Military personnel take part in the funeral of Mikhail Kalashnikov, chief designer of Izhmash Concern, a Russian firearms producer, in Mytischi outside Moscow, December 27, 2013. Russia buries assault ...

TULLYTOWN, Pa., June 30 (UPI) --A Pennsylvania-based gun company announced Tuesday it has started selling the first American-made Kalashnikov AK-47s after U.S. sanctions on Russia prevented the import ...

The merchant of death is dead: Mikhail Kalashnikov passed Monday at 94 in a hospital in Izhevsk, the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia. Of course you know his name; everyone knows his name.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Kalashnikov’s recent push into the export market is distinguished not just by new technology, but by a different business model. Whereas the AK-101 was not produced ...

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

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 of the Russian Orthodox Church if he was to blame for ...

There could be a cause for concern as the Kalashnikov Concern announced that it had completed a three-year contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense and claimed to have doubled the supplies of the ...

MOSCOW — Workers on Friday cut out part of a new monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the Soviet Union's legendary AK-47 assault rifle, after eagle-eyed Russians noticed that it mistakenly ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle which has killed more people than any other firearm in the world, died on Monday aged 94, officials said.

Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, credited as the inventor of the AK-47 in the Soviet Union, died at age 94, multiple media outlets have reported. So, who was Kalashnikov, the creator of the world's most ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94. Kalashnikov once aspired to ...