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- From: wkb@cblph.att.com (William K Brummett)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: What does SKS mean?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.232500.9506@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 14:38:48 GMT
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- In article <9212311811.AA21826@glv.com>, rcc@glv.uucp (Chris Carpenter)
- writes:
- > Does anyone know the meaning of the SKS designation of the SKS
- > model 56?
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- SKS = Samozaridnya Karabina Simonova
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- Simonov self-loading (semiautomatic) carbine, adopted by Soviet
- forces in 1945. Type 56 means, I believe, a copy made in the PRC.
-
- -- Keith
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