AKM

AKM DESCRIPTION

The AKM is a 7.62mm assault rifle designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. it is a typical modernised variant of the AK-47 rifle developed in the 1940s.

Introduced into service with the Soviet Army in 1959, the AKM is that the most present variant of the complete AK series of firearms and it has found widespread use with most member states of the previous warsaw pact and its African and Asian allies furthermore as being wide exported and created in many different countries. the production of those Soviet rifles was carried out at each the Tula Arms Plant and Izhmash. it absolutely was formally replaced in Soviet frontline service by the AK-74 in the late 1970s, but remains in use worldwide