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The Uzi (/ ˈ uː z i / ⓘ; Hebrew: עוזי, romanized: Ūzi; officially cased as UZI) is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns and machine pistols first designed by Major Uziel "Uzi" Gal in the late 1940s, shortly after the establishment of the State of Israel.
This is a list of submachine guns. It includes Submachine guns (SMG), Machine pistols (MP), Personal defense weapon systems (PDW), and "compact submachine gun-like weapons" not easily categorized.
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 ...
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 Israeli UZI sub-machinegun was taken as a basis, and several technical solutions of such weapon were outright adopted, including the telescoping bolt (already in use in another Italian sub-machinegun, the Beretta PM-12), the safety/fire selector switch and the grip safety, and housing of the magazine in the pistol grip. However, SOCIMI ...
Caliber Origin Note Arma ERO: 9×19mm Parabellum Israel Croatia: Unlicensed copy of the IMI Uzi submachine gun. Used by Tank, IFV and APC crews and other non-infantry personnel. Heckler & Koch MP5: 9×19mm Parabellum West Germany: Used by the CROSOFCOM and the Special Military Police Company. Heckler & Koch MP7: 4.6×30mm HK Germany
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Caliber Variant Origin Notes Uzi Pro: Submachine gun: 9×19mm Parabellum Israel Vietnam: Used by People's Army of Vietnam Special Forces and Naval Special Operation Force. Manufactured locally at the Z111 Factory. [75]