APS
In 1951 the l.Ya. Stechkin 9 mm auto¬matic pistol developed at the TsKB-14 Central Design Bureau was adopted for service simultaneously with the Makarov 9 mm PM automatic pistol. The APS auto¬matic pistol was put on the production line at the Viatsko-Poliansky Machine-Building Plant «Molot» (Hammer).
The pistol is blowback operated. It fea¬tures the firing mechanism with a spiral open hammer and helical a mainspring. The hammer rests in cocked and half bent positions. The pistol grip houses a retarder of the rate of fire to stabilise the weapon during automatic fire with bursts. The thumb safety also serves as a selector of fire modes. It features three positions: safety, single and automatic fire.
The thumb safety locks a firing pin and a hammer and connects a slide with the receiver. The triggering - with warning. The self-cocking fire is possible. The 20-round magazine with a checkerboard cartridge arrangement don’t protrudes from the pis¬tol grip. The curve-slide sight is graduated for 25, 50,100 and 200 meters. The radius of dispersion at a range of 50 meters con¬stitutes 5 cm and at a range of 200 meters it constitutes 22 cm. The pistol is being carried in a wooden or plastic holster-stock, it is used as a shoulder stock in the automatic mode of fire. Early in the 1990s at TsKlB SOO (Central Bureau) the team of designers, including l.Ya. Stechkin, A.V. Baltser and A.V. Zinchenko had developed new automatic pistols such as the 5.45 mm OTs-23 <«Drotik» and the 9 mm OTs-33 «Pernach» which, among other things, remained as experimental versions.
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SPP-1
NRS-2
The NRS («scout’s firing knife», Index 6P25») was developed in Tula by R.D. Khlinin with a strong resemblance to the convention¬al knife NR (6P25U) and adopted for service in the Soviet Army. Any knife per se, in the first place, is a working tool and then it is a weapon. The firing device is assembled inside a cavity of the knife’ handle. The detachable 7.62mm sub-caliber barrel is chambered for the special SP.3 cartridge (See the MSP pis¬tol). The flash and fire crack are suppressed, however, there is a danger of burning by the powder gases the hand of a shooter,
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SV-99
The SV-99 magazine sniper rifle cham¬bered for the 5.6mm cartridge with a ring blast¬ing cap type .22 LR developed by V.F. Susloparov derived from the BI-7-2 biathlon («Biathlon-7-2») and «Sobol» hunting carbines was offered by Izh designers intended for skilled sharpshooters at short ranges of up to 50-70 m.
The weapon is complete with the PBS (silencer) and the 5.6mm cartridge is very suitable both for creation of high precision weapon systems intended for short ranges and «silent» weapon systems.
The non-chromed barrel is made via a cold forging and features 6 threads or rifles. The longitudinal sliding bolt of straight travel with the crank-base bolt mechanism of locking allows the shooter to quickly reload the rifle by slight movement of the hand. In addition to the speed this also reduces the noise gener¬ated by the bolt.
The firing mechanism is outfitted with a safety device.
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VSK-94
In 1995s the Tula-based KB Instrument Design Bureau had developed, in the framework of its family weapons, on the basis of its assault rifle 9A-91 the «silent» automatic sniper rifle VSK-94 featuring the sighting range of up to 400 meters. This weapon is chambered for cartridges like the SP.5, SP.6, and, if needed, the more cheap PAB-9 cartridge with a bullet pene¬trating a 8 mm steel plate at a range of 100 meters.
The VSK-94 like 9A-91 is being operated by a gas driven unit, locked by a rotating bolt, features a hammer type firing mecha¬nism with a thumb safety-selector lever, and a folded operating handle of a bolt carrier. The thumb safety-selector is noted for its almost inaudible click (as compared with that of the AKM or SVD versions).
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AS
The silent submachine gun complex comprising the AS (Index 6P30) special pur¬pose submachine gun and the SP6 car¬tridge constitutes the whole “family weapons with the BSK silent sniper com¬plex. The 70% of parts and units of the VSS and the AS are unified.
This submachine gun features the unfolding to the left skeleton metallic stock, plastic pistol grip and a 20-round magazine.
The SP-6 cartridge developed by Yu.S. Frolov and E.S. Kornilova is equipped with the armor-piercing bullet and results in bet¬ter penetration performance. The similarity of ballistics of the SP-5 and SP-6 bullets allows the delivery of fire from both versions
via identical graduation of the sight. An opti¬cal or night sight is optional.
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VSS
The silent sniper complex was developed at the TsNII (Central Research Institute) TOCHMASH byRI. SerdukovandV.F Krasnikov and was adopted for service in 1987. The BSK complex comprises the sniper special purpose rifle (VSS «Vintorez», Index 6P29) and the SP5 (7N8) 9 mm special cartridge.
The SP5 sniper cartridge was developed by N.V. Zabelin and L.S. Dvoryaninov on the basis of the cartridge case Mod. 1943. The heavy subsonic bullet retains good stability on its trajectory and in addition to a high accuracy features assured penetrating per¬formance and defeats at a range of 400 meters live targets in II, III level armor vests (with firing SP6 cartridge).
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OTs-38
The OTs-38 (Index SVI368) .silent spe¬cial” revolver has been developed by I.Ya. Slechkin at the TsKIB SOO chambered tor the same 7.62mm SP.4 cartridge with the cut-off exhaused powder gases similar to the PSS self-loading pistol. This revolver is intended for special operations and rated for engagement of manpower at ranges of up to 50 m.
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PSS
The 7.62 mm PSS (special-purpose, self-loading, Index 6P28, code name «Val» pistol) was developed at the TsNII (Cenlral Research Institute) TOCHMASH by V.N. Levchenko and Yu.M. Krilov chambered for the SP-4 car¬tridge developed by V. A. Petrov. This complex was adopted for service in 1983.
The SP-4 bottle-shaped rimless cartridge case completely hides the bullet. The long wad-piston is replaced by a small device in the form of a cup. The cylindrical bullet is made of the hard alloy and features on its upper part the brass band. By the moment when a bullet completely leaves the cartridge case its band reaches the muzzle end face and it seems as if the bullet propels itself along the rifled part of the barrel. The bullet penetrates at a range of 25 meters the armor vest of II level of protection and at a range of 30 meters penetrates a 5 mm steel plate.
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APB
The «aulomatic silent pistol» (APB, Index 6P13) developed by A. S. Neugodov derived from the Stechkin automatic pistol was adopted for service in 1972. Traditionally, the pistol is the barrel-slide blowback operated weapon with the iner-tial retarder of the rate of fire, hammer type firing mechanism, safety lever and the curve-slide sight.
The elongated barrel is jacketed with an integrated chamber intended for the escape of exhausted gases through the grooves in the barrel. Thanks to this the muzzle velocity of the bullet drops below the subsonic speed. After the bullet leaves the bore the gases from the expansion chamber return to the barrel and escape through the muzzle end face with reduced temperature and pressure. The muzzle part of the barrel protrudes from the barrel-slide and features the threads for the noz¬zle-silencer separated inside by a row of expanded chambers.
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