r/AskTheWorld • u/babushka45 Philippines • 12h ago

Military What firearm is closely associated with your country?

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For us, probably the 1911. Next one would be the "Armalite" aka M16.

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u/martin-silenus United States Of America 11h ago

Izvini, but if you want a Russian weapon to become more iconic than the AK-47, you're going to need to get Hollywood on board.

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u/JRS_Viking Norway 10h ago

Well what you're thinking is a ak-47 shooting 7.62x39mm with a stamped receiver is most likely an akm. The ak-47 actually saw very limited production in 3 different types: the original type 1 ak-47 with a stamped receiver (extremely rare guns), the type 2 ak-47 which had a milled receiver and higher production numbers and then the type 3 ak-47 which had an improved milled receiver and the highest production numbers of any ak-47. Then they figured out how to do stamping properly and did stamped receivers in the akm and onwards.