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HCV
05-02-2006, 05:05 PM
Handguns
Common Name: TT-33 (Type 68)
Calibre: 7.62×25mm
Origin: North Korea?
Use: ???

Common Name: Mod 34
Calibre: 9×17mm
Origin: Pietro Beretta SpA, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy.
Use: ???

Common Name: PM
Calibre: 9×18mm
Origin: Russia?
Use: ???

Common Name: Mod 92FS
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Pietro Beretta SpA, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy.
Use: Armed forces: special service. In use with C (Special Duties) Company and RDT.
Police forces: special service. In use with SAG.

Common Name: Browning HP
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Fabrique National d’Armes de Guerre SA (FN), Herstal, Belgium.
Use: Armed forces: limited service?

Common Name: Mod 92 (PT92)
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Forjas Taurus SA, Porto Alegre, Brazil (licensed from Beretta, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy).
Use: Armed forces: general service. Standard sidearm?

Common Name: Model 10 Military & Police
Calibre: 9×29mmR
Origin: Smith & Wesson (S&W), Springfield, USA
Use: Police forces: limited service (1977-). 100 acquired.

Submachine Guns and Personal Defence Weapons
Common Name: Mod 93R
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Pietro Beretta SpA, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy.
Use: Police forces: special service. In use with SAG.
Details: Fires semiautomatic or 3-round bursts. Optional folding stock.

Common Name: Mod 12S
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Pietro Beretta SpA, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy.
Use: Armed forces: limited service. Being replaced by H&K MP5 series.
Details: Folding stock.

Common Name: MP5A3
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Heckler & Koch GmbH, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Armed forces: special service. In use with RDT.
Details: Retractable stock.

Common Name: MP5A5
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Heckler & Koch GmbH, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Armed forces: special service (2001-). In use with C (Special Duties) Company.
Details: Fires semiautomatic, 3-round burst, and full-automatic. Retractable stock.

Common Name: MP5K
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Heckler & Koch GmbH, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Armed forces: special service. In use with RDT.
Details: No Stock

Common Name: MP5KA4
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Heckler & Koch GmbH, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Armed forces: special service (2001-). In use with C (Special Duties) Company.
Details: Fires semiautomatic, 3-round burst, and full-automatic. No Stock.

Common Name: MP5SD6
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Heckler & Koch GmbH, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Armed forces: special service (2001-). In use with C (Special Duties) Company.
Details: Fires semiautomatic, 3-round burst, and full-automatic. Integral sound suppressor. Retractable stock.

Common Name: Mark 2 (L2A1)
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Sterling Armaments Corp, Dagenham, England.
Use: Armed forces: limited service. Being replaced by H&K MP5 series.
Details: Folding stock.

Rifles
Common Name: AR 70/90
Calibre: 5.56×45mm
Origin: Pietro Beretta SpA, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy.
Use: Armed forces: special service. In use with C (Special Duties) Company.
Details: Fires semiautomatic, 3-round bursts, and full-automatic.

Common Name: AK-47
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: Russia? Hungary? China?
Use: Armed forces: general service.

Common Name: AKS-47
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: Russia? Hungary? China?
Use: Armed forces: general service.
Details: Folding stock.

Common Name: AKM
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: Russia? Hungary? China?
Use: Armed forces: general service.

Common Name: AKMS
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: Russia? Hungary? China?
Use: Armed forces: general service.
Details: Folding stock.

Common Name: AKM (Type 68)
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: North Korea.
Use: Armed forces: general service (1983-). Standard assault rifle.

Common Name: AKMS (Type 68)
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: North Korea.
Use: Armed forces: general service (1983-). Standard assault rifle.
Details: Folding stock.

Common Name: SKS (Type 63)
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: North Korea.
Use: Armed forces: limited service (1983-).

Common Name: FAL-50-00
Calibre: 7.62×51mm
Origin: Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre SA (FN), Herstal, Belgium.
Use: Armed forces: special service. In use with C (Special Duties) Company. In use as designated marksman rifle.

Common Name: FAL-50-00 (L1A1 SLR)
Calibre: 7.62×51mm
Origin: Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF), Enfield, England (licensed)?
Use: Armed forces: reserve service. In use for ceremonial duties.
Details: Semiautomatic fire only.

Common Name: Modell 66SP
Calibre: 7.62×51mm
Origin: Mauser-Werke AG, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Police forces: special service. In use with SAG.
Details: Zeiss 1.5-6× scope.

Common Name: SVD
Calibre: 7.62×54mmR
Origin: Russia?
Use: Armed forces: special service (2003-). In use with RDT and C (Special Duties) Company.
Details: PSO-1 4× scope.

Common Name: AWM (L115A1)
Calibre: 8.6×70mm
Origin: Accuracy International Ltd, Portsmouth, England.
Use: Armed forces: special service. In use with C (Special Duties) Company.
Details: Hensoldt 3-12× scope. Bipod.

Shotguns
Common Name: SPAS 12
Calibre: 18.5×70mmR
Origin: Luigi Franchi SpA, Fornaci, Italy.
Use: Police forces: special service. In use with SAG.
Details: Folding stock.

