The Kalashnikov assault rifle is one of the most popular assault rifles in the world. On its basis, a huge number of various modifications were released and continues to be produced. Moreover, not all of them are included in the official line of the manufacturer. For example, on the Internet, you can find a photo of such a weapon, which is called AKMSU. A huge number of myths have been created around this sample. So what kind of weapon is it really?
Around any successful and popular thing, anyway or later, various myths begin to grow like mushrooms after rain. A striking example of this is the Kalashnikov assault rifle. What kind of tales can not be found on the Internet about the mysterious model of AKMSU. Some say it was a top-secret machine gun. Others say it was the worst AK in history. Still others say that it was the best machine gun in history. You can continue indefinitely, but the fact remains that it is virtually impossible to find traces of the real use of AKMSU.
Maybe because AKMSU was really secret? Then why do so many people know about him today? The fact is that a real combat machine of this model exists in only one single copy. Today he is in the UK, at the Royal Armory in Leeds in the north of England. At the moment, it is one of the largest collections of weapons in the world, it contains more than 75 thousand exhibits.
The first thing that comes to mind from the realization of the fact described above is that AKMSU was some kind of test specimen. This is not true. An uninitiated person will not be able to figure it out, but "rivet experts" have long figured out the secret of AKMSU. The fact is that all Soviet Kalashnikov assault rifles have only one rivet on the butt of the receiver, while the mysterious model from the Internet has two. This nondescript detail eloquently describes the history of the appearance of the exclusive model. It is made in China. Two rivets on the receiver at the butt are the characteristic signature of Chinese copycat gunsmiths.
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If you start to unravel the tangle of the formation of the legend around AKMSU, then a rather amusing story will emerge. In the collection of the British Department of Defense, this makeshift machine was in the late 1980s. He got there from Afghanistan from local partisans who fought with the Soviet army. The Chinese replica (as well as most of such weapons) fell into the hands of the "spirits" through Pakistan, where the Chinese weapons production facilities were located. The fact is that not only NATO countries, but also China, which had its own interests in the region, helped the spooks in Afghanistan to fight the USSR.
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In 2005, a Japanese artist and writer Masami Tokoi saw a machine gun in the British collection, who dedicated several sketches to AKMSU. From that moment, active myth-making around this sample began. The situation was aggravated when a mysterious machine gun began to be produced as an airsoft weapon, having invented for it a legend about a "secret Soviet development".
By the way, representatives of the Kalashnikov concern have repeatedly commented on the myth of the creation of AKMSU.
Source: https://novate.ru/blogs/130120/53053/