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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 ]
The MP 38 and MP 40 also directly influenced the design of later weapons, including the Spanish Star Z45, the Yugoslavian Zastava M56, and the semi-automatic German Selbstladebüchse BD 38 replica. Details of the MP 40 have also been adopted in other submachine guns, which otherwise differ significantly from a technical point of view:
Submachine guns. Beretta M1938 (Italian captured) M3 submachine gun (American made, also known as grease gun, used by mountain commandos and exiled Greek forces) MP 34 (German captured, used by gendarmerie and police forces) MP 40 (German captured) Sten submachine gun (British made, used by exiled Greek forces)
M3 submachine gun Limited use [290] Thompson submachine gun [290] – including Vietnamese copies [234] MP 40 [306] Provided by the Soviet Union as a military aid. Smith and Wesson M76 submachine gun - captured from US forces [294] MAS-38 submachine gun – Captured from the French in the Indochina War. [307] PM-63 submachine gun – Used by ...
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-").
The German MP40, Russian PPSh-41, and US M3 submachine gun, among others, used the same operating mechanisms and design philosophy of the Sten, namely their low cost and ease of manufacture. Though the MP40 was also built largely for this purpose, Otto Skorzeny went on record saying that he preferred the Sten because it required less raw ...
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M1/M2/M3 carbine; M50 Reising; Colt Model 733; Submachine guns M1A1 Thompson submachine gun. Model of 1921 Thompson; Model of 1928 and M1928A1 Thompson; M50 and M55 Reising; M1 and M1A1 Thompson; M3 and M3A1; Heckler & Koch MP5 (some variants) Machine guns M60 7.62mm machine gun. M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun; Hotchkiss M1909 Benét ...