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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.
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov (Russian: Серге́й Гаври́лович Си́монов; 4 October 1894 – 6 May 1986) was a Soviet weapons designer who is considered one of the fathers of the modern assault rifle.
SKS / Simonov self-loading carbine 7.62×39mm: 1945–present still used by some police & militia forces, also used as ceremonial rifle Soviet Union: Dragunov SVD: 7.62×54mmR: 1963–present SVU (bullpup) SVDK SVDS (folding stock): 590mm barrel (SVDS-D) Soviet Union
©simonov / Flickr - Original / License. Year entered service: 1941. Type: Bolt-action service rifle. ... Simonov SKS ©aleks0649 / iStock via Getty Images. Year entered service: 1945.
Along with his partner Vasily Degtyaryov, Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov helped the Soviet Union develop new weapons between the First and Second World War. During this time, Degtyaryov went on to create the PTRD-41 while Simonov created and designed its cousin rifle, the PTRS-41 in 1938. As one of Simonov's creations, the PTRS-41 was sometimes ...
SKS: Semi-automatic rifle 7.62×39mm Soviet Union Permanent 10-round magazine. [3] [4] Type 11: Light machine gun 6.5×50mm Arisaka Japan Permanent 30-round hopper fed with 6 × 5-round stripper clips. M1 Garand: Semiautomatic rifle .30-06 Springfield United States 8-round en-bloc with internal magazine. [5] [6] OA-96 carbine: Carbine 5.56× ...
It was designed in the 1940s by another famous Russian weapons designer, Sergey Simonov. ... The SKS was a slightly older rifle than the AKs with replicas sold worldwide in the civilian market ...
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.