The development of the P-64 began in the late 1950s in Poland, and it was officially adopted in 1965 by the Polish army, police and security forces to replace the 7.62x25mm TT-33 pistol. The Tokarev design was nearly thirty years old when engineers began working on the P-64. Apart ...
There was one additional problem to the East of the Iron Curtain: the wartime experience had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the 7.62 x25 Tokarev round is too powerful to have a controllable compact SMG chambered for it. At the same time, despite the awesome energetic level and penetration ...