Posted on 04/21/2021 10:59:34 AM PDT by Onthebrink
“The AK-47 was only used by the Soviet Red Army during the conflict, but it was not issued in the Hungarian People’s Army, so if a revolutionist got one it can only mean that he/she acquired it from a killed/surrendered Soviet soldier,” explained Máté Balogh, museum educator at the Hadtörténeti Múzeum (Military Museum) in Budapest.
As soon as actual fighting broke out the Hungarian rebels utilized whatever weapons they could find and/or capture. Commonly captured weapons included the ubiquitous Mosin Nagant rifles, which were still the primary weapon of the distrusted Hungarian military, as well as PPSh-41 submachine guns, the latter also captured from Hungarian forces. Other weapons that were reportedly used in the uprising included notable small arms such as SKS rifles, DP-28 light machine guns and even American-made BAR rifles, which were actually in use by the Hungarian military in small numbers.
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I always like the articles from 19FortyFive.
I like them too. They provide me with lots of laughter.
Wow, that Peter Suciu is an expert on everything. Firearms, aviation, naval history, politics, blogpimping...
Is there anything Peter Suciu doesn’t know? Why, yes, yes there is. Quite a lot, in fact.
8~)
'Proof reading' is your friend (and that's true for everyone ;^). Spell checkers are notoriously inadequate...
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