Big Guide To Polish AKs Pt. 1: 7.62x39 Rifles (1947-1977)

hi this is Nisha and this video is something we've been putting off for some time and I've been spending a lot of time researching and have had a lot of help with the folks over at the 8k files and just really been trying to get get the story straight because there's not a lot of information this is on the Polish Kalashnikov variants and this is part one which will cover the 76230 nines now I want to give special thanks to Chris from Poland from the a files he's really helped me get some more first-hand information and kind of debunked some commonly held myths here in America there's frankly a lot of a lot of erroneous info out there through a few old articles that were written by Americans who probably just didn't speak Polish and it's a little confusing as you'll see but I want to give him thanks J and I both have polish collections and neither of us set out to to have them but the guns are just so nicely made and available and we just we ended up with them before we get into the Kalashnikov though just going to briefly a bit of history after World War one the Arms Factory at radom was set up it was part of war reparations from Germany and it was set up to make Mauser type rifles and they would do several variations it would continue on through the 1930s and it's probably the biggest development the most people are aware of is the this 35 the P 35 pistol sometimes just called simply the radome pistol this is a very nicely done 9-millimeter gun based on Browning's designs a few different ones that malgo made it together and we have a video on it and I'm sure we'll visit it again because it's worth doing of course Germany and the Soviet Union and invaded Poland in 1939 from opposite direction so it was an occupied nation throughout world war ii to poland's credit the folks at random along with many many others resisted to the best of their ability but germany forced manufacturing and so several polish guns will have German waffen-ss from mobile or two after World War two the German influence was gone but the Soviet remained and thus led to a communist government taking over in Poland after the war at this time the Polish military and the rate of the factory will reorganized Braeden became essentially factory 11 circle 11 often called luxe Nick and it would begin producing more guns for the Polish military in the beginning it would produce copies of soviet designs for example we have the wz 33 Tokarev pistol there's also the kb k wz 44 Mosin Nagant carbine it's the m-44 variant if you ever seen a Polish one and will try to throw up a picture they're very well done from Poland very deep blowing very nice and shiny they would also issue the Soviet DP often called the DP 28 light machine gun and some of the SVT 40s after world war ii this worked fine for the late forties but by the 50s they were needing new guns and so the military was looking to rearm now this is just one I brought out because it kind of fits in with the Kalashnikov this is the Polish pps43 52 this is a submachine gun it fires 7.62 a Tokarev and this is an adaptation of the pps43 again Radim have been producing it as the wz 43 and exact copy of the Soviet this one here they updated somewhat the front end would be the same of course this is a somato so we have an extension normally the barrel went in here of course this has a stamped receiver double stack double feed mag and instead of having a folding stock in the rear they added this wood stock this allowed the submachine gun to be used by infantry now they still would make the under folding arches me top folding version for specialists recon and whatnot but they wanted to make a fixed stock version for use by infantry guards that kind of thing where they were hoping it would give it a longer range better accuracy bring it out because it's interesting it uses a screw to the side but it also uses a tank type screw on the top there's a Tang here and there's a Tang on the bottom so there's three screws holding the stock in so it's very secure but that was a Polish adaptation of the Soviet pps43 and it received its own year model which we'll talk about why that's important a little bit they would make these for a few years in the 50s in 1954 the Polish army decided it wanted to replace its older guns namely the SVT 40s that were their older mousers the Mosin Nagant and mini submachine guns with newer weapons chambered for the new 76039 the cartridge which was becoming very popular the original idea was to adopt the russian RPD light machine gun to replace the DP light machine gun to adopt the SKS to replace Mosin Nagant and SVT rifles and to adopt the aka type 3 the one with the milled receiver to replace many of the submachine guns and some of the carbines in service they were kind of modeling their infantry on the Russian pattern the following year that acquired several hundred aks from Russia designating them as the pmk which basically stands for Kalashnikov machine pistol they also acquired several hundred SKS's designating them as the Kess and they try to mount the issue in the troops they evaluated them thus in 1956 they kind of changed their mono what they wanted to do they dropped the SKS they they found that the a K could fulfill both roles just as well was a cost-effective alternative would save them money by having one gun instead of two had just about the same range and accuracy and of course had several benefits over the SKS Russia resisted this they wanted Poland to adopt the SKS because they got basically licensing kickbacks and things they enjoyed selling their product lines to to their client States which incident seemed incidentally would be called the Warsaw Pact Warsaw for Warsaw Poland that's where the original agreements were signed and whatnot he took some time but eventually the SKS was dropped Poland Radim never manufactured an SKS they had Russian guns like this one here made at the Tula Factory now this is a slightly