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AK-47
The AK-47, officially Avtomat Kalashnikova (Russian: Автомат Калашникова, lit. 'Kalashnikov's automatic [rifle]'), is a select-fire, gas-operated 7.62x39mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov. The model spawned the Kalashnikov rifle family of weapon designs, whose members would be adopted by large amounts of countries as their service rifles, becoming one of the most widely used firearms in the world.
The AK-47 and its variants 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. Multiple Communist Bloc countries manufactured copies of the AK-47 (and the AKM), some of which would go on to spawn derivative rifle families with designs distinct from Soviet/Russian designs. These include:
- China: Type 56 assault rifle
- Hungary: AKM-63
- Romania: PM md. 63
- Yugoslavia: Zastava M70
Note: This page specifically focuses on 7.62x39mm Soviet/Russian variants of the Kalashnikov rifle, as well as their near-identical copies manufactured by other countries. For 7.62x39mm Kalashnikov variants with distinctive designs used by other countries, please see their respective pages. For later modernized Soviet/Russian Kalashnikov variants, see the AK-74, AK-100 series, and AK-12 pages.
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 Models
AK-46
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
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 by western firearm collectors into three distinctive 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 | 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 | |
| Kite | Emir's gunmen | 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 | |||
| Clash (Bay Rong) | Johnny Nguyen and Veronica Ngo | Quan and Trinh | Type III | 2009 |
| 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 | ||
| Soldier Soldier | Conor Mullen | C Sgt Maj. Alan Fitzpatrick | Season 07 Ep10. "Chain of Command" | 1997 |
| 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 | seen on leaflet; "Grilled" (S2E02) | 2009 | ||
| Seen in music video; "Negro Y Azul" (S2E07) | ||||
| Charlie's Angels | on photo | 2011 | ||
| Midsomer Murders | Mercenaries | S14E7 "A Sacred Trust" | 2011 | |
| Breaking Bad - Season 4 | Cartel Member | Cybergun airsoft; "Salud" (S4E10) | 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 | ||
| Better Call Saul - Season 5 | Uncredited | Herardo | "Something Unforgivable" (S5E10) | 2020 |
| 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 | |
| The Last of Us - Season 1 | Anna Torv | Tess | "Infected" (S1E02) | 2023 |
| Revolutionaries of Kansas City | "Please Hold to My Hand" (S1E04) | |||
| The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 1 | Power of the Living movement Guerrier | "Paris Sera Toujours Paris" (S1E03), "La Dame de Fer" (S1E04) | 2023 |
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 | |
| Upotte!! | Type 3 and Type 1 | 2012 | |
| 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 | |
| Chainsaw Man | Yakuza members | "Mission Start" (S1E11) | 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 | ||
| Conflict: Global Terror | 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 Two | 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 | |||
| Krunker | Good Ol' Days | Various skins remove the stock and visually have a smaller magazine | Incorrectly has ejection ports on both sides, the charging handle on the left side, no magazine release, no safety, and holds 28 rounds | 2019 |
| 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
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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 | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area | North Korean military | 2022 | ||
| Moon Knight - Season 1 | Alex Martin | Arthur Harrow's cultist | "The Friendly Type" (S1E03), "The Tomb" (S1E04), "Gods and Monsters" (S1E06) | 2022 |
| The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 1 | Power of the Living movement Guerriers | "Deux Amours" (S1E05) | 2023 | |
| The Continental: From the World of John Wick | Continental Enforcers | "Brothers in Arms" (S1E01), "Loyalty to the Master" (S1E02), "Theater of Pain" (S1E03) | 2023 |
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 | ||
| Conflict: Vietnam | 2004 | |||
| Project Reality | With optional bayonet | 2005 | ||
| Cold War (VG) | 2005 | |||
| Escape from Tarkov | seen on the training poster | 2016 |
AKM
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSS 117: From Africa with Love | Ilya Nikitenko | A Soviet soldier | 2021 | |
