Editing AK-47 (section)

== Conflicts ==
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The AK-47 has been used in the following conflicts:

;1940s
* [[Malayan Emergency]] (1948−1960){{sfn|Tucker-Jones|2012|page=21}}

;1950s
* [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungarian Revolution]] (1956)<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/02/10/most-influential-weapon-our-time/ |title=The Most Influential Weapon of Our Time |magazine=[[The New York Review of Books]] |first=Max |last=Hastings |author-link=Max Hastings |date=10 February 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811010810/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/02/10/most-influential-weapon-our-time/ |archive-date=11 August 2017 |quote=József Tibor Fejes, a young Hungarian identified by C. J. Chivers in 'The Gun' as 'the first known insurgent to carry an AK-47.' According to Chivers, 'Fejes obtained his prize after Soviet soldiers dropped their rifles during their attack on revolutionaries in Budapest in 1956…. The Hungarian Revolution marked the AK-47's true battlefield debut.}}</ref>
* [[Vietnam War]] (1955–1975){{sfn|Lanning|2011|page=125}}
* [[Laotian Civil War]] (1959–1975)

;1960s
* [[Congo Crisis]] (1960–1965)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.akg-images.co.uk/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2UMESQJAHUPQB7&POPUPPN=7&POPUPIID=2UMDHU858585|title=Simba uprising 1964–1965; mercenary with captured AK-47, December 1964 |website=AKG Images}}</ref>
* [[Portuguese Colonial War]] (1961–1974)
* [[Rhodesian Bush War]] (1964–1979)<ref name="Zimbabwe">{{cite book |title=Modern African Wars (1): Rhodesia 1965–80 |url=https://archive.org/details/modernafricanwar00abbo_940 |url-access=limited |series=Men-at-Arms 183 |first1=Peter |last1=Abbott |first2=Philip |last2=Botham |date= 1986 |isbn=978-0-85045-728-5 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |page=[https://archive.org/details/modernafricanwar00abbo_940/page/n10 10]}}</ref>
* [[The Troubles]] (late 1960s–1998){{sfn|Horgan|Braddock|2012|page=179}}
* [[Communist insurgency in Thailand]] (1965–1983)
* [[South African Border War]] (1966–1990)
* [[Nathu La and Cho La clashes|India-China clashes (1967)]]
* [[Cambodian Civil War]] (1968–1975)
* [[Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989)]]
* [[Moro conflict]] (1968−2019){{sfn|Morea|2008|page=42}}

;1970s
* [[Yom Kippur War]] (1973)
* [[Ethiopian Civil War]] (1974–1991)<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Ethiopian Military Rifle Cartridges: Part 2: from Mauser to Kalashnikov |last=Scarlata |first=Paul |magazine=[[Shotgun News]] |date=1 March 2009 |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Ethiopian+military+rifle+cartridges%3A+Part+2%3A+from+Mauser+to...-a0195134991 |access-date=24 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124055029/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Ethiopian+military+rifle+cartridges%3A+Part+2%3A+from+Mauser+to...-a0195134991 |archive-date=24 November 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Western Sahara War]] (1975–1991)
* [[Cambodian–Vietnamese War]] (1978–1989)
* [[Chadian–Libyan War]] (1978–1987)
* [[Soviet–Afghan War]] (1979–1989)

;1980s
* [[1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran]]
* [[Iran–Iraq War]] (1980–1988){{sfn|Tucker-Jones|2012|page=105}}
* [[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]] (1988–present)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kanwal |first=Gurmeet |date=April 1999 |title=Proxy War in Kashmir: Jehad or State-Sponsored Terrorism? |url=https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/sa/sa_99kag02.html |journal=Strategic Analysis: A Monthly Journal of the IDSA |volume=XXIII| issue =  1 |page=4 |via=Proxy War in Kashmir: Jehad or State-Sponsored Terrorism?}}</ref>
* [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]] (1983–2009)<ref name="Desmond" />
* [[United States invasion of Grenada]] (1983){{sfn|Florence|1983|page=31}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://nara.getarchive.net/media/soviet-made-ak-47-assault-rifles-seized-during-operation-urgent-fury-on-the-a52b7b |title=Soviet made AK-47 assault rifles seized during Operation Urgent Fury. On the top of the pile of weapons is the barrel attachment to a 7.62 mm machine gun |date=25 October 1983 |website=The U.S. National Archives }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)]]{{sfn|Zagdanski|2007|page=32}}
* [[Lord's Resistance Army insurgency]] (1987–present)<ref name ='SAS 2007 10'>{{cite book |url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html |chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2007/en/full/Small-Arms-Survey-2007-Chapter-10-EN.pdf |chapter=Persistent Instability: Armed Violence and Insecurity in South Sudan |title=The Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2007 |author=Small Arms Survey |page=325 |isbn=978-0-521-88039-8 |access-date=29 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827001033/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html |archive-date=27 August 2018 |url-status=live |author-link=Small Arms Survey}}</ref>
* [[United States invasion of Panama]] (1989){{sfn|Hasenauer|1990|page=51}}

