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| Calibre: , mm:10 (357 magnum) Weight without cartridges, kg: 1,185 The sizes, mm: length - 216, Length of a trunk-127 Initial speed of a bullet, km/s: 370 Aim range, m: 150 Rate of shooting, in/m: a single mode Capacity of shop, cartridges: 8 |
Smith&Wesson(Smith&Wesson 39)American firm Smith*Wesson is more known as the manufacturer of revolvers - their revolver model 10 Military and Police is most issued in the world. Nevertheless, the firm also let out and lets out also autoloading pistols (approximately from beginning XX of a century), however the present success in this field to S*W has come in 1955 when the firm after several years of development has let out on the market of the USA an autoloading pistol model 39. The pistol has appeared the first with the with great dispatch-trigger mechanism of double action from issued in the USA. It, and its further updatings, was widely used in police of the USA, and also in Fleet and the Air Forces of the USA. As all the subsequent pistols of firm S*W practically repeat a design of model 39, I shall in detail describe it, and in the further I shall simply specify differences in other models. Pistol S*W model 39 represents the autoloading weapon constructed under the scheme with a short course of a trunk. Coupling of a trunk with a shutter is carried out by one ledge, decrease in a trunk for unhooking - under the scheme of the Browning, at interaction of an inclined ledge in the bottom back part of a trunk with a framework of a pistol. УСМ double action, the safety lock is located on a shutter at the left, and at inclusion automatically puts курок on a safety platoon. Shop single-row, on 8 cartridges. Aim adaptations - adjustable in a horizontal plane. Material of a pistol - steel. In 1970 S*W lets out model 59 - updating of a pistol model 39, but with shop in capacity of 14 cartridges. Other difference of model 59 was the handle with the straightened back part, in the rest the design is identical to model 39. Pistols of models 39 and 59 have made so-called first generation of pistols S*W. Their release has been stopped approximately by 1980. the Colt |
