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This is a list of submachine guns. It includes Submachine guns (SMG), Machine pistols (MP), Personal defense weapon systems (PDW), and "compact submachine gun-like weapons" not easily categorized.
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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-").
NATO reporting name: SA-16 Gimlet) Igla-D (paratrooper variant) Dzhigit (two-barrel stationary variant) Igla-S / SA-24 Grinch succeeded by 9K333 Verba 6,000m 3,500m 2004–present 9K333 Verba: 8,000m 4,500m 2014–present
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Thompson submachine gun (France ordered 3000 Thompsons due to shortages of SMGs during invasion. Used by French Liberation Army) [180] [177] [176] [181] MP 18 (Some were in inventory in 1939. Limited use) [46] Suomi K/P-31 (150 SMGs seized from surrendering Republicans after the Spanish civil war) [182] Sten submachine gun (British aid)
The Villar Perosa is often technically regarded as the first submachine gun. [1] The Villar Perosa was somewhat odd, and had sort of a heavy double automatic pistol configuration, with two 25-round box magazines feeding each barrel and a rate of fire in excess of 1000 rounds per minute.
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