When was AK74 invented?

In 1974, the AK series of rifles underwent a radical change, with the appearance of the AK74 rifle that fired cartridges. The AK74 assault rifle is an important member of the AK family after the AK47, using caliber, which can be considered a small-caliber development of the AK47 rifle, but with many major improvements, better performance, and has been tested in the actual combat of the Afghan war, and is considered a very good modern assault rifle.

The AK-47 was finalized in 1947 and equipped with Soviet units in 1949.

Kalashnikov, 1946.

Began to design an assault rifle, he was in a semi-automatic carbine.

A fully automatic rifle was designed and sent to participate in the national range selection test. The prototype gun was called the "AK-46", the 1946 automatic rifle, which was the No. 1 test gun. [4] The gas guide and bolt were essentially the same as the original design of the semi-automatic carbine, using stamping.

riveted receiver, the firing mechanism has two types: single shot and fully automatic, and the continuous fire blocking iron is on the trigger; The entrance to the 30-round arc magazine is under the receiver, insuring the fast and slow machine.

The shanks are all on the left side of the receiver, the pistol-shaped grip, the stock, foregrip and handguard are all wooden, and the muzzle brake is cylindrical.

In 1947, at the age of 28, Kalashnikov completed the design of the 1947 version of the automatic rifle, which was soon abbreviated to "AK-47" and was approved for service by the Soviet Armed Forces. In 1949, the AK-47 was designated as the standard equipment of the Soviet Army, which was the beginning of the legend of the AK-47 rifle.

<> inventor of AK47 is Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov.

Kalashnikov was born in Kazakhstan on November 10, 1919.

A small homesteader family in Kuria, a suburb of Almaty in the southeast, is the seventh child of Alexander Kalashnikov.

Technical characteristics: with World War II.

Compared with the rifles of the time, the AK-47 rifle has a short barrel, a short range (about 300 meters), and powerful firepower, which is suitable for close-range assault operations. Its bolt action is reliable, and its mechanical structure ensures that it continues to work even when firing continuously or when foreign objects such as dust enter the gun. In deserts, tropical rainforests.

In extremely harsh environments such as severe cold, the AK-47 assault rifle can still maintain a fairly good effectiveness. In addition, the gun has a simple structure, is easy to disassemble, clean and repair, and is inexpensive. The main disadvantages of the gun are that the muzzle rises seriously when firing fully automatic, the bolt frame recoil hits the bottom of the receiver, and the design of the receiver cover leads to a short aiming baseline and unsatisfactory sights, resulting in poor shooting accuracy, especially when it is difficult to shoot accurately at a distance of 300 meters, and the accuracy of continuous fire is even lower.

AK47 was invented by Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, the seventh child of Alexander Kalashnikov on November 10, 1919, in a small homesteader family in Kurya, a suburb of Almaty in southeastern Kazakhstan.

In 1944, Kalashnikov designed a carbine based on the millimeter M43 intermediate power cartridge. The locking mechanism he designed would later become the core of the Kalashnikov family of firearms. In 1947, he improved the assault rifle on the basis of this carbine, the famous AK-47, and the prototype gun showed extreme reliability and effectiveness in comparative tests.

In 1949, the AK-47 assault rifle became the standard of the Soviet army**, when Kalashnikov was 28 years old. Kalashnikov was transferred to the Izhevsk Military Plant, which produced AK-47 rifles, and continued to design light **, and successively developed a series of light ** equipment for the Soviet army.

He improved the AK-47 and finalized it as AKM, and in 1959 he began equipping the Soviet army. On the basis of the AKM, he developed a series of machine guns for squad platoons, the famous RPK, as well as the PK universal machine gun designed according to the working principle of the AK-47 assault rifle. Later in his career, Kalashnikov's design of the AK-74 small-caliber assault rifle, as well as the RPK-74, once again became the standard standard in the Soviet army**.

The earliest invention of the Soviet Union, in addition to large-scale equipment for the Soviet army, many countries in the world have also imitated or licensed the production of the AK series, including Germany, Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, China, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Cuba, North Korea, etc.

AK-47 Automatic Rifle (Russian: 1947- Translation: 1947 Kalashnikov Rifle, English:

AK-47 Assault Rifle), is an assault rifle designed by Soviet gunsmith Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov.

Features: Blind faith AK-47 dynamic god rotation is reliable, good service; Solid and durable, low failure rate, whether under high or low temperature conditions, excellent shooting performance, especially in wind, sand and muddy water, reliable performance; The structure is simple and easy to decompose.

However, the muzzle jumps seriously when it is fired in bursts, which affects the accuracy, and the weight is relatively large.

The fly in the ointment: AK47 is not flawless.

It adopts the automatic mode of gas conduction, that is, when the bullet is fired, the expansion gas generated by gunpowder ** is used to push the piston in the guide above the barrel to move backwards, and the piston pushes the bolt to complete the action of unshelling and loading, so as to achieve automatic shooting.

Before the bullet is out of the chamber (although it is very short), the gas pushes the bolt backwards, which inevitably causes the gun to vibrate.

In addition, the mass of the bolt is large, and the more consecutive shots there are, the more the gun body vibrates, which greatly reduces the shooting accuracy.

At the same time, the AK47 uses traditional steel and wood construction, which is not different from the rifles of World War II.

The whole gun weighs 5 kg, and there will be a great sense of fatigue when carrying it for a long time.

In addition, for modern rifles, the AK47 is very versatile, and it is not believed that it can be expanded to install grenade launchers, optical sights, etc.