OTs-23 Drotik

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OTs-23 DROTIK
TypeMachine pistol
Place of originRussia
Service history
In serviceRussian Federation Interior Ministry(MVD)
Used byRussia
Production history
DesignerI. Stechkin, A.V. Baltser, and A.V. Zinchenko
Designed1993[1]
ManufacturerKBP Instrument Design Bureau
Specifications
Mass960 g
Length195 mm
Barrel length125 mm
Width32 mm
Height135 mm
Cartridge5.45x18mm MPT
ActionBlowback
Rate of fire1,800 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity320 m/s
Effective firing range50 m
Feed system24 round detachable, double-column, box magazine
SightsFixed

The OTs-23 Drotik (ОЦ-23 Дротик, Russian for "dart") is a blow-back operated machine pistol developed and used in Russia. The gun is also known as SBZ (Russian: СБЗ) from the initials of its designers — I. Stechkin, A.V. Baltser (А.В. Бальцер), and A.V. Zinchenko (А.В. Зинченко)[2][3][4]

The weapon has a three-position select fire switch; safe, semi-automatic, and three-round burst. The pistol features an external indicator that allows the operator to quickly see how many cartridges remain in the magazine.[5]

It is designed as a special operations and personal defence weapon (PDW). It has compensator openings cut into the end of the barrel to vent gases and make the weapon more stable during automatic burst fire. The action is blowback complicated with a principle borrowed from Pedersen's hesitation locking: after passing 42 mm and ejecting the case the free-moving bolt locks with the barrel and uses its inertia to stop in the last 5 mm of recoil.

Very few of these guns were manufactured; it was however the basis of the development of the OTs-33.[6] The 5.45x18mm MPT cartridge, although successful in the PSM pistol, was considerably underpowered for a gun of this size and intended for PDW role.[7]

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  1. ^ Александр Борцов. Крутой "Пернач" // журнал "Мастер-ружьё", № 21, 1997. стр.58-65
  2. ^ А. Б. Жук. Энциклопедия стрелкового оружия: револьверы, пистолеты, винтовки, пистолеты-пулеметы, автоматы. М., АСТ — Воениздат, 2002. стр.438, 440
  3. ^ Charles Q. Cutshaw (2011). Tactical Small Arms of the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Small Arms From Around the World. Gun Digest Books. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4402-2709-7.
  4. ^ "ОЦ-23 Дротик | Энциклопедия вооружения".
  5. ^ Jones, Richard (2009). Jane's Infantry Weapons 2009-2010. Jane's Information Group. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-7106-2869-5.
  6. ^ "Modern Firearms - OTs-23 \"Drotik\"". world.guns.ru. Archived from the original on 2010-12-06.
  7. ^ Maxim Popenker (2008), Special purpose small arms ammunition of USSR and Russia Archived 2012-10-09 at the Wayback Machine; updated version of an article first appeared in the March 2005 issue of The Cartridge Researcher, the Journal of ECRA (the European Cartridge Research Association)

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