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The fictional secret agent James Bond uses a Walther PPK in many of the novels and films: Ian Fleming's choice of Bond's weapon directly influenced the popularity and notoriety of the PPK. [20] [21] Fleming had given Bond a .25 Beretta 418 pistol in early novels but switched to the PPK in Dr.
Walther PPK/S 9mm short A smartgun version equipped with a palm-print reader, only enabling the gun to fire when it detects Bond's palm-print. [ 96 ] [ 92 ] [ 9 ]
Tomorrow Never Dies marked the first appearance of the Walther P99 as Bond's pistol. It replaced the Walther PPK that the character had carried in every Eon Bond film since Dr. No in 1962, with the exception of Moonraker in which Bond was not seen with a pistol. Walther wanted to debut its new firearm in a Bond film, which had been one of its ...
Sinclair referred to the gun – made famous by Sean Connery in the 007 film Dr No – as a ‘James Bond ting’.
He carries both guns during a mission in Jamaica for this novel, but only fires the S&W; in subsequent stories, he relies on the PPK. In the film adaptation of Dr. No, the first in the series, Boothroyd only offers the PPK (in the scene, a larger Walther PP stands in for the mentioned PPK) and Bond reluctantly turns in his Beretta 1919 or 318 ...
The Walther PPX and the Walther Creed semi-automatic pistols were developed by the German company Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen of Ulm as low-cost duty handguns. The PPX was available in 9×19mm Parabellum and .40 S&W. [2] Its successor, the Creed, was available only in 9mm. The guns were intended to appeal to the "budget" handgun market.
In 1972–1973 Walther introduced the Walther PP Super, chambered in 9×18mm Ultra for the West German Police. [1] It might have been influenced by the success of the Soviet 9×18mm Makarov, although most observed the opposite (the Ultra cartridge is usually agreed to have been the design basis for the Makarov, with similar case length and a slightly wider and shorter projectile).
Manurhin, officially known as Manufacture de Machines du Haut-Rhin, in Haut-Rhin, France started by manufacturing Walther PP, PPK, and PPK/S model pistols in 1952. The guns were imported into the US from 1953 by Tholson Co. and from 1956 by Interarms. In 1984, Manurhin imported their new models directly; they were marked Manurhin on the left ...