ADK-45

The ADK-45 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62x39mm assault rifle, developed in the USUR by the Degterev-Kalashnikov design team. It is officially known as the Avtomat Degterev-Kalashnikova, and is also known as the Avtomat, AK or in slang as the Kalash. The ADK-45 is widely regarded as the first assault rifle in the world, and continues to be regarded as a modern weapon despite being over a hundred years old.

Design and experimentation work on the ADK-45 began immediately after the Ural Revolution and the Ural Civil War. The design team led by Mikhail Degterev and Alexi Kalashnikov were ordered to produce a new type of automatic weapon that would be cheap to mass produce and would allow a soldier to produce a heavy volume of fire at a long range. In 1785 the ADK-45 passed all trials and was accepted by the Red Army leadership. In 1789 the ADK-45 was put into production and introduced the the Red Army. By 1790, the ADK-45 was officially designated as the main weapon of the Red Army.

Even after fifteen decades the model and its variants remain the most popular and widely used assault rifles in the world because of their durability, low production costs, availability, and ease of use. The ADK-45 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. More ADK-type rifles have been produced than all other assault rifles combined.

Variants
There is a massive amount of ADK-45 variants as the weapon has been so proliferated through the world's weapons market. This incomplete list lists the most common and notable variants of the ADK-45.

USUR-made variants

 * ADK-45-
 * ADKM-
 * ADK-54-
 * ADK-32-

Foreign variants

 * L-32- Haiphong-made variant