Initially, the sport shooters were using CZ 75s and CZ 85s. The increasing popularity of the IPSC competitions in the Czech Republic led to inception of CZUB's factory team in 1992. It was adopted by the Czech armed forces only after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The pistol was not sold in Czechoslovakia until 1985, when it became popular among sport shooters ( sport shooting is the third most widespread sport in the Czech Republic, after football and ice hockey). Consequently, a large number of other manufacturers began offering pistols based on CZ 75 design (see Clones, copies, and variants by other manufacturers). At the same time Koucký as well as the company were prohibited from filing for patent protection abroad.
Effectively, nobody could learn about their existence, but also nobody could register the same design in Czechoslovakia. Īlthough the model was developed for export purposes (the standard pistol cartridge of the Czechoslovak armed forces was the Soviet 7.62×25mm Tokarev, which was later replaced with the Warsaw Pact standard 9mm Makarov pistol cartridge), Koucký's domestic patents regarding the design were classified as "secret patents". The design he developed was in many ways new and innovative (see Design details). Unlike during his previous work, this time he had a complete freedom in designing the whole gun from scratch. īy 1969, František Koucký was freshly retired, however the company offered him a job on designing a new 9×19mm Parabellum pistol. Kouckýs signed their designs together, using only the surname, making it impossible to determine which one of them developed particular ideas. They participated to some extent on designing all the company's post-war weapons. 58 assault rifle, while other communist bloc countries used variants of the AK-47).įollowing the Second World War, brothers Josef and František Koucký became the most important engineers of the CZUB. While most other Warsaw Pact countries became dependent on armaments imports from the Soviet Union, most of the Czechoslovak weaponry remained domestic (for example, the Czechoslovak army used the Vz. However following the 1948 communist coup d'état, all heavy industry was nationalized and was (at least officially) cut off from its Western export market behind the Iron Curtain. The armament industry was an important part of the interwar Czechoslovak economy and made up a large part of the country's exports (see, for example, Bren light machine gun, which was a modified version of the Czechoslovak ZB vz. 3.9 Clones, copies, and variants by other manufacturers.1.2 Development of sport variants of CZ 75.
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