Thank the gods Hitler was to stupid and/or crazy to realize the potential this weapon had. Otherwise if this weapon had been put out on full production in 1942, history may had turn out different and we be all speaking german now, and maybe youtube wouldnt exist at all!!!
@29thinfgeek That's like saying "how can the F-16 be better than the Wright Brothers' plane?" or "How can any other modern assault rifle be better than the Sturmgewehr?"
The STG was an experiment, and was incredibly complex, expensive, underpowered and only a few were made. The AK has only 8 moving parts (STG has 20), costs $150 to build, can fire after being buried in dirt for years and was built in the millions.
@1337soldiahs Thats not what i meant, at all. Looking at the history of the rifles, not the internals, as your example, the F-16 wouldnt be here without the Wright brother's plane. This program doesnt really look at the cost or the internals of the weapon, but the history- i do know that the AK47 is a superior weapon in almost every way.
@29thinfgeek Well, this list sorts weapons mostly by their performance, not historical importance. Sure, the STG was a great rifle, and a revolutionary idea for that time, but still the ruskies managed to outclass it completely in a bunch of years.
Oh well, I agree #9 is too low for this weapon, but the AK fully deserves the 1st place.
@29thinfgeek he did not base it off there FAR apart (to be considered the same) the mp40 is clsoe hell the m1-garand and the stg-44 use the uqual amount of parts in the ak-47 the locking lake m1 garand and gas operating system stg-44 the mp40 has more parts
The Sturmgewehr was based on a soviet battle rifle called Fedorov Automat, which was the first Assault rifle ever designed. (It was used by Mother Russia since 1915)
hitler knew of the stg44..... infact, he interfeared with it and was to busy makeing an antigravity weopon. they would have had the stg44 by 1942 if hitler ordered them to work on it. after all, hitler was the one wo renamed the mp43/44 to stg44 in the first place
@2:29, At first I thought the guy with the bald spot had one of those little Jewish hats (I don't remember what there called) on... Needless to say, I was confused.
@bassie52 not really he more stole the mp40 the stg-44 is far apart only the gas operating system is the same and the design (kinda) mp40 has far more parts similar
@wiseguy472 except the fact that the stg uses a titing bolt and the ak uses a rotating bolt, and the ak has smaller tighter springs as well as many other differences, all similarites is there because it was worldwide standered at that time
it was kept secret to hitler because he didnt like the way it looked but the generals knew that it was a good assault rifle so they made it against his orders
@oO0lol0Oo Your Hitler and all your subsequent leaders have been buffoons and utterly inept monkeys! United States of America proved that in April of 1945!!!!!!
@FulhamFCCottager don't brag about that war asshole, if the germans managed to develope thier superwepons we would be all speaking german right now... you know they were working on a nuclear missile but it was sabotaged? if not for that half of america would be an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland right now
@oO0lol0Oo Dude, its obvious that those americans cant speak proper European because they ARENT! I'm Italian and I had to learn English. But you know it does make me mad too when people from other countries come to Europe and try to tell US how to pronounce OUR words :<
@0willsy01 Yes an AK built within the original specifications will be extremelty reliable and robust in nearly all aspects. However there are a lot of cheap ones built with sloppy quality here in the US, and they are as reliable as a $2 watch. After WWII, the assault rifle followed 3 paths. The soviets and warsaw pact all used AKs and their derivitives. The US chose the silly AR platform, and most of Europe used weapons directly descended from the STG 44, in either the FN FAL or HK G3.
@0willsy01 Hmm... well my understanding of "copy" is almost the same thing.. sorry. And the original AK was not suited well for mass production. The original receivers were milled and welded where the 44 was stamped. The AKM was introduced in 1959 with a stamped reciever to fix that. The main difference is the operating system, which is the heart of the weapon. And lol not every assault rifle is based on the STG 44.. for example: Federov Avtomat, AR15, and F2000.
@justinjacques766 It meets the basic definition of an assault rifle, which is select fire, fed from a detachable magazine, shooting a purpose-designed intermediate cartridge. The Federov had all of these and shot the 6.5 Federov (later refitted to shoot the 6.5 Arisaka) which was cut down specifically to reduce recoil as compared to the 7.62 x 54R. Battle rifles usually shoot a full-powered cartridge such as 7.62 x 51, 8mm Mauser or .30-06.
@megatron515 the jap didnt intend for it to be used for intermidiate purposes, it just happened to be smaller than the 7.62 x 54R the russians were using, so federov chose to use it instead of the 7.62. i believe the 7.92 x 33 was the first true intermediate intented for the role
@megatron515 The round used by the Federov wasn't intentionally an intermediate round - the Japanese later replaced it with something more powerful for their bolt action rifles.
The Sturmgewehr was designed from the ground up as an intermediate calibre weapon while the Federov still used full length rifle rounds. It's certainly a predecessor to the StG-44 though.
@justinjacques766 I disagree. Federov invented the round with the rifle (they were both prototypes) and it was less powerful than the 6.5 Arisaka. He wanted less powerful ammunition. The reason why the Japanese round was used was production of a new round was less feasible than purchasing the already vast amounts available from Britain and Japan. Many at the time criticized the 6.5 Arisaka as being underpowered, so it was still an ideal round for a select-fire platform over the 7.62 x 54R.
@megatron515 technically the first. Not the first in actual usage, or first to be practical. Firing a full-size rifle round at full auto is very hard if you want to hit the target; even the 6.5x50 is pretty hefty compared to the 7.92x33. This is why most M-14s fire semiauto in practice
@justinjacques766 Actually the Russian Army Weapons Committee considered it a success after testing in 1913 and ordered 25,000 for the red army. Due to the Russian Revolution, only 3,200 were made but it was still the first military-issued assault rifle. It saw action in WWI, the Russian Civil War and the the Winter War of 1940.
