thanks to umka for posting link earlier .
I don't know how accurate the info is but its interesting . the rest was google translated .
Im surprised how close the M1945 looked liked the SKS.
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Prototypes of 1944-1945
Experienced self-loading rifle Kalashnikov 1944
(M1944).
In 1944-45 Kalashnikov Two models were developed 7.62mm carbine under experienced intermediate cartridge with a length of 41 mm shells. Subsequently, a bullet with a lead core has been replaced by a long steel core and to maintain the overall length of the cartridge sleeve length was reduced to 39 mm. The result was a 7.62-mm cartridge mod. 1943, which is also known as the patron 7,62h39.
The gas chamber is screwed into the M1944 tide trunk serving forward emphasis for the handguard.
Safety lever is located in the slot front of the trigger guard.
fuse off forefinger, forward movement.
For convenience, a carbine in 1944 will be called M1944, 1945 - M1945. Of course, this is not an official symbol, and extremely useful in this article.
Carbine M1944 is the first model Kalashnikov weapons, which applied the scheme locking rotation.
In M1944 bolt can be withdrawn as the left back and the right hand.
This allows, if necessary, reload with the left hand. turn.
Visual inspection of the set distance through a circular hole clamps, and the hole in the clamp and
digitization of the tank there is a the inner side of the sight.
Slide frame and the shutter M1944.
Node lock with rotating bolt and has previously been used in Europe and America in the self-loading systems, for example, in the American rifle M1.
Taking as a basis the principle of operation of such a scheme, Kalashnikov finalized her, laying the foundations of the legendary reliability of the AK. In the future, virtually all models of weapons with the brand "Kalashnikov" were built according to this principle.
Automatic M1944 works by diverting a portion of the powder gases through the hole in the wall of the barrel with a short piston stroke. Gas chamber without regulator is screwed into the tide of the barrel, which serves to focus the front handguard. The gas piston and rod spring-loaded and retrieved when unscrewing the gas chamber without removing the covers. On the surface, the gas piston is provided with two annular grooves, obtyuriruyuschy powder gases.
A distinctive feature of the interlocking device M1944 compared with foreign counterparts is higher durability and reliable performance in difficult conditions. Rotation angle shutter is approximately 30 °. The hammer is located in the gate trigger acts on it via a pusher mounted in the bolt hole.
On the left side is a duplicate bolt cocking lever, which, if necessary, allows you reload your left hand without changing the ready.
The trigger mechanism of the rifle hammer type capable of maintaining only a single lamp.
Fixing the bayonet in the stowed and deployed position carried out a spring-loaded sleeve.
a - uncoupler; b - spring loaded reflector.
The arrow indicates the spring, under the action which is thrown pack.
When uncovered gate uncoupler not allows you to fully depress the trigger.
Safety lever located in the recess of the front of the trigger guard. Off fuse index finger forward. Such an arrangement provides a quick arm off guard and is widely used in modern foreign and some domestic samples, such as hunting rifles "Sable".
Spring-loaded reflector mounted on the right side of the milled receiver.
a - the lever of the feeder cartridges; b - spring feeder with the pusher.
To extract the pack from the store to all cartridges are fired must click on the tab (arrow) ..
Receiver cover fixed projection rod return mechanism. Later it became part of the "corporate identity" Kalashnikovs.
In M1944 Stock is made from the store, equip packs of 10 cartridges. On all cartridges are fired stack is automatically ejected from the store. To force the extraction pack please click on the latch, which is located on the back of the Iron sights rifle open type adjustable in two planes fly. Planck's sight is the digitization of "1" to "9", which corresponds to distances of 100 to 900 meters. Visual inspection of the installed distance is carried out through a round hole in the clamp, with the hole in the clamp and digitization have on the bar and on the inner side of the sight that allows you to change the installation of sight, without taking the carbine of the loopholes.
And in the M1944 and M1945 slide in the frame and cover the receiver separated from the receiver boxes of rotation. To fix the cover and extract frames in the receiver grooves are provided (indicated by arrows).
Needle rifle bayonet fixed in two positions (marching and fighting) spring-loaded sleeve.
Experienced self-loading rifle Kalashnikov design in 1945 is very different from the M1944. Outwardly, it resembles SCS, which is not surprising. The forty-fifth year of SCS entered Shchurovsky landfill, where at that time worked Kalashnikov, which took into account all the strengths and weaknesses of the current system and tried to beat her.
Details of the rifle M1944:
1 - receiver with the barrel, trigger, and a lodge with a bayonet;
2 - slide frame; 3 - gate; 4 - gas piston with a spring;
5 - return mechanism; 6 - a cover of the receiver;
7 - the gas chamber.
In M1945 Kalashnikov refused burst loading, using clips to 10 rounds used for filling the store. Latch release button shop is located behind the store.
M1945. Right-side view.
