the war. The MP 40 was often called the "Schmeisser" by the Allies, after the weapon designer Hugo Schmeisser. Schmeisser had designed the MP 18, which was...
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Hugo Schmeisser (24 September 1884 – 12 September 1953) was a German developer of 20th century infantry weapons. Schmeisser was born in Jena, Thuringia...
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marked 'M.P.18,I SYSTEM SCHMEISSER'. The so-called MP 18/Iv was a conversion of the MP 18/I from a 45° Trommelmagazin feed to a 90° Schmeisser box magazine...
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Wehrmacht officially adopted the converted PPSh-41 as the "MP41(r)" (as distinct from the Schmeisser MP41); unconverted PPSh-41s were designated "MP717(r)"...
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(marked by letters T and S). Initial production runs of the gun had a Schmeisser-style bolt-locking safety (similar to the MP40) in the form of hook-shaped...
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weapon designer Hugo Schmeisser. Schmeisser played no role in developing the MP-40, though he did help design the MP-41 variant, which saw very limited...
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Madsen light machine gun". WW2DB. Retrieved 20 February 2024. "MP-28: Hugo Schmeisser Improves the MP18". 22 August 2017. Royal Armories. "The 🇬🇧 military's...
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secretly tested by the Reichswehr, along with competing designs from Schmeisser and Rheinmetall. (The Reichswehr was prohibited by the Versailles Treaty...
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gun: post-WWII use". wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com. 4 October 2015. "MP-28: Hugo Schmeisser Improves the MP18". 22 August 2017. @Royal_Armouries (16 November...
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secretly tested by the Reichswehr, along with competing designs from Schmeisser and Rheinmetall. (The Reichswehr was prohibited by the Versailles Treaty...
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simplified and modernized MP40 (commonly and erroneously referred to as the Schmeisser) was developed and made in large numbers; about a million were made during...
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in the semi-automatic SKS carbine and the RPD light machine gun. Hugo Schmeisser, the designer of the Sturmgewehr, was captured after World War II, and...
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German military rifles (section Gewehr 41)
sent to both Walther and Haenel (whose design group was headed by Hugo Schmeisser), they were asked to submit prototype weapons under the name Maschinenkarabiner...
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parachute training and its main armament - sub-machine guns of German (Schmeisser MP-40), Czechoslovak (Zbrojovka ZK-383 (M-27)) and Finnish (Suomi M-31)...
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Fond of his looted Browning Hi-Power 9 mm pistol and vintage WW II "Schmeisser" MP-40 submachine gun. Wields a Gerber Mk II fighting knife later in the...
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Arms Model 93R17 (US - Bolt-Action Rifle - .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire) Schmeisser International GmbH Pistols PH-45 (Germany, Ukraine - Semi-Automatic Pistol...
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(d. 2007) Al Roker, American television personality and host Richarda Schmeisser, East German artistic gymnast August 23 Ian Bartholomew, English actor...
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Alexander Lippisch. 1942: First modern assault rifle (StG 44) by Hugo Schmeisser 1943: First aviation unit (Kampfgeschwader 100) to use precision-guided...
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in ADHD". Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. December 5, 2011. Schmeisser MJ, Ey E, Wegener S, Bockmann J, Stempel AV, Kuebler A, Janssen AL, Udvardi...
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Americans. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11345-6. Rebecca Schmeisser McKean (2012). "A new species of polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia)...
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Spitsbergen, Norway". Norwegian Journal of Geology. 92 (2–3): 213–234. Rebecca Schmeisser McKean (2012). "A new species of polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia)...
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