Soviet Submachine Gun?
The MP43 and MP44 assault rifles were eventually given the appropriate designation of StG, but even as U.S.
Ordnance knew this correct designation, they continued to think of the German Sturmgewehr as a submachine gun.
The carbine was the new SKS.
The submachine gun was the new AK-47.
A crude sketch of the AK-47 was provided in this report and it is included here.
Some of the rifles were stamped 1953.
The first known combat use of the weapon came during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Throughout the 1950s, the Soviets kept the AK-47 to themselves.
A detailed 1954 report from an East German defector makes no mention of the SKS or the AK.
The gun is called an AK-47, but it is still referred to as a submachine gun.
A Dismissive U.S.
Some of them carried the AK-47, and the weapon was recognized and photographed.
American combat troops were quick to recognize the AK-47s strengths as a powerful weapon, particularly in the jungle.
The ridiculous description as a submachine gun disappeared.
