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The RK 62 (from Finnish rynnäkkökivääri 62, 'assault rifle 62'), officially 7.62 RK 62 and commercially M62, is an assault rifle manufactured by Valmet and Sako. It is the standard issue infantry weapon of the Finnish Defence Forces. The RK 62 was designed in 1957–1962 by a Valmet engineer Lauri Oksanen [3] and is based on the Polish ...
3,750 m at 9.5° [3] The 21 cm RK L/19 was the later name of a rifled breech loader gun of the Prussian Navy. This gun started with a massive gun barrel, cast from steel in one piece. In 1868 a built-up gun barrel version was tested in Prussia and found to be much more powerful. Many of the massive guns were then changed to built-up guns.
Muzzle velocity. 446 m/s. [ 4] Effective firing range. 6,000 m (20,000 ft) at 14.10° elevation [ 5] The 21 cm RK L/22 was a 21 cm caliber Krupp gun that was purposefully designed to use a combination of prismatic gunpowder, a built-up gun barrel, and the Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech with broadwell ring.
Length. 4.250 m [ 1] Caliber. 172.6 mm. Muzzle velocity. 524 m/s. [ 2] The 17 cm RK L/25 was a gun from a family of German naval artillery guns developed in the 1870s. Before World War I, the gun was used on warships of the Imperial German Navy, the Royal Netherlands Navy, and other navies.
The Gun. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780743270762. OCLC 535493119. At the Internet Archive (registration required) Ezell, Edward Clinton (1986). The AK-47 Story: Evolution of the Kalashnikov Weapons. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0811709167. OCLC 12549027. Hodges, Michael (2007). AK47: The Story of a Gun. San Francisco: MacAdam ...
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×39mm cartridge, first developed and used by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. [1] The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as well as RPD and RPK light machine guns.
AR platform-based replacement for the RK series of rifles. 7.62 RK 62 7.62 RK 62 TP 7.62 RK 62 76 7.62 RK 62 76 TP 7.62 RK 62 M1 7.62 RK 62 M2 7.62 RK 62 M3 Finland: Assault rifle: 350,000: Standard issue assault rifle. [Top] RK 62 with later version pistol grip and handguard. [Middle upper] RK 62 76 with an older stamped steel magazine.
[3] The world's armed forces control about 133 million (about 13 percent) of the global total of small arms, of which over 43 percent belong to two countries, the Russian Federation (30.3 million) and the People's Republic of China (27.5 million). [2] Law enforcement agencies control about 23 million (about 2 percent) of the global total of ...