Throughout the Cold War era until the fall of the Soviet Union, the Automatic Kalashnikov family of rifles are remembered as the defining arms of the Soviet Union and communist forces. However ...

Firearms experts at The Military Wire called the weapon a 7.62x39mm SKS rifle with black synthetic stock. That’s the same ammunition as most AKs. In a 2002 report from the federal Bureau of ...

Firearms experts at The Military Wire called the weapon a 7.62x39mm SKS rifle with black synthetic stock. That’s the same ammunition as most AKs. Notably, an SKS was used in the 2017 ...

Millions of these SKS rifles were produced for Eastern bloc ... 30 caliber slug fired by the SKS will chew through a normal ballistic vest designed to stop pistol rounds and do far more damage ...

Like most SKS rifles, our Yugo lacked a return spring ... In this case, it adds the utility of an on-board ammunition carrier sized for the gun’s 10-round stripper clip. Each one is individually ...

Key point: It’d be a stretch to say that the SKS was ahead of its time. The most iconic rifle of the 20th century is the AK-47. One of the most iconic rifles of World War II — granted ...