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AK-47 serial number 1 - 7.62x39mm. Important note: this is the original appearance of this prototype, in the form in which it, together with the rifles under serial numbers 2 and 3, was tested in December 1947 - January 1948. It was subsequently heavily modified in 1948 when it was used along with #2 for additional testing.

The AK-47 is a selective-fire (semi-automatic and automatic), gas-operated 7.62x39mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known in the Soviet documentation as 'Avtomat Kalashnikova' (Russian: Автомат Калашникова). Even after seven decades, the model and its variants remain the most popular and widely used assault rifles in the world because of their substantial, outstanding reliability under harsh conditions, low production costs compared to contemporary Western weapons, availability in virtually every geographic region and ease of use. These factors led the AK-47 to be named the "greatest combat rifle of all time" by the Military Channel. The AK-47 has been manufactured in many countries and has seen service with armed forces as well as irregular forces worldwide, and was the basis for developing many other types of individual and crew-served firearms. As of 2004, out of the estimated 500 million firearms worldwide, approximately 100 million belong to the Kalashnikov family, three-quarters of which are AK-47s.

NOTE: Please keep in mind that while "AK-47" is often a catch-all term for 7.62x39mm Kalashnikov rifles, most so-called "AK-47s" in movies - particularly American movies - are actually either Egyptian Maadi ARM copies of the highly improved AKM, or variants of the Chinese Norinco Type 56. Please check carefully to make sure that the rifle in question is a true AK-47 and not an AKM or a Chinese Type 56. When in doubt, it is probably safer to assume AKM or Type 56.

ALSO NOTE: Since the 70s, the AK-74 and its update the AK-74M have been the standard-issue assault rifle of Russian armed forces. Therefore, all fictional depictions of 7.62x39 AK variants as a modern standard-issue Russian military weapon should be considered an anachronism until proven otherwise (for example, some special forces operators and front line soldiers have been known to arm themselves with available 7.62x39 AK rifles and light machine guns as a matter of personal choice).

The AK-47 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:


Soviet/Russian Versions

AK-46

AK-46 prototype No. 1 - 7.62x39mm

The AK-46 (exact designation uncertain) is the common name for an experimental assault rifle by Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov on the basis of a self-loading carbine he developed in 1944, whose design would evolve into the AK-47. The rifle commission rejected this design in the second round of their tests, but Kalashnikov would radically revise his design and create the prototype "AK-47".

The AK-46's design had a certain resemblance to the mechanisms of the M1 Garand, specifically action with a short stroke of the gas piston located above the barrel and a rotating bolt.

There were three versions of the rifle, each slightly different from each other. The third in particular had a folding buttstock, similar to the later AKS-47.

Specifications

(Prototyped in 1946)

  • Type: Assault Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x39mm
  • Feed System: 30-round box magazine
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto/Full-Auto

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Kalashnikov Yuriy Borisov Mikhail Kalashnikov №1 prototype 2020


AK-47

Type 1 AK-47 with slab sided magazine - 7.62x39mm
Type 2 AK-47 with slab sided magazine - 7.62x39mm
Type 2 AK-47 - 7.62x39mm
Type 3 AK-47 with slab sided magazine - 7.62x39mm
Type 3 AK-47 with laminated stock - 7.62x39mm
Poly Technologies AK-47 - 7.62x39mm. This is the commercial clone of the Type 3 AK-47 and is the most used in American films and shows when showing the milled receiver AK-47.
Type 3 AK-47 built from US Receiver - 7.62x39mm. This is an Actual Screen used AK-47 from the film We Were Soldiers (built by Cinema Weaponry)

The name AK-47, as used in the English-speaking world, refers to the oldest production variants of Kalashnikov's assault rifle design, before the introduction of the AKM. These production weapons are officially designated as the AK in Soviet sources; the name "AK-47" in Russian sources instead only refers Kalashnikov's pre-production prototypes from 1947, which feature some differences from the finalized design. In Soviet sources, the AK-74 and its variants were the first to include the year in its original naming.

These early production AK variants are divided into several types:

  • Type 1: The first production model, produced from 1948-1951. The Type 1 AK featured an early stamped receiver. It can be distinguished by a raised section of the stamped receiver underneath its charging handle, as well as a slightly differently shaped pistol grip.
  • Type 2: The second production model, produced from 1951-1957. The Type 2 AK featured a milled receiver; while it was intended for the AK to use all stamped parts for cost reasons, the Soviet metalworking industry was simply not ready to do this at the time, and the high rejection rate of the early stamped AK receivers led to a switch to milling that lasted until the introduction of the AKM. It can be distinguished by a metal stock mounting bracket on its buttstock.
  • Type 3: The third production model, produced from 1955-1959. The Type 3 AK is an improved version of the Type 2 AK, and also had a milled receiver. Most milled receiver AKs are derived from the Type 3 design. The Type 3 AK was phased out in 1959 by the improved stamped receiver AKM.

It is noteworthy that the U.S. government had a ban on all weapons imported from Warsaw Pact nations during the Cold War years (1947-1989). Communist nations which were not part of the Warsaw pact, such as Yugoslavia and Mainland China, were allowed to negotiate trade agreements with the U.S., thus the influx of Chinese AK type rifles and Yugoslavian AKs (Zastava). The Maadi ARMs (the US version of the MISR) were allowed because Egypt was never a Communist country nor a member of the Warsaw Pact. But, as a result of this, virtually no U.S. movie has a real original AK-47 prior to a certain date. The exceptions are, custom build ups after the mid 1990s when original AK-47 rifle kits were available (as was done on We Were Soldiers, using original blueprints and US-made milled receivers), and movies filmed overseas where foreign movie armorers had no such restrictions. This is particularly true for films made in Israel and some parts of Europe.

This is not the case now, with the current crop of films made outside the U.S., mostly in the newly democratic Eastern European nations (Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, etc.) However, Russia has firmly blocked the export of their old AK-47 surplus guns outside of the country, having distributed most of them to client nations and guerrillas throughout the world in the previous five decades. So the AK-47 one 'thinks' one sees may very well be a Poly Technologies Legend series AK (from China) or another AK Variant.

As an additional note, early production AKs used the slab sided magazine featured in Kalashnikov's original design, and the ribbed magazine design was introduced later.

Specifications

(1949 - Present)

  • Type: Assault Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x39mm
  • Weight: 8.5 lbs (3.9 kg) empty, 10.5 lbs (4.8 kg) loaded
  • Length: 34.3 in (87 cm)
  • Barrel length: 16.4 in (41.6 cm)
  • Muzzle velocity: 2,350 ft/s (715 m/s)
  • Feed System: 10, 20, 30, 40-round box magazine, 75 or 100-round drum magazine
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto/Full-Auto

