I took stock of AKM in my last article, and some friends said in the comment area that my picture was misplaced, this time I will talk about the difference between AKM and AK47, I believe that many friends of the peace elite who play penguins will think, why is this gun that looks almost exactly the same as AK47 called AKM? Many friends have the same questions as me, this article will take you to understand how the famous king of rifles, AK47, was born in reality, and what is its relationship with AKM? In this article, I have consulted a large number of historical documents. If you like this article, give me a thumbs up.
Entering the subject, the full name of the AK we are familiar with is the Kalashnikov automatic rifle. In 1946, Comrade Kalashnikov also designed the ak46, and since I couldn't find the pictures, I guess it looked like this
The AK46 looks something like this
This was inspired by the new Stg44 assault rifle used by the German army at the time. The Stg44 was the world's first truly large-scale assault rifle. It is also one of my favorite WWII rifles.
Stg44 assault rifle
It used a medium-power bullet of 7.92 ×33 mm, while the Bobosa submachine gun used by Soviet soldiers in World War II was a pistol bullet of 7.62 × 25 mm, although their caliber difference was not large, one was 7.92 and the other was 7.62, but from the length of the shell we can see that the German bullet was charged more. The Stg44 muzzle has an initial velocity of 685 m/s, while Bobosa has only 488 m/s. In terms of lethality and range, the StG44 is far superior to Bobosa.
Bobosa
Personally, I think the Stg44 is an epoch-making weapon, a pioneer of fully automatic rifles, which is both precise, fast in rate of fire, and easy to carry. At that time, ordinary Soviet soldiers were either equipped with Bobosha submachine guns, or equipped with the ancient Mosin-Nagant bolt rifle, fighting with the German army, suffering a lot of losses, in fact, the Soviet army also developed the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle.
SVT40 semi-automatic rifle
How to say it, this thing in the Soviet army in the report pointed out that this gun structure is fragile, inconvenient to repair and difficult to maintain. We all know that the more complex the structure of the gun, the more difficult it is to maintain. Ordinary soldiers with only minimal training cannot maintain guns alone. Therefore, Soviet soldiers also needed powerful automatic rifles, such as the STG44, so Comrade Kalashnikov began to work on the development of new guns. After referring to the design of the American M1 Garand rifle, he designed the M1944. The gun was designed to use the M43 bullet that had just been developed at that time, with a specification of 7.62 ×39mm. Yes, this bullet was designed to mimic the German-designed 7.92mm intermediate-power bullet, which we often call the 7.62mm Soviet bullet, originally designed for another of our old acquaintances in the peace elite, the sks.
SKS semi-automatic rifle
This is reflected in the peace elite. The 7.62 mm bullet found is directly universal. Finally, in 1946 he developed the AK46 mentioned earlier in the article. The AK46 was continuously improved after extensive testing in the actual environment, including a gas conduction device and a piston system, and finally finalized in 1947 as an AK47.
ak47
Subsequently 1500 was produced, allowing the official test, unfortunately, the official is not satisfied with the root. It was not until 1949, when Kalashnikov introduced another improved version, that the Soviet military was satisfied and officially adopted. It was handed over to the Izhevsk Arsenal for mass production and eventually began to be equipped with Soviet troops in 1951 with the aim of replacing the SKS rifles of the time. At this time, it is still a small-scale equipment. It was not until 1953, after being improved again, that a large number of troops began to be equipped. When the Soviet soldiers got the new gun, they were very happy and praised, this thing is much more powerful than the semi-automatic sks. The new gun is not only powerful, but it is also very useful in harsh battlefield environments. In the water, into the sand can still shoot normally, but after the use of a large number of equipment, its problems gradually appear. The first is the problem of jumping up and down at the muzzle, which is what we often call the recoil too much. The main reason for the recoil is that it uses 7.62 mm rifle bullets,
7.62 mm bullet
This bullet is very powerful, very deadly at medium distance, has a strong penetrating force at close range, this bullet has no problem in semi-automatic shooting, but in fully automatic shooting, it will make the gun body difficult to control. At the same time, the AK's gun body is relatively short, which is not conducive to the control of recoil. AK has several other shortcomings: the manufacturing cost is relatively high, the aiming baseline is short, the sight design is unreasonable, which greatly affects the design accuracy, it is difficult to hit the enemy 300 meters away, and the AKM we picked up in the peace elite is optimized for these shortcomings. The full name of the AKM is the Kalashnikov automatic rifle modified version.
AKM
So where did it change? And how to improve it? First of all, the receiver process was upgraded, saving nearly 80% of the metal and greatly reducing production costs. Soldiers always complained that the muzzle was seriously jumping, so it added a diagonal notch muzzle device, which could control the muzzle of the muzzle when firing continuously. It gives the impression that AKM is easier to control than the AK47. In addition, most of the gun body was replaced by new materials, reducing the weight of the entire gun, and adding finger grooves to the handguard,
Added finger slots
In this way, the rifle, AKM and AK47 can be well grasped when shooting, and there is a very obvious difference, that is, the AKM has three stiffeners on the receiver cover. AK47 no,
AK47 no
The AKM has three stiffeners
Compared with the prototype gun AK-47, the AKM used a large number of stamping parts, the riveting was changed to welding, and the magazine was changed to aluminum alloy, but it was common with the AK-47 steel magazine.
Well, after reading this article, you should be able to see the difference between AK47 and AKM at a glance, a lot of the picture material in the text comes from the network to find, there is a lack of hope to point out more, if you like me this article, you may wish to give me a thumbs up. Like to pay attention to the next, we see you in the next article