AK-74 facts for kids

The original AK-74

The current AK-74

The AK-74 is a Russian made assault rifle. The letters AK stand for Avtomat Kalashnikova, which is Russian for Mikhail Kalashnikov's Automatic Rifle. The AK-74 is a later version of the AK-47 that has a few new features. The most important of these is that it fires a smaller cartridge, the 5.45x39.5mm Soviet.

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Images for kids

The AK-74 stripped down to its major components.
An AK-74M muzzle device venting propellant gases
1P29 Universal sight for the AK-74 and other small arms
A Russian marine on exercise with the AKS-74 variant with plum colored polymer furniture.
AK-74 5.45×39mm wound ballistics
The AKS-74. Designed for airborne infantry and equipped with a folding shoulder stock
Upgrade set Обвес for the AK-74M and AK-100 rifle family
An AKS-74U with accessories tuned by Zenitco
NATO E-type Silhouette Target
AK-74 rifle family overview and AK-100 models based on it.
AK-74 rifle and AKS-74U carbine.
MPI-KM-74 with magazines and 5.45×39mm (7N6) ammunition can.
Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) cadets wielding AK-74M rifles during the 2005 Annual Moscow Victory Parade.
VDV soldier firing an AK-74M rifle.
A modernized AK-74 displayed in 2013 by Internal troops special units.
Modernized AK-74M assault rifles displayed in 2015 by VDV troops.
Soviet naval infantrymen in 1990 with bayonet-equipped AKS-74 rifles.
AKS-74U carbines.
Left to right; Russian soldiers with AS Val, AKS-74U and AK-74M.
AKS 74U tuned with polymer furniture.
'Обвес' Universal Upgrade Kit for the AK-74M and AK-100 rifle family