Interesting. Had never heard of those. The article doesn’t indicate they were deployed a whole lot, but it would seem the classic assault rifle definition of lower powered cartridge firing with select fire option.
‘Interesting. Had never heard of those. The article doesn’t indicate they were deployed a whole lot, but it would seem the classic assault rifle definition of lower powered cartridge firing with select fire option.’
In fact Soviets deployed a number of semi-auto and select fire rifles en-masse since 1930s. They also were the first automatic rifles the Germans seen and they’ve put captured ones to their own service.
Avs-36, Svt-38, 40.
Mila Pavluchenko the most celebrated Allied sniper of WWII had one of these.