Type 58 assault rifle Type 58 assault rifle The Type 58 is an assault rifle made in North Korea derived from the Soviet AK-47 designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It uses a 7.62×39mm cartridge. It is the longest version of the rifle at 890 mm, while the AK-47 is 870 mm. After the Korean War (1950–1953), North Korea was allied with the Soviet Union and continued to receive military support from them. President Kim Il-sung ordered the fabrication of the Type 58. The gun was used in the Vietnam War, along with the AK-47, AKM and China's Type 56 by Vietcong and North Vietnam Army
AK-22 not be confused with the weapon commonly sold in America as the Armscor AK22 Sidefolder, which is a sporter, rimfire AK-47 semi-automatic version manufactured in the Philippines as the MAK-22F and sold with a side-folding stock. The two weapons are extremely different both cosmetically and internally. Besides reference to commercial .22 rimfire models of the AK rifle, the terms AK22 and AK-22 are also used to refer to illicit underground manufactured .22 rimfire weapons designed to mimick the appearance of the AK rifle, such as the weapons used in the July 2016 Dhaka attack. AK-22 An AK-22 "Trainer" is a