Mors | |
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Type | Submachine gun |
Place of origin | Second Polish Republic |
Service history | |
In service | 1939 |
Used by | Second Polish Republic |
Wars | World War II |
Production history | |
Designer | Piotr Wilniewczyc Jan Skrzypiński |
Designed | 1936 |
No. built | 39-52 |
Variants | Prototype version |
Specifications | |
Mass | 4.25 kg (without magazine) |
Length | 970 mm |
Barrel length | 300 mm |
Cartridge | 9×19mm Parabellum |
Action | blowback |
Rate of fire | 500-550 rpm |
Muzzle velocity | 400 m/s (1,312 fts) |
Effective firing range | 440 m |
Maximum firing range | 600 m |
Feed system | 24-round magazine |
Sights | Adjustable iron sights |
Pistolet maszynowy wz. 39 Mors (Mors is Latin for death, Polish for walrus) was a Polish submachine gun designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński between 1936 and 1938. It was to have become the standard submachine gun of the Polish Army some time in the 1940s. However, its production was halted by the 1939 Invasion of Poland and World War II.[1]