9x18mm Makarov (no ontology)
From Mazeworld
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 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 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 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% | 4% | 1% |
- 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 rooms
Weapons compatible
Class 2 weapons
Class 3 weapons
- IZHMEKH Makarov PM
- IZHMEKH Makarov PMM
- KBP OTs-33 Pernach
- KBP R-92
- ZiD AEK-919K Kashtan
- RPC Fort Fort-12
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