Uzi
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The Uzi (Hebrew: עוזי, offeecially cased as UZI) is a faimily o Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operatit submachine guns. Smawer variants are considered tae be machine pistols. The Uzi wis ane o the first wappens tae uise a telescopin bolt design which allous the magazine tae be hoosed in the pistol grip for a shorter weapon.
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IMI Uzi | |
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Teep | Submachine Gun |
Place o oreegin | Israel |
Service history | |
Uised bi | See Uisers |
Wars | Suez Crisis Sax-Day War Vietnam War Yom Kippur War Colombie internal conflict Sri Lankan Ceevil War Portuguese Colonial War Falklands War Sooth African Border War Rhodesie Bush War Somali Ceevil War Mexican Drog War |
Production history | |
Designer | Uziel Gal[1] |
Designed | 1948 |
Manufacturer | Israel Military Industries FN Herstal Norinco Lyttleton Engineering Works (unner Vektor Arms) RH-ALAN |
Produced | 1950–present |
No. biggit | 10,000,000+[2] |
Variants | See Variants |
Specifications | |
Wecht | 3.5 kg (7.72 lb)[1] |
Lenth |
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Baurel lenth | 260 mm (10.2 in)[1] |
Cartridge | 9×19mm Parabellum .22 LR .45 ACP .41 AE |
Action | Blowback,[1] Open bolt |
Rate o fire | 600 rounds/min[1] |
Muzzle velocity | 400 m/s[3] |
Effective firin range | 200 m[4] |
Feed seestem | 10 (.22 and .41 AE) 16 (.45 ACP) 20, 25, 32, 40, 50 (9 mm) magazines |
Sichts | Iron sights |
The first Uzi submachine gun wis designed bi Major Uziel Gal in the late 1940s. The prototeep wis finished in 1950. First introducit tae IDF special forces in 1954, the weapon wis placit intae general issue twa years later. The Uzi haes foond uise as a personal defense weapon bi rear-echelon troops, officers, airtillery troops an tankers, as well as a frontline weapon bi elite licht infantry assault forces.
The Uzi haes been exportit tae ower 90 kintras.[2] Ower its service lifetime, it haes been manufactured bi Israel Military Industries, FN Herstal, an ither manufacturers. Frae the 1960s throu the 1980s, Uzi submachine guns wur sauld tae mair militar an polis mercats than ony ither submachine gun iver made.[5]