PM63 Rak: An Interesting Polish SMG/PDW Hybrid
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The PM-63 Rak is a pretty interesting Polish Cold War machine pistol or personal defense weapon. It fires from an open bolt, but uses a slide like a pistol rather than a bolt in an enclosed receiver like a typical SMG. There are several other interesting elements to the design, so let's take a closer look...
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Cold War drops a new gun, Forgotten Weapons slides into my recommendations.
It always happens to me haha
same
Same here
Same
Same and sometime a forgotten video on my page and the gun this channel review in that video go to cold war
This guy comes up every time a gun gets added to cold war
Honestly I love it. I learn something new about guns and a game I play.
Ong 😂
Same, not that I'm complaining though because I get to learn some real life information about the new Cold War and Warzone weapons
Pretty crazy... 😶
Bo1 gun
These dual wielded in a Nevada nuclear test town aren’t that bad
Ort u use them in bo1 on nuketown
@@dragonstormdipro1013 doesn't that take place in 1957-58? Lil' bit anachronistic.
i loved the "Tokyo and Rose" version
sweetkiller 96 thats the joke
sweetkiller 96 woosh
Keep on creating, while dying of cancer. Polish resolve will not be questioned! Respect.
@@majork7115. Not dark, just more close to the living on Earth.
Anyone else find themselves humming "40 to 1" by Sabaton?
@@AnimeSunglasses baptised in fire
Surprisingly common story, actually. Look up the guy who designed the Spitfire sometime. Something about a cancer diagnosis tends to bring out a desire to get shit done for some odd reason...
actually it means also crawfish which i believe is more accurate but i'm not sure if that's what the designer meant
Rak also means crayfish in polish. We have a lot of weapons that are named after crustaceans, for example AHS Krab
(Crab in english) tracked howitzer. So the name is less weird in that context.
Does that mean artropod names are common thing among West Slavic countries, because Czechs have the Škorpion :P
@@coolsenjoyer Russians mostly use lizerds and fish...Like Akula(shark) sub or Krakodil(Cracodile) helicopter
@@command_unit7792 Dont forget minerals and flowers.
@@command_unit7792
germany uses all kinds of animals.
insects for mounted artillery (artillery on top of a vehicle instead of ones that need to be toed by a truck) such as the wasp
big mammals for big tanks without turrets, like the rhino.
big cats for tanks (panther, tiger, leopard)
vehicles that have wheels are named after canines (wolf, fox)
@@command_unit7792 Also the Bizon.
I’ve actually shot one, very cool design
Do you have video of you shooting it?
I don't want to shoot it. After seeing Ian shoot it. No. Having a slide reciprocating inches from my face, not an attractive option.
Seems like the most effective way to use this firearm would be to grip it by the barrel and throw it at your opponent.
@@milkapeismilky5464 just wear a ballistic mask
Yeah, shot one a lot at one point. Still have all parts of my face in place. The slide is scary at first, although if you think about it, not any worse than a standard pistol, just keep your face at the proper length. Since it was a Makarov 9mm it was easy to control full-auto. I think the doctrine was for the user to eject from their tank/plane/whatever and spray it down in the general direction of the enemy. It is also easy to reload one-handed, if you are injured. Weird, but a neat design that addresses some "backup weapon" issues.
It's the MP7 before the MP7. Also my BO1 SMG of choice
Sinister Cat extended magazine with this thing was awesome. I was the god of death with this gun
I used it with rapid fire and grip, idk why it worked and killed so fast
Nah spectre was where it’s at
Everyones saying they are here because of cold war lollll
MPL way better
It is actually used in war. Vietnam had a bunch of PM-63s which might be supplied as military aid. During the China-Vietnam borderland war, PM-63s were captured by Chinese and later copied as Type 82 Submachine Gun.
I used that mofo in 2009(!)
They assigned me one, I was a medic x)
Gun was primary issued to drivers, medics etc, guys that don't need bulky AKMS.
Cheers.
Seriously, You still get this insteed of Glauberyt in 2009? Polish Land Forces, go figure...
@@lizardb8694
Glauberyt xD Nah, no way dude..
I was conscript, nothing important from army point of view ; )
Air Force, ground units.
Did you like the firearm? Was it worth the weight or do you think you would have been served by a regular pistol better?
I used it in 2010 on xbox360
It is still a common sight with Polish Postal Service valuables convoys, railway Protection Service (SOK) and with the police on a rare occasion.
