very dramatic in a black and white slow mo :v *which is both a perk and a drawback - I'd rather kill the enemy than have them die 2 days later after potentially returning fire

It doesn't hurt that the gun is so straightforward and simple. I shoot neutered AK74 replicas and ❤ them.

that was my favorite class :D never skipped a day of it

@@dbmail545 How hard is it getting ammo now?

Wow

@@jonnyg9330 according to him, there are US manufacturers that make large quantities of 5.45, 7.62x25, 7.62x54R, and 7.92x57. So you might not wanna listen to what he has to say

I don't think soldiers fire more than 500 grenades. It's just AK rifles having more life expectancy than man in Middle East and African countries.

Of course, a suggestion

Probably like it's said how many rounds a gun can fire before it's overheated. It's more a suggestion the gun can probably fire a lot more

yes, correct

In the industrial world those margins exist, as a buffer so tools don't get abused to their critical threshold , probably the real number is between 650-700

agree, that's why most gaming community who has little weapon knowledge, kids and people that only AK-47 exist Heck they even didn't know the AKM or the 74 even the 100 series

@@joshuajoaquin5099 How about the new AK-12 westerners may mistake it as a rifle firing shotgun shells because of the '12'?

@@bmhater1283 lol first time i heard about this, they thought it fired 12 gauge, that's the Saiga 12

Squad has it and I keep forgetting its not a 7.62 because it certainly kills me in one shot like a 7.62

@@bmhater1283 Nah, most people just figure it's the year it's put into service. 47, is the big hint their labeled by year, except in the 100 series

this is the perfect summation right here

The AK 74 is smooth, no doubt, but something about that round, possibly hollowed out/bubble tip, makes it terrifying. I was listening to this guy talk about being if Afghanistan in the early 1980's. He said the wounds created by that little devil of a round were absolutely horrific. Apparently, in humans, the round will tumble and produce the craziest angles, almost unreal.

@@jayklink851 there’s a reason it’s called the “poison bullet”

@@zackolander5568 For sure, that bullet is one nasty bugger!

@@jayklink851 during 90s in croatia they called the round "kostolomac" -translated to "bonebreaker/bonecracker"

this is the first time i heard about this. Though i only heard that AKS-74u was prized by Mujahedeen or anyone in Middle east due of status something like that

The 1911 is only carried ceremonially in some places. It is not part of a soldier's standard equipment in any combat role.

@@Commander034 Thank you for the information, I'm not entirely familiarized with US special forces gear

Interasting

@@Commander034 MARSOC used a variant of it up until recently.

Man those were the best of times. I've still got 35 crates of it in the back of my closet.

I wish I was alive for the time. Sadly, I was born too late to experience the best times of surplus, but I have the bug of being obsessed with AKs and milsurp in general

still cheaper than brass case 5.56

thats a great point. I feel like some people are sticking with the 7.62 x 39mm today because its cheap as heck. like the indian army going AK203

@@Taskandpurpose the 7.62x39 is not a washed up cartridge at all. Pretty much does everything asked of it even if the SCHV cartridges have better performance beyond 300m.

I think everyone just underestimates Russian tech they have to make it cheap because their economy is kinda toast after the soviet union yeeted itself but they still need to be competitive in performance so they work smarter not harder

RPK 74? I have a saiga in 5.45 with a 21" barrel mocked up to look like an rpk and its amazing. Its like the US SAW equiv.

Sniper materiel at that distance 🙄

I mean I don't underestimate USSR tech. I do under estimate modern russian tech.

@@jimbothegymbro7086 the AK 74 was made under the Soviets not Russians. The modern AKs made in Russia are nothing but AK 74s with slight improvements copied from other foreign guns. You are right about the Russians being very poor, after the Soviet union fell their GDP went from number 2 to nearly last. All we see now is the remains of a super power. You can have only one capitalist country in the world... Rest have to actually produce something.