@0willsy01 Yeah but it's not a copy. The VZ-58 is roughly a copy. There are two completely different operating systems, fire control systems, safeties, and receiver construction. The only things the russians stole from the STG 44 was the M43 round and probably magazine construction. Concepts like long-stroke piston operation, in- line pistol grip stocks, and above barrel gas tube mounting had been around before the 44. If Kalashnikov wanted to copy the 44, which change so much of the design?
@angryhippo2910 Not really. The AK uses a rotating action and is hammer fired. The 44 is tilting-bolt and striker fired. The pattern of the rifles are almost the same, but Kalashnikov basically took the bolt, bolt carrier, and piston of a Garand and flipped it upside down. They are two different weapons.
@oneil641 Your an idiot, don't be a smart ass, it is documented historical fact that Stg-44 heavily influenced the Soviet AK-47 dumbass, captured German Stg-44's were loved by the Russkies in WW2, they loved it so much that they copied it, they loved the assault rifle concept of single shot or automatic fire position. The Sturmgewher was the first assault rifle in history, and changed infantry warfare forever, giving soldiers incredible firepower. Now take your head out of the sand you Ostridge!
ಠ_ಠ ..... the first assault rifle was the federov avtomat (1915) it had selective fire capabilities and was chambered in 6.5x50mm round and had a pistol grip another rifle that came way before the avtomat called the cei rigotti(1900) also had selective fire capabilities and was chambered in 6.5x52mm round both of these came way before the stg44
@MrNickfax91 and the telephone, morse code, peanut butter(my best freind), TV (thats good no offense bbc sucks XP), alot of guns, the nuke, a buch of others getting tired of thinking back and we basicallly have been protecting the free world! :D
@Vietcong01 then you sir got the wrong info, if you compared SKS to Ak-47 they nearly the same, while when you compared with Stg-44, it maybe the same, but SKS is nearer to AK-47
the panzerschreck (Raketenpanzerbüchse 54) fires rockets so its not a bazooka, bazookas fire grenades. RPG stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade what actually is a rocket. and the panzerschreck was the first anti-tank weapon that worked like RPGs today. so the russian RPGs are based on the panzerschreck.
@Convict147 that said, Hitler had made excellent decisions in the war as well, by trusting his instincts. Sometimes it looked like he was a military genius, sometimes the contrary, like this exemple.
@arnoldhump0 the AK 47 was based on the Sturmgewehr 44 in terms of design/ concept. Both were rugged weapons well suited to rough combat and handling. Hugo Schmeiser, the German weapons designer who designed the Sturmgewehr was directly involved when Mikhail Kalashnikov was designing the AK. When you mix German inginuity and quality with Russian ruggedness and durability, you get the greatest weapon in the world... peace
thse top ten things aren't really good as in my opinion this gun or the m-14 doesn't dserve these places and some of the guns' stats are wrong i think if i saw it right the m-14's accurracy was too low
@codboguy true, these are statistics done by scientists and scholars or even university staff and based on the data, not very accurately. They sure aren't real soldiers. They gave the Sturmgewehr low accuracy when it could take someone out at 300 yards.
@delta5297 An automatic rifle is just a term thrown around for any rifle caliber weapon that can fire on semi or automatic, while battle rifle is a term generally used for any combat rifle, though in the modern day it often means a select fire rifle like the M14 or FAL. Assault rifle is any semi or select fire weapon firing an intermediate round such as the AK47 or M16.
this is my favourite gun, it strikes a bit of a resembelence to the AK 47 which is a sick gun, when i think of this gun, i think awesome cartridge and awesome gun for its time, imagine if they had this gun in 1939, love it
the ak-47 looks like this gun but it wasn't based on it is like saying the vz.58 was based on the ak-47 or that the Tokarev TT-33 and the m1911a1 are the same gun bot from diferent countries and that teh quetsaquatl rifel is the the same rifel than teh g-36 i can give more examples buth wen 2 guns look a like the same gun does not mean is the same gun or that was based on it and please wikipedia is not a trusteavle information source
i know there is a stg 44, but i heard the fn fal was called the stg 58, and the aug was called the stg 77. why are they all called stg? by the way, i dont know much about guns, but im trying to gain alot more knowledge about them. are they all made by the same company or something? please answer
@Halo2PlasmaRifle stg is german for sturmgewehr or Storm-rifle/Assault rifle, if they have the designation of stg, germany or austria already manufactures the weapon
@Halo2PlasmaRifle A "Sturmgewehr" is the kind of weapon, as Umimugo told a Assault Rifle. Today the actual Sturmgewehr of the Bundeswehr is the H&K G36. Since the H&K G3 the rifles are named only Gewehr but are also called Sturmgewehr, to have a distinction to "normal" rifles. Greets
@Halo2PlasmaRifle if u want to know more abouth guns (well shoot them)go to worlds.guns.ru if u want to know a litle bit of history and tecnical info of the guns
@Halo2PlasmaRifle Sometimes a countries military adopt or designate their rifles differently from the manufactorer. The FN FAL was also adopted as the G1 in the german army, their M82 is called G82, because they designate their "Rifles" as "Gewehr", and the austrian army designates ALL their standart assault rifles with the stg tag and the date of introduction to the forces.
The G36 got its name from the Bundeswehr, before it was called HK50.
"Officially" my ass. Most databases credit the first assault rifle to the Ribeyrolles 1918 automatic carbine; the first true assault rifle. This weapon was experimental and was never put into production, but it is still known as the first assault rifle.
However, the STG-44 is known as the world's first assault rifle to be used in a military.
@AGeekWithAShotgun The Italian Cei-Rigotti 1900 is regarded as the first assault rifle. It was only tested by the British Army and rejected. It was too unreliable. Anyway I see no problem in regarding the STG 44 as the first because no other previous assault rifle was mass produced and issued as a standard infantry weapon.
