Saturday, November 13, 2021

The name and the year on the AK-47 assault rifle

On this day, November 13, 1947 the Soviet Union launched the AK-47 assault rifle.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, who gave his name to the rifle and its variants, is the most popular used rifle in the world today.

The number '47' refers to the year the rifle was launched. Design work on the AK-47 began in 1945.

As the Red Army approached Berlin in 1945 they used the Katyusha rocket launcher, which the Germans nicknamed 'Stalin’s Organs'. The distinctive howling sound of the Katyuhsa terrified the German troops.


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