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After evaluating both the Spanish [[CETME]] and American Armalite [[AR-10]], the Austrian Army adopted a vari ...t time in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before they were replaced by the Spanish [[CETME]] Modelo 58 rifle in 1959 (which was extensively reworked into the

...ler2001">Miller, David (2001). ''The Illustrated Directory of 20th Century Guns''. London: Salamander Books Ltd.. ISBN 9781840652451.</ref> The P90's name ...mm]] cartridge. FN's goal was to replace the [[pistol]]-caliber submachine guns which were in use at the time by military and law enforcement personnel, as

...an the pistol cartridges of submachine guns, but that could be used like a submachine gun in close-quarters and urban fighting. Production of the StG44 was never ...f the Czechoslovakian M1924 series of rifles. In addition, until 1953, the Spanish continued manufacturing a slightly modified version, but with a straight bo

==Machine guns== ==Submachine guns==

...un]]s, intended more for sustained automatic fire in a support role, and [[submachine gun]]s, which fire a handgun cartridge rather than a rifle cartridge. Assau ... of the [[Heckler & Koch G3]] family of rifles. The CETME was used by the Spanish military.

*[[Beretta|Beretta Machine Guns]] *[[Browning machine gun|Browning Machine Guns]]

|type= [[submachine gun]] ...eUQ&dq=The%20MP40%20submachine%20gun&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=&f=false The MP40 submachine gun]. Zenith Imprint. p. 75. ISBN 0760310149.</ref>

...m submachine gun usually refers to larger automatic firearms. Typically, a submachine gun's operating mechanism is scaled down from that of a full-sized machine ...ole'', the German word for a submachine gun. In World War I, as submachine guns were found to be effective in trench warfare, experiments with converting v

...chine carbine", the StG44 combined the characteristics of a [[carbine]], [[submachine gun]] and [[automatic rifle]]. StG is an abbreviation of ''Sturmgewehr''. T ...fire design, provided a compromise between the controllable firepower of a submachine gun at close quarters with the accuracy and power of a [[Karabiner 98k]] [[

... found on semi-automatic small-caliber [[Handgun|pistol]]s and automatic [[submachine gun]]s. Some low-velocity [[cannon]] or grenade launchers such as the [[Mk ...odern examples are the [[Heckler & Koch]] [[HK G3|G3 rifle]], [[HK MP5|MP5 submachine gun]], and [[Heckler & Koch P9|P9 pistol]] as well as the [[SIG SG 510|Stur