Alexey Dragunov holds an AK-9, the latest model of the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle, at a ground field outside Izhevsk, 06 August 2007. Dragunov, who started working at Izhmash 29 years ago, is part of that history. His father developed a gun, the Dragunov sniper rifle, that is now used by the Russian army and exported throughout the world. Izhmash makes roughly 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles every year and estimates that another 900,000 rifles similar to the Kalashnikov are being made in other countries such as Bulgaria, China and Poland as 'counterfeits'.