AKM-63: were the Hungarians able to beat the original Kalash?
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The media resource of the Russian concern "Kalashnikov" has launched an interesting project dedicated to various foreign modifications of the most popular machine gun. The transmission cycle will tell about all the AK variants that have been produced in the world in the last 60 years.
In the first series, the author decided to dwell on the "Kalash", produced in Hungary. It will be about AKM-63 and AK-55 machines. Their story, advantages and disadvantages, as well as comparison with other modifications and operating experience will interest the true connoisseur weapons.
The AK-55 is a fairly exact copy of the 7,62-mm Kalashnikov assault rifle and was produced in Hungary from 1959 to 1962 year. AKM-63 has become an upgrade of AK-55 and already has significant differences from the "original". Subsequently, designers from Budapest decided to replace AKM-63 with AK-63F, which is a copy of the Soviet AKM.
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