I'm a big fan of Your work, Ian. Keep it up, cheers :)
greetings from Gdańsk, Poland
Your postal guys are armed? Hope they dont go postal...
I'll see myself out
Seriously? O_O
I remember getting my hands on a PM-63 at the Army workshops in the early 2000s (it was basically phased-out by then, I don't really know what that one was doing there anymore!), but I thought the Police & the other services went for PM-84 and its derivatives...
Policjanci z Rakami? Jacy niby ich aktualnie używają?
A w armii też się jeszcze zdarza, ostanią fotkę widiziałem z 2016 z Ankondy - wartownik przy jakimś obiekcie dowodzenia.
@@tac6557 It's a stupid fad in Poland for every police office to have a separate "antiterrorism unit". Not even kidding.
@@BetonProdakszyn Nikt nie mówi, ze aktualnie, parę lat temu (2015, może 2016) widziałem dwóch niebieskich z takimi na obstawie jakiejś demonstracji w Gdańsku. Służba Więzienna też chyba jeszcze je trzyma. Jestem więcej niż pewien, że zalegają jeszcze po magazynach i są wyciągane jak zajdzie taka potrzeba ;)
I'm a simple Pole. I see Ian reviewing a polish gun - I like.
I don't, because this gun is a total shit. Small and light, cool? No, with the powerful Makarov 9mm ammo. Accuracy with this gun exist only on paper. One of the few weapons in the world, that's more dangerous for a shooter, than the target.
@@Marmur1987 I concur! :)
"I love this post." I mean pole. Is it a Pole, or a Post?
@@Psiberzerker It's a voice of a guy who was forced to use this shit as a service weapon.
@@Marmur1987 Polish military guys find it accurate but really awkward. It's only advantage was size. Remember it was designed in the 1960s
@ForgottenWeapons "That went nowhere, they've built around 20 prototypes" and I'm pretty sure you will soon have like 5 of them in front of you at once soon.
Pair it with an M79 grenade launcher for the optimum pirate-killing combo.
NIce "Black Lagoon" reference.
Didn't think anyone outside of Poland would recognize these guns :p
Aye I See What You Did There, Black Lagoon Amirite?
I thought it looked familiar!
You could probably "jimmy" a GP-95 onto it if you had the know-how. The GP-95 is like the GP-25/30/34 except it was designed for a specific set of rifles, namely the 9A-91 (9x39mm subcompact rifle) and the A-91M (bullpup).
I went to a shooting range in Budapest where I fired one of these amongst other guns like a glock, 357, 44, MP5, M4, AK and a Draganov! Was good fun!
I know right!?
A friend of mine, who's unfortunately passed on, was a gunsmith with a number of class 3 firearms.
Thompson SMG, Sten, M2A1 carbine, Browning Ma Deuce and a few others.
Range day with that guy was great!
Now featured in Warzone! It's like the algorithm works sometimes!
Yessir.
but in cold war, its a closed bolt pistol..
its not yet, but you can find it in defense- mystery box mode in cold war zombies
Yeah wut? I did this every time a new weapon dropped
*n o f u c k o f f ! ! !*
Hi Ian,
Love your work.
I'm retired Polish special forces lieutenant as well as a son of a special forces major. I have shoot the RAK on hundreds of occasions but my father was actually using it in Golan Heights mission. We called it a toothbreaker because of the slide and its a bit on the heavy side but it is a surprisingly good gun.
What was doing at Golan heights?
@@Trashcansam123 UN mission
I own a PM63 it‘s an awesome design for its time periode. It‘s very controllable in fullauto and also single shots are easy to perform and even with the fact that it fires from a open bolt, it‘s very accurate
In that case, please check out history and video on BECHOWIEC SMG built in 2nd world war.
How did you get it?
@@Antibong Bought it in a gun store with a special gun permit here in Switzerland
My dad used this while working with tanks! Thanks Ian!
"In theory you can do it against your leg, but I wouldn't recommend that." I'm sure that has been tried more than once....
It was, I was told that many soldiers did it and couple of them shot themselves in the process.
You could actually try it twice, having 2 feet - can do!
I don't know any soldier that has ever said a good thing about it. Still a neat design and kinda cool ..as a collection piece I mean.
I was on a Polish air base recently, and the gate guards were equipped with these. It was quite neat to see in person.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?! It had like, 2 succesors already.
