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250 m (820 ft) [ 3] Feed system. 32-round detachable box magazine, 64-round with dual magazines [ 3] Sights. Hooded front blade. The MP 40 ( Maschinenpistole 40) is a submachine gun chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. It was developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Axis powers during World War II .
9×19mm Parabellum. Luftwaffe. 10,450 Astra 600s had been delivered to Germany until German occupation of France ceased. [ 4] The remainder of the German order, consisting of 28,000 pistols, was intercepted by Allied forces in September 1944. [ 1] [ 3] Astra 900. Astra-Unceta y Cia SA. 7.63×25mm Mauser.
The Heckler & Koch MP5 ( German: Maschinenpistole 5) is a submachine gun developed in the 1960s by German firearms manufacturer Heckler & Koch. It uses a similar modular design to the Heckler & Koch G3, and has over 100 variants and clones, [ 14] including selective fire, semi-automatic, suppressed, compact, and even marksman variants. [ 15]
The MP34 ( Maschinenpistole 34, literally "Machine Pistol 34") is a submachine gun (SMG) that was manufactured by Waffenfabrik Steyr as Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 and used by the Austrian Army and Austrian Gendarmerie and subsequently by units of the German Army and the Waffen SS, in World War II. An exceptionally well-made weapon, it was used by ...
The Heckler & Koch UMP ( Universale Maschinenpistole, German for "Universal Machine Pistol") is a submachine gun developed and manufactured by Heckler & Koch. Heckler & Koch developed the UMP as a lighter and cheaper successor to the MP5, though both remain in production. [ 4] The UMP has been adopted for use by various countries including ...
A German soldier with an MP 18 in Northern France, 1918. The MP 18 served in the final stages of World War I in 1918. Contrary to popular belief, [citation needed] the Bergmann MP 18/I did not reach the front in early 1918, and no submachine guns were employed by German Sturmtruppen during the Spring Offensive. [ 5]
The MP 3008 was an emergency measure, designed at a time when Germany was at the point of collapse. Desperately short of raw materials, the Germans sought to produce a radically cheaper alternative to their standard submachine gun, the MP 40 . The MP 3008 was a simple blowback design operating from an open bolt.
24- or 32-round detachable box magazine. Sights. Front post, notched adjustable rear. The MP35 ( Maschinenpistole 35, 'Machine Pistol 35') was a submachine gun used by the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and German police both before and during World War II. It was developed in the early 1930s by Emil Bergmann (son of Theodor Bergmann) and manufactured at ...