Original Chinese AK-47 AKM Type II Bayonet Bira Gun approximately 800 photographs

approximately 800 photographs

The entire unit has been sand or bead blasted to remove the rusting

When the hammer was cocked

Bombardier: Jim Driscoll

By year's end he had accomplished the task

Original Chinese AK-47 AKM Type II Bayonet Bira Gun approximately 800 photographsOriginal Item: Only One Available. The improved AKM Type II bayonet was introduced in the mid 1960s and brought with it two significant changes. A squared off steel pommel was added, to address the fragile nature of the Type I's bulbous plastic pommel. Revolutionary as it was, the Type I design couldn't change soldiers, who seem naturally inclined to use the pommel as a hammer. The second major change was a new scabbard. Advances in plastics