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AKM vs AKS-74U: how to tell them apart

Two versions of the same family. Name the wrong one in Spotrep and you still get family points, but the exact model scores most.

AKM, rifle from Soviet Union

AKM

Rifle, Soviet Union. In service since 1959

What gives it away

Wooden stock and furniture, steeply curved 7.62 mm magazine, gas tube over the barrel and a slant-cut muzzle device.

Used by

Worldwide

Photo: Unknown, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
AKS-74U, rifle from Soviet Union

AKS-74U

Rifle, Soviet Union. In service since 1979

What gives it away

Very short AK carbine with a bell-shaped muzzle booster, a side-folding skeleton stock and the rear sight on a hinged top cover.

Used by

Russia, Ukraine and many former Soviet states

Photo: Vitaly V. Kuzmin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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