@Don't Look Up I guess it has a lot to do with increasing number of body armour

@Don't Look Up to be able to vibe check Russians wearing body armor

The usurping and adoption of military weapons and tactics has been happening forever... From military commanders studying Sun Tzu's thousand year old text *The Art of War,* to the longbow being "king of the battlefield" throughout the middle ages, to the U.S.'s main battle doctrine being stolen directly from Rommel's "Blizkreig"-- and rightly so

They are trying to solve the same problem - makes sense the solution is similar.

soon we will see 6.45x39 or 6.62x39

The AK-100 series has 3 calibers, not 4. 5.56x45mm - AK-101, AK-102, AK-109 5.45x39mm - AK-105, AK-107 7.62x39mm - AK-103, AK-104, AK-108

Well actually -- he said "the AK-74 is the first AK series created to run an underslung GP-25 grenade launcher", which is correct. Standard AK-74 has support brackets cast in to the gas block assembly to mount GP-25. The GSN-19 you mentioned, when mounted on an AKM, requires customary modifications on the rifle; so AKM is not a AK series rifle "created to run underslung grenade launcher".

@@neillathotep7386 When you say modifications do you mean something like removing a bit of material somewhere or a bigger change ?

@@nemesis6680 GSN-19 was designed for & use by the Spetsnaz, so information is very scarce... Based on several photos, the 2 mounting points seem to be the bayonet lug and the underside of the lower handguard. Since there are no place to mount it on a standard AKM lower handguard, they need to remove some material and drill a hole through the hand guard to fit the launcher there.

Only a commie talks like that

@@newdefsys What's wrong with that?

Yo what do you think of the challenger 3

I'll do a video about the challenger soon for sure! I haven't researched it very much yet so I dont want to say anything too stupid - I'll save that for the video.

Why? You enlisted, I presume. And if you ended up doing recon you do understand your report gets forwarded to the intelligence guys

@@Taskandpurpose good idea make Britain proud be one of the good yanks i know you can be

@@Geezer2006 challenger 3? you mean challenger 2.5? The actual name of the program was the "Challenger 2 Life Extension Program" and its really the "we don't really have any money to build a new tank program so lets upgrade some parts and call it a day" Don't get me wrong its a good tank for 5-10 years ago. But its lack of a integrated Active protection system with hardkill and soft kill means its at a huge disadvantage. Still needs a crew of 4 and has no computer operated target finding and tracking system or visual identification technology. Its biggest advantage over the Russian tanks is that it definitely wont deploy anywhere because Britain has no money and no political endurance for any conflict requiring the fielding of tanks.

I remember the terminal ballistics exactly as you describe them. Don't remember the source, though. Having fired some Commbloc 5.45X45 into water jugs, it behaved exactly as described.

So You are very well been mistaken, Soviets did not invade Afghanistan, they were invited.

@@kalinmalinov7464 They WERE invited, but a month later they killed the president and started doing whatever they wanted. At that point it became an invasion, since the only person who wanted the Soviets in the country was now dead.

@@Raz.C Have you brainwashed with propaganda, answer the question, did the United States invade Afghanistan? Unlike the United States, the USSR did not fight against the people of Afghanistan, they fought against radical Islamists who produced millions of tons of drugs a year near the borders of the USSR. The Soviet Union built schools, hospitals and houses in Afghanistan, they are still there, you can look on the Internet, the USSR invited students to study for free at their universities so that they could build a secular progressive country without radical Islam. And the United States for 20 years have not done anything good for the people of Afghanistan

@@Raz.C The president that invited them was killed by his successor. The soviets than assassinated his successor because of his unpopularity.

IDK. The only games I saw it in was Metal Gear Solid 4 and Ghost Recon Wildlands, but only for Ghost Recon I remember. I think it used 5.56 NATO

SOCOM US navy seals was ps2 and had all the accurate ammunition for every gun and layout socom 2 prolly the Most accurate of all 4

@@whoelsebutmeofcoursei CoD Black Ops Cold War had the 74 chambered in 7.62. Fun fact: it was the first gun i maxed out.

@@lionsoldier1179 Blergh! The fun of the 74 is the different 5.45 caliber, otherwise it's not interesting to me. I remember now, the AK-74 from Metal Gear Solid 5 is chambered in "5,56" and can share the magazines with the AR-18, weird.

Ugh. I'm pretty sure I've seen game reloads where the character ejects the spent round out of the GP25 before loading a new one. Now that's just sacrilegious

I just wish they were cheaper. 74 bakes are around $60, but AKM bakes command prices of $100 and up.

The Russian Guns man himself!

