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[[Image:Simonov-Russian-SKS45.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Russian Simonov Type 45 aka the Russian SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The Russian SKS has a milled receiver and a blade bayonet. The rifles were issued with hardwood or laminated stocks. This example has a hardwood stock.]]
The '''SKS''' (''Samozaryadny Karabin sistemy Simonova'', Self-loading Carbine of (the) Simonov system) rifle is a Soviet semi-automatic rifle designed in 1945 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. It was a widely exported weapon, with many foreign copies including the Chinese Type 56 Carbine.  Most variants of the SKS have been widely exported onto civilian markets as military surplus rifles. This has lead to the development of an aftermarket for accessories for SKS rifles, namely with replacement stocks and magazines.
[[Image:ChineseType56Carbine.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Chinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The early Chinese SKS is very similar to the Russian SKS-45, with a milled trigger group, blade bayonet, and long lug threaded barrel. Later Chinese Type 56s have a stamped sheet metal trigger group, short lug threaded or pressed and pinned barrel and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their [[AK-47]] copies - the [[AK-47#Norinco Type 56|Type 56]] assault rifle. The later versions, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch [[Arisaka Rifle#Arisaka Type 99|Arisaka Type 99]] rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.]]
[[Image:YugoSKS.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Yugoslavian SKS M59/66 rifle with blade bayonet and grenade launcher attached to barrel, the variant most seen during the Balkan Wars - 7.62x39mm. The Yugoslavian M59 is nearly identical to the Russian SKS, it is the M59/66 which has the grenade launcher attachment at the end of the barrel.]]
[[Image:OP-SKS.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Russian hunting carbine OP-SKS, civilian version of SKS - 7.62x39mm]]
The '''SKS''' (''Samozaryadny Karabin sistemy Simonova'', Self-loading Carbine of (the) Simonov system) rifle is a Soviet semi-automatic rifle designed in 1943 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. It was a widely exported weapon, with many foreign copies including the Chinese Type 56 Carbine.


Note: Whereas the Russian SKS rifle can appear in any of the world's battlegrounds, the Chinese SKS should really only appear in places where there was a lot of military aid from the People's Republic of China. Most of the SKS rifles seen in movies about the Vietnam war are Chinese Type 56 carbines, but the presence of original Russian Type 45 Carbines are not historically implausible. The Soviet Union supplied ComBloc weapons in every hemisphere where there was a Marxist/communist presence.
Note: Whereas the Russian SKS rifle can appear in any of the world's battlegrounds, the Chinese SKS should really only appear in places where there was a lot of military aid from the People's Republic of China. Most of the SKS rifles seen in movies about the Vietnam war are Chinese Type 56 carbines, but the presence of original Russian Type 45 Carbines are not historically implausible. The Soviet Union supplied ComBloc weapons in every hemisphere where there was a Marxist/communist presence.
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=Soviet/Russian Official Models=
==SKS==
==SKS==
[[File:Simonov-Russian-SKS45.jpg|thumb|right|500px|SKS - 7.62x39mm]]
[[File:OP-SKS-Carbine.jpg|thumb|right|500px|OP-SKS - 7.62x39mm]]
The Russian SKS has a milled receiver and a blade bayonet. The rifles were issued with hardwood or laminated stocks.
The '''OP-SKS''' is a Russian civilian variant of the SKS converted into hunting rifles. OP stands for охотничье-промысловый, ''okhotnich'ye promyslovyy'', meaning "commercial hunting". They feature a prefitted dovetail mount for scopes.
===Specifications===
===Specifications===
(1945 - Present)
(1945 - Present)
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* '''Muzzle velocity:''' 2,411 ft/s (735 m/s)
* '''Muzzle velocity:''' 2,411 ft/s (735 m/s)


* '''Capacity:''' 10-round fixed magazine (detachable AK magazines on the Norinco SKS-D and some other variants)
* '''Capacity:''' 10-round fixed magazine. Norinco export SKS models tend to be able to use detachable AK magazines, and other detachable aftermarket magazines of various capacities exist.


* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto
* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto
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=== Film ===
===Film===
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Date'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Date'''
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|rowspan=2|''[[Death of Stalin, The|The Death of Stalin]]'' || || Red Army soldiers || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2017
| ''[[Maksim Perepelitsa]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1955
|-
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| || NKVD soldiers
| ''[[The Road to Calvary: Gloomy Morning (Khozhdenie po mukam: Khmuroe utro)|Gloomy Morning (Khmuroe utro)]]'' || || White Army soldiers || Heavily anachronistic || 1959
|-
|-
|rowspan=3|''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]]'' ||[[Charlize Theron]] || Imperator Furiosa || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|2015
| ''[[Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The|The Spy Who came in from the Cold]]'' || || East German Border guards || || 1965
|-
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|[[Tom Hardy]] || Max Rockatansky
| ''[[The Air Seller (Prodavetz vozdukha)]]'' || || Bayley's Guards || || 1968
|-
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|[[Zoe Kravitz]] || Toast
| ''[[The Green Berets]]'' ||||||  Mounted on a display board || 1968
|-
|-
| ''[[22 Minutes (22 minuty)]]'' || || Somali Pirates || || 2014
| ''[[Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!)]]'' || || Mongolian soldier || || 1971
|-
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|''[[Pawnshop (Lombard)]]'' ||[[Denis Nikiforov]] || Mark || || 2013
| ''[[And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1974
|-
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| rowspan=3| ''[[Quagmire (Kuta)]]'' ||[[Georgiy Bessonov]] || Andrey || rowspan=3| OP-SKS || rowspan=3| 2012
| ''[[Don't Cry, Girl (Ne plach, devchonka)]]'' || Oleg Sologub || Pvt. Andrey Vorobey || || 1977
|-
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| [[Vladislav Portnyagin]] || Sasha
| ''[[Coming Home]]'' || [[Jon Voight]]|| Luke Martin ||minus wood furniture || 1978
|-
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| Nikolay Soldatov || Pyotr Osipovich
| ''[[In Flight are the Night Witches (V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy')]]'' || || Soviet marines || || 1981
|-
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| ''[[Machine Gun Preacher]]'' || Ikagene Mogotusi || Sniper ||  || 2011
| ''[[The Dogs of War]]'' |||| A Zangaran soldier ||  || 1981
|-
|-
| ''[[Largo Winch II]]'' || || Burmese freedom fighters || || 2011
|rowspan=2|''[[Octopussy]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || rowspan=2| 1983
|-
|-
|rowspan=3|''[[Home (Dom)]]'' || [[Vladimir Epifantsev]] || Pashka Shamanov || rowspan=3|OP-SKS hunting carbine|| rowspan=3|2011
| || Kamal Khan's guards
|-
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| [[Ivan Dobronravov]] || Andrey Shamanov
| ''[[Year of the Dragon]]'' || || A soldier ||  || 1985
|-
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| [[Sergey Garmash]] || Viktor Shamanov
| ''[[Coordinates of Death (Koordinaty smerti)]]'' || || Viet Cong guerrillas ||  || 1985
|-
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|rowspan=2|''[[71: Into the Fire]]'' || || Student soldiers || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2010
| ''[[Rambo III]]'' || || Afghan villagers || || 1988
|-
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| || North Korean soldiers
| ''[[Red Heat]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1988
|-
|-
|rowspan=2|''[[Debt, The (2010)|The Debt]]''|| Extras || East German Border Guards || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2010
|''[[The Siege of Firebase Gloria]]'' || || A Vietcong sniper || || 1989
|-
|-
|[[Sam Worthington]] || Young David
| ''[[Toy Soldiers]]'' || || Colombian soldiers || || 1991
|-
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|''[[The Golden Mean (Zolotoe sechenie)]] || || Royal Cambodian guardian || || 2010
| ''[[Robocop 3]]'' || || A resistance fighter || || 1993
|-
|-
|''[[Brothers (2009)|Brothers]]'' || || Taliban militants || || 2009
| ''[[The Quest]]'' || || Dobbs' men and Turks || || 1996
|-
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| rowspan=2|''[[Deserter (Dezertir) (1997)|Deserter (Dezertir)]]'' || [[Viktor Demertash]] || Murab || rowspan=2|Without folding bayonet || rowspan=2|1997
|-
|-
|''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' || || Flying Dragon rebels || || 2008
| || Brigands and cult fighters
|-
|-
|''[[Wild Field (Dikoe pole) (2008)|Wild Field (Dikoe pole)]]'' || Aleksandr Arefyev || Bandit || || 2008
| ''[[Ricochet (Rikoshet)]]'' || || A criminal || OP-SKS || 1997
|-
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|''[[Rescue Dawn]]'' || || Laotian militia leader || Type 56 carbine || 2007
|''[[The Peacemaker]]'' || || A Russian soldier || || 1997
|-
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|''[[Tins (Konservy)]]'' || [[Aleksey Serebryakov]] || Usoltsev (Solyonyy) || OP-SKS || 2007
| ''[[Composition for Victory Day (Sochinenie ko Dnyu Pobedy)]]'' || || Honor guards || || 1998
|-
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| ''[[The Good Shepherd]]'' |||| Soviet soldiers || || 2006
| ''[[American Beauty]]'' || || || Inside Frank's gun cabinet || 1998
|-
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| ''[[Battle of Long Tan, The|The Battle of Long Tan]] || || Vietcong || with underfolding bayonet || 2006
|''[[Blues Brothers 2000]]'' || || Militiamen || With synthetic stock || 1998
|-
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|''[[Stealth]]'' || || Tajik terrorists || || 2005
|''[[Three Kings]]'' || || Shia rebels || || 1999
|-
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|''[[Sniper 3]]'' || || Sniper || With scope  || 2004
|''[[Arlington Road]]'' || Hunter Burkes || Hutch Parsons ||without underfolding bayonet || 1999
|-
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|''[[The Hunted]]|| || Serbian soldier || Yugoslavian M59/66 variant || 2003
| ''[[The Mission (1999)|The Mission]]'' || Keiji Sato || Assassin || with Choate Dragunov stock and scope || 1999
|-
|-
|''[[Tears of the Sun]]'' || || Nigerian rebels and refugees || || 2003
| ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'' || || NVA soldiers || || 2002
|-
|''[[Belly of the Beast]]'' || || Abu Karaf men || Norinco Type 56 || 2003
|-
|-
| ''[[Detention]]'' || || A terrorist || || 2003
| ''[[Detention]]'' || || A terrorist || || 2003
|-
|-
|''[[We Were Soldiers]]'' || || NVA soldiers || || 2002
