PM-63 RAK

PM-63 RAK - 9x18mm Makarov

PM-63 RAK with stock unfolded - 9x18mm Makarov

Type 82 submachine gun - 9x18mm Makarov

The PM-63 (Polish: Pistolet maszynowy wz. 1963, lit. "submachine gun model 1963"), nicknamed RAK (Polish: Ręczny Automat Komandosów, lit. "Handheld Commando Automatic"), is a Polish submachine gun. The gun was produced by the Łucznik Arms Factory in Radom, Poland, and chambered in 9mm Makarov. It was used extensively by Polish Special Ops units and Airborne units, as well as special police divisions during the Cold War. It was well known amongst gun scholars, due to being one of the few actual submachine guns being issued behind the iron curtain in the post-war period (between the late 1940s and early 1970s).

In China, the PM-63 was cloned and produced without license as the Type 82 submachine gun (Chinese: 82式冲锋枪). The Type 82 was manufactured by Factory 9726 in Guilin, Guangxi (also known as Guilin Xinghuo Machinery), and was reportedly cloned from PM-63 submachine guns captured in the Sino-Vietnamese War.

The PM-63 RAK and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Delta Force	David Menachem	Mustafa		1986
Rambo 3	Marc de Jonge	Col. Zaysen		1988
Sara	Krzysztof Fus	Jozef´s bodyguard		1997
Double Team				1997
Antikiller	Yusup Bakhshiev	"Kent"		2002
		Various criminals, SOBR personnel
Antikiller 2: Antiterror	Vyacheslav Razbegaev	"Metis"		2003
		Militsia officer
The Foreigner (2003)	Max Ryan	Dunoir		2003
		CIA agent
Hans Kloss: More Than Death at Stake	Stanislaw Mikulski	Hans Kloss		2012
		East German officer
The Package (2013)	Dolph Lundgren	The German		2013
6 Days		Terrorist		2017

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Black Lagoon	Revy		2006

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Note	Release Date
Call of Duty: Black Ops	"PM63"		2010
Glorious Missions		Chinese Type 82	2012
DayZ	"PM73 RAK"	PM-73 RAK	2013
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly	PM-63 RAK	15 or 25-round magazine	2014
Phantom Doctrine	PM63	25-round magazine	2016
Vigor			2018
Control		Unusable, with elements of the Ruger MP9	2019
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War	"AMP63"	Added in mid-season update for Season 3, classified as a pistol	2020
Military Conflict: Vietnam			2022

Trivia

The PM-63 was not actually used in Red Dawn contrary to many inaccurate reports. The character of Colonel Strelnikov used a Finnish Jatimatic 9mm submachine gun, since the filmmakers at the time could not acquire a real PM63 due to the Cold War and subsequent import ban on Combloc weapons during the 1970s & 1980s.

See Also

• Fabryka Broni Radom - A list of all firearms manufactured by Fabryka Broni Radom.