No, the Cei-Rigotti was an automatic rifle, not an assault rifle. An assault rifle is a rifle with selective fire and fires an INTERMEDIATE rifle cartridge. The Cei-Riggoti fired the 6.5x52mm round; which if you didn't know, was a full powered rifle round
@AGeekWithAShotgun The Cei-Rigotti was indeed a select fire weapon and quite modern looking for its time. If we must be pedantic, well, it did not fire an intermeadiate round. That honour goes to the French Ribeyrolle. Which all goes to prove that inventions do not spring fully formed but are developed over time. There are several other early 20th century rifles that could also be sited as pointing the way to the future development of infantry shoulder weapons.
Yeah, there were a lot of weapons that people would look at today and be like "ASSAULT RIFLE!" but they clearly weren't; but back then they didn't have a classification for such weapons. It wouldn't be until after WW2 until they came up with terms such as "assault rifle" and "battle rifle"
@lew7272 You mean the Carabine Mitrailleuse 1918? Well, it might have laid the base for concepts such as Intermediate rounds in Fullauto rifles, but when I look at the StG 44, it´s entire layout is kept TO THIS DAY (Straight Stock, Pistolgrip, curved magazine infront, handguard...(exept for Bulpup designs of course)), so it is, practically, still the "father of the assaultrifle as we know it".
@lew7272 Is it because you agree with me, or is it because you are disagreeing but polite? I am serriously confused by your statement, since english is not my first language. Don´t want to misinterprete stuff into your comments.
@Howie262 If you note my reply comment below, you will see that I acknowledge the Cei-Rigotti does not fire an intermeadiate round. The point that I was simply trying to make was, the Cei-Rigotti started the gradual process in the evolutionary development of the assault rifle. A bit like how Australopithicus is not exactly a Homo Sapien but most of the essentual features are present if you get my drift.
@lew7272 i know, but still i disagree. The Germans got the idea for the first assualt rifle early on from the Original "storm troopers" who used the first machine pistol ever in the trenches of WWI. The Stg44 was an avancement on that premise of having a rifle and also a machine pistol.completely new idea, it didn't come from a shorten rifle. There were plenty of rifles that were shorted, such as "tanker-Rifles" the stg44 didnt come from those. It was a new idea not from a random special rifle.
@waritsch1 it was NEVER MASS PRODUCED its combat life was incredibly short it was hardly more bthan a prototype..all it did was give comrade kalshnikov and idea the ak47 and this may look alike outside but intrnally this rifle is typically german over complicated difficult to manufacture..the simplicity of the ak47 is the reason it is still used today there are 50 million aks and a handfull of these merely a curiostg44 are museum pieces.aks are still a conremproray weapon of war
@waritsch1 it was important but it was far from a game changer seeing as Nazi Germany still lost the war. Learn your goddamn military history before making generalizations about people ignorant fuck.
@waritsch1 YES LETS STEROYTPE ALL AMERICANS lets see TYPICAL eu person, this show is made in britain with a narrator thats american fucking typical european always blaming americans dumb cunts p.s im brazilian
@waritsch1 YES LETS STEROYTPE ALL AMERICANS lets see TYPICAL eu person, this show is made in britain and most if u knew something was that their from fucking sandhurst guess wheres that at, their the judges dumb fucking european with a narrator thats american fucking typical european always blaming americans dumb cunts p.s im brazilian
One of my favorite weapons. What gets me is how Kalashnikov took this weapon and designed the AK-47 after it and the world and other circles of assualt rifle owners speak of his brilliance, and I`m like "He stole the design of the MP44 from Nazi Germany after the second world war" This weapon should have been number 1 as it was way ahead of it`s time. It was reliable, accurate and had good knock down power. What more could you want?
@XIIIAmphed Here's a bit of a clue...Technology is not set in stone. EVERYONE looks at everyone else. Besides, the Americans proceeded to do things that the Germans would have never been able to carry out.
@DoubleVisionandco Yea its bullshit that Kalashnikov gets all the credit with his world wide known AK-47 when in fact it was the Germans who developed the gun
@casperryan95, allow me to say that, actually, what you're saying is bullshit. If you know a little bit about gun design, then you'll know that the AK-47 is significantly different from the sturmgewehr. So, please, don't take away the credit Mr Kalashnikov deserves. Now, if you say that the Germans were the first ones to introduce the idea of an automatic assault rifle, then I'll agree with you hands down; but to say that the Germans developed the AK-47 is a straight out lie, to put it mildly.
@mardamek1 Actually I think the AK47 was made by the experiences of the Soviet soldiers with the PPSH-41. That weapon is probably the closest thing to an assault rifle before the STG44.
@nightfireivey, it's tough to get into Mr Kalashnikov's head and tell exactly what the AK-47 was based on, but what you're suggesting is very possible. I guess the one big difference between the PPSH-41 and the AK-47 is the round size; since the PPSH-41 is pretty much like a hand gun firing at a very high rate, whereas the AK-47 is much more powerful, although not quite to the levels of a regular rifle (say, Mosin Nagant, for example).
@mardamek1 My best educated guess is that they took the information they had of the PPSH-41 during the war and used it and applied it with the design of the STG44/MP44. The FG42 is another rifle that likely influenced the assault rifle concept. It was a light machine gun but it worked much like an assault rifle, I have no doubt that the Soviets got a hold of these weapons.
@nightfireivey, you could be right; I don't know. Like I said, it's hard to go back in time and know exactly what happened or to get into Mr Kalashnikov's head and know exactly which existing weapon influenced his designing of the AK. In any case, I don't like some viewers saying he "stole" the design of the German weapon and the credit he deserves is exxagerated. In fact, I think he didn't get anywhere near the amount of credit he deserves for the AK (in USSR, at least).
@mardamek1 Yeah, he deserves much more. Even if the Strumgewehr wasn't even invented, the AK47 would of still existed, perhaps many in a different design...maybe not. However the STG44/MP44 being the only reason that the AK47 was made, is extremely false.
@casperryan95, by the way, exterior similarities/resemblance should not be enough of a reason to consder one weapon being based on another. I say this, knowing that the AK does strongly resemble the sturmgewehr, although being significantly different in design.
