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Originally Posted by Thom_44
Top of the line AR are getting the piston the AK has had since day one... the cost of the AK has never been a reliable point of good or bad.
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In my honest opinion, Eugene Stoner got the design right to begin with. This is further evidenced by the fact that Eugene Stoner only made his later AR-18 design piston-driven because he couldn't freely use the then patented DI derivative design of the AR-15.
Piston ARs are merely the latest in a futile effort to improve upon a design which has already been perfected.
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The soviet production was done regardless of cost. It was literally "you will build this item, or we will put you in front of a wall and shoot you with one made yesterday. And promote good working behavior from your co workers"
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Yep, and just look at how well it worked out for them... The Soviet Union collapsed, Russia became irrelevant, and the only reason why anyone pays any attention to them anymore is because their dying leader instigated attempted to invade a smaller nation just so that he could feel like a bigshot and see his silly name in the papers one more time before he breathes his last.
Unfortunately, not even that went as planned because his army's advance was quickly halted and the war has become a stalemate, thus proving to the world that Russia is no longer a world power, that Communism is a fundamentally flawed, easily manipulated, financially unsustainable system, and that Putin's military prowess lives up to his name by amounting to little more than a fart inside of an elevator.