FACTS ABOUT AK-47 RIFLE YOU DON’T KNOW

The AK-47 is also known as the Kalashnikov, AK, which is a selective fire option, automatic and semi- automatic, gas operated assault rifle. The dangerous assault rifle is designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, which is officially known in the Soviet documentation as Avtomat Kalashnikova.

The Mikhail Kalashnikov starts his career as a weapon designer while he was wounded in the shoulder during the Battle of Bryansk. Another facts about AK-47 Rifle. He was started tinkering with a submachine gun design in the year 1942 and light machine gun in the year 1943.

The AK-47’s name derived for “Kalashnikov’s Automatic” and it was designed, in the year 1947. More than 180 million AK-47 rifles have been sold around the world. In 1944, he entered a rifle design competition with the new 7.62×39mm, gas-operated, semi-automatic, long stroke piston, carbine, American M1 Garand, However, this new gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle lost out to a Simonov design.


The Osama bin Laden also had a AK-47 rifle with him during his video appearances, this is very interesting facts about AK-47 Rifle. According to media reports, it was the US, which gave the Al Qaeda founder his first AK-47 rifle to fight the Soviets in the Afghanistan. The AK-47 rifle provided to be reliable under a wide range of conditions with convenient handling advantage. In the year 1949, the rifle was adopted by the Soviet Army as “7.62 mm AK-47 assault rifle.

The AK-47 assault rifle is best described as a hybrid rifle of previous rifle technology innovations. The Mikhail Kalashnikov has decided to develop an automatic rifle combining the best features of the American M1 rifle and the German StG44. The AK-47 rifle has been manufactured in many countries and has seen service with armed forces worldwide.


The AK-47 was fully designed to be a very simple, reliable automatic assault rifle that could be manufactured easily and cheap cost, with using mass production methods that were state of the art in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s. In this rifle a long stroke gas system uses which is generally associated with good reliability in adverse conditions.

The AK-47 rifle fires the 7.62×39mm cartridge with a velocity of 715 m/s. The cartridge weight is 16.3 gm; the projectile weight is 7.9 gm. The AK-47 rifle has received a barrel with a chrome lined bore and four right hand grooves at a 240 mm rifling twist rate.

The popular facts about AK-47 Rifle, In the automatic rifles, rifle continues to fire automatically cycling fresh rounds, until the magazine is exhausted from the trigger. In the semi-automatic rifles, the firearm fires only once and requiring the trigger to be released and depressed again for the next shot.

Caliber Size : 7.62×39 mm
Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt with 2 lugs
Total length: 870 mm
Barrel length: 415 mm
Weight, with empty magazine: AK 4.3 kg
Magazine capacity: 30 rounds

Cyclic rate of fire: 600 rounds per minute

The fire selector is located on the right side of the rifles, which is a large lever; it acts as a dust-cover and prevents the charging handle. This large lever is operated by the shooter’s right thumb and it has three settings: safe, full-auto, and semi-auto.


The standard magazine capacity of AK-47 Assault Rifle is 30 rounds. There are also available 10, 20, and 40 round magazines, as well as 75 round drum magazines. With the AK-47 Rifle many accessories are supplied include a 387 mm long 6H3 Bayonet featuring a 200 mm long spear point blade.

The all current models of AKM rifles can hill under barrel 40 mm grenade launchers such as the GP-25 and its all variants, which can be fire up to 20 rounds per minute with the effective range of up to 400 meters.

The AK-47’s Assault Rifle accuracy has always been considered to be good to hit a male torso out to approximate 300 meters, which is really very interesting Facts about AK-47 Rifle. The best shooters may be hitting a man sized object at 800 meters within five shots or ten shots


The AK-47 Rifle has made it the “Guinness Book of Records” as the most widely expansion weapon around the world, Approximate 180 million AK-47 Rifles currently using by Military and other special forces in 108 countries around the World, which is stunning facts about AK-47 Rifle.

This assault rifle can be stripped in under a minute and cleaned very quickly in every climatic. Todays more than 25 countries currently produce the AK-47 rifle, The China is the largest AK-47 rifle producer in the World. The Russia no longer makes the weapons, but it has large stockpile.