Vz 58 assault rifle. Czech weapons. Weight with empty magazine, kg
After the creation of the Warsaw Pact Organization, within the framework of the countries participating in the Warsaw Pact, the standardization of weapons systems, including ammunition, began. Most of the countries - satellites of the USSR at that time, acted simply by adopting Soviet-designed weapons - AK (and later AKM) assault rifles in a more or less modified form. However, Czechoslovakia, which historically had a very strong and developed arms industry, chose to create its own types of weapons under a common cartridge. First, after the standardization of the Soviet cartridge 7.62x39, the Czechs modified their self-loading caliber 7.62x45 mm under the Soviet cartridge, and at the beginning of 1956 they began to develop a full-fledged machine gun for the same standard cartridge as part of a project code-named "KOŠTĚ", that is, "broom ". The chief designer of the new machine was Jiri Cermak (Jiří Čermák), who worked at the state-owned arms factory in the city of Uhersky Brod - Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod (CZ-UB). Just two years later, in 1958, the new model SA vz.58 was already adopted by the Czechoslovak army, and after the collapse of Czechoslovakia in mid-1993, it formed the basis of the small arms system of the armies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where it served until recently.
Automatic Samopal vzor 58 - SA vz.58P 
automatic Samopal vzor 58 - SA vz.58V with a folding butt
Plans to replace this already obsolete model with newer NATO 5.56mm systems have not yet been fully implemented, mainly due to financial reasons. In the Czech Republic, the SA Vz.58 assault rifle is gradually being replaced by a new one chambered for 5.56mm NATO. The official designation of the assault rifle is Samopal vzor 58, or briefly SA vz.58, that is, a submachine gun (the Czechs do not distinguish between a submachine gun and an assault rifle in the name) of the 1958 model. The Samopal vzor 58 assault rifle, like almost all Czech weapons, was distinguished by high quality workmanship and exterior finish, as well as an original design - despite the outward resemblance to the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the SA vz.58 had a fundamentally different and completely original design.
During the 60-80s of the twentieth century, SA Vz.58 assault rifles were widely exported to Third World countries, mainly to Africa and the Middle East. After the decommissioning of the combat version, a significant number of the surviving assault rifles were converted to only semi-automatic shooting and sold on the civilian markets of many countries, including Canada and the United States. Currently, the Czech company Czech Small Arms (C.S.A.) "from scratch" produces new self-loading carbines based on the design of the SA Vz.58 assault rifle, both in its "native" caliber 7.62x39, and in the very popular 223 Remington caliber in the world .
self-loading carbine CSA Vz.58 chambered for 7.62 × 39 
Technical description.
The SA vz.58 assault rifle is built on the basis of gas-operated automatics with a short stroke of the gas piston located above the barrel. The gas piston has its own return spring. The barrel is locked using a separate combat larva mounted on the bolt in its lower part and swinging up and down under the influence of figured cutouts on the bolt frame. Locking is carried out for cutouts in the receiver by lowering the locking larva down. After the shot, the bolt carrier receives a short impulse from the gas piston and begins to move back. After a free play of approximately 22 millimeters, curly cutouts in the bolt carrier lift the front of the locking larva, disengaging it from the receiver and releasing the bolt. After that, the entire bolt group, under the action of inertia forces and residual gas pressure in the barrel, moves back, removing and ejecting the spent cartridge case and feeding a new cartridge into the barrel on the way back, and at the end of the movement, locking the barrel by lowering the front of the combat larva down. Thus, the shutter itself moves strictly rectilinearly. The return spring is located in the receiver behind the bolt carrier. The cocking handle is rigidly fixed to the bolt carrier on the right.
The trigger mechanism is also of the original design, shock. A massive drummer of a tubular design protrudes from the rear of the bolt body, and behind it is a twisted mainspring, with its rear end resting against the rear wall of the receiver. A tooth is made on the drummer from below, which interlocks with the sear when the drummer is cocked. The USM itself is of a simple design, has a minimum of moving parts. Fuse - fire mode translator is located on the receiver on the right, above the pistol grip, and has three positions - "safe", "single shots", "automatic fire". The design of the machine provides for an automatic slide delay that intercepts the bolt group in the rear position when the cartridges in the magazine are used up. The slide delay switch is located in front of the trigger guard, next to the magazine latch. Original army magazines from the vz.58 assault rifle are not compatible with magazines from Kalashnikov assault rifles. The presence of a slide delay and the design of the cover of the receiver of the machine gun allow, if necessary, to replenish the magazine from clips without disconnecting it from the weapon.
