SKS

Factions	Weapon	Icon	Classes	Ammo
					VC	SKS		Medic Radioman	10 / 30

Damage Base	Headshot ×	Chest ×	Stomach ×	Leg ×	Arm ×	Bayonet	Rifle Grenades
								43	×2.52 = 108.36	×1.2 = 51.6	×1.15 = 49.45	×0.8 = 34.4	×0.75 = 32.25	YES	YES

Designation	Weapon Type	Fire Modes	Fire Rate	Bullet Spread °	Range Modifier	Muzzle Velocity	Projectile weight	Weight
				SKS	Carbine	Semi	40 RPM	6.3° & 1.15° ADS	0.950	735 m/s	7.9 g (121.916 gr)	3.85 kg (8.48 lbs)

Full name	Caliber	Place of Origin	Date	Manufacturer	Barrel Length	Total Length	Weapon Script Name
								Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова Samozaryadny Karabin sistemy Simonova, 1945	7.62x39mm	Soviet Union	1949	Tula Arsenal Izhevsk Arsenal Other Countries	20 in (520 mm)	40 in (1,020 mm)	weapon_sks

HISTORY

The SKS was first produced in the Soviet Union but was later widely exported and manufactured by various nations. As the SKS lacked select-fire capability and its magazine was limited to ten rounds, it was rendered obsolete in the Soviet Armed Forces by the introduction of the AK-47 in the 1950s.

The SKS was manufactured at Tula Arsenal from 1949 to 1958, and at the Izhevsk Arsenal from 1953 to 1954, resulting in a total Soviet production of about 2.7 million. Throughout the Cold War, millions of additional SKS carbines and their derivatives were also manufactured under license in the People's Republic of China, as well as a number of countries allied with the Eastern Bloc. The SKS was exported in vast quantities and found favor with insurgent forces around the world as a light, handy weapon which was adequate for guerrilla warfare despite its conventional limitations.

Beginning in the 1960s, vast quantities of obsolete and redundant SKS carbines from military reserve stocks were donated by the Soviet Union and China to left-wing guerrilla movements around the world. The increasing ubiquity of the SKS altered the dynamics of asymmetric warfare in developing nations and colonial territories, where most guerrillas had previously been armed with bolt-action rifles. For example, the SKS served as one of the primary arms of the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War. The weapon type was encountered so frequently by the United States Armed Forces in Vietnam that captured examples were used by opposing force (OPFOR) units during training exercises designed to simulate battlefield conditions there as early as 1969. Captured SKS carbines were also prized as war trophies among individual US military personnel, and a number were brought back to the United States by returning veterans over the course of the Vietnam conflict.
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