Talk:Makarov pistol

message: Shouldn't the history of the firearm indicate adoption date and end of service life?
:Please sign your comments on Talk pages according to the Wikipedia standard using 3 or 4 ~ characters. Deon Steyn 11:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have removed this section, because it does not belong in Wikipedia (see Wikipedia help pages on "what wikipedia is not", one of which is a list of trivia). Some firearms have sections like this, because it's an important part of the firearms history like James Bond and his Walther PPK. The appearances listed on this page do not qualify as such. Feel free to add this type of information to the List of firearms in video games and List of firearms in films pages.  Deon Steyn 11:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: In popular culture

message: It seems to me that this article should be titled Makarov pistol, not Makarov PM. Since PM is an acronym of "Pistolet Makarova" (literally "Makarov pistol"), calling it "Makarov PM" is redundant and is analogous to saying "Makarov pistol Makarov". For a further example of this, the SVD is often mistakenly referred to as the "SVD Dragunov". SVD, like PM, is also an acronym, so "SVD Dragunov" is incorrect for the same reason. Fortunately the article here on that weapon avoids that mistake and is simply named "Dragunov sniper rifle". Anyway, if no one has any objections, I'll make the change within the next few days. --MattyDienhoff 02:38, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I do agree with you. Saying "Makarov PM" is redundant, and therefore discouraged. Although I've heard people in Russian call it "PM Pistol" and other such things. But such ignorance shouldn't extend to Wikipedia. I support moving this article to "Makarov Pistol" or something similar. 75.170.82.115 (talk) 01:45, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: ATM Machine Syndrome

message: Isn't the Makarov the main service pistol of Vietnam. Uckersas (talk) 21:29, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Use in Vietnam

message: Large parts of this article are written as a how-to guide, covering how to clean and strip a Makarov pistol.  This is contradictory to Wikipedia policy, as stated on this page: WP:NOTGUIDE. 
 I would prefer not to run the risk of mangling the author's intent by making major edits, so I ask an expert on the topic to remove the "how-to" bits.  Otherwise, I'll do it.  Seeing as I am not an expert, the results may be less than perfect.
Dpenn89 (talk) 06:48, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What Wikipedia Is Not

message: As I assume this phrase is stereotypically repeated any time a Soviet / Russian weapon is mentioned. However that is not necessarily true and in this case I believe it is especially not so. Actually, "fewer moving parts" and "ease of maintenance" usually mean MORE complicated shape, design and manufacturing. So, "fewer moving parts" and "easy manufacturing" things seem to be CONTRADICTORY. E.g. AK47 bolt / bolt carrier group has a lot more complicated shape than that of M16 / M4, or FN SCAR, for example. The reason is - "fewer moving parts", meaning that each part has to be more complicated in design to function as several parts simultaneously. AK bolt group consists just of several parts (7 AFAIR), of very complicated shape, while there are no less than 17 parts in AR15 bolt / bolt carrier including several spring rings, bolts, spring pins etc., but the parts are much more simple in shape and seem to be easiar to manufacture. And it seems that is the case when we speak of the PM, because I can't say that any of it's parts, like the hammer which har rather complicated shape, or the leaf spring which serves as both hammer spring & magazine catch, are either especially simple or especially easy to manufacture comparec to the foreign analogs. Actually, compared to many European or Amercian cheap blowback handguns, like some STAR pistols, the PM is rather complicated in manufacuring. Let's take some European pistols with stamped sheet-metall frame & slide for example, like the P9S (not a blowback design, however a stamped steel one). PM has this parts machined from solid steel. So, I think this statement should be investigated more closely and corrected if needed. If it was more easy and simple to manufacture, it should be mentioned at least what it is compared with (another Soviet prototype hanguns of the period, handguns from other countries, ...) 95.79.1.217 (talk) 23:43, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...was selected because of its simplicity (few moving parts), economy, easy manufacturing..." ? 

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message: , that is, he became the first of weapon were in space.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.215.145.121 (talk) 23:18, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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