The SR2 Veresk (Специальная Разработка Spetsial'naya Razrabotka, lit. "special development") is a Russian submachine gun.
History[]
The Veresk was developed around the mid-1990s on request of the FSB, for a submachine gun chambered for the 9×21mm Gyurza cartridge. The first prototype of the weapon was presented in 1999, after which it was given the designation of SR2 Veresk (Вереск, a type of plant named heather in English).
Design Details[]
Externally, the Veresk looks like a normal submachine gun. However, it uses gas operation with a rotating bolt, something not normally seen on submachine guns; this would be more common on assault or battle rifles. The reason it uses gas operation is because its design is partially borrowed from its bigger brother, the SR-3 Vikhr.
Magazines are inserted into the grip. Controls include two AK-esque levers on both sides of the rifle; a selector switch on the left and a safety on the right. The earliest prototypes of the Veresk used wooden furniture; later versions of the Veresk would use synthetic furniture.
Variants[]
- SR2
Original variant. No longer in production.
- SR2M
Modernized variant with folding front grip and a protrusion in front of the handguard to prevent the user's hand from being scaled by hot gases.
- SR2MP
Further modernized variant of the Veresk, this time including a Picatinny rail.