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The Kucher K1, also known as the Danuvia M53 K1, was a Hungarian magazine-fed
submachine gun A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges. The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, to describe its design concept as an autom ...
designed by József Kucher in 1951 for use by paramilitary, paratrooper and police units, based on the Danuvia 44.M prototype submachine gun. It was produced by the titular
Danuvia Danuvia, known fully as Danuvia Engineering Industries Rt. ( Hungarian: ''Danuvia Gépgyár'', lit. ''Danuvia Machinery Factory''), was a Hungarian manufacturer founded in 1920 that produced firearms, munitions, machine tools and motorcycles fo ...
company.


See also

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PPSh-41 The PPSh-41 () is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgy Shpagin as a cheaper and simplified alternative to the PPD-40. A common Russian nickname for the weapon is "''papasha''" (), meaning "daddy", and it was sometimes called the "burp gun" ...
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Type 85 submachine gun The Type 85 () is a Chinese submachine gun, developed during the early 1980s as a less expensive replacement for the Type 79 submachine gun. The weapon's silenced version was also developed to replace the Type 64 submachine guns in service with th ...
- identical Chinese weapon


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* 7.62×25mm Tokarev submachine guns Infantry weapons of the Cold War Simple blowback firearms Submachine guns of Hungary Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1953 {{submachinegun-stub