best world war two submachine gun

Best world war two submachine gun


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I'd love to say Sten-copied by Jerry, made in Poland during the Uprising, 2m made, only cost £5 so cheap too. BUT....PPSH everytime-reliable and helped win the war in the east
 
Other: The Japanese Type 2 Machine Pistol:
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It was the first machine pistol or submachine gun to feature loading through a pistol grip, I believe. It also carried a 50 round box magazine!
Only *slightly* let down by the fact that it used the fairly weak 8mm Nambu ammo, and the related problem that the bottlenecked ammo caused feed problems. Ok, so it's probably not the best, but you never see it mentioned.:p

Real answer: PPsh
 
a weapon which the russians shamelessly copied and stole from the finns

Eh, not the version the Germans themselves copied. The PPsh-41 was a somewhat different weapon, and even the "Russians, Germans, and Turks are the hordes of Mordor" site doesn't claim the Russians copied anything other than the ammunition clip. And by stole and used shamelessly, I mean the Germans did not copy this weapon, rather they scrounged ammunition for it off of dead Soviets and used captured weapons. They literally stole them, Nazi ideology would not have permitted direct copies of weapons made by Communists.
 
M31 Suomi, even though it was too finely made for real mass production Aimo Lahti and his team nevertheless created a weapon that "inspired" the war-winning PPsh-41.
 
the M-3 grease gun because it cost al of $15 to make it . It was the cheapest Submachine gun to be used and made by any nation in the 1940's it was stamped not machined . And you could change barrels with a pipe wench and make it a 9mm smg instead of a .45 cal.
 
M31 Suomi, even though it was too finely made for real mass production Aimo Lahti and his team nevertheless created a weapon that "inspired" the war-winning PPsh-41.

Technically it inspired the Russian PPsh-40, but that was too complex *also* so *that* got simplified into the PPsh-41. The Soviet genius in the war was *not* making good, high-quality, complex weaponry but stuff easy to produce in bulk and simple to produce and to literally spam the Germans with that kind of weaponry. And even then the USSR had ammunition shortages into 1943.
 
odd SMGs out

The Danuvia M43 fired the powerfull 9mmMauser round, making it the weapon of choice for those who want to have the most firepower. It works very well as a PDW. I allways liked the Beretta M38, that makes a excelent weapon for second line troops and with the smaller magazines doubles as a light rifle for short range, accurate fire. Given that, does the sweedish M45 qualify? It was designed during WW2, but only entered service later, and was a favourite of special forces in the VietNam era.
 
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