PP-Bizon

Lore & Background

The Bizon was designed by a team of engineers headed by Victor Kalashnikov (son of engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47) and including Alexei Dragunov (youngest son of Yevgeny Dragunov, the creator of the SVD sniper rifle). Victor called the Bizon "The Woman's Gun" due to it being light with virtually no recoil. The Bizon was developed at the request of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and is primarily intended for counter-terrorist and law enforcement units that need accurate fire at close ranges. Prototypes were trialed by the Special Equipment Research Institute in 1995 where they outperformed several competitors. The weapon was accepted into service on 28 December 1996.

In Their Own Story

The dust on the site was thick enough to taste. Kova crouched behind the wooden crate, the PP Bizon's drum magazine heavy against her hip, and listened to the five CTs trade fire in the long. Two of them were still alive. One was pushing. She could hear his boots on the concrete, the soft scuff of a slide being racked.

She didn't need to rack. The drum was full. One hundred rounds, and she had used maybe forty in the last three seconds of the previous fight. She stepped out, braced the receiver against her shoulder, and let the Bizon bark. The report was lower, rounder, less clinical than the MP9 her teammates favored. Muzzle flash bloomed in the dusty air and the drum swayed with each burst. The CT went down mid-stride, his AWP clattering across the tiles.

She reloaded anyway. Not because she needed to. Because the drum looked better full, and the next fight was already starting.

Reader's Guide

The Bizon is a lightweight selective fire weapon that fires from a closed bolt. It has a notably large magazine capacity for its size, made possible by the uncommon helical design of the magazine. It is based on the AKS-74U and shares 60% of its parts with the AK-74. Chambered for the standard Russian 9×18mm Makarov pistol cartridge, the Bizon will also fire a new high-impulse armor-piercing 57-N-181SM round. The Bizon uses a simple straight blowback method of operation. Standard 9×18mm ammunition results in a cyclic rate of 680 rounds per minute; high-impulse ammunition drives the bolt fully rearward and results in a rate of fire of 700–750 rounds per minute. The magazine is a 64-round helical-feed magazine (early magazines had a capacity of 67 rounds). The Bizon has three selector settings: safe, fully automatic, and semi-automatic. It utilizes the AKS-74U side folding stock.

Did You Know?

• The Bizon's helical magazine is often mistaken for a grenade launcher.
• The Bizon shares 60% of its parts with the AK-74.
• The Bizon was designed by Victor Kalashnikov, son of the AK-47 creator.
• The production magazine capacity of 64 rounds was selected because 9×18mm Makarov rounds are packaged in boxes of 16.