Soviet Engineers Test Captured M1 Garands — Then Realize Why They'll Never Use Them скачать в хорошем качестве

Soviet Engineers Test Captured M1 Garands — Then Realize Why They'll Never Use Them

January 1943. American M1 Garand rifles arrive in Moscow through Lend-Lease. Major Dmitri Volkov and his team of Soviet engineers are ordered to test them and determine if the Red Army should adopt similar weapons. What they discover forces them to confront a fundamental question about Soviet military doctrine. The M1 Garand is superior to the Mosin-Nagant in every measurable way. It fires twice as fast. It's more reliable in extreme cold. American soldiers can deliver overwhelming firepower at medium ranges. Soviet engineers document all of this in meticulous detail. But then comes the difficult part: writing a report that recommends the Red Army will never use them. The reason isn't about the rifle's quality. It's about doctrine, industrial capacity, and the reality of fielding millions of conscripts with minimal training. While Americans emphasize individual marksmanship with semi-automatic rifles, Soviets are committed to overwhelming automatic fire from PPSh-41 submachine guns. Two nations, two completely different philosophies of infantry combat. This is the story of Soviet weapons testing that revealed more than just technical specifications. It exposed the fundamental differences between American and Soviet approaches to modern warfare—and predicted the future of infantry weapons development.