submachine gun, but was cheaper to mass produce and lighter, at the expense of accuracy. The M3 was commonly referred to as the "Grease Gun" or simply...
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A grease gun is a common workshop and garage tool used for lubrication. The purpose of the grease gun is to apply lubricant through an aperture to a specific...
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for this model on August 4, 1936. The M2 Hyde submachine gun. The M3 grease gun submachine gun. About 700,000 were produced at a unit cost of around $20...
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developed the M3 submachine gun or "Grease Gun" in 1942, followed by the improved M3A1 in 1944. While the M3 was no more effective than the Tommy Gun, it was...
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Remington out of the double gun market. Ithaca also produced the M1911 pistol during World War II and the M3 Grease Gun during the Korean War, both for...
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MAC-10 (redirect from M10 submachine gun)
time) and, to save on cost, the magazine design was recycled from the M3 Grease Gun. The barrel is threaded to accept a suppressor, which works by reducing...
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M1 Thompson United States .45 ACP 20 700 280 267 856 4.7 1,400,000 M3 "Grease Gun" United States .45 ACP 30 450 280 203 745 3.7 700,000 "Suomi" KP/31...
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soldiers issued the M1 carbine or a submachine gun such as the M3 submachine gun "grease gun". The M3 trench knife was developed as a replacement for...
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railway gun 16"/50 caliber M1919 gun National Forge & Ordnance 37mm gun (1941) - export (to Dutch) only M3 37 mm anti-tank gun M1 57 mm anti-tank gun M5 3-inch...
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Uzi (redirect from UZI submachine gun)
allowed the .45-caliber Uzi to use the same 30-round magazines as the M3 "Grease Gun".: 20–25 The Uzi was available with caliber conversion kits in .22...
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submachine guns. It includes Submachine guns (SMG), Machine pistols (MP), Personal defense weapon systems (PDW), and "compact submachine gun-like weapons"...
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magazines originated in World War II for the M1 carbine, M3 "Grease Gun", and Thompson submachine gun. Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated American combat...
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M2 Browning M3 submachine gun (AKA: Grease Gun), an American submachine gun M3 tripod, a modern tripod for the M2 Browning machine gun M3, a code name...
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Colt 9mm SMG (redirect from Colt Submachine Gun)
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21005 Thompson, Leroy (19 May 2016). The M3 "Grease Gun". Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 141–142. ISBN 978-1-4728-1109-7. Peterson...
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Thompson submachine gun (Standard-issued SMG of the US army, various variants used by Army and Marine Corps) M3 'Grease Gun' (M3 variant was the main...
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original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017. "PM-63 RAK Submachine Gun | Military-Today.com". "Cuban Special Forces - MININT and Black Wasps". Youtube...
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Weapons of the Vietnam War (section Submachine guns)
Vietnam. F1 submachine gun – replaced the Owen Gun in Australian service. M3 Grease gun – standard U.S. military submachine gun, also used by the South...
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Garand, M1/M2 Carbines, M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, M3 "Grease Gun" and Thompson submachine gun. However, early experiments with select-fire versions...
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Garand, M1/M2 Carbines, M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, M3 "Grease Gun" and Thompson submachine gun. Early experiments with select-fire versions of the M1...
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Automatic rifle (category Light machine guns)
Garand, M1/M2 Carbines, M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, M3 "Grease Gun" and Thompson submachine gun. However, early experiments with select-fire versions...
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M1 carbine (redirect from M3 Carbine)
submachine guns like the M1 Thompsons and M3 Grease Guns. Therefore, after World War II, the M2 carbine largely replaced the submachine-guns in U.S. service...
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2 (Pistola Ametrelladora Modelo), an Argentine submachine gun based on the US M3 "Grease Gun" Permanent Active Militia, predecessor of the Canadian Army...
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and was developed originally as a submachine gun because it was intended to replace the M3 Grease Gun; the K2 was developed from the start as a service...
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International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC). Retrieved 27 May 2023. "M3 Grease Guns Re-issued". Timawa.net. 22 February 2005. Archived from the original...
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South Vietnamese, M3 Grease gun: 41 Madsen M-50 – used by South Vietnamese forces, supplied by the CIA.: 41 MAS-38 submachine gun – used by South Vietnamese...
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is a common feature in basic submachine guns like the Sten gun or M3 "Grease Gun", and even some machine guns. With a fixed firing pin, when the bolt...
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IISS (2012), p. 398 de Cherisey, Erwan (29 December 2015). "Paraguay keeping M3 Stuart, M4 Sherman tanks in service". IHS Jane's Defence Weekly. Retrieved...
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original on 2016-11-24. Retrieved 2023-03-14. Diez, Octavio (2000). Hand Guns (in Arabic). Barcelona: Lema Publications. ISBN 84-8463-013-7. OCLC 44059526...
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