Developed for clandestine operations in the soviet union during the 1980s, this pistol is very neat as it uses it’s own special 7.62x41 cartridge which features a self contained piston between the powder charge and the projectile, thus when fired all the gases and muzzle flash are contained inside the shell case as it is ejected, making it one of the quietest guns ever made even without a suppressor on the muzzle. It is in fact so quiet the loudest sound produced when firing it is from the action of the metal parts.
That is crazy. I guess it’s just a niche tech because the bullets are way more complicated to make? Or does it have durability / accuracy implications? A silent pistol probably doesn’t need to be good at long range or even last very long given its purpose…
I imagine its just rare because it is highly specialized and was a Soviet government secret project, they actually made a revolver later, the OTS 38, which fires the same round so it was successful enough to iterate on. The OTS 38 went into production in 2002, but the PSS is apparently still in use.
Oh cool, so they’re not a museum piece. Very neat.
its not niche tech you just never hear from it because too silent
Haha it’s shooting all the time, but you’ll never hear it coming