Here comes the Max... 🤣🤣🤣 yes, everything is correct

and at 4:35... VOG-25 is the standard, impact grenade. VOG-25P is the bouncing version

How long till your book finally drops?

Wow, that was a fairly descriptive account of some misconceptions. Almost like some l see in this Grateful Dead group I'm in. Informative to be sure.

Most of the original AK-47 is withdrawn after AKM was introduced. That's why the OG AK-47 is heavily sought after since it did not last long and got replaced by AKM. Then they switched to AK-74 which put the AKM to the storages or possibly armed to militias. Nowadays when AK-12 was introduced there are millions of AK-74 stored and will last long

@@joshuajoaquin5099 if only we could get our hands on them. I shoot neutered AK74 semiautomatic replicas and like the heck out of them!

Most of the "AK-47s" that you are thinking of are AKM rifles.

@@andrewgraves4136 no one cares about that distinction. Like the difference between M-16 and M-16A.

An AK-47 from the 50's has a milled receiver and if it were to actually be used continuously in warfare the receiver would outlast the wood and the barrel. Ak's from the 60's on have a stamped sheet metal receiver which is why there is a limit on how many grenades they feel you should shoot off with it. Ak's from the 50's are rare and rather collector's items as far far fewer were made than the later much faster and easier manufactured sheet metal receiver versions.

Yo did not even knew 5.45x18 existed but thanks for telling

Do more 762x39 research too add it to your list of idols.

What uses 5.45x18? Some sort of pistol probably. While isn't the 9x39mm the subsonic rounds used by the VAL and VSS?

@@AbyssWatcher745 yes

glad to hear that, really means a lot man glad you like the videos

I used to love that magazine back in the day

@@1joshjosh1 Peter G. Kokalis was the best source for military firearms knowledge. I'm amazed at how many younger generation gun writers today who don't even know who he was and rehash decades old mistakes Kokalis proved wrong 40 years ago. I miss the 80's and the Reagan years...

@@hairydogstail Kokalis was a joke.....he simply used info supplied by others to him and took credit for it making him the "rehasher" . Before writing for SOF, he had to carry around a copy of Small Arms of the World to even know what a rifle was. His "combat" experience was a photographer in the Army....LOL....next you will be telling us how Chuck Taylor (real name Galen Taylor) won the Viet Nam war by himself........dont believe everything you read Gomer. SOF was a fiction mens magazine for entertainment mostly.

@@chadhaire1711 Kokalis was the first to figure out the 5 piece AK rate reducer was an anti bounce device, which Kalashnikov himself verified when they met. The so called millennial gun experts still call it a rate reducer.. Kokalis had one of the largest class 3 collections in the nation, so I doubt he needed a guide to remember the firearms he actually owned and used for his reviews lol. Kokalis was the first to introduce the Glock, "when he got the first American interview with Gaston Glock" to the American public and recognized it's importance when others scoffed at it.. Kokalis went into combat with the Salvadorean special units, refurbished their crappy hardware and was awarded as a member to that unit for his service. Kokalis went into 4 war zones Afghanistan during soviet rule,, El Salvador, Bosnia Herzegovina and nearly a dozen other countries throughout the world.His weapon test were spot on and more thorough than any gun writer I have read since. What is common knowledge today was not back in the 70's and 80's.. Before the internet Kokalis was the source for all things military small arms..Kokalis was a rabid anti communist which I also supported..Chuck Taylor on the other hand was a joke and was considered a hack back in his days at SWAT magazine. SWAT magazine eventually dumped him and all his BS .Kokalis had a M.S. degree in advanced mathematics, calculus, chemistry, physics, and mechanical engineering.He served in technical intelligence, made 21 trips to El Salvador training reaction forces and an airborne battalion with the Army. In 1982 he went into Afghanistan and friends and brought out the first 5.45X39 ammunition...So chad, we will agree to disagree on this one...

