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Finnish: Rynnäkkökivääri 62 "assault rifle 62"
The Rk 62 is an assault rifle manufactured by Valmet and SAKO, Limited. It is the standard issue infantry weapon of the Finnish Defence Forces. The weapon was designed in 1962 and is based on the Polish licensed version of the Kalashnikov design. The Rk 62 mainly uses the same 7.62×39mm cartridge as the AK-47. The weapon became Israeli-made assault rifle with many similarities. It has a three-pronged flash suppressor, and a groove for a specially designed knife bayonet, which can be used alone as a combat knife.
The Rk 62 is considered a high quality AK-47 variant. The biggest single improvement, apart from the metallurgical quality of the receiver and the overall quality of the barrel, are the iron sights: most AK variants have the rear sight mounted on top of the gas piston housing on top of the receiver. In the Rk 62 the rear sight is mounted on the rear of the receiver cover with tritium illuminated night-sights. The sight radius is doubled enhancing the accuracy along with the hammer-forged match CM barrel. Aperture rear sight on a sliding tangent with flip tritium night sight, forward hooded post, 470 mm sight radius.
The older model has a wooden buttstock instead of the more common metal tubular one.
See also
- list of weapons
- Valmet M78/83
- Valmet M82
- Wikipedia article: Rk 62