The AVS-36 was a gas-operated rifle with a short piston stroke and vertical sliding locking block with secondary locking flappers, each of different size. It was capable of both automatic and semi-automatic fire.

2023年2月6日 · The AVS-36 was a gas-operated, short-stroke rifle with a vertically lifting locking block and two flappers of different sizes. It had a sizeable weight of 9.5 pounds and was 48.5 inches long, half of which was the barrel.

2019年4月5日 · The AVS-36 was the first self-loading rifle adopted by the Soviet Union to be a standard infantry rifle, and it was not just semiautomatic, but also capable of fully automatic fire. Designed by Sergei Simonov over the course of about ten years, it would only last a short time in service before being replaced by the Tokarev SVT-38 and then SVT-40.

The AVS-36 is most easily recognized by its large and distinctive muzzle brake, which was actually not all that effective. It used a 15-round magazine, and could fire in either semi or full automatic mode.

2016年3月11日 · Before the famous Tokarev SVT-38 and -40 rifles of World War II, a Soviet engineer who would later become famous in the West for another of his designs developed a light weight select-fire infantry weapon in the standard full-power 7.62x54R caliber.

2019年4月5日 · The AVS-36 was the first self-loading rifle adopted by the Soviet Union to be a standard infantry rifle, and it was not just semiautomatic, but also capable of fully automatic fire....

2024年12月12日 · If you have, of course, this is an AVS-36. It is the first self-loading rifle adopted by the Soviet Union as a standard infantry rifle. And only lasted a couple of years in their service, it was replaced by Tokarev rifles.

The AVS-36 was a Soviet automatic rifle which saw service in the early years of World War II. It was among the early selective fire infantry rifles formally adopted for military service.

Sergei Simonov is perhaps best known for his semi-automatic carbine the SKS, however, before the success of the SKS another of Simonov’s self-loading designs was adopted; the AVS-36.

2018年3月2日 · 100 years of Red Army: AVS-36 In the 1930s, the self-loading or automatic rifle was considered the most promising weapon for infantry forces in most developed countries around the world (except for Germany and Japan).