The Uzi (Hebrew: עוזי officially cased as UZI) is a family of Israeli open-bolt blowback-operated submachine guns. Smaller variants are considered to be machine pistols. The Uzi was one of the first weapons to use a telescoping bolt design which allows the magazine to be housed in the pistol grip for a shorter weapon.The first Uzi submachine gun was designed by Major Uziel Gal in the late 1940s. The prototype was finished in 1950.
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length (km)
0.445
weight (kg)
3500.0
origin
Israel
type
Submachine gun
used in war
Falklands War, Six-Day War, Somali Civil War, Suez Crisis, Vietnam War, Yom Kippur War, Colombian conflict (1964–present), Rhodesian Bush War, Portuguese Colonial War, Syrian Civil War, 1982 Lebanon War, Sri Lankan Civil War, South African Border War, Mexican Drug War
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