More than a decade after famous weapons designer Igor Stechkin died, RIR remembers his best innovations. The most famous product of the Tula based weapons producer is the APS (Avtomaticheskiy ...
In the late 1940s, Mikhail Kalashnikov — the Russian gun-designer behind the then-new AK-47 assault rifle — produced an automatic handgun called the APK. Busy completing the AK-47, Kalashnikov ...