I'm being serious though,
anytime Japan draws a "Russian girl" they're always a cat girl
3 Reasons Why You Can't Hit Shit with Your AK
Well it's that or Balalaika.
You're forgetting a rather obvious exception.
inb4 some autist says she's technically nipponese and not Russian.
Also:
Based on a true story.
No as it was designed to have an effective range of 600m (20in barrel, free floated bipod) to replace MAS-49/56 and therefore used the round you came up with to replace the M14 .308 that you came up with to replace the M1 .30-06, which had proven it self as a decent replacement.
It was adopted in a bullpup form to be able to have the same tactical use of the MAT-49, at the same time, making it an "assault rifle".
Yes. It's in the exact same class as the AK and all other "heavy SMG/light carbine" that came up during, before and right after the war Danuvia 39M/43M, SIG MKMO, MP 42 and 44.
Like "blitzkrieg" it's post war bullshit, those guns were designed, issued and tactically used as the submachine guns were, only they were quite better at it, especially compared to the MP-40.
Of course not, especially in it's first iteration.
Most people don't even consider the first generation of "assault rifle" as such anymore and prefer the term of "battle rifle" to lump everything from the RSC 1916 to the FN-SCAR in the same box as they have virtually the same tactical use as semi-auto, long range, rifles, because their usage in full-auto is extremely dubious, making them a mix of the box fed LMGs (BAR, Bren, etc…) and regular rifles.
Also because if they don't it means the Russians invented the assault rifle with the select fire AVS-36 and it's something people like you, american wehrboo, will never let pass.
The AK platform is accurate.
The AK-47/AKM isn't.
Why because 7.62x39 isn't accurate past 250-300m. Yes you can still hit if you know perfectly the ballistic trajectory of the round and where the targets are, but it's the same way you can get a mosin iron sight do to 1000 yard shots… Perfect range condition and expert shooter.
Because it was designed as a "a bit better" SMG round, which the soviets though was universal.
Until they realized it really wasn't and adopted 5.45mm en masse.
You can just admit you're talking out of your ass tbqhwyf.
Might as well point out the obvious again: the German infantry squad of ww2 was built around the machine gun, and the riflemen had two jobs: to suppress the enemy while the MG wasn't firing (because it was moved, reloaded, or needed a change of barrel), and to charge forward to a new position. For the first purpose the Stg was basically a LMG with limited range that could be fired from the shoulder. For the second purpose the Stg was a MP with a lot greater punch. The designation of the first two weapons that led to the later Stg were MKb 42(H) and MKb 42(w). MKB stands for Maschinenkarabine, or machine carbine. It's quite logical, as it's between a machine pistol which is called submachine gun in English, because Thompson had to fuck that up and a machine gun. They were clearly meant for automatic fire, to the point that Walther's model was firing from an open bolt. Then Hitler got autistic and they had to rename the new model to MP-43 to call down his nerves, because they could claim that it was just a straight upgrade to the machine pistols or submachine guns, because I know that someone will have to point out that in English machine pistol specifically refers to pistols modified for automatic fire, because Thompson and co had to come up with submachine gun as a marketing term. Then at a later point Hitler got autisitc again and dubbed this machine carbine the Sturmgewehr, because at that time the Germans named lots of things as Sturm-something for propaganda purposes. Then the English language had to pick up the translation of that propaganda term, and now we have all these fruitless discussion where people are asking each other if a rifle capable of automatic fire is in the same category as a machine carbine.
As for the soviets, they made the SKS to replace the Mosin. Now, the K (or more precisely К) stands for карабин, or carbine. Can we agree that they weren't wrong about this, and the SKS really is a self-loading carbine? If the answer to that question is yes, then we can take a step forward. They also had the RPD, a light machine gun chambered for the same cartridge as that carbine. Then they had the AK, a self-loading weapon capable of automatic fire that was meant to replace submachine guns machine pistols. They quickly realized that the AK can do the work of the SKS without any modification, and it can even replace the RPD after the few modifications. So they replaced a self-loading carbine and a light machine gun with a machine carbine. And a machine carbine can do the job of a machine pistol, there is nothing mystical about that. All-in-all, what I want to say that is that all these arguments about terminology stem from the terminology itself, and that terminology is the result of a translation of a propaganda term that shouldn't be used to classify weapons. Of course we can still argue what makes a carbine and a machine carbine, and if the M2 was a machine carbine, but at least we'd avoid all of this confusion.
Yes, I know that no English speaker will switch from assault rifle to machine carbine, and we will have these discussion until the end of this site, but I still try to do what little I can.
I don't really like the use of "carbine" in english or Russian, for that matter, as it refers to the barrel length/OAL of the weapon and not its purpose or the cartridge it uses. I'd a lot more prefer the term "intermediate" instead, so that you have battle/full power rifle that use full power rifle cartridges and "intermediate rifles" that use intermediate rifle cartridges, instead of all this assault bullshit. On topic of SMGs, i don't really like the name either, not do i like the use of the word "machine" in English it just sounds weird, and would prefer automatic/auto-. For MGs it sounds ok but i like (squad/stationary) automatic weapon/gun/rifle more(with squad/stationary gun(SG) or rifle(SR) being the easiest to say and most pleasant to hear). SMGs is really little besides an advertisement term but at least its abbreviation sounds cool. Autopistol is better suited for actual autopistols, as pistol is something intended to be compact and able to be fired with one hand or something, while most SMGs are closer in size to smaller rifles.
Now that i think about it, there's pistol caliber carbines, but they are a narrower category because many SMGs have either pistol or rifle length barrels, though it's still a lot more technically accurate. It could be something about pistol calibers, short action or "small ammo", i dunno, but any combination sounds retarded, with PAW being very silly.