Dr Mikhail Kalashnikov

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Happy 90th birthday to the designer of one of the most formidable small arm and revolution in the history of modern warfare!!!!!!!!!!
 

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Picture from his 'birthday party' at Kremlin.


He has perhaps the juiciest salad* for a civilian.

(in military jargon, a salad is slang for the badges and medals a high-ranking officer has on the service uniform. it is colourful and gives a 'salad'-like look)
 

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well he deserves it.....C'mon can any of you imagine a battlefield even 50 years from now not fought without an AK or its variant?
 

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Russia unveils statue of AK-47 inventor Kalashnikov

AFP | Sep 19, 2017, 17:28 IST

MOSCOW: Russian officials and Orthodox priests on Tuesday unveiled a statue in Moscow of inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose iconic AK-47 assault rifle has claimed countless lives worldwide.

A priest sprinkled holy water on the seven-metre tall statue of Kalashnikov gripping his deadly creation, which will now loom over motorists from a traffic island in one of the sprawling capital's central thoroughfares.

Culture minister Vladimir Medinsky praised the inventor and called the rifle — which has been reproduced an estimated 100 million times worldwide — a "cultural brand for Russia."

Kalashnikov had "the best traits of a Russian: an extraordinary natural gift, simplicity, integrity," Medinsky said.

Born in a Siberian village in 1919, Mikhail Kalashnikov died in December 2013 in Izhevsk, the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia, where he lived.

Kalashnikov came up with the idea of inventing a new automatic rifle that could work in all conditions after becoming disgruntled by the Soviet weaponry as he recovered from an injury during WWII.

Eventually that would lead to the creation of the AK-47 — short in Russian for Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947 (Kalashnikov Automatic Rifle 1947) — that would become the standard issue for the Soviet Union's vast armed forces.

Known for its simplicity, the gun became a symbol for independence struggles and leftist radicals around the world during the Cold War, finding its way onto the national flag of Mozambique and the banner of Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.

But Mikhail Kalashnikov never touched the fortunes from the sales of millions of the rifles that bear his name and used by the armies of over 80 countries. He stopped working only a year before his death, at the age of 93.

While his invention made Kalashnikov a household name around the globe, the man himself had a more nuanced view of his lethal creation.

Six months before his death he wrote to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, expressing regret for his role in making the world's most commonly used rifle.

"My spiritual pain is unbearable," he wrote in the letter which was later published in the Izvestia newspaper.
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The erection of a monument to the gunmaker — who met personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 — has raised eyebrows among some Muscovites.




But the move chimes with a surge of nationalist pride under Putin that has seen the Kremlin glorify the military achievements of the Soviet period while playing down the gross abuses.
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This revolutionary invention is on par with the invention of atomic bomb. Hope nobody would invent such thingsvijay thommandra


The Kalashnikov factory that makes the rifles, in decline since the death of the inventor, has since been modernised, with most of its capital coming from private investors.




It has also been transformed by a PR campaign to improve its image in Russia and abroad, even opening a souvenir store in Moscow's main Sheremetyevo Airport.


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Kalashnikov Convern is releasing a biographical movie on Mikhail Kalashnikov and his invention that bears his name

"Kalashnikov" - releasing on this friday



Here is the trailer


i kinda feel they've made loose attempts at recreating and showing original early prototype AK47s in this movie as very early prototypes looked like this instead of famous "Type-1" AK47 that went to mass production around 1949

Prototype AK-47
 
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