The third problem of Russia. Once again about the Kalashnikov assault rifle, and not only about it

In the country that builds its military doctrine for the inexhaustibility of the mobilization resource, it will always be fadedly in demand to the maximum cheap in production, easy to use, durable, reliable and unpretentious weapons, even if it is inferior to enemy weapons in combat properties. The military-industrial (more precisely, industrial-ethnic) complex of the USSR, as in pre-revolutionary Russia, was “sharpened "precisely for the doctrine of the inexhaustibility of the mobilization resource. And therefore, the military -industrial complex has traditionally had its own “sacred cow” - the preservation of the possibility of super -mass production, and therefore the simplicity of the simplicity of structures, which is why, creating and improving the “unsurpassed” and “best in the world” tanks, airplanes, guns, ships, and small arms , he always followed the path of choosing the simplest and cheapest solutions. All the shortcomings of the simplicity of structures were redeemed by mass production