The waiting is almost over for the Silverback Airsoft PP-19 Bizon as it's right now the most anticipated Russian rifle in the airsoft market this year. With no news about the coming Zeta Lab AS Val, the PP-19 Bizon has taken the attention of airsoft players who are fans of Russian-made weapons. The good thing is, our Hong Kong content partner, Public Enemy, have gotten the scoop on the product.

They say that is an all-steel design and with first class feel, though regarding the internals, price point and availability, no information was given out yet. But with the photos posted at their Facebook Page, it's now actually in production phase which means, the next phase is putting it into the hands of retailers to sell to you.

We'll let Public Enemy keep your interest high on this for the meantime with a more "look and see" video.  We're still recuperating from the Ground Zero National Weekender 2012 to have our brains in the mood for some serious feature writing. As for what the PP-19 Bizon is, here is a description from Wikipedia:

The PP-19 Bizon ("Bison") is a 9mm submachine gun developed in the early 1990s at Izhmash by a team of engineers headed by Victor Kalashnikov (son of famed AK-47 designer Mikhail Kalashnikov). Alexi Dragunov, youngest son of Evgeny Dragunov (responsible for the SVD sniper rifle), was also a member of the design team.

The Bizon was developed at the request of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and is primarily intended for counter-terrorist and law enforcement units that usually need fast and accurate fire at close ranges. Prototypes were trialled by the Special Equipment Research Institute in 1995 where they outperformed several competitors, and the weapon was accepted into service on December 28, 1996. The Bizon is issued to armed response units of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Ministry of Justice. It was used in combat operations against separatists in the volatile North Caucasus region, namely Chechnya and Dagestan.