The Egpytian Hakim Rifle and Rasheed Carbine,In the 1950’s Egypt acquired a license to produce a Wor

The Egpytian Hakim Rifle and Rasheed Carbine,In the 1950’s Egypt acquired a license to produce a World War II era semi-automatic rifle from Sweden called the AG-42 Ljungman.  The Egyptians planned the rifle to be the new weapon of their young new army, a semi-auto to replace their dated bolt action Mausers.  It was a pretty good design, it was accurate, well made, and reliable.  It used a gas operating system and was fed from a ten round magazine, loaded with stripper clips.  However, the Egyptians made some modifications to their rifle.  First, the caliber was changed to 8x57 Mauser, as it was cheap and plentiful, not to mention the Egyptian military had large stocks on hand left over from World War II.  The original Ljungman rifle used a 6.x55mm cartridge, so a muzzle brake was added to lessen the recoil of the more powerful 8X57 cartridge, in order to relieve stress on both the rifle and operator.  Finally the Hakim used a direct impingement system with an adjustable gas system, while the Ljungman was non-adjustable.Designated the Hakim (pictured top), the Hakim rifle would be issued to the Egyptian Army during the 1950’s and 1960’s, being used primarily in the Suez Crises and some used during the Six Day War.  Around 70,000 were produced using imported Swedish machinery. In the mid 1960’s the Hakim would be replaced with the Maadi, and Egyptian copy of the AKM/AK-47 rifle.Along with the Hakim, the Egyptians would also adopt a carbine variant called the Rasheed Carbine (pictured bottom), which was designed and produced to mimic the Soviet SKS semi automatic rifle.  The Rasheed featured a stock that was similar to the SKS, as well as a folding bayonet inspired by that of the SKS.  Only 8,000 Rasheed carbines were manufactured. -- source link

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