Lou scooped up an ammunition belt and waved me over to his MG42, considered to be the finest, most vicious machine gun ever made. The line is hot: a history of the machine gun, shot By contrast the German MG42 was a highly portable fire-breathing monster. THE WALTHER MPL: The Finest...
From the MG42 they borrowed the top cover and belt feed system. THE M60 GENERAL-PURPOSE MACHINE GUN IN VIETNAM: THE "PIG" AND THE "PIG HUMPER" A: I've had the opportunity to handle and fire one of the SMG replica semiautomatic FG42 rifles and was mightily impressed with it! GERMAN ...
The actual development of the new machine gun took place at the Dreyse factory in Sommerda. Small arms of the German World War II-ERA Fallschirmjager Part 4 Rheinmetall-Borsig, Sommerda, devised a selective-fire assault rifle for the palratroopers that took the standard 8 mm Mauser round, ...