Glock 18
The Glock 18, more commonly known as the G18, is a select-fire pistol capable of both semi-automatic and fully automatic fire. In the up position, the selector switch provides semi-automatic fire, while in the down position, it enables fully automatic fire.
History
Originally designed in the Mid-1980s for the Austrian counterterror unit Einsatz Kommando Kobra, to test the concept of a machine pistol as a Personal Defense Weapon and as a proof of Glock's design withstanding continous Automatic fire, officially making its debut in 1987, The Glock 18 is a weapon for specialist users. Most of them being counter terrorist or VIP protection units. However, in few situations a machine pistol achieves better results than a pistol or sub machine gun. For these reasons the number of Glock 18s produced is comparatively insignificant to other Glock models.
Glock 18 Media
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A "first-generation" Glock 17 with the slide locked back, displaying its vertical barrel tilt
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A "second-generation" Glock 17, identified by the checkering on the front and rear straps of the pistol grip and trigger guard
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A "third-generation" Glock 17C, identified by the addition of an extra cross pin above the trigger, finger grooves, a reshaped extractor that serves as a loaded chamber indicator, and an accessory rail
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A "fourth-generation" Glock 17, identified by an enlarged and reversible magazine release catch, modified rough texture frame grip checkering, interchangeable backstraps, and a "Gen4" rollmark on the slide
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A "fourth-generation" Glock 19
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A "fifth generation" Glock 17 Gen 5 FR used by a French soldier
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A subcompact Glock 30 field stripped to its main groups with a .45 ACP round
A Glock 9×19mm Parabellum 17-round magazine. The numbered witness holes at the back portion visually indicate how many cartridges are contained in the magazine.
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Standard sighting arrangement of a "first-generation" Glock 17
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Man firing a fully automatic 9×19mm Glock 18 machine pistol with a shoulder stock