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The AK has been manufactured in many countries and has seen service with armed forces as well as irregular forces and insurgencies throughout the world. As of 2004 [update] , "of the estimated 500 million firearms worldwide, approximately 100 million belong to the Kalashnikov family, three-quarters of which are AK-47s". [ 5 ]
The rifle's simple design makes it easy to produce, and the Soviet Union readily leased plans of the firearm to friendly countries, where it could be produced locally at a low cost. [2] As a result, the Kalashnikov rifles and their variants have been manufactured in many countries, with and without licenses.
[3] The world's armed forces control about 133 million (about 13 percent) of the global total of small arms, of which over 43 percent belong to two countries, the Russian Federation (30.3 million) and the People's Republic of China (27.5 million). [2] Law enforcement agencies control about 23 million (about 2 percent) of the global total of ...
The StG 44 was adopted by the Wehrmacht in 1944. It fires the 7.92×33mm Kurz round. Currently the most used assault rifle in the world along with its variants, the AKM and the AK-74, the AK-47 was first adopted in 1949 by the Soviet Army.
The Small Arms Survey 2017 [1] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns, because single individuals can own multiple guns. See also Percent of households with guns by country.
AK-47-type rifles are made in dozens of countries, with "quality ranging from finely engineered weapons to pieces of questionable workmanship." [ 278 ] As a result, the AK-47 has a service/system life of approximately 6,000, [ 279 ] to 10,000, [ 280 ] to 15,000 [ 281 ] rounds. [ 48 ]
The AKM is an automatic rifle chambered in 7.62×39mm intermediate cartridge. It is a selective fire, gas operated with a rotating bolt, firing in either semi-automatic or fully automatic, and has a cyclic rate of fire of around 600 rounds per minute (RPM).
This is a list of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel. It includes any government-sponsored soldiers used to further the domestic and foreign policies of their respective government.