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The MP 40/I (sometimes erroneously called MP 40/II) was a modified version of the standard MP 40 with a dual side-by-side magazine holder (for a theoretical ammunition total of 64 rounds), designed for special operations troops on the Eastern Front to compensate for the Soviet PPSh-41's larger magazine capacity. However, the design proved ...
The M3 became the main submachine gun over the Thompson for the U.S. and South Korean forces during the Korean War, because the Communists used the Thompson submachine gun, which the U.S. donated during World War II, as one of their main weapons during the war. [24] The M3 and M3A1 were largely withdrawn from U.S. frontline service beginning in ...
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-").
Thompson submachine gun: Auto-Ordnance Company.45 ACP United States: 1921-1945 SMG Tokarev Model 1927: Fedor Vasilevich Tokarev: 7.62×38mmR Nagant Soviet Union: 1927 SMG Tokyo Arsenal Model 1927: Tokyo Arsenal: 8x22mm Nambu Japan: 1927 SMG Trejo pistol: Industrias Trejo de Zacatlán S.A. de C.V. .22 LR.32 ACP.380 ACP Mexico: 1940s MP Tuma MTE ...
Brigadier General John T. Thompson, who spent most of his career in the ordnance department of the U.S. Army, was the original inventor and developer of the Thompson submachine gun. He envisioned it as being a fully automatic rifle in order to replace the bolt-action service rifles then in use (such as the American M1903 Springfield ).
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 ...
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 tank crews [308]
MP 38 & MP 40 (150-160 SMGs delivered with German vehicles during Continuation War, mainly used by vehicle crews of these delivered vehicles) [133] PPD-34, PPD-34/38 & PPD-40 (Captured. Issued to Finnish coastal troops and home-front troops during Continuation War) [133] [134] PPSh-41 (Some 2,500 captured 1942-1944.