page_title: Vz. 58
section_title: Users
hierarchical_section_title: Vz. 58 / Users
caption_attribution_description: English: A Slovak army engineer attached to Multi-National Division - Central South provides security for other team members processing the scene of crates of 23mm anti-aircraft ammunition Nov. 25, 2006, for disposal near Diwaniyah, Iraq.
context_page_description: The vz. 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, replacing the vz. 52 self-loading rifle and the 7.62×25mm Tokarev Sa 24 and Sa 26 submachine guns.
  While externally the vz. 58 resembles the Soviet AK-47, it is a different design based on a short-stroke gas piston. It shares no parts with Kalashnikov rifles, including the magazine.
context_section_description:  Afghanistan
   Angola
   Biafra: 732
   Burundi: Burundian rebels
   Cuba
   Cyprus
   Czech Republic: standard service rifle, now being replaced by CZ-805 BREN.
   Eritrea
   Ethiopia
   Guatemala
   Guinea
   India
   Iraq
   Kurdistan
   Ivory Coast
   Latvia
   Libya
   Mozambique
   Slovakia: Standard service rifle.
   Somalia
   Tanzania
   Turkey Used by Village guards
   United States: a few captured rifles used by LRRPs in Vietnam
   Vietnam
caption: A Slovak Army engineer, equipped with a vz.58 V, provides security for other team members processing 23 mm anti-aircraft ammunition for disposal near Diwaniyah, Iraq, 2006.
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