Summary
The Heckler & Koch MP7 (Maschinenpistole 7) is a German personal defence weapon (PDW) designed and manufactured by Heckler & Koch (H&K) and chambered for the HK 4.6×30mm cartridge. It was designed with the new cartridge to meet NATO requirements published in 1989, as these requirements call for a personal defense weapon (PDW) class firearm, with a greater ability to penetrate body armor than current weapons limited to conventional pistol cartridges. The MP7 went into production in 2001. It is a direct rival to the FN P90, also developed in response to NATO's requirement. The weapon has been revised since its introduction and the latest production variants are the MP7A1 and MP7A2.
The proliferation of high-quality body armor has begun to make guns that fire pistol ammunition (such as Heckler & Koch's earlier MP5 submachine gun and USP pistol) ineffective. In response to this trend, Heckler & Koch designed the MP7 (along with the cancelled UCP pistol, which uses the same ammunition) to penetrate body armor while being small enough to be used in place of either a pistol or a submachine gun.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-C, up to 9-B firing for a full 40-round magazine, higher with piercing damage
Name: Heckler & Koch MP7, Maschinepistole 7
Origin: The Real World
Type: Personal defence weapon (PDW), submachine gun
Users: Many military forces
Attack Potency: Street level (One shot of firepower from its Copper-plated steel bullet AP [CPS Black Tip] is around 525 J), higher firing for a full 20-round magazine (up to 10,500 J), Wall level firing for a full 40-round magazine (up to 21,000 J), higher with piercing damage
Speed: Supersonic (CPS Black Tip ammunition fired from the gun can travel at up to 735 m/s) with Superhuman firing rate (950 rpm)
Range: Hundreds of Meters (Effective range is 200 meters)
Weaknesses: Typical submachine gun operational weaknesses
Note:
- The mass of an MP7 gun with 20-round empty magazine (PDW) is 1.90 kg; the mass of an MP7 gun with magazine (MP7A1) is 2.10 kg. The bullet mass of a CPS Black Tip bullet is 2.0 g.
- A standard MP7 submachine gun is attached with iron sights. The sights can easily be removed by loosening a single screw and lifting them off. It can fit additional rails on the sides of the barrel, which allow it to mount commercial optical sights (telescopic and red dot sights), laser aiming modules (LAM), and tactical flashlights. It can also accept a suppressor, and its tailor-made suppressor does not interfere with its accuracy or rate of fire.
- Heckler Koch MP7
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