Features of the Best Submachine Guns of the World War II: History of the Firearms

The appearance of submachine guns, as the first individual automatic weapons on the battlefields, changed the concept of modern wars radically.

The First World War showed that in the collision of huge masses of armed people, the density of fire turns out to be a more important factor than the accuracy of shooting. It took a quick-firing, compact weapon with large wearable ammunition, convenient both in the offensive and in the defense, in the limited space of the trench and the street. Thus, a machine gun and an automatic (self-loading) pistol were united in one sample. By the end of the war in some of the warring countries they even managed to adopt.

A submachine gun is an automatic weapon capable of continuous firing and equipped with pistol cartridges. This type of weapon became widespread not so long ago. Back in the middle of the last century, most of the rank and file of the army of any country was armed with rifles and carbines, and the appearance of such a powerful, easy and convenient means of defense and attack on the horizon radically changed the rules of combat. In this book, we will look at the most successful models of submachine guns from the Second World War and learn the history of their creation.

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Thompson submachine gun - America's Legend
Submachine gun M3, USA
Submachine gun Reising M50, USA
Submachine gun American-180, USA
Dyagterev submachine gun, PPD-34, USSR
Shpagin submachine gun, PPSh-41, USSR
Sudayev submachine gun, PPS, USSR
Korovin submachine gun, PPK, USSR
Submachine gun Bergman-Schmeiser MP-18/1, Germany
Submachine gun MP-28, Germany
Submachine gun MP38 / 40, Germany
Submachine gun MP-43 / Sturmgewehr Stg.44 first assault rifle, Germany
Kijiro Nambu submachine guns, Japan
Submachine gun "Suomi", Finland
Submachine gun Carl Gustaf M45, Sweden
Evelyn Owen submachine gun, Australia
Submachine gun STEN, UK