@@hairydogstail Chuckie was fired from SWAT because I am the one that got him fired from SWAT and other Moore publications. That is because I showed the owner of the publishing company how Chuckie had faked his articles and lied about everything. I even wrote some articles for SWAT later showing the tests he did were faked.....and called him out. Everett Moore was so pissed off he not only fired Chuck as editor but the publisher for hiring him---must have been hard as the publisher was his son Larry Moore! This was nothing new as he also got fired by Jeff Cooper at Gunsite before. He then went on to work with Massad Ayoob and got fired there, then at that Frontsite school in Nevada, and got fired there. Chuck just went on to Harris magazines where he continued his BS stories. But when word got out he eventually had to go into hiding...he still ran his school but had to stop writing to avoid being called out. His military record claims--well that is another subject. AS far as those SOF articles they were mostly fiction----guys like Kokalis would fly over there at Bob Browns expense, round up some soldiers over a beer, then take some photos together, then claim to be "training" their military. Most of the SOF stories were like that---take photos of the Taliban (they were the good guys back then, the Russians the invaders--then we went in and we were the liberators, and the Taliban became the bad guys) the write a fake "I was in combat " story. Bob Brown was always the most clueless in the group---senile as well as deaf. Never knew what was going on at the magazine. I don't think he knew most of the articles were made up....but when Brown gave you a plane ticket and cash to do a story, he wanted a story--and that is what the magazine got true or not. Brown eventually fired Kokalis, who threatened to sue him, then he went to Small Arms Review and got fired there in a hurry. I am aware of the Kokalis "resume" which while not as fake as Taylor, was puffed up a bit. Before he wrote for SOF he didn't know the difference between a direct gas or piston system, yet a few years later, SOF has him as some gun expert....everyone who knew him BEFORE that were baffled....so I take it you did not know him before his SOF "fame". I can't think of ANYBODY in the gun business who took him seriously back then. I remember being at the home of Charles Ingram one evening, and asked him what he thought about an article that kokalis did on his MAC model 10 SMG. He became agitated , and said don't ever mention that guys name in my house again....LOL...so the subject was dropped...

thanks for the kind words and noticing that! it was definitely really uncomfortable for me at first haha

thanks for watching glad you liked it!

from Funker530, saw that too even catapults

There are AK47's still in use in places like Africa where they are cherished as status symbols in some areas

AK-74M can fire the GP launcher and it can mount an optic onto the side rail. Russians didn't really issue lights and optics too much until recently, and even then all those sights are being stuffed into a warehouse while soldiers practice with their stock irons. There is a logic to that: why use the optic in daily life when iron sight is always more reliable and at close ranges there are techniques that allow you to use irons just as effectively. Once one is really well-versed in use of irons, optic becomes REALLY appreciated. And if in combat the battery dies, soldier is well-versed in irons so optic will go into the pouch and user will use fully-zeroed stock iron sights. AK-12 is an AK-74 redesigned to accept rails and make those rails reliably keep zero of whatever sits on them. The only change to the action is the idiotic 2-round burst which will, hopefully soon, disappear. Oh, and the barrel is made more precisely.

thanks I appreciate the kind words !

It also broke the stereotype of AKs being inaccurate and crude. It was better at range than m16a3 and hk416 in BF3

And an AK 47 has a MILLED receiver meaning it was cut out on a milling machine from a solid block of steel. Extremely durable and slow and expensive to manufacture thus the AKM with it's stamped and folded sheet metal receiver which was impressively engineered as to be very durable considering the abuse it absorbs.

@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195 The AKM also brought the 6P1 0-14 slanted muzzle brake into use

Skladnoi?

No it is not.......a shit caliber for combat....the 7.62x39 will punch through walls, cars bodies, vegetation, cement blocks, and most anything else better than 223/5.45. And that crap AK74 muzzle brake is a death trap that will blind you at night, destroy your ear drums with loud report, and give your position away to the enemy with a ball of fire flash getting you killed. Try firing one without ear protection.....try that in indoors too....I dare you. Do it in your videos and let's see what happens. You were in the Army and dont know all this? Really? AK74 is a "great rifle" alright---for the other guy.

thanks for watching glad you liked it !

Any journalist knows a AK-47, even though most of the times it's not a 47.

The G3 was reportedly very unreliable. The FAL is a better pick for a battle rifle.

@@andrewgraves4136 first time hearing anyone call G3 an unreliable gun, many nations preferred it over the FAL because G3 could handle rough treatment or untrained recruits better than FAL.

damn thats fast!

@@Taskandpurpose it really isn't when you think about it. AK-74 Field strip is as complicated as puzzle toys for 3 yr olds. Interesting fact These AK training dummies being actual AKs discarded in production are a real treat for the black market. The 90% of Eastern european black market is those dummies refurbished into actual guns (not reliable, but they do shoot)

I propose the idea that games all add a skin for it with weathered/rusted metal, and fossilised/petrified wood furniture.

