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The M3 is an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted by the U.S. Army on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. [12] The M3 was chambered for the same .45 ACP round fired by the Thompson submachine gun , but was cheaper to mass produce and lighter, at the expense of accuracy. [ 12 ]
The Pistola Ametralladora (English: "Machine gun" or "machine pistol"), often referred to as the PAM submachine gun, was a series of two Argentine submachine guns (the PAM-1 and PAM-2) that were licensed variants of the American M3A1 'Grease Gun'.
The United Defense M42, sometimes known as the Marlin for the company that did the actual manufacturing, was an American submachine gun used during World War II.It was produced from 1942 to 1943 by United Defense Supply Corp. for possible issue as a replacement for the Thompson submachine gun and was used by Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agents. [1]
Lusa submachine gun: INDEP: 9×19mm Parabellum Portugal: 1983 SMG M2 Hyde: Marlin Firearms.45 ACP United States: 1942 SMG M3 Grease Gun: General Motors.45 ACP 9×19mm Parabellum.30 Carbine United States: 1942-1945, with additional production in early 1950s SMG M49 submachine gun: Zastava Arms: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Yugoslavia: 1949 SMG M50 Reising
In the 1950s, the FMAP DM (Fábrica Militar de Armas Portables Domingo Matheu), belonging to the Dirección General de Fabricaciones Militares, acquired the production rights of a copy of the U.S. M3 A1 submachine gun, more commonly known as the "Grease Gun". This Argentinian version was chambered for 9×19mm cartridges, as opposed to the .45 ...
Various firearms used by the United States military during World War II, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax County, Virginia. The following is a list of World War II weapons of the United States, which includes firearm, artillery, vehicles, vessels, and other support equipment known to have been used by the United States Armed Forces—namely the United States Army, United ...
The Carl Gustaf m/45 was replaced as main infantry weapon in the Swedish Armed Forces during the mid-1960s with the 7.62mm Automatkarbin 4 battle rifle, but remained in use for auxiliary troops like artillery gun crews, supply- and engineering troops and the like until starting in 1986 being replaced with the 5.56mm Ak 5 assault rifle.
The Hyde-Inland M2 was a United States submachine gun design submitted for trials at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February 1941. Work was undertaken by General Motors Inland Manufacturing Division to develop workable prototypes of George Hyde's design patented in 1935 (U.S. patent 2049776A).