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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 AK-47 was designed to be a simple, reliable fully automatic rifle that could be manufactured quickly and cheaply, using mass production methods that were state of the art in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s. [41] The AK-47 uses a long-stroke gas system generally associated with high reliability in adverse conditions.
The original M70 design was based on the early pattern Soviet AK-47 (specifically Type 3), which utilised a milled receiver. There are a number of cosmetic differences between the two receiver patterns, namely the smooth left side of the receiver, which lacks the machined section normally found on original Soviet Type 3 AKs and their ...
The successful design was offered by Yisrael Galil, based on the 7.62×39mm Valmet Rk 62, an AK-47 derivative from Finland. (The first Galils were manufactured with Valmet Rk 62 receivers.) [7] At the time, the US was replacing European countries (especially France) as Israel's main partner and weapons supplier.
This rifle is a semi-automatic version of the Russian AK-47, with a strange thumb-hole butt-stock, helping to make it a legal hunting rifle in the United States. [ citation needed ] It was a preferred choice of Kalashnikov style rifles over the cheaper but inferior, Chinese models.
The Type 58 (Korean: 58식자동보총) is an assault rifle made in North Korea derived from the Soviet AK-47 [4] designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. This was the first weapon made in North Korea alongside the PPSh-41, made under license as the Type 49. [5] It was made in Factory 61 and 65 [5] in Chongjin. [3]
The rifle can also use a fixed wooden or synthetic buttstock designed for AKM or AK-74 rifles. Both the upper and lower handguard and pistol grip are fabricated from bakelite, although a limited number of Tantal-specific black polymer handguards and pistol grips have also been produced.
The Karabinek-granatnik wzór 1960 (Polish: Carbine-grenade launcher model 1960), also designated PMK-DGN-60 [1] or PMK-60, [2] is a Polish-made version of the AK-47 assault rifle that can fire rifle grenades.