KK-MPi 69

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KK-MPi 69
KK-MPi 69 Suhl 1.jpg
general information
Civil name: KK-MPi 69
Military designation: KK-MPi 69
Country of operation: GDR
Developer / Manufacturer: Krempel, Gladitz / VEB Vehicle and Hunting Weapons Factory "Ernst Thälmann"
Manufacturer country: GDR
Production time: since 1969
Weapon Category: Submachine gun
Furnishing
Overall length: 870 mm
Weight: (unloaded) 3.4 kg
Barrel length : 440 mm
Technical specifications
Caliber : 5.6 × 15.5 mm R M70 ( .22 lfB )
Possible magazine fillings : 15 (18 after pulling out the built-in extension) cartridges
Ammunition supply : Curve magazine
Cadence : practical: 40 (individual), 100 (duration); theoretical: 700 (continuous) rounds / min
Fire types: Single, continuous fire
Number of trains : 6th
Twist : right
Visor : Rear sight and front sight
Closure : Mass closure
Charging principle: Recoil loader
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The KK-MPi 69 is a small-bore - submachine gun , which in the GDR was developed and built for training purposes. The manufacturer was the vehicle and hunting weapons factory "Ernst Thälmann" in Suhl .

description

Cutaway model
Detail magazine
Ammunition packs, top M70

The weapon is a recoil loader with an unlocked ground lock in caliber 5.6 mm , designed for the M70 cartridge charge specially manufactured in Schönebeck. The piston and handguard were made of plastic, the ammunition was fed via a single-row curved magazine. The length and mass of the weapon, the shape and mass of the magazine and the controls were largely identical to the versions of the Kalashnikov introduced in the NVA . The recoil spring was dimensioned weaker and adapted to the lower recoil of the small bore cartridges. Outwardly, both weapons were very similar. The shape of the handguard (narrower than the AK-47), the missing gas channel and the missing muzzle nut offered a visual difference to the original MPi. All KK-MPi 69 were equipped with pistons, pistol grips and hand guards made of brown plastic; there was no version with a foldable or retractable shoulder rest. Other differences were the lack of a cleaning rod and the lack of a bayonet mount . Like the original, the weapon could fire single and continuous fire; the required settings on the safety lever were the same. With a muzzle velocity of 310 m / s, the sight and operational range was 100 m.

commitment

The KK-MPi 69 was mainly used as part of the military training of the GST to train shooting skills with semi and fully automatic weapons. To a lesser extent, it was used within the NVA for shooting training. The weapon is unsuitable for real military use because it has a very strong tendency to jam, in which case the cartridge from the single-row magazine is usually not correctly inserted into the barrel and is therefore crushed.

Gun Law

The weapons were in the possession of the GST and were handed over to the NVA by its successor organization, the Bund Technischer Sportverbände (BTSV), at the end of the GDR . At that time, there was a ban on the sale of weapons from the NVA, so the entire inventory of almost 50,000 weapons was to be scrapped. Nonetheless, specimens ended up in the arms trade in Switzerland and the old federal states .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Walter: Kalashnikov. The assault rifle and its offshoots (=  weapons and equipment . Tape 9 ). Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02102-1 , p. 59 (American English: Kalashnikov . Translated by Willi Kaiser).
  2. ↑ GDR arms sales. Millions of deals with the estate . In: visor . The international weapons magazine. No. 11 , 1990, pp. 90 .

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