--- title: "The company behind the AK-47 just unveiled a brand new rifle" date: "2020-08-21" modified: "2020-08-21" authors: - name: "Jared Keller" job_title: "Former Managing Editor" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/kalashnikov-ak-19-assault-rifle-video/" categories: - "Around the World" - "Guns" - "News" - "Russia" - "Tech & Tactics" - "Weapons" tags: - "European Command" --- # The company behind the AK-47 just unveiled a brand new rifle ![]() Kalashnikov Concern is [back with a brand new invention](). The legendary Russia state-owned weapons manufacturer unveiled a new variant of its AK-12 assault rifle on social media earlier this week, [according]() to Jane's. Dubbed the AK-19, the new lightweight rifle is chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO compared to its predecessor's 5.45×39mm rounds. While the rifle is still in development and details are scarce, but the AK-19's upgrades over the AK-12 reportedly include a redesigned polymer stock, a multi-slotted flash suppressor rather than the muzzle break, and new proprietary polymer magazines, [according]() to Jane's. Kalashnikov Concern plans on officially revealing the AK-19 at the Russian Ministry of Defense's ARMY-2020 International Military-Technical Forum in Moscow in late August, [according]() to Russia Today. Here's video of the AK-19 in action published to Kalashnikov Concern's official Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_RGwbhRgd ***Related: [The Russian military wants to adopt this brand new Kalashnikov assault rifle]()*** ## Author Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications. ### Author social links [Twitter]() [Facebook]() [LinkedIn]() [Instagram]()