The Gun (91 page)

prototypes of,
233

reputation of,
235
–36,
279

size and weight of,
199
,
228

Tiedemann, Adolf von,
102

Times
of London,
92

Tito (Josip Broz),
9
,
157
,
250

Tokarev, Fedor V.,
160
,
180
,
186
–87,
199

Tomakowski, Thomas C.,
324

tracer rounds,
137

Tribuna,
210
n

Trotsky, Leon,
144
,
193
,
205

Tukhachevsky, Mikhail N.,
158
–59

Tunisia, Tunis,
56
,
349

Tupolev, Andrei N.,
158

Turkestan–Siberian Railway,
174

Turkey,
42
,
52
,
56
,
367

Type
30
,
116

Type
56
,
15
–16,
217
,
265
n
,
309
,
381

Type
58
,
16

Type
68
,
16

Uganda,
371
–81

and AK and AK-type rifle distribution,
9
,
13
,
354
,
356
–58,
367
,
371
,
381

Amin’s coup in,
356

child soldiers in,
337
,
372
–73,
376
–79

illegal weapons transfers to,
371

Karamojong tribe of,
357

LRA in,
337
,
372
–80

purchase prices of AK-47s in,
381

Sinia Brigade in,
372

Ukraine,
365
,
412

weapons pilfering in,
368
–71

weapons stockpiling in,
343
–44,
368

in World War II,
157
,
174
–75

Ulundi, fighting at,
62
–64,
83
,
87
,
124

Underwood, Herbert P.,
300

Union Repeating Gun:

demonstrations of,
30
,
35
–37

design of,
28
–30,
35
,
420
n

patent of,
35
,
420
n

Union Stock Yards,
231
–33

United Nations,
14
,
381

on human costs of AK rifles,
387

illegal-arms transfers and,
370

United States,
4
–7,
12
–15,
109
,
132
,
206
,
352
–56,
400
–402,
417
n

in Afghanistan,
378
n
,
386

AK-46’s design and,
192

and AK-47’s design and development,
12
,
151
,
204
,
402

and AK rifle’s production and distribution,
13
–14,
251
,
256
–57,
349
,
359
,
363
–64,
402
,
411
,
435
n

arms database of,
20

arms-design failures of,
6
–7,
251
,
254
–55,
259
,
268
–69,
273
–74,
363

Constitution of,
17
–18

Hungarian revolution and,
226
,
237

illegal-arms transfers and,
371

industrial revolution in,
6
,
77

Iraqi Kurds and,
388

Kalashnikov on,
405
–6,
444
n

in Korean War,
264
,
406

laws on automatic and assault rifles in,
14
–15,
18
,
236

machine guns used by,
126
–27,
255

Mahmoud’s medical treatment in,
397
–98

Maxim gun produced in,
89

Maxim’s racism and,
105
–6

nuclear weapons programs of,
1
,
4
–5,
144
,
272

Philippines invaded by,
104
,
111
,
252

and purchase prices of AK rifles,
381
,
383

rifle cartridges of,
161
,
166
–67,
169
–70

Russo-Japanese War and,
116
–17

in search for reliable automatic rifle,
6
–7,
20
,
253
–54,
256
,
270
,
272
–76,
280
,
283
–94,
360
,
438
n
,
441–42
n

Soviet arms race with,
153
,
169
,
253
–54,
256
,
259
,
272
–73,
276
,
353

Thompson submachine guns developed, produced, and distributed in,
139
,
199
,
233
–34,
237

in Vietnam,
5
,
9
,
263
–68,
270
–72,
280
–83,
285
n
,
294
,
296
,
298
–308,
310
–25,
327
–36,
353
,
356
,
401
,
415
,
444
n

weapons stockpiling and,
343
–44,
410
–11

in World War I,
251
–52,
255

in World War II,
199
,
253
–54,
264
,
270
,
281
,
295
,
334
,
344

United States Electric Lighting Company,
74
–75

United States Infantry Board,
276

Ustinov, Dmitri F.,
211
–12,
358
–59

Vance, Cyrus R.,
272
–73,
280
,
283
,
288
–90

Vandenburgh, Origen,
28
,
55
,
160

Vandenburgh gun,
28
,
43
,
160

van der Steur, A. W.,
258

Velvet Revolution,
365

Venezuela,
12
,
355

Verdun, Battle of,
131

Versailles, Treaty of,
140
,
162
,
228
,
246

Vickers, Albert,
76
,
89
,
129

Vickers gun,
126
,
129
,
138

Vien, Cao Van,
282

Vienna,
74

Gatling gun tests in,
40
–44

Maxim gun tests in,
83
,
86

Vietnam, Vietnam War,
5
–6,
263
–72,
294
–336,
419
n

AK-47s in,
9
,
13
,
21
,
265
–67,
270
,
272
,
294
–95,
308
–9,
313
,
317
,
324
,
332
,
335
–36,
340
–41,
356
,
363
,
401
,
406
,
444
n

ammunition in,
264
–65,
271
,
285
n

AR-15s in,
270
–71,
280
–83,
285
n

bombing North Vietnam in,
294

casualties in,
264
–66,
268
,
282
–83,
294
,
300
,
303
,
311
,
313
–15,
317
–18,
321
–24,
330
,
333
,
335
,
401
,
439
n
,
444
n

Chervenak’s letter and,
321
–24,
327
–28,
442
n

Hill Fights in,
310
–14,
319
,
322

M-16s in,
263
–64,
267
–69,
271
,
294
,
296
–308,
310
–35,
353
,
356
,
415
,
441
n
,
442
n
–43
n

Marines in,
6
,
9
,
263
–68,
271
,
296
,
306
–7,
310
–25,
327
–29,
332
–33,
335
–36,
356

Operation Attleboro in,
302

Operation Bear Chain in,
264
,
318
,
329

prisoners in,
283
,
324

public opinion on,
334

Tet Offensive in,
332
,
401

U.S. Army in,
263
,
294
,
296
,
298
–307,
316
,
320
–21,
330
,
333
–34

weapons stockpiling and,
355

Villar Perosa gun,
139

volley guns,
26
–28,
36
,
42
–43

Vollmer, Heinrich,
162
,
166

Voronov, Nikolai N.,
205
–6

Voyenniye Znaniya,
243

VSS,
385

vz-58,
433
n

Walker, Charles Pyndar Beauchamp,
65

Walt, Lewis W.,
319
–21

Walther, Carl,
164

War Department, U.S.:

ammunition testing and,
231

Gatling gun production and,
30

on tactical uses of machine guns,
93
,
118

see also
Defense Department, U.S.

Warren Commission,
285

Warsaw Pact,
18
,
214
–17,
237
–38,
342
–44

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution,
215
,
217
,
242
,
249
,
340
,
342
,
344
,
346
,
358
–59,
361
,
386

collapse of,
368

Hungary’s attempt to withdraw from,
237

and Soviet invasion of Hungary,
224
,
238

weapons pilfering in,
366
–68

weapons standardization in,
214
–15,
249