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The Astra 400 is heavy compared to many contemporary service pistols of the time like the Tokarev TT-33 but is similar in weight and length to the Colt 1911. The Astra 400 was designed to be safe to fire with a simple blowback action unaided by any breech-locking devices. [5] This is only possible with a heavy slide and strong recoil spring.
The pistol's safety features include a manual decocking lever, firing pin block, and hammer safety. [1] The A-100 lacks a manual safety , but depends entirely on a deliberate pull of its trigger to fire it; in this way it is similar to the SIG P22X series of pistols.
Astra Unceta y Cía was a Spanish weapons manufacturer founded on 17 July 1908, under the name Esperanza y Unceta by Juan Esperanza and Pedro Unceta. [1] Initially based in Eibar, the centre of the Basque arms industry, the company moved in 1913 to Guernica. Astra handguns: 250 INOX revolver, 3000 pistol, and Constable pistol
Astra A-100: Astra-Unceta y Cia SA: 9×19mm Parabellum.40 S&W.45 ACP Spain: 1990-1997 AutoMag (pistol) Arcadia Machine & Tool.44 Magnum United States: 1971-1982 Ballester–Molina: Hispano Argentina de Automotives SA.45 ACP Argentina: 1938-1953 Bauer Automatic: Bauer Firearms Co..25 ACP United States: 1972-1984 Bayard 1908: Anciens ...
The Basque-manufactured Astra-Unceta y Cia SA Astra 901 is a compact machine pistol, with a magazine capacity of 10 7.63×25mm Mauser cartridges, which is a considerably smaller capacity than is standard for a machine pistol. The next model, the Astra 902, was provided with a fixed magazine of 20 cartridges and a lengthened barrel, and Astra ...
The Astra 300 is a Spanish semi-automatic pistol that can be loaded with 6 or 7 cartridges in a stick magazine, depending on the caliber size (7.65mm or 9mm). The length is 160 mm (6.3 in) overall, of which the barrel occupies 98 mm (3.9 in). The Astra 300 was originally designed as a smaller version of the Astra 400. [1]
The Astra 600 is a Spanish semi-automatic pistol that was used during World War II by the Wehrmacht. Designed by Unceta y Cia, it was a shortened version of the Astra 400 manufactured to fire 9×19mm Parabellum, which was the standard pistol ammunition for Germany at the time. The Astra 600 was designated the Pistole Astra 600/43 when used by ...
The Bergmann gun was the most common SMG in China at the time and called the Flower Mouth Machine-gun (花机关). [26] [3] SIG in Switzerland produced the originally German weapon under license as the "SIG Bergmann 1920" and exported it to China after World War I. Chinese arsenals in Jinling and Shanghai started producing them in 7.65mm in 1926.