|''[[Tears of the Sun]]'' || || Nigerian rebels and refugees || || 2003
|-
|-
|''[[No Man's Land]]'' || || Serbian and Bosnian || Yugoslavian M59/66 variant || 2001
| ''[[Stealth]]'' || || Tajik terrorists || || 2005
|-
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|''[[Rules of Engagement]]'' || || NVA soldiers || || 2000
| ''[[The Battle of Long Tan]] || || Vietcong || with underfolding bayonet || 2006
|-
|-
|''[[Arlington Road]]'' || Hunter Burkes || Hutch Parsons ||without underfolding bayonet || 1999
| ''[[The Good Shepherd]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 2006
|-
|-
|''[[Three Kings]]'' || || Shia rebel || || 1999
| ''[[Tins (Konservy)]]'' || [[Aleksey Serebryakov]] || Usoltsev (Solyonyy) || OP-SKS || 2007
|-
|-
| ''[[Savior]]'' || || Militiamen || || 1998
|''[[Wild Field (Dikoe pole) (2008)|Wild Field (Dikoe pole)]]'' || Aleksandr Arefyev || Bandit || || 2008
|-
|-
|''[[Blues Brothers 2000]]'' || || Militiamen || With synthetic stock || 1998
| ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' || || Flying Dragon rebels || || 2008
|-
|-
| ''[[American Beauty]]'' || ||  || Inside Frank's gun cabinet || 1998
| ''[[The Book of Eli]]'' ||  || Carnegie's thug ||w/detachable magazine  || 2010
|-
|-
| ''[[Composition for Victory Day (Sochinenie ko Dnyu Pobedy)]]'' || || Honor guards || || 1998
| ''[[The Golden Mean (Zolotoe sechenie)]] || || Royal Cambodian guardian || || 2010
|-
|-
|''[[The Peacemaker]]'' || || Russian soldier || || 1997
|rowspan=2|''[[The Debt (2010)|The Debt]]''|| Extras || East German Border Guards || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2010
|-
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| ''[[Red Corner]]'' || || Chinese PAP officer || Type 56 carbine || 1997
| [[Sam Worthington]] || Young David
|-
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| ''[[Ricochet (Rikoshet)]]'' || || A criminal || OP-SKS || 1997
|rowspan=2|''[[71: Into the Fire]]'' || || Student soldiers || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2010
|-
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Deserter (Dezertir)]]'' || [[Viktor Demertash]] || Murab || rowspan=2|Without folding bayonet || rowspan=2|1997
| || North Korean soldiers
|-
|-
| || Brigands and cult fighters
|rowspan=3|''[[Home (Dom)]]'' || [[Vladimir Epifantsev]] || Pashka Shamanov || rowspan=3|OP-SKS hunting carbine|| rowspan=3|2011
|-
|-
| ''[[The Quest]]'' || || Dobbs' men and Turks || || 1996
| [[Ivan Dobronravov]] || Andrey Shamanov
|-
|-
|''[[Dead Presidents]]'' || || NVA soldiers ||  Type 56 carbine || 1995
| [[Sergey Garmash]] || Viktor Shamanov
|-
|-
|''[[Open Fire]]'' || || A terrorist || || 1994
| ''[[Largo Winch II]]'' || || Burmese freedom fighters || || 2011
|-
|-
|''[[Robocop 3]]'' || || A resistance fighter || || 1993
| ''[[Machine Gun Preacher]]'' || Ikagene Mogotusi || Sniper || || 2011
|-
|-
|''[[Toy Soldiers]]'' || || Colombian soldiers || || 1991
| rowspan=3| ''[[Quagmire (Kuta)]]'' ||[[Georgiy Bessonov]] || Andrey || rowspan=3| OP-SKS || rowspan=3| 2012
|-
|-
|''[[Flight of the Intruder]]'' || || NVA soldiers || Type 56 carbine || 1991
| [[Vladislav Portnyagin]] || Sasha
|-
|-
|''[[The Iron Triangle]]'' || || Vietcong fighters || || 1989
| Nikolay Soldatov || Pyotr Osipovich
|-
|-
|''[[Born on the Fourth of July]]'' || || NVA soldiers || || 1989
| ''[[The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared]]'' || || American and Soviet soldiers || || 2013
|-
|-
|''[[Siege of Firebase Gloria, The|The Siege of Firebase Gloria]]'' || || Vietcong sniper ||   || 1989
|''[[Pawnshop (Lombard)]]'' ||[[Denis Nikiforov]] || Mark || || 2013
|-
|-
|''[[Red Heat]]'' || || Soviet soldiers ||   || 1988
| rowspan=5| ''[[The Fugitive (Kyuryuyoiekh)]]'' ||[[Georgiy Bessonov]] || Barmaley || rowspan=5| OP-SKS || rowspan=5| 2014
|-
|-
|''[[Rambo III]]'' ||   || Afghan villagers || || 1988
| Yevgeniy Pivovarov || Yakov
|-
|-
|''[[Hamburger Hill]]'' || || NVA soldiers || Type 56 carbine || 1987
| Julustan Semyonov || Misha
|-
|-
|''[[Platoon]]'' || || NVA soldiers || Type 56 carbine || 1986
| Dmitrii Davydov || Hunter 1
|-
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|''[[Coordinates of Death (Koordinaty smerti)]]'' || || Viet Cong guerrillas ||  || 1985
| Ivan Neustroyev || Hunter 2
|-
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|''[[Year of the Dragon]]'' || || Soldier || || 1985
| ''[[22 Minutes (22 minuty)]]'' || || Somali Pirates || || 2014
|-
|-
| ''[[The Annihilators]]'' || || Viet Cong fighter || Type 56 carbine || 1985
| ''[[Into the Forest]]'' || [[Michael Eklund]] || Stan || || 2015
|-
|-
|''[[Uncommon Valor]]'' |||| NVA soldiers || || 1983
|rowspan=2|''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]]'' || [[Charlize Theron]] || Furiosa || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2015
|-
|-
|rowspan=2|''[[Octopussy]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || rowspan=2|1983
| [[Zoë Kravitz]] || Toast the Knowing
|-
|-
||| Kamal Khan's guards
| ''[[Red Billabong]]'' || James Straiton || Jason || || 2016
|-
|-
|''[[The Dogs of War]]'' |||| Zangaran soldier || || 1981
|rowspan=2|''[[The Death of Stalin]]'' || || Red Army soldiers || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2017
|-
|-
| ''[[In Flight are the Night Witches (V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy')]]'' || || Soviet marines || || 1981
| || NKVD soldiers
|-
|''[[Coming Home]]'' ||[[Bruce Dern]]|| Bob Hyde ||  minus wood furniture || 1978
|-
| ''[[Coming Home]]'' || [[Jon Voight]]|| Luke Martin ||minus wood furniture || 1978
|-
| ''[[And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers ||  || 1974
|-
| ''[[Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!)]]'' || || Mongolian soldier ||  || 1971
|-
| ''[[The Green Berets]]'' ||||||  Mounted on a display board || 1968
|-
| ''[[Dark of the Sun]]'' || [[Jim Brown]] || Sgt. Ruffo || || 1968
|-
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| ''[[Dark of the Sun]]'' || [[Peter Carsten]] || Capt. Henlein || || 1968
|rowspan=2|''[[Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle]]'' || || Filipino Hunters and soldiers || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2| 2021
|-
|-
|''[[War Game, The (1965)|The War Game]]'' ||  .|| Soviet soldier || || 1965
| Jemuel Satumba || A Hunter
|-
|''[[Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The|The Spy Who came in from the Cold]]''  || || East German Border guards || || 1965
|-
| ''[[The Road to Calvary: Gloomy Morning (Khozhdenie po mukam: Khmuroe utro)|Gloomy Morning (Khmuroe utro)]]'' || || White Army soldiers || Heavily anachronistic || 1959
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|''[[Maksim Perepelitsa]]'' || || Soviet soldiers ||  || 1955
|-
|-
|}
|}


