I make my living with tools. Expensive german tools in some cases. And the much vaunted "German Superiority " is a load of doo-doo. After working on some of them, I can well understand why they lost the war. Typical example- Austrian 20" planer, 10hp. Uses a urethane coated contact/friction drive off the main motor shaft, to drive a belt and pulley system, to drive a sprocket, chain system .What a Rube Goldberg contraption. Any American would have used a variable speed gear drive and had done with it. We have been sold that exotic and foriegn = effective and advanced, and it ain't nessesarly so.
As a side note- almost every AR I have every fired had some dinky problem, for example the other day I got one thinking I had finally beat the gremlin. Clean, lube, first outing- Insert mag, release bolt. Bolt won;t go to battery. Release bolt again, bolt goes to battery. Fire one shot, then fire again. oops, trigger has not reset.Recock bolt, trigger does not reset. open weapon, fuss about, gun runs fine thru the rest of the mag. Release mag, oops, it won't come out., I mean, it will not come out with the mag release comepleately disengaged and both hands pulling. Finally get it out by wiggling and resolve to never again buy a AR. By the way , this was an as new factory gun.
This little scenario has been repeated with every AR i have ever been around, they have all been high maintainance items that needed to be finessed to work right.
In comparison, I have never shot an AK that did not function perfectly, right out of the box or any other place it came from. And the accuracy issue- sure, an AR will outshoot a Cheap AK every time, but try it againt a Valmet .223, or maybe even a Vepr. If you were given a choice of an AR and an AK in two separate boxes and had to chose one, untested ,to defend yourself, you would have to be the worlds biggist optimist to chose the AR.