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Infantry Weapons - Submachine Guns

Albania
  • Beretta Model 1918
  • Beretta Model 38
  • Lanchester submachine gun
  • Thompson submachine gun
  • MP 18
  • MP35
  • MP38
  • MP40
  • StG 44
  • Sten



Argentina
  • C-2 1938
  • C-4 1938
  • Halcon M-1943 1943


Austria
  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1895


Australia
  • Owen
  • Austen submachine gun
  • Thompson M1928A1
  • Sten


Belgium

Brazil
  • Thompson submachine gun(U.S Lend Lease)
  • M3 grease gun(U.S Lend Lease)



Bulgaria
  • MP 34
  • MP 40


Canada
  • Sten
  • Thompson M1928A1
  • M50 Reising submachine gun
  • Sten
  • Thompson submachine gun
  • M50 Reising submachine gun
  • M3 grease gun

China
  • Thompson M1928A1 (Lend Lease, later local produced Chinese copies)
  • MP18
  • M3 submachine gun - provided by the U.S through Lend Lease
  • Thompson SMG (U.S Lend Lease and locally produced Chinese copies)
  • Sten
  • PPSh-41 (only used by communist forces)
  • PPS (only used by communist forces)
  • Type 100 submachine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
  • United Defense M42 - U.S Lend Lease and locally produced Chinese copies

Czechoslovakia
  • ZK-383 1938

Denmark
  • Lettet-Forsøgs 1939
  • Sten
  • Lettet-Forsøgs submachine gun

Estonia
  • Arsenal submachine gun 1926
  • Arsenal submachine gun
  • Suomi KP/-31

Finland
  • Suomi-konepistooli KP-31 1931
  • Suomi KP/-31
  • PPSh-41 Russian Lend Lease while during Lapland War

France
  • MAS-38 1938
  • Thompson M1928
  • Bergmann MP18
  • Erma EMP-35
  • Delacre machine pistol
  • MAS-38
  • Thompson M1928
  • Sten
  • Ribeyrolle 1918 automatic carbine

Germany
  • Erma EMP-35
  • MP 18 I (World War I Bergmann)
  • MP 28 II (improved MP 18 I)
  • MP 30(ö) (ex-Austrian S1-100 variant)
  • MP 34(ö) (ex-Austrian Steyr Solothurn)
  • MP 34 Bgm (Bergmann)
  • MP 35 (Bergmann version of the MP.34 Bgm.)
  • MP 38 (Predecessor to the MP40)
  • MP 40/I (main production model)
  • MP 40/II (MP 40 w/ dual magazine)
  • MP 41 (MP 40 w/ MP 28-like stock)
  • MP 44 (also know as MP 43, StG 44)
  • EMP 44 (cheap weapon made by Erma at the end of the war)
  • MP 3008 (German near-copy of the Sten Mk. II made at the end of the war)
  • ZK 383(t) (Czechoslovak submachine gun)
  • MP E (Erma)
  • MP 738(i) (Italian Beretta M38/42)
  • MP 739(i) (Italian Beretta M38/44)
  • Danuvia 39M
  • Danuvia 43M
  • Orita M1941
  • Suomi M-31

  • MP 704(f) (ex-Frence PM Vollmer Erma)
  • MP 715(r) (PPD 34/38)
  • MP 716(r) (PPD 40)
  • MP 717(r) (PPSh 41)
  • MP 719(r) Captured Russian PPs-43
  • MP 722(f) Captured French Mas-38
  • MP 738(i) Beretta model 38/42
  • MP 739(i) (Beretta Mo.938)
  • MP 740(b) (ex-Belgian Mi.Schmeisser-Bayard Mle.34)
  • MP 741(d) (The license built Bergman made in Denmark)
  • MP 746(d) (Madsen M-42)
  • MP 749(e) Captured British Sten Mk II
  • MP 751(e) Captured British Sten Mk II with silencer
  • MP 760(e)/(j)/(a)/(r) Captured Thompson M-28
  • MP 761(f) Captured Thompson M-1921 purchased by France in 1939
  • MP 3008 (German near-copy of the Sten Mk.II made at the end of the war)
  • MP E (Erma)
  • Czech ZK 383
  • Captured LL - Model 50 and Model 55 Reisings
  • Captured LL and OSS - UD M42
  • Captured US - M3/M3A1 "Grease Guns"
  • Finnish Suomi M-31
  • Hungarian 39.M and 43.M
  • Romanian M1940 and M1941 Orita
  • Captured GB - Lanchester
  • Danish Madsen M/41 (a licence manufactured variant of Suomi KP/-31)

