The creator of the AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, developed the weapon in response to a German-engineered firearm called the Sturmgewehr 44 rifle. Let's take a look at the AK series by the numbers.
it could be reasonably argued that the AK-47 is the greatest small arm ever. Mikhail Kalashnikov was born in the eastern Russian district of Altai Krai in November of 1919, in the thick of the ...