Mikhail Kalashnikov
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title:
Mikhail Kalashnikov
text:
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov 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. Kalashnikov was, according to himself, a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weaponry to design arms that achieved battlefield ubiquity. Even though Kalashnikov fel
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Russian firearms designer (1919–2013)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov
date created:
2001-10-27T12:07:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T16:12:09Z
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