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MP 3008
File:MP 3008 Sub Machine Gun Wooden-Stocked.jpg
One of the final stages of MP3008 construction, showing a wooden stock and transposed ejection port and cocking handle.
TypeSubmachine gun
Place of origin Nazi Germany
Service history
In service1945
Used byNazi Germany
WarsWorld War II
Production history
Designed1945
Produced1945
No. builtApprox. 10,000
Specifications
MassTemplate:Kg to lb
LengthTemplate:Mm to in
Barrel length196 mm (7.7 in)

Cartridge9x19mm Parabellum
ActionBlowback, open bolt
Rate of fire450 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity365 m/s (1,198 ft/s)
Feed system32-round detachable box magazine
SightsFront blade, rear aperture

The 9 mm MP 3008 (Maschinenpistole 3008 or "machine pistol 3008") was a German substitute standard submachine gun manufactured toward the end of World War II in early 1945.[1]

Also known as the Volksmaschinenpistole ("people's submachine gun"), the weapon was closely based on the Sten MKII submachine gun, except for its vertical magazine; some even featured additional pistol grips.

The MP 3008 was an emergency measure, designed at a time when Germany was at the point of collapse. Desperately short of raw materials, the Germans sought to produce a radically cheaper alternative to their standard submachine gun, the MP 40.

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.

The Gerät Potsdam, another version of the Sten Mk II produced by Mauser in 1944, was an exact copy of the original Sten, right down to its manufacturing stamps in an effort to conceal its origin for clandestine operations. About 28,000 were made.[2]

Today, a modern, semi-automatic, reproduction the BD 3008 is available and is produced by HZA Kulmbach GmbH in Germany.[3]

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