MP 3008

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MP 3008 Volks MP
One of the final stages of MP3008 construction, showing a wooden stock and transposed ejection port and cocking handle.
Type	Submachine gun
Place of origin	Nazi Germany
Service history
In service	1945
Used by	Nazi Germany
Wars	World War II
Production history
Designed	1945
Produced	1945
Number built	~10,000
Specifications
Weight	3.18 kg
Length	760 mm
Barrel length	196 mm

Cartridge	9 x 19 mm
Caliber	9 mm caliber
Action	Blowback, open bolt
Rate of fire	450 round/min
Muzzle velocity	365 m/s
Effective range	—
Feed system	32-round detachable box magazine

The 9 mm MP 3008 was a Nazi German substitute standard submachine gun manufactured toward the end of World War II. The weapon was almost identical to the British Sten, except for its vertical magazine.

The MP 3008 was an emergency measure, designed at a time when Germany was at the point of collapse. Desperately short of money and raw materials, the Germans sought to produce a radically cheaper alternative to their standard submachine gun, the MP40.

The MP 3008 was a simple blowback design operating from an open bolt. It was crudely manufactured in small machine shops and variations were common. Typically, the magazine was bottom-mounted unlike the side-mounted Sten. Initially, all steel without handgrips, the wire buttstock was welded to the frame and was typically triangular, however the design changed as conditions inside Germany worsened and on final guns wooden stocks and other variations are found.

[edit] See also

Submachine gun
Volkssturmgewehr 1-5 semi-automatic rifle intended for use by the Volkssturm.
List of World War II firearms of Germany

v • d • e German-made firearms and light weapons of World War II
Side arms (Pistole)
Mauser C96 \| Luger \| Walther P38 \| Walther PPK \| Sauer 38H \| Mauser HSc
Rifles & carbines (Gewehr & Karabiner)
Karabiner 98k \| Gewehr 41 \| Gewehr 43/Karabiner 43 \| StG44/MP44 \| FG42 \| StG45(M) \| Volkssturmgewehr 1-5
Submachine guns ( Maschinenpistole )
Bergmann MP18 \| MP38/MP40 "Schmeisser" \| MP3008 "Volks MP"
Machine guns & other larger weapons
MG08 \| MG34 \| MG42 \| Faustpatrone \| Panzerfaust \| Panzerschreck Flammenwerfer 35 \| Panzerbüchse 39 \| Granatwerfer 36 \| Granatwerfer 42
Notable foreign-made infantry weapons
P.640(b) \| Vis.35 \| Vz.24/G24(t) \| MG26(t) \| Panzerbüchse 35(p)
German-made cartridges used by the Wehrmacht
7.92 x 57 mm \| 7.63 x 25 mm Mauser \| 7.92 mm Kurz \| 7.65 mm Luger \| 9 mm Luger