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Encyclopedia > MP 3008
MP 3008 Volks MP

One of the final stages of MP3008 construction, showing a wooden stock and transposed ejection port and cocking handle.
Type Submachine gun
Place of origin Nazi Germany
Service history
In service 1945
Used by Nazi Germany
Wars World War II
Production history
Designed 1945
Produced 1945
Number built ~10,000
Specifications
Weight 3.18 kg
Length 760 mm
Barrel length 196 mm

Cartridge 9 x 19 mm
Caliber 9 mm caliber
Action Blowback, open bolt
Rate of fire 450 round/min
Muzzle velocity 365 m/s
Effective range
Feed system 32-round detachable box magazine

The 9 mm MP 3008 was a Nazi German substitute standard submachine gun manufactured toward the end of World War II. The weapon was almost identical to the British Sten, except for its vertical magazine. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... A stock or buttstock is present in many firearms and some crossbows to transfer the recoil from firing the weapon into the shooters shoulder. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The word calibre (British English) or caliber (American English) designates the interior diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod. ... This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the 9 mm (.354 in) caliber range. ... In firearms terminology, an action is the system of operation that the firearm employs to seal the breech (in a breech-loading firearm), and to load consecutive rounds. ... Blowback is a system in which automatic or semi-automatic firearms operate through the energy created by combustion in the chamber and bore acting directly on the bolt face through the cartridge. ... A semi or fully-automatic firearm which is said to fire from an open bolt is one where, when ready to fire, the bolt and working parts are held to the rear. ... Rate of fire is the speed at which a specific firearm or artillery piece can ]] per minute (RPM or round/min), or rounds per second Note that heat and ammunition concerns mean that most automatic weapons are unlikely ever to sustain their cyclic rate of fire for a full minute... A guns muzzle velocity is the speed at which the projectile leaves the muzzle of the gun. ... A 30-round STANAG magazine. ... This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the 9 mm (.354 in) caliber range. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article is about the submachine gun. ... A 30-round STANAG magazine. ...


The MP 3008 was an emergency measure, designed at a time when Germany was at the point of collapse. Desperately short of money and raw materials, the Germans sought to produce a radically cheaper alternative to their standard submachine gun, the MP40. The MP40 (Maschinenpistole 40, literally machine pistol 40) was a submachine gun developed in Germany and used extensively by paratroopers and platoon and squad leaders, and other troops during World War II. The MP40 had a relatively lower rate of fire and very low recoil, which made it more manageable...


The MP 3008 was a simple blowback design operating from an open bolt. It was crudely manufactured in small machine shops and variations were common. Typically, the magazine was bottom-mounted unlike the side-mounted Sten. Initially, all steel without handgrips, the wire buttstock was welded to the frame and was typically triangular, however the design changed as conditions inside Germany worsened and on final guns wooden stocks and other variations are found. Blowback is a system in which automatic or semi-automatic firearms operate through the energy created by combustion in the chamber and bore acting directly on the bolt face through the cartridge. ... A semi or fully-automatic firearm which is said to fire from an open bolt is one where, when ready to fire, the bolt and working parts are held to the rear. ... A stock or buttstock is present in many firearms and some crossbows to transfer the recoil from firing the weapon into the shooters shoulder. ...


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MP 3008 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (230 words)
MP 3008 Volks MP One of the final stages of MP3008 construction, showing a wooden stock and transposed ejection port and cocking handle.
The MP 3008 was an emergency measure, designed at a time when Germany was at the point of collapse.
The MP 3008 was a simple blowback design operating from an open bolt.
All Time UP Diesel Roster, Part 48 (1978 words)
MP 3008 was leased to NdeM in November 1989 to June 1991; stored unserviceable at Fort Worth, Tex.; sold to National Railway Equipment, 9 October 1991; sold to Morrison Knudsen, rebuilt to SD40M-2 by MK Rail, Mountaintop, Pa., completed as SP 8645 on 25 July 1994 (assigned UP number 4671).
MP 3013 was sold to Wilson Railway Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 24 October 1988; in national lease service as WC-Oxford 4013; renumbered to WC-Oxford 4018; sold to Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway 4018 in August 1992.
MP 3055 was sold to VMV Enterprises, Paducah, Ky., 10 February 1989; sold to Helm Financial, rebuilt to SD40-3 by VMV Enterprises, Paducah, Ky., completed as Helm Leasing (HLCX) 6051 on 7 April 1995; to Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern 6051 in May 1996.
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