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As the Great Patriotic War starts, soviet spies in Germany acquire the blueprints of a new weapon being developed by the Nazis, something they're calling "Maschinenkarabiner", though no prototypes has been produced yet. It's a full auto rifle that uses an intermidiate caliber.
Upon analisys by Soviet engineers, the design is deemed flawed, but the concept gives insights of a new kind of weapon. Combining elements of different guns, they're able to produce a weapon capable of selective fire. Morevoer, the weapon is simple, reliable and easy to use. One of the Generals overseeing the project calls it "The T-34 of rifles".
The Chief engineer of the project is a young man called German Korobov, and thus the weapon is named Avtomat Korobova-1942, AK-42.
The weapon will be tested by a single company in the battle of Stalingrad.

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