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The SKS (Russian: ... their intelligence value and were exported overseas ... km north of Yên Bái with 6,000 SKS rifles made between 1962 and 1965 when the factory ...
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×39mm cartridge, first developed and used by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. [1] The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as well as RPD and RPK light machine guns.
Russia VKS sniper rifle: 12.7×55mm STs-130: 2004–present Some variants are in deployment Russia Lobaev Sniper Rifle.338 Federal (.308 Winchester).408 Cheyenne Tactical.300 Winchester Magnum.338 Lapua Magnum 6.5×47mm Lapua 6.5-284 Norma.40 Lobaev Whisper.375 Cheyenne Tactical 2010–present
The Zastava M59/66 PAP is a Yugoslavian licensed derivative of the Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle.In Yugoslavia, it received the popular nickname "papovka" derived from PAP, the abbreviation for poluautomatska puška, or Serb for "semi-automatic rifle". [4]
The 7.62×39mm (also called 7.62 Soviet, formerly .30 Russian Short) [5] round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin. The cartridge is widely used due to the global proliferation of the AK-47 rifle and related Kalashnikov-pattern rifles, the SKS semi-automatic rifle, and the RPD/RPK light machine guns.
Boris Shpitalniy, inventor of the aircraft ShKAS machine gun and ShVAK cannon; Pyotr Shuvalov, founder of Izhevsk, inventor of canister shot mortar, introduced the unicorne mortar; Sergei Simonov, designer of the SKS carbine, and AO-31 and AG-043 assault rifles; Vladimir Simonov, inventor of underwater assault rifle and AO-63 assault rifle
Light machine gun: 5.45×39mm: Main service light machine gun [4]: 774 RPK: Light machine gun: 7.62×39mm [4]: 318 PKM: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×54mmR: Main service general-purpose machine gun [4]: 319 NSV "Utyos" Heavy machine gun: 12.7×108mm: Main service heavy machine gun [4]: 323 DShKM: Heavy machine gun: Being replaced by the ...
Improvements were made to the initial design from the 1970s which made the rifle capable of handling more powerful cartridges such as the .308 Winchester/7.62×51mm and the more prevalent .223 Remington/5.56×45mm, 5.45×39mm, and 7.62×39mm calibers. These improvements contributed to the modern line of the Saiga rifles being adopted by many ...