Glock 18 is an Austrian automatic pistol manufactured by Glock GmbH with a caliber of 9 19 mm Parabellum. Designed to arm the special forces of the army and police. Glock 18 Photo Glock 18C version of the third generation of Glock pistols.

Glock 18 was developed in 1986 for the anti-terrorist special forces EKO Cobra (Einsatzkommando Cobra) of the Austrian federal police, who needed lightweight compact weapons with the possibility of firing bursts. Glock 18 was created on the basis of the Glock 17 pistol and is distinguished, first of all, by the presence of a shooting mode interpreter, which allows firing single shots or bursts. In the latter case, the rate of fire is about 1200 rounds per minute.



Possible release options, shooting both in bursts of three shots, and fully automatic fire, but not in one sample. The Glock 18 also differs in the dimensions of the frame and slide-casing guides, trigger parts and the barrel, which was done to eliminate interchangeability with other models, in order to prevent the conversion of self-loading pistols permitted in the civilian market to automatic weapons.