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The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II. Entering production in 1942, it was intended to supplement and replace the earlier MG 34, which was more ...
Maschinenkarabiner 42 (H) The Maschinenkarabiner 42 (H) or MKb 42 (H) (machine carbine Model 1942 (Haenel)) was an early German assault rifle firing an intermediate round of World War II. Designed in 1940 – 1941 by Hugo Schmeisser working for C. G. Haenel Waffen und Fahrradfabrik, several thousand were made and the gun was used on the Eastern ...
MG 3 machine gun. The MG 3 is a German general-purpose machine gun chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. The weapon's design is derived from the World War II era MG 42 that fired the 7.92×57mm Mauser round. [8] The MG 3 was standardized in the late 1950s and adopted into service with the newly formed Bundeswehr, where it continues to ...
The FG 42 (German: Fallschirmjägergewehr 42, "paratrooper rifle 42") is a selective-fire 7.92×57mm Mauser automatic rifle [4][5] produced in Nazi Germany during World War II. [7] The weapon was developed specifically for the use of the Fallschirmjäger airborne infantry in 1942 and was used in very limited numbers until the end of the war.
The Maschinenkarabiner 42 (W) (German: "machine carbine model 1942 (Walther)" ) or MKb 42 (W) was an early German assault rifle designed in 1940-41 by Walther during World War II. The Mkb 42 (W), and the more successful Maschinenkarabiner 42 (H) designed by Haenel, were predecessors of the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44) assault rifle.
Heckler & Koch MG4. Iron sights; MIL-STD-1913 rail provided for optics, German Army models are equipped with telescopic sights with 3× magnification. The Heckler & Koch MG4 (also known as the HK123) is a belt-fed 5.56 mm light machine gun designed and developed by German firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch. It was developed in the late 1990s ...
Heckler & Koch MG5. The Heckler & Koch MG5 (in the development phase also known as the HK121) is a belt-fed 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun manufactured by German firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch. The MG5 resembles the 5.56×45mm NATO Heckler & Koch MG4 light machine gun, which was adopted into German military service in 2015.
The experimental T-44 machine gun developed from the German FG 42 and MG 42 machine guns. The M60 machine gun began development in the late 1940s as a program for a new, lighter 7.62 mm machine gun. It was partly derived from German guns of World War II (most notably the FG 42 and the MG 42), [11] [12] but it contained American innovations as ...