Maschinenpistole
Mp-
40
Manufacturer: Erfurter Werkezeug und Mascinenfabrik (Erma), Haenel and Steyr.
Caliber: 9mm (Parabellum).
Selector: automatic.
Capacity: 32 projectiles.
Weight: 4.03kg vacía/4.70kg
loaded.
Length: 833mm.
Firing chamber:
25 or 32 Cartridges.
Speed of firing: 450 to 550 projectiles per minute.
Initial speed: 381 m/s.
Battle range: 200m.
Introduced in 1938, at a time when the rest of the submachine guns in the world was unnecessarily
heavy and expensive, the new
Mp-38 "Maschinenpistole" of the company Erfurter Maschinenfabrik (Erma) I revolutionize the idea of which a submachine
gun would have to be. The
Mp-38 and its companion the
Mp-40 allowed to establish a production in chain, becoming a very effective weapon for the close combat. He was present from the Invasion of Poland in
September of 1939 to the final days of the Third Reich in 1945concept and continued development in the post
war era. In the first month of World
War II the Germans fielded the revolutionary MP38 weapon. Just a little over a year later the Germans introduced the MP40 machine pistol. While the MP38 changed the way machine pistols looked, the stamped sheet-metal MP40 revolutionized the way they were made. Soon all of the allied nations scrambled to develop and field machine pistols (submachine guns) of their own.
