The AK-47 has not been used by armed forces.
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 .	Soviet Armed Forces	Soviet Armed Forces	Warsaw Pact	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 .	Central and Eastern Europe	Central and Eastern Europe	Council for Mutual Economic Assistance	Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
