Gruesome photos, but some interesting and relevant details about the weapons employed by the terrorist.
Note AKM stands for 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.
Introduced into service with the Soviet Army in 1959, the AKM is the most ubiquitous variant of the entire AK series of firearms and it has found widespread use with most member states of the former Warsaw Pact and its many African and Asian allies as well as being widely exported and produced in many other countries. The production of these Soviet rifles was carried out at both the Tula Arms Plant and Izhmash. It was officially replaced in Soviet frontline service by the AK-74 in the late 1970s, but remains in use worldwide.
The AKM then is a “mark”, a slight design change, to the basic of the AK-47 rather than an entirely new and different rifle. The AKM has some improvements over the original AK-47 design that facilitate manufacture. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
In the U.S. military procurement system the AKM would probably have been dubbed the “AK-47A1” denoting that it was the same basic rifle as the AK-47, but with some design changes that either improve performance or make the weapon faster and/or less expensive to manufacture . For example the U.S. M-16 was improved over the past 50 years with five different marks, from M-16 to M-16A4.
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