MPiKM - East German AK
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- This week on the Vickers Tactical Channel we have a special episode for all you AK guys out there, the MPiKM. This extremely rare AK is the East German version of the Soviet AKM. This factory original rifle has an interesting back story and is probably the only one in private hands here in the US. Go check out this never-fired before moonrock and remember to help us out by subscribing below.
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Man the amount of flex in these AK rifles is insane
True.
Let's the dirt fly out.
The flexing is kind of good though its absorbing a lot of recoil instead of going right into the shooters shoulder, but at the same time thats a big piss for controllability.
@@SMGJohn yep
Never stopped em from working though...
I am always amazed when AK's are shot in slow motion and you see the flexing.
Most guns flex some
That barrel had a lot of whip to it
@Snake Eyes The walls of an AK barrel are pretty thin. Especially when you're talking about 7.62x39. Combine that with the violent, long stroke gas system of the AK and the barrel is going to whip. This one looks like it's getting a lot of gas too so that is going to exacerbate it even more.
something looks wrong about that rifle
@@germanwarrabbit it's shooting brass case ammo that's what is wrong
Larry is always flexin' on us with his brass cased AK ammo
Haha
Right!😆
That stuff is over 80 cpr.
I believe he gets the ammo as a sponsor from S&B.
I just posted the same comment before finding yours lol. You beat me by a full 24hrs 😫👍
Looks familiar.
Btw. E stands for "Einzelfeuer" (single shot) and D for "Dauerfeuer" (fully automatic).
Greets from East-Germany.
Ah, thanks. I was wondering about that... I had "halbautomatisch" and "vollautomatisch" coming to mind, but that obviously doesn't work with E and D
Wollte ich auch gerade so schreiben🤣🤣
Oberste Stellung: gesichert. Erste Rastung unten: Dauerfeuer, zweite Rastung: Einzeilfeuer. Mit etwas Gefühl konnte man auch in der ersten Position Einzeilfeuer abgeben.
Einzelschuss for single shot,
Dauerfeuer for continuous fire
There is no more east germany. We're one now, and I know it's a joke but some people actually want our nation separated. Ein Deutschland 🇩🇪
I’m always so impressed how little muzzle movement there is when Larry Vickers is behind a gun on full auto, no matter the platform or caliber.
I commented the same stuff, evento on high power rounds
Watch his video on techniques for firing automatic/burst fire. They work. I can confirm as I've tried them on select fire
Yes, everything is simple, he was in Russia and we showed how to properly shoot from an AK ...
It's good that you don't know how to shoot from the Kord machine gun, from the hands ...
well, he used to be in the Delta Force, got a lot of experiences,
Can't believe I get to witness this. Larry you are an absolute madman for firing this one of kind, never fired AK. Legend.
Edit: FREE LARRY
It has pitting so I'm sure the bore needed a food cleaning anyways 👍
Good
Larry good to see you're doing well
Na looks like father time Has kicked his ass
@@salty_cracker69 it kicks all our asses eventually
@@salty_cracker69 considering what he's going through, he looks way better than most people.
What's with him? I'm out of the loop
@@Brokkolesz cancer
I fucking love those AK sounds. Rocking a magazine in. Pulling the charging handle back to load a round. Fucking awesome.
A person on the history Channel said when you hear that you know you have 30 rounds of rock and roll. And it's true. If you need to grab a weapon to start blasting it's a good sound to hear.
Please say thank you to Mr. Kalashnikov
AKSMR
My East German parts kit just tripled in price. Thanks Larry!
What is something like that worth?
@@reallyhappenings5597 Recent ones in mint shape went for over two grand on gun broker recently.
@@reallyhappenings5597 Bought the one I built on video for $450.
How long ago?
@@josephthomas8318 Around 2 years. Prices are through the roof right now.
Very cool
You were cool
Larry, you legend. Thank you so much for showing this to us. Will you consider to have our friend Ian at Forgotten Weapons to do a history video on this Eastern German art work?
Hopefully we have enough likes on this comment, to make it happen. :)
Greetings from Australia
This thing is actually pretty rare in Croatia aswell. More common but still rare is the MPiKM 74, the DDR copy of the AK 74.
