The Pistol Auto 9mm 1A, also known as IOF 9mm pistol, is a
semi-automatic pistol manufactured by
Rifle Factory Ishapore.
It's a licensed copy of the
Browning Hi-Power
The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, semi-automatic pistol available in the 9×19mm Parabellum and .40 S&W calibers. It was based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at FN Herstal ...
, made using tooling acquired from
John Inglis and Company.
It is the main
service pistol of Indian military and police units.
History
In 1971,
preliminary works was established to make Pistol Auto 9mm 1A. The first specimen was manufactured in 1977, while large-scale manufacturing began in 1981.
Design features
It is a
recoil-operated
Recoil operation is an operating mechanism used to implement locked breech, autoloading firearms. Recoil operated firearms use the energy of recoil to cycle the action, as opposed to gas operation or blowback operation using the pressure of the ...
, magazine-fed,
self-loading
A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism ''automatically'' loads a follow ...
,
semi-automatic pistol that uses 9×19mm Parabellum ammunition.
[http://rfi.nic.in/doc/EOI_9mm_PISTOL_06-04-2017.pdf ] The magazine has a 13-round capacity, being based on the original Hi-Power.
It can also be equipped with a suppressor.
Users
* - Widely used by lower ranking officers of
Indian Armed Forces,
Central Armed Police Forces
Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) is the collective name of central police organisations in India under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). These are technically paramilitary forces formerly known as Central Para-Military Forces (CPMF). Sinc ...
and other
Law enforcement agencies as a service weapon.
**
West Bengal Police - 500.
* - 15,000 with
Nepalese Army
The Nepali Army ( ne, नेपाली सेना, translit=Nēpālī Sēnā), technically the Gorkhali Army ( ne, गोरखाली सेना, translit=Gōrakhālī Sēnā, label=none; see ''Gorkhas''), is the land service branch ...
.
Notes
References
Bibliography
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External links
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Handguns of India
India
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