AK-47
“Ubiquitous Russian Assault Rifle design”
— in-game description
The AK-47 is a select-fire, gas-operated rotating-bolt assault rifle chambered in the intermediate 7.62 × 39 mm Soviet cartridge, fed via 30-round detachable box magazines. It is featured in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam as either the Chinese Type 56 copy or the AKM variant.
History
Originally developed just after World War 2 in the Soviet Union by a team of engineers headed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, the AK family of weapons has become the most widely proliferated weapon in the world, with dozens of derivatives and variants created, manufactured and distributed to militaries and paramilitaries around the world.
After adopting Kalashnikov's AK rifle design in 1949, with its simple design philosophy aimed at high reliability and ease of manufacture and maintenance, the Soviet Union began looking towards supplying other countries and factions sympathetic to the communist cause with hundreds and thousands of these mass-produced rifles. As such, and in contrast to more sophisticated and expensive assault rifle patterns from Western countries, the AK-47 has become proliferated around the world through sheer numbers as a symbol of communism and resistance. Due to their rugged functional reliability, durability and easy to maintain, the AK-47 is especially popular among guerrillas and other unconventional forces who may be subject to less training.
One major country that benefited greatly from these Soviet assault rifles was the People's Republic of China, which initially received tooling and schematics to produce copies of the AK-47 (later the AKM). Production began in 1956 out of the State Factory 66, hence the designation of Type 56 for the year it entered Chinese production. During the Vietnam War, a large number of Chinese Type 56s were shipped to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to aid their armies - they were subsequently issued to the People's Army of Vietnam (it was not until later that it became standard issue for Vietcong guerrillas in the South). At the same time, the Soviet Union was also supplying original AKs (in the stamped-receiver AKM pattern) to the Vietnamese communist forces, but this was often done through China, which kept the majority and supplied their own Type 56s instead. As a result, it is far rarer to find an original Soviet AKM in the hands of the People's Army of Vietnam.
Weapon Variants
Type 56
- The default variant in-game is equipped with a folding spike “pig-sticker” bayonet, a solid stock and a ringed foresight.
| Ammunition | |
|---|---|
| Ammo Type | 123gr M43 FMJ |
| Rounds Per Magazine | 30+1 Rounds |
| Magazines | 4 Magazines |
| Weight Per Magazine | 0.9 kg / 1.98 lbs |
| Handling | |
| Weight | 4.03 kg |
| Features | Folding Bayonet |
| Firemodes | Fully Automatic
Semi-Automatic |
| Rate of Fire | 650 RPM |
| Recoil | Vertical: 260
Horizontal: 150 |
| Spread (MOA) | 4.5 |
| Length | 874 mm |
| Melee Reach | 1460 mm |
| Damage | |
| Instant-hit Damage | 86 |
| Damage Value | 489 |
| Energy Impulse | 293 |
| Penetration Depth | 15 |
| Ballistic Coefficient | 0.138 |
| Velocity | 735 m/s |
Type 56-I
- A variant of the Type 56, based on the Soviet AKS, with under-folding stock which when enabled shortens the weapon and gives it more maneuverability, but disables the use of aligned iron-sights.
| Ammunition | |
|---|---|
| Ammo Type | 123gr M43 FMJ |
| Rounds Per Magazine | 30+1 Rounds |
| Magazines | 4 Magazines |
| Weight Per Magazine | 0.9 kg / 1.98 lbs |
| Handling | |
| Weight | 3.7 kg |
| Features | Folding Stock |
| Firemodes | Fully Automatic
Semi-Automatic |
| Rate of Fire | 650 RPM |
| Recoil | Vertical: 260
Horizontal: 150 x1.5 with stock folded |
| Spread (MOA) | 4.5 |
| Length | 874 mm |
| Melee Reach | 840 mm |
| Damage | |
| Instant-hit Damage | 86 |
| Damage Value | 489 |
| Energy Impulse | 293 |
| Penetration Depth | 15 |
| Ballistic Coefficient | 0.138 |
| Velocity | 735 m/s |
AKM
- 'Introduced in 1959, the AKM is the sucessor to the original AK. Featuring an improved stamped receiver and other improvements that optimized the rifle for mass production. It also has subtly lower recoil and rate of fire at the cost of being less accurate.
| Ammunition | |
|---|---|
| Ammo Type | 123gr M43 FMJ |
| Rounds Per Magazine | 30+1 Rounds |
| Magazines | 4 Magazines |
| Weight Per Magazine | 0.9 kg / 1.98 lbs |
| Handling | |
| Weight | 3.1 kg |
| Features | Attachable Bayonet |
| Firemodes | Fully Automatic
Semi-Automatic |
| Rate of Fire | 600 RPM |
| Recoil | Vertical: 240
Horizontal: 97-135 |
| Spread (MOA) | 5 |
| Length | 880 mm |
| Melee Reach | 1460 mm |
| Damage | |
| Instant-hit Damage | 86 |
| Damage Value | 462 |
| Energy Impulse | 285 |
| Penetration Depth | 15 |
| Ballistic Coefficient | 0.138 |
| Velocity | 715 m/s |