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The Gewehr 43 or Karabiner 43 (abbreviated G43, K43, Gew 43, Kar 43) is a 7.92×57mm Mauser caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Germany during World War II. The design was based on that of the earlier G41(W) but incorporated an improved short-stroke piston gas system similar to that of the Soviet SVT-40 .
The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, prototype firearms and captured foreign firearms used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS, Deutsches Heer, the Volkssturm and other military armed forces in World War II.
The evolution of German military rifles is a history of common and diverse paths followed by the separate German states, until the mid-19th century when Prussia emerged as the dominant state within Germany and the nation was unified. This article discusses rifled shoulder arms developed in or for the military of the states that later became ...
©"File:World War 2 German ammunition.JPG" by Arielnyc2006 is licensed under BY-SA 3.0. ... Walther Gewehr 43 (G43 / Gew 43) ©Armémuseum (The Swedish Army Museum) / Wikimedia Commons ...
An HK43 version KA1 with a shorter 322 mm barrel was used in 1977 by the German RAF urban guerrilla group to assassinate general attorney Siegfried Buback and two policemen. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Verena Becker , a former RAF member, claimed Stefan Wisniewski was the killer.
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
Desert camo in use by the German Army for battle dress uniforms in desert and semi-arid regions.It was mostly deployed in Afghanistan. The colours of the camouflage are sand, brown and green. [95] Multitarn. 6-Farben-Tarndruck Germany: Flecktarn: Universal Special forces camouflage in use in the special forces of the German military. [96]
A German Fallschirmjäger poses with his early model FG 42 (Ausführung "C") in France, 1944. The FG 42 was used by paratroopers of the Fallschirmjäger Lehrbattalion (Paratroopers' Instructional Battalion) to try out new equipment during the raid to free Benito Mussolini in September 1943.