CZK - Kulometná pistole vz. 38

     
Název:
Name:
Samopal vz. 38 Samopal vz. 38
Originální název:
Original Name:
Kulometná pistole vz. 38
Kategorie:
Category:
samopal sub-machinegun
Výrobce:
Producer:
České zbrojovky, n. p., Strakonice, Československo
Technické údaje:
Technical Data:
 
Hmotnost nenabité zbraně:
Weight Unloaded:
3,9 kg 8.6 lb
Ráže:
Calibre:
9 mm
Náboj:
Cartridge:
9 mm vz. 22
Délka:
Length:
805 mm 2ft 7,69in
Délka hlavně:
Barrel Length:
230 mm 9,06in
Kapacita zásobníku:
Magazine Capacity:
24,36,96
Výkony:
Performance:
 
Rychlost střelby:
Rate of Fire:
200, 600 ran/min 200, 600 rpm
Úsťová rychlost:
Muzzle Velocity:
370 m/s 1213.9 ft/s
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URL : https://www.valka.cz/CZK-Kulometna-pistole-vz-38-t15330#401062 Version : 0
Czechoslovak submachine gun vz. 38. The submachine gun was only in the stage of prototypes and never expected serial production.
Caliber: 9 mm (vz. 22)
Overall length: 810 mm
Main length: 230 mm
Magazine capacity: 24 rounds
Bullet speed: 370 m/s
Weapon weight: 3.20 kg
Empty hopper weight: 0.15 kg
weight of filled container: 0.378 kg
Cadence (theoretical): 500 rounds/min
Shooting mode. single wounds, doses
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I know that about 9 pieces are preserved. Maybe some of them are successful copies. Several of them were from the Hall of Traditions. But I've never seen what the magazines looked like. I would just add that it was a drum and straight magazine. The weapon was designed for cavalry and fortifications. Furthermore, it was probably considered as an armament of the Air Infantry. Within 300 meters, it allegedly had the same parameters as the LK26
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The submachine gun, in contemporary terminology "machine gun pistol", was marked vz.38 and was intended as an additional armament of border fortifications.
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The weapon was designed as a replacement for machine guns vz. 26, for the ROP therefore has a drum magazine, it was mainly the price (was 560 CZK) should be up to 200m as effective as a machine gun. Later, the armament of the cavalry was considered, and therefore a box magazine was constructed.
If you are creating a new topic, try to write the names correctly, otherwise the post is quite worthless (cannot be found)
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According to my information, had a drum magazine capacity of 92 shots.

When introducing this machine-gun pistol in the arsenal of the army (i.e. in the troubled days of the year 1938) had a few idea about the organization of the airborne troops - thus the air corps. Everything about this gun, it was only at the stage of considerations. I know, that have been already designed and even walking uniforms, but what is the armament for perhaps no steps were not performed. Paradesantní the special forces unit should be, perhaps, only one squad after the 4 cooperatives..
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According to the magazine Guns and ammo were machine-gun pistol vz. 38 developed as a weapon for the reinforced concrete bunkers in rugged terrain, which were separated by a distance of 50-100 meters. Then would the assembling of powerful and suitably more expensive machine guns seemed to be as uneconomical.
Trays were not two but three versions of the two mailbox at 24 and 36 rounds of ammunition, and a drum on 96 shots. Gun shot only dose it in two kadencích 200 and 600 shots/min.
Made of 15 pieces, according to the article accepted for testing, the number of surviving I anywhere did not find.
The exact dimensions and other parameters about the individual pieces slightly different, but I describe those of a magazine.
the total length of 805 mm
barrel length 230 mm
weight 3.9 kg.
URL : https://www.valka.cz/CZK-Kulometna-pistole-vz-38-t15330#170568 Version : 0
KP vz.38 first tried at the infantry and cavalry. Only ŘOP for him to found the application. The gun should be used in light objects of the pattern 37, where the distance between the objects does not exceed 70 - 100 feet.
Within 300 meters should have the same features as the LK vz.26. The Price Of 560 Rubles. Total was ordered 3500-4000 pieces. Except in the light of the objects still planned a possible use in armored turrets and the front embrasures..

