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Authors: C. J. Chivers

Tags: #Europe, #AK-47 rifle - History, #Technological innovations, #Machine guns, #Eastern, #Machine guns - Technological innovations - History, #Firearms - Technological innovations - History, #Russia & the Former Soviet Union, #General, #Weapons, #Firearms, #Military, #War - History, #AK-47 rifle, #War, #History

The Gun (82 page)

Hungarian policy and,
220
–21

Kalashnikov and,
4
,
146
–47,
174
–76,
181
–82,
185
,
191
,
210
–11,
213
,
244
–45

in Korean War,
264

Prague Spring and,
348

purges in,
156
,
210

Russian civil war and,
156
,
170
,
193

in Vietnam,
264
,
294
,
332

weapons standardization and,
364
–65,
408

weapons stockpiling and,
13
,
349

World War II and,
156
,
246

Congo, Democratic Republic of,
248
,
357
,
371
,
379
–80

Congress, U.S.:

Gatling gun purchases and,
52
–53

on Indian wars,
61

M-16 and,
296
,
304
,
310
,
314
–16,
321
,
323
,
325
–27,
331
,
334
,
356
,
442
n

on ownership of automatic rifles,
14
,
236

Constitution, U.S.,
17
–18

Cooper Fire Arms Manufacturing Company,
37

Cooper-MacDonald, Inc.,
277
–78

Côte d’Ivoire,
370

criminals, criminal gangs,
70

AK and AK-type rifles used by,
5
,
7
,
9
,
11
,
13
–14,
17
,
268
,
340
,
378
n
,
387
,
408
–10,
413

illegal-arms transfers and,
371

and Thompson submachine gun production and distribution,
233
–36,
279

Crocker, Ryan,
388

Cuba:

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution,
9
,
340
,
406

FAL rifle distribution and,
364

Gatling guns purchased by,
53

in Spanish-American War,
90
,
93
–95,
424
n

Cuban Missile Crisis,
5

CUCKWAGON,
20

Culver, Richard O., Jr.,
266
–67,
321
,
329

Cummings, Samuel,
354
–56,
358
,
363
,
369

Curran, William J.,
297

Custer, George A.:

Gatling guns rejected by,
60
–61,
64
,
92

in Indian Wars,
58
–64

Czechoslovakia,
174
,
214
,
216
,
348
–49

AK-type rifle production resisted by,
281
n
,
434
n

Prague Spring in,
348

standard rifle of,
340
n
,
349

Velvet Revolution of,
365

Daoud, Abu,
443
n

De Cristoforis, Tomasso,
82

Defense Department, U.S.,
254
–59,
268
–71,
274
–75,
413

and AK-47 design and development,
270
,
280

and AK-47 production and distribution,
251
,
259
,
265
,
268

ammunition and,
255
–57

AR-15 and,
274
,
280
,
284
,
288
–89,
292
,
296

on asymmetric war,
14

atomic bomb and,
144

M-16 and,
269
–71,
292
–93,
295
,
303
–5,
307
,
313
,
319
,
323
,
330
–34,
415
–16

purchase prices of AK rifles for,
386

systems analysis in,
271

see also
War Department, U.S.

Degtyarev, Vasily A.,
158
,
185
,
188
,
192
–95

and AK-47 design and development,
185
,
193
–94

Deikin, Vladimir S.,
188
,
191
,
192

Dementyev, Aleksandr A.,
187

DeMille, Roy,
312
–13

Deutsche Waffen and Munitions Fabrik,
119

Dogali,
81
–83

Dominick, Peter H.,
315

Dong Van Khuyen,
332

Dragunov, Evgeny Fedorovich,
16
,
166
n
,
244
,
364
,
433
n
,
436
n

Dubcek, Alexander,
348

Dulles, Allen,
237
,
238

Dyer, Alexander B.,
38
–39,
41

Dziemian, Arthur J.,
285
–88

East Germany,
see
German Democratic Republic

East Panlung, Japanese assault on,
115

Edison, Thomas,
68
,
71

Edwards, William B.,
257
–58,
437
n

Egypt,
56
,
78
,
354
–55,
357
–58

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution,
12
–13,
16
,
250
,
341
,
349
,
357
,
387
,
390
–91

in fighting at Omdurman,
97
,
129
–30

Gatling guns sold to,
42

Israeli peace treaty with,
358

Israeli wars with,
12
,
216
,
341
,
355
,
358

Sadat’s assassination in,
10
,
354
,
358

Soviet relations with,
216
–17

and terrorist attacks on Israel,
349
–50,
358

Elizarov, Nikolai,
166

Elrod, Claude E.:

Chervenak’s letter and,
321
,
323

Vietnam and,
266
–67,
317
,
321
,
323
,
335
–36

El Salvador, war in,
363
–64

Encyclopedia of Arms
(Fedorov),
180

Engels, Friedrich,
201

ERMA,
246

Ethiopia, Italian campaign in,
81
–82

Fabrique-Nationale de Herstal (FN),
258
,
364
,
444
n

Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation,
274
–75,
277
,
278
n
,
296

FAL,
364
,
444
n

Fallows, James,
326
n

Farabundo Martí Liberation Front (FMLN),
363
–64

FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia),
384

Farouk I, King of Egypt,
349
,
358

Fatah,
10
,
350

Fechter, Peter,
346
–48

fedayeen,
349
–50,
358
,
384
–85

Fedorov, Vladimir Grigorevich,
180
,
185

automatic rifle ammunition and,
165
–66

automatic rifle of,
138
,
165
–68,
193

F.E.G.,
399

Fejes, József Tibor,
236
–42

AK-47 of,
225
–27,
237
,
239
–42,
383

arrest and trial of,
240
–41

execution of,
242

and Soviet invasion of Hungary,
238
–39

Fieschi, Giuseppe,
27
,
390

Finland,
9
,
12
,
166
,
248
–51
257
FMLN (Farabundo Martí Liberation Front),
363
–64

FN (Fabrique-Nationale de Herstal),
258
,
364
,
444
n

Folger, William,
54
–55

Fosbery, G. V.,
44
–45,
55
–56

France,
103
,
109
–10,
252

and AK-47 production and distribution,
338
,
340
n

in Franco-Prussian War,
44
–46,
53
–55,
65
,
110

and Maxim gun marketing and sales,
83
,
421
n

Maxim gun production in,
89

mitrailleur of,
43
–46,
55
,
421
n

rifle cartridges of,
161

weapons stockpiling and,
355

in World War I,
118
,
122
,
124
–25,
127
,
130
–32,
246

in World War II,
161

Franco-Prussian War,
44
–46,
53
–55,
65

casualties in,
45
,
110

Fremont, Robert D.,
299
,
303
,
331

Frink, Otis,
26
,
418
n

G-3,
384
n

Galil,
444
n

Galileo,
406

Galili, Yisrael,
12
,
444
n

Garand, John C.,
202

AK-46 design and,
192

M1 of,
see
M1 Garand

Gardner, William,
64
–66,
390

Gardner gun,
51
,
91
,
109

ammunition of,
68
,
81

and battle at Abu Klea,
79
–81,
83

casualties inflicted by,
80
–81

competition of,
64
–66,
83

design of,
75
,
81

jamming of,
80
–81,
83
,
112
,
299

marketing and sales of,
83

production of,
66
,
299

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