0 a type of assault rifle (= a light gun with a long barrel that can fire many bullets quickly) originally made in the Soviet Union:
The city streets were empty, with only flatbed trucks carrying soldiers pointing their Kalashnikovs menacingly in every direction.
He was carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle when he was captured.
They had heavy weapons and rockets and Kalashnikovs and grenades.
A female fighter sat under a canopy of tree branches on a nearby hill, her Kalashnikov rifle at her side.
