If asked about the 7.62x39mm cartridge (aka the 7.62 Soviet and .30 Russian Short), the first firearm that comes to mind is ...
as the first firearm in the AK family of rifles for the Soviet Army. The AK differs from the SKS in several respects, most ...
The Kalashnikov rifle was not the weapon that gave ... end of the war and adopted in 1949 as the Self-loading Carbine System Simonov 1945, or SKS-45… The SKS-45 is a gas-operated carbine with ...