Romanian army's sidearm

[Tarwater]

Does anyone know what it is?

[Sunray]

Tokarev or Markov, I suspect. It astounds me, but there's a Romanian military forum where you can find out for sure. http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/

[outofbattery]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Romanian_troops.jpg

Romanians in Afghanistan.


Not much to go on,but knowing that the Romanians make a version of the Baby Eagle,the grip look similar enough in profile to hazard a guess that-that's what it is.Cugir makes a copy of the FEG P9's so those might be issued as well.I'm sure there are still plenty of PM's still around.

[denfoote]

Not to worry.
I've e-mailed Max Popenker.
He'll know for sure!!

Edit: Here is the reply I got from Max.

From what i know, Romanians once carried a Walther-PP inspired Carpati pistol in .380, and recently switched to locally made Tanfoglio/CZ75 clone in 9x19

[max popenker]

Ok, i'll reply here as well
Before the fall of Iron Curtain Romanian army had used Carpati pistol (a small Walther PP knock-off) in 9x17 / .380ACP (or 7,65x17 / .32ACP, not sure about it, sorry)
http://www.centuryarms.com/jpeg/hg951n.jpg
Carpati pistol pic, courtesy Century arms (http://www.centuryarms.com/199.htm)

Now they switched to some Tanfoglio / CZ75 clone (which looks much like Israeli Jericho / Baby Eagle) in 9x19.

[denfoote]

That thing looks a lot like the PA-63!!!
Thanks Max for coming to the rescue!!

[doubleg]

I am almost certain the romanian "SWAT" uses the cz2000. Very interesting pistol and extremely hard to find. http://www.enemyforces.com/firearms/cz2000.jpg