Posted on 02/17/2006 1:30:11 PM PST by birbear
I'm working on a piece of fiction and I can't seem to find this using Google. I'm sure some our gun enthusiasts would know.
What's the standard rifle of the North Korean Army?
Thanks.
Thank you very much!
I misunderstood his request. You are right. The NK are using the AK 47 chinese version called the "norinco"
Thank you.
The AK-47 has probably been replaced by the newer AK-74, AKS-74 and AK-74M. But its one of those.
Gives the term "blow your brains out" a whole new meaning.
It is a copy of the AKM. I think the machine equipment was bought from the Chinese and the rifle was patterned after their varient.
www.ak-47.net (I'm a mod over there, but for the H&K91 / CETMEs; we have around 30K members register & ask in general discussion, general weapons discussion)
According to the Federation of American Scientists, the DPRK has been independently producing their own small arms, including their AK variant, since the early '70s.
The 74's have a distinctive orange magazine (probably to help insure that users don't try to load 5.45mm rounds into an AKM, or 7.62mm into an AK-74). I haven't seen any photos from N. Korea that contain those mags.
During the Korean War, they used a lot of the PPsH 41 submachineguns in 7.62 X 25mm (.30 Tokarev).
The GI Vets called them the "buzzgun" or "buzzsaw" because at close range they could cut you in half with one burst.
They also produced their own varient (which is quite rare in this country) of the Siminov "SKS" carbine - which is apparently pretty well made, and compares favorably with the Russian and Chinese versions.
The main difference between the AK-47 and the 74, as far as I know, anyway (and I'm no expert on these things) is that the 47 is chambered for the 7.62 X 39mm round (.30 caliber) and the 74 uses a 5.58(?)mm, or about a .22 caliber version of the same cartridge (necked down, essentially).
No doubt the Kongsan (that's what the Koreans call 'em) have kept large inventories of obsolete and captured weapons for the use of reserves, home guard and such.
I wonder if they still use the TT-33 Tokarev as their primary sidearm, the 9X18mm Makarov per Russia, or something else?
They may be using some SKS rifles in addition to the AK47s.
North Korea uses Russian built AK-47 rifles.
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