The MPI AKM-K and MPI AKS-74NK are both super rare but very cool, they are side folders with the "carbine" mid length 12.5 inch barrel
@@barneymiller7894 the MPi-74 much common than the MPiKM acutally
Using an ak is like loving old trucks
Kinda wanders down the road, don't stop to good.
But it starts and drives every damn time you need it.
Good to see you playin' Larry
4:08 best recoil I have seen. Nice wave from front all the way to the back
There are so many versions of Ak.. this rifle will always be a legend!!
One of the few guys that gets the nomenclature right instead of calling every variant an "AK 47". If you happen to read this, I did 8yrs AD as an 11B starting at Bragg, 19 in VTARNG and worked at Century a couple years. Hope you enjoyed your trip to VT! Salute.
My Dad was in the II Corp Mike Force in ‘68. A team went out on an ambush and ended up ambushing a fairly small element. Upon checking the bodies discovered it was an NVA Docter, a couple of nurses and their security. The reason I bring it up was the Doctor was carrying an East German AK and to everyone who saw it , said it was the nicest AK they’d ever seen , ever !
Shame he didn't take it, last war where war trophies weren't probibited.
When I was in Iraq we carried a East German AKM on our tank we had a polish underfolder and a East German akm both guns where in great shape the East German models where top quality and where very dependable my only regret is I was not able to bring it and others home as a souvenir what a interesting piece of history that traveled the world.
A pitty, i think you can hardly get a better grade AKM nowadays.
you never realize how much a gun actually moves when fired until you see it in slo-mo.
Watching Dr. Mark Felton vids and this comes up! Yessss
Same
Classy dudes
You have good taste
Same
Couldn't have come at a worse time, been collecting MPi parts over the last few months and I'm watching some high dollar parts on some auction sites...
I wish you luck with your rifle-to-be.
I hope you snag them before the gun of the week crowd shows up to bid 😄👍
Can’t wait to see a video on your East German MPi AKS-74. Would love to hear about what Century has hidden away in their bonded warehouse! Any importer that has been in the game long enough has stuff they forgot about laying around in bonded warehouses.
As always we really enjoy seeing you online. Whatever the weapon, you always do a super job of presenting it. Looking forward to the next one. Take care sir.
All that flexing under fire is precisely why AKs are riveted together instead of machine screws or being welded. That's the only fastener that will hold up to the abuse and not strip out, malfunction or fall apart. A weld is strong however it can't flex and would be rigid eventually cracking with stress.
Greetings from East Germany!
Iraq was lousy with these back in '05-06. I had an issued East German Side folder from my company. I bought another side folder and one of these from one of my locals for 3 Bennies a pop, both still in the Cosmo. Broke my heart to leave them there.
The slow-mo wobbling wet noodle that is a sustained full auto AK being ridden by jelly-man Larry never gets old. He is a freakishly talented purveyor of the full auto shuffle. He just rides it .... whereas most others would just get bounced and ground off target.
These recent videos are a Double treat. Cool weapons and getting visual confirmation that LAV is still kicking butt.
The barrel wobble harmonics on ak’s is so intense 😂
Supposed to be
East German AKs are so beautiful. Love the OG stipple look of the handgaurd and stock. Hope you are doing good Mr. Vickers 👍🏽
That flange on the end of the muzzle really does make a difference acting like a muzzle brake. The barrel flexes downward while the receiver flexes upward due to the motion of the bolt carrier. A precursor to counterbalancing AK assault rifles. Amazing gun and very rare piece of German and Russian engineering.
These are common in Europe. Especially the 5.45 variant. The furniture have been available for decades as well.
Now that hurts! I want one of those in 5.45 so bad.
Larry, how's your chemo sessions going? I hope you are okay. Get well soon. :)
Hope you're doing well Larry. I'll keep watching your videos over and over.
Great timing. Mark Felton Productions comes out with a video about former Wehermacht generals joining the NVA (Not the North Vietnamese Army, Nationale VolksArmee in East Germany) and Larry vickers coming out with a East German AK. We are truly spoiled.
That was a pretty interesting post. I was also a bit surprised when he referred to the Nationale Volksarmee as the NVA.
Although my MPi-KM is sanitized it has the original barrel and is F/A. That’s how I roll. Awesome video. Larry never disappoints.
