7.62×45mm
Introduced 1952Alois FarlíkCIP standard
Also known as 7.62×45mm vz. 52: the same cartridge under different names, all of which find this page.
Dimensions and pressure
Generated from the schema, like every specification table on this site, so a figure recorded on this entry cannot be missing from the table.
Identity
- Designed by
- Alois Farlík
- Introduced
- 1952
- Production
- not recorded
- Standards body
- C.I.P.
- Case type
- Rimless
- Case shape
- Bottleneck
Dimensions
- Bullet diameter
- 7.83 mm0.3083 insource
Cartridge maximum, dimension G1.
- Bore diameter
- not recorded
- Case length
- 45 mm1.772 insource
Dimension L3.
- Overall length
- 60 mm2.362 insource
Dimension L6.
- Rim diameter
- 11.3 mm0.4449 insource
Dimension R1.
- Neck diameter
- 8.66 mm0.3409 insource
Dimension H2.
- Base diameter
- 11.3 mm0.4449 insource
Dimension P1.
Pressure
- Maximum pressure
- 430 MPa62,366 psisource
Pmax 4300 bar.
- Pressure standard
- C.I.P.
SAAMI and C.I.P. measure pressure differently and their figures are not interchangeable, which is why the body is always named beside the figure.
Loads
Velocity is recorded per barrel length as published. A gun page interpolates between these points and never projects beyond them.
8.5 g ball
- Bullet mass
- 8.5 g131.2 grestimated
From the Wikipedia infobox, uncited there.
- Cartridge mass
- not recorded
- Bullet type
- not recorded
- G1 BC
- not recorded
- G7 BC
- not recorded
| Barrel | Velocity |
|---|---|
| 520 mm20.47 in | 760 m/s2,493 fps |
Chambered in
Computed from every entry that lists this cartridge. Nothing here is hand-maintained.
No entry on the site is chambered in it yet.
Gallery
Image credit
- Title
- File:45and39.png
- Author
- Darkman IV ( talk )
- Licence
- CC0, public domain dedication
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:45and39.png
Image credit
- Title
- File:762x45s.png
- Author
- Darkman IV ( talk )
- Licence
- CC0, public domain dedication
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:762x45s.png
Detail
The 7.62×45mm is a rimless bottleneck intermediate cartridge Alois Farlík developed in Czechoslovakia during the 1940s, adopted in 1952 for the Vz. 52 rifle, the Vz. 52 light machine gun and the ZB-530 machine gun. Its case shape was chosen to feed and extract reliably across bolt-action rifles, self-loading rifles and machine guns alike under demanding field conditions, an intermediate-cartridge design brief similar in spirit to the Soviet 7.62×39mm being developed around the same period.
Czechoslovakia’s independent path did not last: within five years of adoption, the country fell into line with the wider Warsaw Pact and rechambered its service arms for the standard Soviet 7.62×39mm, ending the 7.62×45mm’s brief run as a national service cartridge by 1957. Its published ballistics sit close to the 7.62×39mm it was replaced by, and roughly comparable to the American .30-30 Winchester with an equivalent bullet.
All dimensional and pressure figures on this page come from C.I.P.’s own published standard and are recorded as verified. Its one published bullet weight and velocity come from Wikipedia’s own uncited infobox rather than a clickable primary source and are recorded as estimated.
References
- 7.62×45mm · 1363374900 · read 2026-09-24
- C.I.P. TDCC datasheet — 7,62 x 45 · 2008-09-23 · read 2026-09-24
Last verified 2026-09-24 · review status: agent-populated