The modernized assault rifle was also designed as a component ... That fact also explains why the AK-15 variants were produced with 7.62mm chambering, while the AK-19 was manufactured to fire ...

The AK-12 represents the fifth-generation of the legendary Avtomat Kalashnikova assault rifle series. Although Russia ostensibly ceased to be a communist country with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet ...

AK-12 rifles entered service in the Russian Armed Forces in 2018, mainly as a modernization of the older AK-74M models to meet today’s military requirements. The original variant, for example ...

MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The Kalashnikov gunsmith said it had designed two new shortened and small-size modifications of AK-12 assault rifle and will display them at IDEX 2025 show in Abu Dhabi ...

"The assault rifle [AK-19 chambered for the NATO cartridge] is of great interest to various foreign customers," he said. The AK-19 assault rifle was created on the basis of the AK-12, approved for ...

Widely adopted by Indian troops, the AK-47, sourced from countries like Russia ... the SIG Sauer 716 is a contemporary assault rifle firing the 7.62x51mm round, intended to replace the INSAS.

The efforts to fully replace the older Kalashnikov assault rifle began in 2018, but as seen in the Kremlin's ongoing war in Ukraine, it will likely take years for the transition to be completed.