Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Designer of the AK-47 rifle is dead


The designer of the AK-forty-seven rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov has died at the age of ninety-four.
Mr. Kalashnikov, who was in his twenties when he created the AK-forty-seven just after World War Two, died in his home city, near the Ural Mountains in Russia, where his gun is still made.

The Russian state media that announced the death, however, did not give the cause.
It said Kalashnikov was fitted with electric heartbeat stimulator at a Moscow hospital in June and has been in the hospital since seventeenth of November.
The AK-forty-seven, which rarely jams even in adverse conditions and has killed more people than any other firearm in the world, went into service in the Soviet armed forces in 1949, remains a mainstay of Russia’s armed forces and police in the world.

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