  • MP 715(r) (Soviet PPD-34/38)
  • MP 716(r) (Soviet PPD-40)
  • MP 717(r) (Soviet PPSh-41)
  • MP 719(r) (Soviet PPS-43)
  • MP 704(f) (French PM Vollmer Erma)
  • MP 722(f) (French MAS-38)
  • MP 740(b) (Belgian Mi. Schmeisser-Bayard Modelle 34)
  • MP 741(d) (Danish licence-built Bergmann)
  • MP 746(d) (captured Madsen M42)
  • MP 748(e) (captured British Sten Mk I)
  • MP 749(e) (captured British Sten Mk II)
  • MP 750(e) (captured British Sten Mk III)
  • MP 751(e) (captured British Sten Mk II with silencer)
  • MP 760(a) (American Thompson Submachine Gun M1928)
  • MP 760(e) (British Thompson Submachine Gun M1928)
  • MP 760(r) (Soviet Thompson Submachine Gun M1928)
  • MP 761(f) (French Thompson Submachine Gun M1921)
  • American M50 Reising submachine gun and M55 Reising
  • US UD M42
  • US M3/M3A1 "Grease Guns"
  • British Lanchester SMG
  • Danish Madsen M41 (a licence manufactured variant of the Suomi M-31)

Greece
  • Thompson submachine gun

Hungary
  • Danuvia 39M
  • Danuvia 43M 1943

Italy
  • Moschetto Automatico Beretta 1938
  • OVP (firearm)
  • FNAB-43
  • TZ-45
  • Beretta Model 1918

Japan
  • Nambu Type 100 1942 
  • MP18
  • Type 2 1935


Latvia
  • Arsenal submachine gun


Netherlands
  • MP 28
  • Thompson M1928 (By the KNIL)


New Zealand
  • Charlton Automatic Rifle
  • Owen submachine gun
  • Thompson submachine gun
  • Sten


Norway
  • Sten (Used by the post Norwegian Campaign resistance, not the army.)
  • MP40 (captured from German forces, used by resistance)
  • Thompson M1928A1 (parachuted to the resistance movement as military aid)


Mongolia
  • PPSh-41
  • PPS-43


Poland
  • Błyskawica 1943 (Used by the polish resistance)
  • KIS (weapon)
  • Wz.39
  • Sten (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the West)
  • PPS (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East
  • PPSh-41 (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East)
  • Bechowiec-1 submachine gun
  • Polski Sten submachine gun
  • Mors submachine gun


  • Bechowiec-1
  • Błyskawica (Used by the Polish Resistance)
  • KIS (weapon)
  • Choroszmanów
  • Samoróbka
  • Teteryka
  • Wz.39
  • Sten (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the West)
  • PPS (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East)
  • PPSh-41 (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East)


Romania
  • Orita M1941
  • PPSh 41


South Africa
  • Sten


Spain
  • Labora Fontbernat M-1938 1938

Sweden
  • Carl Gustav M/45 1945

Switzerland
  • SIG MKMS 1934


Thailand
  • MP 18


United Kingdom
  • Sten - about 4 million produced from all sources
  • Lanchester
  • Thompson M1928, M1928A1, M1
  • Sterling Submachine Gun

United States
  • Thompson submachine gun 1918
  • Thompson M1928, M1928A1, M1, M1A1
  • M3/A1 'Grease Gun' 1942
  • M50 Reising submachine gun 1941
  • United Defense M42 1942
  • M2 Hyde


  • M1A1 Thompson
  • M3 submachine gun
  • M50 Reising
  • United Defense M42 (15,000)


USSR
  • PPD-34/38
  • PPD-40
  • PPSh-41
  • PPS-42
  • PPS-43


Yugoslavia
  • Erma EMP-35
  • MP 40
  • Stg 44
  • PPsh 41
  • Thompson submachine gun
  • Sten


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