The AKM (Russian: Автомат Калашникова Модернизированный; Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy or Kalashnikov modernized automatic rifle) is a 7.62mm assault rifle designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov.
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length (km)
0.88
weight (kg)
3100.0
origin
Soviet Union
type
Assault rifle
used in war
Asia, Iran–Iraq War, The Troubles, Sino-Vietnamese War, Somali Civil War, Western Sahara War, Yugoslav Wars, Cambodian–Thai border dispute, Vietnam War, Yom Kippur War, Second Chechen War, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Soviet war in Afghanistan, Portuguese Colonial War, Iraq War, Africa, Chadian–Libyan conflict, Libyan Civil War, Syrian Civil War, First Chechen War, Gulf War, Laotian Civil War, Cambodian Civil War, Bosnian War, Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Russo-Georgian war, Dissident Irish Republican campaign, Croatian War of Independence, South African Border War, Mexican Drug War
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