miércoles, 15 de junio de 2011

MP40 (MASCHINENPISTOLE 40)


 The MP 40 is a submachine gun created under the design of Heinrich Vollmer  who working  for  ERMA  WERKE, gave an asault automatic arm to the german soldiers who saw the need of that kind  of arm during the spanish civil war,  where were the german soldiers in the Legion Condor .Initially created for armoured units and specially paratroopers finally was sended to all units in Wehrmacht and SS .
From 1940 to 1945 were created 1.1 million units ( 1.047.000).
These arms after the war were in use in different countries like Indochina or Argelia conflicts, in the
norwegian army till 1975 or spanish army  where after a long service where destroyed like scrap.
Price today: + - 1200 Dollars.