later one that would then what it would have been in Poland this is one was made in 57 most of the polish guns would have been 54 but they would never make their own SKS although radom would refurbish the existing Russian ones and they would sometimes make new furniture for them and some other small parts but very quickly the KSS was retired to second lined and ceremonial use in Poland so I had a very brief career with only a few hundred there certainly well under a thousand just that I bring the SKS out to show you why not now this here is my Russian a K Type three bill which appears in quite a few videos this would be very much like what Poland would have acquired from Russia in 1955 blued receiver milled hardwood furniture wood pistol grip you will see pictures of soldiers with the slab side mags in Poland since Poland does not seem to have manufactured the slab mags ever they they must be Russian has a 16 and a quarter inch medium heavy profile barrel takes a type-1 bayonet 14 millimeter threads on the muzzle typical Kalashnikov you get the de-ager double hook trigger sling swivel mounted on the receiver for the gas tube the usual again the first polish aks would actually be Russian but this wouldn't last long 1957 the radom factory would set up for a que or as they called it pmk production with russian assistance and tooling and of course the blueprints and everything and by the end of that year they were producing their first rifles it does not seem like they made mini PM K's in 1957 but they made some the following year they worked on producing a version of the aks the under folder and it was basically called the pmk polish word starts with a Z for under folding sorry guys it was basically just pmk under folders what it was called the first ones of these would probably be Russian or at least built from a lot of Russian parts and then of course they would be all polish so by 1958 they are producing both the fixed and under folding milled guns they would also do some experimenting they would try out making a longer barrel version with an extended 57 round magazine to be used as a light machine gun keep in mind this was before Russia had adopted the RPK they would also try mounting scope brows to the receiver for various optics early on it would have been Russian style PU scopes from basically World War 2 so they were experimenting trying to make their own things while the Polish experiments with the LMG the the squad automatic version of the a K type 3 didn't go much of anywhere the one that did was the grenade launcher this is a version here as ponds transitioned over to full domestic production of the Kalashnikov they also changed its designation it went from PM k to k BK a k in the late 50s now the this specialized grenade launching variant was soon adopted as the k BK g for grenade wz 1960 or just 60 it's most often put this is a standard a k type 3 in many ways but it has some adaptations to make it better as a grenade launcher obviously to begin with we have an extended grenade spigot that just screws on to the barrel it uses the 14 millimeter threads we have an enlarged the tent here to make it easier to get this off this also comes with the wrench in the pouch take still takes a standard type 3 bayonet has the 16 inch medium heavy profile barrel we still have the ported gas tube we have a gas cutoff on the block here for launching grenades off that's gas off it's on standard hand guards we have a clamp on grenade site here this is the early milled version just as a side note in 1970 they would go to a slightly cheaper stamped version they just clipped on or is this one actually has a wing nut and screw we have a leveler here we also have a lock on the dust cover to keep it from flying off while watching a grenade little lock there tab this goes up and down manually and finally we have this rubber boot that just attaches to the stock with these brackets here there's just a little clips and these would be fitted with short tin round mags now this is not an exact right one the original tin rounds will be blocked to only take blanks this is just a standard magazine but it gives you an idea of the look there's use a smaller Bank this also has the Polish pattern of sling it's a little bit different from the Russian as you see over there we have an actual buckle and loop up here and then they have this cutout buckle here this is so you can get the sling on on off that this buckle wasn't separated here we wouldn't be able to get the sling on and off pretty heavy-duty canvasing material otherwise we still have an ache a type 3 we have a milled receiver now this is a kit build done by Gordon Tech many years ago it's on a Bulgarian receiver so it's a pressing pin barrel the originals would have been a screw in but otherwise it's authentic now originally these would have glued finishes with the bolt carriers and the white and they would have hardwood furniture with pistol hardwood pistol grips but as these were refurbished in the 1970s if they needed it they would give them a new finish if the old one was worn and it would be a paint finish which this one has and if the original hardwood furniture was banged up they would give them laminate which this one has here you can see because it has the reinforcing pins in it I think the uppers might be hard wood still but yeah is these would be refurbished they would have received the slightly newer pattern also they would get the bakelite pistol grip if they needed it but woods needs I have a wood on this one these would be issued with this type of pouch over here it's a backpack type thing it holds all the gear for grenade launching we have a wrench here for taking the device on and off we have pockets I just have my polish type one bayonet stuck in there typical circle 11 type 1 bayonet leather hanger I have one dummy grenade here there's many styles they went with this that it could launch but this is one of them a bit and while this gun was primarily made at least with