The fittings on the early samples are made of wood, on the later ones - of plastic filled with wood shavings. The basic version of the machine - SA vz.58P has a fixed butt, the SA vz.58V version is distinguished by a side-folding metal butt. The SA vz.58Pi variant differs from the SA vz.58Р by the presence on the left side of the receiver of a mount for night (infrared) sights and a massive conical flame arrester.
Sights include a front sight in an annular namushnik and an open rear sight with a V-shaped slot, adjustable for firing range. SA vz.58 assault rifles are equipped with a carrying strap and a bayonet.
about Special thanks to Miroslav Novák from Czech Republic for information about SA vz.58
Caliber: 7.62x39mm
Length: 845 mm (635 mm stock folded)
barrel length: 390 mm
The weight: 3.1 kg empty, 3.6 kg full
Score: 30 rounds
rate of fire: 800 rounds per minute
Effective firing range: about 400 meters
The Czech Republic has always been famous for its weapons, but recently there has not been a clear advantage of their models over weapons from other countries, but everything returned to normal in 2009. It was this year that the IDET exhibition presented for the first time a new Czech assault rifle CZ 805, which later "made" even the Belgian SCAR in the competition for new weapons for the Czech army. Let's try to get to know this sample more closely and figure out what exactly is its uniqueness, and most importantly, what exactly distinguishes this sample from many other, far from the worst examples of automata that deserve the highest ratings.
The appearance of the CZ 805 assault rifle corresponds to all modern trends in gun fashion and you can find many similar details with other samples from other manufacturers, but some details should still be noted. First of all, it is striking that the shutter handle can be easily rearranged from the left to the right side, and this simplest thing is implemented, as, in fact, is customary in Czech weapons. On both sides of the weapon, a fuse switch is duplicated, it is also a translator of automatic fire modes.
The weapon has the ability to fire with a cut-off of two rounds, thus, the switch itself has 4 positions: "Fuse on", "Single fire", "Fire with cut-off", "Automatic fire". The switch itself is located quite conveniently above the handle of holding the weapon and is easily switched by the thumb of the holding hand, which literally rests on this control element itself.
Unfortunately, or maybe not, the designers did not implement in this model of the machine the possibility of changing the ejection side of the spent cartridge case. So, the window for ejection of spent cartridges is located on the right side. However, under the condition of the classical layout, this should not greatly affect the use of a left-handed machine gun or when shooting from the left hand. Although irritation of the mucous membrane with powder gases is clearly not an advantage of this machine for people who prefer to use their left hand as their main one.
The standard butt of the weapon has a design similar to the butts of the ARX-160 assault rifles of the Italian company Beretta, as well as the Belgian SCARs, but other butts can be installed in addition to the main option. So, the standard buttstock has the ability to adjust its length, and can also be folded to the right, which absolutely does not interfere with the use of weapons.
On top of the machine there is a long picatinny-type mounting bar, it also serves as a seat for open sights of the weapon, which consist of a rear sight and a front sight and, in addition to being removable, can also be folded for more convenient use of other sights. In addition to the long mounting bar on the sides of the weapon, there are also shorter ones for attaching flashlights, laser designators and other devices.
Under the barrel of the weapon there is also a mounting bar for an additional handle to hold the weapon or for an underbarrel grenade launcher. In addition, a simple plastic handguard can be installed on this mounting bar. Why is unclear. A rather interesting feature of the rifle is that its magazines are not standard accepted by NATO, however, after replacing the magazine shaft, which is made as a separate part and can be easily removed after removing just one pin, the weapon becomes adapted for firing from magazines from M16.
Much more interesting is that the weapon is made immediately for several ammunition, and, given the modularity of the design, any rifle can be adapted to fire with 5.56 NATO standard cartridges, Soviet 7.62x39, as well as promising 6.8x43 Rem SPC ammunition. At the same time, for each of the ammunition there are immediately 3 options for interchangeable barrels, that is, in total for this weapon there can be 9 barrels and 3 bolts and 4 magazine shafts (taking into account non-standard Czech magazines under 5.56).
