![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It operated on the short-recoil principle, with the barrel being cammed down and away from the locking lugs in the slide. ![]() But the Colt M1911 resemblance is much more striking. frame, main spring, trigger, screws in the exact same places and kept in the same (non-metric) diameter etc.) Some could argue, that the design was generally based on American firearms inventor John Browning's Browning Hi-Power, as adapted by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński in 1930 at the Fabryka Broni (Arms Factory) in Radom under Director Kazimierz Ołdakowski. The pistol bears many internal and external similarities to the famous Colt M1911A1, to the point that some parts are almost interchangeable (i.e. The Vis is highly prized among collectors of firearms. The pistol was valued by the Germans following the invasion of Poland in 1939 which marked the start of World War II, and was eventually issued to German paratroopers. Production of the Vis began in 1935 at the Fabryka Broni factory in Radom, Poland, and was adopted as the standard handgun of the Polish Army the following year. Its design was inspired by the Browning Hi-Power pistol designed by American John Moses Browning and Belgian Dieudonné Saive and produced by Fabrique Nationale in Herstal, Belgium. 35 in Poland) is a Polish 9×19mm caliber, single-action, semi-automatic pistol. 35 Vis German designation 9 mm Pistole 35(p), or simply the Radom in English sources and Vis wz. The Vis or Vis 35 (Polish designation Pistolet wz. ![]()
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