@@piotrd.4850 budgets man. Same reason the majority of USAF SecFo carries the M9 instead of the M17/18
Has anyone said 'Nice Rak' yet? if not, I'm claiming it.
Lol
Nice cancer mate
"After Poland joined the Soviet bloc"...that's like saying India "joined" the British Empire...Annexation
:) xD
Brotato Chip Hawaii basically gave themselves to the U.S, they definitely did “join” the U.S
@@jerrell1169 after we had already overthrown their monarchy and made them a territory, they found statehood preferable.
Well not entirely, the BEC bought india then Britain dissolved the BEC there was hardly any fighting In india until the revolts in the late 1800s
@@TomO-lh9bx Yss, hawaii wanted to be a British colony, not a US one.
It's a fun gun to shoot, very controllable in a full auto. Some commercial shooting ranges in Poland have them.
Oficers are used to use pistols like TT-33, P-64, P-84 not PM-63.
He was used by crews of tanks ( T-54/T-55 - 3xPM-63+AKS/AKMS [loader], T-72 - 2xPM-63 + AKMS) drivers of some wehicles like SKOT, TOPAS, BWP, BRDM, soldier opereting RPG-7 as secondary wepon, WSW(Military Police) and Special Police units.
When in late 1980s or early 1990s (very ear;y, it was still in USSR) I saw in a pop-sci / technology magazine for youth a drawing of several SMGs (IIRC, others were Tompson, MP40, M3 etc), including PM63, this one definitely was the most unusual and eye catching.
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Saw this gun in Rambo III. Awesome video. Thanks for the detailed run through!
I loved using this gun in BO1
Jason Inkurai it was cool in campaign but I can't stand it in zombies
Always cool to see the gun in real life 8 years later. Always was pretty slick with that neat black colour.
@@Thunderous117 well in zombies it's a decent pack-a-punch weapon but danm RIP ammo
And now it's back in Cold War.
everytime cold war adds a gun i get these recommended
"Poland joined the Soviet block" - hahahahahahaha good one
it did
@@taurusauric2695 It didn't join willingly. It was conquered and forced into the Soviet bloc
ScalierLemon all nations brought into the Warsaw Pact voted themselves in
@@fakeaf4389 You mean after the Soviets conquered them and instated puppet governments?
Well your options are A) Join/Sign or B) Be killed and replaced by some else who will most likely pick choice A...., most people are going to pick choice B. But that's how the USSR rolled under Stalin's regime.
It's really cool finally see the pm 63 on here. My father served in Poland during the cold war and his stories are where I first learned about this gun.
Rak is also means Crayfish in Polish.
It also means cancer
bacause inventor died by cancer
Kinda looks like a crayfish tbh
Yes it does but this isn't a crayfish I'd consume
@@CalvZynist No it doesn't lol
The RAK is may favorite of all the firearms I've fired I found the deflector helped quite a lot such a neat little gun.
MAC did a collab with Ian a few years ago in Las Vegas. They were at Littlefield Vegas and were able to film inside the armory. Ian chose this very weapon to shoot.
I knew I remembered seeing Ian with one of these at some point!
I've tried the semi-auto variant and it's a great PDW. Very controllable in rapid fire, very accurate despite the terrible sights, pretty light for a carbine, not that much bigger than an M17 (for example). It's not without its faults, but I enjoyed it way much than its competition (eg the vz61 or the Beretta 93R).
I've actually had the pleasure to shoot one of these, and while the slide didn't hit me in the face it did lightly tap my glasses on the first burst. I quickly adjusted my face position. Yes, watching that slide slam back towards your face is a bit unnerving
My friend beside me on range was not so lucky, his glasses was completely broken. But on the other hand, his eye was intact - then maybe he was lucky eventually.
I always loved this thing, it's just so unique and cool.
My Dad used one of this in the Polish Army in the 80's, he was a driver for an armored vehicle (BRDM 2) and he said it pretty much sucked to shoot.
But still I was really excited to see you make a video of this!
Please more Guns from Poland! Like the Błyskawica !
This was my favorite SMG in Black Ops 1. I remember back when it first came out i googled it but found scant information on it online. Now here I am replaying BO1 and I find that Ian did a video on it three years ago
Dammit I'm awake at this hour again, at least this is a lot cooler than a hand guard
Dont call people the n word you racist. I see you in many comments
guitar guitar I've never done that :( I'm a proponent of civil discourse online not name calling
There's a pretty common joke, that Rak is world's only SMG, which comes with bayonet by default.
