The vz. 58 (model 58) is a 7.62mm assault rifle designed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia and accepted into service in the late 1950s as the 762 mm samopal vzor 58 (7.62mm submachine gun model 1958) replacing the vz. 52 self-loading rifle and the 7.62×25mm Tokarev vz. 24 and vz. 26 submachine guns. The vz.
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height (cm)
0.255
length (km)
0.845
weight (kg)
3100.0
width (mm)
0.057
origin
Czechoslovakia
type
Assault rifle
used in war
Nigerian Civil War, Vietnam War, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Libyan Civil War, Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Cypriot intercommunal violence, Eritrean War of Independence, South African Border War
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