The OTs-23 Drotik (''ОЦ-23 Дротик'',

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for "dart") is a blow-back operated

machine pistol A machine pistol is an autoloading pistol capable of fully automatic fire. The term can also be used to describe a stockless handgun-style submachine gun. The term is a calque of ''Maschinenpistole'', the German word for submachine guns. Machine ...

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) The weapon has a three-position

select fire Selective fire is the capability of a weapon to be adjusted to fire in semi-automatic, fully automatic, and/or burst mode. The modes are chosen by means of a selector switch, which varies depending on the weapon's design. Some selective-fire we ...

switch;

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, semi-automatic, and

three-round burst In automatic firearms, burst mode or burst-fire is a firing mode enabling the shooter to fire a predetermined number of rounds, usually two or three rounds on hand held weapons and 50-100+ on anti-aircraft weapons and autocannons, with a single ...

. The pistol features an external indicator that allows the operator to quickly see how many cartridges remain in the magazine. It is designed as a

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and

personal defence weapon Personal defense weapons (PDWs) are a class of firearms intended for self-defense and security rather than warfare and infantry. Most PDWs fire a small-caliber (less than ), Centerfire ammunition, centerfire bottleneck Cartridge (firearms), cart ...

(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. The 5.45x18mm MPT cartridge, although successful in the

PSM pistol The PSM (''Pistolet Samozaryadny Malogabaritny'', Russian for "compact self-loading pistol") was designed by the Tula Design Bureau in 1969 as a self-defense firearm for law enforcement and military officers of the USSR. The pistol entered produ ...

, was considerably underpowered for a gun of this size and intended for PDW role.Maxim Popenker (2008)
Special purpose small arms ammunition of USSR and Russia
; 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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OC-23 "Drotik" - Modern Firearms

Drotik photo gallery

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