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Czechoslovak machine pistol

Machine pistol

Škorpion vz. 61
The early vz. 61 with stock extended.
Blazon	Car pistol Submachine gun
Place of origin	Czechoslovak Socialist Democracy
Service history
In service	1961–present
Used past	Run across Users
Wars	Vietnam War Lebanese Civil War The Troubles Internal disharmonize in Peru Yugoslav Wars First Liberian Civil War
Production history
Designer	Miroslav Rybář
Designed	1959
Manufacturer	Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod, Zastava Arms^[1]
Produced	1963–1979
No. congenital	Approx. 200,000^[2]
Variants	See Variants
Specifications
Mass	one.thirty kg (ii.87 lb) (vz. 61) ane.28 kg (2.viii lb) (vz. 61 E) 1.44 kg (3.2 lb) (vz. 82, vz. 83)
Length	517 mm (20.four in) stock extended / 270 mm (10.vi in) stock folded
Barrel length	115 mm (4.5 in) (vz. 61, vz. 61 E) 113 mm (4.iv in) (vz. 82, vz. 83)
Width	43 mm (1.7 in) (vz. 61, vz. 61 E) 49 mm (one.ix in) (vz. 82, vz. 83)

Cartridge	.32 ACP (seven.65×17mm Browning SR) (vz. 61, vz. 61 East) ix×18mm Makarov (vz. 65, vz. 82) .380 ACP (9×17mm Short) (vz. 64, vz. 83) ix×19mm Parabellum (vz. 68)
Activity	Blowback, airtight bolt
Rate of burn	850 rounds/min (vz. 61, vz. 61 E) 900 rounds/min (vz. 82, vz. 83)
Cage velocity	320 m/s (1,050 ft/s) (vz. 61, vz. 61 E, vz. 82) 292 grand/southward (958.0 ft/s) (vz. 83)
Effective firing range	fifty–150 m (160–490 ft)^[three] (vz. 61, .32 ACP)
Feed organisation	ten or 20-circular curved magazine, aftermarket 30-circular magazine, directly box magazine in nine mm variants
Sights	Adaptable front mail, flip-upward rear sight 148 mm (five.eight in) sight radius

The Škorpion vz. 61 (or Sa vz. 61 Skorpion) is a Czechoslovak machine pistol developed in 1959 by Miroslav Rybář (1924–1970) and produced under the official designation Samopal vzor 61 ("submachine gun model 1961") by the Česká zbrojovka artillery factory in Uherský Brod from 1963 to 1979.

Although information technology was adult for use with security forces, the weapon was also accepted into service with the Czechoslovak Army as a personal sidearm for lower-ranking army staff, vehicle drivers, armoured vehicle personnel and special forces. Currently the weapon is in utilise with the war machine of several countries every bit a sidearm. A variant of the Škorpion, containing a synthetic pistol grip in identify of the wooden original, was congenital under license in Yugoslavia, designated M84. A civilian, semi-automated version was besides produced, known equally the M84A, as well available in .380 ACP (9×17mm Curt).

History [edit]

The Škorpion was developed in the late 1950s past Miroslav Rybář with the working name "model 59". The pattern was completed in 1961 and named "Samopal Vz. 61".^[two] It was subsequently adopted past the Czechoslovak Ground forces and security forces, and later exported to various countries.

It was likewise used past armed groups,^[4] including the Irish Republican Army, Irish gaelic National Liberation Army and the Italian Red Brigades. The Brigades used the Škorpion during the 1978 kidnapping of Aldo Moro, also using this weapon to kill Moro.^[2] ^[5] In the 1990s the Gang de Roubaix used the Škorpion in a serial of attacks in France.^[ii] In 2017, the Swedish Law Authorization estimated that near 50 formerly deactivated weapons from Slovakia were in apportionment amid criminals in Sweden.^[6]

Pattern details [edit]

Operating mechanism [edit]

The Škorpion is a select-fire, straight blowback-operated weapon that fires from the airtight bolt position. The cartridge used produces a very low recoil impulse and this enables simple unlocked blowback operation to exist employed; there is no filibuster mechanism and the cartridge is supported merely past the inertia of the bolt and the strength of the render springs. When fired, gas pressure drives the case dorsum in the bedroom against the resistance provided by the weight of the bolt and its ii recoil springs. The bolt travels back, extracting the empty example which is then ejected straight upwards through a port in the receiver housing tiptop cover.

The Škorpion's meaty dimensions were achieved by using a telescopic commodities assembly that wraps around a considerable portion of the barrel. The weapon features a spring-loaded casing extractor, installed within the bolt head and a stock-still, double ejector, which is a protrusion in the weapon's frame.

Every bit the bolt is relatively light, an inertial rate reducer device housed within the wooden pistol grip lowers the weapon's rate of burn from 1,000 rounds/min to a more manageable 850 rounds/min. The rate reducer operates as follows: when the bolt reaches the stop of its rearward stroke it strikes and is caught by a spring-powered hook mounted on the back plate. At the aforementioned time information technology drives a lightweight, spring-loaded plunger down into the pistol grip. The plunger is easily accelerated and passes through a heavy weight which is left behind considering of its inertia. The plunger, having compressed its spring, is driven upward once again and and so meets the descending inertia buffer. This slows downwardly the rising plunger which, when it reaches the top of its travel, rotates the hook, releasing the bolt which is driven forward by the compressed recoil springs.

