The Firearm Blog has so far covered many new weapons produced by the Vietnamese small arms industry, from assault rifles to sniper rifles, light machine guns, pistols, and some other unusual guns.Today, let’s talk about a rather interesting rifle that is being adopted in significant quantities by the Vietnamese military: the STV-022 stockless carbine.In the USA, such weapons are often called “rifle-caliber pistols”, but they are typically not employed by military forces.As mentioned in previous articles about STV-380 and STV-215, “STV” is the abbreviation for “Súng Tiểu liên Việt Nam” (Vietnamese Submachine Gun); however, unlike the STV-380 and STV-215, which the number indicates the barrel length, in the STV-022, the number “022” means the year 2022, when the weapon was officially accepted into service.