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Baikal is a brand developed by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant around which a series of shotgun products were designed from 1962. After the collapse of the USSR, commercial gun manufacture was greatly expanded under the Baikal brand. During the 1990s, Baikal marketed various Makarov-derived handguns in the United States under the IJ-70 model.
MTs255-12 (МЦ255-12) – police version (for ammunition 12/70 and 12/76), designed for law enforcement and security agencies, is distinguished by accessories made of black plastic, folding stock and a "Picatinny rail" bar for attaching sighting devices.
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 barrel of PM have 4 grooves and IJ-70 have six, and different rate of twist. It leads to impossibility to use harmlessly the military ammo in IJ-70. The military bullets have steel core, and "commercial" 9x18 ammo have lead one, so using military rounds in IJ-70 can severly damage the barrel.
Pages in category "9×18mm Makarov firearms" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * 9×18mm Makarov; O.
The production magazine capacity of 64 rounds was selected as 64 is a multiple of 16, and 9×18mm Makarov rounds are packaged in boxes of 16. [3] The magazine has hooks on top of the front end that engage a pair of pins under the front sight, and the rear end of the magazine interfaces with a Kalashnikov pattern spring-loaded paddle type ...
9×18mm Makarov ELITE 93 grain lead core, copper full metal jacket bullet with concave exposed lead base, brass case, non-corrosive, boxer primed [7] [8] 5.45×39mm lead core, bi-metal copper-steel full metal jacket bullet, polymer coated steel case, non-corrosive, berdan primed
The article currently reads that "The 9×18mm round was designed by B.V. Semin in 1951," and then says that "Nikolai Makarov went on to design the Makarov PM pistol around the 9×18mm round in 1948." How could Makarov design a pistol around a round that was not designed until three years later? Jd physicist 17:52, 23 June 2011 (UTC)