True classic and for me the best assault rifle ever made , despite this version with the “wobbling” stock . Stay strong LAV
It’s amazing to see how individual parts of a weapon bend and flex when fired. We never see it of course because most of us don’t have high speed cameras.
What a beautiful rifle. That gas block almost looks like the same style that's on the wasr-10 V2.
LAV coming through with the dream weapon again! That thing running like a sowing machine is sweet! Thanks for continuing to produce the content! ✌️
Love the furniture on it
And I love how AK dances under VT slow mo, twistin n flexin.
No gas gets past the piston by looks of things
Man that brown plastic was used for everything in east Germany and Czechoslovakia . From tool handles to toys.. might still have a file or 2 with that stuff on it.
what kind of is this plastic
@@Hugo-ys3cf a kind of bachelite
Nice to see that east german ak. My father and my uncles served in the east german army with this rifle. Nice to see that in action. It were very interesting to see an original Wieger stg 940 or some of its variants and what you thinking about that. You have the best channel of weapons
arent all wiegers destroyed?
Geiler Scheiß! This MPiKM is an awesome peace of history.
Gotta love the dark wood-style finish compared to standard AK variants.
It's not wood. ✌️
@@budstermcgreen6360 yeah, it's plastic if I am not mistaken,let me see if he mentions it.
Amazing unicorn EG AK in the best hands that it can be!
TIL that with enough camera angles and some Jerry Bruckheimer music you can make even one mag worth of ammo look badass.
That thing flexes so much it bit Larry on the cheek. I've heard of slide bite. I've never seen stock bite lol.
Always amazes me how much the barrel bends
The East German arsenals were set covertly to the Croatian nationalists in the Yugoslav civil war.The Croatians were known as Ustashe.
Man this is one cool bird. My 2nd favorite behind the AK-104!
the slow motion is amazing , you can see when the ear protector start to moving from larry's ear from the shake of the stock
Such an amazing rifle! Greetings from a proud citizen of East Germany! (I refuse to accept unification with the West)
bro same
Thanks Larry. Hope you're doing okay buddy?
Best wishes, Rich.
The only thing that doesn’t bend like a banana when it fires is the unit shooting it. Nice one Larry.
I can’t believe how much it flex’s while firing / cycling !
I had one at my military service. it was light, comfortable and lovely
Larry this East German AK is pure fucking magic.
Every ex US Army soldier who had duty on the east west border in Germany starts to get PTSD....
i dont know why but i love watching Aks shoot in slow motion. it gotta be that flex
We used these as backup guns for our tank crew during my service in the Finnish army.
They were pretty fun to shoot and easy to carry due to their light weight but boy they made me respect the quality of the RK. Its like comparing a Trabant to a Mercedes lol.
The E Germans from what I remember also used this furniture on the AK74 as well, meaning the brown plastic
Yup. I think they were issued with the night sights as well.
what kind of is this plastic
The best type of AK series if you ask me
Other than ky ballistics and the ak guy, definitely one of my favorite channels to go to where I can learn about the firearms I want, and also get those sick slow mo shots. Well done Larry!!!
Such a beautiful rifle, and what a sound it makes
Love watching an ak run sans dust cover. Best gun for demonstrating the action of a gun. Thanks for another excellent video.
I'm weird, barrel harmonics just turns me on, but man that was some sweet video. You can watch the wave from barrel tip all the way to your shoulder! Loved it!
That is some WOBBLE in those slow mo shots.
I have several EG mags and they are high quality with cool stamps on them.
I have one of these.. It's like having an original classic 1955 Benz 300 SL on steroids 😄👍
smooth, nice sound, and I'm not willing to test it but i heard it can shoot 60 full magazines without jamming.
They're getting rare now days.
It is wild to see the flex of the rifle in slow motion and hope you are doing well Mr Vickers.
Great to see you behind the trigger and still, having a blast! Great shoot and score!
It's like the barbell is made from rubber there's so much flex. That's the reason the AKs are so bad at staying on target on full auto. Unlike the Famas which is so nice to dump a full mag and still put the rounds pretty tight.
That is awesome thats the first east german ak that wasnt a parts kit ive ever seen thats amazing. Brandon tue ak guy would love this
I loved the look of the casted gas blocks for some reason. Nothing like the early blued MPiKM's and MPiK's. My favorite is the Null series. A dream variant I have yet to clone due to rarity which I think only example is in museum located in former DDR if remember correctly.
