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MG 42 with spare barrel unit in an opened Laufschützer container. The 530 millimeters (20.9 in) long barrel and its prong type barrel extension used for lock up, made up the barrel unit of the MG 42. It could be quickly changed by the machine gun crew and weighed 1.75 kg (3.9 lb) including the locking piece. [6]
Grossfuss Sturmgewehr was a prototype assault rifle designed during World War II by Kurt Horn at the Grossfuss company better known for their contribution to the German arsenal made with the MG 42. History
MG42/59 [4] - Italian made MG 3 machine gun; Submachine guns. Franchi LF-57- An extremely small number made for Navy and the Target Acquisition Group of the 3rd ...
The MG 42 was a prime example. When US soldiers first saw the MG 42 it was ridiculed for its use of stamped steel parts, until it was realized how much quicker and more cheaply guns of this type could be manufactured. By February 1943, US ordnance authorities published the first report on the MG 42, following testing of a captured gun.
The concrete fortifications also included the deadly German MG-42 heavy machine gun that could shoot 1,200 rounds per minute, more than twice as many rounds as American and British machine guns ...
A further development of the MG 1A1 was the MG 1A2 (known also as the MG 42/59), which had a heavier bolt (950 g (33.51 oz) for a slower 700–900 rounds per minute cyclic rate of fire, compared to 550 g (19.40 oz)), and a new friction ring buffer made suitable for using the heavier bolt.
Emergency alternative to the MG42 and only 10 were produced during the Battle of Berlin. Barnitzke machine gun: n/a 7.92×57mm Mauser: n/a Proposed MG42 replacement using an unusual delayed blowback operation. MG 81: n/a 7.92×57mm Mauser: Luftwaffe: Machine gun used by the Luftwaffe. Kg m/40 Automatic Rifle: Knorr-Bremse: 6.5×55mm Swedish ...
US experimental T44 belt-feeding machine gun developed from the German FG 42 and MG 42. The American M41 Johnson LMG has many parallels with the contemporary FG 42. Both had in-line stocks, fed from the left side, and both fired from the open bolt in automatic mode and closed bolt in semi-automatic mode.