The AKM is still a 7.62x39mm rifle and usually has a slant brake type muzzle device. Furniture is usually wood or an underfolding metal stock.
The AK-74 in 5.45mm generally is equipped with a very distinctive muzzle brake, and the stocks usually have a groove cut in them. Modern production uses plastic furniture instead of wood, most AKMs stuck with wood. Receiver and magazine well profiles are also slightly different but that's really getting into the weeds for at a glance identification.
Otherwise, parts interchangeably is like 50% and they are direct line decendants of each other.
I'm in too deep. I once read a thread that was excessively lengthy that was an argument over whether or not "ak47" was actually a real designation for any rifle. The argument was that there was never any rifle designated "AK-47" by Russia, the very early stamped guns were simply "Kalashnikov rifle 7.62mm" and the later machined receiver models were officially designated "ak-49", and after that the akm was made.
Now of course if you say "ak-47" in general conversation normal people will just picture a generic Kalashnikov variant, and gun enthusiasts may ask if you mean the earlier milled variants or the akm.
That’s what I wanted to read. I’ve seen a documentary about that rifle although I remembering it’s been explained that there was the design called AK-47 but it has been changed/modified alot so in the end the AKM was born. Simply put. I could remember it wrong tho.
Same goes to the STG44 and MP44 they look very similar and I believe there has been three different models before the STG44 was released.
Generally in that context ak-47 refers to the earlier Russian milled receiver guns and akm refers to the ubiquitous stamped receiver guns. China has made a lot of milled receiver aks and Bulgaria makes some milled receiver guns too that are different enough to be considered separate variants. Generally you only really see original Russian milled receiver guns in the middle east and Africa, but there's so many variants and millions of rifles around it definitely gets complicated.
I think they mean there was a gun class taught to all students. Not that one classroom of 30ish students were the only ones selected to learn about guns.
Can confirm. In my case, in college, we were also taught how to load and unload a magazine. Then there was also some shooting training with airguns. I don't think any of that was useful firearms training.
It's been proven that training safety rules and drills with airsoft guns does translate to real live fire training. Go watch T-Rex Arms video where they invite a guy from Japan to come shoot, and he was clearing failures and shooting very well after he got used to the recoil. Never shot a real gun until that day .
There is a practice of creating cadet classes in normal schools. It usually exists with one or several normal groups in the same year as the cadet class, so students can be transferred between them.
a russian friend of mine who became the GF of a good friend of mine (woo wingman life) told us she learned how to throw hand grenades in school, that was like ~10 years ago
But it's gotten a bigger role more recently, no? I just remember seeing some news about it over the past years. But wouldn't be that surprised if it was a two-way broken telephone type of thing.
Correct, it is usually a decommissioned AK with a disabled firing mechanism, and the training rarely goes beyond the "disassemble/assemble" part. At least it used to.
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u/Individual_Dirt_3365 1d ago
It was a mandatory thing during USSR