December 2013 Current Affairs: Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of AK-47, died at 94
>> Lt Gen Mikhail T Kalashnikov, the arms designer credited by the Soviet Union with creating the AK-47, the first in a series of rifles and machine guns that would indelibly associate his name with modern war and become the most abundant firearms ever made, died Monday in Izhevsk, the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia, where he lived. He was 94.
>> Born a peasant on the southern Siberian steppe, Kalashnikov had little formal education and claimed to be a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weapons to conceive of a rifle that achieved battlefield ubiquity.
>> The AK first used in East Berlin riots in 1953 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
>> Russia stopped producing AK-47 models in the late 1960s but production of variants such as AK-74M and AK-200 continued which is more efficient than AK47.
>> The weapon, recognizable by its banana-shaped ammunition magazine, became known for its simple effectiveness. It was easy to use and maintain, and it was reliable in extreme conditions, be they hot, cold, wet or sandy.
>> Born a peasant on the southern Siberian steppe, Kalashnikov had little formal education and claimed to be a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weapons to conceive of a rifle that achieved battlefield ubiquity.
>> The AK first used in East Berlin riots in 1953 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
>> Russia stopped producing AK-47 models in the late 1960s but production of variants such as AK-74M and AK-200 continued which is more efficient than AK47.
>> The weapon, recognizable by its banana-shaped ammunition magazine, became known for its simple effectiveness. It was easy to use and maintain, and it was reliable in extreme conditions, be they hot, cold, wet or sandy.
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