And you dont even have to stab aomeone with the bayonet, Just put the gun to their chest and pull the trigger
@@islaymassive1530 I mean he would be dead anyway but when you say you killed him with a bayonet attached on an SMG it's much cooler
Bullshit.
*Japanese Empire wants to know your location*
@@islaymassive1530 "full auto stabo"
RAK- cancer, lobster or ręczny automat komandosow ( cant event translet or even interpratete but the best meaning is : hand-operated smg for commando/spe. units )
RAK- crawfish not lobster
More like "Personal full-auto firearm for spec-ops"
@@SamuraiAkechi Commando Hand Automatic Weapon.
lobster = homar, not rak my dude
That commandos' automatic is a backport, soldiers wondering why the hell it says RAK on their sidearm, made up that name.
Everytime a cold war weapon gets added this youtuber shows up in my feed
Hi Ian, now that you are "talking Polish" maybe IS a good time to talk about the "Polish home army" weapons ... We would surely appreciate/LOVE a good special about the Blyskawica... Greetings from Málaga, Spain
Do you have a clue how rare Błyskawica is?
There are a couple of them in Poland, but most are in museums, or in private hands of collectors. I've checked out one that is in the Police storage (Central Criminal Laboratory). Very hard thing to find.
@@odinoczka
Enough to make an episode on one, as long as a museum has one
@@odinoczka well, there's video - article - on Bechowiec, so....
Every time a new gun in cold war comes out, I get to see a video by YOU! I love it
Okay. I found the real life inspiration for PDW in my sci-fi novel. . This gun is perfect to model sci-fi weapon on.
Thanks @Ian
I have one. Compared to, for example, UZI, this machine gun is super light and comfortable. I have Uzi too, and for me it is simply too heavy and too big for 9mm. RAK is almost "elegant". Light, small, accurate.
You should also check out BRS-99 (also called Polish Uzi). It's pretty popular in Canada, its main advantage over Uzi is that it fires from closed bolt. Also its lighter and more compact than Uzi.
One of my favorite firearms of all time!
I swear to god every time a new cold war weapon drops out there is a video from this guy reviewing it in real life
When I see this weapon, I think of the Soviet general in Rambo III shoving this into Col. Truatman’s lower jaw.
“I’ve tried to be civilized.”
Zaysen during the polite torture montage, I remember the cool looking, sci-fi pistol. I though it was a machination of Hollywood, I was very surprised when I discovered in the website Guns in Movies that the pistol was real.
Between the feed lip/ejector combo, the sear, the rate reducer, and the overall weirdness of the design, this has to be one of the best guns you've reviewed.
Ian, thank you for presenting polish home grown guns. I wonder when you will get to present the MSBS in its various configurations (regular/bulpup)
Thanks anyway!
My grandfather was issued one while he was in the Polish-Soviet military, and they were told not to use the sights, and only use the gun from the hip, not just because the slide could hit him in the face, but the gun was actually designed for hip fire/spray and pray purposes, or as a speed draw type gun, unlike the AKMs that were issued, as they were more difficult to aim quickly in an unexpected “attack”.
Its Friday. Must mean a shooting video tomorrow.
I hope so
Yeah, but it looks as though Ian has learned not to put the shooting vid on the end cap of the teardown vid...
@@ThetaReactor seems to be a Friday/Saturday bleesing GJ has bestowed upon us
Fort Carson museum, had one in their weapons display, after all the years (I was 12 now 52) I get to see how this very interesting gun is shown to me how it works. AWESOME.
Yes, RAK has in Polish at least three meanings; "cancer", connstellation of Cancer and crawfish. It was made also as abbreviation from Ręczny Automat Komandosów - which literally means Hand Automatic (gun) (for) Commandos. ;) Piotr Wilniewczyc is exactly the same person, which made desing of famous wz. 35 ViS pistol - he is a "letter S" in the name of it. ;)
There is more to the name than what you said. First of all, as far as I know, Rak is NOT OFFICIAL name/designation, this is PM-63, or PM wz. 63 PM literally stands for "Pistolet Maszynowy" (ang. machine pistol). Second Rak means crayfish in Polish (it also means cancer). Third I also know that RAK can be the abbreviation - RAK - Ręczny Automat Komandosa - Handheld Commando Automatic (Weapon). PM-63 is no longer in use (but I'm sure it can be found in army stocks), it is known that you can lose your fingers using it (dangerous for young conscripts).
