Pistols
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 [...]
SPS Serdeukov self-loading automatic pistol
The creation of this weapon commenced in the framework of work on an Army pistol according the project «Gratch» and had sever¬al stages. The SPS pistol was chambered for the cartridge RG052 by the team of designers at the TsNII “TOCHMASH* (Central Research Institute) in the city of Klimovsk, including A.B. Yuriev and LP. Kasyanov. [...]
GSh-18 Gryazev-Shipunov self-loading pistol
In January 2000 the GSh-18 pistol was developed at the Tula-based KB Instrument Design Bureau by A.G. Shipunov and V.R Gryazev chambered for the 9×19. In 2003 the GSh-18 pistol was adopted for service as a variant of the Army pistol. In an effort to reduce the cost price and weight of the pistol developers [...]
The Makarov PMM updated self-loading pistol
Early in the 1990s an attempt had been made to develop a new Army pistol similar to that of the PM pistol primarily through the improvement of the high impulse 9×18 PMM (57H181SM) cartridge. Its bullet weighs 5.54 (against former 6.0 g) somewhat increased penetration capability and stopping effect. According to different assessments its consis¬tency [...]
PM Makarov pistol
The pistol was developed at the TsKB-14 (Central Design Bureau) by N.F. Makarov, chambered for the 9 mm pistol cartridge by B.V. Semin and N.M. Elizarov and adopted together with it for the serv¬ice in the Soviet Army in 1951. The «lzhmech» launched it in production. The encased bullet of the 9×19 PM (57H181S) cartridge [...]
OTs-21 “Malish” small self-loading pistol
The OTs-21 pistol nicknamed «Malish» (little one) developed by Yu.l. Berezin constitutes one of the variants of a «pocket» pistols chambered for the 9×18 PM standard cartridge designed to provide small portable weapon with high stopping or terminal effect. The pistol is the slide blowback operated weapon. The recoil spring is located under the barrel. [...]
PSM small self-loading pistol
The pistol was developed at the TsKIB SOO (Tula-based Central Design Bureau) by the team of designers, including T.I. Lashnev, A.A. Simarin and L.L Kulikov, chambered for the 5.45×18 MPTs cartridge developed in the TsNIITOCHMASH, Klimovsk-based Research Institute, by A.D. Denisova. The new pistol complex intended for operative agencies of the MVD (Interior Ministry) and [...]