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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
These are identified by a small star on the receiver with a 1 in the center. The barrel is chromed, as are many of the internal parts. They were assembled in a small arms factory with Chinese assistance located 12 km north of Yên Bái with 6,000 SKS rifles made between 1962 and 1965 when the factory was closed to American bombing raids. [83]
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.
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The rifles were supplied by China, Pakistan and the US who obtained them from third party arms dealers. [16] There is photographic evidence from Soviet/Russian sources where captured Type 56 rifles were utilized by Soviet soldiers in lieu of their standard-issue AKM and AK-74 rifles. Bangladesh Navy sailor fires a Type 56-2 rifle.
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
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 ...