Military personnel take part in the funeral of Mikhail Kalashnikov, chief designer of Izhmash Concern, a Russian firearms producer, in Mytischi outside Moscow, December 27, 2013. Russia buries assault ...

AK-47 designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, dead at 94 00:57 MOSCOW --In a regretful letter penned a few months before his death, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, asked the head ...

Interviewers always asked Mikhail Kalashnikov the same question and he always gave the same answer: Yes, he could sleep at night. Quite easily, thank you. Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47, a cheap, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Kalashnikov’s recent push into the export market is distinguished not just by new technology, but by a different business model. Whereas the AK-101 was not produced ...

Americans looking to get their hands on the favorite gun of armed rebel groups in Afghanistan will now be able to get one — from Florida. Kalashnikov USA, once the official stateside importer of ...

American Kalashnikov fans rejoice... Kalashnikov USA has just announced the release of their all-American take on one of the most modern AK-series rifles available today, the AK-103, just in time for ...

1. It in one of the few weapons that can be totally submerged in water and then still fire straight away. 2. Due to its simplicity and easy of manufacture it is the most copied gun in the world. 3.

As AK-47 inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov neared death, the man whose gun became one of the world's most prolific killing machines wrestled with guilt from the countless lives taken with his invention, ...

Police officer Tatiana Osetrova congratulates Mikhail Kalashnikov, the creator of the world's most popular assault rifle. November 23 marked the 55th anniversary of the release of the first ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle which has killed more people than any other firearm in the world, died on Monday aged 94, officials said.

MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, has died at the age of 94. The AK-47 — "Avtomat ...