U-39 Plechovka

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U-39 Plechovka
Weapon in Just Cause 3
Type	Assault rifle
Usage	Two handed
Maximum ammunition carried	395
Maximum ammunition in the weapon	35
List of owners	The Rebellion Medici Military Black Hand Former Prisoners of Lacrima D.R.M. Looch Rico Rodriguez (if he wants one)

The U-39 Plechovka is an assault rifle in Just Cause 3.

Appearance

It resembles IMI Galil, but with the magazine of an AK pattern rifle. It also resembles the Vektor R4.

The Rebel drop description says: "The Plechovka burst rifle was developed with a straight stock and an over-barrel gas operation for enhanced precision and combat high recoil rates."

Performance

The U-39 is the basic assault rifle of the game. It features a 35 round magazine, acceptable accuracy, a moderate rate of fire, but pretty poor damage. It is a fully automatic weapon, contrary to the rebel drop description (likely developer oversight). Overall, it's not very useful. If you're looking for a basic, all-round assault rifle, the CS Predator is better in practically every way.

Locations

• Can be found in weapon cabinets.
• Can be called in from rebel drop.
• Rico's initial assault rifle in Welcome Home is one of these. Whether the player wants another weapon later is up to them.
  • His other starting weapons are the U-55S Pozhar and UVK-13, all made by Urga.
  • He is also seen with one in some loading screens, and also some cut scenes.
• Wielded by The Rebellion, Medici Military, and less commonly the D.R.M..
  • Wielded by the majority of Rebellion members as their standard weapon.
  • Wielded by male Medici Military grunts as their standard weapon.
  • On rare occasions, Black Hand at Di Ravello's mansion can wield this weapon as well. This is assuming one does not have Mech Land Assault installed.
  • A female soldier at Vigilator Sud can be found wielding this weapon. However, this is very rare to see.
  • A few commandos at Porto Darsena can also be found wielding this weapon. Those particular ones can be found around the Sphere Tank.
  • In Welcome Home, the two D.R.M. grunts and elite attacking Mario use this weapon.
  • There is a machine gunner with this weapon in Citate Di Ravello. He is at the billboard between the gas station (the one in the skyscrapers) and the docks.
  • There are two D.R.M. members armed with U-39 Plechovkas near the two Sphere Tanks in the docks at Citate Di Ravello. The two D.R.M. members can be either two grunts, two elites, two captains, a grunt with a captain, a grunt with an elite, or an elite with a captain.
• Wielded by Black Hand and Former Prisoners of Lacrima in the Mech Land Assault DLC.
  • Wielded by the majority of former prisoners as their standard weapon.
  • Some Black Hand Aegis operatives wield this weapon, though this is uncommonly seen.

Trivia

• This weapon is made by the fictional company Urga.
• Plechovka (read "plekhovka") means "can" (as in "tin can") in Czech. In Russian this means something you carry on your shoulder - "plecho" in Russian means "shoulder," so plechovka is something you carry on your shoulder.
• It says URGA UP-39 on the side.
  • The original name of this weapon was "UP-39", which could explain this. See also: Cut game content from Just Cause 3.
  • The original name could be referencing the UMP-40, but this is unknown.
• This weapon could be considered the "AK-74" of Medici in the Just Cause Universe, because it is cheap, easily obtained, common among guerrillas, light, and has some wooden parts on it.
  • However, unlike most AKs, there is no dust cover release on the rear of the receiver.
• The loading handle is missing the cutout for the handle itself to go further back, meaning the bolt can't move far enough back to chamber a round and the gun would be unable to fire.
• The serial number on the side is over 1 billion, meaning more than a billion units have been produced, which is highly unlikely.
• The low damage per bullet and odd design elements could be explained by the weapon being based on the South African .22 Rimfire conversion for the R4.

Gallery

The weapon's HUD icon.

Aiming with the weapon.

Held by Rico.

Seen in the Rebel drop menu.

Seen in the pre-launch Nerd3 gameplay video.

Wielded by three female rebels.

Wielded by Medici Military grunts. These are the most common soldiers in the game.

Rico using one at Cava Geminos Nord.