In front of the bolt provided guides for the cage. Filling the store is made in setting the bolt on the delay. Perhaps the content store and without the use of clips, one patron. The handle on the left side of the bolt is removed, and the form of the handle on the right side is simplified.
The gas chamber is crimped onto the trunk. Handguard open at the bottom and allows (unlike SCS) to remove it without removing the piston. Changed the method of fixing and lining: spring replaced by contactor rotatable flag on the right side of the chassis rear sight.
The front sight base M1945 acquired easily recognizable shape, preserved on all machines Kalashnikov until AK74M.
Handguard M1945 open at the bottom and allows (in contrast to the CKS) shoot it without removing the piston.
Safety lever M1945, locking trigger, located on the right side behind the trigger guard (as well as on SCS) and managed by the index finger.
The barrel of the rifle is shortened by 40 mm, the sight is simplified, sighting range reduced to 800 meters. The front sight base M1945 acquired easily recognizable shape, preserved on all Kalashnikov rifle until AK74M.
Double-arm spring-loaded lever at cartridges available in the store works as Reflector and after discharging All cartridges - both shutter lag.
Sight and slide frame M1945 simplified
M1945 bayonet mount, as well as on the M1944 allows separate ramrod bayonet with folded (in SCS, this requires unlatch bayonet).
By the end of the war it became clear that the future of automatic weapons designed chambered arr. 1943
In addition, in 1945, passed the test sample is certainly a good carbine SCS. Given all this Kalashnikov, using found in the development of successful rifle designs of parts and assemblies, all the attention paid to the development of the machine. This enabled him in 1946 to provide the very first version of the machine for field testing.
Details of the rifle M1945:
1 - receiver with the barrel: USM, a bayonet and a lodge;
2 - slide frame; 3 - gate;
4 - gas piston spring return;
5 - return mechanism;
6 - a cover of the receiver; 7 - handguard.
Specifications carbine design MT Kalashnikov.
Feature Carabiner Carabiner 1944/ 1945
Caliber, mm 7.62/ 7.62
Used cartridge 7,62h41 experienced/ 7,62h41 experienced
Magazine capacity, rds. Oct. 10
Barrel length, mm 560/ 520
Length with folded bayonet, mm 1130/ 7020
Lenth, bayonet, mm 1430/ 1320
Sighting range, m 900/ 800
Weight, unloaded, kg 3.9/ 3.7
Mikhail Degtyarev
Gun. Weapons and ammunition 2-1999
I don't know how accurate the info is but its interesting . the rest was google translated .
Im surprised how close the M1945 looked liked the SKS.
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Prototypes of 1944-1945
Experienced self-loading rifle Kalashnikov 1944
(M1944).
In 1944-45 Kalashnikov Two models were developed 7.62mm carbine under experienced intermediate cartridge with a length of 41 mm shells. Subsequently, a bullet with a lead core has been replaced by a long steel core and to maintain the overall length of the cartridge sleeve length was reduced to 39 mm. The result was a 7.62-mm cartridge mod. 1943, which is also known as the patron 7,62h39.
The gas chamber is screwed into the M1944 tide trunk serving forward emphasis for the handguard.
Safety lever is located in the slot front of the trigger guard.
fuse off forefinger, forward movement.
For convenience, a carbine in 1944 will be called M1944, 1945 - M1945. Of course, this is not an official symbol, and extremely useful in this article.
Carbine M1944 is the first model Kalashnikov weapons, which applied the scheme locking rotation.
In M1944 bolt can be withdrawn as the left back and the right hand.
This allows, if necessary, reload with the left hand. turn.
Visual inspection of the set distance through a circular hole clamps, and the hole in the clamp and
digitization of the tank there is a the inner side of the sight.
Slide frame and the shutter M1944.
Node lock with rotating bolt and has previously been used in Europe and America in the self-loading systems, for example, in the American rifle M1.
Taking as a basis the principle of operation of such a scheme, Kalashnikov finalized her, laying the foundations of the legendary reliability of the AK. In the future, virtually all models of weapons with the brand "Kalashnikov" were built according to this principle.
Automatic M1944 works by diverting a portion of the powder gases through the hole in the wall of the barrel with a short piston stroke. Gas chamber without regulator is screwed into the tide of the barrel, which serves to focus the front handguard. The gas piston and rod spring-loaded and retrieved when unscrewing the gas chamber without removing the covers. On the surface, the gas piston is provided with two annular grooves, obtyuriruyuschy powder gases.
A distinctive feature of the interlocking device M1944 compared with foreign counterparts is higher durability and reliable performance in difficult conditions. Rotation angle shutter is approximately 30 °. The hammer is located in the gate trigger acts on it via a pusher mounted in the bolt hole.
On the left side is a duplicate bolt cocking lever, which, if necessary, allows you reload your left hand without changing the ready.
