#Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov

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AK-47

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.

Kalashnikov says he regrets inventing the weapon. But personally, weapons don't take people's lives. People do.

Cars, tools, or any object can be used as a weapon. The real weapon lies in the minds of those who use weapons for bad reasons.

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013) was a Soviet and Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer.

He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the RPK light machine gun and PK machine gun.

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Just Eugene Morrison Stoner and Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov shooting each others creation.

Footage shot in May 1990.

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#1162 Why is the AK-47 so good?

Why is the AK-47 so good? AK-47s are so good because they are easy to use, cheap to make, reliable, and they can function in extremely harsh conditions. The AK-47 is the most popular gun ever made. The AK-47 was designed in 1945, finalized in 1947 (hence its name), and went into production in 1948. Since then, over 75 million AK-47s have been produced, making it the most sold and most successful gun of all time. The gun was designed by Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who gave the weapon, and all the ones that followed it, his name. The full name of the gun is Avtomat Kalashnikova, which, means Kalashnikov’s Automatic rifle in Russian. The 47 is for the year it was introduced. Kalashnikov grew up in a poor village, but he loved to tinker with machinery. After he finished school, he found a job as a mechanic at a tractor station. He was moved to a nearby weapons design office before being conscripted into the Red Army. He became a tank mechanic and started designing weapons. He was wounded in 1941 and while in hospital he started to come up with the idea for what would become the most popular rifle the world has ever seen. There were other Soviet soldiers in the hospital, and they complained a lot about the weapons they had to use. There were not enough guns to go around in the Soviet Union at the time and soldiers had to share. It was common to pick up a weapon when a comrade was shot. Once he was out of hospital, he set to making a new gun that would solve all of the problems of the old ones. He looked at all of the weapons being used at the time on every side and he tried to work out what made each of them good or bad. Then he tried to combine all of those good features in one gun. This story may or may not be true. There   So, why is the AK-47 so good? The first reason is that they are very very easy to use. They are so easy that people can use them with with almost no training. This is one reason why they have become so popular around the world and they are often seen in the hands of untrained soldiers. They are so easy to use that, unfortunately, children can use them as well. They don’t jam and they can work without being cleaned. They are not very accurate, but that is fine for an untrained soldier. Probably the main reason why they are considered to be good is their hardiness. AK-47s just don’t seem to break. They can be filled with sand and they fire when the sand is emptied out. They work consistently in any climate or environment on Earth. It is said that AK-47s have been found buried in the ground and they still fire. There are four reasons for this reliability. The first is that the inside of the barrel and the chamber of the AK-47 a chrome plated. That protects them from rust and corrosion that can cause other guns to jam or for things to get stuck in them. This is useful in very hot or very humid climates, which are some of the places where the AK-47 has seen a lot of action. Secondly, they don’t have a lot of moving parts. With any machine, the fewer moving parts it has, the less chance it will have of breaking. The third reason is the length of the springs in the firing mechanism and in the cartridges. They are all longer than they have to be and the gun is designed so that they are never fully extended or compressed. This extends their life and stops them from jamming. And the fourth reason is that they have a lot of space inside the firing chamber. All of the parts in the firing chamber have been designed to have a lot of clearance. That means that any dirt that gets into the firing chamber will either fall out, or the gun will still fire even with it there. This is a huge advantage if you have an army of untrained soldiers because you don’t need to teach them how to clean the gun. However, these large clearances mean that the gun is not very accurate. The last reason is that they are cheap to make. They are very simple guns and not a lot of work is put into making them super accurate or super stylish. They are very basic, which makes them cheap to make. Also, the large clearances in the firing chamber allow for a lot of tolerance when machining the parts, which makes it cheap. The AK-47 was also never patented, so other countries could manufacture them without a license. China makes an enormous amount of AK-47s every year. Because they are cheap, they are everywhere and because they are everywhere, it is easier for people to get them than other guns. The AK-47 is not the best or the most accurate gun out there, but it is cheap, reliable, and easy to use. And this is what I learned today. If you liked this try these: - #707 Why are bridges designed to move? - #564 What is the Jevons Paradox? - #120 Why was gin sold from a cat in London in 1739? - #131 How does a machine gun work? - #13 How does a gun silencer work? Sources https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3d54xf/eli5_what_makes_the_ak47_one_of_the_most_reliable/ https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/gearscout/2017/12/12/how-the-ak-47-became-the-weapon-of-the-century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov Image By U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Levi Riendeau - http://www.af.mil/photos/media_search.asp?q=AK-47&page=1, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17783376 Read the full article

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Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of AK-47

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov

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KGF Chapter 2: Kalashnikov Gun in yash starrer movie KGF 2, All details about Kalashnikov

KGF Chapter 2: Kalashnikov Gun in yash starrer movie KGF 2, All details about Kalashnikov

AK-47, also called Kalashnikov model 1947, Soviet assault rifle, perhaps the most widely used long gun in the world. The initials AK stand for Avtomat Kalashnikova, Russian for “Automatic Kalashnikov”, for its designer Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947. We’re sure you’ll be impressed with the scene in the first half of KGF: Chapter 2 where…

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Mikhail Kalashnikov

Михаил Калашников  

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников; born 10 November 1919) is a Russian small arms designer, most famous for developing the AK-47, AKM, and AK-74 assault rifles.[1]

Weapon designs  

During his career, Kalashnikov designed about 150 models of small weapons.[16] The most famous of them are

AK-47

AKM

AK-74 / AKS-74U / AK-74M

AK-101 / AK-102

AK-103 / AK-104

AK-105

AK-12

RPK / RPK-74

PK / PKM

Saiga semi-automatic rifle

 Awards

Incorporates information from the corresponding article in the Russian Wikipedia

Mikhail Kalashnikov was twice named Hero of Socialist Labour. In 1998, he was awarded an Order of Saint Andrew the Protoclete.

