I parroted that Hugo Schmisser might have had a hand in the development of the AK.
I was roundly informed that Soviet Records indicated that to not be the case.
You mean the SEALED TOP SECRET Soviet Records? You couldn't mean those, since they are well... unavailable. If you claim to have read them, we have a term for that... Please extinguish your slacks.
What that really means is nobody knows for certain.
Considering that the USSR routinely lied about things, it makes it easy to believe that it's an Avtomat Schmisser model of 1947.
There's solid enough evidence about the state of the art of Soviet engineering at the time that it could honestly be entirely home grown.
That the Soviets effectively abducted several prominent German gun designers coupled with a long history of lying to make themselves look more capable than they were lends weight to the argument that they didn't do the designing.
I was roundly informed that Soviet Records indicated that to not be the case.
You mean the SEALED TOP SECRET Soviet Records? You couldn't mean those, since they are well... unavailable. If you claim to have read them, we have a term for that... Please extinguish your slacks.
What that really means is nobody knows for certain.
Considering that the USSR routinely lied about things, it makes it easy to believe that it's an Avtomat Schmisser model of 1947.
There's solid enough evidence about the state of the art of Soviet engineering at the time that it could honestly be entirely home grown.
That the Soviets effectively abducted several prominent German gun designers coupled with a long history of lying to make themselves look more capable than they were lends weight to the argument that they didn't do the designing.