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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.
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.
Russian Armed Forces Russia MP-443 Grach Yarygin pistol 9×19mm Parabellum: 2003–present one of the standard sidearms for all branches of Russian Armed forces 6P35 Yarygin (prototype) 9×19mm Parabellum. MP-446 Viking (commercial) 9×19mm Parabellum. MP-446C (sporting variant) 9×19mm Parabellum Russia SR-1 Vektor Serdyukov pistol 9×21mm Gyurza
The 7.62×39mm (aka 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 rifles, the SKS semi automatic rifle, as well as the RPD and RPK light machine guns.
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]
3,004 Berdan II rifles were converted to 7.62×54mmR for Russian service by arms makers in Belgium. The various Mosin–Nagant bolt-action rifles including the sawn-off "Obrez" pistol; The American Winchester Model 1895. Approximately 300,000 made for the Russian army in 1915–16. AVB-7.62; AVS-36; Berkut-2M1
The PTRS-41 (Russian: ... In 1943 Simonov used a scaled-down PTRS-41 design for the SKS, that would accommodate the new 1943-designed 7.62×39mm cartridge.
The front sights are fully enclosed with a hood, compared to the AKM and AK-47 which have partially opened "ears". The front sight base has a shape similar to the AK-47 and may also have a SKS style folding spike bayonet (nicknamed the "pig sticker") as opposed to the lug for detachable knife bayonets on the AK-47 and AKM.