| Ruby P624(f) | |
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| General Historical Information | |
| Place of origin | Spain |
| Designer | John Moses Browning Esperanza y Unceta Cia Pedro Careaga |
| Manufacturer | Gabilondo y Urresti and over 50 other firms |
| Type | Semi-automatic pistol |
| Magazine | 9 rounds |
| Ammunition | 7.65 x 25 mm |
| General Ingame Information | |
| Used by | France Finland Germany (Captured) Japan (Captured) Resistance |
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The Ruby pistol is a surprisingly common pistol in FHSW, not only used by France during the early war years and in North Africa. But also used in the Pacific by the Japanese and on the eastern front by the Finnish troops and the Polish at the Warsaw Uprising. The Ruby and the Browning Hi-Power are the most common foreign pistols used by German officers.
The pistol is a chambered in a relatively weak cartridge like the Beretta 34 and FÉG 37M but it has nine rounds in each magazine which is more than most pistols.
The self-loading Ruby pistol is best known as a French World War I sidearm, the Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 genre "Ruby". It was a very international piece of weaponry, it was closely modeled after the American John Browning's M1903 made by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, and was produced by over 50 Spanish companies, but primarily by the Spanish Gabilondo y Urresti firm (the official "Gabilondo Ruby"). It was decommissioned in 1958, more than a decade after World War II was brought to an end, and was subsequently replaced by the Winchester 32.
The Finnish army bought 10 000 pistols from France in 1919, these became the first standard issue pistols for the Finnish military. These were still used until the end of the second world war.
There are some Ruby pistols with Japanese navy markings, it is not clear whether they were made in Spain, China or in Japan.
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