Claim: The AK-47 has been used by armed forces.
Evidence: In 1946 , the AK-47 was presented for official military trials , and in 1948 , the fixed-stock version was introduced into active service with selected units of the Soviet Army.
The Soviet Army -LRB- -LSB- Советская Армия , Sovetskaya Armiya -RSB- -RRB- is the name given to the main land-based branch of the Soviet Armed Forces between February 1946 and December 1991 , when it was replaced with the Russian Ground Forces , although it was not taken fully out of service until 25 December 1993.