{"id":21749,"date":"2023-01-18T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/php-mv-9-the-first-croatian-pistol-both-models\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T07:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T13:00:21","slug":"php-mv-9-the-first-croatian-pistol-both-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/php-mv-9-the-first-croatian-pistol-both-models\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP MV-9: The First Croatian Pistol (Both Models)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fTU2wtLC7Zg?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Croatian engineer Marko Vukovic first developed his P38-based pistol in the late 1980s for the Yugoslav Peoples&#8217; Army. It was left unadopted at that time, but when Croatia declared independence in 1991 the gun found a new life. The newly formed Croatian armed forces needed quite a lot of small arms. Vukovic brought his pistol design back off the shelf and presented it to the Croatian authorities. They were enthusiastic, and it was adopted as the PHP (&#8220;Prvi Hrvatski Pistolj&#8221; &#8211; First Croatian Pistol) MV-9 and put into production in 1992. This was both a practical win &#8211; a reasonably good handgun for the Army, produced domestically, and also a moral victory in showing logistical independence from the old Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>The design was improved in 1994 with a shorter (4 inch \/ 100mm) barrel and simplified disassembly. A total of approximately 5,000 early pattern and 11,000 late pattern PHP pistols were made, with production ending in 1995. For Vukovic&#8217;s company IM Metal, the PHP was a valuable introduction into firearms mass production. They would take the lessons learned here and use them to develop the HS-95 pistol, as well as the VHS series of rifles. <\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to HS Produkt for giving me the opportunity to visit and film some of their early prototypes! Not all companies are willing to share their less-successful early designs, but developing good guns can only happen by trying and often failing at first.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeaponshttp:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com Croatian engineer Marko Vukovic first developed his P38-based pistol in the late 1980s for the Yugoslav Peoples&#8217; Army. It was left unadopted at that time, but when Croatia declared independence in 1991 the gun found a new life. 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