In order not to get confused in all this disgrace, a fairly simple weapon designation system was proposed, which carries information about what kind of ammunition the machine gun is for, as well as what kind of barrel it is equipped with. So, after the name CZ 805 BREN, the following letters may appear: A, B and C, which correspond to 5.56x45, 7.62x39 cartridges and 6.8x43 Rem SPC ammunition. The barrels are marked with the numbers 1, 2 and 3, which come after the letter of the ammunition designation. So, a 360 mm long barrel is “hidden” under a unit, a shortened barrel 277 mm long under a deuce, and a heavy elongated weapon barrel is indicated by a three, which turns this machine gun into a light machine gun.
Thus, the designation CZ 805 BREN C2 will tell us that this is a shortened version of the weapon using 6.8x43 cartridges. In principle, absolutely nothing prevents to further expand the amount of ammunition used in this weapon, so if, nevertheless, any other ammunition turns out to be “overboard” and a new NATO cartridge, then by simple manipulations with the barrel and the shutter automatic CZ 805 BREN does not lose its relevance. By the way, nothing prevents you from adapting this weapon to 5,45 if there were barrels and bolts. So to speak, modularity.
The topic of 6.5x43 ammunition has been repeatedly raised, but since this cartridge is relatively new and is still the leader of those that claim to be the place of NATO 5.56 ammunition, a few words about it still need to be said. This ammunition was developed in 2002, precisely with the aim of replacing 5.56, which began to be considered an insufficiently effective cartridge. Experts from the US Special Operations Forces took an active part in the development of this cartridge, which should have meant guaranteed success for this ammunition, however, the financial side of the issue outweighed and the 5.56x45 cartridge still remains the standard cartridge.
The cartridge itself was created by shortening and recompressing the cartridge case from the .30 Rem ammunition, so the length of the cartridge case became 42.84 mm, and the total length of the cartridge was 57.4 mm. The standard bullet for the 6.8x43 Rem SPC cartridge has become a bullet with a hollow nose weighing 7.45 grams, but in addition to it, bullets of other designs can also be used. The initial speed of a standard bullet is about 800 m/s, which is slightly lower than the speed of a 5.56x45 bullet, but in this case, due to the weight of the bullet, its kinetic energy reaches almost 2400 Joules.
As the developers of this ammunition themselves say, due to the fact that the bullet has a larger caliber and due to its design, the effectiveness of hitting the enemy’s body increases one and a half times. True, it is not entirely clear where exactly this “one and a half times” is taken from. In any case, the tests of this cartridge prove its greater effectiveness in comparison with the current NATO 5.56x45 cartridges.
When creating this cartridge, the designers set themselves the goal of making the ammunition not only superior in efficiency to hitting a living target with 5.56 cartridges, but also a longer-range cartridge. The fact is that in the course of recent military clashes, quite often, “enemies of democracy” are armed with Soviet weapons chambered for 7.62x39, and at maximum distances this ammunition behaves much more predictably than 5.56x45, not to mention the fact that it has a stopping power.
Thus, the weapons of the “bearers of democracy” turn out to be less effective than the old Soviet models, both at long distances and at short ones, which made us think about how effective the 5.56 is. However, they thought about it from the very beginning of the adoption of this ammunition, although there were enough other obvious flaws and problems. In addition, a separate goal was to create a cartridge that would be as effective as possible when used in short barrels of weapons, while having a tolerable recoil when fired (although this is more a question of weapons), and was also as interchangeable as possible with the 5.56 cartridge. It was not possible to fulfill the last requirement, although this ammunition partially fits into it, which gives it a huge advantage over other cartridges.
So, unlike all other ammunition, which are positioned as promising and have a clear advantage over 5.56x45 cartridges, this ammunition can be loaded into magazines that were previously used to feed weapons with 5.56x45 cartridges. Thus, in order to adapt the weapon itself to this ammunition, it is enough just to replace the barrel of the machine gun and the combat larvae of the shutter. At the moment, many manufacturers produce barrels and bolts for their weapons in separate sets, including for the civilian market, so, in my opinion, the abandonment of 5,56 will happen very soon, and will make foreign weapons more effective. However, it all comes down to money.
But back to the Czech machine CZ 805 BREN. The automation of this sample, as you might guess, is built according to the scheme with the removal of part of the powder gases from the bore of the weapon, the gas piston has a short stroke. The barrel bore is locked when the bolt is rotated by two protrusions. In general, in its design, the weapon is quite traditional, traditional and Czech quality. In general, the weapon turned out to be quite interesting and convenient. Questions only arise about the receiver made of light aluminum alloy and the plastic trigger block.
