9x39mm (no ontology)

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Latest revision as of 13:42, 10 November 2017

9x39mm is a rifle cartridge designed in the 1980s by a team of Soviet engineers as TsNIITochMash. The cartridge is based on 7.62x39mm, necked up to accept a 0.364" (9.25mm) projectile. Its intended purpose was to be a potent subsonic cartridge capable of delivering adequate terminal ballistics, responding to a complaint that subsonic 5.45x39mm bullets do not develop sufficient amounts of energy at subsonic velocities.

9x39mm was declined in two major versions: SP-5 ; fitted with a 259 grain FMJ bullet with lead core, and SP-6 ; fitted with a 247 grain AP bullet with hardened metal core. Other variants were later developed, but the SP-5 and SP-6 cartridges are perhaps the most commonly used.

Note: Despite virtually all 9x39mm ammunition in real life using steel cases and Berdan primers, all 9x39mm ammunition in MazeWorld is Boxer-primed and brass cased in order to facilitate handloading. The FMJ load used in the game is made to replicate as closely as possible the performance of the original SP-5 cartridge.

Mazeworld overview

How to read this?

• Available for purchase in a gun shop or a weapon shop in boxes of 20 or bulk cans of 500.
• Available brands and projectile types:
  • Standard (Regular, SP): FMJ, Match, AP
  • Reduced Velocity (Regular, -P): FMJ
  • Milsurp (Surplus, SP): FMJ, AP
  • Silent Sniper (Premium -P): FMJ, Match, AP, APX
• Retail value of a standard round (Reg/FMJ/SP): 4 P$ /round
• Recoil level: 2 - Light

Handloading information

• Primer type: Large rifle
• Powder type: Rifle
• Projectile type: .364, 259 grain
• Standard load: 342 pwdr
  • -P load: 308 pwdr

• Cost of a 50 case box: 57 P$ (1.14 P$/case)
• Estimated cost to handload 1 standard round (Reg/FMJ/SP): 3.328 P$

Weapons compatible

Standard weapons

Total amount of standard weapons available in this caliber: 4.

Class 1 weapons:

• Tula Arms AS Val, combat rifle
• Tula Arms VSS Vintorez, precision rifle

Class 2 weapons:

• KBP 9A91, combat rifle
• Tula Arms SR-3 Vikhr, combat rifle

Maze Customs

• Customs weapon families: Available as a chambering for the AK family.
• Minor services: Groza-4 GL (Tactical conversion for the KBP OTs-14 Groza-4), Groza-4 SSR (Tactical conversion for the KBP OTs-14 Groza-4)

Barrel length groups

Depending on the barrel length of the firearm, a multiplier to Pain and Limb damage is applied. Please refer to the lists of weapons or to the event lines to know your particular weapons' barrel length.

Gallery

9x39mm AP

See also

• Ammunition
• Weapon

Real life information

• Wikipedia article