AKS-74U vs Mk 13 rifle: Specs Compared

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ASmall arms

Carbine Assault rifle Personal defence weapon

Credit

Vitaly V. Kuzmin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

BSmall arms

First system

Second system

At a glance

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

AKS-74Ustock extended

0.73 m

Mk 13 rifleLength

1.207 m

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

AKS-74Ularger figure on 0 of 3

Mk 13 riflelarger figure on 3 of 3

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

12 of 28 rows sourced on both sides

730mmstock extended

1.21m

Length

All recorded figures & sources

0.73 m

stock extended

Single source

0.49 m

stock folded

Single source

Configuration

AKS-74U and Mk 13 rifle configuration
Specification	AKS-74U	Mk 13 rifle
Type	Carbine Assault rifle Personal defence weapon^[source]	—
Place of origin	Soviet Union^[source]	—
In service	1979–present^[source]	2001–present^[source]
Wars	Soviet–Afghan War Afghan Civil War (1989-1992) Transnistria War Afghan Civil War (1992-1996) Tajikistan Civil War First Chechen War Second Chechen War War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Russo-Georgian War War in Iraq (2013–2017) Syrian Civil War War in Donbas Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)^[source]	War in Afghanistan Iraq War^[source]
Designer	Mikhail Kalashnikov