Machine Guns
Common Name: RPD (Type 62)
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: North Korea?
Use: Armed forces: general service?
Details: Bipod.

Common Name: RPK
Calibre: 7.62×39mm
Origin: Russia?
Use: Armed forces: general service?
Details: Bipod.

Common Name: MAG-60-20 Infanterie T7 (L7A1)
Calibre: 7.62×51mm
Origin: Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF), Enfield, England (licensed from FN, Herstal, Belgium).
Use: Armed forces: reserve service?
Details: Bipod.

Common Name: PKM
Calibre: 7.62×54mmR
Origin: Russia?
Use: Armed forces: general service? In use on patrol boats.
Details: Bipod.

Common Name: Browning M2HB
Calibre: 12.7×99mm
Origin: ???.
Use: Armed forces: general service. Also in use as flexible gun on boats.
Details: Tripod.

Common Name: DShKM
Calibre: 12.7×108mm
Origin: ???.
Use: Armed forces: limited service?

Common Name: KPV (Type 63)
Calibre: 14.5×114mm
Origin: North Korea.
Use: Armed forces: limited service (1983-). In use on ZPU-4 air defence mount.

Light Mortars

Light Antitank Weapons
Common Name: RPG-7V
Calibre: 40mm (85mm warhead)
Origin: Russia?
Use: Armed forces: limited service.

Cannon
Geezah
05-02-2006, 05:59 PM
When you say Maltese, we're talking Malta.....right?

How the hell did they get their hands on arms made in North Korea?
AROUETLJ
05-02-2006, 06:13 PM
How many times do I have to say this? We were a Communist country until 1987.

Here's the list that I have. I think it might help you to fill in some blanks:



ARMED FORCES OF MALTA



Weapons as at February 2006.

9mm Beretta FS92 Pistols
9mm Makarov Pistols (RSC)

9mm H&K MP-5 (A3/5/KA4/SD6 versions) SMG

5.56mm Beretta AR-70 Assault Rifle (Small number on loan from Italian MIATM for
UN peace keeping familiarization purposes)

7.62mm Type 56-2 (AKM/AKMS) Assault Rifle
7.62mm Type 81 Assault Rifle/LMG
7.62mm Type 80 Medium Machine Gun
7.62mm PKM MMG
7.62mm MG-42/59 MMG
7.62mm Type 85 (Dragunov SVD) Sniper Rifle (RDT)
7.62mm Accuracy International AWC PM (L96A1) Sniper Rifle
7.62mm FN-FAL/SLR Rifle (ceremonial only)

0.338in Accuracy International AWSM (L115A1) Sniper Rifle

0.50in Browning M2 HMG

Type 69 (RPG-7) Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher

81mm L1A1 & ThomsonBrandt Mortars

SRDM.35 Hand Grenades


Bofors 40mmL70 anti-aircraft guns
ZPU-4 14.5mm anti-aircraft (quad ie 4 barrelled) HMG

5 x 25-pdr gun/howitzers (ceremonial only)


25mm Oto-Breda 80cal. KBA. (One single mounting on P-61 Offshore Patrol Vessel).


5 x CT-40G Fire Control Radars for Bofors 40mmL70 AA guns
Ol' Bob
05-02-2006, 06:46 PM
Pretty outdated gear Malta's packing, but I guess they don't really have to worry about war much. you are actually the first person ever that I have met from Malta too. Well I'm not but my grandpa grew up in Valletta so I'm a quarter Maltese. Your last name wouldn't happen to be Borg would it?
Geezah
05-02-2006, 10:05 PM
How many times do I have to say this? We were a Communist country until 1987.



Wow, first I heard about it, and to think I had visited Malta twice with my family in the early 80s.


Thanks for that new bit of info.
HCV
05-03-2006, 02:39 AM
Thanks for your list, AROUETLJ !

> 9mm Makarov Pistols (RSC)

"RSC" means?

>7.62mm MG-42/59 MMG

From Italy, I presume?

> SRDM.35 Hand Grenades

Do you mean the SRCM Mod 35, the PRE-WWII Italian design??? Nothing newer?

Cheers

HANS
AROUETLJ
05-03-2006, 05:22 AM
Thanks for your list, AROUETLJ !

> 9mm Makarov Pistols (RSC)

"RSC" means?

>7.62mm MG-42/59 MMG

From Italy, I presume?

> SRDM.35 Hand Grenades

Do you mean the SRCM Mod 35, the PRE-WWII Italian design??? Nothing newer?

Cheers

HANS

Oh yes, sorry. RSC = Revenue Security Corps. It's part of the AFM, 3rd Regiment, tasked with guarding and escorting valuable cargo/transfer of cash.

MG-42/59 MMG = yes I think they're from Italy

SRDM.35 = I'll look into this. (It was someone else who drew up the list.:) Perhaps there's some mistake)

One word regarding the Beretta AR70/90 rifle. Only a very small number has been purchased by the AFM, and they are only used on joint training exercises with the Italian Armed Forces. Malta had pledged a 30-man platoon as part of its contribution the EU Headline Goal, to be integrated into an Italian unit, but the Italians (quite correctly) said they won't work with anything less than a company (100 men), which means at least 3 times that number is required (the usual operations/training/refitting cycle). Quite frankly, there are neither the resources, nor the political will to carry this out.

