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'''Star Ruby''' was actually designed in Spain when the firearm industry saw that the French and Spanish would need a small automatic pistol for use in World War 1. From 1915-1918, they produced some 700,000 Ruby Pistols. The Ruby had a problem of part interchangablity due to the fact that many of the Ruby pistols were produced in some 39 cottage-industry shops under various names. The French Military needed a lot of small arms fast, and therefore were in no position to argue this point. However, most Ruby pistols were in fact produced by the Spanish firm of Gabilondo in Eibar (Star). These were mass-produced and did have interchangeable parts, and functioned quite well. The Ruby was issued to Telephonists, Stretcher Bearers, Chauchat (Machine Gun) Gunners along with Loaders, 37mm Mortar Crews. and Tank Crews. It served on in the French military until the 1930's.
[[File:French-Pistol-Ruby-M1915-left.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Gabilondo Ruby - .32 ACP]]
[[File:Gabilondo-Ruby.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Gabilondo Ruby - .32 ACP]]
[[File:Garate Ruby L.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Garate, Anitua y Cia Ruby-Type Pistol - .32 ACP]]
[[File:Garate Ruby R.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Garate, Anitua y Cia Ruby-Type Pistol - .32 ACP]]
[[File: Arizmendi Zulaica Cebra.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Arizmendi Zulaica Cebra - .32 ACP]]
[[File: Victoria_Mod_1911.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Victoria Model 1911 - .32 ACP]]
 
==Ruby Pistol==
The '''Ruby pistol''', also known as the '''Eibar-type pistol''', was a type of pistol first developed in Spain by Spanish firm Gabilondo y Urresti (later Llama) in 1914, heavily based on the [[FN Browning 1903|Browning Model 1903]]. It was adopted by the French Army in World War 1 as ''Pistolet Automatique de 7 millimètre 65 genre Ruby''. From 1915-1918, Gabilondo mass-produced Ruby Pistols for the French military. The Ruby was issued to telephonists, stretcher bearers, Chauchat (machine gun) gunners along with loaders, 37mm mortar crews, and tank crews. It served in the French military until the 1930s (longer still in colonies like Indochina and Algeria). Ruby pistols were also supplied to Italy, Russia, Greece and Serbia, and after WW1 to Poland and Finland (from French stocks).
 
When Gabilondo was unable to keep up with the French demand for pistols, they subcontracted the contract to other production shops in Spain, who in turn subcontracted those to other even smaller workshops. This meant that the Ruby was produced by large amounts of manufacturers (about fifty) under a large amount of trade names, like Cebra, Liberty, Destroyer, et cetera. This caused issues with part interchangeability and even a casual comparison will show vast differences between manufacturers, but the French Military needed a lot of small arms fast, and therefore were in no position to argue this point.


[[Image:Star Ruby L.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Star Ruby .32 ACP]]
[[Image:Star Ruby R.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Star Ruby .32 ACP]]
[[Image: Star Ruby Cebra.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Star Ruby .32 ACP - Cebra Model]]
[[Image: Victoria_Mod_1911.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Victoria Model 1911 - .32 ACP]]
==Specifications==
==Specifications==
(1914 - ????)
(1914 - 1919 (military contracts), late 1920s (commercial))


* '''Type:''' Pistol
* '''Type:''' Pistol


* '''Caliber:''' .32 ACP
* '''Caliber:''' 7.65x17mm (.32 ACP)


* '''Weight:''' 1.9 lbs (0.85 kg)
* '''Weight:''' 1.9 lbs (0.85 kg)
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'''The Star Ruby Pistol appears in the following movies, TV shows, and video games:'''
{{Gun Title}}