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Black Widow Russian soldiers 2021
Seventh Circle Prison guards
The Outpost Taliban fighters Type III 2020
Afghan National Army soldiers
Villagers
Kalashnikov (2020) Yuriy Borisov Mikhail Kalashnikov Type I 2020
Yuriy Borisov Mikhail Kalashnikov AK-46 prototype
Soviet soldiers Type III
Extraction Chris Hemsworth Tyler Rake 2020
Mosul Suhail Dabbach Commander Jasem With RIS handguard, foregrip, Tapco Intrafuse stock and EOTech sight 2020
Amir Mohimen Mahbuba Type III
Hooka Thaer Al Shayei Type III
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan Vietcong soldiers 2019
Luke Bracey Sgt. Bob Buick
PASKAL The Movie Angolan militias 2018
7 Days in Entebbe Daniel Brühl Wilfried Böse 2018
Rosamund Pike Brigitte Kuhlmann
Angel Bonanni Yonatan Netanyahu
IDF Commandos
Palestinian Hijackers
Ugandan Soldiers
The Death of Stalin Jason Isaacs Georgy Zhukov 2017
Red Army soldiers, Stalin's guards
The Nice Guys Matthew Bomer John Boy 2016
Pitbull: Tough Women (Pitbull. Niebezpieczne kobiety) A gang member 2016
Palm Trees in the Snow (Palmeras en la nieve) Equatorial Guinea soldiers 2015
Survivor (2015) Taliban fighters 2015
The Calculator (Vychislitel) Seen in Captain's armory 2014
ABCs of Death 2 Ibraheem Ganem Arab man 2014
The White Storm Marc Ma Dune Kun 2013
Homefront (2013) Drugs laborant 2013
Heavenly Shift (Isteni müszak) Serbian fighters 2013
Killing Season Serbian fighters, Bosnian militia 2013
Zulu Beach thug 2013
Shaamilla Nordien Beach girl
Java Heat Mike Muliadro Achmed 2013
009-1: The End of the Beginning Soldiers 2013
The Dark Knight Rises Mercenary 2012
Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault Pandawa fighters 2012
Hamilton: I nationens intresse Afghani terrorists, Russian smugglers, Somali soldiers/prison guards, Ethiopian terrorists 2012
Safe House Hitmen 2012
Guardian Angel (Schutzengel) several assailants M4-style stocks, AKM-style flash hider and synthetic hand guards 2012
Red State Jennifer Schwalbach Smith Esther continuity error 2011
X-Men: First Class Soviet soldiers 2011
Elephant White several versions in weapons caches 2010
The Golden Mean (Zolotoe sechenie) 2010
Balibo Indonesian soldiers 2009
Kandahar Break Shaun Dooley Richard 2009
Anti-Taliban fighters
Vengeance Suet Lam Fat Lok Polytech Legend model 2009
Peranmai Jeyam Ravi Dhuruvan 2009
Mercenary
Ba'al: The Storm God Armed guards Type III 2008
Crossfire (Les Insoumis) Gangsters 2008
War, Inc. Turaqi militia 2008
Secrets of State (Secret défense) Terrorists, DGSE Agents 2008
The Hunting Party Somali militia member 2007
Rescue Dawn Christian Bale Deiter Dengler 2007
The Mark of Cain Iraqi insurgents 2007
Hitman African Rebels and Russian Alfa commandos 2007
The Apocalypse Code Various terrorists 2007
Five Fingers Laurence Fishburne Ahmat 2006
Soldier at airport
Joy Division Soviet soldier at the gate 2006
Blood Diamond Leonardo DiCaprio Danny Archer 2006
RUF rebels
Catch a Fire ANC fighters 2006
The Battle of Long Tan Vietcong 2006
Lord of War Nicolas Cage Yuri Orlov Type III model 2005
The Mechanik thugs 2005
Sahara Touraeg fighter 2005
Nemesis 2: Nebula Sue Price Alex Sinclair 2005
Breaking News Criminals Possibly Polytech Legend model 2004
Tears of the Sun Cameroonian border guard 2003
Warriors (Guerreros) Serbian and Albanian soldiers 2002
Carla Pérez Pvt. Balbuena
K-19: The Widowmaker Soviet sailors 2002
We Were Soldiers Viet Cong and NVA soldiers Built by armorer Mike Papac 2002
Sniper 2 2002
Muscle Heat Arabian terrorists, Arena Guards 2002
Behind Enemy Lines Serbian soldier 2001
Armstrong Russian Soldiers 1998
Godzilla Ukrainian Soldiers 1998
Commander Hamilton Russian troops 1998
Road Ends Orosco's henchman 1997
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik) Chechen fighters 1996
The Way to Dusty Death Vincennes' henchmen 1995
Zero Tolerance Mobsters 1994
Crime Story (1993) Robber 1993
Operation Condor Guards Type II 1991
Jackie Chan Asian Hawk - Condor
Eva Cobo de Garcia Elsa
For Sacha (Pour Sacha) Arab soldiers 1991
Loaded with Death (Zaryazhennye smertyu) Boris Bystrov Nikodimov 1991
Vadim Andreev Fedoseev
Vyacheslav Baranov Uvarov
Aleksei Rodionov Borisov
Zdraviya zhelayu! ili Beshenyy dembel Anton Androsov Mitya Agafonov 1990
Oleg Komarov Pvt. Kokin aka "Koka"
Aleksandr Olkov Sr. Lieutenant
Soviet Army soldiers
A Better Tomorrow III Viet Cong fighters 1990
Husband of the Hound of the Baskervilles (Muzh sobaki Baskerviley) Aleksandr Korzhenkov Oranzhevyy 1990
Code Name Coq Rouge PLO guard 1989
Stellan Skarsgård Carl Hamilton
Cargo 300 (Gruz 300) Afghan government soldier 1989
Stray Dogs (Psy) Andrey Krasko Viktor Utekhin 1989
Yuriy Kuznetsov Ivan Maksimchuck
The Beast of War Afghan Mujaheddin 1988
Rambo III Afghan Mujaheddin 1988
Iron Eagle II Enemy Soldiers 1988
Zerograd (Gorod Zero) Seen in the museum 1988
The Fourth Protocol Russian Soldiers 1987
Fatal Beauty Criminal Henchmen 1987
Death Before Dishonor Brian Keith Colonel Halloran 1987
Who's That Girl Sean Sullivan The gun dealer 1987
The Living Daylights Art Malik Kamran Shah 1987
Iron Eagle Enemy Soldiers 1986
The Delta Force Terrorists 1985
Rocky IV Soviet Soldiers 1985
The Detached Mission (Odinochnoye plavanye) Soviet sailors 1985
Water Billy Connolly Delgado Fitzhugh 1985
Valerie Perrine Pamela Weintraub
The Year of Living Dangerously Indonesian officer 1982
Green Ice Colombian guerillas 1981
Apocalypse Now Viet Cong fighters and Kurtz's men 1979
The Odd Angry Shot Viet Cong fighters 1979
Country Trip of Sergeant Tsybulya (Dachnaya poezdka serzhanta Tsybuli) Soviet soldiers 1979
The Fury Kirk Douglas Pete Sandza 1978
Terrorists
Operation Thunderbolt Yehoram Gaon Col. Yonatan Netanyahu 1977
Arik Lavie Gen. Dan Shomron
African soldiers, Hijackers, Israeli commandos
The Mirror (Zerkalo) Soviet soldiers Real 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict archive footage 1975
And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...) Soviet soldiers and cadets 1974
Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!) Mongolian soldiers 1971
Mission in Kabul (Missiya v Kabule) Afghan soldiers Seen in documentary footage 1971
On the way to Berlin (Na puti v Berlin) Soviet soldiers Anachronistic 1969
The Scouts (Razvedchiki) Soviet soldiers Anachronistic 1968
At War as at War (Na Voyne kak na Voyne) German soldiers Probably represented as Sturmgewehr 44s 1968
The Adventures of Werner Holt (Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt) Soviet soldiers 1965
In the Hard Hour (V trudnyy chas) German soldiers 1961
Soldier's Heart (Soldatskoye serdtse) Soviet soldiers 1959
Gloomy Morning (Khmuroe utro) White Army soldiers Heavily anachronistic 1959
Blue Arrow (Golubaya strela) Yuriy Bogolyubov Sgt. Grechka 1958
Anvar Turaev Pvt. Kaphnutdinov
Maksim Perepelitsa Soviet Soldiers The first screen appearance of AK 1955

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Born by Revolution: The Last Meeting (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: Poslednyaya vstrecha) Militsia personnel 1977
Blott on the Landscape East German soldiers 1985
On Wings of Eagles Kurdish fighter 1986
The State Border: Film 8 Russian Border guards Some modified to resemble AK-74 1988
Citizen X Red Army soldiers 1995
The Sopranos Edie Falco Carmela Pilot (1.01) 1999
Ultimate Force Sean Gilder Mick Sweeney Replica, switches to Zastava M70 for firing scenes 2002 - 2006
Damian O'Hare Sean Weir
Guns Shawn Doyle Det. Merriweather 2008
Flashpoint (2008) various subjects 2008-2012
Breaking Bad - Season 2 "Negro y Azul" 2009
Charlie's Angels on photo 2011
Midsomer Murders Mercenaries S14E7 "A Sacred Trust" 2011
Revolution - Season 1 Opening credits 2012
Arrow - Season 1 mercenaries 2012-2013
Breaking Bad - Season 5 Jonathan Banks Mike Ehrmantraut "Say My Name" (S5E07) 2012-2013
24: Live Another Day Operative 2014
Tyrant seen inside the freedom fighters' Volkswagen Vanagon 2014
The Spider (Pauk) A security guard 2015
The Night Manager mercenaries 2016
The Departed (Gorod) Criminals 2017
Stranger Things - Season 3 Soviet military 2019
For All Mankind - Season 2 Soviet cosmonauts Side-folding wire stock, "Triage" (S2E09), "The Grey" (S2E10) 2021
Topi seen on the training poster; "Transfiguration" (S1E05) 2021
Moon Knight - Season 1 Arthur Harrow's cultists "The Friendly Type" (S1E03), "The Tomb" (S1E04), "Gods and Monsters" (S1E06) 2022
Egyptian Patrol Agency guards "Gods and Monsters" (S1E06)
Ann Akinjirin Bobbi Kennedy
Ms. Marvel - Season 1 Train station guards "Seeing Red" (S1E04) 2022

Anime

Title Character Note Date
New Dominion Tank Police Tank Police Squad and criminals 1993
Gunsmith Cats Seen in gun store 1995-1996
Burn-Up W Terrorist 1996
Trigun Descarte's henchman Futurisic version of AKMS 1996-1997
Burn-Up Excess Terrorist, Maya Jingu, Nanvel Candlestick 1997-1998
Noir Islamic revolutionaries & USSR soldiers Seen in flashback 2001
Gunslinger Girl Padania Terrorists 2003
Magikano Rika Anju "Did a Maid Really Come?" (Ep.07) 2006
Black Lagoon Various factions 2006
When They Cry: Kai Shion Shinozaki 2007
Batman: Gotham Knight Seen in flashback 2008
Rideback BMA terrorist 2009
Eden of the East Seen in Takizawa's closet 2009
Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky Terrorists 2010
Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 Rento Kirishima Airsoft 2013
Magical Girl Raising Project Calamity Mary 2016
Lycoris Recoil Various hitmen 2022


Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release date
Goldeneye 007 KF-7 soviet 1997
Perfect Dark KF-7 special 2000
Fallout Tactics fires 7.62x51mm rounds 2001
007: Agent Under Fire 2001
Grand Theft Auto 3 2001
Operation Flashpoint Available with GP-30 grenade launcher 2001
Conflict: Desert Storm 2002
No One Lives Forever 2 : A Spy In HARM's Way 2002
America's Army w/ Type 56 bayonet lug 2002
Contract J.A.C.K. 2002
Conflict: Desert Storm II 2003
Counter Strike: Source CV-47 2004
Shellshock Nam '67 2004
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 2004
Söldner: Secret Wars 2004
The Stalin Subway 2005
Civilization IV 2005
Battlefield 2 Available w/GP-25 grenade launcher 2005
Vietcong 2 2005
Elite Warriors Vietnam 2005
Cold Fear AK-47 / AK Type III 2005
Boiling Point: Road to Hell 2005
Project Reality With optional GP-25 grenade launcher and bayonet 2005
El Matador 2006
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories 2006
Black 2006
24: The Game AZ7 Soviet 2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas With optional ACOG, red dot sight, laser pointer, and silencer Inaccurately modeled with AK-74 magazine 2006
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Type I w/ 75-round drum (X360 only) 2006
Soldier of Fortune: Payback w/ variety of accessories 2007
Blacksite: Area 51 Non-player weapon 2007
Scarface: The World is Yours Can be upgraded with a Remington 870 shotgun attachment 2007
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007
Zombie Panic Source 2007
Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat 2007
Alliance of Valiant Arms 2007
Counter-Strike Online CV-47 w/ long magazine mode in Zombie 2 mode, Zombie 3 mode and Zombie Unite Mode
CV-47 Dragon
2007
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Cannot be used by player 2007
Cross Fire "Type 56" with Type 56's bayonet 2007
Army Of Two Available w/ Beta-C magazine 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV Assault Rifle 2008
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 w/ variety of accessories 2008
Far Cry 2 with golden AK secret easter egg 2008
Combat Arms 2008
Mercenaries 2: World In Flames Assault Rifle 2008
Saints Row 2 K6 Krukov 2008
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 2008
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 AK-47 w/ AR-15 buttstock; able to attach GP-25 grenade launcher, Masterkey underbarrel shotgun, suppressor, red dot sight, EOtech holographic sight, Trijicon ACOG, thermal sight and/or extended magazine Hybrid AK-47/AK-74 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine w/ wooden fore-grip unusable 2009
Rogue Warrior 2009
1968 Tunnel Rats (VG) 2009
Goldeneye 007 w/ optional Kobra red dot sight 2010
Singularity used by Soviet guards in 1955 2010
Splinter Cell: Conviction w/ various upgrades 2010
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam 2010
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light AR-06 2010
The 3rd Birthday RK-47 standard and RIS versions 2010
Army of Two: The 40th Day AK-47 Can be fitted with a variety of stocks, barrels, magazines, scopes, suppressors/muzzle brakes 2010
Battlefield Play4Free 2011
Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops AK-101 Type I w/ railed top cover fires 5.56mm rounds 2011
Uncharted 3 2011
Karma Online 2011
NCIS: The Video Game trailer only 2011
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 AK-47 w/ AR-15 buttstock Hybrid AK-47/AKM 2011
Uncharted: Golden Abyss AK-47 Type III 2011
Project Reality: Vietnam With optional bayonet 2012
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action AK 47 fires 5.45x39mm rounds 2012
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action AKM w/ side-folding skeleton stock, polymer handguard, and custom pistol grip 2012
Max Payne 3 AK 47 Gold plated version also available 2012
Arctic Combat 2012
Ravaged 2012
Tomb Raider (2013) Rifle with various upgrades 2013
The Walking Dead - Season 2 2013
Splinter Cell: Blacklist 2013
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly AK-47 bayonet 2014
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare AK-47 Hybrid AK-47/AKM; added in 2015 update 2014
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier with stamped receiver 2016
Alekhine's Gun 2016
The Walking Dead: Michonne 2016
Escape from Tarkov With optional bayonet seen on the training poster 2016
Ghost Recon: Wildlands 2017
Black Squad AK47 GL GP-30 2017
The Walking Dead: The Final Season 2018
Ironsight AK-47 Type II with picatinny rail 2018
Ring of Elysium Hybrid (AK-47, MPi-K, AKS-74) 2018
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness Not usable 2018
State of Decay 2 2018
Maximum Action 2018
Ghost Recon Breakpoint 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare AK-47 2019
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War AK-47 Hybrid AK-47/AKM 2020

