Kalashnikov rifles (Russian: Автоматы Калашникова), also known as the AK platform, AK rifles or simply the AK, are a family of assault rifles based on Mikhail Kalashnikov's original design.

'Kalashnikov's automatic [rifle]'; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, it is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov (or "AK") family of rifles. After more than seven decades since its ...

2025年1月26日 · AK-47, Soviet assault rifle, possibly the most widely used shoulder weapon in the world. The initials AK represent Avtomat Kalashnikova, Russian for ‘automatic Kalashnikov,’ for its designer, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947.

Introduced into service with the Soviet Army in 1959, the AKM was the most prevalent variant of the Kalashnikov rifles in the Warsaw Pact. The rifle was produced at the Tula Arms Plant and Izhmash factories in Russia. It was eventually replaced by the AK-74 in 1974.

2017年9月17日 · How the AK-47 became the go-to rifle for insurgents, rebels and warlords the world over. At the dawn of the Cold War, former Soviet soldier Mikhail Kalashnikov, 26, led a team in the design of...

In the late 1940s, arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov created a machine gun that would become not just the main weapon of the Soviet army, but a national symbol. Paradoxically, it also became a...

The AK-47, also known as the Kalashnikov, is one of the most iconic and widely used assault rifles in the world.. C reated by Soviet engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov, the rifle became a symbol of ...

AK -47, Soviet assault rifle. Designed by Mikhail T. Kalashnikov (its name stands for “automatic Kalashnikov 1947”), it had both semiautomatic and automatic capabilities and fired intermediate-power 7.62-mm ammunition.

Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifle, marked with "66" in a triangle. General History. The AK-47 was designed by Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov. Kalashnikov was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1938; while serving as a tank driver-mechanic, he became interested in the operation of firearms.

5 天之前 · Replacing the AK-74. The efforts to fully replace the older Kalashnikov assault rifle began in 2018, but as seen in the Kremlin’s ongoing war in Ukraine, it will likely take years for the ...