== Film ==
=== Film ===
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="260"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="75"|'''Date'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
|''[[The Blue Express]]'' ||  || British diplomat || || 1929
|-
|''[[Westfront 1918]]'' ||  || French soldier || || 1930
|-
| ''[[Road to Life (Putyovka v zhizn)]]'' || || A commune member || || 1931
|-
| ''[[Dragnet Girl]]'' || [[Jôji Oka]] || Jyoji || On Promo Images || 1933
|-
|-
| rowspan=2 | ''[[La Bandera]]'' || [[Pierre Renoir]] || Capt. Weller || Gabilondo Ruby || rowspan=2 | 1935
| rowspan=2 | ''[[La Bandera]]'' || [[Pierre Renoir]] || Capt. Weller || Gabilondo Ruby || rowspan=2 | 1935
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| [[Jean Gabin]] || Pierre Gilieth || Gabilondo Ruby
| [[Jean Gabin]] || Pierre Gilieth || Gabilondo Ruby
|-
|-
| ''[[Daybreak]]'' || [[Jean Gabin]] || François || Victoria Model 1911 || 1935
| ''[[Daybreak|Daybreak (Le jour se lève)]]'' || [[Jean Gabin]] || François || "Destroyer" || 1935
|-
| rowspan=5|''[[Pépé le Moko]]'' || [[Jean Gabin]] || Pépé le Moko || rowspan=5| || rowspan=5| 1937
|-
| Gabriel Gabrio || Carlos
|-
| Gilbert Gil || Pierrot
|-
| Line Noro || Inès
|-
| || Gangsters and Policemen
|-
|-
| rowspan=2 | ''[[Saboteur]]'' || [[Norman Lloyd]] || Fry ||  || rowspan=2 | 1942
| rowspan=2 | ''[[Saboteur]]'' || [[Norman Lloyd]] || Fry ||  || rowspan=2 | 1942
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|-
|''[[Lad from Our Town (Paren iz Nashego Goroda)]]'' || [[Nikolai Kryuchkov]] || Colonel Sergei Lukonin || || 1942
|''[[Lad from Our Town (Paren iz Nashego Goroda)]]'' || [[Nikolai Kryuchkov]] || Colonel Sergei Lukonin || || 1942
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Kotovsky]]'' || [[Mikhail Astangov]] || Karakozen || rowspan=2|Unknown version || rowspan=2|1942
|-
| [[Mikhail Grodskiy]] || White Army officer
|-
| rowspan=3|''[[Fighting Film Collection No. 8 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 8)]]'' || [[Lavrenti Masokha]] || Max || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|1942
|-
| [[Pyotr Aleynikov]] || Yugoslavian resistance fighter
|-
| [[Vasiliy Zaychikov]] || "The waiter"
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror]]'' || [[Reginald Denny]] || Sir Evan Barham || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1942
|-
| || Meade's henchman; London criminals
|-
| rowspan=3|''[[In the Name of the Fatherland (Vo imya Rodiny)]]'' || [[Nikolay Kryuchkov]] || Capt. Ivan Safonov || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|1943
|-
| [[Maria Pastukhova]] || Valya Anoshchenko
|-
| Mikhail Chepel || Kozlovsky
|-
| rowspan=4|''[[Terror by Night]]'' || [[Alan Mowbray]] || Col. Sebastian Moran || rowspan=4| || rowspan=4|1946
|-
| Boyd Davis || Inspector MacDonald
|-
| Colin Kenny || Police constable
|-
| [[Dennis Hoey]] || Inspector Lestrade
|-
| ''[[The Secret Brigade (Konstantin Zaslonov)]]'' || [[Gennadiy Michurin]] || Councillor Hirt || || 1949
|-
| rowspan="2" | ''[[The Witch (Noita palaa elämään)]]'' || [[Toivo Mäkelä]] || Hannu || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | 1952
|-
| Hillevi Lagerstam || Greta
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Razzia (Razzia sur la chnouf)]]'' || François Patrice || Jo || Supposedly Victoria Model 1911 || rowspan=2|1955
|-
| || || Seen in a pile of guns, various models
|-
| ''[[Baltic Glory (Baltiyskaya slava)]]'' || [[Adolf Shestakov]] || Captain 1st Rank Ivan Berngardt || || 1957
|-
|-
| ''[[World in My Pocket, The|The World in My Pocket]]'' || [[Rod Steiger]] || Frank Morgan || Cebra model || 1961
| ''[[World in My Pocket, The|The World in My Pocket]]'' || [[Rod Steiger]] || Frank Morgan || Cebra model || 1961
|-
|-
|''[[Monsieur Gangster]]'' || [[Robert Dalban]] || Jean || Two suppressed pistols, Retolaza Hermanos Liberty and another model || 1963
