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Another unique feature of German World War II machine guns was the Tiefenfeuerautomat feature on the Lafette 42 and Lafette 34 tripods. It lengthened the beaten zone by walking the fire in wave-like motions up and down the range in a predefined area. The length of the beaten zone could be set on the Tiefenfeuerautomat. E.g., being unsure ...
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 MG 34 was intended to replace the MG 13 and other older machine guns, but these were still being used in World War II as demand was never met. [19] It was intended to be replaced in infantry service by the MG 42, but there were never enough MG 42s, and MG 34s continued to be used in all roles until the end of World War II. [20]
M1917 Browning machine gun; M1918 Browning automatic rifle; M1919 Browning machine gun; M1941 Johnson machine gun; Madsen machine gun; Maxim M/32-33; Maxim–Tokarev; MG 08; MG 13; MG 15; MG 17 machine gun; MG 30; MG 34; MG 42; MG 45; MG 131 machine gun; MG 151 cannon; Mitrailleuse d'Avion Browning - F.N. Calibre 13,2 mm
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.
During World War II, the Luftwaffe (German air force) equipped their aircraft with the most modern weaponry available until resources grew scarce later in the war. Machine guns [ edit ]
The MG 131 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 131, or "machine gun 131") was a German 13 mm caliber machine gun developed in 1938 by Rheinmetall-Borsig and produced from 1940 to 1945. The MG 131 was designed for use at fixed, flexible or turreted , single or twin mountings in Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II .
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 serve to this day as a squad support weapon and a vehicle-mounted machine gun. The weapon and its derivatives have ...