The MP 3008 remained just as basic as her British counterpart, featuring a largely metal design with a tubular receiver housing the major working components which ran most of the length of the weapon. Overall length was a handy 30 inches with a weight of just over 7lbs. The trigger area was integrated through an attached support structure held underneath the receiver while the trigger was enclosed within a thin-wired large rectangular guard. The stock varied between a hard metal tube or a wooden butt and was affixed to the rear in the traditional sense, intended to support the weapon against the shoulder (a shoulder pad being integrated at the butt's end). The barrel protruded a short distance away from the tubular receiver and sights were basic - a front blade with a rear aperture installation for some level of ranged accuracy. The magazine feed was set under the forward portion of the receiver, much in the same way as in the MP38/MP40 submachine gun series, and could double as a forward hand grip. The cocking handle was set to the right side of the body with its internal spring clearly visible along a cut-out slot. The ejection port was also set to the right side of the receiver, over the magazine feed, and ejected spent shell casings to the right of the operator.
The MP 3008 was designed around an open-bolt blowback system of operation (as was the STEN Mk II before it) and listed a rate of fire of 450 rounds-per-minute. The weapon fed from a standard 32-round detachable straight box magazine (again, as in the STEN Mk II) and fielded an effective range of 100 meters. Muzzle velocity was 1,200 feet per second. As such, the weapon could put a fair amount of fire against a target or target area with relative ease.
Some 10,000 MP 3008 units were produced before war's end though their availability did little to stem the tide of the German defeat. The MP 3008s that managed an existence varied from others in the production pool simply because there were not any uniformed facilities outputting the type on a large scale. As such, workshops charged with its production made due with whatever materials were on hand and this led to several variations of the base idea - hence the use of the welded wire butt or solid wooden stock. At any rate, the weapon was of minor note in the grand scheme of the war though it bears a mention as one of the final desperate projects to emerge from Germany before its collapse in May of 1945.
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