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In 1986 about 50 semiautomatic only Egyptian ARM’s with a side folding buttstock, similar in appearance to that of the East German MPiKMS-72, entered the United States via a small importer (Interport St. Yet no more than 2000 were brought in before the importation ceased. No doubt about it, expect for the selective fire option and the markings on the receiver, this is a soviet AKM. Only the green web sling was of Egyptian design. All the exterior metal surfaces have been finished with a baked on black enamel over phosphate. The sheet-metal receiver cover has transverse ribs and a rolled edge over the ejection port. ![]() Rear sights are graduated to 1000 meters (with a 300-meter battle sight marked “p”) instead of the AK-47’s 800meter maximum. The bayonet lug is directly under the gas block. The four gas escapes holes found on each side of the Ak-47’s gas cylinder have been omitted, and there are two gas relief holes on each side of the gas block where it mates with the gas tube. Small recesses on each side of the receiver, directly over the magazine-well, serve as magazine guides and instantly distinguish this as an AKM. The metal components are exactly those of the Russian AKM. The plastic pistol grip was injection-molded to correct Soviet configuration. All the wood furniture was imported from Finland but finished in Egypt. The lower handguard has the proper hand swells, and the buttstock has been reinforced with steel pins in all the right places. The laminated wood handguards and buttstock are correct in every detail. For all intents and purposes this is as close as most of us will ever come to a Russian AKM. division of Steyr-Daimler-Punch in Steyr, Austria. Designated as the “ARM” (Automatic Rifle Misr), a semiautomatic-only version of the Egyptian AKM was introduced to the American public in 1982 by the U.S. ![]() Key Egyptian personnel were trained in the Soviet Union, and the plant was supervised by Russians prior to their abrupt expulsion from Egypt at the hands of Anwar Sadat in 1972. During the 1950’s the Soviet Union, as part of its military aid program, established the production of Soviet-pattern small arms in the Arab Republic of Egypt.ĪKM rifles were manufactured at the “Factory 54,” the Maadi Company for Engineering Industries in Cairo. One of the only semi-automatic Kalashnikov imported into the United States, in almost every regard, an exact duplicate of the Russian AKM. ![]() Feel free to add or correct any inaccuracies.
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