Submachine Guns
PP-19 “Bizon-2″
The unification characteristic for the current system of small arms was clearly manifested itself in the creation of subma¬chine guns system on the basis of assault rifles. Designers of the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant had used the approved in the course of production the famous «Kalashnikov System». Two sons of the famous designers, namely, V.M. Kalshnikov [...]
SR.2 “Veresk”
Afler creation at the TsNIITOCHMASH of the -cartridge SP.lO-pistol SR.1» complex materialised the very idea to add to this com¬plex a small machine gun chambered for the 9×21 cartridge, this gave a firer the possibili¬ty to annihilate at a range of 200 meters a single live target outfitted with individual pro¬tection means of the II [...]
AEK-918G
Despite the identical identification and the same cartridges (9×19) used for fire, this submachine gun presents the inde¬pendent type of weapon.
The AEK-918G is developed according to the “Conventional” configuration with arrangement of the magazine in front of the trigger guard. The submachine gun is the blowback operated weapon. The applica¬tion of the balanced configuration and [...]
AEK-918
Designers of the OAO (Ltd.) «Kovrov Mechanical Plant» have developed the AEK-918 submachine gun on the balanced configuration chambered for the 9×19 car¬tridge.
Actually, the weapon operated on the bolt blowback principle.
The system of the balanced automatic operation with the counter-movement of moving parts allowed to compensate the strike of the bolt in its extreme points, [...]
AEK-919K “Kashtan”
The SKB (Central Design Bureau) ol Kovrov Mechanical Plant (KMZ) had developed in the early 1990s the AEK-919 submachine gun chambered for the 9×18 PM cartridge. After a number of thorough updatings in terms of com¬pactness and safety in service came into being its version, the AEK-919K -Kashtan..
This is a blowback operated weapon. In so [...]
PP-93 submachine guns
The forced insufficient ergonomics of this weapon made its developers to create a more simple, unfolded, but more easy to handle version. The primary thrust of the development resulted in advent of the PP-93 small submachine gun with folded stock. In 1944 the Kovrov Mechanical Plant (KMZ) was responsible for its production.
The way of its [...]
PP-90 & PP-90M
When Ihe Tula-based KB Instrument Design Bureau was engaged in development light small arms in the interest of law enforce¬ment agencies it offered already in the year 1991 the PP-90 folded small submachine gun. And in ihe year 1993 appeared the PP-90M modernised version. In terms of its destination it was the weapon close to [...]
OTs-02 “Kiparis”
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 [...]
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 [...]