Animation

Title Voice Actor Characters Notation Date
Boondocks, The Mrs. Van Heusen . 2005-
What If...? - Season 1 Klaue's mercenaries "What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?" (S1E06) 2021

AKS-47

Type 1 AKS-47 - 7.62x39mm
Type 3 AKS-47 - 7.62x39mm
Type 3 AKS-47 with stock folded - 7.62x39mm
Poly Tech Model AK-47S Semi-Automatic Carbine - 7.62x39mm

The AKS-47 is a variant of the AK-47 where the rear-trunion is altered with a swiveling mechanism to allow for the under-folding stock. The AKS may feature any of the three AK-47 receiver types. Very few original Russian versions of this rifle were ever allowed into the U.S. Market. The vast majority of milled receiver underfolders seen in American movies were Chinese Norinco Rifles or Chinese Polytech legend series (which was by far the most accurate Chinese clone of the original AK 47 to date). Original Russian AK (especially the milled versions) were most common in movies and tv shows filmed OUTSIDE of the USA.

Specifications

(1949 - Present)

  • Type: Assault Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x39mm
  • Weight: 6.5 lbs (3 kg)
  • Length: 37 in (94 cm) (stock extended), 27.6 in (70 cm) (stock folded)
  • Barrel length: 16.3 in (41.5 cm)
  • Feed System: 30-round box magazine
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto/Full-Auto

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Black Widow Russian soldiers 2021
seen in arsenal
The Suicide Squad Alice Braga Sol Soria 2021
Kalashnikov (2020) Yuriy Borisov Mikhail Kalashnikov Type I 2020
Soviet soldier on state trials
Mosul Nineveh Province SWAT team officers 2019
ISIS terrorists
Women of Mafia 2 Aleksandra Poplawska Justyna "Siekiera" 2019
ISIS terrorists
Triple Threat Iko Uwais Jaka Type 3 2019
guards, Devereaux's hired guns Type 3
Pitbull: Last Dog (Pitbull. Ostatni pies) Polish SWAT, Russian SWAT 2018
Women of Mafia Kasia Warnke Anna Ostrowska 2018
Agnieszka Dygant Daria Wawrzyniak "Niania"
7 Days in Entebbe Ben Schnetzer Zeev Hirsch 2018
IDF Commandos
God Bless the Broken Road Insurgents 2018
Abang Long Fadil 2 Achey Bochey Ali @ Tiger 2017
Gangster Ka Seychelles policeman 2015
Lupin the 3rd Pramuk's bodyguards 2014
Lone Survivor Taliban fighters With bakelite magazines 2013
Cold War Kidnappers 2012
Inescapable Syrian soldiers 2012
I Declare War Siam Yu Paul 2012
Hamilton: I nationens intresse Ashraf Farah Tareq Al Ameen 2012
Seba Mubarak Mouna al Fathar
Afghani terrorists, Somali soldiers/prison guards
Kill Zombie! Sgt. Andreij ‘Mad Dog’ Lidkovski 2012
The Viral Factor Mercenary 2012
The Heineken Kidnapping Dutch SWAT team 2011
Fat Alexandru Balteanu Vasika 2011
Vitalie Ambroci Grisa airsoft
Nokas Tov Sletta David Toska With AKM style muzzle brake 2010
The Stool Pigeon Patrick Keung Tai Ping 2010
Angel of Evil Filippo Timi Enzo 2010
Kandahar Break Rasheed Naz Ashiq Khan polytech manufactured 2009
Taliban fighters original and polytech manufactured
Afghan National Army soldiers
Largo Winch Brazilian Police 2008
Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1 Vincent Cassel Mesrine 2008
Gomorrah Ciro Petrone Ciro 2008
The Mark of Cain Iraqi insurgent 2007
Piranha (Okhota na piranyu) Maksim Drozd Vasily Stepanovich Zhgutov 2006
Vladimir Mashkov Kirill Mazur
Sergey Garmash Zima
Yuri Pristrom Fyodor
Svetlana Antonova Olga Khmelnitskaya
Prokhor's men
The Mechanik Dolph Lundgren Nick Cherenko shortened 2005
Various thugs
Breaking News Criminal gang Poly Tech AKS-47 side-folder copy 2004
The Preacher Mike Reus Pim 2004
Various thugs
Lakshya Indian Army soldiers 2004
Bumer Militsioners 2003
The Italian Job Edward Norton Steve 2003
Warriors (Guerreros) Serbian and Albanian soldiers 2002
No Man's Land Branko Duric Ciki w/ two magazines taped together 2001
Mustafa Nadarevic Old Serbian soldier Fitted with orange bakelite magazine
Avalon Players/Characters 2001
Lion's Share (Lvinaya dolya) OMON troopers 2001
Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies archive footage 2001
Demons of War Boguslaw Linda Maj. Edward Keller 1998
Olaf Lubaszenko Lt. Czacki
Miroslaw Baka 'The silent'
Commander Hamilton Russian troops, PLO troops 1998
Demons of War Boguslaw Linda Maj. Edward Keller 1998
Olaf Lubaszenko Lt. Czacki
Miroslaw Baka 'The silent'
Artur Zmijewski Sgt. Biniek
Tadeusz Huk Maj. Czeslaw Kusz
Zbigniew Zamachowski Cpl. 'Houdini' Moraczewski
Szymon Bobrowski Jarek Boruń
IFOR Polish soldiers, Serbian separatists
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik) Oleg Menshikov Sanya 1996
Chechen fighters
All That Is Tender (Tot, kto nezhnee) Mercenaries 1996
Darkman II: The Return of Durant Gangbangers w/ AKM-style muzzle brakes 1995
Hot Shots! Part Deux Iraqi soldiers 1993
Pigs (Psy) Boguslaw Linda Lt. Maurer alias 'Franz' 1992
It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill Deana Horváthová Nona 1992
Year of the Gun Luigi Di Fiore 1st Terrorist 1991
Lumi Andrey Shcherbovich-Vecher Valērijs Gumpert 1991
Aleksandr Mokhov Sigis
Impulse Thomas Rosales Jr. Colombian drug dealer 1990
Navy SEALs Navy SEALs, Lebanese terrorists 1990
Toy Soldiers Colombian terrorists 1990
Husband of the Hound of the Baskervilles (Muzh sobaki Baskerviley) Mobsters 1990
Zdraviya zhelayu! ili Beshenyy dembel Nikolai Geiko Yefreytor Zamotaev aka "Zamotay" 1990
Oleg Komarov Pvt. Kokin aka "Koka"
Soviet Army soldiers
The Mediator (Posrednik) Valeriy Storozhik Aleksandr Zamyatin 1990
Algis Matulionis Kiselyov / "Angle 1"
Stanislav Zhitarev Militsiya Capt. Rubchenko / "Triangle 6"
Nikolay Sysoyev Paratrooper Lt.
Mind-controlled people
Cargo 300 (Gruz 300) Afghan mujaheddins 1989
The Beast of War Jason Patric Konstantin Koverchenko 1988
Stephen Baldwin Golikov
Don Harvey Kaminski
Soviet tank crew members
Iron Eagle II Enemy soldiers 1988
Rambo III Soviet soldiers 1988
Zerograd (Gorod Zero) Seen in the museum 1988
The Fourth Protocol Russian Soldiers 1987
Bad Taste Aliens 1987
Ishtar Warren Beatty Lyle Rogers 1987
Various characters
Order No. 027 (Myung ryoung-027 ho) North Korean commandos Type 58B 1986
Iron Eagle Enemy soldiers 1986
The Detached Mission (Odinochnoye plavanye) Aleksandr Fatyushin Starshi praporshchik Kruglov 1985
Sergey Nasibov Pvt. Danilov
The Emerald Forest Powers Boothe Bill Markham 1985
Arthur Muhlenberg Rico
Octopussy Soviet soldier, Kamal Khan's guard 1983
The Little Drummer Girl Diane Keaton Charlie 1984
PLO terrorists
Hit Back (Otvetnyy khod) Boris Galkin Capt. Tarassov Type I 1981
Mihai Volontir Warrant Officer Volentir
Vadim Spiridonov Capt. Shvetz
Yelena Glebova Sgt. Zinovieva
Funeral in Berlin East German Border Guard 1966
Objective 500 Million (Objectif: 500 millions) Bruno Cremer Jean Reichau 1966
Etienne Bierry Douard
The Lark (Zhavoronok) Valentins Skulme Frenchman 1964
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard British police 1963
Soldier's Heart (Soldatskoye serdtse) Soviet soldiers 1959
Blue Arrow (Golubaya strela) A saboteur 1958

