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The SKS (Russian: ... Its distinguishing characteristics include a permanently attached folding ... The SKS is a gas-operated carbine with a conventional wooden stock ...
AKS folding stock; AK(S)N night scope rail; Issue 1949 stamped receiver; Issue 1951 milled receiver; Issue 1954 lightened milled receiver variant Soviet Union: AKM. modernized AK-47 7.62×39mm: 1959–present replaced by AK-74 still in use by police and militia forces S-04-M, A-55 prototypes; AKMS folding stock; AKM(S)N night scope rail
The RPKS ("S" — Skladnoy (Russian: складной) means "folding" [stock]) is a variant of the RPK with a side-folding wooden stock was intended primarily for the paratroopers. Changes to the design of the RPKS are limited only to the shoulder stock mounting, at the rear of the receiver.
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.
The Zastava M59/66 PAP is identical in function and operation to the Soviet SKS in nearly every respect, except its ability to launch 22mm rifle grenades from an integral grenade launcher spigot mounted at the front of the barrel. [7] The rifle has been fitted with a folding ladder sight for use in launching grenades. [7]
The AKS-74. Designed for airborne infantry and equipped with a folding shoulder stock. The AKS-74 ("S"—Russian: складной; Skladnoy, or "foldable"), is a variant of the AK-74 equipped with a side-folding metal shoulder stock, designed primarily for use with air assault infantry and developed alongside the
Type 56-1 – Copy of the AKS, with an under-folding steel shoulder stock and the bayonet removed to make the weapon easier to carry. As with the original Type 56, milled receivers were replaced by stamped receivers in the mid-1960s, making the Type 56-1 an equivalent to the Russian AKMS .
Most early musket bayonets were of this type. Beginning in the early 19th century, knife and/or sword bayonets began to appear, which could also be wielded by hand. In the early to mid-20th century, spike bayonets reappeared, often folding or stowed under the barrel for compactness, such as on the French Lebel M1886 and MAS-36, Russian SKS and Mosin-Nagant, German FG 42, and British Lee–Enfield.