Re: AK-47 Operation Question

["Jim Wardrip" <jwardrip@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just looked up the RPK in the FM 100-2-3, it states that the RPK does fire
from closed bolt.

-Jim Wardrip

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Stenning (G1LIW)" <g1liw@lineone.net>
To: <millenniums-end-l@firedrake.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: AK-47 Operation Question


> Gurth -
>
> >> The RPK, IIRC, is open bolt, though, as befits an MG.
> >
> > Are you sure? I just looked in some books, and couldn't find a
> > mention of the RPK being an open-bolt design, or even of it
> > firing from an open bolt on full-automatic but a closed bolt in
> > single shot mode.
>
> Not entirely; that's why I said IIRC!
>
> If anyone has definitive info, I stand to be corrected!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Roger Stenning,
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