Re: The AK47 Pic Thread
Rossignol said:
Thats pretty sweet, if I'm remembering, its internally supressed like the HK?
I dont' want to hijack the AK picture thread, but, That's what I was wondering and why I asked if it brought standard bullets down to subsonic levels.
Slightly off topic, but I have done a lot of research on the subject when I was designing mine and surprisingly, integrally suppressed service weapons originated during WWI based off a maxim design on a 1903 Springfield frame that saw limited service in trench warfare.
But they got really popular during WWII after the Enfield Delisle and Welrods and saw a lot of use in certain circles. Of course, the Germans had to counter with a heavily modified MP40 that used nothing more than bakelite baffles on their variants.
Only later did H&K copy that with the MP5SD in 1974, so the technology is not really new.
It's really nothing more than drilling holes in the barrel and porting some of the gas to be contained within the forend temporarily before moving through the suppressor and exiting into the atmosphere, but it is hard to beat it in reducing sound and flash.
Here's the Integral I built.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrh82xbGp_k[/youtube]