The Soviet Success? The ShKAS Machine Gun with curatorial assistant Joe Ford

Unusually light, extremely fast firing and featuring a feed cage mechanism. This week's weapon is the ShKAS machine gun.

0:00 Intro
0:45 ShKAS Machine Gun
1:36 Service History Timeline
4:38 Dissassembly
10:15 Rotary Feed Mechanism
13:06 The Birdcage
16:05 Ejector
17:49 Timelapse
18:03 Here's one we made earlier...
18:31 Production Problems
19:20 Ammo
21:52 Phased Out
23:00 ShVAK
27:02 Outro

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