The 7.62 x 39mm Assault Rifle in Detail
by
Martin J Brayley
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Popularly known as the AK47 or just AK, the 7.62mm Avtomat Kalashnikov obrazets 1947g was accepted into service by the Soviet Army in 1947. Despite its widespread use by the Soviet armed forces, the AK only became known in the West during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when Soviet troops sent to...