Ukrainian soldier demonstrating a reloading tool for his AK74 5.45 magazine

18 comments

1. Necessity is the Mother of Invention.

2. Makes me appreciate clips all the more for reloading.

3. Anyone who’s ever loaded 500 or 600 rounds in a day, several days in a row will appreciate this.

   Слава Україні!

4. Someone get this man a patent he may be onto something and if it can be automated or worked on could you imagine the possibilities… reloading rifle clips suck even if you have duel mag setups

5. Why would you show this to the world? The soldier should be reprimanded for revealing info useful to the enemy, should he not?

6. I’m kind of out of touch… do all rifles used by NATO countries use the same 5.56 NATO (.223 Remington) cartridge?

   The AK-47 used to use a 7.62 cartridge but I think they’re now also using a 5.xx cartridge? Is it the same one as NATO, but with a different designation?

7. Saves wear and tear on your thumb.

8. Hope he got some 3d printer schematics.

   That’ll save a lot of ppl arthritis is the future.

9. They don’t have stripper clips for the ak74 ?

10. You too can make these nifty little things if you have a 3d printer. I’ve been doing it for a few months now – this service is legit:

    https://drukarmy.org.ua/

11. That’s a nice speed loader

12. I bet this makes reloading with gloves on much easier, too.

13. Great tool for down time reloading or if you have a squire to do it for you in battle. It saves the fingers for sure, Not sure how many of you have ever had to load a magazine in cold weather with no speed reloader but it kills the fingers and there so numb as well no bueno for sure. Ukraine is going to be in the history books of wartime inventions , innovation and battlefield evolution tactics. Fight the good fight brave men and women.

14. I’m surprised they don’t have loads of those soviet loading pans? Basically like a baking tray with a groove to fill a slide of ammo and you just hock it down with a piece of wood that comes with the tray. All fits in its self….

    Surely I cznt just be having a fever dream about those things??

15. Why is he Ukrainian? Orcs use 3d printers too

16. They need one that loads a bunch of them at one time,the device is the same as loading by hand

17. What is with all the criticism in the comments? Dude, found a solution that can easily be 3D printed, pocketed and used on the front lines. He’s making it work however he can. He’s literally standing in a fucking trench. But I’m sure you’re a lot of help.

18. Do soldiers toss their spent mags or keep empties on them after reloading? There must be empty mags everywhere if everyone is just tossing them.