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> The Kalashnikov had been designed in 1947

1944 actually, there were examples in trials by 1946. 1947 was the year of adoption of a developed version but it was only ever called AK in Soviet documents.

Something else the article gets wrong is use of a hyphen in M14, M16 etc. A minor point but immediately shows a lack of familiarity or research with the subject. It's like reading a 2019 article that talks about the i-Phone.

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1946 was the first design that was submitted to the trials. And it was almost completely redesigned after it failed in those trials. For one example, the AK-46 prototype was short-stroke piston. Take a look:

http://fb.ru/misc/i/gallery/12424/2098509.jpg

> Something else the article gets wrong is use of a hyphen in M14, M16 etc. A minor point but immediately shows a lack of familiarity or research with the subject. It's like reading a 2019 article that talks about the i-Phone.

I'm not sure how much to read into that. There are programmers who talk about JAVA and "C" and nobody seems to call them on their typographical oddities. In fact, most people seem unwilling to even see them fnord fnord fnord.

The hyphenation is probably the result of an editor determined to adhere precisely to The Atlantic's style guide.

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