OTs-02 “Kiparis”

September 10, 2008


Another submachine gun taken from the started projects of the 1970s 9 mm OTs-02 «Kiparis» chambered lor the standard 9×18 PM pistol cartridge at TsKIB SOO Tula-based Central Instrument Design Bureau by Developer N.M. Alanasyev with the team, including V.K. Pantilov, D.M. Pleshkov.
This submachine gun is also blowback operated weapon. A barrel with a bolt car¬rier is connected with a firing mechanism via a hinge and is dropped down during its breaking. Firing mechanism of a hammer type, assembled separately and during disassembly the weapon is removed as a whole, shot is fired from the front sear. In the rear part of the firing mechanism housing is arranged a mechanical retarder of the rate of fire intended for enhancing stability and handling of the weapon.
Thumb safety-selector is arranged on the left side with controls a single shot and automatic modes of fire. A light metallic stock is folded in upper forward position.


After firing all cartridges from the maga¬zine a stop lug of its follower activates a bolt stop.
A curve-slide sight is outfitted with a drum (cam) similar to that of the APS pistol. A front sight is adjusted during the fire adjustment.
Provision is made for rigid attachment of a laser target designator (LTD) and silencer (PBS).
A relatively long barrel for this class of submachine guns and a number of meas¬ures intended for stability during fire deliv¬ery allowed users to attain good results in terms of low dispersion shot pattern: firing from the rest without the stock at a range of 25 meters bullets of one burst hit a circle with a radius of 67 mm and the best part of a target hit is somewhere 28 mm.
Firing with the stock results are 64 and 22 mm respectively. During automatic fire with bursts all bullets hit a circle with the radius approx. 100 mm.


Weapon weight w/20-rds magazine,
PBS and LTD……………………2.1 kg
Weapon length:
w/unfokted stock and PBS …………. 730 mm
w/unfoWed stock w/PBS……………595 mm
w/folded stock w/PBS……………..452 mm
w/folded stock………………….317 mm
Barrel length…………………….156 mm
Muzzle velocity………………….320 m/sec
Rate of fire………………750-1,050 rds/min
Sighting range……………………..75 m
Magazine capacity………………20 or 30 rds

Submachine Guns

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