Submachine guns:

A submachine gun, abbreviated SMG, is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges. The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-"). As a machine gun must fire rifle cartridges to be classified as such, submachine guns are not considered machine guns.

Most popular SMGs:

Heckler & Koch MP5

• Caliber: 9 x 19 mm
• Magazine capacity: 30 rounds
• Rate of fire: 800 rounds/min
• Weapon length: 680 mm
• Barrel length: 225 mm
• Mass: 3,08 kg
• Max effective range: 200m
• Year produced: 1966.
• Place of origin: West Germany

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Uzi

• Caliber: 9 x 19 mm
• Magazine capacity: 32 rounds
• Rate of fire: 600 rounds/min
• Weapon length: 445 mm
• Barrel length: 260 mm
• Mass: 3,5 kg
• Max effective range: 150 m
• Year produced: 1950.
• Place of origin: Israek

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Heckler & Koch UMP45

• Caliber: .45 ACP
• Magazine capacity: 25 rounds
• Rate of fire: 500 rounds/min
• Weapon length: 690 mm
• Barrel length: 200 mm
• Mass: 2,5 kg
• Max effective range: 65 m
• Year produced: 2000.
• Place of origin: Germany