the feature of grenade launcher you could easily use these as a standard infantry gun as well this just unscrews maybe if they fit very tightly I'll show you why in just a second that's also a lot easier with a wrench okay here we go just ten screws similar to the Yugo spigot but it is different if it's much tighter part of the reason why we have an interesting barrel here it has standard threads in the back but it actually has a tapered muzzle this is to make a tighter gas seal with the grenade launcher this rear sight grenade sight just unscrews and of course this boot just comes off it also fits pretty tightly if I can get here yes there we go it comes down and once it's in this position these just come right out of the brackets there we go and you would be good to use this as a standard rifle they did make or continue to make rather the Polish version the KB k a k which would be pretty much identical to a late production Russian type 3 they too would receive the paint finish during refurbishment and the laminated furniture later and they would continue to manufacture the under folding version is the K BK aks production of the grenade launcher would begin in 1960 not surprisingly and they would actually manufacture these through the early 70s some sources say until 1974 hard to say it could have just been older guns being refurbished but they were definitely officially in front-line service until 1974 the standard milled a K would be officially pulled out in 1966 with production ending a very short time later they would do one final version of this called the wz 60/70 - and this was a specialized version for paratroopers it would look identical it would be a grenade launcher but it would have a quick detaching buttstock it would look the same would be the wood with the brackets but instead of having the upper tang with one screw and the lower tang with two screws this lower tang will be shortened and there would be two holes welding one on the bottom and one at the top and two spring-loaded buttons or catches behind them so you would squeeze to pull the stock off so they would make a specialized version now we know that they made about 5 at this model here with the fixed dock and about 500 of the version with the quick detaching stock but we really don't know how many millions Poland made there's some numbers out there but they seem to be erroneous so I'm not gonna even try to guess at this point it's just too hard to say 50,000 has been tossed around based on what we see that could very well be maybe a little more who knows but since I only made the standard version for six years numbers are probably not that high they did it under folder two as I said but it seems to have been made in smaller numbers because in the u.s. we see quite a few of the parts kits for the fixed top but very few polish milled under folding kits or have been seen now it is true that quite a few of the under folders did go to the police after they were retired from military service so some are still being used in Poland however during the 60s a fixed gun was generally considered more usable this is still at a time but a lot of soldiers marched and necessarily didn't use as many mechanised and armored vehicles and troop transports as they do in more recent times also you didn't have as you know you didn't have helicopters transporting troops back there like you do more recently so it stands much to reason that they would make more the thick stalks that was just kind of the thing polish mill they Ches have superbly nicely machined parts very nice triggers they're just great guns that's interesting that they really geared up their a K type three production at the same time that Russia was switching over to the hey K M this is the century polish 1960 sporter this is a gun built from a Polish kbk a K parts kit this would be analogous to the the non grenade rifle launching version you notice there's no cut off on the gas monk still takes a type-1 bayonet this one has the earlier hardwood Furniture online line and it still has the bull grip in the white now since it's a century put together it's parkerized rather than glued but the mag in it is one of the polish Bloods they never would do a copy of the Russian slab side instead they would do the the late a K ribbed pattern which would be carried over to the AKM as you see it doesn't have the cut and we just need the latch here for the dust cover and it does not have the cutouts in the stock some would have a sling swivel on the bottom but most would still just keep it on the side of the receiver is on a a K type 3 of Russian yeah and this has the one of the earlier bakelite type grips that's brown so that was the node production in 1966 the radom factory you know in a circle 11 at the time under communist control would catch up with russia and they would adopt a version of the AKM and it was very quickly go into large production you actually see quite a few 1966 dated polish kits it was known simply as the k BK AKM no real year models it seems that but what happened in Poland if they were just copying a foreign gun they would just kind of either use the foreign name outright or make a Polish version in Polish language but they would not give it a year model designator however when they would design the gun themselves or a major variants such as the K BK gwz 1960 he would get a year model you see this was a lot of the later guns too you know a lot of the handguns now this wasn't Poland's first attempt at a stamped gun after the AKM was introduced around 1960 radom did do a small test batch of two or three guns on a stamp receiver now interestingly these were more type 1 style receivers not the more updated AKM but you know that was just more of a proof of concept it didn't go much of anywhere in 1966 though the AKM was released and the Polish version is a little different but it's also quite similar to the Russian it has the 16 and a quarter inch lighter weight AKM profile barrel it has 14 by 