58 Pi ( Pěchotní s infračerveným zaměřovačem-"infantry with infrared sight"), which is similar to the vz. 58 V ( Výsadkový-"airborne"), featuring a side-folding metal shoulder stock, folded to the right side, and the vz. 58 P ( Pěchotní or "infantry") model with a fixed buttstock made of a synthetic material (plastic impregnated wood, older versions used a wooden stock), the vz. 58 was produced in three main variants: the standard vz. The assault rifle entered service in 1958 and over a period of 25 years (until 1984), over 920,000 weapons had been produced, fielded by the armed forces of Czechoslovakia, Cuba and several Asian and African nations. As a result, the prototype, known as the "Koště" ("broom"), was designed to chamber the intermediate Soviet 7.62×39mm M43 cartridge, rather than the Czech 7.62×45mm vz. The Soviet Union had begun insisting that the Warsaw Pact forces standardize on a common ammunition. It shares no parts with Kalashnikov rifles, including the magazine.ĭevelopment of the weapon began in 1956 leading the project was chief engineer Jiří Čermák assigned to the Konstrukta Brno facility in the city of Brno. 58 resembles the Soviet AK-47, it is a different design based on a short-stroke gas piston. 52 self-loading rifle and the 7.62×25mm Tokarev Sa 24 and Sa 26 submachine guns. 58) is a 7.62×39mm assault rifle designed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia and accepted into service in the late 1950s as the 7,62 mm samopal vzor 58 ("7.62mm submachine gun model 1958"), replacing the vz. Open-type iron sights with sliding rear tangent and shrouded front post Staggered 30-round detachable box magazine, weight 0.19 kg (0.42 lb) unloaded Gas-operated, hinged locking piece assisted breechblock
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