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Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company — 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...
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: Made by Juan Lehnar (only one prototype made) 9×19mm Parabellum Argentina: 1930 SMG Lercker pistol: Italy.25 ACP Italy: 1950 MP Lettet–Forsøgs ...
Muzzle velocity. 380 m/s (1,200 ft/s) Feed system. Magazine 32 rounds. Sights. Single aperature set for 100 m (110 yd) References. The Madsen M-50 or M/50 is a submachine gun introduced in 1950. It was produced by the Danish company Dansk Industri Syndikat of Copenhagen, Denmark.
In 1949, after evaluating several prototypes (including a collapsible design from Hotchkiss), the French MAT factory began production of the MAT-49 9 mm submachine gun.. The MAT-49 used a machine stamping process which allowed the economical production of large numbers of submachine guns, then urgently required by the French Government for use by Army, French Foreign Legion as well as airborne ...
20-, 25-, 32-, 40-, or 50-round box (9×19mm Parabellum) Sights. Iron sights. The Uzi (/ ˈuːzi / ⓘ; 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 ...
IWI Negev of the Israeli Army. Bren light machine gun. .30-06 Browning Automatic Rifle Model 1918. A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon. LMGs firing cartridges of the same caliber as the other riflemen of the same ...
A vehicle with a Sumitomo M2 heavy machine gun mounted at the rear. Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per round fired, a machine gun is designed to continue firing for as long as the trigger is held down. [ 1 ] Nowadays, the term is restricted to relatively heavy crew-served weapons, able to provide continuous or ...
The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the " Tommy gun ", " Chicago typewriter ", or " trench broom ") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918. It was designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare of World War I, although ...