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{{Short description|German prototype submachine gun}}
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| image              = EMP44 Aberdeen noBG.png
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| origin             = [[Nazi Germany]]
| type               = [[Submachine gun]]
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| wars               = [[World War II]]
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| design_date        = 1942
| manufacturer       = [[Erma Werke]]
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| cartridge          = [[9×19mm Parabellum]]
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| action             = [[Blowback (firearms)|Straight blowback]],
| rate               = 500 rounds/minute
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| range              = 150-200 meters
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| feed               = Two 32-round detachable [[Magazine (firearms)|box magazines]]
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The '''EMP 44''' was a prototype, all-metal [[submachine gun]] produced by [[Erma Werke]] in 1943. It was rejected by the [[Heereswaffenamt]].<ref name="Walter2004">{{cite book|author=John Walter|title=The Guns of the Third Reich|year=2004|publisher=Greenhill Books|isbn=978-1-85367-598-0|page=187}}</ref>

==Design==
The EMP 44 fires from an [[open bolt]]. The caliber is [[9×19mm Parabellum]]. The length of the gun is 892–950&nbsp;mm depending on stock position. The barrel length is either 250 or 308&nbsp;mm long.{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} Its rate of fire is 500 rounds per minute and has sliding two 32-round [[MP 40]] [[Magazine (firearms)|magazine]] wells. The practical range was 150–200 meters.

The gun was crudely assembled with a stock made of pipes welded together. This was part of its design philosophy for the weapon was created in response to the requirements of the Primitiv-Waffen-Programm, more or less in an attempt to imitate the British [[Sten gun]] and to a lesser extent the [[PPSh-41]]. Ultimately, its crude looking design was what made it to be rejected by the German army.<ref>W. Darrin Weaver (2005) ''Desperate Measures - The Last-Ditch Weapons of the Nazi Volkssturm'', Collector Grade Publications, {{ISBN|0889353727}}, pp. 110-112</ref>

The gun was probably designed in 1942, with the sole exemplar known having serial number 15, and having February 1943 as its manufacture date. One theory as to fate of the prototypes is that most were cannibalized for their [[dual feed]] mechanism which was then installed on [[MP40]]/I.<ref name="VriesMartens">G. de Vries, B.J. Martens: The MP 38, 40, 40/1 and 41 Submachine gun, Propaganda Photos Series, Volume 2, Special Interest Publicaties BV, Arnhem, The Netherlands.First Edition 2001, page 36</ref>

==History==
The wide use of submachine guns by the German armed forces in the [[World War II|Second World War]] led to a strong dependence on the industrial capacity of arms factories that brought out simplified designs at lower production costs. In 1944,  Erma, the main MP 40 producer submitted the EMP 44. The receiver was produced out of welded steel tubing like the [[Sten]]. The [[flash suppressor]] was formed in the same manner as the Russian machine pistol [[PPS submachine gun|PPS-43]] muzzle brake from stamped steel. The EMP 44 was rejected due to its failure to pass acceptance tests, but mainly because new weapons like the [[MP 44]]/[[STG 44]] were already produced with the goal to replace both the MP 40 and the [[Karabiner 98k]].

==See also==
* [[Erma EMP]]
* [[MP 3008]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
For photographs see:
* http://strangernn.livejournal.com/625090.html

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[[Category:World War II infantry weapons of Germany]]
[[Category:World War II submachine guns]]
[[Category:Submachine guns of Germany]]
[[Category:Trial and research firearms of Germany]]
[[Category:Erma Werke firearms]]
[[Category:9mm Parabellum submachine guns]]


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