AK-47, Definition, History, Operation, & Facts
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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.
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