Monthly Archives: August 2008

PP-91 “Kedr” & PP-9 “Klin” submachine guns

Early in the 1990s the Interior Ministry desiring to procure the weapon that would have filled the niche between the PM pistol and the shortened AKS-74U assault rifle issued an order to develop small submachine guns. Managers of the weapon design bureau in their turn addressed an appeal to experimental submachine guns developed in the … Continue reading

Pya Yariggin pistol

In 1993 under the terms of the contest on the project «Gratch» was included the locally developed cartridge 7N21 of 9×19 type with a bullet of increased penetration capacity weighing 5.1 g and capable to penetrate at a range of 10 meters a 7 mm steel plate. Developers of experimental versions of the Izhevsk mechanical … Continue reading