=== Television ===
===Television===
 
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
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|-
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| ''[[The War Game (1965)| The War Game]]'' || || East German soldiers || . || 1965
|rowspan=2|''[[The War Game (1965)|The War Game]]'' || || East German soldiers || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2| 1965
|-
| || Soviet soldiers
|-
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| ''[[Heart of Bonivur (Serdtse Bonivura)]]'' || || Soviet guards of honor || Seen in documentary footage || 1969
| ''[[Heart of Bonivur (Serdtse Bonivura)]]'' || || Soviet guards of honor || Seen in documentary footage || 1969
|-
|-
| ''[[Doctor Who (Classic Series)|Doctor Who]]''  || [[John Levene]] || Platoon Under Leader John Benton || / "Inferno". || 1970
|rowspan="3"| ''[[Doctor Who (Classic Series)|Doctor Who]]''  || [[John Levene]] || Platoon Under Leader John Benton ||rowspan="3"| / "Inferno" ||rowspan="3"| 1970
|-
|-
| ''[[Doctor Who (Classic Series)|Doctor Who]]'' || [[David Simeon]] || Pvt. Latimer || / "Inferno" . || 1970
|[[David Simeon]] || Pvt. Latimer
|-
|-
| ''[[Doctor Who (Classic Series)|Doctor Who]]'' || . || Republican Security Forces || ./ "Inferno"  || 1970
| || Republican Security Forces
|-
|-
| ''[[Born by Revolution: The Last Meeting (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: Poslednyaya vstrecha)]]'' || || Soviet honor guards || || 1977
| ''[[Born by Revolution: The Last Meeting (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: Poslednyaya vstrecha)]]'' || || Soviet honor guards || || 1977
|-
| ''[[M*A*S*H (TV Series)|M*A*S*H]]  || [[Mako]] || North Korean soldier || Chinese Type 56  - The Best of Enemies (S9E01)11-17-1980|| 1980
|-
|-
| ''[[Confrontation (Protivostoyanie)]]'' || || Soviet and East German soldiers || Documentary footage || 1985
| ''[[Confrontation (Protivostoyanie)]]'' || || Soviet and East German soldiers || Documentary footage || 1985
|-
|-
| ''[[Tour of Duty]]'' || || VC and NVA units || . || 1987-1990
| ''[[Tour of Duty]]'' || || VC and NVA units || . || 1987-1990
|--
|-
| ''[[China Beach]]'' || || VC and NVA units || . || 1988-1991
| ''[[China Beach]]'' || || VC and NVA units || . || 1988-1991
|-
|-
| ''[[Lost]]'' || [[Evangeline Lilly]] || Kate Austen || . || 2004-2010
| ''[[The Unit - Season 2|The Unit]]'' || || Chechen terrorists/ "In Loco Parentis" (S2E20) ||  || 2007
|-
| ''[[The Company]]'' ||||Hungarian freedom fighters and governmental forces|| || 2007
|-
|-
| ''[[Lost]]'' || [[Terry O'Quinn]] || John Locke || . || 2004-2010
|rowspan="3"| ''[[Iris - Season 1|Iris]]'' ||[[Seung Hyun Choi]] || Vick ||rowspan="3"| Choate stock ||rowspan="3"| 2009
|-
|-
| ''[[Lost]]'' || [[Andrew Divoff]] || Mikhail Bakunin || . || 2004-2010
|[[Tae-hee Kim]] || Choi Seung-hee
|-
|-
| ''[[The Unit - Season 1|The Unit]]'' || || Indonesian rebel|| Norinco SKS Paratrooper, thumbhole stock, detachable mag / "200th Hour" (S1E03) || 2006
| || IRIS snipers
|-
|-
| ''[[The Unit - Season 2|The Unit]]'' || || Chechen terrorists/ "In Loco Parentis" (S2E20) || || 2007
| ''[[Missing (2012)|Missing]]'' || || Russian soldier||  "Rain on the Evil and on the Good" (S1E10) || 2012
|-
|-
| ''[[Situation Critical]]''|| || Serb Soldiers || M59/66 / "Downed Pilot" (S01E05) || 2007
| ''[[Ash (Pepel)]]'' || Aleksandr Lazarev (III) || "Pepel"'s henchman || || 2013
|-
|-
| ''[[Iris - Season 1|Iris]]'' ||[[Seung Hyun Choi]] || Vick ||Yugoslavian M59/66 SKS rifle with Choate stock  || 2009
| ''[[The Jackal (Shakal)]]'' || || || Seen in the ''Militsiya'' armoury || 2016
|-
|-
| ''[[Iris - Season 1|Iris]]'' || [[Tae-hee Kim]] || Choi Seung-hee  ||Yugoslavian M59/66 SKS rifle with Choate stock  || 2009
| ''[[The Crown]]'' |||| Egyptian Army ||episode: "Misadventure" (S02E01) || 2017
|-
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| ''[[Iris - Season 1|Iris]]'' || || IRIS snipers || Yugoslavian M59/66 SKS rifle with Choate stock  || 2009
| ''[[Katran]]'' || || ''Militsiya'' honor guards || || 2020
|-
|-
| ''[[Missing (2012)|Missing]]'' || || Russian soldier|| Russian Simonov Type 45/  "Rain on the Evil and on the Good" (S1E10) || 2012
| ''[[Spy City]]'' || || East German police and militia || || 2020
|-
|-
|}
|}


===Video Games===
===Video Games===
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Release Date'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Release Date'''
|-
| ''[[Jagged Alliance 2]]'' ||  ||  ||  || 1999
|-
|-
| ''[[Vietcong]]'' ||  ||  ||  || 2003
| ''[[Vietcong]]'' ||  ||  ||  || 2003
|-
|-
| ''[[Battlefield: Vietnam]]'' ||  ||  ||  || 2004
| ''[[Conflict: Vietnam]]'' ||  ||  ||  || 2004
|-
|-
| ''[[Project Reality]]'' ||  || With & without bayonet ||  || 2005
| ''[[Project Reality]]'' ||  || With & without bayonet ||  || 2005
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| ''[[Project Reality: Vietnam]]'' ||  ||  ||  || 2012
| ''[[Project Reality: Vietnam]]'' ||  ||  ||  || 2012
|-
|-
| ''[[Jagged Alliance: Back in Action]]''||SKS||w/ bayonet and grenade launcher||||2012
| ''[[State of Decay]]'' ||"SKS"  || ||without bayonet || 2013
|-
| ''[[Survarium]]'' ||  ||  || Izhmash SKS Paratrooper Sporter || 2013
|-
|-
| ''[[Survarium]]'' ||  ||  || Izhmash SKS Paratrooper Sporter || 2014
| ''[[Contract Wars]]'' ||  ||  || || 2014
|-
|-
| ''[[Squad]]'' ||  ||  || || 2015
| ''[[Squad]]'' ||  ||  || || 2015
|-
|''[[Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades]]''||"SKS Classic"|| ||Classic version has bayonet.||2016
|-
|''[[Escape from Tarkov]]''||Simonov Semi-Automatic Carbine SKS 7.62x39 <br> Simonov Semi-Automatic Carbine SKS 7.62x39 Hunting Rifle Version ||Dovetail mount(for OP version),tread adapter and Hexagon sound suppressor, TAPCO INTRAFUSE and Fab Defence UAS stocks, 10-round internal box mag and 20, 35 or 75-round detachable mags  ||without bayonet ||2016
|-
| ''[[Rising Storm 2: Vietnam]]'' || "SKS-45"|||| || 2017
|-
| ''[[Vigor]]'' || || || || 2018
|-
| ''[[State of Decay 2]]'' || || || || 2018
|-
|''[[Cruelty Squad]]''||"ZKZ Transactional Rifle"|| || ||2021
|-
| ''[[Far Cry 6]]'' || || || || 2021
|-
|}
===Anime===
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|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Character'''
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Date'''
|-
| ''[[Upotte!!]]'' || || || 2012
|-
|}
|}


==Norinco SKS Sporter==
==SVS-53 / SKS-30 / SKS-31==
[[File:CurseoftheKomodoSKS.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Chinese SKS Paratrooper Sporter with thumbhole stock and 10-round magazine - 7.62x39mm]]
[[File:SVS-53.jpg|thumb|right|500px|SVS-53  - 7.62x54mmR]]
[[File:SKS Sporter.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Chinese SKS Paratrooper Sporter with thumbhole stock and 10-round magazine - 7.62x39mm]]
[[File:SKS-30.jpg|thumb|right|500px|SKS-30  - 7.62x54mmR]]
[[File:SKS-31.jpg|thumb|right|500px|SKS-31  - 7.62x54mmR]]
===Specifications===
(1941 - prototype)


