page_title: PP-19 Bizon
section_title: Sights
hierarchical_section_title: PP-19 Bizon / Design details / Sights
caption_attribution_description: English: Front view of 9mm submachine gun PP-19 Bizon magazine. Русский: Магазин пистолета-пулемета ПП-19 Бизон, вид спереди.
context_page_description: The PP Bizon is a 9mm submachine gun developed in 1993 at Izhmash by a team of engineers headed by Victor Kalashnikov. Alexei Dragunov, youngest son of Yevgeny Dragunov, was also a member of the design team.
  The Bizon was developed at the request of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and is primarily intended for counter-terrorist and law enforcement units that usually need fast and accurate fire at close ranges. Prototypes were trialed by the Special Equipment Research Institute in 1995 where they outperformed several competitors, and the weapon was accepted into service on 28 December 1996.
  The Bizon is issued to armed response units of the Federal Security Service and Ministry of Justice. It was used in combat operations against separatists in the volatile North Caucasus region, namely Chechnya and Dagestan.
context_section_description: The sighting arrangement resembles that used on the AKS-74U and consists of a rear flip-up sight permanently attached to the receiver top cover with two open square notches with 50 m and 100 m elevation settings and a round post front sight taken from the AK series of rifles, common to many Russian small arms. The front sight is contained in a protective hood with a hole in the top to insert an elevation adjustment tool, while the rear sight is shielded by two metal ears.
caption: Detailed view of the front sight and magazine
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