MP34

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The Steyr MP 34 is a submachine gun produced between 1929 and 1940, based on the MP 18 of World War I. In order to circumvent the restrictions placed on the German arms industry via the Versailles Treaty, Rheinmetall acquired both the Swiss company of Solothurn, who was tasked with development of the originally named S1-100, as well as Steyr in Austria, made responsible for its mass production.

Although costly to produce, the MP 34 was noted for its high quality of construction, and was adopted by the Austrian military in addition to several other European, South American and Asian countries, including China and Japan. During the German Anchluss of 1938, the majority of Austria's weapons were seized by the Wehrmacht who designated it the MP34(ö). Its saw use in the Polish and French campaigns of early World War II, after which it was mostly replaced by the simpler and cheaper MP 40, the remaining guns going on to arm second-line and police units, the Waffen-SS, and Germany's allies such as Hungary.

Battlefield V
The MP 34 is set to be featured in Battlefield V. It first appeared in the This Is Battlefield V trailer.