Still plenty of 1911s and M2s around. 100 years is not unusually long for a gun.

Crossfit doesent exist. Its a fancy way of saying, working out with your own weight

If it has a "s" it means the stock is underfolding. If it has a "u" it means the barrel is short. A "AK-74U" would be a fixed stock, short-barreled, 1974 model Kalashnikov rifle...!

@@whoelsebutmeofcoursei that why Cappy is wrong here. Because there was only AKS-74U. Russia never built 74u without folding stock so calling this rifle as "AK-74u" are wrong.

Jocko hears his name mispronounced and says to himself: Good

because people will still be using the Ak-47 for another 25+ years. They are just too cheap to replace.

5.45 has less recoil then 5.56 and shoots flatter and smoother then any AR-15 I’ve ever shot.

Swiss SIG-510 and Finland AK handle better, there are a lot of weapons that can handle climate well

Whats the difference of this 74N model to a regular 74??

@@whoelsebutmeofcoursei dovetail mount for attach optics like on the video.

He's gonna pick on Chris for calling a AKS-74U a AK-74U

papa kalash

@@whoelsebutmeofcoursei And not distinguishing between AKM and AK-47. And claiming that plastic mags and grenade launchers first appeared with AK-74. Seriously, there's a mistake in almost every single sentence of this video. Either technical, historical or factual.

As long as there is conflict, there will always be AKs.

The ak105 is only used in russian SF as it is simply just a carabine variant of the ak74m. Russian armed forces are actually adopting the ak12 as their main assault rifle.

Standard infantry has been getting the AK12 or at least upgrading thier AK74M with AK12 furniture. The AK105 is Russias answer to the MK18 and used by more specialized troops.

No. The AK-74M was there to replace the AK-74. AK-12 (5.45x39) and AK-15 (7.62x39) are the new ones.

The 74 to 105 is basically the Russian M4 to Mark 18 equivalent

Nope, 105 is for the RUSSOF The main force will use 74m or updated furniture to 74 and 12 series

thanks for watching! Ak74 is definitely my favorite in the series too, especially the M version. they took a lot of risks making this weapon and it doesnt get enough attention that it went well

Imagine my Russian surprise when I heard "you have to push this stanag this hard because you, moron, pushed 31 rounds inside it!" it was totally unbelievable for me that it is possible to fill 30 rounder with 31 rounds

nice catch ! I'll get it next time

Lol. "wounding". Total Fuddlore. 5.56 is designed to wound not to kill...so it means..5.45x39 must be designed to tickle. 🤣

@@SCH292 AK-47 is 7.62x39

@@dogetothemoon223 Ha. You didn't get the joke then. AK47 is 7.62x39. The AK74 is 5.45x39. Anyway..yeah..you didn't get the joke.

@@SCH292 Yeah but in Vietnam, they were using 7.62x39 not 5.45x39. And it worked better in dense jungle. So I do not believe that the Vietnam war is the reason why the Soviets switched to a smaller caliber.

@@dogetothemoon223 Umm..it was the Vietnam War and that's why the Soviet switch to 5.45x39. More ammo means soldiers can carry which also mean they can shoot more and easier follow up shot. Less weight for them means they get less tired that means they can fight longer an d means they can carry other stuff too.

It doesn't like sustained auto fire. At all.

The main point of developing 5.56 nato and the M16 was to reduce the weight and recoil compared to the M14 in 7.62 nato. Yes sacraficing stopping power at range but with the average engagement distance in Vietnam being under 100yds that didn't matter. As well as engagements usually being a "surprise" due to thick vegetation, flinch shooting was a common occurrence and was easier to achieve with a light recoiling rifle/carbine. My point being I'm sure the ones in charge knew that 5.56 was underpowered but knew the benefits they traded it for.

5,45 bullet is longer that's why probability more stable

5.56 comes in multiple weights, from 55 grain, 62 grain, and 77 grain. The major advantage of 5.45 is relatively light (53 grain), high velocity (2950), with a relatively high BC (G7 .168). It does very well in the wind and has really good penetration in most situations. It's light, so you can carry a lot of it.