AK-47 Based on German MP-44
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Maxim Pyadushkin's article on the AK-47 (DTI January/February, p. 23) was misleading in some ways. The AK-47 Kalashnikov was not developed by the Russians. It was based on the MP-44, a German assault rifle from the last two years of World War II. Mikhail Kalashnikov copied the best assault rifle at...
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