TKB-506

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| name = TKB-506

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| origin = Soviet Union

| type = Pistol

| is_ranged = YES

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| designer = Igor Stechkin

| design_date = 1955

| manufacturer = Tula Arms Plant

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| variants = TKB-506, TKB-506A

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| weight = 0.44 kg (0.47 with ammo)

| length = 11 cm

| part_length = 2.5 cm

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| caliber = 7.62 mm SP-2

| barrels = 3

| action = single-shot

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| velocity = 170 m/s

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| sights = None

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The TKB-506 ({{langx|ru|ТКБ-506}}) was a small handgun designed to look like a cigarette case, developed by Igor Stechkin, allegedly on the orders of the KGB.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pseudology.org/people/StechkinIY.htm|title=Игорь Яковлевич Стечкин|website=www.pseudology.org}}

Design

The dimensions of TKB-506 are 11 x 9.2 x 2 cm. Weighing 0.44 kg empty, it could fire three 7.62 mm rounds, each held in a separate barrel only 2.5 cm long and each having a separate striker. Device number 10 can now be seen at the Tula arms museum.[http://www.arms-museum.tula.ru/exposition_new/11.html Оружие И.Я. Стечкина, Официальный сайт Тульского государственного музея оружия, retrieved 2013-4-7]{{cite web| url=http://nnm.ru/blogs/krapich/tulskiy_gosudarstvennyy_muzey_oruzhiya/ | title=Тульский Государственный Музей Оружия (Tula State Museum of Weapons) | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325141237/http://nnm.ru/blogs/krapich/tulskiy_gosudarstvennyy_muzey_oruzhiya/ | archive-date=2012-03-25}}

Variant

= TKB-506A =

The TKB-506A had an identical armament, and similar weight of around 0.47 kg with ammo, but was even smaller (7.4 cm height) by doing away with the cut-through hole used for the trigger in TKB-506.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pravda-tv.ru/2012/11/16/18130/igor-yakovlevich-stechkin-i-ego-legendarnoe-oruzhie|title=Игорь Яковлевич Стечкин и его легендарное оружие|website=www.pravda-tv.ru|date=16 November 2012 |language=RU}}