Officially known as the Amphibious Hovering Tank, this creative craft was first developed in 1937 – two years before the Red Army's forays into Poland and Finland – by a team of engineers led by the brilliant professor Vladimir Israilevich Levkov, aged 42 at the time.
Saturday marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the WWII vet who became one of the USSR and Russia’s best-known small arms designers. The AK-47 was Kalashnikov’s most famous design, and remains the mainstay of nearly 100 armies across Eurasia, Africa and Latin America. Learn more about the iconic rifle.
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Arms manufacturers pushed more than 24 million assault weapons onto the American streets, one for every 10 adults, each designed with a single purpose — to kill lots of people as fast as possible