After developing the 5.45mm Tantal rifle (adopted in 1988), the Radom factory moved on to designing a compact “SMG” version. This would be designated the wz.89 “Onyx”, but never made it into mass production thanks to the collapse of the Communist government in Poland. The first production batch was made in 1991 using a top cover permanently mounted tot he rear sight block with a pivot like on the ASK-74U. This model (which we are looking at today) only lasted for a single preproduction batch, as it was decided to change the design to a removable top cover with a rear sight mounted to the rear sight block and cantilevered rearward. Ultimately only about 200 of the Onyx were made before the program shut down completely.
wz.88 Tantal video: https://youtu.be/7rNCFhKXbvY
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Said weapon was also appeared in Forgotten Weapons article https://www.forgottenweapons.com/rifles/wz-88-tantal/ as A Tantalean Ordeal
…Polish paratroopers (The Sixth Pomeranian Airborne Brigade) were then equipped with Tantals, not Onyxes. I served at that time – as a medical Officer Cadet – in the same barracks at the outskirts of Kraków, so I know 🙂
(we carried regular AKM-47 and were kind of envious)
I have not been impressed with any of the AK or AR “pistols”. But this as a sub-machinegun seems functional.
Stock, original or this, which is better ?
Any pros to this crutch stock
Btw. one nitpick, “Krinkov” is a made up name from US gun publications that was never used in the soviet union or russia.
…that’s exactly why Ian always – when he uses it for the benefit of the US consumers- puts it in “verbal” quotation marks; just listen more carefully 🙂
‘German’ isn’t used by the Deutsch for themselves, and the French say their capital ‘Puh-ree.’ No one gets excited by this, so why work oneself up over a not particularly well known weapon? It isn’t like I’m going to scout the shops in Eastern Europe looking to buy one.
Aksu-74 is from mid 90s depiction in movies very well known rifle in public, maybe even more so than their bigger brother.
Stupid supposed name infected through web and forums during 00s