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To: nickcarraway
A clever mechanic who re-worked the German MP-44.
12 posted on 12/26/2012 5:45:17 PM PST by Lockbar (Quality factory loaded ammunition ---- The New Gold)
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To: Lockbar

http://transsylvaniaphoenix.blogspot.com/2009/02/michail-kalashnikov-admits-german-help.html


13 posted on 12/26/2012 5:53:06 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Lockbar

Bingo; the Russians got there hands on a Nazi Sturmgewehr - 44 (the first assault rifle ever developed) and reworked it accordingly, three years later.


16 posted on 12/26/2012 6:19:56 PM PST by john drake
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To: Lockbar

Exactly right !!

German technology plagerized.

Russian military might is the result of western innovation.


42 posted on 12/28/2012 3:19:45 AM PST by MountainYankee
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