The Norinco SKS Sporter is a version of the Norinco SKS-M export model (which was a standard paratrooper SKS that took unmodified AK magazines), with a "paratrooper" length barrel and a thick thumbhole stock. The rifle was imported for only a few years before it was banned.
* '''Type:''' Rifle
 
* '''Caliber:''' 7.62x54mmR
 
* '''Capacity:''' 5 / 10-round
 
* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto
 
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{{Gun Title|SVS-53 / SKS-30 / SKS-31}}
 
===Video Games===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notation'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Release Date'''
|-
| ''[[Enlisted]]'' ||  ||  || SKS-31 || 2021
|-
|}
{{Clear}}
 
=Foreign & Custom Models=
==Type 56 Carbine==
[[File:ChineseType56Carbine.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Type 56 Carbine - 7.62x39mm]]
 
The '''Type 56 Carbine''' (not to be confused with the [[Type 56 assault rifle]]) is the Chinese version of the SKS. In Chinese, it is named Type 56 Semi-Automatic Rifle (Chinese: 56式半自动步枪). The rifle is manufactured by a wide variety of Chinese state factories; the primary manufacturer is Factory 296, now known as Chongqing Jianshe Group.
 
Early Type 56 rifles are very similar to the Russian SKS-45, with a milled trigger group, blade bayonet, and long lug threaded barrel. Later Type 56s have a stamped sheet metal trigger group, short lug threaded or pressed and pinned barrel and a spike bayonet (a.k.a. a "pig sticker") much like the Type 56 assault rifle. The later versions, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch [[Arisaka Rifle#Arisaka Type 99|Arisaka Type 99]] rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.
 
=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Date'''
|-
|rowspan=3|''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]]'' ||[[Charlize Theron]] || Imperator Furiosa || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|2015
|-
|[[Tom Hardy]] || Max Rockatansky
|-
|[[Zoe Kravitz]] || Toast
|-
| ''[[White Soldier]]'' || || Việt Minh soldiers || || 2014
|-
|''[[Brothers (2009)|Brothers]]'' || || Taliban militants || || 2009
|-
|''[[Rescue Dawn]]'' || || Laotian militia leader ||  || 2007
|-
|''[[Sniper 3]]'' || || Sniper ||  With scope  || 2004
|-
|''[[Belly of the Beast]]'' || || Abu Karaf men ||  || 2003
|-
|''[[Rules of Engagement]]'' || || NVA soldiers || || 2000
|-
| ''[[Red Corner]]'' || || Chinese PAP officer || || 1997
|-
|''[[Dead Presidents]]'' || || NVA soldiers ||  || 1995
|-
|''[[Open Fire]]'' || || A terrorist || || 1994
|-
|''[[Flight of the Intruder]]'' ||  || NVA soldiers || || 1991
|-
|''[[Born on the Fourth of July]]'' || || NVA soldiers || || 1989
|-
|''[[The Iron Triangle]]'' || || Vietcong fighters || || 1989
|-
|''[[Hamburger Hill]]'' ||  || NVA soldiers || || 1987
|-
|''[[Platoon]]'' ||  || NVA soldiers || || 1986
|-
| ''[[The Annihilators]]'' || || Viet Cong fighter || || 1985
|-
|''[[Uncommon Valor]]'' |||| NVA soldiers ||  || 1983
|-
| ''[[Dark of the Sun]]'' || [[Jim Brown]] || Sgt. Ruffo || || 1968
|-
| ''[[Dark of the Sun]]'' || [[Peter Carsten]] || Capt. Henlein || || 1968
|}
 
=== Television ===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="450"|'''Note/Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[M*A*S*H (TV Series)|M*A*S*H]]  || [[Mako]] || North Korean soldier || The Best of Enemies (S9E01)11-17-1980|| 1980
|-
| ''[[Lost]]'' || [[Evangeline Lilly]] || Kate Austen || . || 2004-2010
|-
| ''[[Lost]]'' || [[Terry O'Quinn]] || John Locke || . || 2004-2010
|-
| ''[[Lost]]'' || [[Andrew Divoff]] || Mikhail Bakunin || . || 2004-2010
|-
|}
 
===Video Games===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notation'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Release Date'''
|-
| ''[[Battlefield: Vietnam]]'' ||  ||  ||  || 2004
|}
 
==SKS-D==
[[File:NorincoSKS-D.jpg|thumb|right|500px|SKS-D (Norinco-branded) - 7.62x39mm]]
 
The SKS-D is a version of the Chinese SKS imported into USA that are capable of using detachable AK magazines. They come in either standard length or "paratrooper" length (16.5") barrels (such barrels were never actually used by the Chinese military, and were only found on American imports), though some sources say they only come in standard length. While multiple Chinese export SKS models can use AK magazines, the SKS-D is one of the earliest to enter US. The SKS-D is a "pre-ban" model with a bayonet lug and removable spike bayonet and a standard military-style stock.
 
Due to recycling old parts, some SKS-D models still have stripper clip guides, even though they cannot use stripper clips at all due to not having a bolt hold open.
 
The name SKS-D was actually not an official name (the rifles lack unique markings), but was coined by American dealers in order to differentiate these models from fixed magazine models, with D standing for "Detachable".
 
=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Date'''
|-
|''[[RoboCop 3]]'' || || Resistance fighter || || 1993
|-
|''[[The Condemned]]'' || || Prison guard || || 2006
|}
 
=== Animation ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[Boondocks, The]]'' ||  || Para barrel, drum magazine, no bayonet - seen in Ed III's weapon cache || 2005-
|-
|}
 
===Video Games===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notation'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Release Date'''
|-
| ''[[Insurgency (2014)|Insurgency]]'' ||SKS || w/ various attachments || 20-round magazines, short barrel, no bayonet || 2014
|-
| ''[[Insurgency: Sandstorm]]'' ||SKS || w/ various attachments || 20-round magazines, unusable bayonet || 2014
|-
| ''[[Into the Radius VR]]'' || "SKS" || w/ various attachments || 10 or 30-round AKM magazines, could mount bayonet in earlier versions of the game || 2020
|-
 
|}
 
==SKS Sporter==
[[File:CurseoftheKomodoSKS.jpg|thumb|right|450px|SKS Sporter (Norinco-branded) with thumbhole stock and 10-round magazine - 7.62x39mm]]
[[File:SKS Sporter.jpg|thumb|right|450px|SKS Sporter (Norinco-branded) with thumbhole stock and 10-round magazine - 7.62x39mm]]
 
The SKS Sporter is a post-ban model of Norinco's export SKS rifles. They have a "paratrooper" length barrel with no bayonets and most have a thick thumbhole stock (earlier Sporters are reported to have military-styled stocks). The rifle was imported for only a few years before it was banned.
 
