The M1944 Hyde Carbine was an attempt by
George Hyde to manufacture a light rifle for the
US Armed Forces
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. The overall weapon was based on the
Thompson Submachine Gun
The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the "Tommy Gun", "Chicago Typewriter", "Chicago Piano", “Trench Sweeper” or "Trench Broom") is a blowback-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed selective-fire submachine gun, invented by United Sta ...
, which Hyde drew inspiration from in many of his weapon designs.
An original
.30 Carbine
The .30 Carbine (7.62×33mm) is a rimless carbine/rifle cartridge used in the M1 carbine introduced in the 1940s. It is a light rifle round designed to be fired from the M1 carbine's 18-inch (458 mm) barrel.
History
Shortly before World W ...
based on the
M1921/27 variants, it worked well but due to the war, the effort was expensive for mass production and its weight defied the concept of a 'Light Rifle'.
The M1944 Hyde Carbine came with a quick barrel change device similar to the
MG42
The MG 42 (shortened from German: ''Maschinengewehr 42'', or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II. Enterin ...
and used pressed steel components to ease production and reduce weight, therefore, making it versatile, reliable and easier to carry.
Overview
The M1944 Hyde sub-machine gun came with an uncommon quick-change barrel system that was most likely copied from the German MG42; this kind of engineering was uncommon because it was tremendously complicated and expensive in a firearm that was largely supposed to be produced as cheaply and quickly as possible. The bolt has a sort of rat-tail, similar to the
Solothurn MP-34, where the spring is contained within the buttstock.
Photos of the Hyde gun appear in the first edition of ''The World’s Assault Rifles'' by Daniel Musgrave and Thomas B. Nelson, published in 1967. No known examples of the M1944 Hyde Carbine remain in existence.
Related equipment and accessories
Ammunition types
The ammunition used by the military with the carbine include:
[''TM 9-1305-200/TO 11A13-1-101 Small-Arms Ammunition'', 1961, p. 39-41]
* Cartridge, Caliber .30, Carbine, Ball, M1
* Cartridge, Grenade, Caliber .30, M6 (also authorized for other blank firing uses, due to a lack of a dedicated blank cartridge)
* Cartridge, Caliber .30, Carbine, Dummy, M13
* Cartridge, Caliber .30, Carbine, Ball, Test, High Pressure, M18
* Cartridge, Caliber .30, Carbine,
Tracer, M16 (also rated as having an incendiary effect)
* Cartridge, Caliber .30, Carbine, Tracer, M27 (dimmer illumination and no incendiary effect)
See also
*
Carbine, Cal .30, M1A1 (based on Winchester M1 Carbine)
*
List of U.S. Army weapons by supply catalog designation
This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply ...
SNL B-28
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List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces
References
External links
M1944 Hyde Carbine
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.30 Carbine firearms
Rifles of the United States
Trial and research firearms of the United States