The AK-47 was a personal gift to Allende from Cuba’s former mandate, Fidel Castro. The remains of Allende, Chile’s first elected Socialist president were exhumed Monday in Santiago in hopes of finally ...

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Here’s What You Need To Remember: That the AK-47 beat out the AK-46 is less important than the AK-47’s legacy as the most ubiquitous gun pattern ever created. AK-46 or 47—it doesn’t matter. Both ...

[Boris] must have been a little bored over Thanksgiving. We’re guessing that’s the case; why else would he build an AK-47 out of a common garden shovel? After buying an old shovel from an antique barn ...

The Kalashnikov assault rifle, or AK-47, is one of the most dangerous and widely used weapons in the world. For more than 60 years, nations, rebels, gangsters and child soldiers have wielded the gun.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Russia’s military may no longer be using it, but the AK-74 serves a curious purpose elsewhere in contemporary Russian society: schools. It was mandatory for many ...

The compact automatic rifle that Stalin's engineers unveiled in 1947 didn't look like much of a gun. The result of a secret design contest, its components were simple, inelegant, workmanlike. Its ...

The atomic bomb rested on a tower 100 feet above the ground. Known as RDS-1, it was shaped like a huge metal teardrop with rivets and bolts along its sides. Everything had been prepared. Inside its ...