@JeremyNML I'll repeat again. The AK was inspired by the success of the Sturmgewehr and it did strongly resemble it on the outside. However, I don't see how you can say one thing is BASED on another when it doesn't share a common working mechanism, it is not the same or similar from an engineering standpoint. Looks like it - absolutely, based on it - absolutely not.
@DoubleVisionandco actually Kalashnikov did not stole the MP/STG-44 gun the outside look of it, but if you compared the inside of an AK-47 to MP-44 its different, even MP-44 was not there on the war, Kalashnikov would have still made the AK-47 but a different outside look, Also Kalashnikov took the design of the SKS,
the Soviets made their own assault rifle.In conclusion MP-44 and AK-47 is mechanically different.
From the creators of the Stg44... In a Hollidays in Spain.... The CETME... a when return to Germany, Buy the license an make the.... H&K G3... The same weapon as a CETME.
Sauerkraut is tasty, healty and makes you smart. In comparison to Burger and warm ale... however, maybe a blessing for all of us that serial production came so late...
i grew up with allied propaganda, never heard of mp 44 until playing CALL OF DUTY, IT WAS THE MOST INNOVATIVE rifle of WWII but allied propaganda kept it buried, then allies copied it like the russians with their AK 47, an improvement only, AK 47 should receive zero for innovation instead MiLIEtary CHannel again gives maximum points to it , c'mon.
Thank the gods Hitler was to stupid and/or crazy to realize the potential this weapon had. Otherwise if this weapon had been put out on full production in 1942, history may had turn out different and we be all speaking german now, and maybe youtube wouldnt exist at all!!!
megatherium100 1 week ago
Germans invented everything lol
RandomPrussian1871 1 week ago
How can this be #9, and the AK 47 #1. Without this gun, the AK 47 wouldnt even have been invented
29thinfgeek 2 weeks ago 2
@29thinfgeek That's like saying "how can the F-16 be better than the Wright Brothers' plane?" or "How can any other modern assault rifle be better than the Sturmgewehr?"
The STG was an experiment, and was incredibly complex, expensive, underpowered and only a few were made. The AK has only 8 moving parts (STG has 20), costs $150 to build, can fire after being buried in dirt for years and was built in the millions.
1337soldiahs 13 hours ago
@1337soldiahs Thats not what i meant, at all. Looking at the history of the rifles, not the internals, as your example, the F-16 wouldnt be here without the Wright brother's plane. This program doesnt really look at the cost or the internals of the weapon, but the history- i do know that the AK47 is a superior weapon in almost every way.
29thinfgeek 11 hours ago
@29thinfgeek Well, this list sorts weapons mostly by their performance, not historical importance. Sure, the STG was a great rifle, and a revolutionary idea for that time, but still the ruskies managed to outclass it completely in a bunch of years.
Oh well, I agree #9 is too low for this weapon, but the AK fully deserves the 1st place.
1337soldiahs 10 hours ago
@1337soldiahs Well, without the STG44 the AK probably wouldnt be on this list at all, and neither would a lot of the other0 weapons.
29thinfgeek 9 hours ago
@29thinfgeek he did not base it off there FAR apart (to be considered the same) the mp40 is clsoe hell the m1-garand and the stg-44 use the uqual amount of parts in the ak-47 the locking lake m1 garand and gas operating system stg-44 the mp40 has more parts
MrDip02 1 hour ago
i am half german myself and i believe that the wehrmacht was superior to the red army in every way but the AK is not a copy of this
well ALL assualt rifles are a copy of this but each has a diffrent way of doing it
Kalashnikov copied the Stg44 from the outside because it was Easy to handle!
alekzander2010 3 weeks ago
The Sturmgewehr was based on a soviet battle rifle called Fedorov Automat, which was the first Assault rifle ever designed. (It was used by Mother Russia since 1915)
VictumRoManius 3 weeks ago
hitler knew of the stg44..... infact, he interfeared with it and was to busy makeing an antigravity weopon. they would have had the stg44 by 1942 if hitler ordered them to work on it. after all, hitler was the one wo renamed the mp43/44 to stg44 in the first place
AdolfHitlerVEVO 1 month ago
ak47's daddy
cmiller8492 2 months ago 2
it is from the fatherland after all
cakeisgod1 1 month ago
Wasn't the Fedorov Avtomat the first selective fire assault rifle?
vancityguy 2 months ago
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Assaultwarfare 1 month ago
@2:29, At first I thought the guy with the bald spot had one of those little Jewish hats (I don't remember what there called) on... Needless to say, I was confused.
FrozenKoolAidDude 3 months ago
the WW2 AK-47 lol
mynervesbad 3 months ago in playlist Top Ten Combat Rifles 6
@mynervesbad the stg44 was wayyy supiror compared to other wwii guns than ak47 compared to the coldwar guns; cuz the americans got the m16
AdolfHitlerVEVO 1 month ago 2
@mynervesbad Kalashnikov stoled the design...
bassie52 3 weeks ago 3
@bassie52 not really he more stole the mp40 the stg-44 is far apart only the gas operating system is the same and the design (kinda) mp40 has far more parts similar
MrDip02 1 hour ago
@wiseguy472 except the fact that the stg uses a titing bolt and the ak uses a rotating bolt, and the ak has smaller tighter springs as well as many other differences, all similarites is there because it was worldwide standered at that time
awwadr181 4 months ago
@wiseguy472 AK-47 does look similar to stg44 but it was more of an innovation than a copy.
AK-47, with its amazing reliability and easy handling, took the concept of assault rifle to a new level making it THE rifle of 20th and 21th century.
stg44 did get the basic concepts of an assault rifle right but that is not a legitimate reason to call AK-47, with its innovative design, a copy.
dlxowns322 5 months ago
it was kept secret to hitler because he didnt like the way it looked but the generals knew that it was a good assault rifle so they made it against his orders
sdivine11 5 months ago
ahaha i like it how u english (and americans) can´t speak german
oO0lol0Oo 5 months ago
@oO0lol0Oo Thats because you got your asses whooped by the English and Americans in WWII and so we aren't forced to learn your stupid language!
