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The AK-47, soviet assault rifle, possibly the most widely used shoulder weapon in the world. The initials AK represent Avtomay Kalashnikova, Russian for "Automatic Kalashnikov," for its designer, Mikhail Timofeyvich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947. Almost from the moment of its official adoption by the soviet military in 1949, the AK-47 was recognized as being simple to operate, rugged, reliable under trying conditions, amenable to mass production. Build around a 7.62-mm round with a muzzle velocity of some 700 metres per second, it had a cyclic firing rat