Of course, the world experience in the use of these materials in weapons is quite extensive, but such massive innovations from each manufacturer should be considered separately, although judging by the fact that these weapons have already been put into service and even managed to surpass the Belgian SCARs, it already indicates that the machine gun is not fall apart in your hands. Another noteworthy point in this machine is that a bayonet-knife was specially developed for it, and they say that it is no longer relevant to go into a bayonet attack, although this is more a tribute to tradition than a really necessary element of a modern machine gun.
The length of the machine itself with a standard 360 mm long barrel, unfolded and extended standard buttstock is 910 mm, with a weapon weight of 3.6 kg, without ammunition. Weapon stores for each of the ammunition have a capacity of 20 and 30 rounds, while food from drum-type stores is also possible, with sequential supply of cartridges from each drum with a capacity of 100 rounds, which is important when using a machine gun with a heavy barrel as a light machine gun. As noted earlier, the Czechs decided to stand out and created magazines chambered for 5.56x45 of their own design, which is made entirely of transparent plastic and is not compatible with magazines from M16, although their use is possible with the installation of an appropriate magazine receiver.
Here is such a relatively new machine gun that the Czech army is currently receiving, of course, these are not super-sophisticated rifle complexes with electronic “brains”, but, nevertheless, the weapon is quite modern and, judging by the fact that it was recognized even better than the Belgian models, then Czech gunsmiths seriously thought about regaining their special place in the arms market.
However, many believe that the widespread use of plastic and light alloys can in no way be to the benefit of the weapon and significantly affects its reliability in a combat situation. Somewhere a fighter landed on a weapon, somewhere it fell or was simply used as a heavy object to shake the enemy’s inner world, and not every machine gun can withstand this.
On the other hand, heavy-duty polymers have been known for quite a long time, and light alloys are not far from steel in terms of strength, so everything depends on what materials were used in weapons, but no one will say this yet. So let's believe in the honesty of the tests that this machine has passed and we will consider it strong enough in absentia.
After the creation of the Warsaw Pact Organization, within the framework of the countries participating in the Warsaw Pact, the standardization of weapons systems, including ammunition, began. Most of the countries - satellites of the USSR at that time, acted simply by adopting Soviet-designed weapons - AK (and later AKM) assault rifles in a more or less modified form. However, Czechoslovakia, which historically had a very strong and developed arms industry, chose to create its own types of weapons under a common cartridge. First, after the standardization of the Soviet cartridge 7.62x39, the Czechs modified their self-loading caliber 7.62x45 mm under the Soviet cartridge, and at the beginning of 1956 they began to develop a full-fledged machine gun for the same standard cartridge as part of a project code-named "KOŠTĚ", that is, "broom ". The chief designer of the new machine was Jiri Cermak (Jiří Čermák), who worked at the state-owned arms factory in the city of Uhersky Brod - Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod (CZ-UB). Just two years later, in 1958, the new model SA vz.58 was already adopted by the Czechoslovak army, and after the collapse of Czechoslovakia in mid-1993, it formed the basis of the small arms system of the armies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where it served until recently.
Automatic Samopal vzor 58 - SA vz.58P automatic Samopal vzor 58 - SA vz.58V with a folding butt
Plans to replace this already obsolete model with newer NATO 5.56mm systems have not yet been fully implemented, mainly due to financial reasons. In the Czech Republic, the SA Vz.58 assault rifle is gradually being replaced by a new one chambered for 5.56mm NATO. The official designation of the assault rifle is Samopal vzor 58, or briefly SA vz.58, that is, a submachine gun (the Czechs do not distinguish between a submachine gun and an assault rifle in the name) of the 1958 model. The Samopal vzor 58 assault rifle, like almost all Czech weapons, was distinguished by high quality workmanship and exterior finish, as well as an original design - despite the outward resemblance to the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the SA vz.58 had a fundamentally different and completely original design.
