Pm Md. 63

The PM md. 63 (Pistol Mitralieră model 1963) is a 7.62x39 Romanian AK rifle. After WW2, the Romanians used Mosin Nagant, ppsh 41 and AK-47 type 3 rifles (imported via the USSR). And later when Romania was a part of the Warsaw pact, the USSR demanded that all the other nations in the pact should produce their own Kalashnikov rifles. The production of the PM md. 63 began in 1963 and ended in 1994. The PM md. 63 is bassicly the Romanian version of the Soviet AKM. The PM md. 63 has a distinctive foregrip, known in the west as a "Dong", that is slightly angled forward.

The under folding stock version is called the PM md. 65, the foregrip is slight more straight than the md. 63

Mid 80's Romania switched to 5.45x39 and adopted the PA md. 86, the PM md. 63 still stayed in service after 1986, but Romania adopted the PA md. 86 as their standard service rifle and the usage of the md. 63 decreased.