Submachine gun Smith & Wesson SW Model 76 (USA)

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Submachine gun Smith & Wesson Model 76, left side, butt decomposed.
 Submachine gun Smith & Wesson Model 76, left side, butt decomposed.

 Submachine gun Smith & Wesson Model 76, right side, the stock closed.
 Submachine gun Smith & Wesson Model 76, right side, the stock closed.



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Features

Caliber9x19mm Luger / Parabellum
Weight3.2 kg empty
Length (stock closed / open)496/775 mm
Barrel length204 mm
Rate of fire720 rounds per minute
Capacity36 rounds
The effective range150-200 meters

Submachine gun Smith & Wesson Model 76 bylrazrabotan in 1966 the famous American arms company Smith & Wesson on the basis of a Swedish submachine gun Carl Gustaf M/45 . This unusual decision due to the fact that the American special forces, at that time, actively participated in the Vietnam War, is widely used by Swedish pistols, machine guns, but the peaceful Sweden in 1965, the Americans stopped their supplies. Therefore, engineers from Smith & Wesson copied the Swedish design by making a few changes to it. However, in 1967, when the Model 76 went into production, the special forces have already lost interest in it, and the production of sub-machine gun SW Model 76 continued in nominal terms until 1974, mainly for the domestic police and civilian U.S. market. In the future, rather replicas SW Model 76 was released a small American company under the designation MK Arms MK-760, and these mines produced in both automatic and semi-automatic only versions. 
should be especially noted that on the basis of SW Model 76 Smith & Wesson company in 1968-69 experimented with caseless ammunition caliber 9mm, which had a view of a conventional pistol bullet with a sword stuck behind a pressed powder. Inflammation of ammunition was carried out electrically, two 12-volt batteries in a special housing fastened to the bottom of the receiver Model 76, in front of the trigger guard. One set of batteries in the test lacked more than 10,000 shots. However, the problems of providing mechanical strength caseless ammunition and to protect them from moisture in the wild led to the closure of the project. submachine gun Smith & Wesson Model 76 uses automatic blowback, firing from open bolt. Fuse-translator fire mode is located on both sides of the box and the trigger has three positions - "fuse", "single shot" and "automatic fire." Sights are fixed, non-adjustable, include a diopter rear sight and front sight. Metal butt. folding to the left.