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Stawka wieksza niz zycie Polish soldiers and paratroopers as a substitution for Sturmgewehr 44 1966-68
Czterej pancerni i pies German and Polish soldiers as a substitution for Sturmgewehr 44 1966-70
Columbo Peter Falk Lt. Columbo "Dead Weight" (S01E03) 1971-2003
Columbo Eddie Albert Maj. Gen. Martin J. Hollister "Dead Weight" (S01E03) 1971-2003
Columbo is seen in a showcase with option sight/ "Columbo Cries Wolf" (S09E02) 1971-2003
Dempsey and Makepeace Francisco Morales Cortez "The Cortez Connection" (S03E08) 1985
Brigada Tajik mafia 2002
Firefly Badger's henchman "Shindig" (S01E04) 2002
The Kill Point Adam Cantor Rocko 2007
The Kill Point Frank Grillo Albert "Mr. Pig" Roman 2007
24: Redemption Keifer Sutherland Jack Bauer 2008
Midsomer Murders Mercenaries S14E7 "A Sacred Trust" 2011
Tyrant Shiek Rashid's guards equipped with a synthetic quad rail handguard 2014
Spy City Soviet soldiers Ep. 04 2020
Topi seen on the training poster; "Transfiguration" (S1E05) 2021
Moon Knight - Season 1 Alex Martin Arthur Harrow's cultist "The Friendly Type" (S1E03), "The Tomb" (S1E04), "Gods and Monsters" (S1E06) 2022

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Amazing Nurse Nanako Unknown soldiers 1999
Gunslinger Girl Padania Terrorists 2003
Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 Daishichi Golden AKS 2013

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
007: The World Is Not Enough Soviet KA-57 2000
Project Reality With optional bayonet 2005
Cold War (VG) 2005
Escape from Tarkov seen on the training poster 2016


AKM

AKM - 7.62x39mm
Maadi ARM - 7.62x39mm. This Egyptian clone of AK is often seen in American movies.
Romanian AKM with synthetic furniture - 7.62x39mm
AKM with GP-25 grenade launcher - 7.62x39mm / 40mm

The AKM is the improved version of the AK-47, featuring a number of refinements such as a stamped receiver (as opposed to the milled receiver of the original Type 2 and Type 3 AK-47), a slant compensator on the tip of the barrel (to reduce recoil), an improved gas tube (without vents), and use of lighter materials to reduce weight and simplify construction.

Most of the AKMs seen in Hollywood movies are actually Egyptian Maadi MISR copies, which were sold in the U.S. as the ARM in the 1980s - such weapons were first procured by Stembridge Gun Rentals for Red Dawn and subsequently re-used in numerous other motion pictures. The Maadi is almost identical to the original Soviet-built AKM, save for the markings, and is nearly impossible to tell apart.

Specifications

(1959 - Present)

  • Type: Assault Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x39mm
  • Weight: 7.9 lbs (3.6 kg)
  • Length: 34.6 in (88 cm)
  • Barrel length: 16.3 in (41.5 cm)
  • Feed System: 10, 20, 30, 40-round box magazines, 75 or 100-round drum magazine
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto/Full-Auto

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Tenet terrorists 2020
Extraction Bangladeshi SWAT 2020
Mosul Ish'aq Elias Waleed 2019
Women of Mafia 2 Colombian mobsters 2019
7 Days in Entebbe Palestinian hijackers 2018
The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion Mercenaries 2018
Kong: Skull Island Shea Whigham Captain Earl Cole 2017
American Made cartel soldiers and contras 2017
St. Zombie Girls' High School Zombie hunter 2017
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Iraqi insurgents 2016
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Contractor Vltor Modstock, railed handguard 2016
War Dogs Jonah Hill Efraim Diveroli 2016
Palm Trees in the Snow (Palmeras en la nieve) Equatorial Guinea soldiers 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road Richard Carter The Bullet Farmer 2015
Godzilla (2014) Filipino Mine Guards 2014
RoboCop Insurgents With RIS handguards and grenade launcher 2014
No Way Out (Elq Chka) Prison guards 2014
22 Minutes (22 minuty) Gaël Kamilindi Kalash 2014
Aleksandr Galibin Dekalin
Somali Pirates
Kill the Messenger Nicaraguan prison guards 2014
Elysium Matt Damon Max De Costa futuristically modified, fires fictional airburst ammunition 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation Cobra Troopers Customised AKMs fitted in Center Balanced Systems stocks 2013
Commitment North Korean soldiers 2013
Lone Survivor Taliban fighters 2013
Oblivion Zoe Bell Kara 2013
We're the Millers Cartel Guard With GP-25 2013
Pawnshop (Lombard) Mark's and Yuriy's bandits 2013
Red Dawn Josh Peck Matt Eckert 2012
Cockneys vs. Zombies 2012
Battleground Bob Cymbalski Texas 2012
Suave Patria One of Gustavo Solis's men 2012
Casa de mi Padre Henchman 2012
Fire with Fire On gun table 2012
Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault Smugglers Customized with quad rail systems, foregrips and M4 carbine style stocks 2012
Guardian Angel (Schutzengel) assailants M4-style stocks and synthetic handguards 2012
Resident Evil: Damnation Russian Soldiers 2012
August. Eighth Russian and Georgian soldiers and Russian scouts With and without GP-25 grenade launchers 2012
Home (Dom) Kirill Poluhin Starshiy 2011
Machine Gun Preacher SPLA troops 2011
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Assassins Customized with quad rail systems and foregrips 2011
Assassination Games Scott Adkins Roland Flint 2011
Jean-Claude Van Damme Vincent Brazil
Bucharest police, henchmen
The Debt East German border guards 2011
Memorial Day Iraqi Insurgents, Iraqi Security Forces 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon Iranian soldiers 2011
A Quiet Outpost (Tikhaya zastava) Islamist fighters 2011
El Infierno 2010
Kandahar Taliban fighters 2010
The Losers Cartel gunmen 2010
Machete Rebels With transparent magazines 2010
The Expendables Somali pirates and General Zayas' soldiers 2010
Hooked 2. Next Level (Na Igre 2. Novyy Uroven) Contrabandists Also can be seen in the Counter Strike style game footage 2010
A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries Special Forces 2010
Dark World (Tyomnyy mir) Vladimir Lukyanchikov Toivo 2010
X-Men Origins: Wolverine African soldiers 2009
Hooked (Na Igre) can be seen in the Counter Strike style game footage 2009
Go Fast Drug dealer 2009
Rambo Burmese Junta soldiers 2008
An American Carol Thomas Rosales Jr. Cuban Soldier 2008
Taliban, Cuban soldiers
Baader Meinhof Complex, The (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) Alexandra Maria Lara Petra Schelm 2008
The Hurt Locker Iraqi insurgents 2008
Body of Lies Terrorists 2008
Pineapple Express Seth Rogen Dale 2008
Shooter enemy fighters 2007
American Gangster guards in the Nationalists' heroin fields 2007
Shake Hands with the Devil Rwandan soldiers 2007
The Kingdom Saudi terrorists 2007
Transformers Qatari village militiaman 2007
Redacted Iraqi insurgents 2006
Children of Men Refugees 2006
Catch a Fire Derek Luke Patrick Chamusso 2006
ANC guerrillas
Lord of War Nicolas Cage Yuri Orlov 2005
The Island Djimon Hounsou Albert Laurent futuristic housing 2005
Countdown (Lichnyy nomer) terrorist 2004
Hotel Rwanda Rwandan National Army soldiers 2004
Innocent Voices Hector Jimenez Raton 2004
Bad Boys II Reynaldo A. Gallegos Tito Vargas 2003
Cuban soldiers
S.W.A.T. Bank robbers drum magazines 2003
Gang members
Tears of the Sun Nigerian rebels 2003
Underworld Lycans 2003
War (Voyna) Ruslan with two magazines taped "jungle-style" 2002
Die Another Day North Korean soldiers w/ AKS-74 side-folding stocks and muzzle brakes 2002
Collateral Damage Jsu Garcia Roman 2002
Behind Enemy Lines Owen Wilson LT Chris Burnett 2001
Serbian soldiers
Equilibrium Resistance member 2001
xXx Martin Hub Ivan Podrov w/ AK-74 muzzle brake and M203 grenade launcher 2001
Colombian cartel soldiers
Militia ATF agents and militiamen 2000
Joint Security Area NKPA soldiers 2000
Analyze This Hitmen 1999
Virus 1999
Three Kings Iraqi soldiers and Shiite refugees 1999
Rushmore Sara Tanaka Margaret Yang 1998
The Replacement Killers Thug 1998
The Siege Terrorists 1998
Air Force One Russian prison guards 1997
The Postman Holnist soldiers 1997
All the Things We Dreamt of for So Long Nikolay Dobrynin Nikolay 1997
Escape from L.A. Gang members 1996
Eraser Russian mobsters 1996
Normal Life FBI agent 1996
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik) Oleg Menshikov Sanya Standard and with GP-25 1996
Chechen fighters
All That Is Tender (Tot, kto nezhnee) Mercenaries 1996
Shirli-Myrli Mafia 1995
Crusader (Krestonosets) Criminals 1995
Clear and Present Danger Escobedo's men 1994
Hot Shots! Part Deux Iraqi soldiers 1994
True Lies Arnold Schwarzenegger Harry Tasker 1994
Crimson Jihad terrorists
Hard Boiled Johnny Wong's thugs 1992
Patriot Games IRA terrorists 1992
The Arbiter (Arbitr) A criminal 1992
Four Sheets of Plywood (Chotyry lysty fanery) Criminal 1992
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
100 Days Before the Command (Sto dney do prikaza...) Oleg Vasilkov Pvt. Elin 1991
Aleksei Volkov Sr. Sergeant
Sergei Rozhentsev Sgt. Titarenko
Soviet Army soldiers
Afghan Breakdown Nikolai Ustinov Pvt. Onisimov 1991
Soviet soldiers Some with PBS sound suppressors
Mujaheddins
Husband of the Hound of the Baskervilles (Muzh sobaki Baskerviley) Viktor Konisevich Danila Osokin 1990
Militiaman
Zdraviya zhelayu! ili Beshenyy dembel Oleg Komarov Pvt. Kokin aka "Koka" 1990
Delta Force 2 Ramon Cota's men 1990
White Crows (Belye vorony) Soviet soldiers 1989
The Commander General Dong's men 1988
Rambo III Sylvester Stallone John Rambo w/ M203 grenade launcher and Galil stock 1988
Richard Crenna Col. Trautman
Randy Raney Sgt. Kourov w/ M203 grenade launcher and Galil stock
Mujaheddin and Russian soldiers
Bulletproof Gary Busey Frank McBain 1988
Darlanne Fluegel Captain Devon Shepard
Ramón Franco Camilo
L.Q. Jones CSM O'Rourke
Henchmen
The Secret Fairway (Sekretniy farvater) Soviet soldiers 1988
Extreme Prejudice Matt Mulhern SSgt. Declan Patrick Coker 1987
Mexican cartel gunmen
Dragnet P.A.G.A.N henchmen 1987
Predator Guerrillas 1987
Robocop Sal's men 1987
In Country NVA troops 1987
Never Too Young to Die Various punks 1986
Heartbreak Ridge Clint Eastwood GySGT Tom Highway 1986
Cuban soldiers
The Park is Mine Tommy Lee Jones Mitch Garnett | 1986
Back to the Future Richard L. Duran Libyan terrorist in Van 1985
Commando Arius' soldiers 1985
The Annihilators Viet Cong fighters 1985
Rambo: First Blood Part II Julia Nickson-Soul Co Bao 1984
George Cheung Capt. Tay
Sylvester Stallone John Rambo
NVA Soldiers and Russian Spetnaz Commandos
Red Dawn Jennifer Grey Toni Mason 1984
C. Thomas Howell Robert Morris
Patrick Swayze Jed Eckert
Charlie Sheen Matt Eckert
Ron O'Neal Colonel Bella
Soviet soldiers, Cuban / Nicaraguan soldiers
Parade of the Planets (Parad planet) Sergey Nikonenko Afonin 1984
Sergey Shakurov Sultan
Aleksandr Pashutin Spirkin
Pyotr Zaychenko Pukhov
Aleksei Zharkov Slonov
Octopussy Soviet soldier 1983
The Grach Brothers (Grachi) Vitali Shapovalov Leonid Osadchiy 1982
The Right to Shoot (Pravo na vystrel) Soviet Border Guards 1981
To Command Yourself (Prikazhi sebe) Soviet Army soldiers 1980
Operation Leopard (La légion saute sur Kolwezi) Katanga fighters 1980
Border Dog Alyi (Pogranichnyy pyos Alyi) Vladimir Dubrovskiy Sgt. Aleksey Koshkin 1980
Soviet border guards
In the Zone of Special Attention (V zone osobogo vnimaniya) Soviet Army soldiers 1977
Spring Conscription (Vesenniy prizyv) Igor Kostolevskiy Pvt. Alik Polukhin 1977
Aleksandr Fatyushin Sgt. Karpenko
Soviet Army soldiers
Don't Cry, Girl (Ne plach, devchonka) Soviet Army soldiers 1977
Granite Islands (Granitnye ostrova) Aleksandr Milokostyj Pvt. Konstantin Savin Some with removed muzzle compensators 1976
Leonid Belozorovich Sgt. Vasiliy Syrtsov
Soviet Borger Guards
I Serve at the Border (Ya sluzhu na granitse) Boris Shcherbakov Pvt. Dmitriy Sedykh Mostly with removed muzzle compensators 1974
Anatoliy Rudakov Yefreytor Semyon Osinin
Aleksandr Aleksandrov Pvt. Andrey Strekalov
Aare Laanemets Yefreytor Laanemets
Soviet Border Guards
Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!) Mongolian soldiers 1971
Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad) Soviet Army infantry on parade Documentary footage 1970
The Shield and the Sword (Shchit i mech) German soldiers Replacement for StG 44 1968
Zhenya, Zhenechka and "katyusha" Soviet soldiers 1967

