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Submachine guns; IMI Uzi [7] Submachine gun: 9×19mm Israel: Uzi, Mini-Uzi, Micro-Uzi, and Uzi-Pro used. Ingram MAC-10 [4] Submachine gun: 9×19mm United States: IWI X95 [4] Submachine gun and bullpup assault rifle: 9×19mm variant Israel: 9x19mm suppressed variant used by IDF Special Forces Semi-automatic rifle; Suppressed Ruger 10/22 [6] [8 ...
The Uzi submachine gun was designed by Captain (later Major) Uziel Gal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The weapon was submitted to the Israeli Army for evaluation and won out over more conventional designs due to its simplicity and economy of manufacture.
This is a list of submachine guns. It includes Submachine guns (SMG), Machine pistols (MP), ... Israel: 2009 SMG Thompson submachine gun: Auto-Ordnance Company
Pages in category "Submachine guns of Israel" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. U. Uzi; X. X95 smg
Manufacturing gun barrels in an IMI factory, 1955. Israel Weapon Industries' small arms offerings are notable, with numerous well identified product names and de facto 'brands'. Examples are the Uzi submachine gun and the IMI Galil assault rifle, and the Negev light machine gun.
Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), formerly the Magen division of the Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI), is an Israeli firearms manufacturer. It was founded in 1933. [ 2 ] Formerly owned by the State of Israel , the Small Arms Division of IMI was privatized and renamed IWI in 2005.
In 1943, he was arrested for illegally carrying a gun and was sentenced to six years in prison. However, he was pardoned and released in 1946 (serving less than half of his sentence). [1] Gal began designing the Uzi submachine gun shortly after the founding of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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-").