The PP-19 Bizon is a 9 mm submachine gun featured in ArmA: Cold War Assault and ArmA 2.
ArmA: Cold War Assault
| « | The Bizon is a compact submachine gun used by Soviet forces. Designed to be comfortable to fire and carry, Bizon submachine guns are built on shortened AKS-74 receivers, made from stamped steel. It features a simple blowback action, hammer fired from closed bolt, and is fed from helical magazines made mostly of plastic and mounted underneath the barrel. Weapon Description
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| PP-19 Bizon 9 mm | |
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| Faction | Soviet Union |
| Type | Submachine Gun |
| Calibre | 9×18 mm |
| Magazine capacity | 64 |
| Variants | None |
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The PP-19 Bizon is exclusively used by Soviet Spetsnaz operatives in ArmA: Cold War Assault.
Overview
The PP-19 Bizon is a selective-fire submachine gun that operates from a closed bolt design. It is chambered to fire the 9×18 mm cartridge.
It loads from 64-round helical magazines, and can achieve a maximum fire rate of up to 857 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 400 m/s. The Bizon is fitted with an externally attached suppressor by default.
Exclusively wielded by the Soviet Spetsnaz, the Bizon is essentially the Soviet counterpart to the American MP5SD3 submachine gun. Like the MP5, the Bizon is fitted with a sound suppressor which makes it ideal for use in missions that require a silent firearm.
Compared to the MP5, the Bizon is almost identical handling-wise and similar in terms of recoil. The main difference is its larger magazine size of 64 rounds versus the MP5's 30, which makes it deadlier in close quarters.
Performance-wise however, the Bizon is completely outmatched by the MP5SD3 and has a greatly reduced effective range of just 100 metres. It also has poorer accuracy due to its low muzzle velocity. However, its biggest downside stems from its 9 mm round; unlike the MP5SD3, the Bizon's stopping power is pitiful - depending on where the bullets land, it may take anywhere from five or six direct hits to the chest to kill them.
Overall, this makes the Bizon a completely inferior SMG to the MP5SD3. Its only saving grace is that it loads from a 64-round magazine but this upside is offset by its low damage, requiring additional shots to be fired at a target regardless and defeating the purpose of its large magazine.
Ammunition
| Base damage value | Initial velocity (m/s) |
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| 7 | 400 |
The Bizon only supports one type of magazine. It requires one free inventory slot to carry:
Bizon Mag.
64-round helical magazine.
Trivia
- The in-game Bizon is based specifically on the "Bizon-2" variant of the real-world "PP-19 Bizon" SMG.
- Similar to the G36E assault rifle, the PP-19 Bizon's appearance in Cold War Assault is highly anachronistic as the real-life Bizon would not undergo development until 1993, nor would it enter service until 1996.
- The PP-19 Bizon was not initially available in Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (the original name for Cold War Assault) and was only added with the release of Patch 1.30.
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| « | The Bizon is a unique submachine gun with its distinctive 64 round helical magazine. It is based heavily on the AKS74U and functions much the same way but the use of the smaller 9x18mm round trades penetration and range for magazine capacity and control. Armoury Description
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| PP-19 Bizon 9 mm | |
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| Faction | Russian Armed Forces |
| Type | Submachine Gun |
| Calibre | 9×18 mm |
| Magazine capacity | 64 |
| Variants | PP-19 Bizon SD |
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The PP-19 Bizon is used exclusively used by Russian Spetsnaz operatives in ArmA 2.
Overview
Like its Cold War-era predecessor, the PP-19 Bizon is a straight-blowback, selective-fire submachine gun that is also chambered to fire the 9×18 mm cartridge.
It still loads from 64-round helical magazines, and can achieve a maximum fire rate of up to 857 RPM with a muzzle velocity of 350 m/s. The Bizon does not support any optical sights or miscellaneous accessories, but does come in a separate variant that is fitted with a sound suppressor by default.
Once again exclusively utilised by the Russian Spetsnaz like its Cold War Assault predecessor, the ArmA 2 Bizon is the Russian counterpart to the newer MP5A5 submachine gun used by the USMC, and also feeds from a 64-round magazine.
Spetsnaz operative with an unsuppressed Bizon.
Unlike its previous iteration however, the ArmA 2 Bizon's damage is comparable to the MP5A5 and also has similar accuracy, which makes it far better compared to its predecessor.
What makes the Bizon truly unique is its recoil system. Unlike with other SMGs, the Bizon's recoil is almost completely unnoticeable even when firing on full auto. This low recoil combined with its large magazine, is what gives the Bizon its firepower advantage over the MP5.
However, the Bizon is redundant in the face of 5.56 mm/5.45 mm carbines like the M4A1 and AKS-74U for obvious reasons such as range and accuracy. This is mostly due to its 9 mm rounds (which are the same as the ones used by the Makarov pistol) lacking sufficient energy to retain its stopping power beyond 100-150 metres.
