TKB-022PM No. 1 (ТКБ-022ПМ № 1), TKB-022PM No. 2 (ТКБ-022ПМ № 2) and TKB-022PM5 No. 1 (ТКБ-022ПМ5 № 1) were
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
bullpup assault rifles, capable of fully automatic fire, chambered for the
7.62×39mm
The 7.62×39mm (aka 7.62 Soviet, formerly .30 Russian Short) round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin. The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as ...
round (TKB-022PM No. 1 and TKB-022PM No. 2) and the
.220 Russian round (TKB-022PM5 No. 1), developed by the
small arms designer German A. Korobov in the 1960s.
The weapons were gas-operated with an annular gas piston located around the barrel and a vertically moving
bolt, which made it possible to minimize the length of the receiver group. A U-shaped rammer/extractor was used to chamber and extract the cartridge by pushing it into the chamber where after discharge was pulled back from the chamber and again, upon feeding the new cartridge, pushed forward and slightly up into an ejection tube above the barrel where finally exiting above the muzzle. Due to this ejection mechanism, it was possible to fire from both right and left arm positions.
These weapons had the best barrel length to overall length ratio among the assault rifles. Firing from an unstable position, the TKB-022PM No. 1 and the TKB-022PM No. 2 had three times better accuracy than the
AKM
The AKM () is an assault rifle designed by Soviet small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1959. It is the most ubiquitous rifle of the Kalashnikov rifles. It was developed as a replacement to the AK-47 introduced a decade prior.
Introduc ...
. The TKB-022PM5 No. 1 had better accuracy than the AKM when fired from a hand in a lying position at a distance of 100 meters.
Although these assault rifles performed well, they were turned down by the Soviet army for being too radical at that time. Additionally, there were concerns about the displaced center of gravity to the tail end of the weapon and the durability of the weapon's plastic housing during prolonged operations under difficult conditions or during storage.
See also
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List of Russian Weaponry
The following is a list of modern Russian small arms and light weapons which were in service in 2016:
Handguns
Revolvers
Pistols
Special purpose
Submachine guns
Special purpose
Shotguns
Rifles
Bolt-action
Semi-a ...
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List of bullpup firearms
The following is a list of firearms designed in a bullpup (i.e., action behind firecontrol/trigger group) configuration.
References
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Bullpup firearms
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List of assault rifles
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TKB-011 2M
TKB-011 (ТКБ-011), TKB-011M (ТКБ-011М) and TKB-011 2M (ТКБ-011 2М) were Soviet bullpup assault rifles, capable of fully automatic fire, chambered for the 7.62×39mm round, developed by the small arms designer Nikolai M. Afanasyev fr ...
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TKB-0146
The TKB-0146 (russian: ТКБ-0146) is a bullpup assault rifle prototype designed by Igor Yakovlevich Stechkin at the TsKIB SOO. The gun participated in the Russian Army's Project Abakan assault rifle trials.
Nikonov's AS and Stechkin's design we ...
References
* http://world.guns.ru/assault/rus/korobov-tkb-022-e.html
* http://weapon.at.ua/load/321-1-0-825
External links
photo: TKB-022PM No. 1403 Forbidden
photo: TKB-022PM No. 2photo: TKB-022PM5 No. 1403 Forbidden
photo: TKB-022PM No. 2, 1965 -left sidephoto: TKB-022PM No. 2, 1965 -right sideTKB-022PM - Forum Broni Strzeleckiej (strzelecka.net)
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5.6×39mm firearms
7.62×39mm assault rifles
Assault rifles of the Soviet Union
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Trial and research firearms of the Soviet Union