The MP-5 comes off as more accurate and reliable because of a reliable action with the delayed blowback.
And it is well balanced, can be configured in some many different ways, unlike most SMGs.
And it fires from a CLOSED BOLT position. This aids in accuracy and reliability. It operated more like an assault rifle than a SMG.
And it was bounds ahead of its day. Further, it came really when the SMG was going out of fashion. Since an Assault Rifle was a better weapons system that could do a bit more in addition to most of what a SMG can do. So, it was/is a very good design that had inovations at a time when the SMG was being phased out of most services.
Ask yourself a question, how many SMGs have been on the scene since? And what was their roll and whom they were adopted by?
The SMG was for the most part replaced by the assault rifle in most nations. There really haven't been any big ones since, just smaller Assault Rifles replaced them and were called Submachinegun like the AKR and Colt Comando.
But the MP-5 in my mind would have a better reliability, a bit more accurate, and a better range than most other true SMGs.
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