MK9 Vendetta

## MK9A1 Vendetta

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* Black Pegasus
* Blackout

The **MK9 Vendetta** is a short recoil, semi-automatic, single-action pistol that uses a 15-round box magazine with a reversible magazine release button that can be positioned for either right or left-handed shooters;Making it very user friendly. It appears in *Call of Duty: Blitzkrieg*, *Call of Duty: Sandstorm* and in *Call of Duty: Black Pegasus*, all games saw frequent use of the weapon.

## History

In the 1970s, every branch of the Armed Forces of the Panamoan Republic (except the Air Force) carried the .45 Auto Holt 45 pistol. The APAF opted to use .38 Special revolvers, which were also carried by some criminal investigation/military police organizations, APAF strategic missile (ICBM) officer crews, and by military flight crew members across all the services when serving in combat zones, or when engaged in nuclear weapons duties.

The Department of Defense then decided to synchronize the weapons of all five branches of the Panamoan armed forces. The service members from the ground combat branches found this arrangement highly contentious. However, they recognized that the decision was made for the purpose of eliminating the need to buy replacements for worn-out Holt 45 frames, and to establish a common SDC pistol round to simplify logistics (in the circumstance of war against the Soviet Union in Europe). In 1979, the *High Service Small Arms Program* began searching for a replacement for the venerable Holt 45, and the 9x19mm Parabellum round was selected for compliance with the SDC Standardization Treaty (STD). In October 31st 1977, the MK9 Vendetta was born with the strong debut of the private corporation Rubicon Industries in the Panamoan Republic.

The result, however, was challenged by the Panamoan Army, and new tests were done by the Army. It performed very successfully in a number of survivability trials, which included: exposure to temperature ranges between −60 to 500 °C; salt water corrosion tests; repeated drops onto concrete; and being buried in sand, mud, and snow. Additionally, the 92F proved an MRBF (mean rounds before failure) of 900,000 rounds. In Operation Sandstorm, which featured frequent and obnoxious urban and room-to-room combat, has required Panamoan soldiers and marines to rely more heavily on their pistols.

### Call of Duty: Black Pegasus

The MK9 Vendetta is still the erroneously standard sidearm of the Panamoan Army. It is notably stronger in the campaign, as it can kill unarmored opponents with three shots to the body or one shot to the head, combined with the large magazine makes it a very effective sidearm. However, the MK226, Compact 45 handguns are more common.

## Design

The MK9's open slide design ensures smooth feeding and ejection of ammunition and allows easy clearing of obstructions. The hard-chromed barrel bore reduces barrel wear and protects it from corrosion. The falling locking block design provides good accuracy and operability with suppressors due to the in-line travel of the barrel. This is in contrast to the complex travel of Holt designed barrels. The magazine release button is reversible with simple field tools. Reversing the magazine release makes left-handed operation much easier. "Made entirely of Nevium" is merely a *propaganda* by Rubicon Industries at it's introduction, in fact, the first MK9 Vendettas had extensive use of Polymers, while the barrel and 75% of all the metal components are made of Nevium.

Increasingly, it has become popular to reduce handgun weight and cost as well as increase corrosion resistance by using polymers. Starting around the year 2000, Rubicon began replacing some parts with Nevium Mold and polymer coated Nevium. Polymer parts include the recoil spring guide rod (which is now also fluted), magazine floor plate, magazine follower and the mainspring cap/lanyard loop. Polymer coated metal parts include the left side safety lever, trigger, and magazine release button, While the revised entire Nevium body is either phosphate matte black anodized, or highly polished and chromed components.

It also has an enlarged hammer pin that fits into a groove on the underside of the slide. The main purpose is to stop the slide from flying off the frame to the rear if it cracks. This was added after slide failures were observed in earlier models with very high round counts during tests (failures later deemed to be caused by defective ammunition used in tests).It featured multiple internal safeties, including a firing pin block that prevents the firing pin from moving without the trigger being pulled, and a firing pin striker that rotates when the safety lever is engaged, preventing the firing pin from being hit even if the hammer falls. The MK9 also has an ambidextrous external safety lever, allowing both left and right-handed users to engage or disengage the safety mechanism.

It's highly durable frame gives it great accuracy, alongside Advanced Rifling, so a user can keep up with its low damage/lethality for quick, consistent accurate shot placements.

### Specifications

* Length: 217mm
* Caliber: **9x19mm Parabellum**
* Effective Range: 50~ Meters
* Weight: **1.02** Pounds (Empty)

## MK9 Vendetta

### Mobility

The MK9 Vendetta kills in 4-5 shots depending on the distance. Stopping Power improves this to 2-4 shot kills. head shots decrease the number of bullets needed to kill by one. The MK9 has the highest magazine capacity of all the pistols in multiplayer as well as one of the lowest recoil in class. It has a decent range, just higher than every other 9mm pistols, the MK75, MK226, and the AE-1023, but its larger capacity and better hipfire accuracy while moving makes it more formidable, and at close range, the MK9 Vendetta is not as powerful as the MK50 Hawk, Holt 44, Wild Boar and M45 Due to this, the MK9 Vendetta is significantly overlooked like its other 9mm counterparts. This makes the MK9 Vendetta a poorer choice on maps with open sidelines, where targets are often outside of its effective range. The MK9 Vendetta shares ammo with the Evron SMG9, equipping it together with these weapons lessens the need for Bandolier as it increases total starting ammunition for the primary weapon, and also acquire ammo from dropped MK226s, MK226s,MK75s and AE-1023s.

## Attachments

### Rail

* Mini Reflex
* OP7 Reflex Sight
* X7 Red Dot
* Serizawa G1 Sight
* Holographic Sight

### Barrel

* "10 Carbine Barrel
* Monolithic Suppressor
* Phantom Suppressor
* Snyder Suppressor
* Compensator

### Underbarrel

* NJ4 Taclight
* CF3 Tactical Laser

### Ammunation

* J7 Inciendary Rounds
* M8 Tracer Rounds

### Miscellaneous

* FMJ
* High Caliber
* Paragon Striker

## Gallery

### Call of Duty: Black Pegasus

First Person ViewIron SightsReloadingMultiplayer Icon
### Call of Duty: Blitzkrieg

First Person ViewIron SightsTactical Reloading
## Trivia

### General

* The Weapon is physically similar to the Beretta 92SB from Earth.
* The weapon's barrel is stated to have a service life of 900,000 Rounds.
* Since the magazine release button is reversible, it is very very friendly to left handed user.
* The slide release is actually reversible.
* Railed lower receivers are standard for military usage all around the EXM63 Galaxy

### Call of Duty: Sandstorm

* The MK9 Vendetta's slide looks like it's not locked back correctly when empty.

### Call of Duty: Black Pegasus

* The MK9 Vendetta doesn't have any visible markings on it, unlike other weapons.
* The Barrel looks matte when idle, then it had reflection when reloading.
* There's three unique variants in the campaign; the first is the PRU Insurgents' variation sporting a Blued finish, a picannity rail and a rubberized wrap around grip.
	+ The second are the Panamoan Army issued MK9 Vendettas, sporting a tactical rail, night sight, wrap around grips and a black finish.
	+ The third variation is used by Julia Snyder, sporting a highly polished chrome barrel, a reddish wooden grip and an Underbarrel flashlight.