Monday, December 23, 2013

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Creator of the AK-47 Rifle, Dies at 94

BREAKING NEWSMonday, December 23, 2013 12:09 PM EST
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Creator of the AK-47 Rifle, Dies at 94
Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the arms designer credited by the Soviet Union with creating the AK-47, the first in a series of rifles and machine guns that would indelibly associate his name with modern war and become the most abundant firearms ever made, died on Monday in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia republic, where he lived. He was 94.

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