The Gun

Rhodes, Boatswain’s Mate, 80

“Rifle, 5.56MM,XM16E1” (Rottmann), 263

Rifle Testing Commission, German, 139

Riga, 220, 365

Ripley, James W., 36, 37

Gatling gun sales and, 32, 91

in standardizing Union Army’s weapons, 32–33, 419n

Ripley gun, 28–29

Rivers, L. Mendel, 310

Rixon, A. J., 125–26

RK-60, 249

RK-62, 250

Robari, 85–86

Rock Island Arsenal, 290–91, 296, 299–300, 305, 307, 326

Rogers, Ebenezer, 54–58

in Ashanti War, 54

in Gatling gun marketing and sales, 54, 56–58, 62, 65, 81–82, 149, 422n

Romania, 214–15, 225, 399

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 12–13, 215, 245, 382, 390–91, 409, 412

purchase prices of AK-type rifles from, 386

revolution in, 365–66

Romtechnica, 399

Ronietto, 85–86

Roosevelt, Theodore, 96–97

Rosebud River, Native American encampment on, 58–60

Rosoboronexport, 400, 403, 444n

Rottmann, Larry, 263

Rougier, Michael, 225, 240–41

Royal Bavarian Arsenal, 40

Royal Laboratory, 68

Royal Rifle and Ammunition Factory, 246

Royal United Services Institution, 55, 82

Gardner’s lecture at, 64–65

Rogers’s lecture at, 57–58, 422n

RPK (Ruchnoi Pulemyot Kalashnikova), 16, 243–44, 364

Ruger, 293

Russell, Richard B., Jr., 296

Russian Empire, 169

advance on Khiva of, 48–49, 57, 61

automatic rifles in, 138

collapse of, 170

Gatling gun sales and, 40–41, 48, 51–52, 56, 167

Maxim guns purchased and used by, 112, 114–16, 167

in World War I, 246

Yomuds repulsed by, 49, 57–58, 61

Russian Federation, 385, 398–406, 408–12

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 207, 390–91, 409, 412

Kalashnikov’s public duties and, 401–3

and purchase prices of AK rifles, 382

training on AK rifles in, 404–5

weapons stockpiling and, 398–99, 410–11

Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, 141, 184, 219–20, 340

and AK and AK-type rifle design and development, 146–47, 257

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 3, 11–13, 15, 17

reliability of historical sources in, 19

in World War II, 143, 146, 149

see also Soviet Union

Russo-Japanese War, 113–17

battle for Port Arthur in, 113–16, 122–23, 252

casualties in, 114–17, 122, 426n

Maxim guns in, 113–17, 119, 167, 252

Rwanda, 13, 340, 357, 371

S

Saakashvili, Mikheil, 385

Sadat, Anwar, 10, 354, 358

Sakamoto, Lieutenant, 117

Sakharov, Andrei D., 407

Sakurai, Tadayoshi, 114, 116

Salih, Barham, 388–90, 392–94, 396

Salih, Sergey, 360

Salisbury, Lord, 106

Samozaryadny Karabin Sistemy Simonova (SKS), 155, 184, 187–88, 217

Saturday Evening Post, 235

Saturday Review, 53

Saudi Arabia, 361

SAWS (Small Arms Weapons Systems) test, 293–94, 303

SAWs (squad automatic weapons), 363n, 378n, 442n

SCAR, 20

Scherer, Theodor, 164

Schmeisser, Hugo, 202

and AK-47 design and development, 152, 192, 207–8, 433n

automatic rifle of, 139, 163–64, 207–8, 254

Schnitzler, Karl-Edvard von, 348

Schreiber, Kurt, 246–47

Schurovo, see NIPSMVO

SCHV (small-caliber, high-velocity) rounds, 276–77, 353, 438n

Scientific American, 109

Semin, Boris, 166

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 11, 396

Serbia, 12, 367–68, 399

Serov, Ivan, 238

SG-43, 206

Shirayev, Dmitri, 207–8

Shooting Times, 297–98

Sierra Leone, 370–71

Simelius, Sakari, 249

Simonov, Sergei Gavrilovich, 160

Kalashnikov’s submachine gun designs and, 183–84