Wikipedia: The Borchardt C93 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893.The design is based upon the Maxim gun (toggle bolt) model.
Borchardt developed the high-velocity, bottlenecked 7.65×25mm Borchardt cartridge for the C93. His assistant at the time, Georg Luger, also claimed to have influenced its design. Machine tool manufacturer Ludwig Loewe & Company of Berlin, Germany, produced the C93 in anticipation of military orders. With about 1,100 manufactured by Loewe and nearly 2,000 more produced by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken. The Borchardt C93 was the first mass-produced semi-automatic pistol.
Type Semi-automatic pistol
Place of origin German Empire
Service history
In service 1895-1945
Production history
Designer Hugo Borchardt
Designed 1893
Manufacturer Ludwig Loewe & Company
Produced 1893 - 1902
No. built 3,100
Specifications
Mass 1,160 g (41 oz)
Length 355 mm (14.0 in)
Barrel length 195 mm (7.7 in)
Cartridge 7.65×25mm Borchardt
Caliber 7.65
Action Toggle-lock recoil action
Feed system 8-round detachable box magazine
Sights Iron sights
The Luger P08 is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol. The Luger was produced in several models and by several nations from 1898 to 1949.
The design was first patented by Georg Luger. It was meant to be an improvement of the Borchardt C-93 pistol, and was initially produced as the Parabellum Automatic Pistol, Borchardt-Luger System by the German arms manufacturer Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM). The first production model was known as the Modell 1900 Parabellum. It was followed by the "Marinepistole 1904" for the Imperial German Navy.
The Luger was officially adopted by the Swiss military in 1900, the Imperial German Navy in 1906 and the German Army in 1908. The Luger was the standard service pistol of Switzerland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Brazil, Bolivia, and Bulgaria. It was widely used in other countries as a military service pistol and by police forces.[9] In the German Army service, it was adopted in a slightly modified form as the Pistole Modell 1908 (Pistole 08) in caliber 9×19mm Parabellum. The Model 08 was eventually succeeded by the Walther P38.
The Luger is well known for its wide use by Germany during World War I and World War II, along with the interwar Weimar Republic and the postwar East German Volkspolizei.
Type Semi-automatic pistol
Place of origin German Empire
Service history
In service 1904-1953 (Germany)
1900-1970s (other countries)
Used by See Users
Wars
Boxer Rebellion[1]
World War I
German Revolution
Irish War of Independence
Finnish Civil War[2]
Irish Civil War
Constitutionalist Revolution[3]
Chaco War
Spanish Civil War
World War II
Second Sino-Japanese War
1947-1949 Palestine war
Indonesian National Revolution
Indochina War[4]
Algerian War[4]
1958 Lebanon crisis
Vietnam War (limited use)
Laotian Civil War
Lebanese Civil War
Portuguese Colonial War[5]
Rhodesian Bush War
The Troubles
Production history
Designer Georg Luger
Designed 1898
Manufacturer
Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken
Imperial Arsenals of Erfurt
Simson
Heinrich Krieghoff Waffenfabrik
Mauser
Vickers Ltd (final assembly only)
Waffenfabrik Bern
Unit cost 35 ℛℳ (1943)
equivalent to €140 in 2021
Produced 1900-1953
No. built 3,000,000
Specifications
Mass 871 g (1 lb 15 oz)
Length 222 mm (8.74 in)
Barrel length
120 mm (4.7 in) (Pistole 00)
100 mm (3.9 in) (Pistole 08)
200 mm (7.9 in) (Lange Pistole 1908)
Cartridge
7.65×21mm Parabellum
9×19mm Parabellum[6]
Action Toggle-locked, short recoil
Rate of fire 116 rpm (semi-automatic)
Muzzle velocity 350-400 m/s (1148-1312 f/s) (9mm, 100 mm short barrel)
Effective firing range 50 m (55 yd) (9mm, 100 mm short barrel)
Feed system 8-round detachable box magazine
Sights Iron sights
The name Parabellum, which also featured in DWM's telegraphic address, comes from the Latin phrase, Si vis pacem, para bellum "If you wish for peace, prepare for war.
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