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The AKM is an automatic rifle chambered in 7.62×39mm intermediate cartridge. It is a selective fire, gas operated with a rotating bolt, firing in either semi-automatic or fully automatic, and has a cyclic rate of fire of around 600 rounds per minute (RPM).
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The 7.62×39mm (also called 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-pattern rifles, the SKS semi-automatic rifle, and the RPD/RPK light machine guns.
Spetsnaz with GP grenade launcher under an AKM rifle, 45th Spetsnaz Brigade. A grenade is first loaded from the muzzle, the weapon is aimed, and then the double-action trigger is pulled to fire. This fires the percussion cap at the base of the grenade which activates the nitrocellulose propellant inside the grenade body. [ 7 ]
Country Variant(s) Albania Automatiku Shqiptar 1978 model 56 (ASH-78 Tip-1) copy of Type 56 based on AK-47 rifle; Tipi 1982 model (ASH-82) copy of AKS-47; model 56 Tip-2, copy of RPK; and model 56 Tip-3.
The Malyuk can either retain the AKM-based selective fire or an ambidextrous low-profile two-position selector for semi and full auto fire. [9] The upper receiver has a full-length Picatinny rail with 3 short Picatinny rails on the handguard. [17] The Malyuk can be equipped with a RSP2W Shoot Corner for the user to fire it from around a corner ...
Therefore, in 1967, the USSR issued an official requirement to replace the AKM and the 7.62×39mm cartridge. [90] They soon began to develop the AK-74 and the 5.45×39mm cartridge. [ 68 ] [ 91 ] [ 92 ] AK-74 production began in 1974, [ 90 ] and it was unveiled in 1977, when it was carried by Soviet parachute troops during the annual Red Square ...
The PBS-1 silencer, designed for use with the AKM to reduce the noise when firing, was introduced in the 1960s, and was used mostly by Spetsnaz forces and the KGB. [3] [4] [5] They were used by the Spetsnaz in the Soviet–Afghan War in the 1980s, requiring the use of the AKM (modernized variant of the AK-47), because the newer AK-74 did not have a silencer available. [6]