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Design
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Users
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Conflicts
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- Action
- Gas-operated, long-stroke piston, closed rotating bolt
- Barrel length
- Overall length: 415 mm (16.3 in) Rifled bore length: 369 mm (14.5 in)
- Cartridge
- 7.62×39mm
- Designed
- 1947; 79 years ago (1947)
- Designer
- Mikhail Kalashnikov
- Effective firing range
- 350 m (380 yd)
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Overview
- Russian Russian language
- Lit. Literal translation
- Assault rifle
- 7.62×39mm
- Soviet Union
- Mikhail Kalashnikov
- Firearm
- Kalashnikov (or "AK") family of rifles Kalashnikov rifle
- Stock Stock (gun)
- Soviet Army Soviet Ground Forces
- Soviet Armed Forces
- Warsaw Pact
- Irregular forces Irregular military
- Insurgencies
History
- World War II
- StG 44
- Rifle
- German Nazi Germany
- Intermediate cartridge
- 7.92×33mm Kurz
- Submachine gun
- People's Commissariat of Arms of the USSR
- PPSh-41
- Mosin–Nagant
- SKS carbine SKS
- RPD light machine gun RPD machine gun
- AKM
- RPK
- Battle of Bryansk
- M1 Garand
- Bulkin's TKB-415 TKB-415
- Simonov's AVS-31 AVS-36
- Magazine Magazine (firearms)
- Breechblock
- Receiver Receiver (firearms)
- Rotating bolt
- Charging handle Cocking handle
- Tilting bolt
- Stamped Stamping (metalworking)
- Milled Milling (machining)
- Trunnion
- Muzzle brake
- Barrel Gun barrel
- Muzzle rise
Design
- Long-stroke gas system Gas-operated reloading
- Cartridge Cartridge (weaponry)
- Boat-tail bullets Boat-tail bullet
- Trigger Trigger (firearms)
- Bolt Bolt (firearm)
- Primary extraction
- Chrome-lined Chrome plating
- Rifling twist rate Rifling
- Blank-firing adaptor
- Iron sight
- Mm Millimetre
- In Inch
- Point-blank range
- 'П' Pe (Cyrillic letter)
- Apparent "bullet rise" External ballistics
- Birch
- Plywood
- Laminates
- MP40 submachine-gun MP40
- BMP infantry combat vehicle BMP development
- Drum Drum magazine
- Rust-colored Rust (color)
- Bakelite
- Phenolic resin
- Glass-reinforced Glass-filled polymer
- Formaldehyde
- Epoxy resin
- Maroon
- Plum Plum (color)
- Black
Variants
- MP 40
- BMP BMP-1
- Airborne Airborne forces
- Flash suppressor
- Bipod
- Kalashnikov Concern
Accuracy potential
Users
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Type 56 Type 56 assault rifle
- Comoros
- Congo Republic of the Congo
- Cuba
- DR Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
Conflicts
- Malayan Emergency
- Hungarian Revolution Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- Vietnam War
- Laotian Civil War
- Congo Crisis
- Portuguese Colonial War
- Rhodesian Bush War
- The Troubles
- Communist insurgency in Thailand
- South African Border War
- India-China clashes (1967) Nathu La and Cho La clashes
- Cambodian Civil War
- Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989)
- Moro conflict
- Yom Kippur War
- Ethiopian Civil War
- Western Sahara War
- Cambodian–Vietnamese War
- Chadian–Libyan War
- Soviet–Afghan War
- 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
- Iran–Iraq War
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Sri Lankan Civil War
- United States invasion of Grenada
- South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
- Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
- United States invasion of Panama
- KDPI insurgency (1989–1996)
- Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995)
Cultural influence and impact
- Freedom fighter
- Che Guevara
- Counterculture
- The man
- Cold War
- FN FAL
- HK G3 Heckler & Koch G3
- M14 M14 rifle
- M16 M16 rifle
- Third World
- Fall of the Soviet Union History of the Soviet Union (1985–1991)
- Al-Qaeda
- Taliban
- Sandinistas
- FARC
- Ejército de Liberación Nacional
- Izhevsk
- Ural Region
- Flag of Mozambique
- Emblem Emblem of Mozambique
- East Timor Coat of arms of East Timor
- Zimbabwe Coat of arms of Zimbabwe
- Burkina Faso Coat of arms of Burkina Faso
- Hezbollah Flag of Hezbollah
- Syrian Resistance
- FARC-EP
- TKP/TIKKO Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist
- International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces
- Developing world
- Revolutionaries Revolutionary
