Ignoramus29573 wrote:

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:34:39 -0500, Tony wrote:

Did it win any wars? The Soviets lost Afganistan. The M1911 was on the
winning side of 2 major world wars.


Well, since AK-47 was the primary weapon of Aghan mujahedeen, you
could say that "it won the war".

i

Get it right! In Afghanistan, the Soviets were testing the AK-74 and the new
5.45X39 ammo. The AK-47 was long gone, replaced in the early '60's by the AKM,
just in time for the Russians to dump all their now obsolete AK-47s in Vietnam.
The stamped receiver AKM was what the AK-47 was intended to be, but it took a
while for the Russians to produce a durable sheet metal receiver.

David