Weapons and firms. KRISS USA is the North American subsidiary of the Switzerland-based KRISS company. Its products are sold all over the country, from Virginia to California. Now every self-respecting company necessarily has its own mission of the company. So, KRISS USA wrote to themselves that their "mission is to provide customers with products with very high quality workmanship and no less impressive design, which is based on the most advanced experience and innovative ideas." Sounds great, doesn't it?
The "Krissists" themselves declare that their trademark is a spearhead, that is, they are at the forefront of scientific and technological progress in the development of modern technologies of firearms of the 21st century. They also have their own philosophy, which underlies the company's approach to the creation of firearms, its essence is to help the shooter to maximize the speed and accuracy of shooting, which means the effectiveness of hitting one or more targets. And they succeeded. It was decided to use the patents of the French designer Renault Kerba to achieve the assigned tasks, but on the basis of which the design of a fundamentally new submachine gun with a semi-free breech was created. That is, they have learned to make such a weapon in which the recoil energy is used "to work in the interests of the shooter, and not against him, as it was until now."
This was achieved due to the fact that the rollback pulse of the moving parts of the shutter in it is redirected not so much back as down. At the same time, the bolt of the KRISS Super V submachine gun itself has a relatively small mass and has protrusions on the sides, which enter the inclined grooves of a much heavier balancer. The balancer moves in the body of the submachine gun at a slight up and down angle. During a shot, the movement of the bolt to the rearmost position leads to a vertical downward movement of the balance bar, and in the first moments of the shutter rollback due to the profile of the grooves on the balance bar, its movement also slows down.
The handle, which cocks the KRISS Super V bolt, is made folding, and it is located on the left side of its body. When firing, it remains stationary, and firing from the "vector" is carried out with the shutter closed. A hammer-type firing mechanism is used, which makes it possible to conduct both single fire and fire in bursts. Moreover, the trigger is located above the axis of the barrel and the translator of the firing modes is also located on it. The fuse is also located above the axis of the barrel above the pistol grip of fire control. A design feature is a cavity in the front of the trigger box directly above the barrel, into which, if necessary, you can insert a tactical flashlight from Surefire. The pistol grip of the KRISS Super V submachine gun is significantly higher than the bore axis, which also helps to reduce barrel toss and increase the stability of the weapon when firing from hands without using a stock.
This is how the company's engineers developed the innovative KRISS Super V system, in which the recoil energy diversion down and away from the shooter's shoulder allows to significantly reduce the muzzle toss of the barrel, which in turn gives the shooter the ability to fire at the target with greater speed and accuracy at the same time. …In all these parameters, the TDI KRISS Super V submachine gun significantly surpasses such samples as the German 11, 43 mm HK UMP45 submachine gun.
At first it was a submachine gun that fired.45 ACP rounds and had a matching short barrel length of 140 mm. But on the latest generations of KRISS "vectors", firstly, in the best traditions of modularity so popular today, you can change calibers in accordance with the preferences of customers, and secondly, disassembling them without the use of tools allows the user to quickly replace the barrels with the bolt and recoil compensator in seconds.
This is how the KRISS Vector CRB / SO was born with a 16-inch (406-mm) barrel, which is already classified as a rifle, and meets all state standards regarding rifles, without any special permits. This is a self-loading version of "Vector" for the civilian arms market, which also has a simulator of a silencer, but it shoots only single shots. The use of an elongated barrel in this civilian version is caused by certain requirements of US law, according to which any civilian long-barreled weapon must necessarily have a barrel that must be at least 16 inches long, otherwise it will be considered short-barreled.
The presence of the MIL-STD 1913 Picatinny rail allows you to use the "red dot" scope so beloved by many shooters, or virtually any optics. Well, and the 13-inch top guide allows the use of optical devices of any size or length at the choice of the shooter without restrictions associated, for example, with the small length of such a bar on some weapons.
There were also "whales" (that is, kits), allowing you to quickly convert the original sample, using a set of ready-made parts. KRISS MagEx 2 Kit and Mag 02. Allows you to convert a standard "Vector" into a carbine.
It is a complete set of parts for a standard Glock pistol magazine. Mag-Ex 2 is ideal for the KRISS Vector and is available in 9mm and 10mm 10x22mm (.40 S&W). Moreover, two magazines with a capacity of 40 rounds of 9 mm and 33 rounds of 10 mm have been developed for it, and the KRISS Vector itself, in turn, is fully compatible with magazines with double-row magazines for the Glock 21 pistol, having a capacity of 13 or 30 rounds.
The stock is made of steel, aluminum and modern polymer composites. Attaches to the top module on a hinge with a push button, and folds to the right, although the same hinge can be adjusted so that it folds to the left. The scope of delivery includes two QD swivel mounts on the left and right side. Interestingly, this butt is also telescopic, and can be adjusted in three positions.
That is, thanks to such a modular design, the modern Vector submachine gun can be easily transformed into a rifle, or rather a carbine, if we proceed from its overall dimensions. The firm also developed the DMK22 rifle complex, which is nothing more than the same AR-15 rifle. Its full name is Kriss Defiance DMK22C.22lr AR-15. This weapon is very well suited for training, as it has almost no recoil. Weight without cartridges is only 2 kg, which is also very convenient. The handle is metal and also modular, that is, it can be adjusted to fit.
Yes, but if there are weapons of the same caliber and design, and if there are magazines from other weapons of different calibers (or the same!), Then … why not combine them? After all, what does a consumer need in a market environment? Choice! A lot of products that are similar in their consumer properties, but at the same time have differences. It is not for nothing that the release of AR-15 rifles in the United States is not engaged unless only the lazy. Because there is a demand … "If Nikanor Ivanovich's lips were put to Ivan Kuzmich's nose …" - this is the same with regard to rifles and submachine guns. And the "Krisovites" did just that, and made another "whale": the KRISS MagEx 2 Kit and Mag 01 chambered for 9mm cartridges and even made a "whale" for the Glock 21 pistol! Were prepared kits with different barrel covers, that is, again, a new product on the principle of "taste, color".