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
The A-Team George Peppard Col. John "Hannibal" Smith 1983 - 1987
NVA soldiers "The Sound of Thunder"
Riptide Perry King Cody Allen 1984-1986
Riptide Joe Penny Nick Ryder 1984-1986
On Wings of Eagles Miguel Ángel Fuentes ‘The Large Kurd’ 1986
Kurdish fighters
The State Border: Film 6 Russian and Polish Border guards Can be seen in documentary footage 1987
Tour of Duty Stephen Caffrey Lt. Myron Goldman 1987 - 1989
Incident at the Airport (Sluchay v aeroportu) Militsiya 1989
The Halt of Wanderers (Prival strannikov) A criminal 1991
Purgatory (Chistilishche) various characters With GP-25 grenade launchers 1998
The X-Files - Season 7 Ivory Coast Soldier "The Sixth Extinction" (S7E01) 1999
Tunisian Prison Guards "Requiem" (S7E22) 2000
24 Henchmen 2001 - 2010
The X-Files - Season 9 Iraqi Insurgents "Providence" (S9E10) 2002
Ultimate Force Various criminals and terrorists With and without telescopic sights 2002 - 2006
Firefly Browncoats "Serenity" (S1E01) 2002
henchmen "Heart of Gold" (S1E13) 2003
Ultimate Force - Season 2 Ross Kemp SSgt. Henry "Henno" Garvie "Dead is Forever" 2003
Conor Mullen Omega "What in the Name of God", With telescopic sight
Luke De Woolfson Michael
CSI: NY Terrorists "Snow Day" 2004 - 2013
Ultimate Force - Season 3 Louis Decosta Johnson Cpl. Dave Woolston "Never Go Back" 2005
Saskia Butler Luanne Du Preez
Con O'Neil Lavelle "Weapons of Choice"
Archangel Igor Filipov Major Kretov 2005
Russian troops
24 - Season 5 Terrorists 2005 - 2006
My Name is Earl various characters in various episodes 2005 - 2009
The Unit Dennis Haysbert CSM Jonas Blane "Johnny B. Good", With Surefire Universal Weaponlight and silencer 2006 - 2009
Max Martini MSgt. Mack Gerhardt
Scott Foley Sgt. Bob Brown
Michael Irby Sgt. Charles Grey
Michael Irby Sgt. Charles Grey "Two Coins"
Soldiers
Terrorists
Criminal Minds - Season 4 Cultists Some with synthetic furniture and rails / "Minimal Loss" (S04E03) 2008
Detroit 1-8-7 henchman "Royal Bubbles/Needle Drop" (S1E04) 2010
Justified - Season 1 Alexandra Barreto Pilar "Fire in the Hole" (S1E01) 2010
Charlie's Angels Rachael Taylor Abby 2011
Guards
Jon Benjamin Has a Van Guatemalan troops "Border" (S1E01) 2011
Falling Skies Noah Wyle Tom Mason 2011
Last Resort Daisy Betts LT Shepard "Controlled Flight Into Terrain" (S1E13) 2012
Black Cats (Chyornye koshki) A Soviet soldier Seen in documentary footage; with bayonet 2013
CSI Andel (Kriminálka Andel) - Season 4 Marek Svitek SGT. Martin Hájek "Mise" (S4E08) 2014
True Detective Matthew McConaughey Detective Rustin "Rust" Cohle 2014
Banshee - Season 2 Rabbit's men Episode 10 2014
Banshee - Season 3 Chayton's tribesmen 2015
Banshee - Season 3 Ricky Russert Tommy Littlestone 2015
The Jackal (Shakal) Militsiya 2016
Operation "Satan" (Operatsiya "Satana") Militsiya 2018
Chernobyl Soviet soldiers Some mocked up as AK-74 2019
True Detective Michael Greyeyes Brett Woodward 2019
Magnum P.I. Perdita Weeks Higgins 2019
Magnum P.I. Stephen Hill TC 2019
Magnum P.I. Tim Kang HPD Detective Gordon Katsumoto 2019
Katran Soviet Internal Troops soldiers 2020
Alex the Fierce (Alex Lyutyj) Soviet border guards 2020
For All Mankind Soviet soldiers "Best-Laid Plans" (S2E06) 2021
"Don't be Cruel" (S2E07)
Topi w/bayonet, seen on the training poster; "Frenzy" (S1E04), "Transfiguration" (S1E05) 2021
Moon Knight - Season 1 Egyptian Patrol Agency guards Maadi ARM; "Gods and Monsters" (S1E06) 2022
Arthur Harrow's cultists
Stranger Things David Harbour Jim Hopper "Chapter Nine: The Piggyback" (S4E09) 2022
Stranger Things Brett Gelman Murray Bauman "Chapter Nine: The Piggyback" (S4E09) 2022

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Full Metal Panic! 2002
Flag Militia fighters 2006
Canaan Canaan 2009
Girls' Last Tour ep. 01 2017

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release date
Ghost Recon "AK47" Without muzzle brake 2001
Combat Arms "AK-47" 2004
Half-Life 2 "AR-1" Cut weapon 2004
Project Reality 2005
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Not usable 2005
Driver: Parallel Lines 2006
Counter-Strike Online "AKM" With Metal and Gold finishes 2007
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 2007
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune "AK-47" 2007
7.62 High Calibre "AKM" w/ various attachments 2008
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames 2008
Xenus 2: White Gold 2008
ArmA II 2009
Left 4 Dead 2 "AK-47" w/ flashlight by zip ties and optional laser sight w/ 40-round Tapco polymer magazine 2009
Medal of Honor "AK-47" w/ various attachments w/o slant muzzle brake 2010
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days "Kaliningrad 47" The metal parts are a pink-ish purple, while the wood is lighter, almost faded 2010
NCIS: The Video Game Seen on posters 2011
War Inc. Battlezone "AKM" w/ various attachments 2011
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive "AK-47" 2012
State of Decay "AK47" 2013
"AK47 Custom" w/ Tapco pistol grip, Magpul stock, aftermarket handguard and magazine, sight, tactical grip and shortened barrel
Splinter Cell: Blacklist "AK-47" Synthetic furniture, RIS handguard 2013
Payday 2 "AK.762" With cleaning rod removed 2013
Warface "AK-47" 2013
Survarium 2013
Watch_Dogs "AK-47" With wooden AK-74 stock and AK-103 muzzle brake 2014
Far Cry 4 "AK-47" With wooden AK-103 stock and AK-103 muzzle brake Only used by NPCs during introductory cutscene, model from Watch_Dogs 2014
Squad 2015
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex First Assault "AK47" 2015
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades "AKM" 2016
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered "AK-47" 2016
Mafia III "Pasadena AR30" 2016
The Division AK-47 2016
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds 2017
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 "AKA-47" 2017
Escape from Tarkov AKM 7.62x39 assault rifle
AKMN 7.62x39 assault rifle
Tons of the attachments AKM was added in v0.4.0.580 patch (2017);
AKMN was added in v0.5.0.811 patch (2017)
2016
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam optional Type II bayonet 2017
Far Cry 5 "AK-47, AK-M" Standard, tactical, shortened variants 2018
Insurgency: Sandstorm "AKM" AKMN 2018
State of Decay 2 2018
Far Cry New Dawn 2019
The Division 2 AK-M 2019
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts "AKA-47" 2019
Serious Sam 4 stock removed not usable 2020
Far Cry 6 "AK-47, AK-M" Standard and tactical variants 2021
Enlisted 2021

Animation

Title Voice Actor Characters Notation Date
Love, Death & Robots - Season 3 seen in armory; "Kill Team Kill" (S3E05) 2022


AKMS

AKMS - 7.62x39mm
Custom AKMS with shortened barrel, similar to the one seen in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Pineapple Express, Rambo and Taken - 7.62x39mm. The configuration shown here has parts from the AKMS and the Norinco Type 56-1.

