For comparison, the SKS rifle uses the short-stroke style of operation, where the gas piston moves back only around a centimeter before hitting the op-rod (operating rod), which then hits the bolt carrier, unlocking it. It is called "long stroke" because the gas piston is attached to the bolt carrier, and moves all the way back with the bolt carrier and all the way foreward with it. The AK-47 uses a system of operation known as "Rotating bolt, long stroke recoil" system. Full scale mass production started in 1949. It underwent several improvements to make it cheaper and faster to produce, and was finally approved in 1947. He submitted his design to the Russian high command in 1945. During his recovery, he studied automatic weapons such as the MP-40, the StGw-44, the PPSh, and basically any automatic weapon he could get his hands on. Kalashnikov was a Russian tank commander who was wounded in WWII. The smaller round also has less recoil and makes less noise and flash when fired from shorter weapons. Thus, by switching to the smaller round, a soldier can carry more ammunition and thus produce more kills. A 7.62x39mm round weighs less than half the weight of the Russian standard power rifle round, the 7.62x54mmR. 5mm is to reduce the weight that a soldier carries into battle or to increase the amount of ammunition the soldier can carry. The purpose of using "intermediate" rounds like the 7.62x39mm, the 5.56x45mm, and the 5.45x39. The AK-47 (Avtomat Kalashnikova, or "Automatic Kalashnikov") uses the 7.62x39mm Soviet round, first fielded in the Russian light machine gun, the RPD. Most retarded morons say the AK shoots the 7.62 and relate it to the 7.62x51mm NATO, which is used as a sniping round, hunting round and light or heavy machine gun round. Chambered in 5.45x39mm AK-101/AK-102/ AK-103/AK-104 series - modernizations of the AK-74 AK-107/AK-108 series - incorporates a balanced bolt group, reducing muzzle jump, vibrations, and felt recoil. AK-74 series - Series of the AK-type rifle which replaced the AK-47 in 1978. AKM - Modernized variant with various improvements over the AK-47. RPK - Handheld Automatic-Rifle variant with a longer barrel and a bipod. AK-47 Type 3(1952) - All rifles manufactured with a milled steel receiver. Versions of the AK-47 include the following: AK-47 Type 1/2(1948-1951) - Most rifles manufactured with a milled steel receiver. It has the Trigger, Double locking lugs, and unlocking raceway of the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine, the Safety mechanism of the John Browning designed Remington Model 8, and the layout and gas system of the StG-44. The AK-47 is best described as an amalgamation of several previous weapons designs. Chambered in the intermediate 7.62x39mm R. It has become the single most prolific weapon ever created, with models in use by military and police, or civilian consumers in nearly every country in the world. The Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947 is a gas operated, selective fire assault rifle designed from 1945 to 1946 by Soviet tank commander Mikhail Kalashnikov to fill the need for a rifle-caliber automatic infantry weapon within the Soviet military, after experiences against the German StG-44 which deeply influenced Soviet doctrine in the post-war years.
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