On his 90th birthday on 10 November 2009, Kalashnikov was named a "Hero of the Russian Federation" and presented with a medal by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating "the brand every Russian is proud of."[8][18]

In 2012, Izhevsk State Technical University was named after Kalashnikov.[23]

 Russian Federation

 Decorations

Hero of the Russian Federation (2009)

Order of St. Andrew (2008)

Order For Merit to the Fatherland, Second Class (1994)

Order of Military Merit (Russia) (2004)

  Awards

State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of design (1997)

Award of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education (2003)

All-Russian Literary Prize of Suvorov (2009)

 Honourary diplomas

Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation (1997, 1999)

 Medals

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945."

Medal "Symbol of Science" (2007)

Gold Medal of Zhukov

Medal "For outstanding contribution to the development of the collection business in Russia"

 Acknowledgements

Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (1997, 1999, 2002, 2007)

 Soviet

 Honours

Order of Lenin (1958, 1969, 1976)

Order of the October Revolution (1974)

Order of the Red Star (1949)

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class (1985)

Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1957)

Order of Friendship of Peoples (1982)

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This Day in History: Mikhail Kalashnikov Dies

This Day in History: Mikhail Kalashnikov Dies

Mikhail Kalashnikov

RUSSIA – -(AmmoLand.com)- On December 23, 2013, Lieutenant-General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov passed away at the ripe old age of 94. With very little argument, Mikhail Kalashnikov was the most influential arms designer of the 20th century.

There are some words that transcend nations and language boundaries. Some of the big ones would be Coca-Cola and iPhone … and AK47.…

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Kalashnikov Kini Menghasilkan Motosikal Terbang – Amanz Informasi Permainan

Kalashnikov Kini Menghasilkan Motosikal Terbang – Amanz Informasi Permainan Kalashnikov ialah syarikat yang menghasilkan raifal yang paling popular di dunia iaitu AK-47. Senjata rekaan Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov ini dicipta oleh beliau pada tahun 1945 sebagai jawapan kepada raifal automatik STG 44 keluaran Jerman. Kini AK-47 ialah senjata yang dikenali ramai dan amat popular di dalam…

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Những bản độ súng AK-47 "độc nhất vô nhị"

Súng trường tự động Kalashnikov (Автомат Калашникова) AK-47 được thiết kế bởi Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov. Với những ảnh hưởng của mình, AK-47 đã được gọi là một biểu tượng trong quân sự. 

Cho đến thời điểm đầu thế kỷ 21, dù đã có 70 năm tuổi thọ song AK-47 và các phiên bản của nó vẫn là thứ vũ khí được ưa chuộng nhất, được lựa chọn là vũ khí tiêu chuẩn bởi trên 50 quân đội, ngoài ra nó còn phục vụ rất nhiều các lực lượng vũ trang, du kích khác tại hơn 100 quốc gia trên thế giới đồng thời là loại vũ khí cá nhân thông dụng nhất thế giới. 

Rất nhiều quốc gia khác nữa sử dụng AK-47 cho các lực lượng cảnh sát, biên phòng. AK-47 còn là lựa chọn của các lực lượng nổi dậy và tội phạm trên khắp thế giới do độ bền cao và giá thành rẻ.

Ngay cả ở Mỹ, nơi chế tạo ra loại súng đối thủ là M16, AK-47 và các phiên bản của nó cũng bán chạy hàng đầu trên thị trường dân sự với số lượng hàng triệu khẩu, tương đương số lượng mà lực lượng quân đội và cảnh sát Nga sở hữu.

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Автомат Калашникова

Súng trường tự động Kalashnikov (Автомат Калашникова), viết tắt là AK, là một trong những súng trường thông dụng của thế kỷ 20, được thiết kế bởi Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov. Một tên gọi thông dụng của súng này là AK-47. Theo phân loại của khối Xã hội chủ nghĩa, AK-47 thuộc loại tiểu liên, họ súng máy. Theo phân loại của NATO, AK-47 thuộc loại súng trường tấn công, cũng thuộc họ súng máy (machine gun).

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Nostrovia to Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (11/10/1919-12/23/2013)  

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov with his baby...the Avtomat Kalashnikova 47

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This Day in History: Mikhail Kalashnikov Dies

This Day in History: Mikhail Kalashnikov Dies

Mikhail Kalashnikov

RUSSIA – -(AmmoLand.com)- On December 23, 2013, Lieutenant-General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov passed away at the ripe old age of 94. With very little argument, Mikhail Kalashnikov was the most influential arms designer of the 20th century.

There are some words that transcend nations and language boundaries. Some of the big ones would be Coca-Cola and iPhone … and AK47.…