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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.
The case head and rim dimensions exactly match the military 7.62x51 (also .308), however, the case body is slightly wider and has more taper. 400 AR, Wildcat. The parent is the 7.35×51mm Carcano rifle case. It has a rim diameter of 0.447", which allows the use of the 7.62×39mm bolt face of an AR-15.
The 7.62×39mm (aka 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 rifles, the SKS semi automatic rifle, as well as the RPD and RPK light machine guns.
Pages in category "7.62×39mm assault rifles" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A-91;
The Zastava M70 (Serbian Cyrillic: Застава М70) is a 7.62×39mm assault rifle developed in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by Zastava Arms.The M70 was an unlicensed derivative of the Soviet AK-47 (specifically the Type 3 variant). [4]
The GP (General Purpose) WASR-10 is a 7.62×39mm caliber semi-automatic rifle that has been offered since the end of the Federal assault weapons ban. Factory-original rifles only support single-stack, low-capacity magazines (10-rounds). After import, Century Arms offered WASR rifles modified to accept double-stack, standard-capacity magazines.
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The internal parts of the receiver aren't fully compatible with the RK 62 or RK 62 76. [3] RK 71 TP – folding stock version of the RK 71 with an AKS-47 type folding stock. [3] TAK – Valmet sniper rifle prototype for FDF, based on the RK 71, chambered in 7.62×53mmR and fed from 20-round Lahti-Saloranta M/26 magazines. [3] RK 95 TP