“The basic Thompson M1928 submachine gun was modified and adopted as standard by the US Army in 1942 as the M-1, which is quite different than the M1928 series in that only the trigger …

2024年12月6日 · Thompson submachine gun, submachine gun patented in 1920 by its American designer, John T. Thompson. It weighed almost 10 pounds (4.5 kg) empty and fired .45-calibre …

Light enough for one-man use, the new weapons were nicknamed "trench brooms" because they swept the trenches clear of enemy troops. The Thompson submachine gun was the handwork …

The M1928 Thompson was a sub-machine gun that was used by the United States and Great Britain during World War II. It could fire the .45 ACP round at a range of up to 200 meters, …

2018年9月1日 · The M1928 was used by both American and Commonwealth forces early in the war. This variant is closely related to the M1921 guns used by gangsters during Prohibition.

M1928 Thompson, which no longer had a vertical fore grip or a finned barrel. Its rate of fire was reduced from 800 RPM to 600 RPM for better control when firing bursts. Later, in the 1930s, …

2017年5月31日 · On January 29, 1945, 1st Sgt Leonard Funk Jr. faced a determined German foe in overwhelming numbers, bent on killing him. Armed with a Thompson M1A1 submachine …

US sub-machine guns Thompson M1A1, M1, M1928. History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures and 3D model.

In 1919, Thompson's team developed the Thompson Submachine Gun, which became the first weapon to be labeled a "submachine gun." The M1928A1, manufactured in 1928, was an …

2017年7月11日 · The later versions of the SMG included the M1928, which began production as a Savage Arms product, that still featured the cooling finned barrel, the Cutt’s muzzle …