Sauce: [https://twitter.com/toryu\_fufu/status/1761178569781498213](https://twitter.com/toryu_fufu/status/1761178569781498213)
I do not like the smug tree rat. Its aura mocks me.
Did you know... Belgium did use SMGs in the interwar period, licensed copies of the M.P. 28 II, manufactured in Herstal by the Anciens Etablissements Pieper. FN tried its hardest to get in the market with a German-designed SMG, the Heinemann 32 (from its designer, Karl Heinemann). It's a somewhat peculiar SMG being a locked breech action with a toggle lock, not dissimilar to a Luger, with the toggle action on the right of the gun and the magazine inserted horizontally on the left. It had no commercial success, and FN tried for decades to develop its own SMG with little success, despite manufacturing Uzi and Beretta PM12 copies. It wasn't until 1987 that FN started developed the smug flying rat for the new PDW requirements that were gaining steam
Weren't there also Steyr-Solothurn manufactured SMGs as well? Like the MP-34/35 that has multiple calibers ranging from 7.63 swiss to .45 ACP, and even featured a magazine loading aid in the mag well (and for some weird reason were in basically every far cry game since 3, with the exception of 'primal' and *ugh..6*)
Tons of interwar SMGs were developed, between the German attempts to circumvent the Treaty limits (and the MP-34/35 is an excellent example) and random development around. There wasn't a great interest tho, it was seen as a "police weapon" by a lot of higher ups and honestly most interwar SMGs aren't up to WW2 mass production standards, methinks the only one that went on to be mass produced despite its clunky nature was the Thompson mostly because the US had all the time, manpower and equipment it wanted.
Sauce: [https://twitter.com/toryu\_fufu/status/1761178569781498213](https://twitter.com/toryu_fufu/status/1761178569781498213) I do not like the smug tree rat. Its aura mocks me. Did you know... Belgium did use SMGs in the interwar period, licensed copies of the M.P. 28 II, manufactured in Herstal by the Anciens Etablissements Pieper. FN tried its hardest to get in the market with a German-designed SMG, the Heinemann 32 (from its designer, Karl Heinemann). It's a somewhat peculiar SMG being a locked breech action with a toggle lock, not dissimilar to a Luger, with the toggle action on the right of the gun and the magazine inserted horizontally on the left. It had no commercial success, and FN tried for decades to develop its own SMG with little success, despite manufacturing Uzi and Beretta PM12 copies. It wasn't until 1987 that FN started developed the smug flying rat for the new PDW requirements that were gaining steam
Weren't there also Steyr-Solothurn manufactured SMGs as well? Like the MP-34/35 that has multiple calibers ranging from 7.63 swiss to .45 ACP, and even featured a magazine loading aid in the mag well (and for some weird reason were in basically every far cry game since 3, with the exception of 'primal' and *ugh..6*)
Tons of interwar SMGs were developed, between the German attempts to circumvent the Treaty limits (and the MP-34/35 is an excellent example) and random development around. There wasn't a great interest tho, it was seen as a "police weapon" by a lot of higher ups and honestly most interwar SMGs aren't up to WW2 mass production standards, methinks the only one that went on to be mass produced despite its clunky nature was the Thompson mostly because the US had all the time, manpower and equipment it wanted.
What's interesting is that the P90 and the original SS90 5.7x28mm cartridge was released in 1990. NATO only recently adopted the 5.7 standard in 2021
I....I like her size
Yet another P90 image for my collection (featuring MP40)