Rak has two meanings:
1 crawfish
2 cancer (either as a constellation or sickness)
My uncle had one issued when he served as a tanker. He told me he couldn't hit nothing with that thing no matter how hard he tried.
This is by far my favorite 'weird combloc' gun. Glad it finally got a video. I wish we could get these in proper full auto easier.
I can imagine the conversation that took place prior to the development of this thing:
Desinger's friend: You know, Poland's weird. Why did we put wings on our damn cavalry? i don't think we can do anything more bizarre than that!
Designer:HOLD MY PIVO!
Excuse me, winged cavalry is fucking glorious fashion and I will engage in fistucuffs over it, good mister
Husaria don't use a wings in the battle. It's a myth.
one to remember.....en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_and_Hungarian_brothers_be
@@piotrgrzelak2613 Yes, I know, it was a fucking joke god damnit
I'd heard the wings were to make noise so their horses wouldn't hear cannons and such.
The cycle rate reduction methods I find interesting. This gun is a good example. Thanks for another great video.
Love this gun, surprisingly easy to control in full auto, even for a 9x18 Makarov which usually doesn’t kick all that much
Cold War: drops new weapon
UA-cam recommendations: here, have a 1-10 year old video about it
It does retract in a very satisfying clean way.
Looks like a more complex scorpion. Even have the spring loaded reducer. Very cool gun, but I think is not a coincidence that the scorpion became more popular.
Very cool design I don't know how I missed this one
Nice! As a big fan of this gun and owner of deko one, I'm very satisfied)
@@dragonstormdipro1013 deactivated and not able to shoot gun.
думаю возможно достать боевой, учитывая что этот ствол довольно часто всплывает в криминальных сводках.
@@iommi1337 Может и можно. Но мне турма сидеть неохота.
This needs to be in more films!
Id really like to see the spiritual succesor to the 63- the pm84 glauberyt, which is strictly superior. Nowdays it's valued so much the price is triple the price of the uzi.
Yeah, but the 84 doesn't have an uber-cool Tokarev version!
@@oktayyildirim2911 what is uber cool tokarev wersion of pm63? O.o
@@Olson323 The Chinese produced an unlicensed version in 7.62x25 called the Type 82
@@oktayyildirim2911 And how it went? I shot original one, and it was pleasant thanks to mild cartridge i think. Though my friend from artillery who was issued it said it shoots "summer bullet" because as he said "if fucker is 50 meters from you and wears winter coat, it might not go through"
7.62x25 might fill power lackings, though it might not be easy to use anymore
@@Olson323 I have no idea. I've never seen one, let alone shot one.
One of the coolest on screen SMG/PDW guns IMO, seen in Rambo 3, and Delta Force
I got the video recommended before the Amp comes out in warzone
I'm in service and now we have PM-84 Glauberyt SMG's but i had occasion to fire this gun (my friend owns one) and it's one of the most comfortable smg's i had to deal with. Greetings from Poland and thx for this vid! ;)
You can be a bass ackwards SMG that slams Ian's range goggles and spits lead in his face and he's still polite enough to call you "Interesting"
I wolud like to say that i work with a person that was in the Polish Army (10.Pułk Artylerii Mieszanej w Kędzierzynie-Koźlu) and was hurt by the PM63 Rak. His eye wasn't damaged, but he had a black eye ( His commander didnt warned him about the slide ). In his unit this weapon was distrusted and shot mainly as a pistol.
In BOCW this is under the pistol section. Very fun to use against hordes of zombies.
Love your work Ian. Always so much to get to know. One thing to clarify on side. It felt weird when said Poland joined Soviet block. More likely it was joined or pushed. But history is what it is. Good job!
There is also a legend that RAK stands for polish commando’s automatic pistol or dentist.
Found one of these in Baghdad end of 03'. The Polish Grom referred to it as the widow maker as reported loss of fingers in the front. I only did a limited testing due to lack of 9x18 and took a while to get a mag.
2:26 "Joined" is an incorrect term, we were literally under Soviet Union control.
Joined under pressure?
Which wasn't even that secure. Yet again, the WP was never truly secure.
Ok? Do you want a cookie?
