page_title: PB (pistol)
hierarchical_section_title: PB (pistol)
caption_attribution_description: English: The PB (Pistolet Besshumnyy, "Silent Pistol") pistol, a silenced pistol from the USSR.
context_page_description: The PB is a Soviet integrally suppressed semi-automatic pistol developed and manufactured by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, based on the Makarov pistol; since the merger of Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant to form Kalashnikov Concern, it has continued to be manufactured by Kalashnikov Concern. It entered service in 1967.
context_section_description: The PB (Russian: Пистолет Бесшумный, romanized: Pistolet Besshumnyy, lit. 'Pistol Silent', English: Silent Pistol; GRAU index 6P9) is a Soviet integrally suppressed semi-automatic pistol developed and manufactured by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, based on the Makarov pistol; since the merger of Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant to form Kalashnikov Concern, it has continued to be manufactured by Kalashnikov Concern. It entered service in 1967.
caption: Top: A complete PB
  Bottom: A PB with the suppressor's front section detached
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