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The Rasheed: Egypt's Semiauto Battle Carbine From Sweden (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-09-27 12:00:02 +0000 UTCEgypt purchased tooling for the Swedish AG-42 Ljungman in 1952, and adapted it to their 8mm Mauser caliber as the Hakim rifle. Later, they scaled the rifle down to 7.62x39mm as the Rasheed, and manufactured about 7,300 of them between 1966 and 1968. These rifles were issued to the District Ward Reserve Army (essentially a National Guard) and saw service in the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. Production ended in favor of AK pattern rifles, but the Rasheed is a very interesting and fairly rare Cold War rifle.
The Rasheed is one of only a few true direct gas impingement actions, with a tilting bolt to lock. It uses a 10-round detachable magazine, but was intended to be reloaded with stripper clips (interchangeable with SKS clips), and was not issued with extra magazines. The folding bayonet is very similar to that of the SKS as well. An adjustable gas regulator allows three different gas settings plus a cut-off position for firing rifle grenades.
A note on production numbers:
George Layman gives a number of 8,263 total produced, and this matches almost perfectly with the serial number database created by GunBoards forum members. However, that database shows no guns numbered under 1,000, and I suspect that numbering began at 1,000 and Layman's source was reporting the highest serial number instead of the total production. This would mean that approximately 7,300 were produced in total. Layman also reports 3,731 of the rifles were lost in combat and Egypt retained approximately 4,000 after the Yom Kippur War. These numbers also fit pretty well with a total production of 7,300.
Comments
Looks so much like the SKS. Took the spring bayonet, loading system and general appearance.
Guido Schriewer
the hakim looks normal but the rasheed... as if the pistolgrip would be 2inches too long though rest of the stock normal sized and the receiver triggerguard too far forward. odd. as if the ljungman and sks would haved a baby. VERY simple trigger group, huh?- how do they feel with DI but piston in x39? sounds very smooth. small numbers made. those are around in europe in some numbers, as mentioned in rulebook in particular.
Forgotten Weapons
I have no idea, and YouTube won't tell me.
Larry Schwartz
Why on earth is this video blocked as adult content?
Forgotten Weapons
Yup. Specifically, the owner of the Al Kadesiah SVD copy offered to loan me a Baghdad to film (the Iraqi Rasheed copy). I jumped at that opportunity, and figured I needed to do my own Rasheed first to cover the first part of the rifle's story. So in a few days we have the Baghdad video, and then in about 10 days a 2-gun match with the Rasheed and a UAR High Power pistol. :)
Paul Beck
So, am I to guess that this is one of your private collection and will we get to see it out on the range?
Guido Schriewer
wait untill playeur
ViejoLobo
Yes. I've already told the little b*****s what I thought of that. And why is this blocked on my Patreon feed?
Bruce Brodnax
Doh! YT has already age-restricted it in an effort to demonetize FW...
Minion
So cool that the crest is the old combined crowns of both Upper and Lower Egypt.