FulhamFCCottager 5 months ago
@FulhamFCCottager
Fuck you ! D:< i only think its funny how u speak german words ok?
oO0lol0Oo 5 months ago
@oO0lol0Oo Your Hitler and all your subsequent leaders have been buffoons and utterly inept monkeys! United States of America proved that in April of 1945!!!!!!
FulhamFCCottager 5 months ago
@FulhamFCCottager
fuck u u damn idiot we germans are no nazis anymore ! open you eyes asshole
oO0lol0Oo 5 months ago
@oO0lol0Oo Did I even mention Nazi? Guess krauts not only ARE stupid, but they can't even read simple sentences!
FulhamFCCottager 5 months ago
@FulhamFCCottager don't brag about that war asshole, if the germans managed to develope thier superwepons we would be all speaking german right now... you know they were working on a nuclear missile but it was sabotaged? if not for that half of america would be an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland right now
DIRTYSANCHEZ1995 5 months ago
@oO0lol0Oo Dude, its obvious that those americans cant speak proper European because they ARENT! I'm Italian and I had to learn English. But you know it does make me mad too when people from other countries come to Europe and try to tell US how to pronounce OUR words :<
xBehemoth92x 5 months ago
"instead of coming out with your name on it, it came with "to whom it may concern"" loool that part was hillarious.
mardamek1 5 months ago
@0willsy01 Yes an AK built within the original specifications will be extremelty reliable and robust in nearly all aspects. However there are a lot of cheap ones built with sloppy quality here in the US, and they are as reliable as a $2 watch. After WWII, the assault rifle followed 3 paths. The soviets and warsaw pact all used AKs and their derivitives. The US chose the silly AR platform, and most of Europe used weapons directly descended from the STG 44, in either the FN FAL or HK G3.
megatron515 5 months ago
@0willsy01 Hmm... well my understanding of "copy" is almost the same thing.. sorry. And the original AK was not suited well for mass production. The original receivers were milled and welded where the 44 was stamped. The AKM was introduced in 1959 with a stamped reciever to fix that. The main difference is the operating system, which is the heart of the weapon. And lol not every assault rifle is based on the STG 44.. for example: Federov Avtomat, AR15, and F2000.
megatron515 5 months ago
@megatron515 the federov avtomat was an assault rifle, i thought it was a battle rifle
justinjacques766 4 months ago
@justinjacques766 It meets the basic definition of an assault rifle, which is select fire, fed from a detachable magazine, shooting a purpose-designed intermediate cartridge. The Federov had all of these and shot the 6.5 Federov (later refitted to shoot the 6.5 Arisaka) which was cut down specifically to reduce recoil as compared to the 7.62 x 54R. Battle rifles usually shoot a full-powered cartridge such as 7.62 x 51, 8mm Mauser or .30-06.
megatron515 4 months ago
@megatron515 the jap didnt intend for it to be used for intermidiate purposes, it just happened to be smaller than the 7.62 x 54R the russians were using, so federov chose to use it instead of the 7.62. i believe the 7.92 x 33 was the first true intermediate intented for the role
justinjacques766 4 months ago
@megatron515 The round used by the Federov wasn't intentionally an intermediate round - the Japanese later replaced it with something more powerful for their bolt action rifles.
The Sturmgewehr was designed from the ground up as an intermediate calibre weapon while the Federov still used full length rifle rounds. It's certainly a predecessor to the StG-44 though.
justinjacques766 4 months ago
@justinjacques766 I disagree. Federov invented the round with the rifle (they were both prototypes) and it was less powerful than the 6.5 Arisaka. He wanted less powerful ammunition. The reason why the Japanese round was used was production of a new round was less feasible than purchasing the already vast amounts available from Britain and Japan. Many at the time criticized the 6.5 Arisaka as being underpowered, so it was still an ideal round for a select-fire platform over the 7.62 x 54R.
megatron515 4 months ago
@megatron515 technically the first. Not the first in actual usage, or first to be practical. Firing a full-size rifle round at full auto is very hard if you want to hit the target; even the 6.5x50 is pretty hefty compared to the 7.92x33. This is why most M-14s fire semiauto in practice
justinjacques766 3 months ago
@justinjacques766 Actually the Russian Army Weapons Committee considered it a success after testing in 1913 and ordered 25,000 for the red army. Due to the Russian Revolution, only 3,200 were made but it was still the first military-issued assault rifle. It saw action in WWI, the Russian Civil War and the the Winter War of 1940.
megatron515 3 months ago
@megatron515 i thought the federov avtomat was a battle rifle
justinjacques766 4 months ago
@0willsy01 Yeah but it's not a copy. The VZ-58 is roughly a copy. There are two completely different operating systems, fire control systems, safeties, and receiver construction. The only things the russians stole from the STG 44 was the M43 round and probably magazine construction. Concepts like long-stroke piston operation, in- line pistol grip stocks, and above barrel gas tube mounting had been around before the 44. If Kalashnikov wanted to copy the 44, which change so much of the design?
megatron515 5 months ago
How can a nation be insane and genius at the same time?
