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[[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.]]
[[Image:NorincoSKS-D.jpg|thumb|right|515px|Norinco SKS-D - 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:NorincoSKS-D.jpg|thumb|right|515px|Norinco SKS-D - 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:Chinese SKS Paratrooper Sporter 7.62x39mm Carbine 16.5-inch barrel.jpg|thumb|right|515px|Chinese SKS Paratrooper Sporter with a 16.5-inch barrel - 7.62x39mm Carbine]]
[[Image:Chinese SKS Paratrooper Sporter 7.62x39mm Carbine 16.5-inch barrel.jpg|thumb|right|515px|Chinese SKS-63 with a 20-inch barrel - 7.62x39mm Carbine]]


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.   
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.   

Revision as of 14:40, 21 January 2011

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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.
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Norinco SKS-D - 7.62x39mm
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Chinese SKS-63 with a 20-inch barrel - 7.62x39mm Carbine

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.

Specifications

(1945 - Present)

Type: Rifle

Caliber: 7.62x39mm

Capacity: 10 round internal box magazine (other variants use varying-capacity removable box magazines)

Fire Modes: Semiautomatic


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

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Project Reality 2005
Insurgency 2007
Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain With inaccurate 50-round magazine and automatic fire 2004
Vietcong 2003
Jagged Alliance 2 1999
Silent Storm: Sentinels With & without scope 2004
Battlefield: Vietnam 2004

Animation

See Also

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