Pistole 640(b) - Browning High Power in German service

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After the Wermacht had taken Belgium during the early stages of the war, many of the factories producing weapons, especially FN Herstal’s factories, would continue to produce weapons, now for the Wermacht. Some weapons produced during this time would be the Belgian M35 Mauser, Browning 1922, and other similar pistols, but the subject of this topic - the Browning High Power. This was one of the main products coming out of occupied Belgium and saw wide service in the Wermacht due to a number of reasons, one being it used the same 9mm Parabellum round in service throughout the entire German armed forces, with around 319,000 to 325,000 produced during the occupation. These units were designated Pistole 640(b) in German service. This is technically in game already, as the Silver Browning HP, and old event reward, is available to Germany, and the normal production version should be included in the TT in my opinion, for 2 reasons. One is the high usage by German forces, and two, the USSR has a similar pistol already, a captured C96 Mauser. So for these reasons, I suggest the Browning Hi-Power be made avaliable in the German TT similar to how the Soviet C96 is.

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who knows…

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Production of Browning HP for Allies only started in 1944 (by Canada) and the first deployement was in 1945 with limited numbers.
Meanwhile Axis had 325 000+ Browning HP used since 1940.

I don’t usually like copy pasting but Browning HP should be available to the faction that actually used the gun in en masse.

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