|''[[Monsieur Gangster]]'' || [[Robert Dalban]] || Jean || Suppressed, Hermanos Liberty, another model || 1963
|-
| rowspan=4 | ''[[Maigret Sees Red (Maigret voit rouge)]]'' || [[Jean Gabin]] || Commissioner Maigret ||rowspan=4 |  || rowspan=4 | 1963
|-
| [[Guy Decomble]] || Inspector Lognon
|-
| [[Marcel Bozzuffi]] || Inspector Torrence
|-
| || Police detectives
|-
| rowspan=3|''[[The Black Abbot (Der schwarze Abt)|The Black Abbot]]'' || [[Werner Peters]] || Fabian Gilder || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|1963
|-
| [[Klaus Kinski]] || Thomas Fortuna
|-
| [[Charles Regnier]] || Inspector Puddler
|-
|-
| ''[[Great Spy Chase, The (Les Barbouzes)|The Great Spy Chase (Les Barbouzes)]]'' || [[Francis Blanche]] || Boris Vassiliev || || 1964
| ''[[Great Spy Chase, The (Les Barbouzes)|The Great Spy Chase (Les Barbouzes)]]'' || [[Francis Blanche]] || Boris Vassiliev || || 1964
|-
|-
| ''[[Fantômas]]'' || [[Jean Marais]] || Fandor || Cebra Model || 1964
| ''[[Fantômas]]'' || [[Jean Marais]] || Fandor || Cebra Model || 1964
|-
| rowspan=2 | ''[[Weekend at Dunkirk]]'' || [[Jean-Paul Belmondo]] || Julien Maillat || rowspan=2 |  || rowspan=2 | 1964
|-
| Catherine Spaak || Jeanne
|-
| ''[[The Monocle Laughs (Le Monocle rit jaune)]]'' || [[Olivier Despax]] || Frédéric de La Pérouse || Supposedly Victoria Model 1911 || 1964
|-
| ''[[The Last Adventure]]'' || [[Hans Meyer]] || The Mercenary || Suppressed || 1967
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Bonnot's Gang (La bande à Bonnot)]]'' || | [[Jean-Pierre Kalfon]] || Octave Garnier || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1968
|-
| || French police detectives
|-
|-
| ''[[Adelheid]]'' || [[Petr Cepek]] || Lt. Viktor Chotovický || || 1970
| ''[[Adelheid]]'' || [[Petr Cepek]] || Lt. Viktor Chotovický || || 1970
|-
|-
| ''[[Vabank]]'' || [[Leonard Pietraszak]] || Gustaw Kramer || Cebra model || 1981
| ''[[State of Siege (État de Siège)]]'' || || Guerrillas || || 1972
|-
| rowspan=5 | ''[[Battles Without Honor and Humanity]]'' || [[Tsunehiko Watase]] || Toshio Arita ||  || rowspan=5 | 1973
|-
| [[Tatsuo Umemiya]] || Hiroshi Wakasugi ||
|-
| [[Bunta Sugawara]] || Shozo Hirono ||
|-
| [[Hiroki Matsukata]] || Tetsuya Sakai ||
|-
| || Yakuza ||
|-
| ''[[Lacombe, Lucien]]'' || || || Seen on the table || 1974
|-
| rowspan=2 | ''[[Vabank]]'' || [[Leonard Pietraszak]] || Gustaw Kramer || rowspan=2 | Alkartasuna model || rowspan=2 | 1981
|-
| [[Jan Machulski]] || Henryk Kwinto
|-
| rowspan=3 | ''[[Crime and Punishment (Rikos ja rangaistus)]]'' || [[Markku Toikka]] || Antti Rahikainen || rowspan=3 | || rowspan=3 | 1983
|-
| [[Aino Seppo]] || Eeva Laakso
|-
| [[Hannu Lauri]] || Heinonen
|-
|-
| ''[[Black List (Liste noire)]]'' || [[Annie Girardot]] || Jeanne Dufour || Cebra model || 1984
| ''[[Black List (Liste noire)]]'' || [[Annie Girardot]] || Jeanne Dufour || Cebra model || 1984
|-
|-
| ''[[Vabank II]]'' || [[Witold Pyrkosz]] || Dunczyk || || 1985
| rowspan=2 | ''[[Vabank II]]'' || [[Witold Pyrkosz]] || Dunczyk || rowspan=2 | Alkartasuna model || rowspan=2 | 1985
|-
| [[Jacek Chmielnik]] || Moks
|-
| ''[[The Shore of Salvation (Bereg spaseniya)]]'' || Kwak Men So || Harata ||  || 1990
|-
|-
| ''[[A Very Long Engagement]]'' || || French soldier || || 2004
| rowspan=3|''[[Baise-moi]]'' || [[Raffaëla Anderson]] || Manu || rowspan=3| Garate, Anitua y Cia model || rowspan=3| 2000
|-
| [[Karen Lancaume]] || Nadine
|-
| Hacène Beddrouh || La frère de Manu
|-
| ''[[A Very Long Engagement]]'' || Bastoche || Jérôme Kircher || || 2004
|-
|-
| ''[[Black Book]] || [[Thom Hoffman]] || Hans Akkermans || Suppressed || 2006
| ''[[Black Book]] || [[Thom Hoffman]] || Hans Akkermans || Suppressed || 2006
|-
| ''[[Yakuza Busting Girls: Final Death Ride Battle]]'' || Rena Komine || Junko ||  || 2010
|-
|''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)]]''||||French Army Officer||||2022
|-
|-
|}
|}


