The information office of the Russian Kalashnikov Group of Companies, which developed the AK series of assault rifles, said that the company and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs were preparing to sign a contract for the purchase of the "Lebedev" compact pistol to replace the "Makarov" pistol currently equipped by the ministry.
Kalashnikov Group Company "Lebedev" pistol infographic
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency reported on August 23, Kalashnikov Group Company said that the current "Lebedev" pistol orderer is the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the pistol will replace the "Makarov" pistol used by it. The trial of the "Lebedev" compact pistol in the Ministry of Internal Affairs is coming to an end, and the Kalashnikov Group and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are preparing to sign a contract.
According to the report, the speed of replacing the "Makarov" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a new "Lebedev" pistol will be determined by the orderer. At present, the Russian powerful department is currently equipped with a total of about 100,000 Makarov pistols.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has not commented on this news for the time being.
Kalashnikov integrates a series of companies in the Izhevsk region, greatly expanding its product richness. Now it is a Russian military giant, in addition to small arms (there are many types, not to mention monopoly of Russian light weapons, but also occupy most of the country), but also build patrol boats, drones and cruise missiles.
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The development of Soviet/Russian pistols is still remarkable, and the Soviet Union/Russia did not pay much attention to the development of pistols before. Compared to the famous AK series rifles, the reputation is not very loud.
Three major Soviet pistols
In the Tsarist era, the Russian military industry was weak, the pistols were very messy, and there were all countries, and the main self-produced pistol was the M1895 Nagant revolver, which was designed by Emir and Leon Nagant in Belgium in the 1890s. In 1898, the Russian Empire purchased a patent for the gun's design and began full production. The Russian Tula Arsenal and the Izhevsk Machinery Factory are responsible for manufacturing, and the revolver nest of this revolver has a capacity of 7 rounds.
This gun can not "swing" the nest out or "fold" to load the bullet, but from the side of the round of plugging, and then the bullet is more peculiar, is a shrinking bullet, the shell is wrapped in the warhead, sometimes called buried bullet.
The Nagant revolver is sturdy, reliable and durable, but it is very troublesome to reload, and the trigger force is very heavy, which is very unsuitable for combat.
Others include the Smith Wesson-No.3 Russian revolver and the Mauser 1896 pistol, etc. The Russian Civil War was a pot of porridge, and with the intervention of various countries, the weapons were also a hodgepodge.
When the Soviet Union stabilized, the Soviet Union began to develop new pistols to replace various miscellaneous pistols, which was the famous TT30/33 pistol, which first appeared in the new military secondary weapon selection in 1930, defeating the Luger P08 pistol, Mauser C96 pistol, Colovin pistol and Pulinostsky pistol and was finalized as a TT-30 pistol, and began small production the following year. After a few thousand series production trials of this model, a small-scale change was made, this time with the purpose of improving the simplicity of the internal structure and the craftsmanship of production, the improved firearm was retyped as a TT-33 pistol, which became the main secondary weapon of the Soviet Army before and after World War II, with an output of more than 1 million.
The TT-30/33 pistol is a very classic pistol, using a barrel short recoil structure and a tail offset locking structure, using a 7.62X25 mm pistol cartridge (this pistol bullet was developed from a 7.63X25 mm pistol cartridge, so that China in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China once gave the Mauser pistol a 7.62X25 mm pistol cartridge), powerful, penetrating, as a military pistol at that time was very good. The production is extremely fast and the structure is extremely simple, but the firing structure and insurance structure inside the gun are also highly simplified, resulting in poor insurance performance, poor safety, and easy to go astray.
In addition to the Soviet army's own equipment, this pistol also provides a lot of assistance to friendly countries, such as China's 54 pistol is an imitation TT-33 pistol.
Although the Soviet Union had strong industrial capacity, in the fierce Soviet-German war, the Soviet Union concentrated its industrial capacity to produce major military equipment. Pistols, which are dispensable equipment, have a relatively low priority, and the Soviet Union did not have a two-man rifle like in "Soldiers In the City". But the pistol can only be "self-sufficient" on the spot.
