Uzi

see also: Etymology of Uzi

Uzi is the name of a model of Pistolet-mitrailleur, most widespread in the world after MP5. It was developed by Uziel Gall (1923-2002) starting from 1948 in Israel and is produced by the IMI. Uzi, inspired of the Czech machine pistols SA 23 and SA 25, is a simple weapon, highly reliable and compact. Its appearance marked the general public at the point where the word Uzi is sometimes employed like a generic term.

Built by stamping of metal sheetings, Uzi includes/understands a cylinder head assembled on a tilted slope which reduces the retreat and the length. The first versions, left in 1952 , had one was, a handle and a stick (short or long) of wood and received a dagger-bayonet similar to that of the Karabiner 98k, which equipped Tsahal then. During years 1950, appear the plastics to replace wood (except for the stick) and the version with collapsible stick. The final version ( 1960 ), always produced in Israel (a license for export at summer given to FN Herstal in the years 1960), receive a broad ATS arming lever located on the top of the weapon (like the Thompson) Generally equipped with a collapsible metal stick, its charger is located in the handle, like that of a semi-automatic Pistolet . It is equipped with three safety measures:

the selector of shooting which offers a position of safety, a semi-automatic position shooting and an automatic position shooting
a safety placed at the rear of the handle which prohibits the shooting when that it is not thus inserted, for example, when the latter is not held
a latch on the lever of cylinder head which makes it possible to prohibit the movement

of it

It is confined in 9 mm Parabellum, of the kits of conversion also allow to draw in .45 ACP STATES and .22 Long Riffles (primarily for the drive in the second case). There exists also a version rifle, models has and B (copied in China by Norinco), with the gun lengthened (16 inches = 40,64cm) and which draws only in semi-automatic since a closed cylinder head. This Uzi Carbine ceased being produced in 1994 with the hardening of the legislation étatsunienne which cut it from its market.

Uzi, although heavier than its more recent competitors, was the modern first Pistolet-mitrailleur to know a very important diffusion since it was adopted by about fifty country to equip their armed forces and their police services (in Argentine, France, Belgium, the United States, Thailand in particular). At the end of the years 1970, it was in service in FRG ( MP2 with stick drink MP2A1 with folding stick), Ethiopia, Greece, Haiti, Panama, Iran, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Venezuela. It marked a revival of the Pistolet-mitrailleur and will be declined thereafter in two lighter versions, the Mini Uzi and the Micro Uzi .

Compact alternatives and ultracompactes of the UZI

Although of reduced size, the IMI firstly propose versions lighter destinies with the police bodies.

Mini Uzi: It is about a version shortened and reduced of Uzi to which dimensions are closer to those of the more modern machine pistols. Its range is some reduced, but its rate of shooting is more important because of the shorter movement of the cylinder head. It has a folding metal stick on with dimensions one of the weapon (and either retractable behind the handle gun) which makes it possible to shoulder it when it is deployed and which offers one second handle when it is folded back. She is proposed in version with shooting open or closed cylinder head and also with a cylinder head weighed down by tungsten inserts to slow down the rate of shooting.
Micro Uzi: This alternative pushes back a little further the concept of the Uzi Minis. Of a size very reduced comparable with that of the series of the Ingram, its rate of shooting exceeds the 1200 blows per minute but its range does not exceed thirty meters, with the result that the chargers empty themselves extremely quickly in the event of shootings in gust. It accepts all the chargers of Uzi, but in order to preserve the advantage of its small size, the chargers of 20 blows are generally used.
Uzi Pistol : The size of the Uzi Microphone led its originators to create a version of it not being able more to draw but in semi-automatic mode and having lost its folding stick. It is not then any more of a machine pistol, but about a traditional gun.

External bonds

Uzi (German)

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