Tokarev
TT 33
| Country Of Origin: | Russia |
| Designation: | Pistol |
| Cartridge: | 7.62 mm Soviet Pistol |
| (also fires 7.63 mm Mauser) | |
| Production Date: | 1930 |
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| Weapon Dimensions: | Length: | 196 mm |
| Barrel: | 116 mm | |
| Weight: | 840 g | |
| Rifling: | 4 grooves RH | |
| Capacity: | 8 rounds |
History
The Tokarev, as the pistol is generally defined, was developed by Fedor
V. Tokarev. Of the first model, which became TT-30 only some thousand
pieces produced, before in the year 1933 the easily modified TT-33 came
out. This new version was simpler now in assembly-line operation to
produce, so that higher numbers of items could be manufactured. The
contraction TT-33 is here for Tula Tokarev model 1933. The semiautomatic
pistol developed by Tokarev 1933 was manufactured first in a state enterprise
in Tula 150 km south of Moscow. The TT-33 became the standard pistol
of the Red Army, but at the end of the Second World War she had only
replaced the extremely durable Nagant gun to a large extent. Due to
capacity problems, under the designation type 33 also einge weapons
in America for the Soviet Union were manufactured. After the war the
army of the USSR continued to use the Tokarev, until it was replaced
from the Makarow. Besides production rose after the Second World War
strongly, since the pistol was used and manufactured now also by many
allied ones of the Soviet Union. Like that the Chinese pistol type 51
is in principle the same weapon and in Poland the TT-33 both for own
federations and for the armed forces of the GDR and Czechoslovakia was
produced. In Yugoslavia one built the Tokarev under the designation
M65 and in North Korea was called her M68. In Hungary one even manufactured
a version changed over to the 9 mm of Parabellum, which was exported
as Tikagypt to Egypt, where they used police units
Technique
The pistol is partly more comparable with the Browning Colt M 1911, since a co-operation between the Soviet Union existed and the USA. The Tokarev TT-33 is a single act ion system recoil operated weapon with mobile run and locked latch plate wart catch. The weapon consists of 4 main components: the housing with griffstueck, the latch plate wart catch, as well as the carriage and the run. The run is fixed locked with the carriage by 2 cams, which sit above at the run. With the firing of a ball a printing from the powder gases, which presses again the carriage and run to the rear, results. If the ball leaves the delta, thereby the run cams are unlocked whereby the carriage slides to the rear. During the backward motion the case is pulled from the cartridge chamber and leaves the weapon. The carriage slides so far back the fact that the deduction cock locks into the fire position and thus again can stretch the feather/spring. After this process the carriage is shifted to the basic position back and takes up a new cartridge from the magazine. Now the weapon is again ready to fire. For cleaning the deduction mechanism can be developed with the TT-33 completely from the housing. The standard caliber is 7.62 mm type P, although the Tokarev could fire also Mauserpatronen in the caliber of 7.63 mm. The magazine was consciously simply held at the feeder, so that jams could not occur practically. Tokarev took over or even improved many components of the Colt M 1911, what taught a good reputation to the weapon. Despite the similarity to the Colt M 1911 the Tokarev was however an independent development. The only disadvantage of this weapon was that it did not possess a direct protection, which could lead with very hard vibrations to releasing the shot. The main part of the pistol consisted of metal, whereby the housing was burnished