After graduating from high school, he became a railway worker. Later, he became a tank soldier in Rove, western Ukraine. After the outbreak of World War II, he took part in the battle as the commander of a tank unit, when he was only 19 years old.
194 1 One night in late autumn, the Soviet First Tank Corps and the German Tank Corps fought fiercely in Bulhoz. Karasnov quietly opened the hatch on the top of the tank to check the battlefield situation. Suddenly, a shrapnel shot from nowhere hit his right shoulder, and then he lost consciousness and was taken to the rear hospital.
Karasniv's injury is very serious and his recovery is slow. One day, he talked with his patient about the situation on the battlefield. A wounded and sick man said, "We use single-shot rifles and the enemy uses submachine guns. How can we defeat them? " ? If our guns were better than theirs, the situation on the battlefield would be different. "
It is unintentional, but the listener is interested. Karasniv, who has been interested in firearms and weapon design for a long time, had a brainwave and thought: Anyway, I am lying in a hospital bed, so it is better to make full use of this convalescence time and make some contributions to the Great Patriotic War. So he immediately set out to design a new gun that frightened fascist Germans.
After devoting himself wholeheartedly, Karasniv designed the first submachine gun in his life in 1942, and soon the gun was sent to Almaty to participate in the selection experiment of the Soviet Equipment Planning Committee. This automatic rifle designed by Karasniv in 1947 was identified as Soviet standard equipment and named AK47 assault rifle. The meaning of AK47 is as follows: A stands for automatic gun, K is the first letter of Karasniv's name, and 47 stands for 1947 stereotypes.
There are two models of AK47: folding stock and fixed stock. It can fire 7.62mm M43 medium-sized bullets from the former Soviet Union, with single shot and multiple shots. The gun has the advantages of simple structure, fierce firepower, good service, few faults and durability, which is very suitable for soldiers to fight by car. It can still shoot normally in harsh environments such as sandstorm and muddy water. It is the most famous and widespread weapon in the world and one of the six famous guns in the world. The former Soviet Union once equipped troops for use, and it was also widely used by former Warsaw countries and third world countries, and was also provided to Palestinian guerrillas for use. During the Vietnam War, the former Soviet Union provided AK47 to the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front in large quantities. On the battlefield, the gun has fully demonstrated its good combat performance and is very popular with soldiers. Even American soldiers have taken great interest in this kind of gun. Their slogan is: throw away M 16 and pick up AK47.