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gto364cid |
Posted: April 09, 2009 07:28 pm
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Soldat Group: Members Posts: 2 Member No.: 2445 Joined: April 09, 2009 |
My father was in the army during the late 60's and remembers being issued a Walther PP type pistol. Does anyone know the model it was likely to be? Are the M74 and M95 pistols imported into the US basically the same thing? Thanks
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ANDREAS |
Posted: April 09, 2009 09:43 pm
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Locotenent colonel Group: Members Posts: 814 Member No.: 2421 Joined: March 15, 2009 |
Hello gto364cid,
I don't want to say something stupid since I am not sure that the romanian army had before the romanian-produced "Carpati", pistols or other chinese made weapons, but I am sure that in communist China a decent copy of the Walther PPK called model 356 were in production in 1952. The origin of the chinese produced Walther PPK is probably USSR who transferred the machines and equipment from the Walther factory captured 1945 to the Chinese communists. |
gto364cid |
Posted: April 11, 2009 01:10 am
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Soldat Group: Members Posts: 2 Member No.: 2445 Joined: April 09, 2009 |
Was Romania using a locally produced pistol at that time or foreign made?
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ANDREAS |
Posted: April 11, 2009 07:33 pm
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Locotenent colonel Group: Members Posts: 814 Member No.: 2421 Joined: March 15, 2009 |
If I know enough between 1948 and 1974 we used only soviet, hungarian?? made pistols, but none locally produced.
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