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The 5.45×39mm cartridge is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge.It was introduced into service in 1974 by the Soviet Union for use with the new AK-74.The 5.45×39mm gradually supplemented and then largely replaced the 7.62×39mm cartridge in Soviet and Warsaw Pact service as the primary military service rifle cartridge.
5.45×39mm bolt-action rifles (2 P) 5.45×39mm machine guns (3 P) Pages in category "5.45×39mm firearms" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The 7.62×39mm Soviet-chambered version is compatible with the AKM's 30-round magazine and RPK's 40-round box magazine and 75-round drum magazines. The magazines specifically for the cancelled prototype model of the AK-12 includes a 30-round magazine with a bolt-catch actuator, a 60-round quad-stack magazine and a 95-round drum.
5.45×39mm firearms (3 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 17 August 2015, at 00:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
Note: All, 7.62×39mm AK magazines are backwards compatible with older AK variants. Note *: 10.12 kg (22.3 lb) is the maximum amount of ammo that the average soldier can comfortably carry. It also allows for best comparison of the three most common 7.62×39mm AK platform magazines and the 5.45×39mm AK-74 magazine.
5.45×39mm M74: Detachable box magazine Soviet Union: 1961 RPK16: Kalashnikov Concern: 5.45x39mm M74: Detachable box magazine/Drum magazine Russia: 2016 RPL-20: Kalashnikov Concern: 5.45x39mm M74: Ammunition belt Russia: 2020 Ruger machine gun Bill Ruger: 7.62×63mm (known as .30-06 Springfield) Ammunition belt United States: 1941 Salvator ...
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This may be due to low quality magazines, or their followers. The WASR-3 was originally supplied with surplus 5.45×39mm AK-74 magazines, which do not reliably feed the 5.56/.223 cartridge. People have used Wieger magazines with some success. Century Arms eventually began including Romanian copies of the reliable Wieger magazine with these rifles.