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* NVA soldiers in ''[[We Were Soldiers]]''
* NVA soldiers in ''[[We Were Soldiers]]''
* Soviet soldiers parading Red Square in ''[[Red Heat]]''


* Guerilla fighter in ''[[RoboCop 3]]''
* Guerilla fighter in ''[[RoboCop 3]]''

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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.
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Chinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The Chinese SKS has a stamped receiver and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their AK47 copies - the Type 56 assault rifle. This version, 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.
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Yugoslavian SKS rifle with fold out bayonet, a SKS variant most seen during the Balkan Wars - 7.62x39mm.

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


The SKS rifle appears in the following films and television series used by the following actors:


Film

  • Seen in a weapons shop and carried by some villagers in Rambo III
  • NVA Soldiers in Platoon (Chinese Type 56 Carbine)
  • Soviet soldiers parading Red Square in Red Heat
  • The Katanganese Gendarmes and Simba rebels in Dark of the Sun (Chinese Type 56 Carbine)
  • Serb and Bosnian Soldiers in No Man's Land (Yugo SKS Rifle aka M59/66)

Television

  • Seen used by Serb Soldiers in the Episode "Downed Pilot" in Situation Critical (Yugo SKS Rifle aka M59/66)


Video Games

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