The first picture shows the required "fangs" on the bottom of the FSB. Maybe these pictures will help illustrate the means of attaching an AK47 bayonet to a rifle. Early production AK47 Rifles and various others where the fangs were omitted or removed to comply with import/export restrictions will not mount bayonets. The only change to the rifle was to add to small hooks, ("Fangs") to the bottom of the Front Sight Base. The cross guard incorporated a vertical sliding latch and a full muzzle ring. This was done by designing the rear of the pommel to fit around the Front Gas Block. These designs were not approved and it was decided that with the firepower, ease of rapid reloading and the overall compactness of the rifle that a bayonet was not needed.Īt some point this decision was reversed and a bayonet was retro designed to fit the rifle with minimal change to the rifle. Most of these were similar to and borrowed from existing Tokarev and Simonov bayonets and were conventional designs with the catch on the pommel engaging a flanged stud under the barrel. Several different bayonet designs had been considered and several prototype and experimental bayonets can be found in reference books. When the final design was approved and production was started on the original Russian AK47 rifles there was no means of mounting a bayonet.
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