![]() One major reason that the design became so prolific is that during the Cold War the Soviet Union shared design and production details with its allies. The SKS remains popular and is also used by several African, Asian, and Middle Eastern armies, as well as guerrillas in Bosnia, Somalia and throughout Africa and Southeast Asia. The SKS rifle and its many copies still can be found today in use by various third-world militias and insurgent groups as well as in civilian use especially in Canada and the US. The next few years saw the SKS carbines acting in non-infantry and ceremonial roles until about 1990. Advantages over the SKS were the selective-fire option, a rifle that was lighter, had more magazine capacity, not to mention that it was less labor-intensive to manufacture. The quality of the early Soviet carbines was quite high as compared to some later manufacturers.Īlmost as soon as the SKS was brought into service, it was made obsolete for Soviet purposes by the new AK-47 by Kalashnikov. Initially fielded in early 1945 against the Germans, the SKS was not adopted officially by the Soviet Army till 1949 and was produced by the Tula Armory until 1955. This rifle was a less radical 'just in case' for the AK-47's experimental design. The SKS was to designed and produced as a service firearm that would have a limited lifespan between 2 rifles but utilized a reliable operating mechanism design. For example, a serial number 2958E44-1967 indicates that the SKS was. These four numbers indicate the date of manufacture. At the end of the serial number, there is a dash followed by four numbers. ![]() Look at a Romanian rifle's serial number. For example, a serial number 044922-67 indicates that the SKS was manufactured in 1967.As an example, the MAK90 I had before I sold it had a serial number of 60618. ![]() They will have a five-digit serial number without a year of manufacture indicator. Some MAK90s which were in-country already when the 1989 ban was passed were 'caught in transition'.
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