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* Unlocked for multiplayer in ''[[Call of Duty (Video Game)|Call of Duty: World at War]]'' at level 65, or level 1 for players who pre-ordered the game. It has the highest damage and magazine capacity of its weapon type.
'''Simonov SKS Carbine'''<br />The SKS was designed and fielded in the last days of [[World War 2]]. Firing the intermediate 7.62x39mm round (which is known for being the same caliber used by the AK-47), it was soon replaced by AK pattern weapons and ultimately forgotten in the Soviet Union. It went on to have quite a long career in the People's Republic of China, the Democratic Peoples' Republic of North Korea, the Democratic (later Socialist) Republic of Vietnam and numerous other former Soviet client states, and it is still quite a popular gun around the world today. Visually, it is very similar to the SVT-40, although not quite as pretty, a good bit lighter, and 8 inches shorter. The SKS features a fixed magazine with a capacity of 10 rounds which can be filled either by clips, or one at a time. The SKS is slightly more powerful and accurate than the AK because it features a longer barrel and better sights. Most have bayonets that fold underneath the barrel, or at least originally did; some (especially from China) had the bayonet removed prior to import. [[The Great Politics Mess
* Rebels in ''[[Tropic Thunder]]''.
* NVA forces in ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'', ''[[Born On the Fourth of July]]'', and many more movies set in Vietnam ([[Truth in Television]], as the design was exported to nearly all Communist nations).
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* British brigadier Lord Lovat uses one to lead his men onto Sword Beach in ''[[The Longest Day]]''.
'''The Double Rifle'''<br />The weapon of choice for the [[Great White Hunter]] should be, of course, the ''double rifle'' - not a specific model of a double rifle since there is no model whatsoever, the rifles of the golden age of African Hunting were mostly tailored to their user like Savile Row suits. As wealthy [[Great White Hunter|Great White Hunters]] [[Sarcasm Mode|were much fewer than Hollywood would like us to think]], the number of true large caliber double rifles is small, in the high hundreds for the entire colonial period and an area which spanned 3/4 of Africa. Some non-custom double rifles in smaller calibers also exist, but even they are rare because the demand was just never very high. The closest thing to a "common" double rifle are combination guns, which have one rifle and one shotgun barrel: typically .22 rifle and .410 bore shotgun barrels for taking small game as a survival weapon, as in the US Air Force [
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