Did the German infantry have a semi-automatic rifle similar to the M1?
The MG 34 came first dummkopf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_34
“chain-fed”?
I guess this pretty much explains why the front line soldier had a 98K and 5 rounds of ammo on the eastern front. The damn MG’s used up all their ammo. High cyclic rate means someone has to carry all those ammo cans.
The MG34 was first. The MG42 came out during the war and was the simpler, cheaper option.
Think the author has it backwards about the two weapons.
The 42 qas the cheaper weapon with stamped parts.
My daddy carried a BAR when he landed at Normandy and he
would mention that bad boy MG42 with a shudder.It scared
the hell out of everyone.Not to mention what would happen
if it caught you.
The author of the article got everything bassackwards.The MG 34 was made of machined steel parts so it was heavier and more expensive to purchase.
The MG 42 was made from stamped metal parts so it was made much more easily as a result it was also cheaper.
It was belt fed with metalic linked cartridges.Something all of our belt fed weapons adopted with the M60 machine gun of the Vietnam war era.
This website is DREADFUL and should be banned by FR.
Their stories are “written” by someone who doesn’t speak English, and the “facts” are so wrong they are laughable.
Why write an article when you don’t know what you are talking about (AM Shooting Journal). The 34 and 42 represent years, so the 34 came first. It was the more “elegant weapon for a more civilized age”. With the MG 42, the Germans eschewed old school machining for more stamped parts. They also made the barrel easier to change when it overheated, and upped the firing rate. Versions and copies of the MG 42 are still in use around the world.
The idea was to use it like an overgrown shotgun. A burst of a dozen or so rounds would arrive pretty much at the same time and saturate an area. Similar in concept to the later American designed M134 minigun. The MG 42 had an overall much slower firing rate, but didn’t need to spool up multiple barrels rotating like the minigun, so initial bursts are very quick.
The MG-42 replaced the MG-34. This writer can’t even do basic research.
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Unreadable, as always.
????? No need to waste time reading articles from this magazine.
In early beginning of World War II, the Germans used the deadly and effective “Hitler’s Buzzsaw” other wise known as the MG-42 machine gun.So the Germans comes out with the MG-34 machine gun. what a dipsh!t... the 34 was first as in 1934 and the 42 was a cheaper easier produced gun in 42, as in 1942.