[citation needed] Its rate of fire is 500 rounds per minute and has sliding two 32-round MP 40 magazine wells.

This was part of its design philosophy for the weapon was created in response to the requirements of the Primitiv-Waffen-Programm, more or less in an attempt to imitate the British Sten gun and to a lesser extent the PPSh-41.

[2] The gun was probably designed in 1942, with the sole exemplar known having serial number 15, and having February 1943 as its manufacture date.

[3] The wide use of submachine guns by the German armed forces in the Second World War led to a strong dependence on the industrial capacity of arms factories that brought out simplified designs at lower production costs.

The flash suppressor was formed in the same manner as the Russian machine pistol PPS-43 muzzle brake from stamped steel.