

The SP-7 cartridge is loaded with an enhanced stopping effect bullet and is designed to defeat live targets. The RG028 cartridge is loaded with an enhanced penetration bullet and is designed to kill personnel wearing body armour. It can penetrate a 1.3 mm thick St3 steel plate or 5 mm ordinary steel plate at 20 m (22 yd). The bullet’s nose is spherical with no distinguishing color of the tip. The bullet has a clad metal envelope totally covering the core. The 57-N-181S cartridge is loaded with a steel-core bullet and is designed to kill personnel at a range of up to 50 m (55 yd). In 2003, there are several variants of 9×18mm Makarov produced for various purposes. The 9×18mm Makarov rounds in use with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are designed for pistols and submachine guns. 380 ACP cartridge, rather than locked breech designs encountered, but not always required, for higher pressure cartridges like the 9×19mm Parabellum.īasic specifications of 21st century Russian service loads As such it is designed to be used in low powered blowback semiautomatics, much like the. While there are no official SAAMI pressure specs for the 9×18mm Makarov cartridge, tests indicate that surplus ammunition develop pressures in the mid 20,000 psi, significantly less than the 35,000 psi or more generated by 9mm Parabellum loads. The 9×18mm Makarov is ballistically inferior to the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. pressure to certify for sale to consumers. regulated countries every pistol cartridge combo has to be proofed at 130% of this maximum C.I.P. (Commission Internationale Permanente Pour L'Epreuve Des Armes A Feu Portatives) rulings the 9×18mm Makarov case can handle up to 160.00 MPa (23,206 psi) piezo pressure. The common rifling twist rate for this cartridge is 240mm (1 in 9.45in), 4 grooves, ø lands = 9.00 mm, ø grooves = 9.27mm, land width = 4.50mm and the primer type is small pistol. The 9×18mm Makarov has 0.83 ml (12.8 grains H 2O) cartridge case capacity.ĩ×18mm Makarov maximum C.I.P. After its introduction in 1951, the 9×18mm Makarov round spread throughout the militaries of Eastern Bloc nations. Indeed 9mm Parabellum is 9.017mm (0.355 inches), however 9×18mm Makarov rounds are loaded with bullets measuring 9.27mm (0.365 in). 9×18mm Makarov ammunition uses a larger diameter bullet than other common 9mm rounds. The Soviet military required that their ammunition should be incompatible with NATO firearms, so that in the event of armed conflict a foreign power would be unable to use captured Soviet ammunition supplies.

Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov went on to design the Makarov PM pistol around the 9×18mm Makarov round in 1948. for the German Luftwaffe, as a more powerful alternative to the 9×17mm used in the Walther PP, also a simple blowback design pistol. It was based on the 9×18mm Ultra cartridge which was developed in 1936 by Gustav Genschow & Co. Semin in 1946, and was intended to be a relatively powerful round with modest bolt thrust that could function safely in a simple or direct blowback pistol. The 9×18mm Makarov round was designed by B.V. A direct blowback design was chosen for the pistol's operation, since it would be quick and cheap to manufacture, as well as accurate, due to the fixed barrel design allowed by direct blowback operation. The army wanted something that was lighter, with a heel release instead of a button and different ammunition. During the war the Red army had found a few shortcomings of its 7.62mm TT-33 pistol, one of which was a tendency to inadvertently drop its magazine while in operation. This ammunition is still in use by many of these countries today. 3 Firearms chambered for 9×18mm Makarovĭuring the Second World War and the early Cold War, the 7.62×25mm Tokarev was the standard automatic pistol round for the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe.2.1 Basic specifications of 21st century Russian service loads.During the latter half of the 20th Century it was a standard military pistol cartridge of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, analogous to the 9×19mm Parabellum in NATO and Western military use. and often called 9×18mm PM) is a Russian pistol and submachine gun cartridge. The 9×18mm Makarov (designated 9mm Makarov by the C.I.P.
9MM MAKAROV BALLISTICS FULL
( Full metal jacket bullet and steel case)
