Talk:MP 40

Romania au folosit mp40 ?

da sau nu 2A02:2F01:8A0C:8500:793C:CECC:12D0:2937 (talk) 07:37, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Vigneron can't use MP40 magazine?

The article on the Vigneron states very specifically that these similarly designed magazines are incompatible, and that the MP40 magazine will not work in the Vigneron. I have no knowledge or experience in this myself, but somewhere in one of the two articles there is some kind of error to be corrected. TooManyFingers (talk) 02:28, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Usage in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war

It is fairly easy to find images online of soldiers in the war wielding the weapon. Namely a few reddit posts of Donbass(?) militants with the gun in full combat gear come up when you google the key words. I don't know if regular issuance is a prerequisite for having a conflict listed in the "conflicts" section, but I thought I'd draw attention to it. I see that the STG 44 article now has the Russo-Ukrainian war listed under its conflicts after a similar situation with a few pictures of it being used as a rear-line weapon circulated the internet. Kroaala (talk) 20:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Removed duplicate information

I have removed the following paragraph from the “Development” section because it was already stated in the introduction. It rightly belongs there as what the allies came to call the gun has very little to do with its development.

”The MP 40 was often called the "Schmeisser" by the Allies, after the weapon designer Hugo Schmeisser. Schmeisser had designed the MP 18, which was the first mass-produced submachine gun. He did not, however, have anything to do with the design or development of the MP 40, although he held a patent on the magazine.” MikeEagling (talk) 16:09, 2 August 2024 (UTC)