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.

Feb 6, 2023 · 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.

Apr 5, 2019 · 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

Simonov began work on what would become the AVS-36 at the beginning of the 1930s with Soviet authorities seeing promise in his prototypes as early as 1931. The AVS-36 was gas operated with a short-stroke gas piston above the barrel which had an integral return spring - this piston unlocked and retracted the bolt to open up the breech, eject the ...

Mar 11, 2016 · Like many rifles in its class (e.g., the US T20E2), the AVS-36 featured a large single-baffle muzzle brake to help control recoil in fully automatic fire. It turned out that the AVS-36 was too fragile for normal combat use, and instead of ordering the design to be perfected, the Red Army adopted the second place design, Tokarev’s AVT.

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.

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.

Mar 2, 2018 · 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).

Finnish troops captured hundreds of AVS-36 rifles both during Winter War and early part of Continuation War, but it never got very popular among Finnish troops either, even if the captured rifles saw use with Finnish soldiers.

May 9, 2012 · 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.