In 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army and eventually served as a tank commander during the first months of the Great Patriotic War,wounded in the Battle of Bryansk . In October 1941 Kalashnikov was badly wounded in combat and sent home from the front lines. He started to create his first gun designs in a hospital and soon joined a depot's workshop of the Moscow..
Mikhail Kalashnikov. Mikhail was a battle tank mechanic who was wounded in a battle by a German assault rifle during the battle of Bryansk in 1941. In his hospital bed, he overheard a fellow patient soldier talked about how their army got nothing to stand up against the German assault rifles, wherein in that time the fiercest weapon to ever graze the battlefield. ray..