It might be best known for its infamous AK-47 assault rifle, but Russian manufacturing firm Kalashnikov is keen to show it's no-one trick pony. Its latest departure from the business of weapon-making ...

AK-47 designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, dead at 94 00:57 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 ...

When the late Mikhail Kalashnikov set about designing the devastating killing machine that the world knows as the AK-47 assault rifle, he applied some hard lessons learned while commanding a Red Army ...

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Kalashnikov is undoubtedly best known for its AK-47, but these days the Russian manufacturing giant has its fingers in all sorts of pies. Joining a hoverbike, an electric all-terrain motorbike and a ...

After the occupation of Crimea and part of Donbas in 2014, world leaders imposed sanctions on some Russian citizens and companies in the military-industrial sector and closely related enterprises.

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 ...

American Kalashnikov fans rejoice... Kalashnikov USA has just announced the release of their all-American take on one of the most modern AK-series rifles available today, the AK-103, just in time for ...

Russian weapons maker Kalashnikov Concern has unveiled what is being dubbed a “killer robot,” although it seems like it would be easily defeated by Ewoks if it’s ever deployed to the far side of Endor ...

The Kalashnikov Concern is the biggest name in assault rifles. Its AK-47 is the most widespread weapon in the world with more than a hundred million made. In recent years the company has diversified ...