Mikhail T.Kalashnikov

Viktor Kalashnikov, son of the legendary Soviet small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, began his weapon designing career in 1966 by conducting a series of tests of the AK-47. Viktor Kalashnikov, son of the legendary Soviet small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, died in Izhevsk on March 27, the ...

Viktor Kalashnikov had worked for years at the university alongside his father, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the legendary designer of the AK-47 assault rifle who died in December 2013 at the age of 94. After Mikhail Kalashnikov's death, Russian media published a letter he penned to the head of the Russian ...

Somewhere in Poland, they have crates of immaculate Circle 11 factory-marked AKMS rifles that have to be turned into parts kits. The above video follows a random C11 as it is jolted from its slumber inside a wooden crate full of siblings marked “kbk AKM” which is short for “Karabinek” or carbine. Once on ...

Now named after Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian lieutenant general who developed the AK-47, the company describes itself as the largest Russian manufacturer of assault and sniper rifles, guided artillery projectiles and precision weapons. It also makes civilian hunting shotguns and sporting rifles, and ...

In the late 1940s, Mikhail Kalashnikov — the Russian gun-designer behind the then-new AK-47 assault rifle — produced an automatic handgun called the APK. Busy completing the AK-47, Kalashnikov reportedly lacked the time to truly refine the APK. In the end, the Red Army preferred Igor Stechkin's own ...

Russian workers redacted a portion of AK47 inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov's new monument last week to scrub away the presence of a controversial German rifle. As reported by Reuters, workers cut and ground away the offending German Sturmgewehr StG44 (MP44) rifle on Friday, leaving it a scarred ...

Workers have cut out part of a new statue to honour Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the Soviet Union's AK-47 assault rifle, after locals discovered that it mistakenly depicted a German firearm of World War II. The removal happened just three days after the monument was unveiled with much fanfare in the ...

A statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, has been unveiled in central Moscow in a controversial ceremony that merged military pomp with religious ritual. The nine-metre (30ft) monument depicts Kalashnikov clutching his eponymous automatic weapon. Tuesday's event was ...

MOSCOW -- After several false starts and some grumbling from locals, a prominent statue of a gun-toting Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of one of the world's most ubiquitous weapons of war, is set to be unveiled in an official ceremony in the Russian capital on September 19. The 7.5-meter metal likeness ...

The AK-47, as the story goes, was the brainchild of the late Mikhail T. Kalashnikov. A Red Army draftee, Kalashnikov showed a talent for small-arms design while convalescing from battlefield injuries, and had assembled a prototype assault rifle by 1947. (There is some circumstantial evidence, however, ...