Avtomat Kalashnikova Rifle

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The AK Rifle (Avtomat Kalashnikova[a]) refers to a pattern of assault rifles designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. The first production models of the rifles are colloquially known as the "AK-47". The AK was originally supposed to suppliment the SKS semi-automatic rifles as a "submachine gun" replacement for specialized assault troops, and the SKS will be the standard rifle for all rifleman. But soon, as modern warfare relied more on automatic rifles than marksmanship, the AK would become the standard weapon of the

Variants of AK pattern rifles

This gallery does not contain civilian and export models (with a few exceptions whenever relevant) and includes rifles from capitalist countries and previously socialist countries that restored capitalism.

East German variants

Hungarian variants

Romanian variants

Yugoslav and Serbian models

Albanian models

Chinese models

North Korean models

Usage of Rifles by Socialist[b] States

Notes

  1. Russian:Автомат Калашникова
  2. Including revisionist states