AKM

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Class

Invention

Domain

History and politics

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What Wikipedia says

The AKM (Russian: Автома́т Кала́шникова модернизи́рованный, romanized: Avtomat Kalashnikova modernizirovannyy, lit. 'Modernized Kalashnikov automatic rifle') is a 7.62×39 mm Soviet assault rifle introduced in 1959 as a lighter, more modern successor to the AK-47.

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