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The PM-84 Glauberyt is a Polish submachine gun. It is a personal weapon intended for combat and self-defence at ranges up to 150 m with single shot or fully automatic fire mode. It is a personal weapon intended for combat and self-defence at ranges up to 150 m with single shot or fully automatic fire mode.
It essentially failed as both a civilian product as well as a military one, the South African Defence Force using either the Israeli Uzi or the locally South African produced Milkor BXP submachine gun. Dogged by unreliability, legislative restrictions on licences and being no more than a heavy semi-auto pistol, the Sanna-77 was a commercial ...
ETVS submachine gun: Établissement Technique de Versailles 7.65×20mm Longue France: 1933-1939 SMG Experimental Model 2 submachine gun: Nambu: 8×22mm Nambu Japan: 1935 SMG F1 submachine gun: Lithgow Small Arms Factory: 9×19mm Parabellum Australia: 1962-1973 SMG FAMAE SAF: FAMAE: 9×19mm Parabellum Chile: 1993-Present SMG FBP submachine gun
The weapon can be deployed like a regular pistol, one-handed. Additional equipment supplied with the submachine gun includes three spare long magazines and one short magazine, a holster, sling, magazine pouch and a cleaning rod and lubricant bottle. An all-metal suppressor, design by Marian Gryszkiewic, can be used with the PM-63. [3]
[4] [5] This attachment was developed to allow an infantryman to convert "his rifle to a form of submachine gun or automatic rifle" in approximately 15 seconds. [5] [4] Production of the device and modified M1903 rifles started in 1918. [5] However, the war ended before they were sent to Europe.
The PAM-1 began production in 1955 and remained in service with the Argentine Armed Forces through the Falklands War and the 90s before being mostly removed from service and sold on the civilian market as a semi-automatic conversion. The PAM-2 was an improved version of the PAM-1 that mostly addressed the inadequate safety originating from the ...
The BXP (which was also marketed later as the "Phoenix" in the USA [citation needed]) is a 9×19mm submachine gun developed by Andries Piek, with the fully automatic version finalised in 1978, and the semi-automatic version for civilians coming later in 1984. Due to an international arms embargo against South Africa, South Africans designed and ...
The PP-91 is a simply designed, easy to manufacture selective fire submachine gun designed by Yevgeny Dragunov (the designer of the SVD sniper rifle).. It is blowback operated and fires from a closed bolt, allowing for more accurate shooting than would be possible from an open bolt design.