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Hi, I did update of pages bellow, would you please look at them and correct language? Thank you!
Info about CZ/Vz - Vz. is abbreviation (often written without dot at the end - Vz) of vzor which means model. Only weapons adopted by army normally has Vz in the name (e.g. successful CZ 75 pistol was not adopted by army so there's no Vz 75 pistol). CZ is mostly abbreviation from Česká Zbrojovka - Czech Armament Factory. But it's a bit complicated, there were/are several weapon manufactures in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic - Zbrojovka Uherský Brod (most known nowadays), Zbrojovka Strakonice, Zbrojovka Brno, Zbrojovka Vsetín. For more information see:
- http://www.czub.cz/index.php?p=7&lang=en
- http://www.czstrakonice.cz/
- http://www.zbrojovkabrno.com/historie.htm
- http://www.zvi.cz/en/company-profile/company-profile-present.html
Also military weapons were after WWII designed by several independent development centers (e.g. ZVS-VVÚ Brno, VTÚVM Slavičín etc.) and then assigned to a production factory, so it couldn't be said e.g. Sa 58 was designed by CZUB, you may only say it was produced by CZUB. Next, there are several trademarks containing CZ and ČZ (see urls above) and a model name itself also may contain CZ (e.g. CZ 75 or CZ 550 is in my opinion model name not abbreviation of factory name). Note Sa is abbreviation from Samopal, which means submachinegun (e.g. "9 mm samopal vzor 48a" = "9 mm samopal vzor 23" - 9 mm submachinegun model ... or "7,65 mm samopal vzor 61 Škorpion" - 7.65 mm submachinegun model 61 Scorpion). Czech army used term Samopal for Sa 58 assault rifle too (full name is "7,62 mm samopal vzor 58" - "7.62 mm submachinegun model 58"), may be as an analogy to Russian term "automat".