TKB-022
Sign in to savethumb|A photo of the TKB-022PM TKB-022PM No. 1 (ТКБ-022ПМ № 1), TKB-022PM No. 2 (ТКБ-022ПМ № 2) and TKB-022PM5 No. 1 (ТКБ-022ПМ5 № 1) were Soviet bullpup assault rifles, capable of fully automatic fire, chambered for the 7.62×39mm round (TKB-022PM No. 1 and TKB-022PM No. 2) and the 5.6×39mm round (TKB-022PM5 No. 1), developed by the small arms designer German A. Korobov in the 1960s.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- TKB-022PM
- Weapon.image
- tulaStateArmsMuseum2013-09.jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 400
- Weapon.caption
- ТКБ-022PM
- Weapon.origin
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.type
- Bullpup assault rifle
- Weapon.is_ranged
- YES
- Weapon.designer
- German A. Korobov
- Weapon.design_date
- 1955
- Weapon.rate
- 560 rounds/min
- Weapon.feed
- 30-round detachable magazine
- Weapon.sights
- Iron
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- assault rifle
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Manufacturer
- TsKIB SOO
- Designed by
- German Aleksandrovič Korobov
- Image
- TulaStateArmsMuseum2013-09.jpg
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- ammunition
- 5.6×39mm
- Commons category
- TKB-022
- inception
- 1962-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|A photo of the TKB-022PM TKB-022PM No. 1 (ТКБ-022ПМ № 1), TKB-022PM No. 2 (ТКБ-022ПМ № 2) and TKB-022PM5 No. 1 (ТКБ-022ПМ5 № 1) were Soviet bullpup assault rifles, capable of fully automatic fire, chambered for the 7.62×39mm round (TKB-022PM No. 1 and TKB-022PM No. 2) and the 5.6×39mm round (TKB-022PM5 No. 1), developed by the small arms designer German A. Korobov in the 1960s.
The weapons were gas-operated with an annular gas piston located around the barrel and a vertically moving bolt, which made it possible to minimize the length of the receiver group. A U-shaped rammer/extractor was used to chamber and extract the cartridge by pushing it into the chamber where after discharge was pulled back from the chamber and again, upon feeding the new cartridge, pushed forward and slightly up into an ejection tube running above the barrel, from which it would finally exit above the muzzle. This ejection mechanism made it possible to fire the weapon both right- and left-handed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “TKB-022” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.