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The early slab-sided steel AK-47 30-round detachable box magazines had 1 mm ... (the Chinese Type 56 known as the RK 56 TP and the East German MPi-KM as the RK 72) ...
MPi-KM-72 MPi-KMS-74. The AK-47 is a gas-operated assault rifle used in most Eastern bloc countries including East Germany during the Cold War. Adopted and standardized in 1947, it was designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov and originally produced by Russian manufacturer Izhmash.
The StG-940's design is based on the AK-74, [2] albeit modified. [2] This was done to evade restrictions placed on East German assault rifle production of their AK-74 variants imposed in order to prevent competition against the Soviets [2] based on their licensing agreement to not export any AK-74s made in East German soil abroad.
AK-47 assault rifle, widely used by the African guerrilla movements. AK-47 assault rifle (other variants included the AKS, the AKM and AKMS, the Chinese Type 56 and Type 56-1, the Hungarian AK-63 and AMD-65, the Romanian Pistol Mitralieră model 1963/1965, and former East German MPi-KM and MPi-KMS-72 assault rifles) [366] [94] [95] [367] [344 ...
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.
AK-47 assault rifle [26] (other variants included the AKM, [15] the Hungarian AK-63, the Yugoslav Zastava M70 [27] and Zastava M80, the Polish PMK-DGN-60, Chinese Type 56 and Type 56-1, North Korean Type 58 and Type 68, the Romanian Pistol Mitralieră model 1963/1965 [28] [29] and AIM, Bulgarian AKK/AKKS, and former East German MPi-KM and MPi ...
East Germany: Assault rifle: 100,000: East German -made AKM (MPi-KM fixed stock and MPi-KMS-72 folding stock variants). Purchased in the 1990s in large numbers for reserve troops. Folding stock version is used by various tank, APC and IFV crewmen. 7.62 RK 56 TP People's Republic of China: Assault rifle: 100,000
Kalashnikov AK-47 (and derivatives) Assault rifle Soviet Union: 40,000,000 [5] 150,000,000 [6] [7] 5 million milled AK type 3, 10 million AKM, [8] 5 million AK-74 [9] 15-20 million Chinese Type 56 [10] 3 million Yugoslav Zastava M70, 2 million East German Mpi. Several million Egyptian Maadi. Mauser Gewehr 98 (and similar) Bolt-action rifle ...