MOSCOW --Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94. Kalashnikov once ...

AK-47 designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, dead at 94 00:57 MOSCOW --In a regretful letter penned a few months before his death, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, asked the head ...

It killed more people in the 20th Century than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The AK-47’s easy maintenance and light weight led to its becoming the armament of choice for at least ...

The creator of one of the world’s most famous guns, the AK-47 assault rifle, launched another weapon in Britain on Monday — Kalashnikov vodka. Lt. Gen. Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented the AK-47 ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 rifle who died last month at the age of 94, wrote a letter in 2012 to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church expressing "spiritual pain" over the deaths ...