Norinco exported many other models of post-ban SKS rifles, such as the SKS-M or the SKS-63. The post-ban SKS rifles generally feature either a thumbhole stock or a Monte Carlo stock. The difference between the models if often minor and inconsistently reported. The SKS Sporter can be identified with its unique side sling loop and its corresponding lack of a bottom sling loop.


=== Film ===
=== Film ===
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==Norinco SKS-D==
=== Television ===
[[File:NorincoSKS-D.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Norinco SKS-D - 7.62x39mm]]
 
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="450"|'''Note/Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[The Unit - Season 1|The Unit]]'' || || Indonesian rebel|| "200th Hour" (S1E03) || 2006
|}
{{Clear}}
 
== Zastava M59/66==
[[File:YugoSKS.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Zastava M59/66 - 7.62x39mm]]


The Norinco SKS-D is a version of the Chinese SKS imported into USA that are capable of using detachable AK magazines.
[[Zastava Arms]] of Yugoslavia produced their own SKS rifles since 1959. The earliest model, '''PAP M59''' (PAP stood for "Polu-automatska puška"; Semi-automatic rifle), was nearly identical to the Russian SKS. The second model, '''M59/66''', produced from 1967 to 1989, featured a distinctive 22mm rifle grenade launcher at the end of the barrel. Many M59 rifles were converted to M59/66 during refurbishment. Another variant known as the '''M59/66A1''' is identical to the M59/66 but featured night sights.


=== Film ===
=== Film ===
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Date'''
|-
|-
|''[[The Condemned]]'' || || Prison guard || || 2006
| ''[[Savior]]'' || || Militiamen || || 1998
|-
|''[[No Man's Land (2001)|No Man's Land]]'' || || Serbian and Bosnian ||  || 2001
|-
|''[[The Hunted (2003)|The Hunted]]|| || Serbian soldier || || 2003
|-
| ''[[The Good Shepherd]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 2006
|-
|}
 
===Television===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="450"|'''Note/Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[Situation Critical]]''|| || Serb Soldiers || "Downed Pilot" (S01E05) || 2007
|}
|}


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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Release Date'''
|-
|-
| ''[[Insurgency (2014)|Insurgency]]'' || || w/ various attachments || short barrel || 2014
| ''[[Jagged Alliance: Back in Action]]'' || SKS || w/ bayonet and grenade launcher || || 2012
|-
|-
| ''[[Contract Wars]]'' || || || || 2014
| ''[[World of Guns: Gun Disassembly]]'' || SKS M59/66 || w/ bayonet and PU scope ||incorrectly a Soviet Union weapon || 2014
|-
| ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)|Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]]'' || SKS || various optional attachments || w/ polymer chassis and detachable magazines; added in Season 3 || 2019
|}
|}


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| ''[[Battlefield 4]]'' ||  ||  || With detachable 20-round magazine || 2013
| ''[[Battlefield 4]]'' ||  ||  || With detachable 20-round magazine || 2013
|-
|-
| ''[[Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades]]'' || || || || 2016
| ''[[Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades]]'' || "SKS Modern"|| ||With detachable 20-round magazine|| 2016
|-
|-
|''[[Playerunknown's Battlegrounds]] || SKS || various sights, muzzle devices and magazines || With detachable 10/20-round magazines || 2017
|''[[Playerunknown's Battlegrounds]] || SKS || various sights, muzzle devices and magazines || With detachable 10/20-round magazines || 2017
|-
|}
|}
{{Clear}}
{{Clear}}
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==Custom Bullpup SKS==
==Custom Bullpup SKS==
[[File:SKS-customized.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Custom Bullpup SKS - 7.62x39mm]]
[[File:SKS-customized.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Custom Bullpup SKS - 7.62x39mm]]
A Russian-made custom bullpup SKS model.


===Film===
===Film===
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|}


==See Also==
=See Also=
* [[Izhevsk Machinebuilding Plant]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Izhmash.
* [[Izhevsk Machinebuilding Plant]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Izhmash.
* [[Norinco]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Norinco.
* [[Type 63 Rifle]] - '''(Externally Resembles the SKS Rifle)'''
* [[Type 63 Rifle]] - '''(Externally Resembles the SKS Rifle)'''


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[[Category:Rifle]]
[[Category:Carbine]]
[[Category:Carbine]]
[[Category:Sniper Rifle]]
[[Category:Bullpup]]
[[Category:Bullpup]]

Latest revision as of 14:57, 24 October 2023

The SKS (Samozaryadny Karabin sistemy Simonova, Self-loading Carbine of (the) Simonov system) rifle is a Soviet semi-automatic rifle designed in 1945 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. It was a widely exported weapon, with many foreign copies including the Chinese Type 56 Carbine. Most variants of the SKS have been widely exported onto civilian markets as military surplus rifles. This has lead to the development of an aftermarket for accessories for SKS rifles, namely with replacement stocks and magazines.

Note: Whereas the Russian SKS rifle can appear in any of the world's battlegrounds, the Chinese SKS should really only appear in places where there was a lot of military aid from the People's Republic of China. Most of the SKS rifles seen in movies about the Vietnam war are Chinese Type 56 carbines, but the presence of original Russian Type 45 Carbines are not historically implausible. The Soviet Union supplied ComBloc weapons in every hemisphere where there was a Marxist/communist presence.

Soviet/Russian Official Models

SKS

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SKS - 7.62x39mm
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OP-SKS - 7.62x39mm

The Russian SKS has a milled receiver and a blade bayonet. The rifles were issued with hardwood or laminated stocks.

The OP-SKS is a Russian civilian variant of the SKS converted into hunting rifles. OP stands for охотничье-промысловый, okhotnich'ye promyslovyy, meaning "commercial hunting". They feature a prefitted dovetail mount for scopes.

