Claim: The AK-47 has not been used by armed forces.
Evidence: In the spring of 1949 , the AK-47 was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces and used by the majority of the member states of the Warsaw Pact.
The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance -LRB- CoMEcon -RRB- , the regional economic organization for the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe.