Kalashnikov Concern is an holding including Izhmash the largest Russian manufacturing of small arms such assault and sniper rifles, guns and a wide range of precision firearms. The civilian products include hunting and sporting rifles and shotguns. The Group is the flagship of the Russian sector manufacturing close the totality of Russian small arms and supplyies than 70 countries around the world. Legendary reliability combined with operational simplicity associated with high technology in mechanic and the state of the art in the metallurgy make Izhmash firearms unique. Founded in 1807, Izhmash – Izhevskiy Mashinostroitel’nyy Zavod (core of the Kalashnikov Group) supplied since the Czar times most of the Russian Army small arms. World-wide known for AK, Izhmash produces a wide bunch of rifles such as SR-1, the most advanced rifle of the world, MR-1, the heir to SVD and TR3, the AK fifth generation which made any other competitor obsolete. That’s the clear demonstration of the terrific potentiality and innovation of Izhmash and many other projects are on the way. Izhmash firearms are the undisputed leaders in several IPSC competition divisions. Due to the extreme flexibility of the multi-calibre AK platform (9×19, 223, 5,45×39, 7,62×39, 308, 410, 20 and 12), some models are the dominator in IPSC competitions, self-defense, law enforcement and hunting. Those firearms are the only one resisting to any condition of use even in extreme severe weather: operative from -50° to +50° Celsius, mud, sand, rain, snow, ice and water, they do not suffer any corrosion even in salty water (depending from model they are not corroded by 820/1500 hours in salty fog corresponding from 12 to 22 years of use in sea environment). No other firearm is comparable to them.