Specifications

(1945 - Present)

  • Type: Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x39mm
  • Weight: 8.5 lbs (3.9 kg)
  • Length: 40.2 in (102.1 cm)
  • Barrel length: 20.5 in (52.1 cm)
  • Muzzle velocity: 2,411 ft/s (735 m/s)
  • Capacity: 10-round fixed magazine. Norinco export SKS models tend to be able to use detachable AK magazines, and other detachable aftermarket magazines of various capacities exist.
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

The SKS rifle and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Maksim Perepelitsa Soviet soldiers 1955
Gloomy Morning (Khmuroe utro) White Army soldiers Heavily anachronistic 1959
The Spy Who came in from the Cold East German Border guards 1965
The Air Seller (Prodavetz vozdukha) Bayley's Guards 1968
The Green Berets Mounted on a display board 1968
Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!) Mongolian soldier 1971
And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...) Soviet soldiers 1974
Don't Cry, Girl (Ne plach, devchonka) Oleg Sologub Pvt. Andrey Vorobey 1977
Coming Home Jon Voight Luke Martin minus wood furniture 1978
In Flight are the Night Witches (V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy') Soviet marines 1981
The Dogs of War A Zangaran soldier 1981
Octopussy Soviet soldiers 1983
Kamal Khan's guards
Year of the Dragon A soldier 1985
Coordinates of Death (Koordinaty smerti) Viet Cong guerrillas 1985
Rambo III Afghan villagers 1988
Red Heat Soviet soldiers 1988
The Siege of Firebase Gloria A Vietcong sniper 1989
Toy Soldiers Colombian soldiers 1991
Robocop 3 A resistance fighter 1993
The Quest Dobbs' men and Turks 1996
Deserter (Dezertir) Viktor Demertash Murab Without folding bayonet 1997
Brigands and cult fighters
Ricochet (Rikoshet) A criminal OP-SKS 1997
The Peacemaker A Russian soldier 1997
Composition for Victory Day (Sochinenie ko Dnyu Pobedy) Honor guards 1998
American Beauty Inside Frank's gun cabinet 1998
Blues Brothers 2000 Militiamen With synthetic stock 1998
Three Kings Shia rebels 1999
Arlington Road Hunter Burkes Hutch Parsons without underfolding bayonet 1999
The Mission Keiji Sato Assassin with Choate Dragunov stock and scope 1999
We Were Soldiers NVA soldiers 2002
Detention A terrorist 2003
Tears of the Sun Nigerian rebels and refugees 2003
Stealth Tajik terrorists 2005
The Battle of Long Tan Vietcong with underfolding bayonet 2006
The Good Shepherd Soviet soldiers 2006
Tins (Konservy) Aleksey Serebryakov Usoltsev (Solyonyy) OP-SKS 2007
Wild Field (Dikoe pole) Aleksandr Arefyev Bandit 2008
Tropic Thunder Flying Dragon rebels 2008
The Book of Eli Carnegie's thug w/detachable magazine 2010
The Golden Mean (Zolotoe sechenie) Royal Cambodian guardian 2010
The Debt Extras East German Border Guards 2010
Sam Worthington Young David
71: Into the Fire Student soldiers 2010
North Korean soldiers
Home (Dom) Vladimir Epifantsev Pashka Shamanov OP-SKS hunting carbine 2011
Ivan Dobronravov Andrey Shamanov
Sergey Garmash Viktor Shamanov
Largo Winch II Burmese freedom fighters 2011
Machine Gun Preacher Ikagene Mogotusi Sniper 2011
Quagmire (Kuta) Georgiy Bessonov Andrey OP-SKS 2012
Vladislav Portnyagin Sasha
Nikolay Soldatov Pyotr Osipovich
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared American and Soviet soldiers 2013
Pawnshop (Lombard) Denis Nikiforov Mark 2013
The Fugitive (Kyuryuyoiekh) Georgiy Bessonov Barmaley OP-SKS 2014
Yevgeniy Pivovarov Yakov
Julustan Semyonov Misha
Dmitrii Davydov Hunter 1
Ivan Neustroyev Hunter 2
22 Minutes (22 minuty) Somali Pirates 2014
Into the Forest Michael Eklund Stan 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road Charlize Theron Furiosa 2015
Zoë Kravitz Toast the Knowing
Red Billabong James Straiton Jason 2016
The Death of Stalin Red Army soldiers 2017
NKVD soldiers
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle Filipino Hunters and soldiers 2021
Jemuel Satumba A Hunter

Television

Title Actor Character Note/Episode Date
The War Game East German soldiers 1965
Soviet soldiers
Heart of Bonivur (Serdtse Bonivura) Soviet guards of honor Seen in documentary footage 1969
Doctor Who John Levene Platoon Under Leader John Benton / "Inferno" 1970
David Simeon Pvt. Latimer
Republican Security Forces
Born by Revolution: The Last Meeting (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: Poslednyaya vstrecha) Soviet honor guards 1977
Confrontation (Protivostoyanie) Soviet and East German soldiers Documentary footage 1985
Tour of Duty VC and NVA units . 1987-1990
China Beach VC and NVA units . 1988-1991
The Unit Chechen terrorists/ "In Loco Parentis" (S2E20) 2007
The Company Hungarian freedom fighters and governmental forces 2007
Iris Seung Hyun Choi Vick Choate stock 2009
Tae-hee Kim Choi Seung-hee
IRIS snipers
Missing Russian soldier "Rain on the Evil and on the Good" (S1E10) 2012
Ash (Pepel) Aleksandr Lazarev (III) "Pepel"'s henchman 2013
The Jackal (Shakal) Seen in the Militsiya armoury 2016
The Crown Egyptian Army episode: "Misadventure" (S02E01) 2017
Katran Militsiya honor guards 2020
Spy City East German police and militia 2020

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Vietcong 2003
Conflict: Vietnam 2004
Project Reality With & without bayonet 2005
Vietcong 2 2005
Elite Warriors Vietnam 2005
The Stalin Subway 2005
Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat 2007
7.62 High Calibre various models w/ various attachments 2008
Karma Online 2011
Project Reality: Vietnam 2012
State of Decay "SKS" without bayonet 2013
Survarium Izhmash SKS Paratrooper Sporter 2013
Contract Wars 2014
Squad 2015
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades "SKS Classic" Classic version has bayonet. 2016
Escape from Tarkov Simonov Semi-Automatic Carbine SKS 7.62x39
Simonov Semi-Automatic Carbine SKS 7.62x39 Hunting Rifle Version		 Dovetail mount(for OP version),tread adapter and Hexagon sound suppressor, TAPCO INTRAFUSE and Fab Defence UAS stocks, 10-round internal box mag and 20, 35 or 75-round detachable mags without bayonet 2016
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam "SKS-45" 2017
Vigor 2018
State of Decay 2 2018
Cruelty Squad "ZKZ Transactional Rifle" 2021
Far Cry 6 2021

Anime

Title Character Notes Date
Upotte!! 2012

SVS-53 / SKS-30 / SKS-31

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SVS-53 - 7.62x54mmR
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SKS-30 - 7.62x54mmR
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SKS-31 - 7.62x54mmR

Specifications

(1941 - prototype)

  • Type: Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.62x54mmR
  • Capacity: 5 / 10-round
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

The SVS-53 / SKS-30 / SKS-31 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Enlisted SKS-31 2021


Foreign & Custom Models

Type 56 Carbine

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Type 56 Carbine - 7.62x39mm

The Type 56 Carbine (not to be confused with the Type 56 assault rifle) is the Chinese version of the SKS. In Chinese, it is named Type 56 Semi-Automatic Rifle (Chinese: 56式半自动步枪). The rifle is manufactured by a wide variety of Chinese state factories; the primary manufacturer is Factory 296, now known as Chongqing Jianshe Group.

