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SVT-40
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The SVT-40 is a semi automatic battle rifle designed by Fedor Tokarev and adopted by the Soviet Red Army as its intended standard service rifle, entering production in 1940 after the earlier SVT-38. Chambered in 7.62x54mmR and fed from a 10 round detachable box magazine, its production was disrupted by the German invasion in 1941, which forced the Soviet Union to fall back on the older bolt action Mosin Nagant rifle, and the two rifles served alongside each other for the rest of the war.
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