LOVE GERMAN TECHNOLOGY! <3
Maggot990 5 months ago
The AK-47 is just a refined STG-44
angryhippo2910 6 months ago
@angryhippo2910 Not really. The AK uses a rotating action and is hammer fired. The 44 is tilting-bolt and striker fired. The pattern of the rifles are almost the same, but Kalashnikov basically took the bolt, bolt carrier, and piston of a Garand and flipped it upside down. They are two different weapons.
megatron515 6 months ago
@oneil641 Your an idiot, don't be a smart ass, it is documented historical fact that Stg-44 heavily influenced the Soviet AK-47 dumbass, captured German Stg-44's were loved by the Russkies in WW2, they loved it so much that they copied it, they loved the assault rifle concept of single shot or automatic fire position. The Sturmgewher was the first assault rifle in history, and changed infantry warfare forever, giving soldiers incredible firepower. Now take your head out of the sand you Ostridge!
haiherosner 6 months ago
Hitler was the best allied the allies ever had
Stranskii 6 months ago
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ಠ_ಠ ..... the first assault rifle was the federov avtomat (1915) it had selective fire capabilities and was chambered in 6.5x50mm round and had a pistol grip another rifle that came way before the avtomat called the cei rigotti(1900) also had selective fire capabilities and was chambered in 6.5x52mm round both of these came way before the stg44
jmantime 6 months ago
The Russian AK-47 was a direct copy of the STurmgewher-44, Anton Kalashnikov was not a genius, but a thief of design!
haiherosner 6 months ago 2
stg44 should be number 1, cuz if it call stg40, we all dead
bigfirecat 6 months ago
Accuracy was good, also service lengh. It was used in GDR until the late 60 and its still in use in some african countries ans in libanon!
BigMek456 6 months ago
how the handling was in the mid of score? it's suck and the combat effectiveness was less than M1 garand that's rediculous
auvar100 6 months ago
how the handling was in the mid of score? it's suck
auvar100 6 months ago
I think its better than AK 47
18JahreAltesKonto 7 months ago
djeeez only 9 th place? my favorite weapon in ww2 Call of duty series...
Nikolaa5 7 months ago
americans are unimaginative. the only good thing they invented was mäcces :D
MrNickfax91 7 months ago
@MrNickfax91 and the telephone, morse code, peanut butter(my best freind), TV (thats good no offense bbc sucks XP), alot of guns, the nuke, a buch of others getting tired of thinking back and we basicallly have been protecting the free world! :D
TheGreatHuzzah 7 months ago
fuck u
mushroomhead656 7 months ago
Press "like" if you love all guns :D
STL308 7 months ago
they should have put the stg44 in kino der toten
FearMyCheese101 7 months ago
the Ak 47 is a modified Stg 44 just like the famous russian RPG. The RPG is based on the german panzerschreck.
Vietcong01 8 months ago
@Vietcong01 do your research well, both may look the same, but the inside is very different
8900609 7 months ago
@8900609
dude just google it. I did my research. It s not about the damn looking.
Vietcong01 7 months ago
@Vietcong01 then you sir got the wrong info, if you compared SKS to Ak-47 they nearly the same, while when you compared with Stg-44, it maybe the same, but SKS is nearer to AK-47
8900609 7 months ago
@Vietcong01 isnt the panzerschrek a Bazooka and the RPG a machine gun?
mankei13 7 months ago
@mankei13
the panzerschreck (Raketenpanzerbüchse 54) fires rockets so its not a bazooka, bazookas fire grenades. RPG stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade what actually is a rocket. and the panzerschreck was the first anti-tank weapon that worked like RPGs today. so the russian RPGs are based on the panzerschreck.
Vietcong01 7 months ago
@Vietcong01 oh sorri i thought RPD not RPG because RPD is a light mashine gun.
mankei13 7 months ago
@Vietcong01 i think the RPG was based on Panzerfaust but with a little modified it could be reload from front not backlike Bazooka or Panzerschreck
auvar100 6 months ago
GERMANY <3
methannico 8 months ago
the gun that changed weaponery is number 9 typical americans
ssgtcanadian1 8 months ago
stg Mod 44 is very big arm's
en clair c'est le meilleur flingue ayant éxisté l'ak47 n'est qu'ne pale copie
MrJeuxvideos 8 months ago
If Hitler wasn't allowed to interfer in his General's decisions we would all be speaking German...
Guten Tag.
STEPHENDANERD 8 months ago
Hitles Was an idiot. First, he refused jet fighters in 1943 then the best assault weapon in ww2...
Convict147 8 months ago
@Convict147
the germans lost the entire war thx to that idiot, they would have won instead i think
thebiest100 8 months ago
@thebiest100 of course germany probably wouldn't have gone to war if it weren't for that idiot
jerryg1964 8 months ago
@Convict147 that said, Hitler had made excellent decisions in the war as well, by trusting his instincts. Sometimes it looked like he was a military genius, sometimes the contrary, like this exemple.
ouimaisnon100 7 months ago
Hitler wasn't in the trenches, he was a bike messenger...
lifelessperson1993 8 months ago
hmmm surprisingly familia, AK-47shh maybe
arnoldhump0 9 months ago
@arnoldhump0 the AK 47 was based on the Sturmgewehr 44 in terms of design/ concept. Both were rugged weapons well suited to rough combat and handling. Hugo Schmeiser, the German weapons designer who designed the Sturmgewehr was directly involved when Mikhail Kalashnikov was designing the AK. When you mix German inginuity and quality with Russian ruggedness and durability, you get the greatest weapon in the world... peace
lifelessperson1993 8 months ago
Kept secret from hitler? lol, thats bull
Lets see actual soldiers rate these guns, not armchair generals and scholars
DeusMalleus 9 months ago
@DeusMalleus agreed
lifelessperson1993 8 months ago
thse top ten things aren't really good as in my opinion this gun or the m-14 doesn't dserve these places and some of the guns' stats are wrong i think if i saw it right the m-14's accurracy was too low
codboguy 9 months ago
@codboguy true, these are statistics done by scientists and scholars or even university staff and based on the data, not very accurately. They sure aren't real soldiers. They gave the Sturmgewehr low accuracy when it could take someone out at 300 yards.
lifelessperson1993 8 months ago
stg-44 for short
Cool2345Guy 9 months ago
This weapon should be in the top 5!
deeppurple28 9 months ago
What's the difference between an automatic rifle, battle rifle, and assault rifle?
delta5297 10 months ago
@delta5297 An automatic rifle is just a term thrown around for any rifle caliber weapon that can fire on semi or automatic, while battle rifle is a term generally used for any combat rifle, though in the modern day it often means a select fire rifle like the M14 or FAL. Assault rifle is any semi or select fire weapon firing an intermediate round such as the AK47 or M16.