1 muzzle threads the original guns would still be fitted with a muzzle nut it would have the AKM bayonet lug under the gas block rather than the type 1 under the front side base we would go from a ported gas tube to a ported gas block like an AKM we introduced palms wells for the hand guards and we would use an AKM style buttstock with a tang on the top with two screws in the top and no tang on the bottom now whereas the Russian AKM would use laminate furniture pretty much from the beginning the Polish AKM would still use hardwood furniture in the beginning the original pistol grips on the AKMs in Poland would be made of a black synthetic material it's not true polymer or plastic it's more of a type of bakelite or fiberglass they would of course be built on stamped receivers but on the other hand Poland would continue to have bluing for the metal parts they would blue the receiver the barrel the dust cover just like an ache a type 3 also just like an ache a type 3 they would leave the bolt carrier in the white which gives a very smooth feel to these early 1966-67 polish AKMs they would of course go to the single hook trigger of this russian AKM and they would introduce the so-called rate reducer which in reality was an out-of-battery safety so the Polish kbk AKM was an interesting mix had mostly AKM features but it still retained a lot of ache a type 3 features especially in the finishing Ivan have to wonder if they were using up some of the old milled parts bit either way as I said they went into major production right in 1966 running through the 70s around 1969 1970 they would make some changes they would go from the blued finish to a painted finish and at the same time the bolt carrier would start to be painted along with the rest of the metal it would no longer be in the white the pistol grips have become a little more red meaning they probably changed the polymer mix a bit and make it more durable and they would start to use more and more laminate furniture with reinforcing pins rather than the hard wood so that would disappear by 1970 it seems like there was a transitional period now it's worth noting that older guns that went to the Arsenal refurbishment would receive the newer finish and then laminate furniture like I said with my KB kg it had been through the refurbishment so I had the later style parts thought I would just show you here how to stock out this is one of the early hardwood AKM stocks in it attached to it I've got one of these second-generation slings I really like these slings are probably my favorite 8 K slings it's a wide material but it's soft and flexible and instead of a metal clip we have this loop so it's similar to the first gen but we have it held on by metal instead of just all leather out here and we have a solid buckle versus the cut buckle then the open end type and this is just a little lighter and more maneuverable sling they would also start the coat these and an anti molded treatment which keeps them very well preserved in 1972 Radim began manufacturing the kbk akms which is you guessed it was a copy of the russian under folder now since this was after 1969-1970 it's going to have the later painted finish you don't really find any of the bleed under folders they're gonna have the painted and obviously it was the same gun as the AKM except this under folding stock which is the pattern that locks on both sides now this gun has a parkerized finish this is one from Atlantic many years ago built from a kit with the original barrel from when I've been able to research the radom factory went from bluing to paint however around in 2005 and running for a couple years afterwards many kits under folding kits came in with a parkerized finish from Poland is so this wasn't something done in the US it seems like the Parker ization was a arsenal refinishing done by the military so there are three finishes that are correct for polish guns although only two were from the factory so the AKMs would go into production in the early 70s and they would keep making both the fixed and under folding versions pretty much throughout the decade it's time ago on the muzzle Nutt would be replaced by this typical AKM slam break and as many other nations would do such as Russia Romania they would start to introduce more cast parts the front sight base would be an early contender to go to cast the sling retainer in the front would be cast eventually and Pawan was one of the nations to go to the cast gas block of the Soviet pattern now Romania uses a cast gas brought to but they went to their own style this is very close to the Russian pattern you can see by the unique steps and everything here Russia would introduce this in the mid-70s however Poland would introduce it some people say 84 85 this seems a little late I remember some of those kids coming in with 83 even maybe 82 and I remember it might be a little foggy there data trends but it seems like by 83 they were using this Russian style cast block they have of course the lemon at handguards we would also get the lip on the back of the dust cover latch here which is a late feature introduced in Russia the dust cover would change a smidge the mag catch would also change a little bit receiving the hump you see this an East German guns as well as Russian we have a late style mag here with kind of the matte painted finish they also have one that's more of a glossy paint and as I said the pistol grip would acquire more red kind of a brownish red and this would really be the same type of grip used all the way through the tantal style but of course the riveted stock I have a drop case for the AKMs air polish style just typical case just I didn't bring it out I also have a few accessories we have a Polish bayonet typical AKM style for the most part but it has the very nice polish quality we expect very high polish blade doesn't have the teeth on the back of sunlight K and bayonets - it does have the insulator and the wire cutter then bakelite grip we have some