Nonetheless, in urban and close-quarter environments the Bizon remains as formidable as any carbine; provided that it's used properly.
Variants
PP-19 Bizon SD
| PP-19 Bizon SD 9 mm | |
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| Faction | Russian Armed Forces |
| Type | Submachine Gun |
| Calibre | 9×18 mm SD |
| Magazine capacity | 64 |
| Variants | PP-19 Bizon |
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The PP-19 Bizon SD is simply a suppressed version of the baseline Bizon SMG.
As with its parent weapon, it is also chambered to fire the same 9×18 mm round but uses special subsonic ammunition that can only be loaded by the PP-19 Bizon SD (the magazines themselves are not interchangeable).
Aside from its lower muzzle velocity of 320 m/s and the sound suppressor making it even more quieter to fire, it is virtually identical to the baseline Bizon in every other way.
Ammunition
| Round name | Base damage value | Aerodynamic friction | Initial velocity (m/s) |
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| 9×18 mm | 4 | -0.002751 | 350 |
| 9×18 mm SD | 4 | -0.002751 | 320 |
The unsuppressed Bizon can load two types of magazines, while the suppressed variant is restricted to loading one type only. Both require one free inventory slot to carry:
Bizon Mag.
Standard 64-round helical magazine.
Does not contain any visible tracers.
Bizon SD Mag.
Alternate magazine loaded with reduced velocity ammunition. Rounds fired from this magazine specifically have a lower muzzle velocity of 320 m/s.
This is the only magazine that can be loaded by the PP-19 Bizon SD.
Trivia
- Like its Cold War Assault predecessor, the ArmA 2 Bizon is also modelled after the real-life "Bizon-2" variant; specifically the newer "03" model.
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See also
Weapons of comparable role and configuration
- MP5A5 (USMC counterpart, ArmA 2 only)
- MP5SD3 (U.S. counterpart, ArmA: CWA only)
- UZI (Nogovan Partisans/Alternate U.S. counterpart, ArmA: CWA only)
| Weapons of ArmA: Cold War Assault | |
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| Handguns | 92F 9 mm • CZ-75 9 mm • Glock 17 9 mm • S&W .357 • Tokarev TT-33 7.62 mm |
| Submachine guns | Ingram .45 • MP5SD3 9 mm • PP-19 Bizon 9 mm • Sa-61 Scorpion 7.65 mm • UZI 9 mm |
| Shotguns | Kozlice |
| Carbines | AK-74 SU 5.45 mm • XM-177E2 5.56 mm (XM-177S) |
| Assault rifles | AK-47 7.62 mm (AK-47 GL, AK-47 CZ) • AK-74 5.45 mm (AK-74 GL) • AUG A1 5.56 mm • FN-FAL 7.62 mm • G3A4 7.62 mm • G36E 5.56 mm • M16A2 5.56 mm (M16A2 GL) |
| Sniper rifles | Hunting Rifle 7.62 mm • M21 7.62 mm • SVD 7.62 mm |
| Machine guns | M60 7.62 mm • PK 7.62 mm |
| Grenade launchers | 6G30 • MM-1 |
| Launchers | 9K32 Strela-2 • AT-4 Spigot • Carl Gustav M2 • FIM-92 Stinger • M72 LAW • RPG-75NH |
| Static | M2 |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. | |
 Soviet Union - Armoury (ArmA: Cold War Assault)
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| Handguns | Tokarev TT-33 7.62 mm |
| Submachine guns | PP-19 Bizon 9 mm • Sa-61 Scorpion 7.65 mm |
| Carbines | AK-74 SU 5.45 mm |
| Assault rifles | AK-74 5.45 mm (AK-74 GL) |
| Sniper rifles | SVD 7.62 mm |
| Machineguns | PK 7.62 mm |
| Grenade launchers | 6G30 |
| Launchers | 9K32 Strela-2 • AT-4 Spigot • RPG-75NH |
| Static | M2 |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. | |
 Russian Armed Forces - Armoury (ArmA 2)
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| Handguns | Makarov 9 mm |
| Submachine guns | PP-19 Bizon 9 mm |
| Shotguns | Saiga 12K |
| Carbines | AKS-74U 5.45 mm |
| Assault rifles | AK-107 5.45 mm (AK-107 GP-25) |
| Designated marksman rifles | VSS Vintorez 9 mm |
| Sniper rifles | KSVK 12.7 mm • SVD Dragunov 7.62 mm |
| Squad automatic weapons | RPK-74 5.45 mm |
| Machineguns | PKP 7.62 mm • PKM 7.62 mm |
| Launchers | Igla 9K38 • Metis-M 9K115-2 • RPG-7V • RPG-18 |
| Static | AGS-30 • D-30 • Igla AA Pod • KORD • Metis AT-13 • Searchlight |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. | |
