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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 the 1940s.
K-3 (rifle) Garni-ler 5.45×39mm Armenian SSR (now Armenia) 1990s KAL1 general purpose infantry rifle: Small Arms Factory Lithgow: 7.62×51mm NATO Australia 1970 KEPPELER KS Bullpup Sniper: KEPPELER Germany: 7.62×51mm.308 Win.300 Win Mag.338 Lapua Germany 2002 M17S556: K&M ARMS.223 REM 5.56×45mm NATO United States 2014 – current Kel-Tec KSG
The Norinco Type 86S (Chinese: 86S自动步枪 [3]; pinyin: 86Szìdòng bùqiāng; lit. '86S Automatic Rifle') is an AKM-type bullpup rifle that was produced by Norinco.Many major parts are interchangeable with other standard Kalashnikov rifles.
The bullpup concept was first tested militarily in 1901 with the British Thorneycroft carbine, but it was not until the Cold War that more successful designs and improvements led to wider adoption. In 1977, the Austrian Army became the first military force in the world to adopt a bullpup rifle, the Steyr AUG, as a principal combat weapon.
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.
In 1994, a machine gun was created, which was named "Vepr" (Boar) model № 1. [5] In 1994, samples № 2 and № 3 were also developed on the basis of RPK-74 5.45 × 39 mm and AKM 7.62 × 39 mm. Later, the SKS carbine was redesigned - № 4. The cost of processing one unit of standard weapon into a “bullpup” at that time was ₴300. [5]
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]
The KSVK is a bullpup-configured, bolt-action, magazine-fed rifle.It is equipped with a muzzle device which acts as a muzzle brake.. The KSVK is equipped with standard Russian side-mounted scope rail (dovetail), and can be fitted with variety of day and night scopes.