AK-47 is a hollywood myth AFAIK, this model never existed, because it's the name of the early prototype.
Real name was AK, then AKM, then AK-74.

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As a general rule, anybody trying to sell you a definite 'Top Ten Best xyz' of any military hardware, be it rifles, tanks, planes, ... can be safely discarded. You can rank them by certain criteria, e.g. production numbers and proliferation or you can establish better/worse (or at least advantage/disadvantage) relations in a specific context with specific conditions but any sweeping, generalized list just panders to the preconceptions of a generally uninformed audience foreign to the topic at hand.

silversurfer I agree, but noone really in Russia calls AK as AK47, so it's mostly western media name for a 7.62 family, and it's really strange to see it from people who claim themselves as gun specialists =)

AK, AKM or 'Kalash' for the name of it's creator.

.It may be just a battle rifle to some people, but it's the smallest weapons that make the biggest difference. The AK shows up in virtually every conflict worldwide. AK-47s have been driven over by tanks, filled with mud and water, abused to where they're covered with rust, AND THEY STILL WORK. They require very little cleaning too. No weapon has ever caused more death. They'll be around when all of us are long dead. If any weapon deserves to be known as the best weapon in the world, let alone best assault rifle, it is the AK47...

It's widespread in conflict zones and very cheap (I doubt there's a tribe in Africa that doesn't own a couple). It's easy to repair and parts are easy to come by. It packs a lot of punch compared to 5.56mm. And it's spray and pray, made for the lowest of the low grunt with no aiming skills.

Those are the main qualities of the Kalashnikov.

Give an illiterate shepherd from some african tribe a fully kitted SCAR-H and he would (maybe) manage to fire the first magazine into the air then use it as fence post or something. Give a professional soldier the option to use a SCAR-H with 7.62mm or an ancient Kalashnikov and he would look at you in a funny way. Unless he was a spec ops behind enemy lines, then he would take the AK cause otherwise he'd give himself away at first shot.

Different tools for different jobs.

And so it began. Ishmael and his friends...upon threat of death if they tried to escape...became child soldiers like the one in the photo (Credit: Foreign Policy Assn). They were given AK-47 assault rifles, trained in how to attack and kill, and given marajuana, amphetamines

With the AK

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Shanga I think the main reason is that the person on the photo would prefer to sell his SCAR-H and buy instead 10 cows and a pair of cheap chinese AK clones =)

LOL, btw.. is the red berret on stairs using a FN or its a G3A3? If so this one picture sums up the entire weapon mistery in Africa... hehe...

It's an FN.