9×39mm
Sign in to saveAlso known as PAB-9, 9x39 mm, 9 x 39 mm, 9x39, 9x39mm, 9×39 mm
The 9×39mm is a Soviet rifle cartridge. The cartridge yields increased performance in shorter barrels and effective subsonic performance.
Key facts
- Firearm cartridge.name
- 9×39mm
- Firearm cartridge.image
- SR-3 (539-14).jpg
- Firearm cartridge.image_size
- 250px
- Firearm cartridge.caption
- 9×39mm SPP (7N9) cartridges with blue-tip armor-piercing bullets
- Firearm cartridge.origin
- Soviet Union (Now Russia)
- Firearm cartridge.type
- Rifle cartridge
- Firearm cartridge.wars
- Afghanistan, Ukraine
- Firearm cartridge.designer
- Undisclosed team of 27 & Nikolai Zabelin
- Firearm cartridge.design_date
- finished in early 1980s
- Firearm cartridge.is_SI_specs
- yes
- Firearm cartridge.parent
- 7.62×39mm
- Firearm cartridge.case_type
- Rimless, bottleneck
- Firearm cartridge.bullet
- SP-5: SP-6:
- Firearm cartridge.case_length
- SP-5: SP-6:
- Firearm cartridge.max_pressure
- 3550 BAR (355 MPa, 51,488 psi)
- Firearm cartridge.is_SI_ballistics
- yes
- Firearm cartridge.bwunit
- gram
- Firearm cartridge.btype1
- SP-5
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The 9×39mm is a Soviet rifle cartridge. The cartridge yields increased performance in shorter barrels and effective subsonic performance.
==History and design== The 9×39 is based on the Soviet 7.62×39mm case but with the neck expanded to fit a 9.2mm bullet. The final design was completed by N. Zabelin, L. Dvoryaninova, and Y. Frolov of the TsNIITochMash in the 1980s. The intent was to create a more stealthy cartridge for suppressed firearms used by Spetsnaz and other special troops that had more power, range, and penetration than 7.62 US subsonic rounds tested at the time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “9×39mm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.