During the 60-80s of the twentieth century, SA Vz.58 assault rifles were widely exported to Third World countries, mainly to Africa and the Middle East. After the decommissioning of the combat version, a significant number of the surviving assault rifles were converted to only semi-automatic shooting and sold on the civilian markets of many countries, including Canada and the United States. Currently, the Czech company Czech Small Arms (C.S.A.) "from scratch" produces new self-loading carbines based on the design of the SA Vz.58 assault rifle, both in its "native" caliber 7.62x39, and in the very popular 223 Remington caliber in the world .
self-loading carbine CSA Vz.58 chambered for 7.62 × 39 Technical description.
The SA vz.58 assault rifle is built on the basis of gas-operated automatics with a short stroke of the gas piston located above the barrel. The gas piston has its own return spring. The barrel is locked using a separate combat larva mounted on the bolt in its lower part and swinging up and down under the influence of figured cutouts on the bolt frame. Locking is carried out for cutouts in the receiver by lowering the locking larva down. After the shot, the bolt carrier receives a short impulse from the gas piston and begins to move back. After a free play of approximately 22 millimeters, curly cutouts in the bolt carrier lift the front of the locking larva, disengaging it from the receiver and releasing the bolt. After that, the entire bolt group, under the action of inertia forces and residual gas pressure in the barrel, moves back, removing and ejecting the spent cartridge case and feeding a new cartridge into the barrel on the way back, and at the end of the movement, locking the barrel by lowering the front of the combat larva down. Thus, the shutter itself moves strictly rectilinearly. The return spring is located in the receiver behind the bolt carrier. The cocking handle is rigidly fixed to the bolt carrier on the right.
The trigger mechanism is also of the original design, shock. A massive drummer of a tubular design protrudes from the rear of the bolt body, and behind it is a twisted mainspring, with its rear end resting against the rear wall of the receiver. A tooth is made on the drummer from below, which interlocks with the sear when the drummer is cocked. The USM itself is of a simple design, has a minimum of moving parts. Fuse - fire mode translator is located on the receiver on the right, above the pistol grip, and has three positions - "safe", "single shots", "automatic fire". The design of the machine provides for an automatic slide delay that intercepts the bolt group in the rear position when the cartridges in the magazine are used up. The slide delay switch is located in front of the trigger guard, next to the magazine latch. Original army magazines from the vz.58 assault rifle are not compatible with magazines from Kalashnikov assault rifles. The presence of a slide delay and the design of the cover of the receiver of the machine gun allow, if necessary, to replenish the magazine from clips without disconnecting it from the weapon.
The fittings on the early samples are made of wood, on the later ones - of plastic filled with wood shavings. The basic version of the machine - SA vz.58P has a fixed butt, the SA vz.58V version is distinguished by a side-folding metal butt. The SA vz.58Pi variant differs from the SA vz.58Р by the presence on the left side of the receiver of a mount for night (infrared) sights and a massive conical flame arrester.
Sights include a front sight in an annular namushnik and an open rear sight with a V-shaped slot, adjustable for firing range. SA vz.58 assault rifles are equipped with a carrying strap and a bayonet.
about Special thanks to Miroslav Novák from Czech Republic for information about SA vz.58
Caliber: 7.62x39mm
Length: 845 mm (635 mm stock folded)
barrel length: 390 mm
The weight: 3.1 kg empty, 3.6 kg full
Score: 30 rounds
rate of fire: 800 rounds per minute
Effective firing range: about 400 meters
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After the creation of the Warsaw Pact, within the framework of the countries participating in the Warsaw Pact, the standardization of weapons systems, including ammunition, began. Most of the countries - satellites of the USSR at that time, acted simply by adopting Soviet-designed weapons - AK-47 assault rifles (and later AKM) in a more or less modified form. However, Czechoslovakia, which historically had a very strong and advanced arms industry, chose to create its own types of weapons under a common cartridge.
First, after the standardization of the Soviet 7.62x39 cartridge, the Czechs modified their VZ-52 self-loading carbines of 7.62x45 mm caliber for the Soviet cartridge, and at the beginning of 1956 they began developing a full-fledged machine gun for the same standard cartridge as part of a project code-named "KOSTE ”, i.e. “broom”.
