If asked about the 7.62x39mm cartridge (aka the 7.62 Soviet and .30 Russian Short), the first firearm that comes to mind is almost certainly the Avtomat Kalashnikova, i.e., the AK-47 assault rifle.

In the spring of 1992, two AT&T craftsmen in Georgia were chatting at work when the subject of guns came up. One of them, George Hill Jr., was a hobbyist from Greenville who competed in amateur target ...

The SKS, short for Self-Loading Carbine of the Simonov System, is the odd one out. Developed in the interim between the Mosin-Nagant and the AK-47, Sergei Simonov’s semi-automatic carbine had a mere ...

As is true of many Soviet-era weapons systems—from the aforementioned Kalashnikov rifle to the Pistolet Makarova (Makarov Pistol) and the Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) series of fighter planes, the ...