mag pouches over here Poland mostly did the three sale although they would go through some evolutions the material would change the belt straps would change a bit over time it's just three of my hand around its also hold a cleaning kit for guns that kept the cleaning kit in their stock Poland would go to this oiler that could fit in the same compartment can I need its polish oiler they would use these for a long time I think they still do honestly so yeah just some polish gear here why not I think it's all neat this is all you can usually find this stuff in really good condition and for really good prices right now this has a third generation type sling it's more of a traditional a.k with the metal hook this one's made out of the softer material you also find this man out of a darker color and those tend to be a little stiffer I have one on my tant but you can see in a different video so yeah change the slings up they went to cast parts to make these a little faster and easier to produce now I say they went to cast parts and they did but this was only four things that did not receive stress the trunnion was always machined always forged on these guns they would never use a cast trunnion in Poland Russia or anywhere else in Europe for military production yes I do know before anyone comments the commercial WB peas when they first came out had cast Trinian's but those were for the US market for the military production in the 70s and 80s they were still forged now when did the KPK AKM go out of production this is a bit of a I I never really found an answer according to radom they took it out of main production by 1978 sometimes I say 76 but you get the idea late 70s now WBP on the other hand says they kept making them all the way through the 80s I guess it doesn't really matter I just like to know these things if I can it's also possible the Polish military simply quit purchasing pick stock guns in the 70s because most all the kits you see from the Polish military in the 80s or under folders so it's possible Radim was still making them but not for the military it could have been for export or just for because they could regardless under folders were much more useful by this time as I said with the milled guns in the 60s you still have an infantry that was mostly on foot by the 70s and 80s though we have more and more mechanized units one more troop transports and we were starting to have helicopters they can carry troops so having an under folding stock is a large asset it makes the gun nearly a foot shorter when folded so by the 80s this was the model that people preferred at least in Poland now all of these have been in seven six two 39 and when radom actually quit making the AKMs seems to have been around 1995 it seems like they would still do small production batches to replace guns in the military and war police up through the 90s and the late production guns will be very similar to this but they'll have black pistol grips so they were making them after the fall of communism they also tried to export them and you know be commercially viable because of the luck snik factory becoming privatized in 1992 throughout the 1970s Bradon would continue to tinker you notice before they like the tinkerer like they did with the but the mill guns trying to make an LMG trying to make kind of a DMR in that late 50s well after going today km and a kms they would start to develop a grenade launcher now even though the AKM the stamp gun had gone into service as early as 1966 they would they were continuing to use the older mill guns the kb kgs to launch grenades they did develop the wz 74 pod this was an underbarrel grenade launcher that hooked onto the bayonet lug when they attach this to an AKM they would call these wz or kb k wz i should say 74 rifles and this would be my the milled guns grenade launching guns would be phased out in 1974 they finally had a grenade launcher they liked for the for the stamped afterwards they would work on this gun here beginning in 1975 they would try to copy emulate the Russian a KML which was a night fighting gun now this gun here is my SAR one sorry guys I didn't have a polish gun with a side rail side scope rail but it'll work because it's another pretty much exact a km clone if you can ignore the donkey dong foregrip now they would work on the a KML and they would start to introduce these in the late 70s it was essentially a kit to convert a standard rifle to be night fighting we had this very long and very effective birdcage flash hider that would be screwed on it would be carried in this belt pouch and we would have this bipod here there go in it this bipod is quite neat it's very lightweight very portable it kind of opens up as you see collapses in on itself it clips on to the barrel you can either clip it up here or back here I just did it up here Kristin barrel is a little thinner it gives a reasonable stability it certainly better than monopod but of course the biggest element to the system would be the NSP three night vision system this is an early generation night vision optic as you can tell it's not exactly small it's pretty heavy it's probably a little bulkier than it is heavy but it is very much both it would mount to the side rail and it's would most optics of course it's adjustable it would use a wet cell battery this is a pull of Polish optic even though it's went on Romanian gun mm-hmm as is the bipod I think this is actually a us-made copy of the AML flashout ever it doesn't matter and so Raiden would start to produce akms with the scope rail for this purpose if they were using them for standard optics which they also started to do more in the 70s that would be called the AKM n and if they were using them for night fighting they became the a kml it would also do an under folding version called the AKA mls so they were especially working with optics in the 70s they even were tinkering with a new cartridge 7.62 by 41 and other programs such as the lanta so develop that definitely