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  2. SKS - Wikipedia

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    The SKS (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова, romanized: Samozaryadny karabin sistemy Simonova, lit. 'self-loading carbine of the Simonov system') is a semi-automatic rifle designed by Soviet small arms designer Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov in 1945.

  3. Zastava M59/66 - Wikipedia

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    The Zastava M59/66 PAP is a Yugoslavian licensed derivative of the Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle.In Yugoslavia, it received the popular nickname "papovka" derived from PAP, the abbreviation for poluautomatska puška, or Serbo-Croatian for "semi-automatic rifle". [4]

  4. List of 7.62×39mm firearms - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Experts say Trump's would-be assassin had an SKS, not ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Talk:SKS - Wikipedia

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    The SKS is NOT an assault rifle. The vast majority of SKS rifles are semi-auto with a 10 shot non-detachable magazines. Full-auto select-fire models were nothing more than prototypes. And, after the AK-47 was introduced there was no longer a need to develop a select-fire SKS.

  7. Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, Simonov designed some firearms of his own; a submachine gun which did not enter production, and a self-loading anti-tank rifle, the 14.5×114mm PTRS, which went on to form the basis — in scaled-down form - of the SKS. An earlier semi-automatic rifle, the AVS-36, was hindered by official insistence on using the powerful 7. ...

  8. Type 81 assault rifle - Wikipedia

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    The PLA's first attempt to replace their aging Type 56 carbine (a Chinese license produced SKS) and Type 56 assault rifle (a Chinese license produced AK-47) was the Type 63 assault rifle. [5] This weapon, however, ended in failure due to a variety of issues resulting in a switch back to the weapons it intended to replace.

  9. 7.62×39mm - Wikipedia

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    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.