The first thing I would do is remove the anti-bounce device (rate reducer). The gun doesn't need it and will run fine without it. Higher cyclic rate too.
My fiancé's father who served in the US Marines (my fiancé is American) and fought in Grenada 🇬🇩, managed sneak a Cuban-made AK-47 🇨🇺 back to the US 🇺🇸.
It was tucked away in the back of his basement just gathering dust. He mentioned that he had plans to just sell it but never got around to it.
Some clarification.
1) The AK that your fiance's father brought back to the USA was not made in Cuba, I can guarantee you this with 1000% certainty. The reason why is simple; there are no Kalashnikov manufacturers in Cuba, nor have there ever been. Most likely, his rifle was originally manufactured by a factory in Russia or Europe and was later exported/smuggled into the Americas, hence why it ended up in Grenada.
2) Your fiance's father never sold that AK because it was an illegally smuggled assault rifle, which is not something that regular Americans are allowed to own, contrary to popular belief. Selling that rifle would be the equivalent of trying to sell a fully-automatic assault rifle in New Zealand.
@@user-ij9sh1tf9d Probably. I just assumed it was a Cuban made AK since there were Cuban 🇨🇺 troops in Grenada 🇬🇩 that did help in trying to fight off US 🇺🇸 forces during the 1983 Invasion of Grenada.
I do get that the Soviet Union also supplied communist countries like Cuba 🇨🇺 and Grenada 🇬🇩 with Soviet-made weapons but also that the Soviets gave licenses to their allies such as North Korea 🇰🇵, China 🇨🇳, Romania 🇷🇴, Bulgaria 🇧🇬, East Germany 🇩🇪, Poland 🇵🇱 and Egypt 🇪🇬 to build their own license built AKs, hence I assumed they gave Cuba 🇨🇺 a license as well.
Holy Cow the amount of flex in that chassis is insane...are all AK's that way? I will have to slo-mo mine!
Some say that the handguard is not made out of bakelite.
That should be the material from Trabant ( Duroplast).
Greetings from east Germany
Awesome rifle. Love the slow motion views as always. Hope you are feeling better LAV🙏🏼
Unless you're a really amateur gunsmith or just happen to be from Kyber Pass, AKs look good no matter where they're made from.
Still the best slo-mo shots in the business!
Seeing how much this AK flexed in slow motion, I wonder if an AK with a milled receiver would flex as much?
The old milled ak doesnt flex too much, you can watch it in old vicker video about him shooting milled north korea and other milled ak
Loads ended up in the Finnish military with their armor units. They are all wire stock side folders though. They also got loads of fixed stock rifles for reserve units for cheap prices in the 90's after the collapse of East Germany.
Awesome video bother, glad to see your still kicking butt and slinging brass
Handling that East German AK like a boss Larry!
Such a beauty. One of my all time favorite AKs.
I love East German AK's, Best in Warsaw Pact country before reunification
This weapon I used daily in battles against Al Qaeda in Baghdad, Haifa Street, at least a day. I shoot 250 rounds, sometimes in hours. I throw more than 250 rounds. A good weapon that can withstand heat and cools quickly and does not lose its focus on the target.
About the coolest video I've seen lately. Thanks Larry!
I really wish Century would release the old gov/le catalog again. I remember milled Polish AKs for 300 or less provided one had a demo letter.
Crazy to see how the muzzle brake sends a shock wave all the way to the butt stock and hits his face in the slow mo he shows.
Hang in there Larry!
That thing flexes like a wet noodle when fired. Pretty incredible.
Great story behind a very interesting ak, thanks for the awesome content Larry!
Very cool. You know that a German-made AK is going to be a quality piece.
And have lots of proofmarks ;D
Nice! Good to see you out blasting kalash!! Love those bumpy buttstocks!! Hope you’re good! You’re looking better! 🤜🏼🤛🏼
They flex like bamboo! Loved it! Thanks Larry.
The slant brake causes immediate propagation of a vertical wave that is evident in the buttstock slamming into your cheek. I notice when I shoot AKMs on semi, the muzzle dips down excessively.
We wish you good health sir LAV!
I’d love to get my hands on an DDR AK..sick video.