Got to visit the kalashnikov Museum in (Izhevsk) Russia.....
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So many guns so little time on this blue orb.. How did you find the food on the Russian train? My wife and her mother did the trans Siberian express from Russia > Mongolia > china last year and she came back pale and thin. Heh. Last time I was in Russia I was flying in a Mig 31 foxhound. About 10 years ago. Went to 71,000 feet. Saw the curve of the earth.
hey...... yeah... i wouldnt eat on the russian train... unless you are in to
dog/cat meat and such....
but in general Russian food is really good....
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- California (formerly from BC)
hey...... yeah... i wouldnt eat on the russian train... unless you are in to
dog/cat meat and such....
She did say that the meals outside the train were fantastic
The entire menu was basically "not available" except for Chicken Noodle soup that didn't taste like chicken and was basically thin and salty broth.
I also ate well in Russia the one time I went.
also if anyone is wondering what the hell that is
, it says "AK with 'balancing action'" or something like that.
Pure conjecture on my part, maybe a flywheel like measuring device for doing some sort of testing to calibrate the harmonics of the gas system etc...
- Location
- California (formerly from BC)
also if anyone is wondering what the hell that is
, it says "AK with 'balancing action'" or something like that.
A combo waffle iron / gun... Eat breakfast and defend your country at the same time.
Great pictures - thanks for sharing, must get there someday.
I am curious to know if the museum gives any credit to Hugo Schmeisser (who developed the MP-28, MP-40 and StG44 etc.) for "helping" develop the AK47 with Mikhail Kalashnikov? Mikhail finally admited to Schmeisser's 'help' in 2009.
Schmeisser was 'liberated' by the Red Army at the end of WWII and forced to continue weapons design work in Izhevsk with Mikhail 1946-1952.
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Not to hijack an AK musem thread but if anyone is interested in something similar, there are some pictures of the Mauser/HK museum in a folder here:
http://www.sturmgewehr.com/bhinton/HK_Plant_Mauser_Museum/
I am curious to know if the museum gives any credit to Hugo Schmeisser (who developed the MP-28, MP-40 and StG44 etc.) for "helping" develop the AK47 with Mikhail Kalashnikov? Mikhail finally admited to Schmeisser's 'help' in 2009.
Schmeisser was 'liberated' by the Red Army at the end of WWII and forced to continue weapons design work in Izhevsk with Mikhail 1946-1952.
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Not to hijack an AK musem thread but if anyone is interested in something similar, there are some pictures of the Mauser/HK museum in a folder here:
http://www.sturmgewehr.com/bhinton/HK_Plant_Mauser_Museum/
Excellent trip, glad you took the time to share.
I secretly credit Schmeisser.
Did Mikhail just sit down one day and make this one and only firearm.
That prototype looks almost too complete... Minus how strange they have tried to make it appear.
Shmeisser has tons and tons of oddball guns and experiments. From his days as an advancing weapons designer.
You would think that a gun makers museum would highlight Mikhail's other examples.
Based on his "original table and tools" you would imagine the first (which I didn't notice)
Would be one scrappy looking piece of hardware, with rough wooden handles of differing proportions to the ones of today.
Not beautiful stained wood and injection molded plastic
Conspiracy!
Also people spoke of how Extremely modest Schmeisser was of the details of his involvement, almost to the point where it seemed like if he did speak his life would end.
I secretly credit Schmeisser.
Did Mikhail just sit down one day and make this one and only firearm.
That prototype looks almost too complete... Minus how strange they have tried to make it appear.
Shmeisser has tons and tons of oddball guns and experiments. From his days as an advancing weapons designer.
You would think that a gun makers museum would highlight Mikhail's other examples.
Based on his "original table and tools" you would imagine the first (which I didn't notice)
Would be one scrappy looking piece of hardware, with rough wooden handles of differing proportions to the ones of today.
Not beautiful stained wood and injection molded plastic
Conspiracy!
Also people spoke of how Extremely modest Schmeisser was of the details of his involvement, almost to the point where it seemed like if he did speak his life would end.