== Television ==
=== Television ===
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| [[Kurt Kreuger]] || Polya ||Victoria Model 1911/ "A Cube of Sugar" (S01E27)
| [[Kurt Kreuger]] || Polya ||Victoria Model 1911/ "A Cube of Sugar" (S01E27)
|-
| ''[[The Strogovs (Strogovy)]]'' || || || Seen among Shtychkov's guns; Ep.7 || 1976
|-
| rowspan=4|''[[Three Days of June]]'' || [[Guy Marchand]] || Colonel Valadon || rowspan=4| || rowspan=4| 2004
|-
| Marc Berman || Captain Rollet
|-
| || Lieutenant Samboura
|-
| || French soldiers
|-
| ''[[Les Fusillés ]]'' || || A French soldier || || 2015
|-
| ''[[Spy City]]'' || || || Ep. 02 || 2020
|-
|-
|}
|}


== Video Games ==
=== Video Games ===
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Date'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Date'''
|-
|-
| ''[[Forgotten Hope]]'' || || || 2003
| ''[[Forgotten Hope]]'' || || || 2003
|-
| ''[[Battlefield: 1918]]'' || || || 2004
|-
| ''[[Forgotten Hope 2]]'' || "PA Ruby Mle 15" || Added in v2.6 (2022) || 2007
|-
|''[[Battle of Empires: 1914-1918]]'' || "Ruby" || || 2015
|-
| ''[[Verdun]]'' || "Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 Genre Ruby" ||  || 2015
|-
| ''[[Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades]]'' || "Ruby Pistol" || || 2016
|-
| ''[[Battlefield V]]'' || "Ruby" || || 2018
|-
| ''[[Beyond The Wire]]'' || "Ruby M1915" |||| 2022
|-
|-
|}
|}


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==See Also==
 
* [[Star Bonifacio Echeverria]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Star Bonifacio Echeverria.
==UNION pistol==
[[Image:Frenchunion.jpg|thumb|right|300px|French UNION with magazine and loading tool - .32 ACP]]
 
The '''UNION pistol''' is a trade name used by French, Spanish, and American companies for a clone of the Ruby, first made in 1925. They came under a variety of specifications, with versions coming in different calibers (generally .32 ACP, some in .25 ACP and some 7.65×20mm Longue models used for French military trials), capacities, barrel lengths, and some even having select-fire capabilities.
 
Perhaps one of the more famous attributes of the pistol is a 35-round horseshoe-shaped magazine patented for the gun in 1930 in France. French UNION makers were experimenting with large magazines for the machine pistol version, and the straight magazines they came up with ended up being too large to easily use, so the magazine was wrapped around to the front of the gun.
 
