Cordova Estandar: Colombia’s Domestic Service Pistol

Javier Traba Pistolas: https://www.youtube.com/@TrabaPistolas/videos

When the Colombian government wanted a locally produced service pistol for its military and security services, it turned to Indumil – the government-owned small arms factory. Indumil already had a license from IMI to produce Galil rifles (both the older AR and the new Ace), and they leveraged the tools and materials from the Galil into the new pistol. Named “Córdova” after
José María Córdova, a young military hero from Colombia’s (and Bolivia’s and Peru’s) fight for independence from Spain, the gun uses a modular fire control system in a polymer frame, with a slide design modeled in part from the IMI Jericho. It is a DA/SA, hammer fired, 9x19mm pistol with a Browning tilting-barrel locking system.

Production began in 2014, and has continued ever since with tens of thousands now made and in use by Colombian military and police units. This pistol has gone through several improvement cycles during that time and it is a quite good handgun, if not particularly unorthodox. In addition to the Standard (Estandar) model in the video, they also produce a compact model and a tactical model.

Many thanks to Indumil for giving me access to film in their factory, and to Javier for letting me use his Cordova!