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Perhaps you think first of the atomic bomb , estimated to have killed as many as , people when the United States dropped two on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in But another weapon is responsible for far more deaths — numbering up into the millions. Originally developed in secrecy for the Soviet military, an estimated million AKs and its variants have been produced to date.
This gun is now found throughout the world, including in the hands of many American civilians, who in bought as many AKs as the Russian police and military. As a physician, I have witnessed the destruction this weapon can wreak on human flesh. Russian Mikhail Kalashnikov invented the weapon that bears his name in the middle of the 20th century. Born on Nov. While still in the military, he produced several designs that lost out to competitors before eventually producing the first AK Problems appeared immediately.
The ammunition that accompanied the rifles sent to Vietnam was incompatible with the M16 and was the principal cause of the failure to extract malfunctions. Congress investigated and the rifle and its ammunition were incrementally modified, greatly improving its reliability over the next few years. Troop training was also improved. Misfire combines insider knowledge of U.
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