Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
A general-purpose machine gun is usually a lightweight medium machine gun that can either be used with a bipod and drum in the light machine gun role or a tripod and belt feed in the medium machine gun role. DShK in the heavy role. Machine guns usually have simple iron sights, though the use of optics is becoming more common.
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.
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 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 ]
A deactivated World War Two Luger Pistol and Sten submachine gun were both lost in June 2023. ... along with a deactivated World War One German machine gun the following month, although both have ...
The Brügger & Thomet MP9 (Maschinenpistole 9mm, German for "machine pistol") is a submachine gun chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge that is designed and manufactured by Brügger & Thomet. The MP9 is a selective-fire submachine gun. It uses 15, 20, 25, and 30 round transparent polymer detachable box magazines.