05-25-2011, 09:57 PM
LRRPF52 Wrote:Over the years, I have seen plenty of AK's suffer from malfunctions as much or more often than military M4's and M16's. I think a lot of the "100% reliability" myth of the AK is directly attributed to successful propaganda, because I just don't see it in practice.There was an article by Peter Kokalis in SOF perhaps 20 years ago that dealt with this. IIRC, the title was "The Enemy's Gun Never Jams." He attributed this outlook to the fact that, during firefights, a soldier is rarely close enough to enemy combatants to be able to see them experiencing stoppages. Since the troops couldn't see malfunctions occurring in enemy weapons, they then concluded that guns such as the AK must never have jammed. An understandable, if erroneous, conclusion.