Thanks for the complete history, I wasn’t aware it was as lengthy as that.
Yep, by 1941 Germans had no idea about semi-auto rifle. They only caught an idea as they started to capture AVSs and SVTs from Russians. They had put captured Russian semi and full-autos into service before they reverse engineered it into various “Gewehrs” including Stg-44 which was a first original design, thus heavivy inspired by the Soviets with the exception of their unique shorter cartridge started an assault rifles as we know it.
Unfortunately, US has lagged behing both Germans and Russians for decades. M-14 is simply a conceptual copy of Soviet AVS-36 built 20 years earlier.
Yep, by 1941 Germans had no idea about semi-auto rifle. They only caught an idea as they started to capture AVSs and SVTs from Russians. They had put captured Russian semi and full-autos into service before they reverse engineered it into various “Gewehrs” including Stg-44 which was a first original design, thus heavivy inspired by the Soviets with the exception of their unique shorter cartridge started an assault rifles as we know it.
Unfortunately, US has lagged behing both Germans and Russians for decades. M-14 is simply a conceptual copy of Soviet AVS-36 built 20 years earlier.