RedSandStudios 9 months ago
9th? Lmfao yeah sure ok! LMFAO!
deeppurple28 10 months ago
nr 9?? this IS the MOTHER of assault rifles we are talking about?
Without it....no ak-47.... so....nr 1 for this rifle....
Richthofen100 10 months ago
this is my favourite gun, it strikes a bit of a resembelence to the AK 47 which is a sick gun, when i think of this gun, i think awesome cartridge and awesome gun for its time, imagine if they had this gun in 1939, love it
Nigelmalibu 10 months ago
Number 9 WTF this is basiclly the ww2 AK-47! IT WAS THE BEST THING A SOLDIER COULD GET HIS HANDS ON! >:/
jasincl 10 months ago
...facepalm... Discovery documentary
HPBrowningBoy 10 months ago
Does anyone know anything more about that story at 3:12. The one about stg 44s being dropped into an isolated german unit.
TheIrishes 11 months ago
@TheIrishes Read "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross. Its all there.
DobermansRock 10 months ago
@DobermansRock Thank you. I will look into that.
TheIrishes 10 months ago
@TheIrishes If you bear any interest in guns. This book will change you. Read it and share it.
DobermansRock 10 months ago
the ak-47 looks like this gun but it wasn't based on it is like saying the vz.58 was based on the ak-47 or that the Tokarev TT-33 and the m1911a1 are the same gun bot from diferent countries and that teh quetsaquatl rifel is the the same rifel than teh g-36 i can give more examples buth wen 2 guns look a like the same gun does not mean is the same gun or that was based on it and please wikipedia is not a trusteavle information source
IWANAROCKYEEEAAAA 11 months ago
no 1 uses it
qazplmass 11 months ago
i know there is a stg 44, but i heard the fn fal was called the stg 58, and the aug was called the stg 77. why are they all called stg? by the way, i dont know much about guns, but im trying to gain alot more knowledge about them. are they all made by the same company or something? please answer
Halo2PlasmaRifle 11 months ago
@Halo2PlasmaRifle stg is german for sturmgewehr or Storm-rifle/Assault rifle, if they have the designation of stg, germany or austria already manufactures the weapon
Umimugo 11 months ago
@Halo2PlasmaRifle A "Sturmgewehr" is the kind of weapon, as Umimugo told a Assault Rifle. Today the actual Sturmgewehr of the Bundeswehr is the H&K G36. Since the H&K G3 the rifles are named only Gewehr but are also called Sturmgewehr, to have a distinction to "normal" rifles. Greets
GerFreak85 11 months ago
@Halo2PlasmaRifle if u want to know more abouth guns (well shoot them)go to worlds.guns.ru if u want to know a litle bit of history and tecnical info of the guns
IWANAROCKYEEEAAAA 11 months ago
@Halo2PlasmaRifle Sometimes a countries military adopt or designate their rifles differently from the manufactorer. The FN FAL was also adopted as the G1 in the german army, their M82 is called G82, because they designate their "Rifles" as "Gewehr", and the austrian army designates ALL their standart assault rifles with the stg tag and the date of introduction to the forces.
The G36 got its name from the Bundeswehr, before it was called HK50.
Chrinik 11 months ago
I would love to fire one of these, or even just get to hold and look at one.
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Rockstargames6 11 months ago
@Rockstargames6
What are you talking about? How is this the first automatic rifle?
It's not even the first assault rifle. The first assault rifle was made back in 1918
AGeekWithAShotgun 11 months ago
@AGeekWithAShotgun But the Sturmgewehr 44 was accepted as the first assault rifle ever.
So officialy it was the first one.
Rockstargames6 11 months ago
@Rockstargames6
"Officially" my ass. Most databases credit the first assault rifle to the Ribeyrolles 1918 automatic carbine; the first true assault rifle. This weapon was experimental and was never put into production, but it is still known as the first assault rifle.
However, the STG-44 is known as the world's first assault rifle to be used in a military.
AGeekWithAShotgun 11 months ago
@AGeekWithAShotgun The Italian Cei-Rigotti 1900 is regarded as the first assault rifle. It was only tested by the British Army and rejected. It was too unreliable. Anyway I see no problem in regarding the STG 44 as the first because no other previous assault rifle was mass produced and issued as a standard infantry weapon.
lew7272 11 months ago
@lew7272
No, the Cei-Rigotti was an automatic rifle, not an assault rifle. An assault rifle is a rifle with selective fire and fires an INTERMEDIATE rifle cartridge. The Cei-Riggoti fired the 6.5x52mm round; which if you didn't know, was a full powered rifle round
AGeekWithAShotgun 11 months ago
@AGeekWithAShotgun The Cei-Rigotti was indeed a select fire weapon and quite modern looking for its time. If we must be pedantic, well, it did not fire an intermeadiate round. That honour goes to the French Ribeyrolle. Which all goes to prove that inventions do not spring fully formed but are developed over time. There are several other early 20th century rifles that could also be sited as pointing the way to the future development of infantry shoulder weapons.
lew7272 11 months ago
@lew7272
Yeah, there were a lot of weapons that people would look at today and be like "ASSAULT RIFLE!" but they clearly weren't; but back then they didn't have a classification for such weapons. It wouldn't be until after WW2 until they came up with terms such as "assault rifle" and "battle rifle"
AGeekWithAShotgun 11 months ago
@lew7272 You mean the Carabine Mitrailleuse 1918? Well, it might have laid the base for concepts such as Intermediate rounds in Fullauto rifles, but when I look at the StG 44, it´s entire layout is kept TO THIS DAY (Straight Stock, Pistolgrip, curved magazine infront, handguard...(exept for Bulpup designs of course)), so it is, practically, still the "father of the assaultrifle as we know it".
