the AKM and AK-74. : Captured from PAVN and Vietcong Illicit trade Throughout the world, the AK and its variants are commonly used by governments, revolutionaries, terrorists, criminals, and civilians alike. In some countries, such as Somalia, Rwanda, Mozambique, Congo and Tanzania, the prices for Black Market AKs are between $30 and $125 per weapon and prices have fallen in the last few decades due to mass counterfeiting. In Kenya, "an AK-47 fetches five head of cattle (about 10,000 Kenya shillings or 100 U.S. dollars) when offered for barter, but costs almost half that price when cash is paid". There are places around the world where AK type weapons can be purchased on the black market "for as little as $6, or traded for a chicken or a sack of grain". The AK-47 has also spawned a cottage industry of sorts and has been copied and manufactured (one gun at a time) in small shops around the world (see Khyber Pass Copy). The estimated numbers of AK-type weapons vary greatly. The Small Arms Survey suggest that "between 70 and 100 million of these weapons have been produced since 1947". The World Bank estimates that out of the 500 million total firearms available worldwide, 100 million are of the Kalashnikov family, and 75 million are AK-47s. Because AK-type weapons have been made in many countries, often illicitly, it is impossible to know how many really exist. Conflicts The AK-47 has been used in the following conflicts: 1950s Hungarian Revolution (1956) Vietnam War (1955–1975) Laotian Civil War (1959–1975) 1960s Congo Crisis (1960–1965) Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974) Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979) The Troubles (late 1960s–1998) Communist insurgency in Thailand (1965–1983) South African Border War (1966–1990) India-China clashes (1967) Cambodian Civil War (1968–1975) Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989) 1970s Yom Kippur War (1973) Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991) Western Sahara War (1975–1991) Cambodian–Vietnamese War (1978–1989) Chadian–Libyan conflict (1978–1987) Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) 1980s Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) Kashmir Insurgency (1988–2022) Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009) United States invasion of Grenada (1983) Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (1987–present) 1990s Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995) Gulf War (1990–1991) Somali Civil War (1991–present) Yugoslav Wars (1991–2001) Burundian Civil War (1993–2005) Congo Civil War (1997–1999) Kargil War (1999) 2000s War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Iraq War (2003–2011) South Thailand insurgency (2004–present) Mexican Drug War (2006–present) 2010s Libyan Civil War (2011) Syrian Civil War (2011–present) Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013) Central African Republic Civil War (2012–present) Russo-Ukrainian war