Editing Luger pistol (section)

=== ''Lange Pistole 08'' (Artillery Luger) ===
[[File:Arty08.jpg|right|thumb|'Artillery Luger' Lange Pistole 08 with a 32-round Trommelmagazin 08 drum magazine and removable stock.]]

The adoption of the ''Lange Pistole 08'' or LP 08, known as the "Artillery Luger", was authorised by the Kaiser on 2 July 1913. This P08 variation was equipped with a {{convert|200|mm|in|abbr=on}} barrel, an 8-position tangent rear sight (calibrated to {{convert|800|m|yd|sp=us}}) and a board-type shoulder stock with an attached leather holster. In the event of close combat, the pistol was intended to be used as a carbine with the shoulder stock attached to a lug mounted on the heel of the pistol frame. When set for long range use the rear sight element visibly moves to the left to compensate for [[External ballistics#Gyroscopic drift .28Spin drift.29|spin drift]]. While initially intended for use by German artillery units who could not be encumbered by the long and heavy K.98 rifle, the LP 08 was also used by Aviation units (prior to equipping aircraft with machine guns) as well as the infantry, primarily on the Western front during World War I. ''Stoßtruppen'' ([[Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany)|stormtrooper infantry]]) units frequently employed the Artillery Luger equipped with a new large magazine, the 32-round Trommelmagazin or 'snail' magazine. Production of the LP 08 ended in 1918 with the end of the war. By that time, German troops had begun using the newly developed [[MP 18]] submachine gun in place of the LP 08 for their stormtrooper assault companies. However, by this time enough LP 08 barrels had been manufactured and stockpiled to fill LP 08 export orders into the 1930s.

[[Carbine]] versions of the LP 08 were also produced commercially, with yet longer barrels. The firm Armeria Belga of Santiago (Chile) also manufactured a detachable stock, the Benke Thiemann stock, that could fold out from the grip section.

In the early 1920s, carbine production was restarted. Under a small contract, LP 08 or Artillery P08s were assembled in the 1930s to fill an order from the Shah of Iran for his artillery troops, with some of these weapons ending up with Thai police forces. Existing LP 08 pistols that had remained in storage were re-issued in World War II with new-production board stocks for some German units such as artillerymen and Waffen-SS units, and these continued in use until the end of the war in 1945.