{"id":88916,"date":"2019-01-08T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/08\/heres-an-update-on-the-russian-handgun-that-will-likely-replace-the-makarov\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:03:33","slug":"heres-an-update-on-the-russian-handgun-that-will-likely-replace-the-makarov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/off-duty\/2019\/01\/08\/heres-an-update-on-the-russian-handgun-that-will-likely-replace-the-makarov\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s an update on the Russian handgun that will likely replace the Makarov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last month, Gear Scout reported on a new pistol in development<\/a> by Rostec, a Russian conglomerate responsible for designing and producing a number of the country’s small arms in use with its various military and police forces today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rostec’s subsidiary, TSNIITOCHMASH, was tasked with creating and testing a gun that could eventually serve as a full-on replacement for the old and downright geriatric Makarov PM which, despite having first been fielded in the early 1950s, is still in use with a number of Russian military units. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We now know more about the new pistol<\/a>, dubbed the “Udav” (Russian for “boa”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chambered to fire the 9x21mm Gyurza (Russian for “blunt nosed viper”) round, the Udav looks nothing like the gun it’s meant to replace, and everything like the gun Russia wants as part of a massive multi-billion dollar modernization program it has undertaken with its military to bring it out of the Cold War era and into the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\t