But which foreign AK variants are at the top of the heap? The SFR Yugoslavia came into the AK game pretty late, perhaps due to the Soviet-Yugoslav split. While development of a domestic AK variant ...

While development of a domestic AK variant to replace the SKS variants began early in 1959, it was based on the milling technology of the original AK, not the stamped AKM. Yugoslavia finally got ...

The AK-47 and its variants can be seen as a lot of things—amoral massacre machines, pop-culture icons, the most plentiful and influential weaponry of the past half century. But the gun can also ...

In this episode of Loadout, Dave Jewitt visits the Royal Armouries to talk to Keeper of Firearms & Artillery Jonathan Ferguson about the iconic AK-47 and its different variants. You can check out ...

Few AK variants capture the imagination quite like the AKS-74U. Designed to arm special operations forces and vehicle crews with a compact firearm chambered for rifle ammunition, The AKS-74U is ...

The Russian Army retains a stockpile of approximately two million AK-74s in different variants. The Russian military has long wanted to field a new rifle, but having more AK-74s than soldiers made ...

The AK47 rifle and its variants have never been "friendly" to users looking to improve accuracy via optical sighting systems. The problem rests with the AK's receiver cover design, which does not ...