Basically the same as the AKM, but the rear-trunion is altered with a swiveling mechanism to allow for the under-folding stock. The AKMS nomenclature also indicates that the rifle is not a milled receiver variant and has the AKM style of gas block, top cover, barrel assembly, front sight, and appropriate forearm furniture.

Specifications

(1959 - Present)

  • Type: Assault Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x39mm
  • Weight: 8.4 lbs (3.8 kg)
  • Length: 34.6 in (88 cm) (stock extended), 25.8 in (65.5 cm) (stock folded)
  • Barrel length: 16.3 in (41.5 cm)
  • Feed System: 30-round box magazine
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto/Full-Auto

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Mosul Adam Bessa Kawa 2019
12 Strong Navid Negahban General Abdul Rashid Dostum 2018
KL Special Force Gang Anarchist mafias 2018
Hold the Dark Iraqi militant 2018
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Ali Larter Claire Redfield 2017
Bushwick mercenaries 2017
Sindiket Southern Filipino militias 2017
Chappie Jose Pablo Cantillo Amerika Wooden and synthetic furniture 2015
Mercenaries
Thugs
Partners (Naparnikter) Special Forces 2015
Kilo Two Bravo Afghans 2015
American Sniper Iraqi insurgents 2014
Tokarev Russian mobsters With AK-74 style muzzle brakes 2014
22 Minutes (22 minuty) Russian Marines Some with AK-74 style muzzle brakes and side-folding stocks 2014
Zulu Clayton Evertson Beach thug 2013
Zombie Fever Alexander Levenchuk Pyotr 2013
Valeriy Zelenskiy Sasha
Red Dawn Isabel Lucas Erica 2012
Battleground 2012
Iron Sky moon Nazis with sci-fi embellishments, missing gas tube 2012
Casa de mi Padre Henchman 2012
Zero Dark Thirty Joel Edgerton Navy SEAL Patrick 2012
Pakistani police
Resident Evil: Damnation Sasha w/ plastic magazines 2012
Robin Kasyanov Sergei
The Baytown Outlaws Quinn Early Smoke 2012
Hamilton: I nationens intresse Russian smugglers, Somali soldiers 2012
Hans Kloss. Stawka wieksza niz smierc East German soldiers Polish variant called PMKMS 2012
Chernobyl Diaries Milos Timotijevic Berkut member 2012
Bablo Ukrainian Berkut officers 2011
Machine Gun Preacher Junior Magale William 2011
Entanglemen (Uwiklanie) Marek Bukowski Slawomir Smolar suppressed, sniper scope 2011
Home (Dom) Konstantin Adaev Tocka with AK-74 style muzzle brake and POSP 4x24B sniper scope 2011
The Liquidator Arystan soldier 2011
Tatar Operation (Tatar ajillagaa) Erdenebileg Ganbold Tulga 2011
Amarkhuu Borkhuu Tayvnaa
Dagvajamts Batsukh Gyalbaa
Enkhtayvan Borkhuu Koliaa
Police troops
El Infierno Damián Alcázar Benny García 2010
Tomorrow, When the War Began Australian resistance 2010
The Alien Girl Hitmen 2010
The Town Jeremy Renner James 'Jem' Coughlin w/ shortened barrel 2010
The Expendables General Zaya's soldiers Normal and shortened barrel models 2010
Kandahar Break Anti-Taliban fighters 2009
Lebanon Palestinian Fighters 2009
The Hurt Locker Ralph Fiennes Private Military Contractor Leader Customized with RIS foregrip 2009
British Private Military Contractors Customized with RIS foregrips and C-More sights
X-Men Origins: Wolverine African soldiers 2009
Crank: High Voltage Thugs 2009
Taken Human trafficker w/ shortened barrel 2009
Antikiller D.K. "Kolgan"'s bodyguard 2009
The Ghost (Domovoy) Russian OMON officers 2008
Pineapple Express James Franco Saul w/ shortened barrel 2008
Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1 Mathieu Amalric François Besse 2008
Gérard Lanvin Charly Bauer
Rambo (2008) Supakorn Kitsuwon Myint w/ shortened barrel 2008
Tim Kang En-Joo
Tropic Thunder Flaming Dragon guerrillas 2008
Get Smart Guards 2008
The Spirit Louis Lombardi Phobos 2008
War, Inc. Tamerlane Private Military Contractors 2008
Zone Of The Dead Security Guard 2008
Trackman (Putevoy Obkhodchik) Special Forces 2007
We Own the Night Alex Veadov Vadim Nezhinski 2007
The Kingdom Jamie Foxx FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury w/ RIS and foregrip 2007
Saudi terrorists
Breach Seen in the trunk of Robert Hanssen's (Chris Cooper) car 2007
Paragraph 78 (Paragraf 78) Vladimir Vdovichenkov Skiff 2007
Anatoliy Belyy Spam
The Departed Chinese mobsters 2006
Waist Deep thugs 2006
Murder in a Winter Yalta (Vbyvstvo u zymoviy Yalti) Berkut 2006
Lord of War Russian hitmen 2005
Sky Fighters Benoît Magimel Captain Antoine "Walk'n" Marchelli 2005
Clovis Cornillac Captain Sébastien "Fahrenheit" Vallois
Terrorists
Hotel Rwanda Rwandan National Army soldiers 2004
Countdown (Lichnyy nomer) terrorist 2004
Moscow Heat Klimov's henchmen 2004
Antikiller 2: Antiterror Chechen terrorists 2003
S.W.A.T. Bank robber 2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Claire Danes Katherine Brewster w/ shortened barrel and dual-mag clamp 2003
Nick Stahl John Connor
Bumer Militsioners 2003
Hulk South American guerrilla 2002
Die Another Day Isla Los Organos clinic guards 2002
Equilibrium Resistance fighters 2002
War (Voyna) Aleksey Chadov Ivan Ermakov 2002
Chechen rebel
Antikiller Criminals 2002
Lion's Share (Lvinaya dolya) OMON troopers 2001
April (Aprel) OMON troopers 2001
I Am a Dummy (Ya - kukla) Sergey Nikonenko Aleksey Ivanovich 2001
Aleksandr Domogarov Viktor Vorobyov
Vladimir Episkoposyan Murat
Russian soldiers, cadets,
Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment, The Sergey Garmash Militia (police) captain Koshaev 1999
Composition for Victory Day (Sochinenie ko Dnyu Pobedy) OMON personnel 1998
Air Force One General Radek's men w/ shortened barrels and custom folding stocks 1997
All the Things We Dreamt of for So Long Nikolay Dobrynin Nikolay 1997
Sergey Galkin A gangster
Ricochet (Rikoshet) OMON personnel, criminals 1997
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik) Aleksei Zharkov Maj. Maslov 1996
Chechen fighters
Executive Decision Terrorists 1996
Face/Off Thug 1996
All That Is Tender (Tot, kto nezhnee) Mercenaries 1996
The Bomb (Bomba) Vohid Zoidov Aripjon Pulatbuloyev 1995
Muhammadsoli Yusupov Xolmat aka
Rustam Sagdullaev Rahim Ahmedov
Crusader (Krestonosets) Aleksandr Inshakov Aleksandr Konov 1995
Criminals
True Lies Art Malik Salim Abu Aziz 1994
Hagi-Tragger Militia, criminals 1994
The Little Bee (Pchyolka) Prisoner transport car guards 1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux Iraqi soldiers 1993
Black Shark (Chyornaya akula) mujahedeen, Soviet soldiers 1993
Toy Soldiers Columbian terrorists 1991
Afghan Breakdown Michele Placido Major Bandura With 75-round RPK drum magazine 1991
Rinat Ibragimov Pvt. Popov w/ plastic magazines
Artur Uvarov Pvt. Ivanov
Soviet paratroopers
Navy SEALs U.S Navy SEALs 1990
Living Target (Zhivaja mishen) Militsia and criminals 1990
Fools Die on Friday (Duraki umirayut po pyatnitsam) Militia 1990
Rambo 3 Sylvester Stallone John Rambo 1988
Mujaheddin
Soviet Spetznaz soldiers w/AK-74 style muzzle brakes
Off Limits assassins 1988
Road to Hell (Doroga v ad) Militsiya personnel 1988
The Living Daylights Mujaheddin, Czech soldiers 1987
Wild Geese II East German border guard 1985
Search and neutralize (Nayti i obezvredit) Militsiya sergeant 1982
The Right to Shoot (Pravo na vystrel) Soviet Border Guards 1981
Hit Back (Otvetnyy khod) Yelena Glebova Sergeant Zinovieva w/ standard magazine 1981
Soviet marines w/ standard and plastic magazines
Border Dog Alyi (Pogranichnyy pyos Alyi) Vladimir Dubrovskiy Sgt. Aleksey Koshkin 1980
Soviet border guards
Granite Islands (Granitnye ostrova) Leonid Belozorovich Sgt. Vasiliy Syrtsov 1976
Soviet Borger Guards
Between Sky and Earth (Mezhdu nebom i zemlyoy) Vsevolod Abdulov Sgt. Simion Kuku 1976
Viktor Perevalov Pvt. Vasiliy Zemnov
Soviet Army paratroopers
I Serve at the Border (Ya sluzhu na granitse) Soviet border guards 1974
Izhora Battalion (Izhorskiy batalyon) German soldiers Standing for Sturmgewehr 44 1972
Officers (Ofitsery) Soviet paratroopers 1971
Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad) Soviet Army paratroopers on parade Documentary footage 1970
One Chance in One Thousand (Odin shans iz tysyachi) Oleg Khalimonov Kartsev Standing for Sturmgewehr 44 1969
Vladimir Marenkov Sgt. Sokolov

