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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