Tag: Oficina de Protótipos

Fábrica de Itajubá’s first SMG prototypes – Part 4

Posted November 10, 2017 in Other Gear & Gadgets by Ronaldo Olive with 6 Comments

This fourth assessment of the first 9x19mm submachine guns to come out of Brazilian Army’s — and IMBEL’s, after 1975– Fábrica de Itajubá (Itajubá Factory) will be somewhat of a flashback to the early 1970s. I have skipped the actual timeline back [Read More…]

Fábrica de Itajubá’s first SMG prototypes – Part 2

Posted November 8, 2017 in Guns & Gear, NFA / Suppressors / Class III, Other Gear & Gadgets by Ronaldo Olive with 2 Comments

The next evolutionary step in 9x19mm submachine gun design by Itajubá Factory’s Prototypes Workshop was very trivial, indeed, and took the form of replacing the initial, somewhat clumsy, shaped-wire folding stock with a tubular model somewhat based on the model used [Read More…]