The MP 40 (Maschinenpistole 40) is a submachine gun chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. It was developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively...
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telescopic bolt used in the VPM 1930, EMP, MP 38, MP 40 and MP 41. The Soviet Union made a similar use of MP 28 design in their PDD-34 sub machine gun...
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armored crews. The result was the MP 38, a revolutionary submachine gun design which later became the MP 40. However, the MP 38 was produced extraordinarily...
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M56 submachine gun (category MP 38 derivatives)
Yugoslavia. The M56 is based on the MP 40 submachine gun captured from Nazi Germany, easily distinguished from the MP 40 by its increased length and curved...
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radically cheaper alternative to their standard submachine gun, the MP 40. The MP 3008 was a simple blowback design operating from an open bolt. It was...
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Steyr-Solothurn MP 34 (Captured) MP 35 (Captured) MP 38 (Captured) MP 40 (Captured) MP 41 PPSh-41 (Soviet aid) PPS-43 (Soviet aid) PPD-40 (Soviet aid) Sturmgewehr...
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Star Model Z-45 (category MP 38 derivatives)
Bonifacio Echeverria, derived from the German MP 40. The internal mechanisms are similar to the MP 40. Unlike the German version, the Z-45 is a selective...
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converted PPSh-41s also had a magazine adapter installed, allowing them to use MP 40 magazines. The less powerful 9mm round generally reduces the cyclic rate...
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Its rate of fire is 500 rounds per minute and has sliding two 32-round MP 40 magazine wells. The practical range was 150–200 meters. The gun was crudely...
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the well-known German submachine guns of the Second World War, the MP-38 and the MP-40. 1.2 million pieces were manufactured for these weapons, and were...
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because they fire pistol-caliber ammunition, for example, the MP-40 and MP5, where "MP" stands for Maschinenpistole ("Submachine gun" in German, but cognate...
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1954 and 1957. It uses the 9×19mm Parabellum round and is capable of using MP 40-type magazines, which were popular around Europe at the time. This weapon...
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to differentiate the Sturmgewehr from German submachine guns such as the MP 40. It has been suggested, however, that the Heereswaffenamt was responsible...
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April 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2018. de Quesada, Alejandro (2014). MP 38 and MP 40 Submachine Guns. Osprey Publishing. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-1780963884...
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delivered (of 5,000 ordered) and designated MP 43. 22,500 produced under license by Hispano-Suiza as MP 43/44. Vatican City: Pontifical Swiss Guard...
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at the time MP 35 (1935–1945) – An improved submachine gun based on the MP 28 MP40 (1940–1945 in Germany) – The MP 40 is a simplified MP 38, intended...
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arrangement on the Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G. Early vehicles carried an MP 40 sub-machine gun inside, which could be fired through firing ports in the...
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Beretta Model 38 (redirect from MP 739)
in slightly revised form as the 38/49 series: the Model 2 or MP 38/44 special with an MP 40-style under-folding stock and extended magazine well, the Model...
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Zealand's longest serving MP, 40 years from 1926 to 1966. Keith Holyoake was probably New Zealand's second-longest serving MP and longest serving Prime...
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Germany Smith 1969, pp. 153m³154. G. de Vries, B.J. Martens (2001). The MP 38, 40, 40/1 and 41 Submachine gun. Propaganda Photos. Vol. 2. Arnhem: Special...
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as "machine pistol" as the term for submachine guns; for example the "MP" in MP 40 stands for Maschinenpistole. Machine pistols are considered a special...
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History of the World in 100 Weapons. Bloomsbury. De Quesada, Alejandro. MP 38 and MP 40 Submachine Guns. Osprey Publishing. p. 59. Wan, H.; Horvath, C. (1975-11-20)...
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Soviet PPS, and the magazine was based on the magazine used in the German MP 40. The trigger mechanism has features in common with the Madsen M-50, and...
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Parabellum) MP-445CSW (Russian Federation – compact semi-automatic pistol – .40 S&W) MP-445SW (Russian Federation – semi-automatic pistol – .40 S&W) MP-451 (Russian...
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use. Soviet PPSh-41 and PPS-43, US Thompson, British Sten and the German MP-40 had an even higher fire rate (and thus higher fire density) compared to...
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PPD-40 to his units, stating that it was only suitable as a police weapon. It was not until 1941, after widespread demand for a weapon to match the MP-40...
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magazine mounted below the gun was borrowed from the successful German MP 40. The internal design of the mechanism was modeled after the British Sten...
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action hunting rifle Products manufactured by C. G. Haenel include: MP 38/MP 40 Haenel 303 HLR 338 Sturmgewehr 44 Haenel MK 556 Scharfschützengewehr...
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