Photo essay on Izhevsk
A prominent Russian blogger has published an extensive photo essay of the stages of production in Izhevsk on her blog. The article gives a full description of the various process’s the AKs go through in their production, but it is all in Russian and Google translating it makes it just barely readable so we’ve brought over some of the more spectacular pictures here. Most of the pictures are very well done.
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Who was commenting the pics for the english version of the photo tour?
Feel ashamed =|
I went to the original source of the story; and I saw everything. I can only say this: "Welcome to Paradise!" Kalashnikov paradise, that is! Thousands of AK and Saiga rifles and shotguns; Dragunovs/Tigr rifles; parts in construction; and some photos of construction and renewal of the building inside, the old machinery being replaced, or supplemented with new machinery, to increase production output. Seems that these people are not wasting time in improving its operations. It's a shame that, right now, there's no Saiga-107 rifles to be imported to the States . If imported in its sporterized version, it should be interesting to see it converted to its current military version.
Let's see if the guys of Kalashnikov USA can try to make one (if they can get their hands on one or two of those guns, by any means necessary.).