Early Type 56 rifles are very similar to the Russian SKS-45, with a milled trigger group, blade bayonet, and long lug threaded barrel. Later Type 56s have a stamped sheet metal trigger group, short lug threaded or pressed and pinned barrel and a spike bayonet (a.k.a. a "pig sticker") much like the Type 56 assault rifle. The later versions, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch Arisaka Type 99 rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Mad Max: Fury Road Charlize Theron Imperator Furiosa 2015
Tom Hardy Max Rockatansky
Zoe Kravitz Toast
White Soldier Việt Minh soldiers 2014
Brothers Taliban militants 2009
Rescue Dawn Laotian militia leader 2007
Sniper 3 Sniper With scope 2004
Belly of the Beast Abu Karaf men 2003
Rules of Engagement NVA soldiers 2000
Red Corner Chinese PAP officer 1997
Dead Presidents NVA soldiers 1995
Open Fire A terrorist 1994
Flight of the Intruder NVA soldiers 1991
Born on the Fourth of July NVA soldiers 1989
The Iron Triangle Vietcong fighters 1989
Hamburger Hill NVA soldiers 1987
Platoon NVA soldiers 1986
The Annihilators Viet Cong fighter 1985
Uncommon Valor NVA soldiers 1983
Dark of the Sun Jim Brown Sgt. Ruffo 1968
Dark of the Sun Peter Carsten Capt. Henlein 1968

Television

Title Actor Character Note/Episode Date
M*A*S*H Mako North Korean soldier The Best of Enemies (S9E01)11-17-1980 1980
Lost Evangeline Lilly Kate Austen . 2004-2010
Lost Terry O'Quinn John Locke . 2004-2010
Lost Andrew Divoff Mikhail Bakunin . 2004-2010

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Battlefield: Vietnam 2004

SKS-D

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SKS-D (Norinco-branded) - 7.62x39mm

The SKS-D is a version of the Chinese SKS imported into USA that are capable of using detachable AK magazines. They come in either standard length or "paratrooper" length (16.5") barrels (such barrels were never actually used by the Chinese military, and were only found on American imports), though some sources say they only come in standard length. While multiple Chinese export SKS models can use AK magazines, the SKS-D is one of the earliest to enter US. The SKS-D is a "pre-ban" model with a bayonet lug and removable spike bayonet and a standard military-style stock.

Due to recycling old parts, some SKS-D models still have stripper clip guides, even though they cannot use stripper clips at all due to not having a bolt hold open.

The name SKS-D was actually not an official name (the rifles lack unique markings), but was coined by American dealers in order to differentiate these models from fixed magazine models, with D standing for "Detachable".

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
RoboCop 3 Resistance fighter 1993
The Condemned Prison guard 2006

Animation

Title Character Note Date
Boondocks, The Para barrel, drum magazine, no bayonet - seen in Ed III's weapon cache 2005-

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Insurgency SKS w/ various attachments 20-round magazines, short barrel, no bayonet 2014
Insurgency: Sandstorm SKS w/ various attachments 20-round magazines, unusable bayonet 2014
Into the Radius VR "SKS" w/ various attachments 10 or 30-round AKM magazines, could mount bayonet in earlier versions of the game 2020

SKS Sporter

SKS Sporter (Norinco-branded) with thumbhole stock and 10-round magazine - 7.62x39mm
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SKS Sporter (Norinco-branded) with thumbhole stock and 10-round magazine - 7.62x39mm

The SKS Sporter is a post-ban model of Norinco's export SKS rifles. They have a "paratrooper" length barrel with no bayonets and most have a thick thumbhole stock (earlier Sporters are reported to have military-styled stocks). The rifle was imported for only a few years before it was banned.

Norinco exported many other models of post-ban SKS rifles, such as the SKS-M or the SKS-63. The post-ban SKS rifles generally feature either a thumbhole stock or a Monte Carlo stock. The difference between the models if often minor and inconsistently reported. The SKS Sporter can be identified with its unique side sling loop and its corresponding lack of a bottom sling loop.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
The Rundown Rosario Dawson Mariana 2003
Curse of the Komodo Ted Monte Hanson 2004

Television

Title Actor Character Note/Episode Date
The Unit Indonesian rebel "200th Hour" (S1E03) 2006


Zastava M59/66

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Zastava M59/66 - 7.62x39mm

Zastava Arms of Yugoslavia produced their own SKS rifles since 1959. The earliest model, PAP M59 (PAP stood for "Polu-automatska puška"; Semi-automatic rifle), was nearly identical to the Russian SKS. The second model, M59/66, produced from 1967 to 1989, featured a distinctive 22mm rifle grenade launcher at the end of the barrel. Many M59 rifles were converted to M59/66 during refurbishment. Another variant known as the M59/66A1 is identical to the M59/66 but featured night sights.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Savior Militiamen 1998
No Man's Land Serbian and Bosnian 2001
The Hunted Serbian soldier 2003
The Good Shepherd Soviet soldiers 2006

Television

Title Actor Character Note/Episode Date
Situation Critical Serb Soldiers "Downed Pilot" (S01E05) 2007

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action SKS w/ bayonet and grenade launcher 2012
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly SKS M59/66 w/ bayonet and PU scope incorrectly a Soviet Union weapon 2014
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare SKS various optional attachments w/ polymer chassis and detachable magazines; added in Season 3 2019

SKS in Tapco Intrafuse Stock System

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Yugoslavian M59/66 SKS with aftermarket Tapco Intrafuse Stock System furniture - 7.62x39mm
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Chinese SKS with aftermarket Tapco Intrafuse Stock System furniture - 7.62x39mm

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Battlefield Play4Free With 20-round magazine and PSO-1 scope 2011
Battlefield 3 With detachable 20-round magazine and optional PKS-07 scope 2011
Battlefield 4 With detachable 20-round magazine 2013
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades "SKS Modern" With detachable 20-round magazine 2016
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds SKS various sights, muzzle devices and magazines With detachable 10/20-round magazines 2017


Custom Bullpup SKS

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Custom Bullpup SKS - 7.62x39mm

A Russian-made custom bullpup SKS model.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Hooked (Na Igre) Sergey Chirkov Vampire 2009
Pavel Priluchnyy Doc
Hooked 2. Next Level (Na Igre 2. Novyy Uroven) Sergey Chirkov Vampire 2010
Pavel Priluchnyy Doc
Nightingale the Robber (Solovey-Razboynik) Igor Jijikine Agent N7 2012

See Also

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