Fri 30 September 2022:
After seven months of fighting in Ukraine, Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov is already boasting about a 20-year “record” in sales of its renowned assault rifle, DPA reported.
On Thursday, company president Alan Lushnikov announced in the city of Izhevsk that Kalashnikov sales had increased by 40%. For the most widely used weapon in the world, he did not provide precise sales figures.
The priority, on behalf of the Russian Defence Ministry, is its own army, Lushnikov stressed. “Ensuring the country’s defence capability especially in the current conditions is the task that all departments of the company are focused on fulfilling without exception.” Kalashnikovs are also being used in the war in Ukraine.
According to Lushnikov, however, the increase in sales is also due to exports. Already in September, this had exceeded last year’s total exports.
“Our production capacities are being used quite intensively this year,” he said. According to earlier information, India, for example, is receiving 70,000 AK-103 Kalashnikovs.
According to reports, the Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport now exports more than 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles of various models each year.
The most widely used assault rifle in the world, the Kalashnikov automatic rifle (AK), is frequently copied without a Russian license.
The Russian Ministry of Defense and the Kalashnikov company announced their agreement to buy hundreds of thousands of new AK-12 assault rifles in August of last year. It stated that the army’s equipment renewal has been planned out over many years.
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