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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- 9×39mm SP6.jpg
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- 9 x 39 mm cartridges
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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.