That Time the Danes Tried to Copy the Russian AK-47 Rifle

By Dan Zimmerman

Because it’s an ultra-reliable rifle that shoots big-boy 7.62mm ammo . . . Why NATO copied Russia’s AK-47 The famous Soviet automatic rifle was such a success that even a NATO member state tried to create its own version. Early in the Cold War the opposing sides in the East and West invented small arms […]

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