AK 47

7.62-mm Kalashnikov assault rifle (AK) [2] - machine, adopted for service in the USSR in 1949; The GRAU index is 56-A-212. It was designed in 1947 by MT Kalashnikov. AK and its modifications are the most common small arms in the world. It is estimated that this type (including licensed and unlicensed copies, as well as third-party development on the basis of AK) belongs to one-fifth of all available on the Earth small arms fire [3]. Over 60 years, more than 70 million Kalashnikov assault rifles of various modifications were manufactured. They are in service with 50 foreign armies [4]. The main rival of Kalashnikov assault rifles - the American M16 machine gun - was produced in the amount of about 8 million units and is armed with 27 armies of the world -link removed-