Yo, gun enthusiasts! Remember when I spilled the tea on the PKG smoothbore Kalashnikov machine gun? Well, guess what? That bad boy was inspired by the U.S. SPIW program. But hold up, the Soviets were already cooking up something wild before that – the AO-27, their first assault rifle designed for fin-stabilized discarding sabot ammo, crafted by the legend D. I. Shiryaev back in ’61. Talk about being ahead of the game! 🔥