User blog comment:TheKnightOfOyashiro/PS3 Battlefield 3 patch/@comment-3349991-20111130203736/@comment-3479148-20111201190203

Most of the SMGs in Bad Company 2 were in fact carbines. Especially with the Russian guns, including the 9A-91 and AKS-74u and the XM8 Compact and SCAR-L on the American side. All in all, there were three SMGs in BC2.