(NORINCO) is widely sold to countries with global market demand. Pen ~ fun ~ cabinet www.biquge.info In addition to the Soviet Union, a number of other countries have also made a large number of copies of the AK47 automatic rifle. It can be said that the AK47 automatic rifle is the originator of firearms in many countries of the former socialist camp, and has become one of the two major schools in the firearms world.

The reason why Kashi was able to design such an excellent automatic rifle was because he was a former soldier and knew what kind of weapons soldiers needed most. When designing a firearm, his first consideration was to make it simple enough to be used in cold, heat, wind, rain, desert and even water. Kashi believes that the greatest sorrow for a firearm designer is that it is not accepted by the user, so the designer should consider the user first.

The "Kalashnikov" brand is very valuable

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kalashnikov visited and inspected abroad almost every year. In the spring of 1990, Dr. Isel, director of military history at the National Museum of the United States, sent a letter to the 71-year-old Kas, inviting him to the United States to participate in the filming of a television documentary on a famous 20th-century firearms designer. During his visit to the United States, Kashi had an academic exchange with Stoner, the designer of the famous M16 rifle (the main rifle of the U.S. Army). Although they have different beliefs, the two have a common experience: they both fought in World War II, neither has a higher education in firearms, they are both self-taught in the field of firearms design, and they have achieved a lot in small arms.

During his visit to the United States, Kalashnikov also visited a US Marine Corps base and watched a fire display by an airborne battalion. The commander of the base invited the two weapons masters to do a shooting competition, Kalashnikov played the M16 and Stoner played the AK47, and both masters rated the rifles in their hands highly. Both believe that in the future, rifles will develop in the direction of small caliber, lightweight, and universal. Of course, the premise is that it is reliable and suitable for a wide range of complex and harsh natural climates. In this regard, Stoner admits that Kalashnikov has achievements that no one else can match.

By 1990, Kalashnikov had largely stopped developing military weapons and had switched to hunting rifles. Influenced by his father, Kalashnikov's son became a firearms designer from an early age. In gratitude to Kalashnikov for his great contribution to the country in terms of firearms, Kalashnikov's hometown of Kuria awarded him the title of honorary citizen and erected a bronze bust of him. In 1991, Kalashnikov personally visited China. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kalashnikov was still valued by the Russian government. In 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin made a special trip to Izhevsk to participate in the "celebration of the 75th anniversary of the birth of the world-famous weapons designer Kalashnikov" on November 10 with the Minister of Defense, the head of the Federal Counterintelligence Service and other leaders. On his 80th birthday, Putin personally congratulated him.

After retiring with the rank of lieutenant general, Kalashnikov and his wife live in an old-fashioned two-bedroom house in the Udmurt Autonomous Republic. At the end of 2002, the 84-year-old Kalashnikov suddenly chose to cooperate with a German umbrella company called MMI, allowing the company to produce umbrellas and other daily necessities under his own name. In return, Kalashnikov could receive a 30% stake in the company. Kalashnikov was pleased that his name also had a market value in the commercial arena, and he excitedly said: "The guns I designed and MMI products have a lot in common, they are reliable, easy to use and easy to maintain, so my name is the best fit." ”

In September 2004, a British entrepreneur named John Floley used the surname "Kalashnikov" as the brand of vodka. This is one of the amazing modern marketing techniques. Kalashnikov appeared in London several times to promote the launch on the market of this vodka named after him.

In 1946, Kalashnikov [3] designed a repeated-firing prototype gun (known as the АК-46) on the basis of his semi-automatic rifle that used the 7.62×39mm М1943 type intermediate power cartridge, and he designed a rotary locking bolt, which became the prototype of the locking mechanism of the АК series of firearms designed later. In the same year, he participated in the shooting range selection test. After a series of tests and the improvement of the air conduction device and piston system, the АК-47 was designed, which was rigorously tested in a wind-blown sand and muddy environment, and was selected as the standard equipment of the Soviet army in 1947, and finally finalized in 1949, officially put into mass production, and produced at the Izhevsk Military Plant. In 1951, the armament of the former Soviet army began, replacing the Simonov semi-automatic carbine. In 1953 the АК-47 changed the method of production of the casing from the stamping process to the machining process. АК-47 began to massively equip the Soviet army. The AK-47, which the Soviet army was equipped with, was replaced by its modification AKM at the end of the 50s. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the АК-47 family was the standard equipment of the armies of the former Soviet Union and the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries. In the 1980s, after the 5.45mm АК-74 series was equipped with the former Soviet army, the 7.62mm АК-47 series was gradually withdrawn from the Soviet army's standard equipment (in fact, AKM has been used, as can be seen from the pictures of the Second Chechen War, the Russian army used AKM). An improved replacement for the AK-47 is the AKM. The АК-47 assault rifle belongs to the class of automatic rifles. Compared with the rifles of the Second World War, the body of the gun is shorter, the firing range is shorter, and the firing distance is kept at 300 meters in close combat, which is suitable for close-range assault combat. Using the principle of gas-guided automatic, the air duct is located above the barrel and the bolt action is pushed by a piston. Swivel locking bolt. 7.62mm caliber, firing 7.62×39mm M1943 intermediate power gun, 30 rounds of arc magazine feeding. The insurance of the AK-47 is very distinctive, from top to bottom the general assault rifle is "safe, semi-automatic, fully automatic", while the АК-47 is "safe, fully automatic, semi-automatic". When dealing with emergencies, soldiers will always pull the fast and slow machine to the end, pull the trigger and shoot all the bullets, while the AK-47 will only fire one shot, which greatly saves bullets and improves safety. The bolt of the АК-47 is reliable, and its mechanical structure ensures that it continues to work even when firing continuously or when foreign objects such as dust enter the gun.