Re: OT: Can't Resist Great MG-42 Shot

In message <1175288900.338274.73510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rob Arndt <teuton263@xxxxxxx> writes
On Mar 30, 10:320 >> 0 >> rate is way to high for light infantry. You just can't have every man in
a unit carrying ammunition. Mount the weapon on a vehicle that can also
carry many boxes of ammunition and it's a fine weapon. Mount it in a
defensive perimeter with ammunition runners and it's OK.

Far from being just OK... it was Hitler's "Buzzsaw" and was feared by
the Allies that said the terryifying sound of it was like the
shredding of calico. It was and IS an awesome weapon (the MG-3 just
being an improved postwar version in different caliber). No US
machinegun even comes close to it for comparison.

Well, there's the M240... (okay, it's the Belgian FN-MAG, but it's a very good weapon: take the best bits of the MG42 and adjust issues like the excessive rate of fire)

--
The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done
by fools.
-Thucydides


Paul J. Adam - mainbox{at}jrwlynch[dot]demon(dot)co<dot>uk
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