![]() ![]() That "60" refers to the year of manufacture, but no one seemsĪs with many small arms produced by Germany during World War II, Of the serial number is enigmatic on the Karabiner-S. "la" and "K96" in a rectangle is unknown. Verteidigung (Ministry for National Defense). The acronym "MfNV" stands for Ministerium fur Nationale In a rectangle and then the serial number, which is "60U8810." Over "la" within a circle of dots, followed by "K96" Rollmarked on the left side of the receiver as follows, "MfNV" Markings similar to those reported to me by other collectors, is lightly The specimen I have in my collection, which appears to have There are also rumors that it was manufactured at more However, there is no actualĭocumentation that it was manufactured there or at any other factory inĮast Germany. It is thought that the Karabiner-S was manufactured at the former ![]() Territory, based on the four-power Potsdam Agreement, while British,Ĭanadian, French and American forces remained in the Federal Republic of Sovereign, although Soviet occupation forces remained in East German It was that year that the USSR declared that the DDR was fully It'sĮven quite possible that tooling was transferred from the USSR to the (Deutsche Demokratische Republik -German Democratic Republic) atĪpproximately the same time it was terminated in the USSR. It is believed that SKS series production commenced in East Germany Had almost completely terminated, as it was replaced throughout the RedĪrmy by Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK47 selective-fire assault rifle in By 1955, series production of the SKS in the Soviet Union Known and much of what we think we know is based upon undocumented In the case of the East German Karabiner-S, very little is actually Likely exceeded that of all other countries combined. Weapons systems produced in Mainland China. (People's Republic of China), it was one of the first Soviet (Type 63), North Vietnam, Romania, Albania and the People's Germany (Karabiner-S or Karabiner Simonov), Yugoslavia, North Korea Indicated above, the SKS was manufactured well after that time in East Production in the Soviet Union ceased in the mid-1950s, but as Simonov introduced a number of changes in theĭesign based upon reports from the front, before its official adoption The very first SKS-45 carbines produced were sent to troopsįighting on the First Byelorussian Front and to the Vistrel Receiver body to the front part of the bolt carrier. The stripper clip guides were transferred from the upper part of the With a detachable gas cylinder, integral with the upper handguard, and The metal casing covering the gas port was replaced Muzzle brake was deleted due to the adoption of an integral, knife-type,įolding bayonet. In addition to the important change of caliber, the SKS-41's Of developmental work on the caliber 7.62x54R Model 1941 SKS. PTRS caliber 14.5x114mm semiautomatic antitank rifle and a continuation Nothing more than a scaled-down version of Simonov's World War II Theįirst production series rifle for the 7.62x39mm cartridge, the SKS is (Ssamosarjadnyi Karabin Simonov-Self-loading Carbine Simonov, 1945) wasĭesigned from the very beginning as a semiautomatic-only weapon. Has been speculated that there may be less than 100 East German SKSĭesigned by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, the Russian SKS-45 Numbers from Romania and Albania/Extremely rare are specimens from Northīut most uncommon of all are those manufactured in East Germany. ![]() Mekhanichesky Zavod (aka Baikal) facility in Izhevsk, Russia, and small Numerous examples from Russia, mostly arsenal refinished at the Izhevsky There are also significant quantities of two types from Yugoslavia, ![]() Most of these are Chinese, even though they can no longerīe imported, and it has been reported by advanced collectors that thereĪre possibly more than 50 variants of the ChiCom SKS. There are literally hundreds of thousands of SKS carbines in the
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