| Soviet soldiers | ||||
| Jean Dujardin | Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath / OSS 117 | |||
| 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 | w/ two magazines "jungle taped" | 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 | |
| Breaking Bad - Season 3 | "One Minute" (S3E07) | 2010 | ||
| 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 |
| Breaking Bad - Season 5 | Seen in armory; "To'hajiilee" (S5E13) | 2013 | ||
| 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 | |
| Fear the Walking Dead - Season 2 | Los Hermanos members | "Los Muertos" (S2E09) | 2016 | |
| The Jackal (Shakal) | Militsiya | 2016 | ||
| Operation "Satan" (Operatsiya "Satana") | Militsiya | 2018 | ||
| Better Call Saul - Season 4 | Gabe Baca | Espinosa Gang Member | "Talk" (S4E04) | 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 | ||
| Better Call Saul - Season 5 | Ulysses Montoya | Ciro | "Something Unforgivable" (S5E10) | 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 |
| Secret Invasion - Season 1 | Skrull Rebels | w/black synthetic furniture; "Beloved" (S1E04) | 2023 | |
| The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 1 | Power of the Living movement guerrier | "Paris Sera Toujours Paris" (S1E03) | 2023 |
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 | |||
| Call to Arms | 2018 | |||
| Krunker | Assault Rifle | Shorter magazine, optional Pan AV reflex sight or ACOG scope, some skins remove the rail and its ability to attach sights | Incorrectly has no safety and holds 28 rounds | 2019 |
| 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 | |
| Into the Radius VR | "AKM" | Various attachments, dovetail rail | 10 and 30-round magazines available | 2020 |
| Far Cry 6 | "AK-47, AK-M" | Standard and tactical variants | 2021 | |
| Enlisted | 2021 | |||
| Atomic Heart | Tons of attachments | Anachronistic | 2021 |
Animation
| Title | Voice Actor | Characters | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love, Death & Robots - Season 3 | seen in armory; "Kill Team Kill" (S3E05) | 2022 |
AKMS
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullet Train | Yakuza members | 2022 | ||
| OSS 117: From Africa with Love | Soviet soldiers | 2021 | ||
| Bamba's guards | ||||
| African rebels | ||||
| Arms dealers | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Clash (Bay Rong) | Gangster French | 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 | ||
| The Living Daylights | Maryam d'Abo | Kara Milovy | 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 | ||
| Fear the Walking Dead - Season 2 | Los Hermanos members | "Los Muertos" (S2E09), "North" (S2E15) | 2016 | |
| Ruben Carbajal | Antonio Reyes | "North" (S2E15) | ||
| Edwin Garcia II | Los Hermanos member | |||
| Magnum P.I. | Zachary Knighton | Orville "Rick" Wright | "Payback is for Beginners" (S02E01) | 2019 |
| Katran | A Soviet Internal Troops Sergeant | 2020 | ||
| Better Call Saul - Season 5 | Norman Mora | Miguel | w/drum magazine; "Something Unforgivable" (S5E10) | 2020 |
| Topi | seen on the training poster; "Frenzy" (S1E04), "Transfiguration" (S1E05) | 2021 | ||
| Reacher | gunmen | "In a Tree" (S1E04) | 2022 | |
| The Continental: From the World of John Wick | Continental enforcer | "Theater of Pain" (S1E03) | 2023 |
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
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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
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
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)
- Manufacturer: Fabryka Broni Radom.
- 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
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"
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"
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
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. | La Mañas member | Unknown Model; "Grotesque" (S2E08) | 2016 |
| Los Hermanos members and Militiamen | Unknown Model; "North" (S2E15) | |||
| 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.
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.
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
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
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.
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stargate SG-1 - Season 8 | Russian soldiers | "Full Alert" (S8E14) | 2005 |
See Also
- Izhevsk Machinebuilding Plant - A list of all firearms manufactured by Izhmash.