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Confrontation (Protivostoyanie) A Special unit trooper 1985
Homicide: Life on the Street Steve Buscemi Gordon Pratt "End Game" (S3E14) 1995
Grazhdanin nachalnik Militsia and criminals 2001
24 William Devane Secretary of Defense Heller 2001 - 2010
24 Kiefer Sutherland Agent Jack Bauer 2001 - 2010
24 Terrorists 2001 - 2010
24 Henchmen 2001 - 2010
Ultimate Force Tony Curran Sgt. Pete Twamley 2002 - 2006
Brigada Special Forces soldiers 2002 -
Red Cap 2003 - 2004
I Have The Honor! (Chest Imeyu!) Russian paratroopers and Chechen rebels Some fitted with the GP-25 grenade launchers 2004
CSI:NY Clifton Collins Jr. Raymond Harris "Life Sentence" (S07E21) 2004 - Present
CSI:NY Carmine Giovinazzo Detective Danny Messer "Life Sentence" (S07E21) 2004 - Present
Over There Iraqi insurgents 2005
The Storm Gate Vyacheslav Razbegaev Shah 2006
The Storm Gate Russian Army Spetsnaz with sound suppressor 2006
The Storm Gate Chechen terrorists With GP-25 grenade launcher 2006
Criminal Minds Cultists "Minimal Loss" (S4E03) 2008
The Unit Scott Foley Sgt. Bob Brown "Extreme Rendition", With custom shortened barrel 2006 - 2009
The Walking Dead Melissa McBride Carol Peletier 2010-????
Strike Back - Season 1 Shaun Parkes Felix Masuku Episode 3 "Zimbabwe: Part One" 2010
Strike Back - Season 3 Rhona Mitra Major. Rachel Dalton 2012
Strike Back - Season 3 Tim Pigott-Smith Patrick Burton 2012
Munich 72 Palestinian terrorists 2012
Tyrant freedom fighters 2014
The Night Manager mercenaries 2016
Magnum P.I. Zachary Knighton Orville "Rick" Wright "Payback is for Beginners" (S02E01) 2019
Katran A Soviet Internal Troops Sergeant 2020
Topi seen on the training poster; "Frenzy" (S1E04), "Transfiguration" (S1E05) 2021

Anime

Title Character Notation Release date
New Dominion Tank Police 1993
Flag Ru-Pou's followers with shortened barrels 2009
Suisei no Gargantia Sailor 2013

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release date
Project Reality 2005
7.62 High Calibre "AKMC" w/ various attachments 2008
ArmA II 2009
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action w/ shortened barrel and side-folding stock 2012
State of Decay "AKMS" 2013
Payday 2 "AK.762" With cleaning rod removed 2013
Insurgency "AKM" w/ various attachments 2014
Contract Wars 2014
Escape from Tarkov AKMS 7.62x39 assault rifle
AKMSN 7.62x39 assault rifle
Tons of the attachments AKMS was added in v0.5.0.811 patch (2017);
AKMSN was added in v0.8.0.1208 patch (2018)
2016


Foreign Copies & Derivatives

MPi-K/MPi-KmS

7,62-mm-Maschinenpistole „Kalaschnikow" (MPi-K) both sides - 7.62x39mm. Note: Early versions of the MPi-K has the design of front sight is different.

The MPi-K/MPi-KmS are East German license-manufactured versions of the AK/AKS. It was introduced in 1958, put into regular service in 1961, and was subsequently replaced by the MPi-KM from 1964.

One of the features of MPi-K is the absence of a cleaning rod and a socket in the buttstock for a pencil case with accessories, since instead of them a cleaning kit of the Karabiner 98k pattern was used. However, the original AK kit later was considered more effective (in particular, the ramrod could allow knocking out a stuck shell), and was introduced on the subsequent MPi-KM.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
And Your Love Too East German border guards and soldiers MPi-KmS 1962
I Was Nineteen (Ich war neunzehn) Jaecki Schwarz Lt. Gregor Hecker MPi-K; stand-in for Sturmgewehr 44 1968
Dieter Mann Unteroffizier Willi Lommer
German soldiers


MPi-KM/MPi-KMS-72

MPi-KM - 7.62x39mm. This is externally different from later MPi-KM-72 by the wooden lower hand grip. This configuration were common in 1966-1972.
MPi-KM-72 - 7.62x39mm
MPi-KMS-72 - 7.62x39mm

The MPi-KM/MPi-KMS-72 are East German license-manufactured versions of the AKM/AKMS. It was introduced in 1961 and entered to regular service from 1964. Early version of the MPi-KM rifle had wooden furniture and was similar to the original AKM, but later models have distinctive stippled brown pistol and top hand grips (from 1965), and buttstocks (from 1966). In 1970 were designed the updated models, introduced into service in 1972, under the designations MPi-KM-72 and MPi-KMS-72. The MPi-KMS-72 also has a side folding single strut "coat hanger" stock, a feature which is shared with the later Romanian rifles. It is worth noting that the MPi-KMS-72 was the first version of the new rifle with a folding buttstock, taken into service, the earlier MPi-KMS (similar to the original AKMS) was not adopted.

Since 1984, they have been replaced by the MPi AK-74. After the German reunification, all variants of the MPi were removed from service, with most rifles being sold as surplus to the militaries of such countries as Finland and Turkey.

Note: The chance of seeing a 100% original East German MPi-K series of rifle in a movie or television show is extremely unlikely. Most of the "East German" AKs that are seen in visual media are regular AKMs using East German Parts kits.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Operation Leopard (La légion saute sur Kolwezi) Katanga rebels "Transitional" model MPi-KM 1980
23 East German border patrol 1998
Sun Alley East German border guards 1999
Extreme Ops Thug 2002
Hotel Rwanda Rwandan soldiers 2004
Lord of War Afghan mujaheddin 2005
Battle for Haditha Iraqi Army soldiers MPi-KMS-72 2007
The Hurt Locker Iraqi police officer MPi-KMS-72 2008
Carlos Terrorist 2010
Zero Dark Thirty Afghan soldiers 2012
Daylight's End Heather Kafka Earnesta 2016
Wolf Warriors 2 Hans Zhang Zhuo Yifan MPi-KMS-72 2017

Television

Title Actor Character Note / Episode Date
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei Bank robber "Todesfahrt der Linie 834"; Sturmgewehr AKMS-K carbine 1996 - ????
GSG-9 Terrorist Folding Stock 2008
Munich 72 Shredi Jabarin "Issa" 2012
Bornholmer Straße Max Hopp Burkhard Schönhammer MPi-KMS-72 2014
Milan Peschel Ulrich Rotermund
Robert Gallinowski Michael Krüger

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Spriggan (1998) Turkish General Directorate of Customs Protection soldiers 1998
Schwarzesmarken Sergeant Major Kurt Griebel MPi-KMS-72 2017
Second Lieutenant Katia Waldheim
NVA soldiers and East German border guards


Radom-Hunter

Radom Hunter - 7.62x39mm

The Radom Hunter is a Polish "sporterised" version of the AKM. The Hunter can be seen with proprietary sight-mount/receiver cover or, more common, the standard AKM side rail.

Specifications

(1987 - 2000)

  • Type: Hunting Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x39mm
  • Weight: 11.4 lbs (5.2 kg)
  • Length: 40 in (101.5 cm)
  • Barrel length: 20 in (50.8 cm)
  • Capacity: 5 (Or any AK-type magazine)
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
Demons of War Miroslaw Baka "The silent" 1998
Christoph Rex-Jarnot Filip
The Foreigner Steven Seagal Jonathan Cold 2003


AKU-94

Maadi ARM in AKU-94 bullpup kit - 7.62x39mm
AK variant in AKU-94 bullpup kit with polymer magazine - 7.62x39mm

The AKU-94 is a bullpup conversion kit for the AK type rifle, originally created and sold by American company K-VAR Corporation. Both the European style AKs (like the Romanian AKs or Egyptian Maadis) and the Chinese style of AK rifle (Type 56) can fit into the kit. In the Mid-2000s, KVAR stopped making and selling the AKU-94 conversion kit. All remaining kits were purchased by Century Arms International, and subsequently used to 'spruce up' AK rifles with a futuristic bullpup look. Currently various imported AK rifles (mostly WASRs) with kit installed, is sold by Century Arms International. This bullpup configuration retains the standard barrel length but the design makes the AK rifle more compact making it more suitable for close quarters battle.

Specifications

( - )

  • Type: Assault Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x39mm
  • Feed System: 30-round box magazine
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto/Full-Auto

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Soldier Kurt Russell Sgt. Todd Dressed up as futuristic weapon, with Surefire universal weaponlight and C-More red dot sight 1998
Soldiers
Big Money Hustlas John G. Brennan The Chief modified rear sights 2000
The Apocalypse Code Various terrorists 2007
The Last Sentinel Various commandos 2007
Katee Sackhoff Girl
The Interceptor (Zapreshchyonnaya Realnost) Kurylo's special forces soldier 2009
The Town Slaine Albert 'Gloansy' MacGloan red dot sight 2010
American Heist NOPD SWAT M4-style birdcage flash hider, no sights 2014

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Star Trek: Voyager Robert Beltran Chakotay "Nemesis", Dressed up as alien weapons 1997
Kradin soldiers
The X-Files - Season 7 Ryan Todd 'Mixer' Fitted with Trijicon ACOG scope / "First Person Shooter" (S7E13) 2000
Firefly guards "War Stories" (S1E10) 2002

Video Games

Title Appears as Mods Notes Date
Medal of Honor: Warfighter AK-103 Bullpup w/ various attachments 2012
Call of Duty Online "AKBP" w/ various attachments 2015

"AKMSU"

"AKMSU" in the National Firearms Centre - 7.62x39mm

The AKMSU, as used by most sources outside of IMFDB, specifically designates a custom 7.62x39mm AK-based carbine in the possession of the National Firearms Centre (of the Royal Armouries) in Leeds, United Kingdom. The AKMSU was gifted to the National Firearms Centre in 2005 by UK's MOD Pattern Room, who in turn received the weapon in June 1986. The weapon's exact background is unclear, but most authoritative sources today believe that the AKMSU is a one-off custom carbine made outside of the Soviet Union, likely made in the Khyber Pass region of Pakistan.