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'''The UNION pistol appears in the following movies, TV shows, and video games:'''
 
=== Video Games ===
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|-
| ''[[Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades]]'' || || .32 ACP French UNION with 35-round magazine, long barrel, no iron sights, automatic capability. || 2016
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Victoria Model 1911 - .32 ACP

Ruby Pistol

The Ruby pistol, also known as the Eibar-type pistol, was a type of pistol first developed in Spain by Spanish firm Gabilondo y Urresti (later Llama) in 1914, heavily based on the Browning Model 1903. It was adopted by the French Army in World War 1 as Pistolet Automatique de 7 millimètre 65 genre Ruby. From 1915-1918, Gabilondo mass-produced Ruby Pistols for the French military. The Ruby was issued to telephonists, stretcher bearers, Chauchat (machine gun) gunners along with loaders, 37mm mortar crews, and tank crews. It served in the French military until the 1930s (longer still in colonies like Indochina and Algeria). Ruby pistols were also supplied to Italy, Russia, Greece and Serbia, and after WW1 to Poland and Finland (from French stocks).

When Gabilondo was unable to keep up with the French demand for pistols, they subcontracted the contract to other production shops in Spain, who in turn subcontracted those to other even smaller workshops. This meant that the Ruby was produced by large amounts of manufacturers (about fifty) under a large amount of trade names, like Cebra, Liberty, Destroyer, et cetera. This caused issues with part interchangeability and even a casual comparison will show vast differences between manufacturers, but the French Military needed a lot of small arms fast, and therefore were in no position to argue this point.

Specifications

(1914 - 1919 (military contracts), late 1920s (commercial))

  • Type: Pistol
  • Caliber: 7.65x17mm (.32 ACP)
  • Weight: 1.9 lbs (0.85 kg)
  • Length: 6.7 in (17 cm), 8.3 in (21 cm)
  • Barrel lengths: 3.1 in (8 cm), 4.7 (12 cm)
  • Capacity: 9
  • Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

The Ruby Pistol and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Film Actor Character Note Date
The Blue Express British diplomat 1929
Westfront 1918 French soldier 1930
Road to Life (Putyovka v zhizn) A commune member 1931
Dragnet Girl Jôji Oka Jyoji On Promo Images 1933
La Bandera Pierre Renoir Capt. Weller Gabilondo Ruby 1935
Jean Gabin Pierre Gilieth Gabilondo Ruby
Daybreak (Le jour se lève) Jean Gabin François "Destroyer" 1935
Pépé le Moko Jean Gabin Pépé le Moko 1937
Gabriel Gabrio Carlos
Gilbert Gil Pierrot
Line Noro Inès
Gangsters and Policemen
Saboteur Norman Lloyd Fry 1942
Robert Cummings Barry
Lad from Our Town (Paren iz Nashego Goroda) Nikolai Kryuchkov Colonel Sergei Lukonin 1942
Kotovsky Mikhail Astangov Karakozen Unknown version 1942
Mikhail Grodskiy White Army officer
Fighting Film Collection No. 8 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 8) Lavrenti Masokha Max 1942
Pyotr Aleynikov Yugoslavian resistance fighter
Vasiliy Zaychikov "The waiter"
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror Reginald Denny Sir Evan Barham 1942
Meade's henchman; London criminals
In the Name of the Fatherland (Vo imya Rodiny) Nikolay Kryuchkov Capt. Ivan Safonov 1943
Maria Pastukhova Valya Anoshchenko
Mikhail Chepel Kozlovsky
Terror by Night Alan Mowbray Col. Sebastian Moran 1946
Boyd Davis Inspector MacDonald
Colin Kenny Police constable
Dennis Hoey Inspector Lestrade
The Secret Brigade (Konstantin Zaslonov) Gennadiy Michurin Councillor Hirt 1949
The Witch (Noita palaa elämään) Toivo Mäkelä Hannu 1952
Hillevi Lagerstam Greta
Razzia (Razzia sur la chnouf) François Patrice Jo Supposedly Victoria Model 1911 1955
Seen in a pile of guns, various models
Baltic Glory (Baltiyskaya slava) Adolf Shestakov Captain 1st Rank Ivan Berngardt 1957
The World in My Pocket Rod Steiger Frank Morgan Cebra model 1961
Monsieur Gangster Robert Dalban Jean Suppressed, Hermanos Liberty, another model 1963
Maigret Sees Red (Maigret voit rouge) Jean Gabin Commissioner Maigret 1963
Guy Decomble Inspector Lognon
Marcel Bozzuffi Inspector Torrence
Police detectives
The Black Abbot Werner Peters Fabian Gilder 1963
Klaus Kinski Thomas Fortuna
Charles Regnier Inspector Puddler
The Great Spy Chase (Les Barbouzes) Francis Blanche Boris Vassiliev 1964
Fantômas Jean Marais Fandor Cebra Model 1964
Weekend at Dunkirk Jean-Paul Belmondo Julien Maillat 1964
Catherine Spaak Jeanne
The Monocle Laughs (Le Monocle rit jaune) Olivier Despax Frédéric de La Pérouse Supposedly Victoria Model 1911 1964
The Last Adventure Hans Meyer The Mercenary Suppressed 1967
Bonnot's Gang (La bande à Bonnot) Jean-Pierre Kalfon Octave Garnier 1968
French police detectives
Adelheid Petr Cepek Lt. Viktor Chotovický 1970
State of Siege (État de Siège) Guerrillas 1972
Battles Without Honor and Humanity Tsunehiko Watase Toshio Arita 1973
Tatsuo Umemiya Hiroshi Wakasugi
Bunta Sugawara Shozo Hirono
Hiroki Matsukata Tetsuya Sakai
Yakuza
Lacombe, Lucien Seen on the table 1974
Vabank Leonard Pietraszak Gustaw Kramer Alkartasuna model 1981
Jan Machulski Henryk Kwinto
Crime and Punishment (Rikos ja rangaistus) Markku Toikka Antti Rahikainen 1983
Aino Seppo Eeva Laakso
Hannu Lauri Heinonen
Black List (Liste noire) Annie Girardot Jeanne Dufour Cebra model 1984
Vabank II Witold Pyrkosz Dunczyk Alkartasuna model 1985
Jacek Chmielnik Moks
The Shore of Salvation (Bereg spaseniya) Kwak Men So Harata 1990
Baise-moi Raffaëla Anderson Manu Garate, Anitua y Cia model 2000
Karen Lancaume Nadine
Hacène Beddrouh La frère de Manu
A Very Long Engagement Bastoche Jérôme Kircher 2004
Black Book Thom Hoffman Hans Akkermans Suppressed 2006
Yakuza Busting Girls: Final Death Ride Battle Rena Komine Junko 2010
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) French Army Officer 2022

