Submachine Guns
Fun Time at the Range with a Skorpion Evo 3A1
https://www.instagram.com/czguns/ https://www.facebook.com/CZfirearms Today I’m taking a Skorpion Evo 3A1 out to the range…let’s see how much fun it can be!
Machine Guns
Prototype
Development of the CZ Skorpion from Laugo Prototype to Evo3A1
https://www.instagram.com/czguns/ https://www.facebook.com/CZfirearms The CZ Skorpion grew out of a Czech Army request for a new 9x19mm SMG as the newly formed Czech Republic pivoted to a Western orientation in the 1990s. The CZ factory took […]
Submachine Guns
A Special MPi-81 for an Infantry Fighting Vehicle
One interesting specialized version of the Steyr MPi-81 is this model, built for the Steyr/Saurer 4K 7FA armored personnel carrier. The vehicle could carry 8 infantrymen and their compartment had four firing ports fitted with […]
Prototype
Skorpion 9×19 at the Range
https://www.instagram.com/czguns/ https://www.facebook.com/CZfirearms Yesterday we looked at the development of the Skorpion PDW/SMG in 9x19mm Parabellum both in the 1960s and then when it was revisited in the 1990s at CZ. Today I have the chance […]
Prototype
PDW on Steroids: the vz68 and the Skorpion 9×19
The original Scorpion was adopted in .32 ACP caliber as the vz.61 by the Czechoslovakian military – but development of the Scorpion did not end there. Prototypes were also developed in .380, 9×18 Makarov, and […]
Machine Guns
Zielfeuergerät 38 Blank-Firing Training Aid
When the Allied examined the weapons discovered in the German Reich after the war, they came across a device which was classified as a “spring gun” or “trip wire activated static defense machine gun”. Nevertheless, […]
Prototype
Ladislav Findorak’s Prototype Lever-Delayed PDW
This really neat compact PDW prototype was developed by Ladislav Findorak in the 1990s for a Czech military program, although nothing was adopted as a result. The lever-delayed system allows it to have a much […]
Heavy MGs
Goryunov SG43: Russia Replaces the Maxim
The Russian M1910 Maxim was clearly obsolete in the 1930s, and the Soviet military developed a replacement for it – the Degtyarev DS-39. These performed well in testing, but several major flaws were revealed when […]
Submachine Guns
MPi-81: Steyr Basically Makes the Uzi
The MPi-69 was adopted by Austria to replace its aging MP40 submachine guns, and it included an unorthodox charging handle design connected to the sling. Clearly this didn’t turn out to be such a great […]
Submachine Guns
Agram 2000: Croatia’s Gangster Gun
The Agram 2000 was originally developed in the 1990s in response to a Croatian Army need for a submachine gun during the Independence War. It is a closed-bolt, hammer-fired, simple blowback submachine gun. The initial […]