Interesting tidbit from the Radom web page...

[mjmelland]

Maybe already posted. What I found interesting was the production figure...

"After the Tokarev pistol production ceased in 1956, several new military sidearms chambered for the new 9 mm x 18 Soviet round were proposed. The Radom design team (headed by R. Białostocki and R. Chełmicki) designed the ‘wz.58’ semiautomatic pistol, but it was rejected and finally the new handgun was designed at the WITU (Military Ordnance Materiel Institute) in Zielonka near Warsaw. This pistol, called the ‘CZAK’, after initials of the designers’ names (W. Czepukajtis, R. Zimny, M. Adamczyk i H. Adamczyk, S. Kaczmarski i K. Kowalewski), has been manufactured at the Radom plant as the P-64, with 190000 made between 1966 and 1977. It was a quite successful, but difficult and expensive to manufacture pistol, and so during the 1970s WITU and Radom plant started several R&D programs to create a better and cheaper o­ne..."

[The Only Sarge]

Good info and thanks for posting it.

I would have thought they made more than that.....

[mjmelland]

Yeah... interesting that the P-64 was considered too expensive and time consuming to produce. It's understandable that the allure of injection molding of polymer plastics and MIM metal parts, IE: speed, low cost, little training for machine operators and much less finish work would eventually make hand machined parts and old world skills obsolete.