AEK-919 K submachine gun in training

Backyard Safari has a collection of images showing the AEK-919 K Submachine gun being used in training by the Vityaz (counter-terrorism Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs special forces unit).

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A surprisingly aesthetically pleasing gun. The Russians tend to ignore appearances.

The AEK-191 was designed during the mid 90’s and fires the marginal 9×18mm Makarov cartridge. It takes 20 or 30 round magazines, has a 6.5″ barrel, weights 4 lbs unloaded and has a rate of fire of 900 rpm.

Many more photo here.

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Steve Dec 2nd 2008 Suppressors, handguns, machine guns, photos Tags: , , , , , , , 5 Comments

5 Responses to “AEK-919 K submachine gun in training”

  1. jdun1911on 03 Dec 2008 at 11:04 am link comment

    I’m surprise that the Russian are moving backward in small arms. The rest of the world is moving away from sub-gun to short barrel rifle as their primary. Or maybe they’re behind the curve.

    Anyway I wouldn’t want to get hit by a 9×18mm Makarov nonetheless.

  2. paulon 03 Dec 2008 at 12:52 pm link comment

    it’s pretty simple looking
    the Russians have produced a lot of different sub-guns, I wonder when they’re going to settle for one
    does anyone know what gun was the one in the 4th and 5th pics w/ the huge suppressor?

  3. Krenkelon 04 Dec 2008 at 10:50 am link comment

    @ Steve:

    Thanks for linking to my blog. :-)
    BTW: Do you have technical problems with your site and the RSS feeds?

    @ Paul:

    They are 9A-91 compact assault rifles, cal. 9 x 39 mm:
    http://world.guns.ru/assault/as64-e.htm

    @ jdun1911:

    The Russian police has used the AKS-74U for a long time and is not happy with it, so they are going back to SMGs. (Steve and I blogged about this a few weeks ago.)

  4. da gunon 10 Apr 2009 at 5:11 pm link comment

    if m.p stands for meshin pistil what dose s.m.g stand for if you know pls email me dagun69 at g mail com

  5. Steveon 10 Apr 2009 at 5:22 pm link comment

    da, smg stands for sub machine gun.

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