Re. Malta and Communism, I though all Americans knew about the evil Mintoff, Malta's very own elected dictator (yes, crankpot rulers, even Communist ones, can be elected.)
AROUETLJ
05-03-2006, 05:27 AM
Well I'm not but my grandpa grew up in Valletta so I'm a quarter Maltese. Your last name wouldn't happen to be Borg would it?

No it isn't, but Borg is a very common name in Malta. During the 50s, thousands of Maltese emigrated to the States, most of them settling in New York, California, or around Detroit. There's even an amateur wrestler from New York with Maltese parents calling himself "Malta The Damager".
Geezah
05-03-2006, 08:53 AM
The first time we went to Malta back in the early 80s, we went to the Popeye film set but it was closed up, we looked through the fence. Also priro to leaving we had to spend about 10hrs at an old military base that the tour company had purchased and was turning it into a holiday camp.Loved Malta though great place. The second time we went we stayed.........at the Golden Bay holtel???
AROUETLJ
05-04-2006, 04:14 PM
> SRDM.35 Hand Grenades

Do you mean the SRCM Mod 35, the PRE-WWII Italian design??? Nothing newer?


I checked it out, and it's indeed the SRCM Modello 35. The design dates from before WWII, but Italian troops deployed in the Balkans were still issued with this grenade, at least up to the 1990s. Perhaps someone can shed some light upon this point?

C Company, 1st Rgt troops also use flash-bangs in their CT role, but I have to check the exact model.
MalteseFalcon
05-12-2006, 09:52 AM
Borg and Azzopardi the John's and Smith's of the Maltese surname, alot of Maltese also went to Australia and Marple leaf land :), i don't think Malta was a commie nation but my nanna was telling me some Prime Minister put Malta up for sale at one point and did act like a dictator
haze99
05-12-2006, 05:04 PM
BTW, the SKS and Type-63 are two different rifles! The PRC Type-56 (SKS)
has a spike bayonet, the USSR a blade bayonet.

Type-81, didn't know Malta was fielding it. PRC-designed rifle, different from Type-56 (AK-47) magazines don't interchange either! (Can be found in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone and Liberia!)

I would like to check out one of those NK Type-68/Type-68-1's! Not to many of those floating around!
KVLG
05-17-2006, 11:30 PM
BTW, the SKS and Type-63 are two different rifles! The PRC Type-56 (SKS)
has a spike bayonet, the USSR a blade bayonet.

Type-81, didn't know Malta was fielding it. PRC-designed rifle, different from Type-56 (AK-47) magazines don't interchange either! (Can be found in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone and Liberia!)

I would like to check out one of those NK Type-68/Type-68-1's! Not to many of those floating around!

Actually, Type 63 is the designation for the North Korean version of the SKS. Also, is Type 68-1 the designation for the NK AKMS?
AROUETLJ
11-13-2006, 12:52 PM
Just a small update: The Rapid Deployment Team of the Maritime Squadon has purchased (and is currently using) a number of SIG 551 carbines and Benelli M4 Super 90 shotguns.
Friendly Fire
11-13-2006, 02:41 PM
Actually, Type 63 is the designation for the North Korean version of the SKS. Also, is Type 68-1 the designation for the NK AKMS?


Type 63 is a chinese SKS with detachable AK-47, 30round magazine.
KVLG
11-13-2006, 05:07 PM
Type 63 is a chinese SKS with detachable AK-47, 30round magazine.




Actually, I believe that there are more than one rifle with the designation Type 63. The North Korean SKS is called Type 63, and the Chinese also have a rifle designated Type 63, which is a native Chinese design that has some SKS influence, but is still different.
MalteseFalcon
11-14-2006, 02:45 AM
That Gun is very ugly and AROUETLJ what will the Sig be replacing
Friendly Fire
11-14-2006, 03:19 PM
Actually, I believe that there are more than one rifle with the designation Type 63. The North Korean SKS is called Type 63, and the Chinese also have a rifle designated Type 63, which is a native Chinese design that has some SKS influence, but is still different.


No ... but what ever!


The type 81 is a Chinese modified Vz 58. That's why the mags and other parts of those rifles aren't interchangeable with the AK series.






Vz 58.



Even the toe selector has been retained...
KVLG
11-15-2006, 05:46 PM
No ... but what ever!


The type 81 is a Chinese modified Vz 58. That's why the mags and other parts of those rifles aren't interchangeable with the AK series.






Vz 58.



Even the toe selector has been retained...



I beg to differ. The Type 81 is really very different from the VZ 58. For example, the 81 uses a rotating bolt, while the 58 uses a tipping one.

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as71-e.htm

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as33-e.htm

And the DPRK version of the SKS is indeed called 'Type 63'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS)

www.simonov.net/ubertypes.htm (http://www.simonov.net/ubertypes.htm)