MP 3008
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| MP 3008 Volks MP | |
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 One of the final stages of MP3008 construction, showing a wooden stock and transposed ejection port and cocking handle. |
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| Type | Submachine gun |
| Place of origin | Nazi Germany |
| Service history | |
| In service | 1945 |
| Used by | Nazi Germany |
| Wars | World War II |
| Production history | |
| Designed | 1945 |
| Produced | 1945 |
| Number built | ~10,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 3.18 kg |
| Length | 760 mm |
| Barrel length | 196 mm |
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| Cartridge | 9 x 19 mm |
| Caliber | 9 mm caliber |
| Action | Blowback, open bolt |
| Rate of fire | 450 round/min |
| Muzzle velocity | 365 m/s |
| Effective range | — |
| Feed system | 32-round detachable box magazine |
The 9 mm MP 3008 was a Nazi German substitute standard submachine gun manufactured toward the end of World War II. The weapon was almost identical to the British Sten, except for its vertical magazine.
The MP 3008 was an emergency measure, designed at a time when Germany was at the point of collapse. Desperately short of money and raw materials, the Germans sought to produce a radically cheaper alternative to their standard submachine gun, the MP40.
The MP 3008 was a simple blowback design operating from an open bolt. It was crudely manufactured in small machine shops and variations were common. Typically, the magazine was bottom-mounted unlike the side-mounted Sten. Initially, all steel without handgrips, the wire buttstock was welded to the frame and was typically triangular, however the design changed as conditions inside Germany worsened and on final guns wooden stocks and other variations are found.
[edit] See also
- Submachine gun
- Volkssturmgewehr 1-5 semi-automatic rifle intended for use by the Volkssturm.
- List of World War II firearms of Germany
| German-made firearms and light weapons of World War II |
|---|
| Side arms (Pistole) |
| Mauser C96 | Luger | Walther P38 | Walther PPK | Sauer 38H | Mauser HSc |
| Rifles & carbines (Gewehr & Karabiner) |
| Karabiner 98k | Gewehr 41 | Gewehr 43/Karabiner 43 | StG44/MP44 | FG42 | StG45(M) | Volkssturmgewehr 1-5 |
| Submachine guns ( Maschinenpistole ) |
| Bergmann MP18 | MP38/MP40 "Schmeisser" | MP3008 "Volks MP" |
| Machine guns & other larger weapons |
| MG08 | MG34 | MG42 | Faustpatrone | Panzerfaust | Panzerschreck
Flammenwerfer 35 | Panzerbüchse 39 | Granatwerfer 36 | Granatwerfer 42 |
| Notable foreign-made infantry weapons |
| P.640(b) | Vis.35 | Vz.24/G24(t) | MG26(t) | Panzerbüchse 35(p) |
| German-made cartridges used by the Wehrmacht |
| 7.92 x 57 mm | 7.63 x 25 mm Mauser | 7.92 mm Kurz | 7.65 mm Luger | 9 mm Luger |
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