@@bennymountain1 I can only assume so.Nobody would be willing to join the Soviet Union unless their families were threatened or a nation was being threatened.
@Przemek Mańkowski absolute fucking disgrace what our politicians did to appease Stalin but on the bright side you guys finally got true freedom once the USSR fell still far too late 🇬🇧🇵🇱
Looks like we are all being recommended this now that it’s coming to BOCW/warzone
YEAH
UR GOING TO *BRAZIL!!!!*
Well Rak in Polish army is also known for cutting fingers. This "protector" can easly work as cutter. There were situations, when soldiers would cock Rak one-handed, by pushing the spoon in front to their leg. Due to not fully cocking gun, it couse missfire. Aditional thing is the slide, which sometimes punch shooter in the face, so some people call Rak the Dentist due to lost teeth after punch in the face 😉 most popular myth about Rak is the name it stands for, a lot od people says it stands for "Ręczny automat komandosa" which is wrong. The main constructor who was working on developing this gun died before finishing it. He died of cancer (Rak can be translated as cancer) also a lot of military equipment in Polish army is called by names of animalas.
Both the nicknames: "finger cutter", and "dentist" are not true.
I did shoot this gun several times, if you place your fingers too high on the front grip, and press the trigger, this deflector will stop at your finger, and prevent the slide from moving forward, and firing.
The spring is too weak to cut your fingers, or harm you in any way.
It really is a good safety feature. Only a complete idiot would hurt himself by shooting this gun.
@@MsciwojPL You are right, I do agree with You. But let me tell You something. The weapon was put into service when all Man have to serve on army for some time (i don't remember the word for it) most od these man do not want to be there, they mostly were never near real gun and they were from all around of Poland. Also this was the time when Poland were communist country, so army wasn't that good in teaching people how to use gun or behave with it. So yeas there were some idiots too, You can imagine what they were doing sometimes. That's why some of this things happend. But yeas person skilled with guns and person who knows how to behave with it itc won't injured themselves with RAK. I hope You understand my point, have a nice day 🙂
@@TheMatek144 involuntary incorporating someone in the army is called Draft or Conscription, but the first word has closer meaning to the word pobór.
@@Szeptun thank You very much!
My favorite type of Forgotten Weapon episode: the gun is probably garbage, but has a fascinating development history, service history, mechanical design, and completely unique form-is-function looks.
Good weapon for DATs and Officers. I got to shoot onw way back at the Nigemgan March.
This weapon wasn't used by oficers.
This weapon was used by: Tanks crew (T-54/T-55, PT-76, T-72), Armor Cariers drivers like SKOT, BRDM, TOPAS, BWP, and some other drivers that need compact weapon, soldiers using RPG-7 and sometimes by special force (like second weapon) or WSW(military police and MO/ZOMO(Police) Special Units.
Oficers are used to use pistols like TT-33, P-64, P-84.
AMP63 drops and this video pops up in my recommended
A polish friend of mine who's grandfather was issued one of these says that RAK stands for " Ręczny Automat Komandosa" or "Commandoe's Automatic Weapon"
Or better "commando's automatic handgun"?
And the ones we have in Poland are converted to semi-auto in such a way, that you can make them fully-automatic by putting in a little piece of something in the trigger and that's it. Very fun guns to shoot.
The feed lip/ejector is an interesting idea but it looks a bit flimsy. The slo-mo of the rate reducer working is awesome!
The point is that at that time Polish Army was looking for a specific personal gun for auxilary units, mostly drivers, cooks , tank crew and so on .Easy to handle, with pretty shooting power and constructors just replied to the demand :)
The so called ,by narrator" spoon" was used to unlock the gun by knocking the spoon to any hard object :) by one hand in case of the other being useless :)
My father, who was polish army officer told me, that RAK goes from Ręczny Automat Komandosów, which can be translated as Handheld Commando Automatic Weapon. RAK's had bad habbit of shooting because of shock, so jumping from the truck, with gun facing ground could end with discharge.
Jumping out of a truck with an open-bolt firing gun "cocked and ready" doesn't seem to be a good idea.
Bajka z tym skakaniem z ciężarówki. O ile broń była odpowiednio zabezpieczona w kaburze.
Jumping from truck and get shoot is a myth. This is impossible when weapon is on safe and corectly put in holster.
