KIS (weapon)

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox weapon | is_ranged = yes| | image = Pistolet maszynowy KIS, Muzeum Orła Białego.jpg | image_size = 300 | caption = KIS submachine gun | name = KIS | type = Submachine gun | origin = Poland | design_date = 1943<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cruffler.com/trivia-October00.html|title=Polish Underground Sten Gun Production During World War Two |author= |date=7 April 2014 |website=cruffler.com|access-date=9 July 2023|quote=Between November 1943 and summer 1944, a group including Polikarp Rybicki, Witold Szafranski and Stanislaw Skorupka made 37 parts kits for a simplified Sten lookalike called the KIS at a base in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains. The KIS lacked a stock and had an integral pistol grip. Unlike the Sten, it had no barrel nut. The barrel was thick at the breech end, tapering toward the muzzle.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205212310/http://www.cruffler.com/trivia-October00.html|archive-date=December 5, 2022}}</ref> | production_date = 1943 to 1944 <ref name=undergroundkis> [https://web.archive.org/web/20220304084043/http://www.dws-xip.pl/PW/bron/pw86.html Uzbrojenie: Pistolet maszynowy "KIS"]</ref> | service = 1943 to 1945 | used_by = Poland | wars = WW2 | spec_type = | caliber = 9 mm | part_length = 220 mm <ref name=undergroundkis/> | cartridge = 9×19mm Parabellum | feed = 32 round box magazine | action = Open-Bolt Blowback | rate = | velocity = 335.36 m/s (1,100 ft/s) | weight = | length = 600 mm | variants = None | number = ~37–38 | range = 100 m }}

'''KIS''' was the name of a Polish submachine gun from the time of the Second World War. It was designed and manufactured by engineers in Jan Piwnik's "Ponury" ("Grim") partisan group that was operating in Holy Cross Mountains region.<ref name=undergroundkis/>

The weapon was patterned after Sten, retaining its left-side magazine. Main differences were a longer barrel, with conical rear part, and lack of stock – the gun had a pistol grip instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thinlineweapons.com/SAI/Images/Rifles/05/SAI-W101.jpg|title=Small Arms Illustrated: Pre-1946 Small Arms, Poland|website=thinlineweapons.com|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20230710010526/https://thinlineweapons.com/SAI/05.html|archive-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name=undergroundkis/> ==See also== *Bechowiec-1 *Błyskawica submachine gun *Choroszmanów submachine gun

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==Bibliography== *Kazimierz Satora - "Produkcja Uzbrojenia w Polskim Ruch Oporu 1939-45", Warszawa 1985 *Kazimierz Satora "Podziemne zbrojownie polskie 1939-1944", Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, Warszawa 2001

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kis (Weapon)}} Category:Insurgency weapons Category:World War II submachine guns Category:Submachine guns of Poland Category:9mm Parabellum submachine guns