MGD_PM-9 | |
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Type | Submachine gun |
Place of origin | France |
Service history | |
In service | never |
Production history | |
Designer | Louis Debuit |
Designed | late 1940s – early 1950s |
Specifications | |
Mass | 2.53 kilograms (5.6 lb) (unloaded) |
Length |
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Barrel length | 213 mm (8.4 in) |
Cartridge | 9 mm Parabellum, 7.65 mm Longue |
Barrels | 213 millimetres (8.4 in) |
Action | Delayed blowback |
Rate of fire | 750 rpm |
Effective firing range | 100 metres (110 yd) |
Feed system | 32-round box magazine (MP-40 compatible) |
Sights | Iron sights |
The MGD PM-9 was a French open bolt submachine gun, designed in the late 1940s or early 1950s by Louis Debuit and manufactured in small numbers by French firm Merlin and Gerin in the 1950s.[1] The PM9 was an unusual design in three different ways: it employed off-axis delayed blowback, it had a clock-style spiral mainspring similar to that of the Lewis gun, rather than the cylindrically-coiled spring used in the vast majority of self-loading firearms and, most unconventionally of all, used a rotating flywheel as a delaying mass in conjunction with the bolt.[2] It was furnished with a folding magazine, and some also had folding buttstocks, and this together with its original operating mechanism results in a highly compact weapon, but there is no known record of it being purchased or deployed by any military or police force.[2]
See also
[edit]- Barnitzke machine gun
- Hotchkiss Universal
- Hotchkiss Type Universal
- KRISS Vector
- List of submachine guns
References
[edit]- ^ McCollum, Ian (May 23, 2017). "MGD PM9 Rotary-Action Submachine Gun". Forgotten Weapons.
- ^ a b Popenker, Maxim (October 27, 2010). "MGD PM-9". Modern Firearms.
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MGD PM-9 submachine gun | |
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