[Atlantic Bridge]

The techically best rifle in WWII:

A German Sturmgewehr 44

Although it is techically different the concept was used by the Russians to develop their AK 47.

[rlmorel]

So I have heard, and am familiar with the weapon.

It is like an unknown or obscure literary work: It can be the greatest thing ever written, but if nobody ever read it and it didn't influence anything or anyone, then it isn't the greatest thing ever written.

While a beautiful weapon, it did not contribute to the war, any more than the FW-190 D-7 did. It was completely irrelevant, too little too late. Although I would guess that any soldier who caught a round from one of the rare ones deployed to frontline troops would disagree with that assessment.

I did watch a movie recently, "Downfall", in which I saw quite a few of these portrayed, mostly used by troops guarding Hitler.

[Red6]

Yea yea,

Throw out some "experimental" or "limited" production weapon systems and live on in your Wunderwaffen world. You forgot the ME262 or torpedoes that use acoustics to track.

In WWII the Germans alone (Not counting Austria, Italy and other) had over 20 million people in uniform throughout the war. At the peak, the Germans at over 10 million in uniform all at one time. Something like 30,000 or 40,000 of these were built.

You're again going off into the realm of "stupid". Maybe I should start listing US experimental or limited production weapons that were novelties in war in all reality.

Truth is, the German soldier carried a Mauser 98 "Bolt action" as his rifle. He wore a gray "wool" uniform, they had no true light machine gun like a BAR........