9x18mm Makarov (no ontology)

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{|
| '''Caliber name'''
| colspan="2" | 9x18mm Makarov
|-
| '''Energy'''
| colspan="2" | '''313''' Joule
|-
| '''Velocity'''
| colspan="2" | '''319''' m/s
|-
| '''Bullet weight'''
| colspan="2" | '''95''' gr ('''6.16''' g)
|-
| '''Country'''
| colspan="2" | <[#img [hash CTV4GGNBJ41NC0XYHKS0M9Q3AD]]> Soviet Union
|-
| '''Year'''
| colspan="2" | 1951
|-
| '''Price'''
| colspan="2" | '''40''' [[Parallar|P$]] ('''50''' rounds)
|-
| [[Recoil]]
| colspan="2" | '''2''' - Light
|-
| '''Compatible with'''
| colspan="2" | 10 weapons
|}
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The '''9x18mm Makarov''' (also known as '''9x18mm PM''', nicknamed '''9mm Mak''') is a handgun cartridge developed in 1951 by the Soviet Union. It is a somewhat rare cartridge used in handguns and submachine guns. It is considered a very low-tier caliber due to its low power and velocity.

=== Real-life data ===
The caliber's history starts in the early stages of the Cold War. The Soviet Union used, for the Second World War and the first years of the Cold War, the [[7.62x25mm Tokarev]] caliber as their main handgun cartridge, mainly for use in their famed pistol, the [[tula arms tokarev tt 33|TT-33]]. Soviet armed forces noticed shortcomings with their 7.62mm pistol, most notably the fact that it had a weak magazine catch, causing the bad tendency of inadvertently dropping its magazine during use.

Because of this, the Soviet armed forces wanted a weapon that was lighter, equipped with a heel release instead of a frame-mounted button release, and used a different caliber. This resulted in the '''9x18mm Makarov''', designed in 1951 and adapted for use to the newly designed [[IZHMEKH Makarov PM|Makarov PM]] pistol, developed roughly at the same time. Both the weapon and the ammunition were cheap and easy to manufacture - the pistol itself is a cheap and easy to manufacture blowback pistol, while 9x18mm Makarov ammo uses clad metal cases and simple, full-metal jacketed lead bullets, some of which are loaded with hardened steel cores for light armor-piercing purposes.

Because the Soviet government requested that the new caliber was incompatible with NATO firearms, the '''9x18mm Makarov''' is different than its NATO counterpart, the famous [[9x19mm Parabellum]].

Ballistically inferior to its German-born counterpart, the performance of '''9x18mm''' is closer to calibers such as the '''.380 ACP''' - it is a variant of the German-made '''9mm Ultra''', as a more powerful alternative to the '''9x17mm/.380 ACP''' caliber originally used by [[Walther PPK|Walther PP]] pistols. It was designed to be the most powerful caliber available to function in blowback pistols.

=== Mazeworld overview ===
{|
| '''Type'''
| Unarm
| Light
| Hardskin
| Kevlar-2
| Kevlar-3
| Kevlar-4
| HEV
|-
| '''Bullet'''
| 30%
| 27%
| 22%
| 19%
| 9%
| <span style="color: white">4%</span>
| <span style="color: white">1%</span>
|}

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* Available for purchase in a [[gun shop]] or a [[weapon shop]], in boxes of '''50''' or '''250''' rounds
* Costs '''40 P$''' for '''50''' rounds, and '''200 P$''' for '''250''' rounds
* Value of a single round is '''0.80 P$'''
* [[Recoil]] level of this round is '''2 - Light'''
* Availability of this caliber:
** Can be found at random in the [[room|rooms]]

=== Weapons compatible ===
'''Class 2 weapons'''

*[[IZHMASH PP-19 Bizon]]
*[[IZHMASH PP-91 Kedr]]
*[[KBP OTs-02 Kiparis]]
*[[Łucznik Arms PM-63 RAK]]

'''Class 3 weapons'''

*[[IZHMEKH Makarov PM]]
*[[IZHMEKH Makarov PMM]]
*[[KBP OTs-33 Pernach]]
*[[KBP R-92]]
*[[ZiD AEK-919K Kashtan]]
*[[RPC Fort Fort-12]]

== Gallery ==
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| <[#img [hash FVM7R097H306YHZPSTN2426SA1] [width 250]]>
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== See also ==
*[[Ammunition]]
*[[Weapon]]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9x18mm_Makarov Wikipedia article]