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The Soviet-designed AK-platform changed the modern battlefield by putting a relatively lightweight, select-fire assault rifle in the hands of the infantry soldier. However, what most people identify as an AK-47 is usually an AKM. Do you know the difference between the AKM and the AK-47?
The AKM (Russian: Автомат Калашникова Модернизированный; Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy or "Kalashnikov modernized automatic rifle") is a 7.62mm assault rifle designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is a common modernized variant of the AK-47 rifle developed in the 1940s.
This tendency toward misidentification overlooks one model more than any other: the AKM. Soviet mechanized troops armed with the AKM—the most ubiquitous firearm the world has ever known.
The AKM (Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanny – "Modernized Kalashnikov Automatic Rifle") is an improved version of the AK-47 adopted by the Soviet Union in 1959.
The AKM is a Soviet-designed 7.62mm automatic rifle created by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is an upgraded version of the AK-47 rifle, which was developed during the 1950s. The Soviet Red Army adopted the AKM in 1959, and it is one of the most produced versions of the AK family.
AKM has become the catch-all term for the AKM-pattern of rifle, a pattern that has, for the most part, universally interchangeable parts and is manufactured based on the original Soviet design.
The AKM saw combat actions in a myriad of operations concerning the Vietnam War and other regional conflicts around Southeast Asia to follow as well as finding use in the Iran-Iraq War, the First Chechen War, the Persian Gulf War and Operation Enduring Freedom to name a few hotspots.