Must See For Anybdy That Used An AK-47 In Combat
As a U.S Army Special Forces Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol Team Member, later Platoon Sergeant, we used the AK-47 as a Tactical Deception at Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. As the AK-47 when fired has a distinctive sound, so that the Vietcong, North Vietnamese Army Soldiers would not swarm to find out who fired a U.S. .45 Caliber M-3, Submachinegun, that we routinely issued.Later during the Iran Iraq Wars, as U.S. Army Special Forces Officer, the AK-47 issued to a U.S. Ally Iraqis Soldier saved me from being bayoneted to death, when my Brigade Headquarter of the Iraqis Combat Brigade I was in Command of, got over run by a Human Wave Charge.
Rotate to CIA Operation Cyclone, for deniability purposes we did not use U.S. Weapons, I used the Sniper Rifle Version of the AK-47, the SVD, to have an advantage of 200 meters range over the 800 meter range of the AK-47.
The Historic Reason why all the other Versions of the German World War 2 MP-44, the World's First "Assault Weapon" was the Russians tried to copy the complex, handmade and tight fitting parts of the German MP-44, this meant that anything would cause the German MP-44 to fail, water, mud, sand, dirt, snow, ice as the common environment in Combat. Mikhail Kalashnikov did not copy the German MP-44 Design "Mechanical Action", the Rolling Overhead Bolt. The U.S. attempt would be the 1945 M-14, the Mechanical Action being similar to the simple AK-47, but upside down, to this day as U.S. Army Special Forces we still use the 1950s M-14 and variants, as the M-21, and M-25.
As U.S. Army Special Forces we are trained to use the AK-47, and all updated Versions. when we chose we do not choose the M-4 range 250 meters, M-16 350 meters, they still malfunction when needed. We chose the AK-47, 800 meters, SVD 1,200 meters, or the M-21 1,200 meters.
During the 2001 Overthrow of the 5 Million Afghan Taliban Government and Pro Afghan Taliban Military, during the Urban Warfare at Bagram, Kabul, Kandahar Kalashnikov was absolutely correct of how deadly the AK-47 is to defend a Village, Town, City, Province, Nation. As to why we lost so many 50 percent and 25,000 Northern Alliance while taking over Bagram, Kabul, Kandahar, same as during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, as M-16s versus AK-47s.
score 10/10
dncorp 3 November 2020
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