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  2. AK-47 - Wikipedia

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    The AK-47 was designed to be a simple, reliable fully automatic rifle that could be manufactured quickly and cheaply, using mass production methods that were state of the art in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s. [41] The AK-47 uses a long-stroke gas system generally associated with high reliability in adverse conditions.

  3. Mikhail Kalashnikov - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 100 million AK-47 assault rifles had been produced by 2009, [11] and about half of them are counterfeit, manufactured at a rate of about a million per year. [13] [18] Izhmash, the official manufacturer of AK-47 in Russia, did not patent the weapon until 1997, and in 2006 accounted for only 10% of the world's production. [9]

  4. The Gun (Chivers book) - Wikipedia

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    The Gun is a nonfiction book written by journalist C. J. Chivers about the AK-47 rifle and its variants, and the impact they have had on the world.It covers the origins of the design, its invention and distribution, and the consequences of the pattern's spread around the world.

  5. The Guns of the South - Wikipedia

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    The story deals with a group of time traveling members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) from an imagined 21st-century South Africa, who supply Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s and other advanced technology, medicine and intelligence.

  6. AK-47 (2020 film) - Wikipedia

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    AK-47 (Russian: Калашников, romanized: Kalashnikov) is a 2020 Russian biographical film about the experiences of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle. [ 3 ] Elena Kalashnikova, the designer's daughter and a consultant to the Kalashnikov Concern , took part in the production of the film.

  7. Kalashnikov rifle - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. How an almost forgotten C-47 made its way to Topeka to tell ...

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    Now that most World War II veterans have died, crews like the one behind the C-47 "That's All Brother" see a responsibility to tell their stories.

  9. Assault rifle - Wikipedia

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    AK-74 rifle Kalashnikov rifle family: AK-47, AK-74 and AK-12 (left) as well as rare OTs-14, AN-94, and AEK-971. The AK-74 assault rifle was a Soviet answer to the U.S. M16. [87] [88] [89] The Soviet military realized that the M16 had better range and accuracy over the AKM, and that its lighter cartridge allowed soldiers to carry more ammunition.