This famous photograph shows a lot of pistols, including Luger pistols and Mauser pistols.
After the war, as the Soviet Union updated a new generation of infantry weapons, the Soviet Union also developed a new generation of pistols, a total of two, the Makarov pistol (PM) pistol and the Stepkin APS pistol. The former is a self-defense pistol used to equip combat units such as non-commissioned officers, officers, law enforcement agencies, military and civilian aircrews, pilots and astronauts, with 8-round magazines, widely equipped with the armies of the Warsaw Pact organization, and China's Type 59 pistol is also one of the imitations. The latter belongs to the large military fully automatic pistol, equipped with special operations units and tank crew crews, etc., positioned somewhat similar to the current PDW single-soldier self-defense weapons, using 20 round clips, semi-automatic and fully automatic shooting, due to the requirements of easy control when shooting fully automatic, and requires the butt of the connection, so it is also called submachine pistol.
Makarov (PM) pistol
The Skidkin APS pistol with a stock was often used as a submachine gun by Soviet special forces
Both pistols are 9X18mm Makarov pistol cartridges, which have low recoil and are easy to control. However, the power was small, and the Soviets did not pay attention to pistols and weapons at that time. Because the Soviet Union did not consider pistols to make sense in a world war in the nuclear context, the Soviet Union did not even develop submachine guns with pistol cartridges — if the AKS-74U did not count.
The AKS-74U short assault rifle later replaced the APS pistol to some extent
In the chaos after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia found that the Makarov pistol, or 9X18mm pistol cartridge, was very weak - in the chaos after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large number of Soviet body armor and other armor and automatic weapons were lost to society. With the Makarov pistol in his hand, he could not cope with it at all, and he could not wear body armor at all. The Russian army and the powerful departments also found themselves dealing with a large number of counter-terrorism operations, requiring the use of submachine guns with pistol cartridges. The AKS-74U's 5.45X39mm rifle cartridge is too powerful in this scenario.
The Russian army and the powerful department even purchased some foreign pistols, such as the Glock 17 pistol. But as relations between Europe and the United States deteriorated, it was clearly unsustainable, and the Russian army began to tender for new pistols, all of which required 9X19 mm Parabellum bullets.
At present, the Yalijin PYa/M443 "Crow" pistol and the GSh-18 are equipped, and the former Russian army has a better evaluation.
The Yalikin PYa/M443 Raven pistol was developed in response to a new pistol test of the Russian army that began in 1993. In 2003, it was adopted by various units below the Russian army and law enforcement agencies as a standard pistol like the GSh-18 and SPS.
The Russian GSh-18 pistol was developed by the Russian KBP (Instrument Design Bureau, КБП). Beginning in 2001, the GSh-18 was adopted in small quantities by the Russian Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the special forces of the Russian army, and began to be exported abroad in the same year. However, because the Russian military has made heavy use of the Yalikin PYa as the new standard pistol, and there is a Serdyukov SPS as a competitor in the special forces, the number of equipment for the GSh-18 has always been low.
SpS pistol is a special weapon, the magazine capacity is 18 rounds, its use of high-speed pistol ammunition has a total of four types, namely SP-10 steel core armor-piercing bullet, SP-11 lead-core ordinary bullet, SP-12 air-tip bullet and SP-13 steel core armor-piercing tracer bullet. Among them, the steel cores of SP-10 and SP-13 are exposed to the lead sleeve, and the surface is coated with black paint to show the difference.
However, due to the tight military expenditure of the Russian army, the number of new pistols is not much. It may be that only special units can do all the rearmament.
Russian special forces test, three men three guns, from far to near: MP443, Glock 17, Makarov.
This time it is estimated that it is part of the procurement, for some special departments and strong departments, Russia is poor.