Grozniy K6-92 (Krasniy Molot Borz)
Notes: The K6-92 was designed by the Armenians, who gained their independence
from Russia in 1991, and discovered that their Army had a dearth of weapons.
To make things worse, they were engaged in a border war with Azerbaijan.
One of the solutions was the K6-92, which was a small and
mechanically-simple weapon easily produced in just about any machine shop.
The K6-92 used features from a number of weapons, including the Uzi, the
PPS, the MP-40, and the Masden M-50. Eventually, the Armenians stopped fighting
with the Azerbaijani and also had more capital to work with, and could afford
better weapons. The K6-92 was
retired – sort of.
The Borz (Chechen for Wolf) is a small submachinegun that caused a lot of
speculation when first seen in magazine and newspaper photos in the early 1990s.
The Borz was one of the home-grown weapons used by Chechen separatists
until they were able to acquire better weapons. It turned out that the Chechens
were manufacturing the K6-92 in their own machine shops, calling it the “Borz.”
Chechen Borz submachineguns can vary greatly in appearance due to variances in
manufacturing, materials available, and major and minor touches applied by the
gunsmiths. Chechen Borz
submachineguns also varied greatly in quality, but almost all showed their poor
manufacture. Some Chechen Borz
submachineguns were of such poor quality that they were used for one attack,
then discarded (if the fighter was lucky, he was able to pick up a Russian
weapon). Chechen examples generally
had poor sights or no sights, no stocks (whether folding, sliding, or fixed),
and were often made of poor-quality scrap metal.
By 1999, the Chechens had enough discarded and captured Russian weapons
and weapons smuggled into Chechnya, and they completely discarded use of the
Borz.
Twilight 2000
Notes: Though this weapon wasn’t built as such in the Twilight 2000 timeline,
the K6-92, and especially the Borz, can be taken as examples of the sort of
home-grown weapons that might appear in the late stages of the Twilight War.
Weapon |
Ammunition |
Weight |
Magazines |
Price |
K6-92 |
9mm Makarov |
1.96 kg |
17, 25, 30 |
$279 |
Borz |
9mm Makarov |
1.5 kg |
17, 25, 30, 40 |
$229 |
Weapon |
ROF |
Damage |
Pen |
Bulk |
SS |
Burst |
Range |
K6-92 |
5 |
2 |
Nil |
3/5 |
1 |
3 |
15 |
Borz |
5 |
2 |
Nil |
3 |
3 |
5 |
12 |