The first SMG ever made

[Edmond]

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[VUPDblue]

Very reminiscent of the PPSH.

 

[Tatsumi67]

Well wasnt the fully automatic C96 Mauser Broomhandle Variants the first SMGS? I seem to remember that being around the turn of the century.

 

[rkba_net]

The M712 Schnellfeuer (full-auto C96) started production in 1932... I disagree the article re the first SMG... IMHO it was the Villar-Perosa...

 

[kfb2b]

Actually, technically the FIRST was the Italian Villar-perosa of WW1 fame. Tw blowback action side-by-side with top-mount mags and a bipod! Not really an SMG in the conventional sense, but that is why I said TECHNICALLY.

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/jpegs_new/number_11/villar_perosa_smg (4).jpg

 

[SDC]

After it was realized that the Villar-Perosa was useless as a GPMG (it was originally designed as such, for mountain troops), most of them were stripped down for re-build as OVPs; an OVP is just one half of a Villar-Perosa placed into a wood stock.

 

[Edmond]

The OVP did not go into combat, Sir.

 

[Edmond]

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