Modern High Tech AK-47 Handguards

Modern High Tech AK-47 Handguards

by Patrice McCoy

The AK-47 is a gas-operated, selective fire assault rifle developed in 1947 by Mikhail Kalashnikov for the Russian military. It is composed of only eight moving parts, reflecting the life motto of its inventor that 'anything that is useful is simple.' With a gas-operated rifle, a proportion of gas from the cartridge is used to provide power for the mechanism that discards the empty case and load a new cartridge. The function of the AK-47 handguards is to protect the shooter's hand from the internal heat produced by the high-pressure gas.

Ordinary <A href="http://www.frontlinearsenal.com/ak-47-tactical-accessories/ak-47-handguards">AK-47 handguards</A> are made of attractive, polished wood. This choice of material is not so much because it blends in with the furniture but because it is plentiful and cheap. Modern handguards have been upgraded to accommodate the attachment of as many as four picatinny rails for loading a selection of accessories. To the uninitiated, the handguard alone looks dangerous enough, never mind the rifle.

The whole apparatus looks more sensible with a vertical handgrip bolted onto the forend, or lower handguard. This affords the shooter more control when the weapon is in automatic mode or when the operator is dressed in full body armor. Most contemporary military rifles, such as the M4, are put together this way. It helps to visualize this set-up if you look at press photos of soldiers in Afghanistan.

Today's high-tech handguards are ergonomically designed and fashioned from reinforced polymer composite. Composite is a tough, lightweight substitute for steel in reinforced safety boots. They may be found in different colors such as black, desert tan or olive drab green.

The picatinny rail is also called a tactical rail. Attached to the handguard, it allows the attachment of a number of different instruments employed by snipers, who deliver precise, long-range fire. They use include things like optical sights, foregrips, lasers and bipods. This level of sophistication is no doubt lost on truck fulls of insurgents, who operate on the assumption that if they fire enough bullets in the right direction, at least some of them will hit the desired target.

Selective fire refers to the fact that these rifles have at least one automatic mode and one semi-automatic mode. In semi-automatic mode, the weapon reloads the chamber automatically after firing each round. The trigger still has to be released and fired again before the next round can be fired.

One method of achieving fully automatic fire is by the use of a weighted trigger. Use less than a specific amount of weight and the weapon fires a single shot at a time. Apply a heavier weight and the weapon fires automatically. This weight can be 15 pounds or more, which is why a handgrip is employed.

This unsophisticated, sixty-year old rifle, even with the benefit of AK-47 handguards, has been supplanted by more modern technology like the M4. That being said, with 70 million of them (a conservative estimate, according to the United Nations) in the hands of soldiers, snipers, outlaws and insurgents all over the world, the AK-47 is not going to be disappearing any time soon.



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