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MP9 and TP9: A Complete History From Steyr to B&T (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2024-10-21 12:00:04 +0000 UTCSteyr introduced their TMP (Tactical Machine Pistol) and its semiauto SPP counterpart in 1989, but it was never a very popular item. After the company was purchased, the new ownership decided to scrap the TMP (along with other low-performing product lines). At that point, Swiss firm B&T purchased the whole project for a nominal one Austrian Schilling and began to develop it themselves. B&T made a number of reliability improvements to the basic design, and perhaps most importantly added a folding stock to what had previously been a machine pistol design. They now offer it as a semiauto civilian pistol or carbine, and as a PDW or submachine gun to military clients. It has been adopted by a number of units around the world in a variety of roles including pilot survival weapon, maritime boarding party armament, and compact special forces SMG.
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Tore Martinussen
"The [insert part] is horribly overcomplicated and strange but it works" - isn't that Austria in a nut shell?
Terry
Very cool.
Richard Joy
Very clever.
Guido Schriewer
like the 5k NOT roller delayed and more plastic. for righthanded the thumbrest on the stock at the vg was real ergonomic thinking for lefthanded not so much. but they obviously tried to improve it. sights got MUCH better there!
