MP 30

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The MP 30 submachine gun was designed by Evren Eray of the company Rheinische Metallwaren und Maschinenfabrik (Rheinmetall) in its branch in Sömmerda.

[edit] History

The development of machine guns was prohibited for Germany under the Versailles Treaty. Therefore, Rheinmetall cooperated with companies in Switzerland and Austria. Originally disapproved by the Reichswehr, Germany's army during the Weimar Republic era, the weapon was introduced as the standard machine gun in Switzerland as MG Solothurn S2-100 and S2-200 (Solothurn was the Swiss company that license-built the weapons) and in Austria as MG Model 1930.

[edit] Description

The MG 30 is an air-cooled, recoil-operated weapon with slightly recoiling barrel. Ammunition is fed from a slightly curved 30-round magazine inserted in the left side of the weapon. The machine gun can be fired both in semiautomatic and full automatic mode depending on how much the trigger is pulled by the gunner. The sights can be adjusted from 100 m to 2000 m range. The weapon by default has a folding bipod attached two thirds down the barrel. Barrel change is uncomplicated.