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The original Soviet blade bayonet as standard to the SKS had to be replaced by a unique Yugoslav bayonet to accommodate the new mount placement. [7] A commercial variant of the M59 and M59/66 series, available for sale to civilians in some of the post-Yugoslav republics, lacked the bayonet or the ability to fire rifle grenades. [15]
A field-stripped SKS carbine (disassembled into major components for cleaning). The SKS is a gas-operated carbine with a conventional wooden stock and a fixed ten-round box magazine enclosed inside the receiver. [7] It has a tilting bolt and a gas piston operating rod that works to unlock and cycle the action via gas pressure. [7]
Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk introduced the M59 (also denoted KV59) in 1959, first chambered in .30-06, but shortly afterwards production was changed to accommodate the new 7.62 NATO round, and M59 rifles chambered for the 7.62 NATO were denoted M59F1.
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.
L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle: Royal Small Arms Factory: 7.62×51mm NATO United Kingdom: 1947 M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System: Knight's Armament Company: 7.62×51mm NATO United States 2007 M1916 Kalashnikov automatic rifle Sestroretsk plant 7.62x54mmR Russia: 1916 M1941 Johnson rifle.30-06 Springfield 7×57mm Mauser (Chilean variant).270 Winchester
The ball ammunition allowed reconnaissance and Special Operations units to utilize captured Communist Bloc weapons like the SKS carbine and AKM assault rifle. Most ball ammunition went to support Marshal Lon Nol's Cambodian Army (1970–1975), which was receiving reconditioned SKS carbines and AK-47s as military aid.
M1 Garand (1936–1958) – The standard rifle of the United States during the Second World War; M1941 Johnson rifle (1941–1961 Worldwide) – A rare rifle issued to marine raiders early during the war; M1903 Springfield rifle (1903–1975) – The standard-issue rifle of the U.S. in World War I it became a sniper weapon in the next world war
The Karabiner S is a German manufactured Russian SKS semi-automatic carbine, which was designed in 1945 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. It is formally known as the Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова), 1945 (Self-loading Carbine, Simonov's system, 1945), or SKS 45.