Television

Title Actor Character Note / Episode Date
Mission: Impossible Barbara Bain Cinnamon Carter Victoria Model 1911/ "Fakeout" (S01E12) 1966
Francis Lederer Senko Brobin Victoria Model 1911/ "A Cube of Sugar" (S01E27)
Kurt Kreuger Polya Victoria Model 1911/ "A Cube of Sugar" (S01E27)
The Strogovs (Strogovy) Seen among Shtychkov's guns; Ep.7 1976
Three Days of June Guy Marchand Colonel Valadon 2004
Marc Berman Captain Rollet
Lieutenant Samboura
French soldiers
Les Fusillés A French soldier 2015
Spy City Ep. 02 2020

Video Games

Game Title Appears As Note Date
Forgotten Hope 2003
Battlefield: 1918 2004
Forgotten Hope 2 "PA Ruby Mle 15" Added in v2.6 (2022) 2007
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 "Ruby" 2015
Verdun "Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 Genre Ruby" 2015
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades "Ruby Pistol" 2016
Battlefield V "Ruby" 2018
Beyond The Wire "Ruby M1915" 2022


UNION pistol

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French UNION with magazine and loading tool - .32 ACP

The UNION pistol is a trade name used by French, Spanish, and American companies for a clone of the Ruby, first made in 1925. They came under a variety of specifications, with versions coming in different calibers (generally .32 ACP, some in .25 ACP and some 7.65×20mm Longue models used for French military trials), capacities, barrel lengths, and some even having select-fire capabilities.

Perhaps one of the more famous attributes of the pistol is a 35-round horseshoe-shaped magazine patented for the gun in 1930 in France. French UNION makers were experimenting with large magazines for the machine pistol version, and the straight magazines they came up with ended up being too large to easily use, so the magazine was wrapped around to the front of the gun.

The UNION pistol appears in the following movies, TV shows, and video games:

Video Games

Game Title Appears As Note Date
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades .32 ACP French UNION with 35-round magazine, long barrel, no iron sights, automatic capability. 2016


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