In one of WTS topics with offer of Polish AKMSŁ were a discussion about correct name of the carbine.
I've checked a lot of Polish Miliatry manuals since 1963 - user, service/repair manuals, parts catalogs etc. and nowhere there is an AKMSŁ name!
At first here are the names which are in the manuals:
- pmK - pistolet maszynowy Kałasznikowa - Klashnikov submachine gun - from the principals of shooting guide from 1963,
- ksK - karabinek samoczynny Kałasznikowa - Kalashnikov selfloading/automatic carbine - supplement of service/repair in addition to NSP-2 from 1965,
from manual from 1988:
- AK - milled receiver, wooden stock,
- AKP - milled receiver, wooden stock, thritium night sights,
- AKS - milled receiver, underfolder stock,
- AKM - stamped receiver, wooden stock,
- AKMŁ - stamped receiver, wooden stock, side rail,
- AKMŁP - stamped receiver, wooden stock, szyna boczna do celownika, thritium night sights,
- AKMS - stamped receiver, underfolder stock,
- AKMSN - stamped receiver, underfolder stock, side rail,
- AKMSNP - stamped receiver, underfolder stock, side rail, thritium night sights,
- kbkg wz. 1960 - milled receiver, wooden stock, grenade launcher
- kbkg wz. 1960/72 - milled receiver, detachable wooden stock, grenade launcher.
I don't remember a nick of a member who posted this pic as a proof that I'm wrong:
But I've posted similiar topic on Polish forum and there is a guy who mentioned that in his unit in middle 1970's standard AKMS carbines were upgraded which allowed them to use night vision optic sights.
When you will look at the photo above and look for some other similiar pics with "AKMŁ" letters you will notice that there is no space/gap between AKM and Ł which is in the name of AKMS Ł or there in is no dash in Polish nomenclature.
I think that the name of the NV NSP-3 or other sights is wrong because if they had original paired carbines with optics with AKM as AKMŁ and soldiers who upgraded AKMS by added an side rail thinked that AKMS-Ł is propper name for it.
Believe me thinks like that happens - for egsample propper name for BERYL is 5,56 mm kbs wz. 96 BERYL and in my unit I've got folks who wrote "ks" instead of "kbs".
Or Mini Beryl in version "C" is called as "BERYL-C" which is wrong because BERYL in "C" version is a stanard carbine/rifle in "C" setup - the "C" is not a name of subcarbine version - but someone above us wrote something like that in papers and it is "BERYL-C".
Also I've spoke with a lieutenant colonel who try to tell me that 9 mm WIST 94 pistol is made by "Łucznik" - he was very surprised when I've told him that it was made by PREXER company in the city of Lodz/Łódź - far away from Radom city.
I've checked a lot of Polish Miliatry manuals since 1963 - user, service/repair manuals, parts catalogs etc. and nowhere there is an AKMSŁ name!
At first here are the names which are in the manuals:
- pmK - pistolet maszynowy Kałasznikowa - Klashnikov submachine gun - from the principals of shooting guide from 1963,
- ksK - karabinek samoczynny Kałasznikowa - Kalashnikov selfloading/automatic carbine - supplement of service/repair in addition to NSP-2 from 1965,
from manual from 1988:
- AK - milled receiver, wooden stock,
- AKP - milled receiver, wooden stock, thritium night sights,
- AKS - milled receiver, underfolder stock,
- AKM - stamped receiver, wooden stock,
- AKMŁ - stamped receiver, wooden stock, side rail,
- AKMŁP - stamped receiver, wooden stock, szyna boczna do celownika, thritium night sights,
- AKMS - stamped receiver, underfolder stock,
- AKMSN - stamped receiver, underfolder stock, side rail,
- AKMSNP - stamped receiver, underfolder stock, side rail, thritium night sights,
- kbkg wz. 1960 - milled receiver, wooden stock, grenade launcher
- kbkg wz. 1960/72 - milled receiver, detachable wooden stock, grenade launcher.
I don't remember a nick of a member who posted this pic as a proof that I'm wrong:
But I've posted similiar topic on Polish forum and there is a guy who mentioned that in his unit in middle 1970's standard AKMS carbines were upgraded which allowed them to use night vision optic sights.
When you will look at the photo above and look for some other similiar pics with "AKMŁ" letters you will notice that there is no space/gap between AKM and Ł which is in the name of AKMS Ł or there in is no dash in Polish nomenclature.
I think that the name of the NV NSP-3 or other sights is wrong because if they had original paired carbines with optics with AKM as AKMŁ and soldiers who upgraded AKMS by added an side rail thinked that AKMS-Ł is propper name for it.
Believe me thinks like that happens - for egsample propper name for BERYL is 5,56 mm kbs wz. 96 BERYL and in my unit I've got folks who wrote "ks" instead of "kbs".
Or Mini Beryl in version "C" is called as "BERYL-C" which is wrong because BERYL in "C" version is a stanard carbine/rifle in "C" setup - the "C" is not a name of subcarbine version - but someone above us wrote something like that in papers and it is "BERYL-C".
Also I've spoke with a lieutenant colonel who try to tell me that 9 mm WIST 94 pistol is made by "Łucznik" - he was very surprised when I've told him that it was made by PREXER company in the city of Lodz/Łódź - far away from Radom city.