The Karabinek-granatnik wzór 1960 (), also designated PMK-DGN-60Katz, Russel, and Volstad, ''Armies in Lebanon'' (1985), p. 44, Plate G1. or PMK-60,Rottman and Volstad, ''Warsaw Pact Ground Forces'' (1987), p. 53, Plate E1. is a Polish-made version of the

AK-47 The AK-47, officially known as the ''Avtomat Kalashnikova'' (; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is a gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms d ...

assault rifle that can fire

rifle grenade A rifle grenade is a grenade that uses a rifle-based launcher to permit a longer effective range than would be possible if the grenade were thrown by hand. The practice of projecting grenades with rifle-mounted launchers was first widely used dur ...

Description

The LON-I grenade launcher is screwed onto the forward end of the

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and locked into place by means of a spring-loaded plunger mounted in the front sight base of a modified

rifle. The sight for the launcher is mounted on the rear sight base. A valve is fitted to the right side of the gas block, allowing the gas to be shut off (preventing it from leaving the barrel via the gas port) when the grenades are fired. When using the rifle to launch grenades, a special rubber recoil pad is used and a special 10-round

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is inserted.Rottman and Volstad, ''Warsaw Pact Ground Forces'' (1987), p. 53, Plate E1. This magazine has a filler block that prevents it from being used with "normal" (i.e. bulleted) cartridges. There is also a regular version of this rifle as well that was not designed to shoot grenades.

Operators

* : Limited use by

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(PLO) guerrilla factions in Lebanon. * : Limited use now, mostly being replaced by the wz. 83 Pallad. * * * : Used during the

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by the

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and NVA.

Notes

References

* Gordon L. Rottman and Ron Volstad, ''Warsaw Pact Ground Forces'', Elite series 10, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1987. * Samuel M. Katz, Lee E. Russel, and Ron Volstad, ''Armies in Lebanon 1982-84'', Men-at-arms series 165, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1985.

Secondary sources

*Gordon L. Rottman, ''The AK-47 Kalashnikov-series assault rifles'', Weapon series 8, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2011. 7.62×39mm assault rifles Rifles of the Cold War Infantry weapons of the Cold War Grenade launchers of Poland Kalashnikov derivatives Assault rifles of Poland Military equipment introduced in the 1960s {{Rifle-stub

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