Michael Kalashnikov’s challenge was to utilize skills from the engineering field to build a firearm that revolved around its bullet, and would be simple for the user to manipulate. The AK47 fires a 7.62x39 projectile, which is known to be an intermediate cartridge. This is created in such a way to have peak efficiency on human targets and not excessively strong, such as most military rounds used at the time. Such cartridges are made by making a bullet casing short and fat and making the rounds dimensions smaller, thus allowing more rounds to be held inside the firearm’s magazine (Wikipedia, AK-47). This allowed the AK platform to hold nearly three times as many rounds per gun than the average military rifle. It also allows them to carry more