Features [edit]

The weapon is hammer-fired and has a trigger mechanism with a fire mode selector, whose lever (installed on the left side of the receiver, above the pistol grip) has three settings: "0", weapon is rubber; "i", semi-automatic style and "twenty", fully automatic fire. The "condom" setting disables the trigger and the bolt in the forwards position (by sliding the commodities catch lever upwards).^[7]

The Škorpion uses the 7.65×17mmSR Browning Short (.32 ACP) pistol cartridge, which was the standard service cartridge of the Czechoslovak security forces. Information technology uses two types of double-column curved box magazines: a short 10-circular magazine (loaded weight, 0.15 kg) or a 20-round capacity magazine (loaded weight, 0.25 kg). The bolt remains locked open up later on the last cartridge from the magazine has been fired and can be snapped back frontward by pulling the cocking handle knob slightly to the rear.

Sights [edit]

The Škorpion is equipped with open-blazon fe sights (mechanically adjustable forwards post and flip rear sight with 75 and 150 thou range notches) and a folding metallic wire shoulder stock, which folds up and over the receiver and is locked on the front sight's protection capture.

Accessories [edit]

The Škorpion, together with a short magazine, is carried like a traditional pistol: in a leather holster, and the two spare long magazines are carried in a dissever pouch. The weapon comes with a cleaning kit, front end sight adjustment tool, oil bottle and lanyard.

Variants [edit]

The Sa vz. 61 E with xx round mag

A civilian variant. It is semi-automated only and lacks a stock.

In the 1960s, three other variants of the vz. 61 were developed in Czechoslovakia, though none were mass-produced.

vz. 64 in .380 ACP (9×17mm Short)
vz. 65 in 9×18mm Makarov
vz. 68 in 9×19mm Parabellum

In the 1990s Česká zbrojovka offered the following submachine guns: the vz. 61 E (.32 ACP version with a plastic pistol grip), the vz. 82 (chambered in 9×18mm Makarov and featuring a 113 mm butt) and the vz. 83 (for the .380 ACP cartridge). A semi-automatic merely variant known as the CZ-91S was adult for the civilian marketplace, bachelor in the aforementioned calibers. The vz. 82, vz. 83 and CZ-91S pistols chambered in 9 mm use straight box magazines.

M84 "ŠKORPION" (М84 "ШКОРПИОН"), licensed and produced by Yugoslavia^[viii] betwixt 1984 and 1992, and then Serbia.

A .22 LR conversion kit is too sold commercially.^{[ citation needed ]}

In popular culture [edit]

The machine pistol Sa vz. 61 Skorpion appeared in many Czech and foreign movies. Czech movies include: Who's That Soldier? (1987), Byl jednou jeden polda III (1999) and The Velvet Murderers (2005). Others include: Executive Decision (1996), Con Air (1997), Face/Off (1997), The Matrix (1999), Blade 2 (2002), Equilibrium (2002), xXx (2002), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Night Knight (2008), Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).^[9] The Klobb gun from the 1997 video game GoldenEye 007 is based on the Škorpion.^[10]

Users [edit]

Electric current users

Defunct:

Non-state users:

Run into as well [edit]

OTs-02 Kiparis

Citations [edit]

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^ Edge Staff (2014-04-04). "The story of GoldenEye 007's most notorious gun, The Klobb – and its pattern secret". Edge. Archived from the original on 2014-04-xiv. Retrieved 2020-x-27 .
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^ "Rucni Zbrane ACR" (PDF) (in Czech). Army.cz. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2013-10-24 .
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Diez, Octavio (2000). Handguns: Ammunition and Technology. Lema Publications, S.L. ISBN 84-8463-013-seven.
^ "Kopassus & Kopaska - Specijalne Postrojbe Republike Indonezije" (in Croation). Hrvatski Vojnik Magazine. Archived from the original on 2010-08-22. Retrieved 2010-06-12 .
^ ^a ^b ^c Republic of Serbia: Ministry of Economy and of Regional Development. "Annual Report on the Transfers of Controlled Goods in 2008". p. 37. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014 – via Stockholm International Peace Research Found.
^ United nations Security Quango (25 Oct 2002). Report of the Panel of Experts concerning Liberia (S/2002/1115) (PDF). p. 18. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 29 Baronial 2018.
^ "Due north Korean Small Artillery". Modest Arms Defense Journal. Archived from the original on 28 Baronial 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b "The Czech vz. 61 Skorpion: A stinger total of 32 ACP (VIDEO)". Guns.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-21. Retrieved 2016-02-thirteen .
^ Handwaffen und Panzerabwehrwaffen der Bundeswehr, Jan-Phillipp Weisswange, p.72
^ "Samopal vz.61 Škorpion / NAM 64-75". www.nam-valka.cz. Archived from the original on 22 March 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne (1982). The Terrorists: Their Weapons, Leaders, and Tactics . Facts on File. p. 103. {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

General sources [edit]

Škorpion: vii,65 mm samopal vz. 61 Škorpion a jeho varianty (in Czech). NV. 2004. ISBN978-eighty-206-0704-1.

External links [edit]

Česká zbrojovka—official page
Education transmission
CzechPoint—Škorpion history
Modern Firearms
Video of operation on YouTube (in Japanese)