Within a couple of years Romania added a new front lower handguard that incorporated a vertical pistol grip that angled slightly forward for better control of the gun (known jokingly in the AK community as the "donkey-dong/d**k" handguard). The lowers were the palm-swell type with bulges on the sides for better grip:
These guns had the same furniture style as the Russian AKM rifles with a solid wood stock and wooden upper and lower handguards. When Russia switched to the stamped receiver with their AKM, Romania followed, creating what they called the "model-1963" rifle due to its first year of production (allthough there are reports of de-milled Romanian kits being found from as early as 1961). Rumor has it that the milled receiver Romanian rifles were designated the "AI". The original AK-47s created in Romania were exact copies of the Russian milled receiver Type 3 AK-47, even using various actual Russian parts. The MD-63 is the Romanian version of the Russian Kalashnikov 7.62x39 AKM. Also, since this is for assault rifles, I will not be covering the machine gun or sniper rifle variants here. Thanks and I hope you enjoy! Please note that the majority of this guide is intended to be for the 7.62 military variants of the Romanian AK, so some of the info might not apply to the AIMS-74 and other variants. Only a few are my own photographs, so PLEASE let me know if you would like credit for a photograph you took! If you would like one taken down, I ask you first to reconsider, as this is a guide meant to HELP the readers of this forum and NOT to make any sort of profit! The same goes for the pictures used in this guide. (Please see the special thank yous in the next post following this one for photo credits etc.) If you would like to be credited for your efforts, PLEASE get a hold of me! I would like to thank EVERYONE who helped make this guide possible and I apologize if I have left you out! I would like to specifically thank tapeo1, templar, dstorm1911, stottman, and Linx310, as I have found information from them more than anyone else.
When I was saving information, I never saved sources with it as I never thought I would take on a project like this. I do apologize if you see a piece of text that bears a strong resemblance to a post you had made previously. When you read through here, do not take EVERYTHING as fact as there are still lots of unknowns in the Romy AK world! Most of this information presented here has been confirmed by multiple sources but there are still some things that are questionable. Anything technical about the gun was copied into a few text files for later personal use and reference, and I have decided to sort that information out into this guide you see here. In my past year of owning a Romanian G-code rifle, I have lurked on this board and many others gathering all of the information I could find about my gun. Welcome to the (un)official guide to Romanian Kalashnikov variants and accessories!
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