Persian → English transcript

- Very well.- We are at your service.

Now, the weapon we have is a personal weapon.

Meaning a weapon that for carrying, using, and employing it,

you only need one person. Yes. This weapon, in present- day Russia,

the former Soviet Union,

was made in 1947 and is a widely used weapon in the combat organization of

our armed forces. Yes. An individual,

automatic and semiautomatic weapon. What does that mean?

It means it can fire single shots, and also in bursts.

With the indirect pressure of the gunpowder gas, this weapon of ours is cocked.

How? When we fire a round, when the projectile,

that front part of the bullet that is about to leave the weapon, comes to this part,

some of the gunpowder gas that is behind it returns to the rear through this

connecting tube and causes the pressure

of the gunpowder gas to automatically push this firing handle back.

This makes the weapon automatically cock itself for subsequent shots as well,

with 30- round magazines, Forty and seventy- five rounds.

This is a forty- round magazine. Yes. How many rounds is mine?

That one is thirty rounds.

Yeah, it is smaller than this one.

Yes, ten fewer rounds than this one. It holds that many. And there are also

seventy- five- round magazines,

which are round and circular in shape and are mounted under the weapon,

onto the weapon.

Our weapon has three fire selector positions,

or the same safety that people commonly talk about and identify for them.

On the right side of the weapon, above the trigger,

there is a fire selector lever,

and at the very top it is on safe.- Yes.- In the middle, burst fire.- Yes.- One step

further down, it becomes single shot. Then we turn the weapon back to safe.

Safe, burst, single shot. Safe, burst, and single shot. Yes.- Yes.- And then…

more important than anything for us is that when using the weapon,

we keep the weapon pointed toward a safe area as much as we can.

The muzzle of the weapon should point toward a safe area so that we can cause the

least possible accident. For ourselves and the people around us.

One thing we have is how to load rounds into the weapon.

Now this weapon uses different types of rounds,

and the round we have brought here now,

given the circumstances, is a gas round.

Yes. They have actually brought a weapon into this studio too,

this is really the first time this is happening.

Under some special conditions we managed to convince our friends so that we could

be at their service in these wartime conditions. The pointed tip of the round,

which is supposed to come out toward the front, this curved shape faces forward,

into the magazine recess. Yes, exactly the way you are holding it.

Would you please give me a round too? Thank you very much.

The tip of the round faces forward,

we place it on this housing.- Here?- Yes,

a little farther forward.- Here?- Yes. With the slightest pressure,

it nicely goes and sits in its place.

Please load the next round as well. - My apologies.- Again, you place it on

the same spot, a slight pressure, and it is completely seated.

Good thing I still remember the mosque training course.

Well, to attach the magazine to our weapon, we point the weapon forward,

toward a safe area.

This curved part has a sort of backward bend, there is a recess here.

First we slot this in, pull it back, it locks in really tight.

There is a catch between the magazine and the trigger guard.- Yes,

you mean this? - Yes.

If we push this toward the magazine,

we can remove the magazine from our weapon with a slight forward tilt.

Guys, hold it from this side so I can open it with my left hand. Look. Where is it?

Here it is. Aha.

It came off.- Right?- Yes. Very good.- Okay, now the weapon…- This is not my first

time, Seyyed. I was trained at the mosque course, actually.

I was fifteen or sixteen, but really, since then…

I held the record, I could field- strip and reassemble a Kalashnikov blindfolded.

Now I have forgotten it, though. Okay? Okay, now if we have time,

we can also go over field- stripping and reassembling the weapon in a very…

Just opening and closing,

meaning hopefully we will not have any firing, God willing. No, just open and close.

For opening and closing the weapon,

the first thing we do is take the weapon off safe and the magazine…

Let me take my round out so I feel at ease.

We remove the magazine from the weapon.

We move the fire selector lever down to the lowest point,

which is the single- shot position. Once, the charging handle,

or what everyone calls the bolt…

the bolt. Its name is completely Turkish too. Yes. Of course, this is not the bolt,

this is the charging handle. We pull it down, let it go, and pull the trigger.

When we pull the trigger,

we make sure our weapon is now empty.

We can open and close our weapon.

But I would like to do this myself from now on so we can get our work done faster.

Yes, yes, of course.

There is a safety catch here on the weapon cover, this is called the weapon cover.

We push this catch forward, the cover lifts up.

The recoil spring comes forward, there is a groove here,

it comes out from this part.

We pull the trigger handle back, we lift it up a bit… Well done, guys,

keep it at this angle. Camera crew and director, you are awesome.

Okay? It comes out completely.

The bolt, the one that is famous, is this part. Yeah, this is it.

Inside it there is something called the firing pin. Now the guys are filming it.

If you can get it from right there too… Yeah, yeah, that is the same…

there is a tiny part here in the middle,

it is the weapon’s firing pin that fires. We put this bolt into its housing,

we turn it counterclockwise, It locks into place and will not come out anymore.

Then, again in the same way we put it in, there are two housings here,

We put it in the upper housing.

Then the spring that we took out,

We put the recoil spring back in its place, into that groove that is there.

Friends, please… Ah, good, good, right there in the frame.

Yeah, that’s perfect. Okay?

Here we need to pay close attention.

We need this focus because this spring’s tension is a bit stiff.

When it suddenly goes back and forth,

we do not want it to snap back toward us and injure us. The last step is that this

weapon cover… it has a groove here at the front. Bring it back so the viewer…

yes, right there, right there, right there.

With a small tap it closes completely and then

its safety catch locks into place.

Now let’s practice loading the rounds with you one more time, may I?

Please, go ahead.

Yes, the tip of the round facing forward. One action for each round.

Now please insert the magazine.

There is one point: right now one rule with your weapon is not being observed,

your weapon is not on safe.

Should I put it on safe and then insert the magazine? In all situations,

except when we want to use our weapon and in operational conditions,

The safety has to be on.

Okay, now we have put our weapon on safe.— Take it off safe. — Automatic or

single shot?— On single shot. Pull the charging

handle once.

Let it go. Yes. Now this weapon is loaded and ready to fire. As I said, because

this weapon gets loaded indirectly,

it does not need to be cocked for later shots.

Pull the charging handle one more time.

I kindly ask our camera friends to

get this package here. Kids, look… Yeah, they are saying,

please get the package. Got it?

The round fell out.

That means there is no need for the next time. Now pull the trigger.

Pull it? Do we have a round? — We do not. Do we?— I put in two.— You sure?

Let us test it. Should I test it? Should I fire? Test it.[ gunshot] Now,

the point… Seyyed,

our sound recordist,

you are the property of the microphone…— No, it is not that loud.

— Yeah, it did not sound like that, it was not loud. The point is, what the host…

To observe it, toward a safe direction

for their weapon,

even if they are sure their weapon is unloaded or if they are not sure,

in any case it must be pointed toward a safe direction. If there is still any point,

I am at your service. Coach, that was very good, I learned.

I hope on the coming nights, with you or other respected instructors,

we can also talk so we can learn to handle the weapon a bit more precisely.

That is our viewers’ request, and we try, within these seven, eight, ten minutes,

to work precisely with them.

We are at your service and at the service of our dear viewers. I emphasize again,

in the main squares of the city,

booths have been set up for this purpose,

friends can even come in person and receive training.