6.5×25mm
The 6.5×25mm CBJ is a firearm cartridge designed by CBJ Tech AB, a Swedish weapon development company based in Kungsbacka, for its CBJ-MS submachine gun/personal defence weapon.
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The 6.5×25mm CBJ is a firearm cartridge designed by CBJ Tech AB, a Swedish weapon development company based in Kungsbacka, for its CBJ-MS submachine gun/personal defence weapon.
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Named after CBJ Tech AB's founder and president Carl Bertil Johansson, the 6.5×25mm CBJ has the same functional dimensions as the 9×19mm Parabellum and was designed to produce the same recoil and pressures to allow most 9 mm caliber weapons to be converted to 6.5×25mm CBJ with a simple barrel change. Also, because the 6.5×25mm CBJ has the same overall dimensions as the 9×19mm Parabellum, it can be used in the same magazines. The primary loading of the standard ball round fires a saboted 2 g (31 gr), 4 mm (0.16 in) diameter tungsten kinetic penetrator, weighing a total of 2.5 g (39 gr) with the sabot. It has a muzzle velocity of 730 m/s (2,400 ft/s) from a 120 mm (4.7 in) barrel with a muzzle energy of 533 J (393 ft⋅lb). From a 300 mm (12 in) barrel, it has a muzzle velocity of 900 m/s (3,000 ft/s) with a muzzle energy of 810 J (600 ft⋅lb), and has good armor penetration out to 400 m (440 yd). The standard saboted tungsten ball, when fired from a 300 mm (12 in) length barrel, can pierce 9 mm (0.35 in) of armor plate and leave a 6 mm (0.24 in) diameter entry hole. Against the same plate, both 5.56×45mm NATO SS109 and 7.62×51mm NATO M80 failed to penetrate. From a 300 mm (12 in) barrel, the tungsten saboted round has the same trajectory as a 5.56 NATO from an M4 carbine and a velocity of 578 m/s (1,900 ft/s) at 300 m (328 yd), which will penetrate CRISAT armor. The 6.5×25mm CBJ brass-jacketed ball rounds are heavier than similar rounds in the FN 5.7×28mm and HK 4.6×30mm. From a Glock pistol, the round is capable of penetrating 7 mm (0.28 in) armor plate. There are several other 6.5×25mm CBJ bullets other than the sabot in full-caliber. Military rounds include a "spoon-tip" loading that increases the chance of the bullet to cavitate on impact and a cheap training version with a different core material. Police rounds include a 2.5 g (39 gr) high-energy-transfer round that can penetrate CRISAT armor up to 50 m (55 yd), and a frangible round for training and situations requiring minimal barrier penetration. A subsonic armor-piercing round for use with a suppressor weighs 8 g (120 gr).
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- 1.Cartridge Information retrieved 24 November 2009
- 2.thefirearmblog.com – The amazing 6.5x25mm CBJ
- 3.CBJ Tech – About Us.
- 4.Brugger & Thomet’s MP9 in 6.5×25 CBJ – SAdefensejournal.com, 14 October 2011
- 5.Where Next For PDWs? – /www.quarry.nildram.co.uk
- 6."6.5x25mm CBJ: Shooting Through an APC with a Glock?" YouTube, uploaded by Forgotten Weapons, 15 11 2025, www.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ECrL_4GPc
- 7.https://modernfirearms.net/en/submachine-guns/sweden-submachine-guns/cbj-ms-pdw-eng/
- 8.the new 6.5x25 CBJ cartridge. 2023-09-10.
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