The AK-47 is a gas-operated, selective fire assault rifle developed in 1947 by Mikhail Kalashnikov for the Russian military. It is composed of only eight moving parts, reflecting the life motto of its inventor that 'anything that is useful is simple.' With a gas-operated rifle, a proportion of gas from the cartridge is used to provide power for the mechanism that discards the empty case and load a new cartridge. The function of the AK-47 handguards is to protect the shooter's hand from the internal heat produced by the high-pressure gas.
Plain, garden-variety AK-47 handguards are fashioned from polished wood. The reason for this is not to complement the decor but because it is cheap and readily available. More sophisticated handrails permit the attachment of picatinny rails to load a variety of attachments. If you don't know what you are looking at, the handguard alone looks sufficiently intimidating, never mind the rifle itself.
If you look at media pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan, where they have bolted a vertical handgrip onto the lower handguard, and it all falls into place. The vertical handgrip, itself attached by a picatinny rail, gives the operator more control when in full body armor or when the weapon is used in fully automatic mode. This is how most modern weapons for military use are being set up.
The sophisticated AK-47 handguards of today are designed with ergonomics in made and made from a material called reinforced polymer composite. Composite is often used in the soles and toe caps of safety boots because it is a fraction of the weight of conventional steel. Modern handguards may be found in a choice of colors, usually desert tan, olive drab green or black.
The picatinny rail, also known as a tactical rail, attaches to AK-47 handguards. It is used to bolt on the sorts of instruments used by snipers, whose role is to deliver precision long-range fire. They use attachments like lasers, optical sights, bipods, foregrips or other compatible accessories. A bipod is a a two-legged support system used to stabilize the weapon. Such sophisticated weaponry is surplus to requirements for a truck full of insurgents operating on the basis that precision is unnecessary; hurl enough bullets in a given direction and you are going to hit something.
Selective fire refers to the fact that these rifles have at least one automatic mode and one semi-automatic mode. In semi-automatic mode, the weapon reloads the chamber automatically after firing each round. The trigger still has to be released and fired again before the next round can be fired.
One way of achieving full automatic mode is to use a weighted trigger. When a certain amount of weight is exerted on the trigger, the weapon will fire only a single shot at a time. In full automatic mode, a heavier weight is applied to the trigger. This weight can be in the region of more than fifteen pounds, hence the need for a handgrip.
If you have trained snipers, give them fully equipped AK-47 handguards. Better still, kit them out with an M4, M16 or SA80 and leave the old stuff to the outlaws and insurgents. The best swordsman in France is not afraid of the second best swordsman, he is afraid of the worst swordsman in France. According to the United Nations, there are at least seventy million AK-47s in operation throughout the five continents of the world.
Plain, garden-variety AK-47 handguards are fashioned from polished wood. The reason for this is not to complement the decor but because it is cheap and readily available. More sophisticated handrails permit the attachment of picatinny rails to load a variety of attachments. If you don't know what you are looking at, the handguard alone looks sufficiently intimidating, never mind the rifle itself.
If you look at media pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan, where they have bolted a vertical handgrip onto the lower handguard, and it all falls into place. The vertical handgrip, itself attached by a picatinny rail, gives the operator more control when in full body armor or when the weapon is used in fully automatic mode. This is how most modern weapons for military use are being set up.
The sophisticated AK-47 handguards of today are designed with ergonomics in made and made from a material called reinforced polymer composite. Composite is often used in the soles and toe caps of safety boots because it is a fraction of the weight of conventional steel. Modern handguards may be found in a choice of colors, usually desert tan, olive drab green or black.
The picatinny rail, also known as a tactical rail, attaches to AK-47 handguards. It is used to bolt on the sorts of instruments used by snipers, whose role is to deliver precision long-range fire. They use attachments like lasers, optical sights, bipods, foregrips or other compatible accessories. A bipod is a a two-legged support system used to stabilize the weapon. Such sophisticated weaponry is surplus to requirements for a truck full of insurgents operating on the basis that precision is unnecessary; hurl enough bullets in a given direction and you are going to hit something.
Selective fire refers to the fact that these rifles have at least one automatic mode and one semi-automatic mode. In semi-automatic mode, the weapon reloads the chamber automatically after firing each round. The trigger still has to be released and fired again before the next round can be fired.
One way of achieving full automatic mode is to use a weighted trigger. When a certain amount of weight is exerted on the trigger, the weapon will fire only a single shot at a time. In full automatic mode, a heavier weight is applied to the trigger. This weight can be in the region of more than fifteen pounds, hence the need for a handgrip.
If you have trained snipers, give them fully equipped AK-47 handguards. Better still, kit them out with an M4, M16 or SA80 and leave the old stuff to the outlaws and insurgents. The best swordsman in France is not afraid of the second best swordsman, he is afraid of the worst swordsman in France. According to the United Nations, there are at least seventy million AK-47s in operation throughout the five continents of the world.
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