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Ryannakkokivaari Malli 60 or M60
Finnland bought the license for original AK-47 design (with milled receiver), and first prototypes of the future Finnish assault rifle named Rk.60. They were submitted for military testing in 1960. The Rk.60, being internally almost a copy of the AK-47, showed some external differences. It had tubular metallic buttstock, plastic handguard that did not cover the gas tube, plastic pistol grip. The Rk.60 lacked the trigger guard and has three prong flash hider at the muzzle. The original sights were replaced with hooded post front sight atop of the gas chamber, the tangent rear sight was replaced by an aperture sight, mounted at the rear of the receiver cover. Both front and night sights had folding "night sights", with the white dots.
It is also should be noted that early Israeli made Galil assaul rifles were made on macinery and by documentation, bought from Valmet.
The following is Reprinted Duncan Long’s “AK47 The Complete Kalashnikov Family of Assault Rifles” published in 1988 (before Valmet stopped making the Valmet line of rifles):
Because of pressure from the USSR following World War II, the allies required Finland to dismantle its arms industry. This ban continued until the late 1950s; at that time, Finland started work on a modified AK47. A government owned combine, Valmet, was created to do the development and production of the new rifle.
Between 1958 and 1960, a number of Kalashnikov based experimental rifles were chosen for field tests by the Finnish army; these were designated the M60 rifles. The two models differed most markedly in their triggers; one had a trigger guard and winter trigger while the other lacked a trigger guard of any sort. (Other differences were in flash hiders, bayonet mounts and etc.)
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