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[SSGOPERATOR]

Assalam o Alaikum
I know this thread is irrelevant for such question(which I know is weird) but pls answer
I have heard that the Ak-47 Type 56 used by Pakistan Army is an SMG but Wikipedia says that it is an assault rifle. So can someone kindly just clarify this to me. Also can you kindly share the Specifications of Type 56?

 

[iLION12345_1]

Assalam o Alaikum
I know this thread is irrelevant for such question(which I know is weird) but pls answer
I have heard that the Ak-47 Type 56 used by Pakistan Army is an SMG but Wikipedia says that it is an assault rifle. So can someone kindly just clarify this to me. Also can you kindly share the Specifications of Type 56?

Not the correct thread for this, but I’ll answer.
Type 56 is an assault rifle, but in Pakistani service, G3 was the standard firearm, when the war on terror started, MP5s, which are SMGs, were issued to soldiers since it was mostly CQB engagements (G3 is too big for these), but these proved to be unsatisfactory, not enough stopping power and penetration, so they were quickly replaced with Any AKs the army the could find. Since they were replacing SMGs, they were given the SMG designation in PA, despite being ARs. This has stayed as the military replaces older AKs with modernized Type 56-IIs and AK-103s.
SMGs are not really that relevant in modern warfare as proper ARs are getting pretty compact, in the past the size difference was big and this wasn’t possible. So the AK series is the PAs standard AR and the G3 and it’s replacement will be the standard Battle rifle. Even if the PA calls it an SMG (since it’s used in the role SMGs were used in the past. CQB and mechanized troops.)

 

[ghazi52]

Personal belongings of Major General Aboobaker Osman Mitha, the first commander of the SS Group - presented by Begum Indu Mitha to the Group's Cherat Museum.
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Maj Gen Aboobaker Osman Mitha was commissioned from Indian Military Academy(IMA) in 1942 in the Grenadiers Regt. He subsequently volunteered for Indian Para Brigade & served in Burma in WWII. Opted for Pakistan in 1947. Raised Pak SSG on the lines of US Army SF "Green Berets"

Begum Indu Mitha, nee Indu Chatterjee, daughter of Dr Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee, Professor of philosophy and president of Government College Lahore. Married Captain Aboobaker Osman Mitha, a Mumbai Memon in 1951

 

[SSGOPERATOR]

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Personal belongings of Major General Aboobaker Osman Mitha, the first commander of the SS Group - presented by Begum Indu Mitha to the Group's Cherat Museum.
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Maj Gen Aboobaker Osman Mitha was commissioned from Indian Military Academy(IMA) in 1942 in the Grenadiers Regt. He subsequently volunteered for Indian Para Brigade & served in Burma in WWII. Opted for Pakistan in 1947. Raised Pak SSG on the lines of US Army SF "Green Berets"

Begum Indu Mitha, nee Indu Chatterjee, daughter of Dr Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee, Professor of philosophy and president of Government College Lahore. Married Captain Aboobaker Osman Mitha, a Mumbai Memon in 1951

He had a Khukri.

 

[ghazi52]

Come May, and eight years back, remember Captain Salman Sarwar, a company commander in the Frontier Corps Special Operations Group, who was killed in action during operations in the general area of Bara and Akakhel, .
He was awarded posthumous Sitara-e-Basalat.
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[Goritoes]

They need better gear.

 

[ghazi52]

There's a lot of hard work behind it. We'll remember you forever. Salute you sir. ❤ ❤ ❤

 

[Vapnope]

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Come May, and eight years back, remember Captain Salman Sarwar, a company commander in the Frontier Corps Special Operations Group, who was killed in action during operations in the general area of Bara and Akakhel, .
He was awarded posthumous Sitara-e-Basalat.
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He was killed by a cleaner at least this was the story back then and the murderer was arrested as well.
@PanzerKiel sir can you confirm?

 

[khanasifm]

He was killed by a cleaner at least this was the story back then and the murderer was arrested as well.
@PanzerKiel sir can you confirm?

His story was dramatized in a video by paa media and available on YouTube or other sites nothing fancy simply encounter where he attained shahadat

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

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Personal belongings of Major General Aboobaker Osman Mitha, the first commander of the SS Group - presented by Begum Indu Mitha to the Group's Cherat Museum.
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Maj Gen Aboobaker Osman Mitha was commissioned from Indian Military Academy(IMA) in 1942 in the Grenadiers Regt. He subsequently volunteered for Indian Para Brigade & served in Burma in WWII. Opted for Pakistan in 1947. Raised Pak SSG on the lines of US Army SF "Green Berets"

Begum Indu Mitha, nee Indu Chatterjee, daughter of Dr Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee, Professor of philosophy and president of Government College Lahore. Married Captain Aboobaker Osman Mitha, a Mumbai Memon in 1951

Probably the most overlooked man in history of SSG. Gave up being a nawabzada to be a soldier.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

They need better gear.

Na you need new pics not ancient stuff these guys are posting.

 

[Goritoes]

Na you need new pics not ancient stuff these guys are posting.

Bhai we rely on you and other members for pics, ab aap hi new pics ka bolen gay tu kese chale ga

 

[ghazi52]

Pakistan SSG soldier with Armenian , Russian , Chinese & Myanmar soldiers at Kavkaz 2020 exercise in Russia ..

 

[Windjammer]

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

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Very old pic.. were these helmets and webbing phased out.