The SKS was widely exported, and was also produced by some former Eastern Bloc nations as well as China, where it was designated the "Type 56", East Germany as the Karabiner S and in North Korea as the "Type 63". It is still used as a ceremonial arm today. In the early 1950s, the Soviets took the SKS carbine out of front-line service and replaced it with the AK-47 however, the SKS remained in second-line service for decades. Its complete designation, SKS-45, is an initialism for Samozaryadnyj Karabin sistemy Simonova, 1945 (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова, 1945 Self-loading Carbine of (the) Simonov system, 1945), or SKS 45. The SKS is a Soviet semi-automatic carbine chambered for the 7.62×39mm round, designed in 1943 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. Hooded post front sight, tangent notch rear sight graduated from 100 to 1,000 meters. Short stroke gas piston, tilting bolt, self-loadingġ0 round stripper clip-fed or individual round loading. SKS Carbine from the collections of Armémuseum, Stockholm, SwedenĬhinese Type 56 Yugoslavian PAP Romanian SKS Albanian SKS East German SKS (North) Vietnamese SKS North Korean SKSġ,020 millimetres (40 in). For other uses, see SKS (disambiguation).
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