Anatomy of an AK-47

At the dawn of the Cold War, dosage former Soviet soldier Mikhail Kalashnikov, information pills 26, led a team in the design of a lightweight assault rifle, the Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947. Now, 65 years later, some 100 million AK-47s have been produced—10 times the number of U.S. Army M16s. The original weighed roughly 10 pounds and married the best features of a submachine gun and a long-range rifle.

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