AK-47 vs. M16

One of the biggest firearms debates in history is to crown the world’s best Assault Rifle. The two main rifles competing are from two former Cold-War enemies. They are the Russian AK-47 and its variants and the US made M16 and its variants.

The AK-47 has such a colorful history, to tell you the full story would require a novel and I don’t have that kind of time. Same goes for the M-16, both have wonderful story’s and many, many wars fought. Some against each other.

Automat Kalashnikov 47

The name:

1.Automat: means automatic (go figure)
2.Kalashnikov: the name of the creator/designer Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
3. 47: first finished product created in 1947

AK-47 Specifications

• Weight – 3.8 kg (8.4 lb) empty,
• 4.3 kg (9.5 lb) loaded
• Length – 870 mm (34.3 in)
• Barrel length – 415 mm (16.3 in)
• Cartridge – 7.62x39mm M43
• Action – Gas-operated, rotating bolt
• Rate of fire – 600 rounds/min
• Muzzle velocity – 710 m/s (2,329 ft/s)
• Effective range – 300 m
• Feed system – 30-round detachable box magazine; compatible w/ RPK 40-round box, 75-round drum magazine.
• Sights – Adjustable iron sights, optional mount required for optical sights

The AK-47  is perhaps the most well known assault rifles in the world. Developed during the Second World War to protect Russia, the “AK” is the most affordable and widely available light-weight rifle in the world with a devastating 7.62mm, powerfully recoiling rifle with over 400m kill range.

The gun, sold from $50-300, is a weapon of choice for many state and non-state armies. It requires minimum maintenance and pose a grave threat to those using the M16/AR15 platform of rifles due to the 7.62NATO rounds they use, which are more powerful than the common 5.56MM rounds used by the M16/AR15.

The AK-47 is very well known for its reliability and, being gas operated, uses the gas from the barrel to push the piston attached to the bolt carrier to operate the action. The gas tube is quite large and can be seen in the first picture below just above the barrel, the rear of it being encased in wood. If you look closely the vents in the gas tube are there to allow the excess gas to escape without affecting the action. The AK47 is built with generous clearances, allowing it to function easily in dirty environments needing virtually no maintenance. It is very simple to disassemble and clean, and very easy to keep in working order.

Absolutely stunning 24 carat gold, high gloss finish, AK47 Assault Rifle

The AK-47 was one of the first true assault rifles, it is in fact more of a machine gun than a rifle. Even after more than sixty years, due to its bomb-proof durability, ultra low production cost and remarkable ease of use in the field, it’s still the most widely used and popular assault rifle in the world today. It has seen action with armed forces as well as terrorist groups worldwide.

Ak-74M (Official assualt rifle of Russian Armed Forces and all the branches)

The AK-74 is the 1970’s update of the classic AK-47 chambered in 5.45 x 39mm.

The M16/AR15

M16 Specifications

• Weight —  7.8 lb (3.5 kg) empty,
• 8.79 lb (4.0 kg) loaded
• Length — 39.625 in (1,010 mm)
• Barrel length — 20 in (508 mm)
• Cartridge — 5.56x45mm NATO
• Action – Gas-operated, rotating bolt
• Rate of fire –12-15 rounds/min sustained, 45-60 rounds/min semi-automatic, & 700–950 rounds/min cyclic
• Muzzle velocity –3,110 ft/s (948 m/s)
• Effective range — 550 Meters (point target), 800 Meters (area target)
• Feed system – 30-round detachable box magazine; compatible w/ RPK 40-round box, 75-round drum magazine.
• Sights — Various STANAG magazines

The M16 is in use in many NATO armies as the main Tactical Assault Rifle. It is a highly accurate, light-weight rifle capable of firing from 5.56mm rounds to 7.62mm rounds and even 40mm grenades when equipped.

The M16 5.56mm Carbine is a lightweight, gas operated, air cooled, magazine fed, selective rate, shoulder fired weapon with a collapsible stock. The weapon is still affordable and available to terrorist groups at $586 per gun.

The M16 entered United States Army service as the M16 and was put into action for jungle warfare in South Vietnam in 1963, becoming the standard U.S. rifle of the Vietnam War by 1969, replacing the M14 rifle in that role.

M16A1, M16A2, M4, M16A4, from top to bottom

Google office versus Facebook office

Which giant would you prefer to work for: Google or Facebook?

It might be a question of personal preference. You can’t help but love one company’s work more than another, which leads to desire to work for them. Aside from that, you could use some objective measurements in choosing between the two.

This might help you. We give you a chance to have a sneak view at the offices from both Google and Facebook. You’ll find that both are design great, to enhance the productivity of their workers. Absolutely no trace of standard office cubicles.

Google Office

About Google: (as if you needed this)

Google Inc. is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. It also generates profits from advertising bought on its similarly free-to-user e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-sharing services. Advert-free versions are available via paid subscription. Google has more recently developed an open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system. Its headquarters, often referred to as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009  the company had 19,786 full-time employees. It runs thousands of servers across the world, processing millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte of user-generated data each hour.

Facebook Office

About Facebook:

Facebook, Inc. is a company that operates and privately owns social networking website, Facebook. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.  The website’s membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide.

So what is your choice? I already made up my mind but I won’t tell you mine 

Post A Link in Comments

Have you ever been reading blogs and decided to comment? In writing your comment, you find that you need to post a link. Just how does one go about doing that? Well, it is fairly simple. This is the code you drop into the comment box:

<a href="URL">Title</a>

Replace the URL with the URL of the site you are linking to and replace the Title with the title of the site.

Easy as pie. Now get out there and comment!!!

40 Weirdest Technological Inventions Ever

Inventing new gadgets is a tough business. Though, sometimes inventors easily get carried away in trying to make the next technological breakthrough and invent some weird technological inventions. Here are 40 weirdest examples of such technological inventions.