Source:
Ota Pigeon "the River fort" in 1982.
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Photographs by the author of the article
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Diskuse

I don't want to believe it, but it is possible that it is in the literature of the fault, this is the submachine gun ČZ 247, the position of the tray to the side and down (sorry, better quality pics I can get, if it was, you would see i stamped with the designation of the ČZ 247):.
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The CZ vz.38 submachine gun can be compared with the German MP 38/40 submachine gun and the Italian Bereta 38/40 in terms of construction and in terms of its parameters. I believe that any comparison with the machine gun CZB vz. 26 and the use of a submachine gun for a similar purpose, can be only hypothetical from the point of view of the time, and only in the sense that both weapons fired in batches in the automatic mode. There is no other match.
It can not be forgotten that the machine gun vz. 26 used a 7.92x57 Mauser caliber ammunition and its effective range was up to 2000 m and thus the effectiveness of this weapon at short distances, can not be compared with any submachine gun at the time.
I believe that the idea of using this submachine gun for a similar purpose as a machine gun, arose from the generally unclear ideas about the role of this weapon and the then term "machine gun", which was introduced only because Czech and other languages at that time this weapon an adequate expression. The terms "machine gun" and "machine gun" were still used (I think this term is still used in German).
It is not uninteresting that one of the serious reasons why the submachine gun was not introduced in larger numbers into the Czechoslovak armament. pre-war army, was unfortunately a well-established and generally accepted idea that the use of submachine guns by infantry would be an unjustified waste of ammunition and resources.
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The term machine gun was and still is still used for machine guns.


Very theoretically, to repel an attack at a short distance (up to 100-200 m) a submachine gun with a large number of rounds in the magazine would not be such a bad idea, at this distance any stronger charge is probably unnecessarily effective, ie heavy and requiring a large magazine or its frequent exchanges. Of course, the ammunition belt eliminates this to a large extent. However, the charge 9 mm vz. 22 is simply not suitable, it is too weak, in the context of the time and at that time widespread calibers (7.65 mm police and 9 mm army) it can probably be understood.
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I agree with the opinion that a submachine gun in short-range combat and in any tactical situation (defense, attack) will fully replace the machine gun, especially when it comes to use against the enemy's manpower. This fact was then completely confirmed, especially during World War II. world wars. My above-mentioned opinion tends to point to the fact that the role of the submachine gun was not the command of the Czechoslovak. pre-war armies were properly understood and in terms of its tactical use in future conflict, there were no or only vague ideas.
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Yeah, unjustified waste of ammunition and resources Smile So a lot of states justified their decision not to introduce a submachine gun in their arsenal ... Then a lot of armies caught up with it quickly, when in the war there was a need for a weapon firing a short-range dose Smile Even even Japan tried to launch its submachine gun at the end of the war Smile
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So Japan not only tried, it introduced - type 100. And in 1942 ...
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as regards Japan, the type 100 was adopted in 1940, the number 100 is actually odvolávka the japanese era, correctly there should only be two 00, but it probably wasn't appropriate so there is added one year 1940 corresponds to the year 2400 of the japanese era. In 1942 the guns were already in production and even in the first deployment, the marine paratroopers (for them, the weapon was originally intended) it used in January 1942, and the army paratroopers in February 1942. The first in the fighting in Manado in the north of the island of Celebes, and others in the battles at Palembang in Sumatra.
Waste of ammunition and resources is usually nonsense, machine gun was usually pretty cheap (at the level of the repeaters, which would soldier got instead of him) and ammo for it, it was significantly cheaper. The reason for this was more of a tactical concept for the army, which had somehow set assembly squads and platoons and for the use of machine guns in it was not just "window". Even where there are machine guns introduced, it was more so that it is received non-commissioned officers commanding the squad, than ordinary soldiers. Until later with more spread between the team. Just look at our army, and there was a machine gun originally solved exactly for fortification (because of the price especially ammo) and then for the cavalry (here expected that to be applied in the raids into the enemy rear) and only eventually tried for the infantry with the fact that power didn't know how to use him..
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on the use of cavalry (and is, therefore, designed a flat tray), it is stated quite commonly. In reality it was about that for the concept of what our had, with the submachine gun didn't therefore was tested as a replacement of the machine guns in the ŘOP and subsequently the army (probably under the slogan "if it will do" Smile ) where he threw more for cavalry than for the infantry in fixed positions.
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So for use in ŘOP I saw its main advantage in the fact that it would certainly the machine gun vz.38 came out cheaper than if widely used LK vz.26.I would also like to see her in it, that is not too large.Certainly it was tampered with better in a small space, what are the objects of the vz.37 Smile Especially could be good to use in front of the gun, where a light machine gun for its length of just couldn't fit....
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The reason for this was the price of 560,- czk and the fact that ammo was significantly cheaper and was it possible to store a greater amount. Counted with her for firing at short distances (shouldn't be the norm) where the objects of the vz.37 were very close and didn't count with the fact that, thanks to the terrain there could the vehicle..
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Ammunition storage due to the smaller dimensions, it was also certainly in ŘOP a welcome advantage of...too bad, that the machine gun could not be tested in practice.
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