The Russian 9A-91 assault rifle has been the standard national police automatic weapon since 1994. Most of the time police are armed with just a 9mm pistol. When more firepower is needed, they use ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov is in the back seat of his four-wheel drive, his eyes focused on the snowy pine forest that lies straight ahead. It is the day after his 74th birthday, and he is doing what he ...

I always had a soft spot for old Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who died just before Christmas. When I met him, his Siberian eyes were as alert as a wolf’s; he was brash, tough, unashamed.

Few firearms hold the iconic status of the AK-47. Simple, reliable, and devastatingly effective, this assault rifle has transcended its military purpose to become a symbol of revolution, rebellion ...

Russian engineer and arms designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov achieved fame for his eponymous invention – the AK-47 or ‘Kalashnikov’ rifle – that would cause its creator regret in later life. Nick Smith ...

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Russian Mikhail Kalashnikov invented the weapon that bears his name in the middle of the 20th century. Born on Nov. 10, 1919, Kalashnikov was a tank mechanic in the Soviet military during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Mikhail Kalashnikov invented the AK-47, why it took over the world, and what he wishes he'd made instead. In April 2013, an ailing Mikhail Kalashnikov wrote a letter addressed to the head of the ...

For most of his life, Mikhail Kalashnikov never indicated that he felt any remorse for his invention and its destructive potential. “My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my ...