Developed during the 1980s, the "Personal Defense Weapon" (PDW) concept was created in response to a NATO request as a replacement for 9×19mm Parabellum submachine guns. The PDW is a compact automatic weapon that can defeat enemy body armor and which can be used conveniently by non-combatant and support troops, as well as a close quarters ...

2021年11月5日 · Many have said that the NATO PDW trials were a way for arming rear echelon Western-European troops in defense of Russian paratrooper invasions. Today we are here to challenge current ideas on the NATO PDW trials… ideas …

2020年7月19日 · 单兵自卫武器（Personal Defence Weapon，简称PDW）的概念，最初是在1986年美国战备协会举办的年会上提出的，期后美国本宁堡步兵学校在《美国轻武器总规划》中正式提出开发PDW的设想，其目的是取代手枪、冲锋枪和短突击步枪。

2025年2月17日 · The personal defence weapon is a relatively recent development in terms of small arms, emerging in the 1980s in response to a NATO requirement for a new weapons system that would potentially replace the submachine gun and the pistol in certain applications. Yet thus far, disruption seems to have been relatively minimal.

2022年10月14日 · The Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) concept has been around longer than it’s had a specific term applied to it. The term itself and its acronym first came to be in the 1980s when NATO specifically hosted a contest to choose a replacement for submachine guns.

The FN P90® selective fire carbine was developed for NATO in the late 1980s as the Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) component of the integrated 5.7x28mm Weapons System. It is currently deployed by more than 40 nations around the globe.

The orthodox understanding of the Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) that I have seen across the internet is that NATO was worried because Soviet Paratroopers started being issued body armour, which could block the 9mm rounds used by the …

2018年3月30日 · Despite being conceived officially by NATO in the late 1980s, in professional small arms circles today there is still heated debate whether the PDW effectively fills that utopian genre of the one-stop-shop weapon, or is it a tactical anachronism destined to fall into obscurity like the caseless bullet?

2024年3月14日 · The political landscape of NATO member nations played a pivotal role in the adoption of a new PDW caliber. The NAAG report from 2002 offers a glimpse into the trials’ complexities, revealing that the French and Belgians pushed for the 5.7x28mm cartridge to replace the 9mm.

2024年2月23日 · The term PDW today generally refers to either the FN P90, or the HK MP-7. This makes sense in a way, after all they were the finalists for the NATO PDW trials. While understandable, this conclusion is based on a flawed premise, NATO wasn’t testing to select a new PDW platform, they were testing to select a new PDW caliber to replace 9mm.