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The chief designer of the new machine was Jiri Cermak, who worked at the state arms factory in the town of Uherski Brod. Just two years later, in 1958, the new model was already adopted by the Czechoslovak army, and after the collapse of Czechoslovakia in 1993, it formed the basis of the small arms system of the armies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where it serves to this day. Plans to replace this already obsolete model with newer NATO 5.56mm systems have not yet been fully implemented, mainly due to financial reasons. The official designation of this assault rifle is Samopal vzor 58, or briefly SA vz.58, that is, a submachine gun (the Czechs do not distinguish between a submachine gun and an assault rifle in the name) of the 1958 model. The new assault rifle, like almost all Czech weapons in general, was distinguished by high quality workmanship and exterior finish, as well as an original design - despite the external resemblance to the Kalashnikov assault rifle, SA vz.58 had a fundamentally different, completely independent design.
Unlike the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the SA vz.58 has not seen much fighting, but in some places it still “lit up”. In particular, this machine gun was used during the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s. According to reviews, this assault rifle was a cheaper alternative to the popular AK-47 and AKM assault rifles, and did not enjoy a very good reputation due to the fact that its barrel overheated very quickly during more or less intense shooting, which caused a catastrophic decrease in shooting accuracy (which can partly be explained by a higher rate of fire than that of AK and AKM). At the same time, the SA vz.58 proved to be a completely reliable weapon, but it was used mainly by second-line troops or poor armed groups that did not have the opportunity to purchase Kalashnikov assault rifles or other, more expensive weapons. In addition, according to some sources, the same machines were used by the Vietnamese army during the invasion of Cambodia (Kampuchea) in 1978, as well as in a number of conflicts on the African continent - in Zimbabwe, Zaire, Uganda.
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The SA vz.58 assault rifle is built on the basis of gas-operated automatics with a short stroke of the gas piston located above the barrel. The gas piston has its own return spring. The barrel is locked using a separate combat larva mounted on the bolt in its lower part and swinging up and down under the influence of figured cutouts on the bolt frame. Locking is carried out for cutouts in the receiver by lowering the locking larva down. After the shot, the bolt carrier receives a short impulse from the gas piston and begins to move back. After a free play of approximately 22 millimeters, curly cutouts in the bolt carrier lift the front of the locking larva, unhooking it from the receiver and releasing the bolt.
After that, the entire bolt group, under the action of inertia forces and residual gas pressure in the barrel, moves back, removing and ejecting the spent cartridge case and feeding a new cartridge into the barrel on the way back, and at the end of the movement, locking the barrel by lowering the front of the combat larva down. Thus, the shutter itself moves strictly rectilinearly. The return spring is located in the receiver behind the bolt carrier. The cocking handle is rigidly fixed to the bolt carrier on the right. The design also introduced a shutter delay, leaving the shutter in the open position after all the cartridges in the magazine are used up.
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The trigger mechanism is also of the original design, shock. A massive drummer of a tubular design protrudes from the rear of the bolt body, and behind it is a twisted mainspring, with its rear end resting against the rear wall of the receiver. A tooth is made on the drummer from below, which interlocks with the sear when the drummer is cocked. The USM itself is of a simple design, has a minimum of moving parts. Fuse - fire mode translator is located on the receiver on the right, above the pistol grip, and has three positions - "safe", "single shots", "automatic fire".
The machine is powered from detachable aluminum magazines with a capacity of 30 rounds. While externally similar to magazines for 7.62 mm Kalashnikov assault rifles, magazines from SA vz.58 are incompatible with them. The magazine latch is located in the cutout in front of the trigger guard.
A short description about the Czech giant. Giant or not, it's hard to say, but this model is definitely used in some units of the army, not ours, of course! Automatic SA VZ. 58 from CZ provides for the installation of a bayonet-knife, however, everything can be seen in the image. Almost every automatic weapon works in identical modes: single-shot, long bursts, as well as in fully automatic mode. This weapon has stood the test of time.
Gas piston with a short stroke, which is located on top of the barrel. The original shutter mechanism - locking with a separate combat larva mounted on the bottom of the shutter. Not heavy and not overall, according to the shooters, it is quite a convenient weapon for performing not the most difficult tasks. Store capacity 30 charge. As a matter of fact, Saiga 7.62 has similar indicators in the Russian Federation, including a removable magazine, plastic and metal. But our analogue does not fit all 30 rounds, according to the law no more than 10, so a limiter is installed at the factory.
This applies to our "beast", and SA VZ. 58 without restrictions, because this is a military weapon. The base of the front sight can be used to mount a bayonet, folding bipod, the muzzle has a thread for mounting either a flash hider or a dry firing nozzle. Chrome plated stem. The weight of the rifle without a knife and magazine installed is 2.91 kg.
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