was continuing and as it did they were trying to get further and further away from just straight-up copying Soviet guns and trying to do their own thing trying to express more independence yeah this night fighting rig is definitely unique they did not make very many a few hundred in Poland but enough for their purposes Russia would use their version of the a KML quite extensively in the Afghanistan war in the 80s though so these were combat-proven and as Jay was pointing out before we started this clip this flash hider is actually highly effective so even though the scope is an early generation night vision the bipod and flash hider are quite I couldn't quite effective for what they are and again sorry for not having a polish gun with us go bro so what about the RPD at the beginning of the video I mentioned that in 1954 the Polish army was looking to replace it's Russian DP 28 light machine guns with the RPD well it did it it it purchased several hundred just as I did with the a K type 3 and the SKS and it tried them out and liked them it acquired the production rights from Russia in the 50s and what adopted as the ark AMD that's the local name for the gun and in Poland and no I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce those four words okay we'll just call it the Polish light machine gun so they would start to produce these in the late 50s into the 60s the RPD was designed at the tail end of world war ii it was a belt-fed machine gun chambered for the then very new 76039 round it has a heavy but fixed barrel this is not quick change we have a tubular Vipond we have a adjustable gas system we have dual dust covers on each side we have a non reciprocating cocking handle that also folds up when not in use folds down to use clubfoot buttstock good grip in poland radom would make some changes to this some improvements over the original soviet design because russia would get quickly go away from this replacing it with this the RPK in 1959 they would adopted at the same time as the AKM they wanted a system where they would have an infantry rifle and a light machine gun that were at least somewhat parts compatible and it would also feed from the same magazines the RPK feeds from a que pattern mags they would make an extended 40 rounder for it as well as a 75 round drum the our PD on the other hand feeds from belts these are usually 50 round belts and they're housed in this drum which is nothing more than a container really this was borrowed from the mg34 just a hollow container potentially you can link as many belts as you wanted together but this typically holds two belts which is 100 rounds in the drum this is a Polish sling - it has lits a lot like the early AKA sling in poland but it has leather tab on each end it also has a large storage compartment in the stock for quite a big cleaning kit so russia went to this but poland was just ramping up our pd production so they would manufacture these and use these to the sixties in the nineteen late 60s early 70s pollen would acquire a couple of hundred are pk's and our PKS the folding stock version from Russia and this is a Russian kit built about Legion USA so it's Russian parts they were built at the MOBOT factory over there so Poland would acquire a few for evaluation but in the end decided it did not need the RPK it did not ever obtain a license to produce it in Poland and it did not try to reverse-engineer it so there are no true Polish RPK is made there there's just a few couple of hundred that they purchased from Russia and by all accounts they never really put these in the field they were just for testing and evaluation they were happy enough with the RPD and to be fair they were in a peacetime and the slightly higher manufacturing cost of this gun really probably didn't affect them much Radim is continuing high quality shows through in these guns just the finally of course this is a DSA build this is Jay's we have a video or two featuring this gun and they're quite fun now also this would be an open bolt I forgot to mention where as the RPK would go to a closed bolt this uses the Kalashnikov system with the rotating bolt this uses the diphtheria system what has the flappers on the boat they walk in and out they're kind of wings on the bolt it's a different system although you can see the layouts are quite similar the RPK is a few pounds lighter this is about 15 to 16 and these range from about 10 to 11 so you are saving some weight with this but you know pulling the setup to make these I bring this up because there were some kit guns built by century a few years ago they were mislabeled as polish RP Ches these were not polished these were made from Romanian kits in fact Accenture even called them the m60 for Romania calls it the PM 64 so they weren't trying to disable them they just got mislabeled on a website or two and that kind of took off so I just wanted to mention that Poland kept on using the RP d is its light machine gun for for quite some time really until it went to two NATO in fact more recently they've kind of introduced a version of the PKM made domestically chambered for 556 NATO which is very interesting but a topic for another video this pretty much wraps up these 76039 guns in Poland we went through the middle take a the stamp take a we talked about the SKS or the KSS has its known there and of course we're wrapping up with the RPD don't that's about it this is kind of part one I'm sure we'll do another part looking at the more modern polish guns such as the tanto the Bereal and the most recent guns to come out of Poland the WBP products if you have any questions or comments please post them below if you liked the video really appreciate it click there to please share and please subscribe if you have not already and please tune in again next time for hopefully another interesting video look at you 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Length: 49min 27sec (2967 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 21 2018