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Walther P99 with the slide locked back displaying its vertical barrel tilt. The Walther P99 is a short recoil-operated locked breech semi-automatic pistol that uses a modified Browning cam-lock system adapted from the Hi-Power pistol. The P99 has a glassfiber-reinforced polymer frame and steel slide assembly.
As with the P99, the cocking indicator does not protrude from the slide of the QA variant unless the weapon is fired, as it is in a constant partially cocked state. [3] The SW99 also features a fully supported chamber design, which leaves no portion of the chambered round exposed.
Bollock dagger, rondel dagger, ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape) Poignard; Renaissance. Cinquedea (broad short sword) Misericorde (weapon) Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th) Modern. Bebut (Caucasus and Russia) Dirk (Scotland) Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany) Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
The Walther PPQ (German:, Polizeipistole Quick Defence / Police Pistol Quick Defence) is a semi-automatic pistol developed by the German company Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen of Ulm for law enforcement, security forces and the civilian shooting market as a development of the Walther P99.
A dagger is a fighting knife with a very sharp point and usually one or two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a cutting or thrusting weapon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Daggers have been used throughout human history for close combat confrontations, [ 3 ] and many cultures have used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial contexts.
P99 may refer to: Embraer P-99, a Brazilian maritime patrol aircraft; Ferguson P99, a Formula One racing car; HMAS Bombard (P 99), a patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy; HMS Poseidon (P99), a submarine of the Royal Navy; Papyrus 99, a biblical manuscript; Walther P99, a pistol; P99, a NIOSH air filtration rating; P99, a state regional road ...
Scottish dirk, blade by Andrew Boog, Edinburgh, c. 1795, Royal Ontario Museum. A dirk is a long-bladed thrusting dagger. [1] Historically, it gained its name from the Highland dirk (Scottish Gaelic dearg) where it was a personal weapon of officers engaged in naval hand-to-hand combat during the Age of Sail [2] as well as the personal sidearm of Highlanders.
A poniard / ˈ p ɒ n j ər d / or poignard is a long, lightweight thrusting knife with a continuously tapering, acutely pointed blade, and a cross-guard, historically worn by the upper class, noblemen, or members of the knighthood.