Here’s some Thursday morning entertainment. It’s apparently a Libyan rebel fighter showing off his skills with an AK-47 (it might actually be an AK-74U). Too bad the weapon just doesn’t want to cooperate. In fact, it hates firing so much, it self destructs after a few rounds. It looks like the poster of this video is, um, pro-Gadhafi. So not too sure how legit the claims are that this is a rebel soldier. It might just be regime propaganda but it’s still entertaining. Enjoy.
AK-47 Self Destructing
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The video is actually not all that recent. I saw it over a year ago so it couldn't be a Libyan rebel fighter.
Agreed, this video is much older than the current conflict in Libya.
agree with Jack, saw this video months ago and has nothing to do with Libya
Not an AKS-74U, either. Looks like a Hungarian AMD65 with a different fore end and muzzle break: http://www.hungariae.com/AMD65.htm. Small arms ID fail! ;-)
an AK-47 malfunction? aren't they were suppose to be designed and built to be ultra-user-friendly and malfunction-free?
That's not AK-47. Looks like cheap clone which is based on Ak-74u mutant mixed up with AKM.
Thats what they clam but people will say anything to sell their weapons.
Old Video, Not Libyan rebel, Funny as hell
He's fortunate not to have some very serious injuries.
Ther are more AK-47's out there than anything….and they work….
The SEALs back in Vietnam would sneak in to VC ammo catches and put in sabotaged rounds in cases of bullets. When the round was fired a little bit of explosives would take out the gun (and its user at times). I wonder if that is what happend here.
All you have to do is switch the rifle powder for pistol powder and watch the gun go boom.
What they used in Viet Nam was supposed to be C-4 not pistol powder.
They posted this on the Firearm blog last year and its a Taliban fighter and a copy of a Kyber pass copy of a AIMS-90 a 7.62x39mm Romanian carbine.
A Khyber copy? I'd go with that…you'd be hard pressed to get a (real) AK to self destruct. Really, might as well try and break an anvil…..
He's pretty lucky he was holding onto the magazine. The explosion looked like occurred in the chamber and blew up and away from his hands.
Somehow I think that unit missed the quality control check :-o
The post "AK-47 Self Destructing" is made of 20% of a suspicious video and 80% of AK-47 envy.
I was in charge of processing some captured AK-47s some years back and most looked like they'd been dragged through mud, but they still fired just fine. Wish I could say the same for the M-16 / M-4.
Indestructability doesn't help you much when you can't hit much beyond 100 yards…..
You CAN hit beyond 100 (and even more) yards with quality made AK
If you have well trained troops a rifle doesnt need to be dragged in the mud
your comment is wrong.
special forces live in the mud.
It's a AK-47 underfolder, probably Romanian or Yugoslavian.
It is not a 74.
It's not an AK-47. It's poor and cheap (homemade probably) clone of the unknown origin.
What a great idea. Leave AK-47 ammo loaded with C4 all over afghanistan and let the Taliban take out themselves.
It looks like the top cover + gas piston assembly flying away in this picture, not at all a real explosion ;). Most likely this was a semiautomatic AK clone modified for automatic fire. Funny though.