Obrez pistol complete fiction?

[Firm and Sweet]

So I think the Obrez pistol is a really cool gun, but I can't find anything on it actually existing. Did Dice just make it up from scratch?

Just so you know, I'm talking specifically about the in game weapon. I'm aware that the Obrez is a real life gun, but as far as I can tell, it only refers to a Mosin Nagant that's just had its stock and barrel sawed down. I can't find any reference to a pistol variant.

[Waiting to Visit Japan (^.-)]

Much of this game is fantasy.
Just have fun.

[Firm and Sweet]

Yeah I'm upset by it or anything. It's just the first one I noticed never seems to have existed in any capacity, not even a blueprint.

[ivan]

Originally posted by Man of wealth:

So I think the Obrez pistol is a really cool gun, but I can't find anything on it actually existing. Did Dice just make it up from scratch?

Just so you know, I'm talking specifically about the in game weapon. I'm aware that the Obrez is a real life gun, but as far as I can tell, it only refers to a Mosin Nagant that's just had its stock and barrel sawed down. I can't find any reference to a pistol variant.

sawn off mosins (and smle's) were and still are, rarely ,used, theyre mostly in the hands of certain "groups" in the middle east and are used as very cheap replacements for pistols,

the battlefield 1 "obrez" model is just a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 with its stock removed and a pistol grip attached.

[A_cat_named_Hercules]

Truth is that much of the game is fiction based on true events.Since the Obrez was a makeshift weapon made as small as possible so it could be carried without raising suspicion,nobody knows if this actual version really existed.
Same can be said for the Putilov armored car,since there was no specific variant of it and they were constructed on any available truck frame.
The game says that they were made on truck frames imported from America,but there were also costructed on Austin truck frames given by the British,on FIAT frames from trucks given by the Italians,and god knows on what else.

[Turkey Ninja]

obrez is real for the tsar

[z4v3k]

Originally posted by Waiting to Visit Japan (^.-):

Much of this game is fantasy.
Just have fun.

There's no fantasy in this game, every gun existed in reality at that time.

[z4v3k]

At first you couldn't find any proof of actually existing it and then you admit that it is a real gun... wtf.

Obrez isn't the actual name of the gun it just means sawed off in Russian, it's the Mosin Nagant just shortened and a pistol grip attached.

[Sonrangeri]

If they went full realism on all guns in game, it wouldn't be fun to play. They had to take some liberties in some parts of game. Battles itself are still what truly happened. Good example why full realism wouldnt be fun is limiting your weapon options in game, you could be playing as British, and would be limited to Bristish weapons only etc.

[Rich]

90% of all french, brittish and german troops are black. This is a fantasy game, they might as well add dwarves and elves.

[Blazed_minD]

Most of these weapons existed, just never produced or used en masse like the game would have you believe.

The AV7 for example; Germany only ever produced around 19, but they appear as frequently in-game as the mass produced Mk I.

As for the Obrez, there's probably one account out there somewhere of a soldier that stripped down a Nagant Rifle to conceal it on a mission. From there it's made it's way into 'BF1 history'.