Myth of 1945 SKS in the war

Curtton said:
"The problem? They are not SKSs we all thought..."

very interesting but to me, it doesnt change anything. its the lineage in a different caliber cos no way he could have designed a NEW sks and have them test and adopt it the following year.
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Lineage is almost always there with most of firearm designers. Simonov started in 1930x if I'm not mistaken and certain principles and ideas lived through AVS-36, PTRS-41 and then to SKS, not to mentioned dozens of trial designs that were never accepted. BTW, following the logic of "lineage" PRTS is also SKS and this one indeed was used during WW2.
There are only handful of designers that came with successful designs with no or very little prior linage. Two extreme and opposite examples from Soviet designers would be Sudaev with his PPS-43, IMO the best SMG of WW2 and Kalashnikov whose numerous failed designs HAVE NOT contributed to AK-47 and with Kalashnikov there are too many unanswered questions about who and how much actually contributed to the design. But if you take most of designers - there's always history of designs and how they progressed over the time.
 
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Horilka said:
Lineage is almost always there with most of firearm designers. Simonov started in 1930x if I'm not mistaken and certain principles and ideas lived through AVS-36, PTRS-41 and then to SKS, not to mentioned dozens of trial designs that were never accepted. BTW, following the logic of "lineage" PRTS is also SKS and this one indeed was used during WW2.
There are only handful of designers that came with successful designs with no or very little prior linage. Two extreme and opposite examples from Soviet designers would be Sudaev with his PPS-43, IMO the best SMG of WW2 and Kalashnikov whose numerous failed designs HAVE NOT contributed to AK-47 and with Kalashnikov there are too many unanswered questions about who and how much actually contributed to the design. But if you take most of designers - there's always history of designs and how they progressed over the time.
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lineage was only one part but im thinking there wasnt much significant changes to the design of a slightly larger caliber to resubmit, trialed and a adopted all within a year later.
 
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