One of the most telling features of the AK-47 series was its metallic curved detachable box magazine which held 30 rounds of ammunition. The pistol grip was unobstructed and integrated into the slim, curved trigger unit, the trigger itself sitting within a thin guard with a magazine catch noticeable just ahead. The forward sight was installed just aft of the muzzle. The rear sight was actually set well-forward along the upper portion of the receiver, near the forend area at the gas cylinder. The receiver was very much slab-sided and relatively featureless save for the large charging handle and ejection port along the right side of the body. The weapon was fitted with a solid wooden buttstock as well as a wood-covered pistol grip and forend. The original form sported much wooden furniture that made the series instantly recognizable to any observer. The AK-47 is, in fact, a very clean design and superbly functional for its unceremonious battlefield role. Outwardly, it is easy to appreciate the AK-47 as a highly modified StG44 but it invariably takes on its own form thanks to the recognizable Kalashnikov styling. The Red Army liked the robust qualities of the new weapon and formally accepted the type as the "AK-47" in 1949 (AK = "Avtomat Kalashnikova"). The Kalashnikov design (the prototype known as the "AK-46") was successfully tested in 1946 and a revised, more reliable form appeared in 1947 for additional testing. While the war ended in 1945, developments of new automatic weapons continued. Despite losing the competition, Kalashnikov - now part of a team - sought to fulfill a new Soviet Red Army need for an assault weapon chambered to fire the new 7.62x39mm M1943 cartridge. During his time at the hospital, he began work on a firearm design specifically to fulfill the requirements to a gun competition being held for the new 7.62x41mm cartridge.
RUSSIAN MADE AK 47 FOR SALE DRIVER
Soviet Mikhail Kalashnikov was conscripted into the Red Army in 1938 and served as a tank driver when he was injured during the Battle of Bryansk in 1941. The StG44 was filling the role of assault weapon rather successfully since its inception along the Eastern Front beginning in September of 1943 and went on to be studied heavily by the Allies after the end of the war. The weapon could achieve a rate-of-fire equal to 600 rounds-per-minute and some 425,000 examples were produced before the end of the war - some even seeing service in the years after. The forend served as a forward grip for a firm two-hand hold and complete three-point control (including support from the shoulder stock). The gas cylinder was set along the top of the barrel while a fixed, solid shoulder stock provided recoil support. The StG44 made use of a gas-operated, tilting bolt firing action and managed 30-rounds from a spring-loaded curved detachable box magazine.
The initiative gave birth to the intermediate "7.92x33 Kurz" cartridge. StG44 (also known as the "MP43/MP44" for "Machinenpistole") engineers accomplished the feat by developing a shorter cartridge that, while less lethal at longer ranges, was perfect for the close ranges intended for a "storm", or "assault", rifle, allowing for controlled automatic fire to be achieved from a rather compact weapon. Such firepower allowed a soldier to provide suppression effects and heavy fire at range without the need for a dedicated, multi-person machine gun crew toting around its heavy weapons system. The assault rifle breed was shorter in length the standard-issue service rifles found within many armies of the time and could fire a similar cartridge while possessing the automatic firepower capabilities of a machine gun. One such development was the StG44 (Sturmgewehr 44 = "Storm Rifle") which was, in essence, the first truly successful and quantitatively-deployed weapon of its kind - a weapon now categorized as an "assault rifle". Towards the end of World War 2, when the Red Army had effectively thrust Hitler's war machine back across Poland and into Germany itself, the Soviets were regularly coming face-to-face with the latest in German military developments.
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