"The Rooks Have Arrived. PY pistols go to the troops
While the new Kalashnikov assault rifle is just being tested, another type of rifle weapons. After several years of waiting and small-scale production, the fighters of our armed forces will finally receive a new pistol. This is the pistol of Yarygin (PJ) or simply “Rook”. Almost twenty years have passed from the start of the development of the “Rook” to large-scale deliveries to the troops. Immediately in sight, the pistol has a difficult fate. But first things first.At the end of the 80-ies, the military ceased to organize existing pistols. The design of the Makarov pistols or the Stechkin automatic pistol did not cause any complaints, all the claims were to the patron. The fact is that the ammunition 9x18 mm PM, developed by B. Semin in the early fifties, was originally designed for a Makarov pistol, which, in turn, is so-called for its intended use. a police gun. Bullets fired from such weapons should have a good stopping effect and a small slaughter. In other words, this weapon should not kill a person who is shot, but must “shoot” him with every desire to resist. This was sufficient for use in the internal affairs bodies, but the army has its own working conditions and, as a result, its own requirements for weapons.
In 1990, the Ministry of Defense launched the Rook contest to create a pistol designed to replace the PM and APS. The engineers of the Central Research Institute Tochmash, led by P. Serdyukov, were the first to join the race, and in 93 the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant in the person of designer V. Yarygin became their competitor. At the same time the customer several times adjusted the terms of reference. First of all, the changes concerned the patron. Four options were considered at once: the familiar 9x18 PM, its upgraded version 9x18 PMM, the old 7,62x25 TT and the foreign 9x19 Luger. At one point in the Grach competition, the military even demanded that designers adapt their projects to all four cartridges at the same time. But by the middle of the 90-x they still decided and stopped only on one cartridge - it was the 9x19 Luger, or rather its modified version with the index 7H21. A little later in the Central Research Institute Tochmash, where they made 7H21, several variants of the new cartridge with various bullets will be developed.
The gun of Yarygin, originally having the factory name MP-443, does not represent something out of the ordinary in its design. This is a good modern model, which is based on automation with a short barrel stroke. The barrel is locked with one large-sized combat stop using the barrel skew. The trigger mechanism of the pistol Yarygin is made according to the scheme of double action, and the trigger is made open. At the same time, in order to avoid unpleasant incidents, it is covered on both sides with special projections of the casing of the shutter. Flags automatic fuse located above the handle on both sides of the gun. Turning on the fuse prevents movement of the bolt, whisper and trigger. The latter, it should be noted, can be blocked in both positions, cocked and deflated. Pistols, manufactured before the 2004 year, were completed with double-row box magazines with a capacity of 17 cartridges. From the 2004, serial PJs began to receive 18 magazine stores. Their dimensions are not increased. After the last cartridge is fired from the magazine, the bolt stops at the bolt delay. Her lever is on the left side of the gun under the bolt cover. In accordance with the armory "fashion" of the last decades, the shop latch button is located at the base of the trigger guard. In addition, the shooter at his own request can move it to the right or left side. Sights gun unregulated and consist of a front sight (is part of the casing of the shutter) and the rear sight, installed in the groove "dovetail." There are white dots on those sides of the rear and rear sights with which they are turned to the shooter. The whole construction of the gun, with the exception of the plastic lining of the handle, is made of metal.
In 2000, the pistol designed by V. Yarygin was declared the winner of the “Grach” competition and recommended for adoption. By this time, instead of the competitive designations “Grach” and 6P35, as well as the factory MP-443, the pistol receives the index ПЯ (Yarygin Pistol). Also, the nickname derived from the name of the contest - “Rook” was firmly attached to it. In 2003, the adoption itself took place. The first to do this was the Ministry of Defense, and soon the PU was adopted by the Ministry of the Interior. Unfortunately, in the first few years, “Grach” was produced in small batches. These few units of pistols quickly diverged in special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The rest of the fighters of both departments for the time being had to use the old PM and APS. However, already a few years after its adoption, the PU became a “movie hero” - with this weapon the heroes of the TV series “Sea Devils” went into battle. Although there is every reason to believe that because of the lack of “Rooks” in the army, the authors of the film had to be content with the sports version of the PJ called MP-446 “Viking”.Last year, the situation with the “Grach” still changed, and full-fledged high-volume production began at Izhmeha. One of the first "large-scale" PJ received in the Western Military District. As the head of the press service of the ZVO Colonel A. Bobrun says, recently district officers began to master the new “Rooks” during a planned fire training. At the same time, the military continue firing from the PM, which gives them an excellent opportunity to compare both pistols and draw conclusions. Colonel Bobrun argues that the new gun "causes only positive emotions" for everyone who happened to shoot from it. Perhaps, some euphoria from upgrading the materiel affects the opinion of the military, but one cannot say that the new pistol is not better than the PM. "Rook" is almost a third heavier than "Makarov," but this compensates for a more powerful cartridge. Also, the PN is longer than the barrel, which improves the accuracy and accuracy of the fight. Other reasons for praise lie in the more convenient balancing of the new pistol and in more than two times more capacious store.
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