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The creator discusses the AK-47 weapon in Modern Warfare, describing how it offers a rewarding yet sometimes frustrating ...
The original AK-47 was built with a beefy milled receiver and over-gassed-yet-reliable long-stroke piston system. But the Russian military hasn’t fielded a wood and steel AK of any variety for ...
The inventor of the iconic AK-47 automatic rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died. Kalashnikov's simple, durable and easily maintained gun became the world's most popular rifle, with more than 100 ...
The Indian armed forces are set to get a new batch of AK-203 assault rifles, a modernised version of the Kalashnikov series, which can fire up to 700 rounds in a minute and has a range of 800 metres.
The Indian armed forces are set to get a new batch of AK-203 assault rifles, which will be a modernised version of the Kalashnikov series. The AK-203 can fire up to 700 rounds in a minute and has a ...
Unlike Russia, Ukraine and other countries that continue to use more modern AK-74 rifles chambered for the 5.45-millimeter round, American AKs are overwhelmingly based on the older AK-47 and AKM ...
The AK-47 was made to suffer rough handling on the modern battlefield, and based on this photograph it's pretty clear inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov succeeded. Read more here.
PALM BAY — Just down the road from a Krispy Krunchy fried chicken store, in a nondescript east coast business park in Florida, a 60,000-square-foot factory produces about 2,500 AK-47 rifles a ...
The AK-47’s easy maintenance and light weight led to its becoming the armament of choice for at least 50 armies worldwide, as well as guerrilla factions, terrorist groups, drug gangs and pirates.