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Zastava M59/66, the Glossary

Zastava M59/66 PAP, also known as papovka, is a Yugoslav licensed version of Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle.^[1]

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7.62×39mm semi-automatic rifles
Rifles of Yugoslavia
Zastava Arms

AK-47

The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge.

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Angolan Civil War

The Angolan Civil War (Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002.

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Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Оружане снаге Босне и Херцеговине or OSBiH) is the official military force of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial and museum dedicated to all Australians who died during war.

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After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart, but the unresolved issues caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars.

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Casspir

The Casspir is a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle that has been in use in South Africa since the 1980s.

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Ceremonial Guard Battalion

The Ceremonial Guard Battalion, also known as the Honour Battalion is a military unit of the Macedonian Military.

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Ethiopian Ground Forces

The Ethiopian Ground Forces is the land service branch of the Ethiopian National Defense Force.

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Gas-operated reloading

Gas-operation is a system of operation used to provide energy to operate locked breech, autoloading firearms.

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Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces

The Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces (Garda Vojske Srbije) is an honour guard unit of the Serbian Armed Forces under the direct command of the General Staff.

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Honor Guard Battalion (Croatia)

Honor Guard Battalion (Počasno-zaštitna bojna) is a military unit of Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia that performs protocol tasks for the needs of top-level state and military officials, as well as tasks related to the protection and security of the Commander-in-Chief (President of the Republic of Croatia).

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Honour Guard Company (Montenegro)

The Honour Guard of Montenegro (Pocasna Garda Vojske Crne Gora,: Почасна гарда Војска Црне Горе) is an honor guard unit of the Armed Forces of Montenegro.

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Honour Unit (Republika Srpska)

The Honour Unit of Ministry of Interior of Republika Srpska (Serbian: Почасна јединица Министарства унутрашњихпослова Републике Српске, Počasna jedinica Ministarstva unutrašnjih poslova Republike Srpske) is a ceremonial unit of the Ministry of Interior of Republika Srpska.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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Kragujevac

Kragujevac (Крагујевац) is the fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District.

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M60 rifle grenade

Yugoslavia manufactured two types of rifle grenade, both with the nomenclature of M60.

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Ogaden War

The Ogaden War, also known as the Ethio-Somali War (ye’ītiyop’iya somalīya t’orinet), was a military conflict fought between Somalia and Ethiopia from July 1977 to March 1978 over the sovereignty of Ogaden.

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People's Liberation Army of Namibia

The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was the military wing of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO).

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RPG-7

The RPG-7 (Ruchnoy Protivotankovyy Granatomot) is a portable, reusable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank, rocket launcher. Zastava M59/66 and RPG-7 are military equipment introduced in the 1960s.

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Semi-automatic rifle

A semi-automatic rifle is an autoloading rifle that fires a single cartridge with each pull of the trigger and uses part of the fired cartridge's energy to eject the case and load another cartridge into the chamber.

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Serbia

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.

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SKS

The SKS (self-loading carbine of the Simonov system) is a semi-automatic rifle designed by Soviet small arms designer Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov in 1945. Zastava M59/66 and SKS are 7.62×39mm semi-automatic rifles.

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Slovenian Guards Unit

The Slovenian Guards Unit is the official ceremonial honor guard unit of the Slovenian Army.

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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe.

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South African Border War

The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Tilting bolt

Tilting bolt action is a type of locking mechanism often used in self-loading firearms and, rarely, in straight-pull repeating rifles.

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University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town (UCT)(Universiteit van Kaapstad, iYunivesithi yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Yugoslav People's Army

The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA/ЈНА; Macedonian, Montenegrin and Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and Jugoslavenska narodna armija; Jugoslovanska ljudska armada, JLA), also called the Yugoslav National Army, was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its antecedents from 1945 to 1992.

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Yugoslav Wars

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but relatedNaimark (2003), p. xvii.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.

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Zastava Arms

Zastava Arms (Zastava oružje) is a Serbian manufacturer of firearms and artillery, based in Kragujevac, Serbia.

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Zastava M48

The Zastava M48 (Serbo-Croatian: Puška M.48 7,9 mm / Пушка M.48 7,9 mm, "Rifle M.48 7.9 mm") is a post World War II Yugoslav version of the Belgian designed M24 series with some influence from German Karabiner 98k. Zastava M59/66 and Zastava M48 are rifles of Yugoslavia.

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Zastava M70 assault rifle

The Zastava M70 (Застава М70) is a 7.62×39mm assault rifle. Zastava M59/66 and Zastava M70 assault rifle are Zastava Arms.

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7.62×39mm

The 7.62×39mm (aka 7.62 Soviet, formerly.30 Russian Short) round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_M59/66

Also known as M59/66.

Zastava M59/66, the Glossary

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7.62×39mm semi-automatic rifles

Rifles of Yugoslavia

Zastava Arms

References