Ironically it was invented after the end of the Second World War, the WW2 ways of combat approach actually gave insight to the young man Mikael Kalashnikov to be curious enough to invent a weapon that will see Russia win wars better than the weaponry used in the WW2.
The AK 47 is the most popular assault rifle world over because of its prolific and effective combat use.
It is simple a light weapon, durable easy to use and very cheap in the market ever since it was invented to this day.
This light weapon is responsible for the death of a quarter of a million deaths world-wide, every year.
The weapon industry revolutionarized the way war would be fought after the WW2.
The high-tech-Atomic bomb ended the WW2, because of its mass destruction, no country had any appetite for nuclear weapons, only to be replaced by a lower tech-AK 47, deadlier than any other weapon used in any war situation.
The AK 47 is known for its destruction in eastern bloc countries.
The SU used it to suppress any uprising in the eastern bloc countries.
The Czechoslovakian and Hungarian uprisings of 1950s were suppressed using the effective AK 47.
About 50,000 Hungarians were casualties of AK 47: gunned down against 7000 SU soldiers who also perished in the conflict.
All other wars in eastern countries; SU used the AK 47 to spread communism in Eastern Europe.
When conflict ended, AK 47 will be collected by sales-brokers to any other conflict in the world.
The cold war was fought using AK 47.
The SU gave its allies the military artillery: mainly the AK 47 because they were cheap and durable and in abundance since the wars in Europe had ended.
The Vietnam War was won because the Vietnamese used AK 47 against the USA weapon M-14 or M-16, the USA equivalence of an AK47.
The liberation movements in Africa were equipped with AK 47 weapons, was easy to facilitate them as they were cheap and durable, easy to transport to locations intended to use.
The end of the cold war meant overall transformations and upgrades designed to make weapons better to combat modern type of wars after the WW2.
The weapons innovations during the cold war rendered the AK 47 a third-world weapon of mass destruction.
The SU and its allies found themselves with so many AK 47 rifles; they had to find means to sell them elsewhere to get some profit than to send them for destruction.
The AK 47 found its permanent home in African continent because in this continent’s conflicts are never ending.
Who has ever seen an African holding an AK 47 on his hands, the excitement he shows in possession of a weapon that determines life and death?
These weapons are not invented in Africa but elsewhere.
The African continent is a consumer of such weapons of mass destruction.
They are cheap and in abundance, the illicit trading of small arms and light weapons is a multi-billion dollar profit because the demand in Africa is permanent.
African is so to speak, a dumping place of such “out of date” weapons because of numerous conflicts in Africa.
There has been an estimated of 630 state-based and non non-state armed conflicts in the entire continent: this trade will always exist and will continue to make billions of profits to sustain unquenchable demand for SALW.
Globally, the African continent has the greatest number of conflicts.
Whereas some conflicts are latent, most of them are active and open hostilities are expressed through armed conflicts.
The countries with active conflicts are: Angola, Burundi, Chad, Cote d’voire.
DRC, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Republic of Congo Senegal, Sierra Leone Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania Zanzibar, and Uganda and very soon it will be Zimbabwe.
Illicit trading of small arms is what nurtures conflicts in Sub-Sahara.
The influx of small arms and light weapons is financed by cash, diamonds, oil reserves, minerals and of course other means.
However it is not the availability of light weapons that cause of the wars in Africa.
Because SALW are cheap to get in the market, their easy availability triggers, and nurtures and prolongs these African conflicts.
The disproportionate number of casualties in Africa due to conflicts triggered by the availability of SALW is about 7 to 8 million since 2001 and 14 million refugees and asylum seekers in the world are of African origin.
Of the 21 million internally displaced people in the world, 10 million are Africans.
But this trade still and makes billion worth of dollars each year and there is nobody in the continent that can control it effectively.
These small arms and light weapons land generally in the hands of failed politicians (Jonas Savimbi of Angola) to a certain extent but in most cases conflicts arise between political parties, between groups, groups and governments and communities trying to finding solutions are most combative, small arms and light weapons come in handy to determine the conflict forcefully, summed up as “Frustration and Aggression Theory. ”
One can even talk of gun-culture in some parts of Africa like South Africa.
Global arms-industries know where lucrative profits are on demand: the African continent.
Africa has unending conflicts in many regions and this arms trade feeds them with the easily available arms necessary to perpetuate conflicts, a preponderance of repeat civil wars.
Some civil conflict develop to full scale wars whereby the rebel groups will have acquired arms, sometimes seized or stolen from government forces, to a certain extent looted from state armouries or purchased from corrupt soldiers. 🔗 Read Full Article
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