most ergonomic: controls all within reach of the shooter’s hand without the hand ever leaving the pistol grip and speed of reloading), it only made sense to base it off of the M16. With the knowledge that the M16/AR-15 is considered by many to be the finest human engineered small arm in the world (i.e. Consequently, they set out to design their own SMG and the project for the Colt SMG was given to their Senior Engineer, Henry “Hank” Tatro. but they offered nothing to fill the need for police who needed the lower powered pistol cartridges that were best used in urban environments. They realized they controlled the rifle and carbine markets in the U.S. Notice the absence of the bolt catch.Ĭolt decided that they were losing out on an entire market in the early 1980s.
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The “X” prefix in the serial number indicates the weapon is experimental. This weapon fired from the open-bolt position.
Notice the M1911-style grip safety on the back of the pistol grip. Shown is a close up of the original prototype Colt 9mm SMG. The rifle and carbines of choice were the Colt M16/AR-15 series. Although the MP5 was a great success, the 7.62x51mm and 5.56x45mm H&K rifles never achieved popularity with U.S. The MP5 was basically a scaled down version of the 7.62x51mm G3 assault rifle. The MP5 would be the standard SMG in use by both military and law enforcement throughout the world.
The next, and the most successful SMG of all time, was the Heckler & Koch MP5. The first truly successful SMG to be used world-wide came out of Israel: the Uzi SMG – an open bolt selective fire SMG. The SMG offered SWAT teams a significant amount of firepower in a small package. By using modern high performance jacketed hollow point ammunition the 9mm NATO cartridge was quite effective and did not suffer from the over penetration and lack of stopping power as the military ball round. Police were not restricted as the military was in what type of ammunition they could use. First, it dealt with the issues of over-penetration in the nation’s cities and kept compatibility with the ammunition police officers used in their sidearms. The SMG fit their area of operations perfectly. However, the biggest customer for the SMG was to become law enforcement. As a military weapon, it was effective under controlled conditions such as close quarter battle as well as when suppressed fire was needed. The SMG did not entirely disappear they filled a role in law enforcement and in military special operations units. Soon after the war, the SMG would be decommissioned throughout the world in favor of intermediate caliber assault rifles. It was just as quickly seen the ineffectiveness of the pistol cartridge on the battle field, especially compared to the new intermediate cartridges. First being used successfully on a large scale by Germany during the war, Russia, England and eventfully the United States developed their own. World War II brought the submachine gun into prominence with many armies.
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