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Nodes340
Edges339
Triples442
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005882
Components1
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related to External links · 45
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has impact · 39
AK-47 → Afghanistan, After, AK-47s, AKs, Al-Qaeda, Cambodian, Cambodian Civil War, China, Chinese, Cold War, Colombia, During, Ejército, FARC, FN FAL, HK G3, In, Iraq, Islamic State, Islamist
related to Origins · 28
AK-47 → AK, AK-type, AKM, Arms, During World War II, German, In, Introduced, July, Kurz, M43, Mosin, Nagant, On, People's Commissariat, PPSh-41, RPD, RPK, Shortly, SKS
related to Illicit trade · 22
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related to Further development · 19
AK-47 → AK-49, AKM, Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy, Difficulties, During, Even, In, Instead, Mosin, Nagant, Once, Partly, Russian, SKS, Soviets, The, There, This, Type
related to Modernised (7.62×39mm) · 19
AK-47 → AKM, AKML, AKMN, AKMS, AKMSL, AKMSN, Hand-held, Night, RPK, RPKL, RPKN, RPKS, RPKSL, RPKSN, Slotted, The, This, Type, Under-folding
related to Concept · 18
AK-47 → AK, American M1 Garand, Avtomat Kalashnikova, Battle, Bryansk, But, Each, German StG, Germans, It, Kalashnikov, Kalashnikov's, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian Army, So, The AK-47, These, Why
related to Former · 16
AK-47 → AK-74South Vietnam, AKM, ARVN, Captured, East Germany, GrenadaNorth Vietnam, Limited, MPi-K, MPi-KM, Panama, Panama Defense Forces Portugal, Passed, Replaced, Rhodesia Soviet Union, Used, Vietnamese
related to Gallery · 15
AK-47 → Afghan, Afghan War, Afghanistan, AK-47s, An AK-47 Type, Chinese Type, Guinea-Bissau, PAIGC-liberation, Senegal, Soviet, Soviet Spetsnaz, The Type, Type, US Army MP, Vietnam
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| AK-47 | Action | Gas-operated, long-stroke piston, closed rotating bolt | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Barrel length | Overall length: 415 mm (16.3 in) Rifled bore length: 369 mm (14.5 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Cartridge | 7.62×39mm | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Designed | 1947; 79 years ago (1947) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Designer | Mikhail Kalashnikov | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Effective firing range | 350 m (380 yd) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Feed system | 20-round, 30-round, 50-round detachable box magazine, 40-round, 75-round drum magazines also available | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | In service | 1949–1974 (Soviet Union) 1949–present (other countries) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Length | Fixed wooden stock: 880 mm (35 in) 875 mm (34.4 in) (folding stock extended) 645 mm (25.4 in) (stock folded) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Manufacturer | Fabryka Broni Radom, Kalashnikov Concern, Norinco, and Zastava Arms | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Mass | Without magazine: 3.47 kg (7.7 lb) Magazine, empty: 0.43 kg (0.95 lb) (early issue) 0.33 kg (0.73 lb) (steel) 0.25 kg (0.55 lb) (plastic) 0.17 kg (0.37 lb) (light alloy) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Muzzle velocity | 715 m/s (2,350 ft/s) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | No. built | ~75 million ~100 million Kalashnikov–style rifles | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Place of origin | Soviet Union | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Produced | 1948–present | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Rate of fire | Cyclic rate: 600 rounds/min Practical rate: Semi-automatic: 40 rounds/min Bursts / fully automatic: 100 rounds/min | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Sights | 100–800 m adjustable iron sights Sight radius: 378 mm (14.9 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Type | Assault rifle | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Used by | See Users | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Variants | See Variants | 1.00 | infobox |
| AK-47 | Wars | See Conflicts | 1.00 | infobox |
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