The trigger mechanism of the rifle hammer type capable of maintaining only a single lamp.
Fixing the bayonet in the stowed and deployed position carried out a spring-loaded sleeve.
a - uncoupler; b - spring loaded reflector.
The arrow indicates the spring, under the action which is thrown pack.
When uncovered gate uncoupler not allows you to fully depress the trigger.
Safety lever located in the recess of the front of the trigger guard. Off fuse index finger forward. Such an arrangement provides a quick arm off guard and is widely used in modern foreign and some domestic samples, such as hunting rifles "Sable".
Spring-loaded reflector mounted on the right side of the milled receiver.
a - the lever of the feeder cartridges; b - spring feeder with the pusher.
To extract the pack from the store to all cartridges are fired must click on the tab (arrow) ..
Receiver cover fixed projection rod return mechanism. Later it became part of the "corporate identity" Kalashnikovs.
In M1944 Stock is made from the store, equip packs of 10 cartridges. On all cartridges are fired stack is automatically ejected from the store. To force the extraction pack please click on the latch, which is located on the back of the Iron sights rifle open type adjustable in two planes fly. Planck's sight is the digitization of "1" to "9", which corresponds to distances of 100 to 900 meters. Visual inspection of the installed distance is carried out through a round hole in the clamp, with the hole in the clamp and digitization have on the bar and on the inner side of the sight that allows you to change the installation of sight, without taking the carbine of the loopholes.
And in the M1944 and M1945 slide in the frame and cover the receiver separated from the receiver boxes of rotation. To fix the cover and extract frames in the receiver grooves are provided (indicated by arrows).
Needle rifle bayonet fixed in two positions (marching and fighting) spring-loaded sleeve.
Experienced self-loading rifle Kalashnikov design in 1945 is very different from the M1944. Outwardly, it resembles SCS, which is not surprising. The forty-fifth year of SCS entered Shchurovsky landfill, where at that time worked Kalashnikov, which took into account all the strengths and weaknesses of the current system and tried to beat her.
Details of the rifle M1944:
1 - receiver with the barrel, trigger, and a lodge with a bayonet;
2 - slide frame; 3 - gate; 4 - gas piston with a spring;
5 - return mechanism; 6 - a cover of the receiver;
7 - the gas chamber.
In M1945 Kalashnikov refused burst loading, using clips to 10 rounds used for filling the store. Latch release button shop is located behind the store.
M1945. Right-side view.
In front of the bolt provided guides for the cage. Filling the store is made in setting the bolt on the delay. Perhaps the content store and without the use of clips, one patron. The handle on the left side of the bolt is removed, and the form of the handle on the right side is simplified.
The gas chamber is crimped onto the trunk. Handguard open at the bottom and allows (unlike SCS) to remove it without removing the piston. Changed the method of fixing and lining: spring replaced by contactor rotatable flag on the right side of the chassis rear sight.
The front sight base M1945 acquired easily recognizable shape, preserved on all machines Kalashnikov until AK74M.
Handguard M1945 open at the bottom and allows (in contrast to the CKS) shoot it without removing the piston.
Safety lever M1945, locking trigger, located on the right side behind the trigger guard (as well as on SCS) and managed by the index finger.
The barrel of the rifle is shortened by 40 mm, the sight is simplified, sighting range reduced to 800 meters. The front sight base M1945 acquired easily recognizable shape, preserved on all Kalashnikov rifle until AK74M.
Double-arm spring-loaded lever at cartridges available in the store works as Reflector and after discharging All cartridges - both shutter lag.
Sight and slide frame M1945 simplified
M1945 bayonet mount, as well as on the M1944 allows separate ramrod bayonet with folded (in SCS, this requires unlatch bayonet).
By the end of the war it became clear that the future of automatic weapons designed chambered arr. 1943
In addition, in 1945, passed the test sample is certainly a good carbine SCS. Given all this Kalashnikov, using found in the development of successful rifle designs of parts and assemblies, all the attention paid to the development of the machine. This enabled him in 1946 to provide the very first version of the machine for field testing.
Details of the rifle M1945:
1 - receiver with the barrel: USM, a bayonet and a lodge;
2 - slide frame; 3 - gate;
4 - gas piston spring return;
5 - return mechanism;
6 - a cover of the receiver; 7 - handguard.
Specifications carbine design MT Kalashnikov.
Feature Carabiner Carabiner 1944/ 1945
Caliber, mm 7.62/ 7.62
Used cartridge 7,62h41 experienced/ 7,62h41 experienced
Magazine capacity, rds. Oct. 10
Barrel length, mm 560/ 520
Length with folded bayonet, mm 1130/ 7020
Lenth, bayonet, mm 1430/ 1320
Sighting range, m 900/ 800
Weight, unloaded, kg 3.9/ 3.7
Mikhail Degtyarev
Gun. Weapons and ammunition 2-1999
