Russian made AK47 Varieties

• AK-47 1948–51, 7.62 × 39 mm.
  The very earliest models had a stamped sheet metal receiver. Now rare.
• AK-47 1952, 7.62 × 39 mm
  has a milled receiver and wooden buttstock and hand-guard. Barrel and chamber are chrome-plated to resist corrosion. Rifle weight 4.2 kg.
• AKS-47 ×
  Featured an upward-folding metal stock as opposed to the fixed wood stock of the AK-47.
• AKM 7.62 × 39 mm
  a revised, lower-cost version of the AK-47; receiver is made from several pieces of stamped sheet-metal riveted together and a revized muzzle flash suppressor. Rifle weight 3.61 kg.
• AKMS 7.62 × 39 mm
  folding stock version of the AKM intended for airborne troops.
• AKS-74 5.45 × 39 mm (AK-74)
  note the new, much smaller ammunition.
• AK-74M 5.45 × 39 mm
  folding stock (for motorised infantry)
• AKS-74U 5.45 × 39 mm
  tanker’s self-defense weapon, folding stock, short barrel, altered sight and gas mechanism, odd-looking flash suppressor device on the muzzle. Nicknamed the “Krinkov” after its designer. Very popular with Spetznaz (Russian Special Forces) troops as well as Russian law enforcement in Russia’s large cities.
• AK-101 5.56 × 45 mm round (NATO round)
• AK-102 short stock 101
• AK-103 7.62 × 39 mm round
• AK-104 short stock 103
• AK-105 5.45 × 39 mm round (short stock)
• SVD Dragunov 7.62 × 54 mm
  10 shot sniper rifle. This is semiautomatic, with a skeletal laminated “outline” stock. The standard optical sight is the PSO-1. Uses a unique, short-stroke piston system because a standard piston for the larger cartridge was so heavy that it upset the point of aim. The piston moves a bolt-carrier. Has a very distinctive flash suppressor device on the muzzle resembling that mounted on the PKM general purpose machine gun. Developed in 1958 by Yevgeniy Feodorovich Dragunov, a gunsmith at the Izhevsk Machine Factory, where he originally designed sporting rifles. Not as accurate as Western military issue sniper rifles but very rugged and reliable. Popular with the troops, it is nicknamed the “veslo,” which means “oar.”
• MedVed Sporting Rifle, 9 × 54 mm
  Very similar to the SVD.
• RPK-74 squad automatic weapon
  identical to an AK-74 but featuring a thicker, longer barrel and fixed bipod,
• OC-14 Groza
  a bullpup rifle nearly identical to an AK-74 in function that also shares many internal parts,
• Saiga 12K, a semi-automatic shotgun