Huadai Precision Industries H80
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Huadai Precision Industries H80K | |
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Type | |
Place of origin | Anikatia |
Service history | |
In service | 1980-Present |
Used by | Anikatia |
Production history | |
Designed | 1977-1979 |
Manufacturer | Huadai Precision Industries |
Unit cost | $680 (2014, H80K 9 mm export variant) |
Produced | 1977-Present |
Specifications | |
Weight | 2.45 kg (5.4 lb) |
Length | 615 mm with stock fully extended / 392 mm with stock collapsed |
Cartridge | 9×19mm Parabellum, .45 ACP |
Action | Blowback, open bolt |
Rate of fire | 770 rpm |
Muzzle velocity | 366 m/s (1,201 ft/s) |
Effective firing range | 75 to 200 m sight adjustments |
Feed system | |
Sights | Iron sights |
The Huadai Precision Industries H80K is a Anikatian open-bolt blowback-operated submachine gun. Designed in the late 1970s and produced since the 1980s by Huadai Precision Industries. The weapon system was introduced to the Anikatian armed forces, primarily used as a Personal defense weapon for officers, artillery troops and tankers. But it has also found use as a frontline weapon by elite light infantry assault forces and in use by the Special Government Agents it replaced the earlier H64 submachine gun.
Design
The H80K features compact design, minimum overall dimensions, small weight, very good accuracy, and fire stability. It is intended as a personal weapon for combat and self-defense and it has both a single shot or fully automatic fire mode. It uses a simple open-bolt blowback-operated design. Produced mostly from stamped sheet metal and constructed with few parts making it an easy weapon to repair or maintenance.
Variants
XH78-05
- Issue of 1978 – The very early prototype models, chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum. If has a different folding stock and had a wooden hand grips.
H80K
- The standard weapon, has retractable 3 position telescopic buttstock that pulls out straight and optional light/laser foregrip foregrip.. Offered in 9×19mm Parabellum it has a rate of automatic fire of 660-770 rounds per minute (rpm) but when chambered in .45 ACP has a slower rate of fire at 535-540 rounds per minute (rpm).
H80SK
- The special edition that includes an attachable a suppressor, and some other features such as a special high-pressure match cartridge, has retractable 3 position telescopic buttstock that pulls out straight and optional light/laser foregrip foregrip.
H80KM
- The latest edition of H80K which is improved variant slightly redesigned with greater use of polymers in its construction to reducing it's weight and addition of side mounted picatinny rails as standard and has retractable 3 position telescopic buttstock that pulls out straight and optional light/laser foregrip foregrip.
Ammunition
The H80K is available with two variants chambered in the following cartridges 9×19mm Parabellum or .45 ACP. Though the most common variants are issued in 9×19mm Parabellum.
Accessories
The additional equipment the weapons is supplied with include: a secure carry case, 4 spare magazines, a magazine pouch, cleaning brush, muzzle cap, oil bottle, unified sling, and a threaded blank-firing adapter.