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The 9×18mm Makarov (designated 9mm Makarov by the C.I.P. and often called 9×18mm PM) is a pistol and submachine gun cartridge developed in the former USSR. During the latter half of the 20th century, it was a standard military pistol cartridge of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, analogous to the 9×19mm Parabellum in NATO and Western Bloc military use.
The Makarov pistol or PM (Russian: Пистолет Макарова, romanized: Pistolet Makarova, IPA: [pʲɪstɐˈlʲet mɐˈkarəvə], lit. 'Makarov's Pistol') is a Soviet semi-automatic pistol. Under the project leadership of Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov, it became the Soviet Union's standard military and Militsiya side arm in 1951. [6]
Vanadium) is a single-action and double-action Polish semi-automatic pistol, chambered for the 9×18mm Makarov cartridge and designed by Ryszard Chełmicki and Marian Gryszkiewicz of the state research institute Ośrodek Badawczo-Rozwojowy in Radom. The P-83 succeeded the P-64 as the sidearm for the Polish Army and police. The P-83 is no longer ...
Heavy machine gun: 12.7×108mm: Standard issue heavy machine gun of the Bulgarian Army and produced by Arsenal. [21] Usually mounted on T-72. DShK Soviet Union: Heavy machine gun: 12.7×108mm: Currently only used by the Naval Forces on some of their ships. M2 Browning United States: Heavy machine gun.50 BMG: Used on the M1117 and to be used on ...
Makarov PM Soviet Union [2]: A-74 Type 70 North Korea: Self-designed and produced; Modeled after the FN M1910, Makarov PM, and the Walther PPK; chambered in .32 ACP. Issued to high-ranking officers. [3] Baek-Du San Czechoslovakia North Korea: Unlicensed copy of the CZ 75 pistol. [4] Replaced the Type 68 as the standard-issue pistol. [3] CZ 82
Like the Makarov, it is chambered for the 9×18mm Makarov cartridge which is similar in performance to the .380 ACP, and uses a double-stacked 12-round magazine like the PMM variant. Because of the 9×18mm's lower pressure (20,000 psi vs the 9×19mm Luger 's 35,000 psi), the MP-448 works by blowback operation .
Hyman S. Lebman aka Hyman S. Lehman or Hymie Lebman (1903–1990) was a San Antonio, Texas, gunsmith and leather worker.Working out of his saddlery shop and gun store at 111 South Flores Street in San Antonio, Lebman provided specialized and custom-made weaponry to several well-known bank robbers and outlaws during the Great Depression.
The PP-19 Bizon (Russian: Пистолет Пулемёт Бизон, Pistolet Pulemyot Bizon, Pistol Submachine Gun "Bison") is a 9×18mm Makarov submachine gun developed in 1993 by the Russian company Izhmash.