Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov, founded in 1807, supplied weapons to Russia's imperial tsars and still equips the Russian army today. Though it is most famous for the AK-47 rifle, the company — ...

When the late Mikhail Kalashnikov set about designing the devastating killing machine that the world knows as the AK-47 assault rifle, he applied some hard lessons learned while commanding a Red Army ...

The Kalashnikov Concern is the biggest name in assault rifles. Its AK-47 is the most widespread weapon in the world with more than a hundred million made. In recent years the company has diversified ...

The Kalashnikov Concern Group of Companies (GC) delivered the first batch of its 2023 AK-12 assault rifles in 2026 as part of ...

FILE PHOTO: A participant fires a Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifle at the Army-2015 international military-technical forum in Kubinka (Reuters) - Russia has modified the Kalashnikov AK-12 weapon its ...

Kalashnikov Concern has had itself a heck of a year rolling out new weapons, including a series of infantry and special operations rifles, a light squad machine gun, as well as a pistol. Now, Russia’s ...

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Kalashnikov is undoubtedly best known for its AK-47, but these days the Russian manufacturing giant has its fingers in all sorts of pies. Joining a hoverbike, an electric all-terrain motorbike and a ...

Earlier this month, the Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov Group made a low-key announcement with frightening implications. The company revealed it had developed a range of combat robots that ...

The Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov, best known for making the AK-47 machine gun* gas-operated – rotating bolt rifle with automatic capabilities, has unveiled a fleet of electric and hybrid ...

Russia has set its sights on revamping its ground forces in recent years with the development and adoption of a ton of new gear, including the Ratnik combat system, which is designed to be a ...

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 ...