@@BetonProdakszyn As You said - IF weapon was on safe and IF was correctly put in holster. But sometimes it wasn't - especially when young conscripts were given that weapon. My father saw that kind of discharge on his own eyes. Soldier was jumping from the truck and boom. Fortunatelly no one was hurt.
Any weapon is dangerous for it user when usere don't remeber about safe roules...
Finally received my PM63 parts kit - time to try to figure out how to *legally* rebuild this monster.
At least it has a shoulder stock, of sorts. It doesn't look particularly comfortable, and there's basically no cheek-weld, but that's a plus over the Jati-Matic.
Pm63 is one of my favourite smg because of the small/thin size and the rate of fire
"After Poland Was forced against its will into the soviet block for the convenience of British and American Politicians" I think is what you meant.
Convenience might be putting it a bit too strong; WW3 was required to dislodge the USSR from Eastern Europe and the West was either exhausted from WW2, dealing with other threats, or having to fight a nuclear war to liberate Poland.
@@benconrad5127 They "Gave" poland to the soviets in '44. WW2 wasn't over yet, much less ww3. It was completely for the convenience of the Brit/American politicians. They had other things they wanted to make Stalin agree to, so they threw the Poles under the bus.
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Dla sprawiedliwości trzeba zauważyć, że polscy idioci w rządzie emigracyjnym chcieli Polski w granicach z 1939. Churchill był bezradny np. wobec takiego Mikołajczyka , czy Andersa. Inna sprawa, że rozsądnego gen. Sikorskiego pomogli zabić. I za to można mieć pretensje do Brytyjczyków. Może taka była układanka, scenariusz. Generalnie Brytyjczycy to zdrajcy, a Rouswelt to komunista.
Ngl it was pretty satisfying when he slid the stock in
2:27 "After Poland *JOINED* the soviet block". Bit triggered, must say. But great job, as always
Poland 'joined' the soviet block, just like italian-american shopkeepers 'donate' money to the local mobster .....
"forced into" would be more accurate
“became part of” would be neutral
Denial much?
@@MrDaniyil Denial of what?
There's a kid's poem about a crayfish (rak in polish) that's known propably by every native polish speaker. It basically says there goes poor wretch crayfish -sometimes forward, sometimes back. There goes poor wretch crayfish - if it pinches you - it'll leave a mark. It's sounds way better in polish:
"Idzie rak nieborak
Czasem naprzód, czasem wspak
Idzie rak nieborak
Jak uszczypnie, będzie znak"
Also this version of gun it's China version (get during conflict with the USSR). China modified original PM, they added cover at barrel and change lock work. A more practical version, but still it's dangerous in use.
True. For what i know, they were also sold to Vietnam and used in very small amounts by VC.
Wait, USSR used these?
@@blackore64 Yes, they used.In times when it was produced Poland was PRL (Polish People Republic) what de facto meant USSR occupation. So they could take whatever they wanted.
@@TheMKBOxide Nope, "PM-63 captured in Sino-Vietnamese wars, locally produced as the Type 82" from wikipedia, Sino-Soviet border conflict was in 1969, conflict with Vietnam was in 1979...
My Dad has a funny story about these guns from back when he was conscripted in the 80's. You see the gun was designed to be easily reloadable in cramped areas - as it was meant to be used by tank and vehicle crews, operating soviet-style vehicles, they didn't have a lot of space to work with. Thus, the main spring was quite easy to compress, so that the slide could be put in the firing position on a whim.
Now, imagine a group of soldiers riding in the back of a truck. The truck runs over a hole in the road and the whole vehicle, including the soldiers, bob up and down with the vehicle. Each soldier has a PM-63 with him, and as they bob, you can hear two or three Raks go 'click-clack' as the already loose springs, worn down by use, compress from the shock and reload... luckily, they rarely had their guns loaded, so no bullets were chambered, but they didn't feel too sure about these guns after that.
Got one of these part kits with chrome lined barrel been trying to get a welding jig for the frame. They did a serious hack job on the poor thing.
I have more than a bit of happy time with one of these.
The slide jacking back and forth is not as disconcerting as you'd think.
The mags are stupidly easy to load. (Hey, it's a thing, load a MP-38/40 mag without a loader, and you'll know).
It's really stupidly handy. Looks goofy, but it really does work well. Even the silly looking "half-stock" works.
I always was curious about this weapon, because of it's cycling system, that's for the video, very informative as expected. Sad to hear about the designer. Would you be able to do a video on the AMD 65?