Kalashnikov began design work on the weapon in 1945, and first presented it in 1947. The letters "AK" stand for "Army-Kalashnikov". It has gone through several modifications, and in the case of the Russian Military, one caliber change, since then.
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Avtomat Kalishnikova, 1947 (automatic weapon made by Kalishnikov, and the year of its first design).
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The AK 47 was made in many communist countries including Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, China etc, etc. It should say on the weapon where it was made. It was designed by a man named Kalashnikov, a young russian, in 1944, but was not mass made and used until 1947 in Russia. Fact. it is named AK47 because, A = Automat (Automatic in Russian) K = Kalashnikov (The Designer) 47 = 1947 was the first year it was used on mass scale by the Russian Army.
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