Between the military and sporting markets, the Mauser 98 was the most copied rifle platform until Mikhail Kalashnikov’s Avtomat Kalashnikova 47 rifle. The vast majority of bolt-action rifles on ...

In the 2005 movie “Lord of War,” an arms dealer played by Nicolas Cage waxes poetic on the Kalashnikov assault rifle. All fighters love the “elegantly simple” weapon, Cage’s arms dealer ...

Kalashnikov's design was the final form for ... The existing standard 7.92x57mm Mauser cartridge was thus shortened, resulting in the StG 44. That weapon, produced in sufficient numbers to see ...

Han Solo’s smuggler’s blaster was a modified Mauser C96 (the distinctive broomhandle ... their equipment tactile and built for wear and tear. A Kalashnikov rifle in that setting fits perfectly.

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who in 1947 was just 28 years ... like the British Lee-Enfield or the German Mauser, that were common in World War II. The United States Army had already fielded ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov said he was proud of inventing the assault rifle that bears his name but wishes he had designed something to help people instead. “I would have preferred to invent something ...

The Kalashnikov Group put a model of its miniature exploding drone on display this week at a major defense exhibition in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, where the world’s ...

June 12, 2006 — -- From Liberia to Afghanistan to the jungles of South America and the badlands of Iraq, the weapon of choice is nearly always the Kalashnikov. But it wasn't supposed to be ...

Firearms manufacturer Kalashnikov has unveiled an upgraded AK-12 assault rifle, with modifications based on the weapon’s use in the war on Ukraine. Kalashnikov Group Chief Designer Sergey ...