The 5.56×21mm PINDAD was a
personal defence weapon
Personal defense weapons (PDWs) are a class of compact, magazine (firearm), magazine-fed automatic firearms that are typically Submachine gun, submachine guns designed to fire rifle cartridge, rifle-like cartridges. Most PDWs fire a small-caliber ...
round previously developed in
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
. The round is based on the
5.56×45mm NATO
The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, commonly pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, ...
cartridge, being a cut down version of it.
It is sometimes known as 5.56×23mm.
Development
The 5.56x21 2.65g (~41gr) projectile fired out of a 190mm (7.5in) long barrel has a muzzle velocity around 508-510 m/s.
The cartridge is only used in the
Pindad PS-01
The Pindad PS-01 (''Pistol Serbu, literally Assault Pistol'') is a PDW-caliber pistol developed by Pindad.
History
The PS-01 was developed by Colonel Rihahanto, who developed the pistol from August to September 2007. Working models were first ...
.
See also
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.22 TCM
References
Pistol and rifle cartridges
5.56 mm firearms
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