Pistolet maszynowy wz. 1939 "Mors"

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Caliber : 9 mm Parabellum
Rate of fire : 500-550 rounds per minute (in theory)
Magazine : 25 rounds
Sights : adjustable for 100 and 200 m
Weight : 4,25 Kg (4,41 mm 4,65 mm)
Length : 979 mm (840 mm, 930 mm)
Barrel : 300 mm (250 mm, 295 mm)
Muzzle velocity : 400 m/s

Poland began to question the introduction of machine guns to deal with in the mid - ' 30s, as the first part was to purchase 20 pieces of machine guns to the Suomi of Finland, half were assigned to the gendarmerie and the other half were tested with the troops. The experience gained was then used in the construction of their own Polish submachine gun wz.39. A submachine gun was somewhat grandly called Mors (Latin for death) and was in several versions tested and later introduced into the armaments of the Polish army. Introduction however, it is rather symbolic, because the weapon was made only in a small number of not exceeding probably 50 pieces, and it was rather a trial production differing implementation. Therefore, even the preserved dimensions are quite different, there should be three versions, and it is not clear which should be the final one. Supposedly the original version (for which it was intended the designation of wz. 39) was longer, the later guns have been shortened, it is not clear how much of that execution has been made. But it is certain that at school in Rembertowě was in September 1939 the 39 pieces in the possession of the trial commission, several pieces was used in Warsaw, and two were in airborne units in Bydgoszczy. Supposedly the order was issued which ordered that the weapon is in no way to get into German hands, the unit is, therefore, allegedly before abandon buried. Poland has long been just a single piece of substantially damaged and rust submachine gun that was found in the seventies. In 1983 he was from Moscow handed over to one of the two stored machine guns Mors is incomplete (missing the tray and miřidla) but it's apparently together with the moscow specimen of the only surviving piece. Today it is stored at the military museum in Warsaw..

9 mm pm wz.39 Mors (1)

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