Kommando Arms LDP Kommando Complete Specs and Full Gun Specifications

The Kommando was a semiauto SMG-type carbine designed by Alex du Plessis in Salisbury Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the mid-1970s. It was manufactured by Lacoste Engineering. The name LDP stands either for “Land Defense Pistol” or for “Lacoste – Du Plessis”. Because of its appearance and origin, LDP was sometimes called as “Rhuzi” (Rhodesian Uzi). Later the manufacture of the LDP carbine was moved to the South African republic, where it was made by Kommando Arms Manufacturing Corporation as “Kommando LDP”. Eventually a total of about 10,000 were made between the two countries, making this one of the most common guns of its type made in that time and place.