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During the early 1950s, the typical Soviet rifle squad was organized on the basis of the SKS and the RPD light machine gun, which was chambered for the same 7.62×39mm ammunition. [24] The RPD's role was the designated squad automatic weapon, laying down suppressive fire in support of infantry armed with semi-automatic carbines. [24]
The Type 63 (Chinese: 63式7.62mm自动步枪) is a Chinese 7.62×39mm assault rifle.The weapon's overall design was based on the SKS (known in Chinese service as the Type 56 carbine), but with select fire capability and a rotating bolt system adapted from the Type 56 assault rifle, a derivative of the AK-47. [7]
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.
Type: Semi-automatic rifle / light machine gun. Country of origin: New Zealand. Action: Gas-operated; ... Simonov SKS ©aleks0649 / iStock via Getty Images. Year entered service: 1945.
North Korean copy of the RPK machine gun, produced under license. [4] RPK-74 Soviet Union [2]: A-82 Type 73 North Korea: Indigenous design based on the ZB vz. 26 and the Kalashnikov PK machine gun design. Replaced by the Type 82 in service. [3] Gun-2 Minigun Indigenous electric-powered Gatling-type gun, chambered to fire 7.62×54mmR. [3] Type 82
Of the three, the SKS is the oldest. Developed in the 1940s by Russian weapons designer Sergey Simonov, the Samozaryadny Karabin Sistemy Simonova or SKS is a semi-automatic rifle that comes with a ...
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.
KPV heavy machine gun [2] Maxim PM1910; MG 34; SIG KE7 ; Type 24 machine gun ; Type 1 heavy machine gun; Nambu Type 3 heavy machine gun; Type 11 light machine gun; Type 89 heavy machine gun; Type 92 heavy machine gun; Type 96 light machine gun; Type 97 light machine gun; Type 98 heavy machine gun; Type 99 light machine gun; ZB vz. 26 and ; ZGB ...