Happy 60th birthday AK-47

I'd just like to say happy birthday to AK-47. Love it or hate it, it is the most important rifle in the history ever. To me it still looks good today.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of Klashnikov sub-machinegun holds his AK-47 with serial number 1 during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of his famous weapon at the Armed Forces Museum in Moscow, Russia, 06 July 2007. According to the Interfax news agency up to 90 percent of Kalashnikov sub-machineguns sold worldwide are made illegally. EPA/SERGEI CHIRIKOV

After using the weapon myself during my service time, I can say it has been truly remarkable rifle...Only russians can intergrate robustness and reability in such uncompromised way. If kalashnikoviks wouldnt have been chosed for production, our own service rifles would have propaply been some 7.62NATO caliber monsters of G3 or FAL gategory...

Mikhail Kalashnikov most definitely deserves every bit of praise he is receiving, has ever received and will receive in the future for his invention and development of his gun...