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A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, [1] to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").
A machine pistol is a handgun that is capable of fully automatic fire, including stockless handgun-style submachine guns. [ 1 ] The Austrians introduced the world's first machine pistol, the Steyr Repetierpistole M1912/P16 , during World War I.
Lanchester submachine gun: Sterling Armaments Company: 9×19mm Parabellum United Kingdom: 1940 SMG LAD machine gun: NIPSMVO: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Soviet Union: 1942 Other Lehnar submachine gun: Juan Lehnar: 9×19mm Parabellum Argentina: 1930 SMG Lercker pistol: Carlo Cuppini and Cesare Lercker.25 ACP Italy: 1950 MP Lettet–Forsøgs submachine gun
The RAK is a selective-fire straight blowback–operated machine pistol, fired from the open bolt position. [4] Unlike most submachine guns firing from an open bolt, the PM-63 has a reciprocating external breech bolt, also known as a slide. The slide is part of the fire rate-reducing device.
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 ]
"Kedr-MD" (Кедр-МД) - sub-machine gun to fire only blank cartridges, designed to order by the film concern "Mosfilm" in 2006. Only 5 were made. KSO-9 "Krechet" (КСО-9 "Кречет") - semi-automatic civilian carbine variant with long barrel, AR-15 type stock, 10-round magazines and chambered for the 9×19mm cartridge. Saw limited ...
The Uzi (/ ˈ uː z i / ⓘ; Hebrew: עוזי, romanized: Ūzi; officially cased as UZI) is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns and machine pistols first designed by Major Uziel "Uzi" Gal in the late 1940s, shortly after the establishment of the State of
United Kingdom: the M-50 underwent intensive trials in 1951–1952 against the BSA model 1949 and the Sterling submachine gun. The latter was eventually selected. [11] United States In use with Green Berets serving alongside Montagnards in MIKE Force units [12] Venezuela [5] [4] Non State Users. Malayan Communist Party; Brazilian Communist ...