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1993 Used by Police of Russia and Russian armed forces and other security forces MTs255 (МЦ255) – civilian version, has a permanent wooden butt and fore-end. The guns are available in 12, 20, 28 and 32 gauges, and .410 bore.[1] At present, it is not commercially available, only parts are available on request.
For some 30 years, the revolver-carbine was the front-line weapon of the mounted police of S.A., W.A., and N.T. Nearly all serial numbers are known, and are listed in the book Service Arms of the South Australian Police. [9] The S.A. revolvers were sold as surplus in 1953 to the Western Arms Corporation of Los Angeles.
The MTs255 (Russian: МЦ255) is a Russian revolver shotgun fed by a 5-round swing-out cylinder. It is produced by the TsKIB SOO, [1] Central Design and Research Bureau of Sporting and Hunting Arms. The MTs255 is unique in that the forearm extends nearly all the way back to the cylinder.
'Assault revolver calibre 12.7') is a Russian-made revolver chambered in 12.7×55mm STs-130. It fires from the bottom chamber of the cylinder (like the Chiappa Rhino and Mateba Autorevolver) rather than the more common top chamber, and is chambered for the same ammunition as the ShAK-12 battle rifle and VKS rifle.
The OTs-01 Kobalt (Russian: ОЦ-01 "Кобальт", "Cobalt") is a Russian double-action 9 mm revolver designed by Igor Stechkin and Boris Avraamov. [2]The revolver was developed by TsKIB SOO from 1991 to 1992 and was meant for sale to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to law enforcement.
One of the most famous "break-top" revolvers is the Webley service revolver (and the Enfield revolver, a nearly identical design), used by the British military from 1889 to 1963. [10] The American outlaw Jesse James used the 19th century Schofield Model 3 break-top revolver, and the Russian Empire issued the very similar .44 Russian caliber ...
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The MP-412 was designed in the 1990s, and intended for export. However, it never entered production; it is unclear why this was, though it was likely due to its largest potential market, the United States, being closed, because of an agreement between U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, voluntarily banning the import of firearms from Russia to the ...