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'''The SKS rifle appears in the following films and television series used by the following actors:'''
'''The SKS rifle appears in the following films and television series used by the following actors:'''
[[Image:SKS Flickr.jpg|thumb|right|400px|SKS rifle 7.62x39mm with bayonet folded]]
[[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.]]
[[Image:SKS rifle.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Yugoslavian SKS rifle with fold out bayonet, a common SKS varient 7.62x39mm.]]
[[Image:ChineseType56Carbine.jpg|thumb|right|500px|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.]]
[[Image:Simonov-Russian-SKS45.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Russian Simonov Type 45 aka the SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:SKS rifle.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Yugoslavian SKS rifle with fold out bayonet, a common SKS varient 7.62x39mm.]]
 
=== Film ===
=== Film ===
* NVA soilders in ''[[Rescue Dawn]]''
* NVA soldiers in ''[[Rescue Dawn]]''


* NVA soldier in ''[[Flight of the Intruder]]''
* NVA soldiers in ''[[Flight of the Intruder]]''


* NVA soldiers in ''[[We Were Soldiers]]''
* NVA soldiers in ''[[We Were Soldiers]]''

Revision as of 04:56, 19 November 2008

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

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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 common SKS varient 7.62x39mm.

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