MAS 38
(All the MAS SMGs hold 32 rounds and have around 600 RPM)
The MAS-38 is the culmination of several designs for an indigenous French submachine gun from all the way back in the mid-1920s. The French military cancelled the program to procure a new submachine gun, feeling that is had little use for a new service SMG. By the 1930s, the program was restarted and the MAS-38 began to be mass produced in 1939. However, budgetary concerns and the subsequent invasion of France by Germany in 1940 meant the first batches of the MAS-38 were not received by the French Army until late 1940.
Experimental 9mm MAS 1925 submachine gun.
Beginning in 1921, a new program was established for the armament of the French infantry that included a submachine gun. The development proceeds rapidly and in 1924 two prototypes were ready: that of the Technical Section of the Army (STA) and that of the Saint-Etienne National Weapons Factory (MAS).These two models are very close to one another – they appear as a small carbine, with a wooden stock, a tubular frame, a curved magazine and chambered for the 9mm Luger cartridge
Experimental 7.65mm Long S.E.-MAS No. 1 Bis.
Utilized unusual slanted receiver and bolt guide; based on Browning 18-30 carbine
MAS S.E. 1 Bis 9mm submachine gun.
Utilized unusual slanted receiver and bolt guide; based on Browning 18-30 carbine
MAS 38 (bipod and optics)
Accuracy submachine gun, for night shooting, with long distance sights and folding bipod (prototype)
Paris Police MAS-38 (A police event squad maybe?)
- MAS 38 used by the Police of Paris. The wooden stock is replaced by a metallic telescopic wire stock. A grip safety replaces the folding trigger device. Magazine housing receives an extension that can be folded under the barrel. A perforated cooling jacket is placed around the barrel. A selector switch lever is placed on the left side of the receiver above the trigger that permits single shot.
STA M1924
the first French-made SMG, chambered for the ubiquitous 9×19 Luger ammunition, was designed in 1922. Developed by STA (Section Technique de l’Armée – Technical Department of the Army),
After successful trials, an order for several thousand STA submachine guns was placed at MAS factory in 1924, but production ceased after delivery of the first thousand. (32 round)(600rpm)
STA m1922
The concept of the sub-machine gun was adopted by the French army during the early 1920s, after close examination of the German MP.18, and the first French-made SMG, chambered for the ubiquitous 9×19 Luger ammunition, was designed in 1922. Developed by STA (Section Technique de l’Armée – Technical Department of the Army), this was a more or less conventional weapon, broadly based on the German design, with only individual features being a lightweight detachable bipod under the barrel and a dustcover on the magazine housing.
(25 round/shorter than STA M1924/800 RPM)
Type 2 SE-MAS Mle 1924
Variant of SE-MAS Mle 1924 with longer receiver
Type CEV-MAS Mle 1925
Single-trigger variant of SE-MAS Mle 1924
Type ETVS Mle 1933
The design submitted by the E.T.V.S. was designed by one Captain Martin in 1933. It was an odd-looking submachine gun incorporating several features that were common in French SMG designs, including a folding magazine housing and stock. The magazine housing was built with a hinged cover which would ideally prevent dirt from entering through the magwell when the gun was unloaded. The folding magazine also acted as a manual safety feature, as the gun could not fire when the magazine was compacted. Despite the external design eccentricities, the E.T.V.S. submachine gun was reportedly a basic straight-blowback design internally.(500rpm/32 round)
SACM Petter Mle 1939
The Pistolet Mitrailleur Modèle 1939 (lit. Model 39 submachine gun), also known as the Petter Mle 1939 , was a French submachine gun that was produced by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (SACM)
Delacre Mle 1939
Recoil-operated SMG utilizing roller-delayed action
Gnome et Rhône R5
Gnome et Rhône R5: A Foiled Communist Arms Plan
FN-Heinemann Mi 35(Belgium)
Licensed version of Heinemann MP 32(40 round)
Type 1 chauchat-ribeyrolles
Jacques-Louis Chauchat died in 1917, and in 1918, Paul Ribeyrolles, perhaps with the help of Charles Sutter, developed a gun he called a “machine pistol.” It was designed to be used by a tank crew for short range defense. They developed the gun that Americans would design 60 years later as a Firing Port Weapon. It was made with the frame and locking system of an M1917 semi-automatic rifle. The stock was replaced by a pistol grip. A shortened barrel was fitted with a muzzle brake made with the recoil booster of a Vickers aircraft machine gun. The rear sight came from a Springfield M1903 rifle. The gas cylinder was also shortened and shifted to the right. A safety lever was on the left side, but there is no selector.(8round/8mm)
The only thing I can think to make this smg viable is to make it do rifle damage(IT fires 8mm lebel) and put it in BR 1 or 2
type 2 chauchat-riberolles
The first trials took place in 1918 with a gun loaded with a special eight-shot Mannlicher Berthier loading clip, but the piston broke during the test in October 1918. Other trials took place a few months later with a new model that had an aluminum frame fitted with pistol grips. The barrel and gas cylinder were slightly longer. The gun had no sights and could be fitted with a scope. The use of mixed ball and tracer bullets was recommended. It received a 20-shot Chauchat magazine. Tests went on until July 1919 with good results, but the gun was too powerful for the intended purpose.
Now for some pistols and other stuff just photos no descriptions as I am tired