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The Heckler & Koch MP5 (German: Maschinenpistole 5, lit. ' Submachine gun 5 ' ) is a submachine gun developed in the 1960s by German firearms manufacturer Heckler & Koch . It uses a similar modular design to the Heckler & Koch G3 , and has over 100 variants and clones, [ 14 ] including selective fire , semi-automatic , suppressed , compact ...
Only one prototype made .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire Argentina: 1970s SMG EMP 44: Erma Werke: 9×19mm Parabellum Germany: 1944 SMG Erma EMP: Erma Werke: 9×19mm Parabellum 9×23mm Largo 7.63×25mm Mauser Germany: 1931 SMG ETVS submachine gun: Établissement Technique de Versailles 7.65×20mm Longue France: 1933-1939 SMG Experimental Model 2 ...
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-").
MG 3 machine gun [4] - Modernised variant of WWII MG 42. Served as the main German Cold War machine gun from the late 1950s. Served as the main German Cold War machine gun from the late 1950s. Heckler & Koch HK21 - a general purpose machine gun developed in 1961, based on the G3 battle rifle
An early-production G3 rifle, Heckler & Koch's first firearm, photographed by the United States Army Ordnance Corps in January 1961. With the fall of Nazi Germany and the following Allied occupation of Germany, Oberndorf came under French control, and the entire Waffenfabrik Mauser AG factory was dismantled by French occupying forces.
The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, prototype firearms and captured foreign firearms used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS, Deutsches Heer, the Volkssturm and other military armed forces in World War II.
During World War II, the resistance and the Allies sometimes captured MP 40s to replace or supplement their own weapons. [25] [26] [27] The MP 40 was used for several decades following World War II by many countries around the world in
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.