Posted on 02/03/2017 2:33:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Kalashnikov Concern– which manufactures guns under the Kalashnikov, Baikal and Izhmash brands– announced they plan to grow their production staff by at least 30 percent in 2017.
Company officials said the plan, which will add a third shift to their factories, is to keep up with growing and potential demand for their products overseas.
“The decision to strengthen the personnel of the Kalashnikov Group was taken amid the production orders growth due to the increased volume of export orders”, said Alexey Krivoruchko, CEO of the Kalashnikov Group in a statement. “We are facing a challenging task to handle the growing demand.
The company currently employs 6,500 workers on average and is looking to expand their ranks of polishers, toolmakers, milling machine operators and other crafts to meet expanded production demands.
Kalashnikov last November was issued an A+ (long-term) credit rating from the RAEX (Expert RA) rating agency, defined as “highly credit-worthy” and the following month was visited by the Indian ambassador to discuss the development of bilateral ties including a joint venture production in that country. Kalashnikov has long been in talks with the Indian government to produce AK series rifles there to replace the unpopular Indian Small Arms Systems (INSAS) rifle, which is widely seen as unreliable.
Headquartered in Moscow, the group is owned by private investors and non-profit state-owned Rostec, the latter with a 51 percent controlling interest, and has been operating under as such since 2013. Formerly known as Izmash until 2012 when the company rebranded under the more recognizable Kalashnikov banner, the concern dates to the Izhevsk gun factory established by Tsar Alexander I in 1807 to produce muskets to fight Napoleon.
Currently prohibited from exporting guns to the U.S. due to sanctions implemented by the Obama administration four years ago over Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine, the prospect the embargo could thaw under President Trump was not addressed by Kalashnikov. Prior to 2013, 40 percent of the company’s annual rifle and shotguns production was sold abroad to U.S. importers.
On Thursday, some sanctions against Russia, specifically against the state security apparatus that replaced the KGB, were eased, though White House Spokesman Sean Spicer was quick to point out that move was done by the Treasury Department and not at the direction of the President.
“We’re not easing sanctions,” said Spicer in a press briefing. “The Treasury Department — it is, from what I understand, it’s a fairly common practice for the Treasury Department, after sanctions are put in place, to go back and to look at whether or not there needs to be specific carve-outs for either industries or products and services that need to be going back and forth.”
I bought a milled receiver Bulgarian way back upon a time (90’s?). Seems to me I paid less than $300. new.
Perhaps, but the MSM doesn’t know the difference between semi-automatic and full auto.
I’ve never seen a stamped aluminum AR-15.
I’ve noticed that too.
Armalite & Olympic make them among others.
I would just like to get my hands on one of those new Russian AK-107s.
“I’ve never seen a stamped aluminum AR-15.” (post 23 by smokingfrog)
“Armalite & Olympic make them among others.” (post 25 by Roman_War_Criminal)
No one makes “stamped aluminum” AR-15s.
All makers forge the upper & lower receivers from aluminum billets, then machine them to final dimensions. Same goes for the makers of AR-10-style rifles. Except for the receiver extension (aka “buffer tube”), all other major parts are steel.
Stamping isn’t necessarily a bad thing. HK used stampings to make the G3, the MP5, and a number of other arms. Whoever made the CETME Modelo 58 for the Spaniards and the Portuguese did the same. And the Red Army’s AKM (superseded the AK-47 in 1959 or so) was stamped.
Me too. Hopefully Trump will get around before too long to deleting another Obama mistake.
And don’t forget: anodizing is an electrochemical process that converts the metal surface into a decorative, durable, corrosion-resistant, anodic oxide finish. Aluminum is ideally suited to anodizing.
AKs are sprayed with a can of black BBQ grill paint.
Anyone else have a couple dozen of those little hex head wrenches in various sizes that come with all the crapola we bolt on our evil black guns?
WASR is Romanian.
Aluminum stamped?
No. Cast, maybe, but not stamped. And that was long ago.
They make good rifles.
Look up the Armalite 180 - it’s stamped. It’s the bottom line AR that I was referring to. Olympic Arms tried the same years ago with epic failure results.
Yes it was - Armalite 180 and I forget the cheap version Olympic had.
Cool. But it’s not an AR-15.
Maybe not - but close ;)
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