He also developed the cartridge-fed PK machine gun. In 1959, production began on his AKM, which replaced the AK-47’s milled receiver with one made of stamped metal, making it both lighter and less expensive to produce. Over the course of his long life, Kalashnikov continued to tweak his classic design. Later adopted by other nations in the Warsaw Pact, the weapon quickly spread around the world, becoming a symbol of revolution in such far-flung lands as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Colombia and Mozambique, on whose flag it figures prominently. In 1949, the AK-47 became the assault rifle of the Soviet Army. The name of Kalashnikov’s greatest invention stands for Automat Kalashnikova 1947, the year it was first produced. While still in the military, he produced several designs that lost out to competitors before eventually producing the first AK-47. Having seen firsthand the combat advantage conferred by Germany’s superior firearms, Kalashnikov resolved to develop a better weapon.
He was wounded during the German invasion of the USSR in 1941.
10, 1919, Kalashnikov was a tank mechanic in the Soviet military during the Second World War. Russian Mikhail Kalashnikov invented the weapon that bears his name in the middle of the 20th century. Credit: Kremlin CC-BY 4.0 Kalashnikov’s invention
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