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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.]]
[[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: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 [[AK-47]] copies - the [[AK-47#Norinco Type 56|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 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: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 [[AK-47]] copies - the [[AK-47#Norinco Type 56|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 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:SKS Sporter.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Chinese SKS Paratrooper Sporter with thumbhole stock and 30-round magazine 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:SKS Sporter.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Chinese SKS Paratrooper Sporter with thumbhole stock and 10-round magazine 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:YugoSKS.jpg|thumb|right|515px|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:YugoSKS.jpg|thumb|right|515px|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.]]


Revision as of 17:25, 21 August 2010

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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 AK-47 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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Chinese SKS Paratrooper Sporter with thumbhole stock and 10-round magazine 7.62x39mm
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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.

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 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)
  • Kate in several episodes of season 6 of Lost

Video Games

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