The Designer of the AK47 Kalashnikov Assault has Died aged 94.

He was in his 20s when he created the gun just after World War Two

Russian inventor Mikhail Timofeevich Kal

1. It in one of the few weapons that can be totally submerged in water and then still fire straight away.

2. Due to its simplicity and easy of manufacture it is the most copied gun in the world.

3. The inventor of the AK-47 did not profit from the gun. Communist states had no patents, and until its collapse in 1991, Kalashnikov was simply an employee of the Soviet Union.

4. The AK-47 can be stripped in under a minute and cleaned quickly in almost....