PM- 6. 3 “Rak” – Forgotten Weaponsby Leszek Erenfeicht. Almost twenty years before the West went PDW- crazy with advent of the micro- caliber rounds that made the concept viable at last, a machine pistol was created in Poland, showing all the features required from that seemingly so novel class of automatic weapons. It was officially called the Pistolet maszynowy wzór 1. PM- 6. 3), but most people refer to it as the ‘Rak’ (Polish for cancer). It was lightweight, compact, capable of serious firepower, yet could be holstered to leave the hands free for whatever job they were needed for.

And at the time, when boxy just started to seem sexy, those classy, curving lines of the Rak pleased the eye of beholder. PM- 6. 3 “Rak” machine pistol. The re- armament of armies with automatic rifles chambered for intermediate caliber ammunition throughout the 1. Yet, it was this very same process of warfare modernization that brought it down to the brink of extinction, which paradoxically brought it up back again – although in a completely different guise. A new wave of compact SMGs, or even machine pistols, were meant to be the self- protection weapons for the commanders, gunners, drivers, pilots and the like. Their jobs, indispensable in the modern warfare, were much more important than wandering around in the boonies, wielding a decent rifle. More, it takes an awful load of money to train one – and so, to protect this investment, a PDW- style weapon had to be devised from the scratch.

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It was so, because the level of technology available in 1. SMG was too large and bulky to fill the billet: something completely new was needed, and quick. There was one additional problem to the East of the Iron Curtain: the wartime experience had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the 7. Tokarev round is too powerful to have a controllable compact SMG chambered for it. At the same time, despite the awesome energetic level and penetration of this round, it was less- than- stellar terminal ballistics- wise. Watch Sons Of Anarchy Watch Series. It was even worse in it’s handgun ammunition role.

The Soviet Army, having been just re- armed with it from an obsolete, 1. Century, but virtually recoilless, revolver (the M1. Nagant) loathed the large, heavy and kicking like a mule, yet inefficient Tokarev M1. In 1. 95. 1 the Soviet military went to another extreme, adopting instead a small- sized, blowback Makarov pistol instead.

It was chambered for a new round, the 9×1. M- 1. 81. S’, designed by Boris V.

Syemin, but referred to colloquially as the ‘Makarov round’ from the gun that chambered it. This was reasonably accurate, and reasonably efficient at pistol distances, but way too weak to have any effect at the classical ‘front- line’ SMG fire exchange distances. On the other hand, it’s small size and limited level of energy allowed for creation of the compact machine pistols, like the Stechkin APS. In the field, though, where obsolete tactical doctrine called for it to perform a surrealistic role of the soldier’s primary combat weapon, it was soon deemed inefficient and replaced with a folding stock AKS automatic rifle. The Rak was a principal armament of the Polish tank crewmen.

One of the facets of the post- Stalinist ‘thaw’ in the Eastern Bloc was the drive towards legalization and petrification of the satellite- states dependency on the USSR, in the military terms taking shape of an alliance to counter- weigh the NATO. The treaty was signed in Warsaw, Poland in May 1. Warsaw Pact – even though it was steered solely from Moscow and served solely Moscow’s interests. De facto it changed the situation marginally – it was still the Soviet Union that commanded the ‘allied’ military forces directly from Moscow, but in theory they were now independent national military forces – if only on paper.

The Treaty allowed for a re- creation of the national façade in each member- state’s military, and loosened the up to then iron grip the Soviet Union hitherto exerted over their defense industries and armaments. At the same time the ‘allied’ armies were shown the hitherto top secret Kalashnikov rifle and Makarov pistol with their respective ammunition, whose appearance was met with amazement. So much money was spent by the Czechoslovaks on their intermediate round, while the Big Brother already had such ammunition for several years!

So much money was wasted to buy licenses to manufacture the ‘world’s most advanced’ models like the M4. Mosin carbine, the PPSh. PPS4. 3 submachine guns or the TT3. The growing concern over these practices made the new post- 2. Party Congress Soviet leadership take an unprecedented step.

As the military establishment was adamant that the 7. SKS and AK were for a limited time offered at very reasonable discount prices, while in the handguns department everyone was left to his own devices altogether – provided they were chambered for the 9x. This was a remarkable step aside from the Stalinist- era extortion- style marketing, so most Warsaw Pact states jumped upon the occasion. Only the neo- Stalinist Czechoslovak leaders of the era chose to literally ‘stick to their guns’ – and became the only Warsaw Pact state to have their army completely kitted- out with domestic hardware. Wilniewczyc Redux. Piotr Wilniewczyc, the inventor of the most famous Polish small arm, the Vis wz.

Radom) pistol and the co- creator of the deservedly forgotten Mors wz. SMG survived the war, and after the cessation of hostilities returned to work. His weapons designing abilities were not needed, though – the official position of the new rulers was that designing indigenous guns is pointless, as the superiority of the Soviet small arms design is prevalent. He started to teach mechanics again, at first in the Lodz Technical University, as the Warsaw’s one laid in ruins. He then returned to the capital, and while teaching the young engineers, he wrote several books, that for years were the backbone of small arms designers education in Poland. After 1. 95. 5 the Polish small arms design school was revived – as fortunately many of the pre- war foremost designers survived both WW2 and the subsequent civil war and political purges. In 1. 95. 7 Wilniewczyc started the design of his first post- war semi- automatic pistol, the Wi.

R wz. 5. 7, chambered for the 9×1. His design eventually lost to the competitors, the group of young military small arms experts, who designed what later became the P- 6. Army pistol. While still honing his Wi.

R wz. 5. 7 design, Mr Wilniewczyc started to think about the compact, light automatic weapon for close- combat role, chambered for the pistol round – something along the same lines as the APS Stechkin, but from the first instant intended to be a purely self- defensive weapon, and not a primary armament. It was meant for platoon leaders, support weapon crews, airborne troops and the Ministry of Interior special security services. In late 1. 95. 6 and early 1. SMG and a semiautomatic pistol. It was an incarnation of the ideas developed by his former subordinate from the pre- war times, Jerzy Podsendkowski, in his 1. MCEM- 2 weapon, designed in Great Britain. Watch Embrace Of The Vampire Tube Free there.

The MCEM- 2 was an ancestor to the whole generation of the post- WW2 submachine guns with grip- contained magazines and breech- bolts telescoping the barrels – the Czech Holeczek SMGs (Sa- 2. Sa- 2. 4/2. 6 for 7. Israeli Uzi being just two most famous of the lot. The 1. 95. 7 study weapon was a blowback one, and already fitted with the rate reducer. The form of its slide proved to be one of the most outstanding (some would even say – outlandish) features of the Wilniewczyc gun. It is an outside- fitting slide, reciprocating along the rails on top of the frame, just like in an ordinary semi- automatic pistol, but contrary to the APS, also with an outside slide – this weapon fired from an open, rather than closed bolt!

The barrel, fixed yet easily replaceable, was connected to the frame by five ribs – just like in John M. Browning’s FN pocket pistols. At that time the code- name Rak was also born.