AK-47
Cooking Bacon on the Barrel of Your Gun Is the Most American Thing Ever
Gun enthusiasts are taking to YouTube to show off their favorite new culinary appliance for cooking up a few bacon strips: assault rifles. This is the new face of patriotism.
Testing Kalashnikov’s Newest Assault Rifles (Excerpt from 'Rebranding the AK-47’)
In this excerpt, VICE News correspondent Ben Makuch travels to a Moscow shooting range to test out some of Kalashnikov's newest weapons, barred from the United States market by economic sanctions.
Rebranding the AK-47: A Weapon of Peace
VICE News heads to Moscow to talk to the CEO of Kalashnikov Group and its PR agency about the recent rebranding of its firearms as "weapons of peace."
Arms Critic Slams Attempt to Rebrand AK-47 as a 'Weapon of Peace'
In a glitzy ad-campaign, Kalashnikov recast its classic AK models and other products not as the weapons of al Qaeda or Russian soldiers invading Crimea, but as a tool to fight oppression. An arms critic called the branding "utterly disrespectful."
Rebranding the AK-47 (Trailer)
Coming soon: VICE News heads to Moscow to talk to the CEO of Kalashnikov Group and its PR agency about the recent rebranding of its firearms as "weapons of peace."
A Weapons Company Sponsored Russia's Junior Hockey Team
The arms manufacturer, which has sold to international pariahs like Bashar al Assad and Muammar Qaddafi, found a way to advertise during the match against Canada.
The World's Most Famous Assault Rifle Is Getting Rebranded
The AK-47 is possibly the most recognizable weapon on earth, and it's getting a new logo and ad campaign.
Inside 'Black Dart,' the US Military's War On Drones
The military's annual and, until this year, very secret Exercise Black Dart is about finding ways to kill enemy drones — which means it's also about the future of air power.
In Photos: The Erbil Gun Market Supplying Weapons to Fight the Islamic State
Peshmerga fighters do their gun shopping at a market in Erbil, where the prices fluctuate according to the fortunes of war.
Weed Pizza and AK-47s: My Summer Vacation in Cambodia
I came to Cambodia to live out the dream I had entertained since my days as a young boy watching endless action movies and filling my youthful hours with GI Joes and Nerf guns: I was going to shoot an AK-47.
The US Might Have Lost a Heap of Weapons in Afghanistan
Neither US officials nor their Afghan counterparts are really sure whether thousands of small arms can be accounted for.
Mexican Narco Music Is the Soundtrack to the War on Drugs
Mexico's narcocorrido music genre and subculture openly celebrates the most extreme aspects of the country's drug war.