A false history came to be attributed to the weapon during the weapon's time in the MOD Pattern Room, which described it as a rare prototype carbine intended for Soviet airborne troops, before being found to be inconvenient to use and phased out by the AKS-74U; this history is refuted by the lack of Soviet documentation on a weapon of this configuration, and the fact that the AKMSU uses non-Russian AK components (see below).

The AKMSU's identity as a custom model is primarily evidenced by its diverse range of components: it features a Type 56 receiver (indicated by the rivet positions at the rear of the receiver), an AKS-74U-like barrel and handguard, an AKMS-style stock, a custom thumbhole foregrip, and a custom muzzle brake containing an expansion chamber, required for cycling.

The name AKMSU, following the naming pattern set by other Soviet AK variants, is short for "Автомат Калашникова Mодернизированный Складной Укороченный", or "Kalashnikov's shortened modernized assault rifle with a folding stock". It is unclear how the name was invented, attributed to the weapon, and became its common name; one of the earliest public depictions of the rifle comes from Masami Tokoi's AK-47 & Kalashnikov Variations, who named it "AKMS Carbine" rather than "AKMSU".

Video Games

Title Appears as Mods Notes Date
Survarium 2013


Converted AKM Pistol / "Krinkov" / "AKMSU"

Converted AKM pistol - 7.62x39mm. This is a blank adapted full auto transferable AKM pistol that was converted into a Krinkov via parts kit. Guns just like this one have been used in Tropic Thunder, Three Kings, and numerous other movies and TV shows.
Converted AKM pistol with RIS handguard - 7.62x39mm

Full-size 7.62x39mm AK variants converted with AKS-74U parts kits exist in recognizable quantities in Hollywood productions, such as Three Kings, Tropic Thunder, Bad Boys II, etc. They are usually nicknamed "Krinkov", originally a nickname for the AKS-74U, by the movie production community.

On IMFDB, such carbines are commonly designated "AKMSU", even though they are configured differently from the National Firearms Centre AKMSU, and are not clones or derivatives of it.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Hard Boiled Philip Kwok Mad Dog 1992
Three Kings Iraqi Republican Guard officer 1999
Training Day Russian mafia hitmen 2001
Ali G Indahouse Gang member 2002
xXx Radek Tomecka Ivan Pedgrag 2002
Czech Police
Bad Boys II Haitian gang members and Cuban special forces 2003
Battle Royale II: Requiem Saki Sakurai Wild Seven 2003
A Man Apart Cartel soldier w/ Bulgarian "waffle"-style plastic magazine 2003
Tears of the Sun Nigerian militia fighter 2003
Mission: Impossible III Davian's mercernaries 2006
The Kingdom Terrorists 2007
Tropic Thunder Brandon Soo Hoo Tran 2008
Flaming Dragon members
The Dark Knight One of Scarecrow's men 2008
Terminator Salvation Human survivor 2009
The Town Jeremy Renner James 'Jem' Coughlin With RIS handguard 2010
The Expendables General Garza's soldiers 2010
Gary Daniels The Brit
Sinners and Saints Johnny Strong Detective Riley 2010
Killer Elite Guard 2011
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Russian agents KCI quad rail handguard 2011
Contraband Diego Luna Gonzalo KCI quad rail handguard 2011
Largo Winch II Police in Bashkortostan 2011
Red Dawn Chris Hemsworth Jed Eckert 2012
Resident Evil: Damnation Leon S. Kennedy / J.D. heavily customized 2012
The Expendables 2 Scott Adkins Hector 2013
Iron Man 3 Ben Kingsley The Mandarin 2013
The Purge: Anarchy Frank Grillo Leo Barnes KCI Quad-Rail handguard 2014
Transcendence Falk Hentschel Bob Railed handguard 2014
22 Jump Street Eddie Perez Library Goon Railed handguard 2014
Sabotage drug cartel assassin 2014
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Contractor Railed handguard 2016
The Fate of the Furious Russian separatists 2017
12 Strong Navid Negahban General Abdul Rashid Dostum 2018
Bad Boys for Life gunman 2020

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Firefly henchman "Heart of Gold" (S01E13) 2003
CSI: Miami Gang Hitman 2002 - 2010
CSI: Miami Russian Mobsters "Seeing Red" 2002 - 2010
CSI: NY Emilio Rivera Little Stevie "Point of No Return" (S05E18) 2004 - Present
Criminal Minds Luke Perry Benjamin Cyrus "Minimal Loss" (S4E03) 2008
Criminal Minds Polygamist cult members "Minimal Loss" (S4E03) 2008
The Unit 2006 - 2009
Hawaii Five-0 Alex O'Loughlin Steve McGarrett RIS handguard 2011
The Last Ship Travis Van Winkle Lt. Danny Green 2014
True Detective gangster 2015
Stranger Things David Harbour Chief Hopper Chapter Eight: "The Battle of Starcourt" (S03E08) 2019

Video Games

Title Appears as Mods Notes Date
Söldner: Secret Wars AKS-74U 2004
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Akm 74/2U Incorrectly chambered in 5.45x39mm 2007
Terrorist Takedown 2: US Navy Seals AKS-74 2008
SAS Secure Tomorrow 2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Akm 74/2U Incorrectly chambered in 5.45x39mm 2008
Armed Forces Corps AKS-74U NONE 2009
Code of Honor 3: Desperate Measures' AKS-74U 2009
Medal of Honor AKS-74U single-player only 2010
Uncharted 3 KAL 7 2011
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier AKS-74U w/ various accessories 2012
Spec Ops: The Line AKS-74U 2012
Medal of Honor: Warfighter AKS-74U Suchka w/ various accessories 2012
Hitman: Absolution 2012
Payday 2 "Krinkov" With underfolding stock 2013
Splinter Cell: Blacklist AKS-74U w/ various accessories 2013

Animation

Title Voice Actor Characters Notation Date
Love, Death & Robots - Season 3 seen in armory; "Kill Team Kill" (S3E05) 2022


Century Arms C39 V2

Century Arms C39 V2 - 7.62x39mm

The Century Arms C39 V2 is an American AKM clone with milled receiver design made by Century Arms.

Specifications

(??? - Present)

  • Type: Assault Rifle, Pistol, SBR,
  • Calibers: 7.62x39mm M43
  • Barrel lengths: 16.5"
  • Length 37.25"
  • Weight 8.05lbs
  • Capacity: 30-round box magazine, AK-47 type magazines (7.62x39mm)
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 2 David Fernandez Jr. One of the men from Gael's group "Grotesque" (S2E08) 2016
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 3 Nathan Sutton Jimmie unknown hybrid with Type 56; "The Unveiling" (S3E07), "Minotaur" (S3E09) 2017
The Walking Dead - Season 7 Unknown Saivors "Well" (S7E02), "Service" (S7E04), "Sing Me A Song" (S7E07), "New Best Friends" (S7E10), "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16) 2016-2017
The Walking Dead - Season 8 - - lying against the table, with Magpul Furniture; "The Damned" (S8E02) 2017-2018

.22 LR Replicas

Adler-Jäger AP-80

An Italian-made AK replica that first debuted in the 1980s, seen in productions filmed in Europe and chambered in .22 LR.

Adler-Jäger AP-80 - .22 LR

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Octopussy Orlov's forces, Border guards 1983
Water Stefan Kalipha Cuban 1985
Alan Igbon Cuban
Billy Connolly Delgado Fitzhugh
Chris Tummings Garfield Cooper
Michael Caine Baxter Thwaites
Man on Fire A combatant in Beirut 1987
Code Name Coq Rouge (Täcknamn Coq Rouge) PLO guard, other characters 1989

Television

Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Bergerac African soldiers "The Last Interview" (S04E01) 1985

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Grand Theft Auto III "AK47" 2001


Firing Replicas

Bollywood Replica AK-47

Commonly seen in Bollywood productions due to Indian firearms restrictions, these replica AK-47s are designed to fire blank ammunition and are most likely custom fabricated by Indian armorers. Virtually all "AK-47s" seen in Bollywood movies (excepting films made with the help of the Indian military) will be such blank-firing replicas.

AK-47 replica, commonly seen in Bollywood productions. Photo from Ekta Enterprises.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Shootout at Lokhandwala Criminals and Mumbai Police 2007
LOC Kargil Pakistani Soldiers 2003
Zero Dark Thirty Pakistani Gunmen 2012


Airsoft Replicas

Tokyo Marui AK-47 Beta Spetsnaz

Tokyo Marui AK-47 Beta Spetsnaz - 6mm BB
JG "AK Beta-F" - 6mm BB

The AK-47 Beta Spetsnaz (stylized as "β-Spetsnaz"; Japanese: AK47 ヴェータ・スペツナズ) is a visually distinct airsoft AK-47 replica featuring AKS-74U elements an a very short foreend, shorter than that of the AKS-74U. It was originally released by Tokyo Marui in 2001. The weapon comes with a fixed stock and by default uses an airsoft AK magazine visually based on the shortened AK magazine used by the RWGŁ-3 (a.k.a. WG-GS-4).

Tokyo Marui also released a different airsoft AK with the foreend of the Beta Spetsnaz and an M4 stock in 2010, known as the AK47 HC.

Clones of the Beta Spetsnaz have been produced by Jing Gong and CYMA.

Anime

Title Character Notation Release date
Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 2013
Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil 2014


Tokyo Marui AK-Spetsnaz

Tokyo Marui AK-Spetsnaz - 6mm BB

The AK-Spetsnaz was the predecessor to Tokyo Marui's AK Beta Spetsnaz. It was a limited edition airsoft AK released at the 36th Shizuoka Hobby Show in 1997. It features a standard AK rear sight, an AKS-47 receiver (without the stock), and no Picatinny rail.

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release date
Ghost Squad "TK1B" Stocked 2004
Operation Ghost Stocked 2011


Non-Firing Replicas

Hudson AK-47

The most common of all movie AK-47s in scenes where a real firearm was not used, is the all metal Japanese "Hudson AK-47". Hudson, a replica gun company like Model Gun Corp. (MGC) made many metal replicas in the 1970s and 1980s.

Hudson AK-47, a Japanese Replica firearm based on the original Type III AK-47, seen here with AKS-style underfolding stock

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Date
Stargate SG-1 - Season 8 Russian soldiers "Full Alert" (S8E14) 2005


See Also


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