Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov, founded in 1807, supplied weapons to Russia's imperial tsars and still equips the Russian army today. Though it is most famous for the AK-47 rifle, the company — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, the Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov Group made a low-key announcement with frightening implications. The company revealed it had developed a range of combat robots that ...

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 ...

The Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov, best known for making the AK-47 machine gun* gas-operated – rotating bolt rifle with automatic capabilities, has unveiled a fleet of electric and hybrid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the occupation of Crimea and part of Donbas in 2014, world leaders imposed sanctions on some Russian citizens and companies ...

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 ...

RFE/RL’s Russian Service has been reporting steadily in recent weeks about the inroads that a certain Maksim Kalashnikov has been making in getting his views on Russia’s future heard at the highest ...

The inventor of the iconic AK-47 automatic rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died. Kalashnikov's simple, durable and easily maintained gun became the world's most popular rifle, with more than 100 ...