

This "point-blank range" setting allows the shooter to fire the gun at any close target without adjusting the sights. The battle setting (-П-) places the round within +/-33 cm from the point of aim out to 350 m (380 yd). Windage adjustment is done by the armory before issue. The front sight is a post adjustable for elevation in the field. The notched rear tangent iron sight is adjustable, and is calibrated in hundreds of meters. The carbine's ten-round box magazine is fed from a stripper clip (see below), and rounds stored in the magazine can be removed by depressing a magazine catch (thus opening the "floor" of the magazine and allowing the rounds to fall out) located forward of the trigger guard.

Some selective-fire variants were produced in the PRC, and many SKS's have been modified in various ways to accept detachable magazines however, the basic design of the SKS is semi-automatic and fixed-magazine in nature. The basic design lacks both selective fire capability and a detachable magazine however, there are aftermarket modifications available which provide the SKS with selective-fire capability (the ability to fire in either semi-automatic or full-automatic mode). As with the American M1 carbine, the SKS is shorter and less powerful than the semi-automatic rifles which preceded it: most notably, the Soviet SVT series and the American M1 Garand. Some versions, such as the Yugoslavian-made M59/66 variant, are also equipped with a grenade launching attachment. Most versions are fitted with an integral folding bayonet which rotates downward from the end of the barrel. The SKS has a conventional carbine layout, with a wooden stock and no pistol grip. Yugoslavian SKS M59/66 with the muzzle formed into a spigot-type grenade launcher, and folding bayonet It was designed to utilize an intermediate round which was the 7.62×39mm round. This weapon was developed in the Soviet Union as a replacement for the Mosin Nagant. The SKS Rifle is a semi-automatic rifle that was designed in the Soviet Union and used in Vietnam by Communist forces. Hooded post front sight, tangent notch rear sight graduated from 100 to 1,000 meters Short stroke gas piston, tilting bolt, self-loadingħ35 m/s ( Script error: No such module "Math". ft/s)ĥ00 metres ( Bad rounding here Script error: No such module "Math". yd)ġ0 round stripper clip-fed or individual round loading SKS Carbine from the collections of Armémuseum, Stockholm, SwedenĬhinese Type 56 Yugoslavian PAP Romanian SKS Albanian SKS East German SKS (North) Vietnamese SKS North Korean SKSġ,021 millimetres ( Bad rounding here Script error: No such module "Math". in), M59/66 length 1,117 millimetres ( Bad rounding here Script error: No such module "Math". in)ĥ21 millimetres ( Bad rounding here Script error: No such module "Math". in), M59/66 558.8 millimetres ( Bad rounding here Script error: No such module "Math". in) Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