;1990s
* [[KDPI insurgency (1989–1996)]]
* [[Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995)]]<ref name="SAS 2005">{{cite book |url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2005.html |chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2005/en/Small-Arms-Survey-2005-Chapter-06-EN.pdf |chapter=Sourcing the Tools of War: Small Arms Supplies to Conflict Zones |title=Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2005 |author=Small Arms Survey |page=166 |isbn=978-0-19-928085-8 |access-date=29 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830004838/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2005.html |archive-date=30 August 2018 |url-status=dead |author-link=Small Arms Survey}}</ref>
* [[Gulf War]] (1990–1991){{sfn|Tucker-Jones|2012|page=105}}
* [[Somali Civil War]] (1991–present)
* [[Yugoslav Wars]] (1991–2001)
* [[Burundian Civil War]] (1993–2005)<ref name ='SAS 2007 6'>{{cite book |url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html |chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2007/en/full/Small-Arms-Survey-2007-Chapter-06-EN.pdf |chapter=Armed Violence in Burundi: Conflict and Post-Conflict Bujumbura |title=The Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2007 |author=Small Arms Survey |page=204 |isbn=978-0-521-88039-8 |access-date=29 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827001033/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html |archive-date=27 August 2018 |url-status=live |author-link=Small Arms Survey}}</ref>
* [[First Chechen War]] (1994−1996){{sfn|German|2003|page=58}}
* [[Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)]]<ref name ='SAS 2003 263'>{{cite book |url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2003.html |chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2003/en/Small-Arms-Survey-2003-Chapter-08-EN.pdf |chapter=Making the Difference?: Weapon Collection and Small Arms Availability in the Republic of Congo |title=Small Arms Survey 2003: Development Denied |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2003 |author=Small Arms Survey |pages=268 |isbn=0199251754 |access-date=29 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829175229/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2003.html |archive-date=29 August 2018 |url-status=dead |author-link=Small Arms Survey}}</ref>
* [[Kargil War]] (1999)

;2000s
* [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)]]
* [[Iraq War|Iraq War (2003–2011)]]{{sfn|Tucker-Jones|2012|page=105}}
* [[South Thailand insurgency]] (2004–present)
* [[Mexican drug war]] (2006–present)

;2010s
* [[Libyan Civil War (2011)]]
* [[Syrian civil war]] (2011–present)<ref name="Bellingcat" /><ref name="Bender"/>
* [[Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)]]{{sfn|Tucker-Jones|2012|pages=186,193,210}}
* [[Central African Republic Civil War]] (2012–present)<ref name="CAR">{{cite news |title=Centrafrique : le Soudan a-t-il armé les ex-Séléka ? |language=fr |work=[[Jeune Afrique]] |date=17 December 2013 |url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/166718/politique/centrafrique-le-soudan-a-t-il-arm-les-ex-s-l-ka/ |first=Laurent |last=Touchard |access-date=29 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130111716/https://www.jeuneafrique.com/166718/politique/centrafrique-le-soudan-a-t-il-arm-les-ex-s-l-ka/ |archive-date=30 January 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Mali War]] (2012–present)<ref name="MNLA" />
* [[Russo-Ukrainian War]] (2014–present)
* [[Western Iran clashes (2016–present)]]

;2020s
* [[Second Nagorno-Karabakh War]] (2020)
* [[Tigray War]] (2020–2022)
* [[Myanmar civil war (2021–present)]]<ref name="VOA" /><ref name="Tan" />
* [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] (2022–present)
* [[September–October 2022 attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan]]
* [[Gaza war]] (2023–present)<ref name="Biesecker" />