Chrinik 11 months ago
@Chrinik You get no arguement from me.
lew7272 11 months ago
@lew7272 Is it because you agree with me, or is it because you are disagreeing but polite? I am serriously confused by your statement, since english is not my first language. Don´t want to misinterprete stuff into your comments.
Chrinik 11 months ago
@lew7272 the Cei-Rigotti........ doesnt fire an intermediate rifle round....
you could get away with calling it a Short-battle rifle thats it.
Howie262 11 months ago
@Howie262 If you note my reply comment below, you will see that I acknowledge the Cei-Rigotti does not fire an intermeadiate round. The point that I was simply trying to make was, the Cei-Rigotti started the gradual process in the evolutionary development of the assault rifle. A bit like how Australopithicus is not exactly a Homo Sapien but most of the essentual features are present if you get my drift.
lew7272 11 months ago
@lew7272 i know, but still i disagree. The Germans got the idea for the first assualt rifle early on from the Original "storm troopers" who used the first machine pistol ever in the trenches of WWI. The Stg44 was an avancement on that premise of having a rifle and also a machine pistol.completely new idea, it didn't come from a shorten rifle. There were plenty of rifles that were shorted, such as "tanker-Rifles" the stg44 didnt come from those. It was a new idea not from a random special rifle.
Howie262 10 months ago
just place nr. 9 for a weapon that revolutionized rifles ????? Typical american.
waritsch1 1 year ago 83
@waritsch1 agreed......
ohmygodnoobs 11 months ago
@waritsch1 OMG, making fun of the greatest richest country? typical european
amongthefallen17 10 months ago
@waritsch1 it was NEVER MASS PRODUCED its combat life was incredibly short it was hardly more bthan a prototype..all it did was give comrade kalshnikov and idea the ak47 and this may look alike outside but intrnally this rifle is typically german over complicated difficult to manufacture..the simplicity of the ak47 is the reason it is still used today there are 50 million aks and a handfull of these merely a curiostg44 are museum pieces.aks are still a conremproray weapon of war
MrBillcale 10 months ago
@waritsch1 Deserves atleast top 3 status.
CMMY81 10 months ago
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@waritsch1 just place nr. 9 for a weapon that revolutionized rifles ????? Typical american.
Over-inflated sense of importance ????? Typical kraut.
TruthTellert63 10 months ago
@waritsch1 it was important but it was far from a game changer seeing as Nazi Germany still lost the war. Learn your goddamn military history before making generalizations about people ignorant fuck.
xlifeispointlessx 9 months ago
@xlifeispointlessx what has a weapon technical revolution to do with a lost war? topic is the weapon, not military history...
domdadon018 9 months ago
@waritsch1 this show is british, why do people blame america for everything
TheDesert92 9 months ago
@waritsch1
you got that right, mate. Nothing compares to American shit even if its a useless American shit... St-44 was a brilliant piece of weaponry.
vvsector1 8 months ago
@waritsch1 Yea man, M16 on second place? Come on MURIKA...
DoMw4r 8 months ago
@waritsch1 YES LETS STEROYTPE ALL AMERICANS lets see TYPICAL eu person, this show is made in britain with a narrator thats american fucking typical european always blaming americans dumb cunts p.s im brazilian
DJsharp707 8 months ago
@waritsch1 YES LETS STEROYTPE ALL AMERICANS lets see TYPICAL eu person, this show is made in britain and most if u knew something was that their from fucking sandhurst guess wheres that at, their the judges dumb fucking european with a narrator thats american fucking typical european always blaming americans dumb cunts p.s im brazilian
DJsharp707 8 months ago
@waritsch1 you dont know the half of it man, completely agree
duanescot 7 months ago
hitler wanted a new weapon so this came out
Mig278 1 year ago
not whene they are right
ed4live 1 year ago
The US were also 'crazy' then, as they refused the .280 British intermediate calibre in 1950 insisting on a full power rifle round.
Xiolablu3 1 year ago
hitler tried it by executing the guy who lied to him
reppayyasper 1 year ago
when he first tried the weapon he was testing it with the execution of the guy who lied to him LOL
reppayyasper 1 year ago
If only Hitler's armies had the innovation of Mikhail Kalashnikov...
pwnrzero 1 year ago
One of my favorite weapons. What gets me is how Kalashnikov took this weapon and designed the AK-47 after it and the world and other circles of assualt rifle owners speak of his brilliance, and I`m like "He stole the design of the MP44 from Nazi Germany after the second world war" This weapon should have been number 1 as it was way ahead of it`s time. It was reliable, accurate and had good knock down power. What more could you want?
DoubleVisionandco 1 year ago 3
@DoubleVisionandco
So What? The US Stole German V2 Tech, called it their own and started to fly to space.
XIIIAmphed 10 months ago 47
@XIIIAmphed Why do people always have to bring up the USA.
What does USA have to do with germany and russia rifles?
?
AgrivatedKillah 10 months ago
@XIIIAmphed Here's a bit of a clue...Technology is not set in stone. EVERYONE looks at everyone else. Besides, the Americans proceeded to do things that the Germans would have never been able to carry out.
jp28hc 10 months ago
@XIIIAmphed
Americans always wanna be master of weapons look at the goldkeeper it was the best anti fly weapon but it was Dutch so they said theirs was better.
baasbovenbaass 9 months ago
@XIIIAmphed yeah I agree we even stole the idea of the nuclear bomb..Jet planes...And assault rifles...Americanos cant come up with their own stuff.
zoidberg96913 9 months ago
@zoidberg96913 agreed,
lifelessperson1993 8 months ago
@DoubleVisionandco Yea its bullshit that Kalashnikov gets all the credit with his world wide known AK-47 when in fact it was the Germans who developed the gun
casperryan95 10 months ago 13
@casperryan95 M-16 was also developed from it!
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TheWWEFan12 6 months ago
@casperryan95, allow me to say that, actually, what you're saying is bullshit. If you know a little bit about gun design, then you'll know that the AK-47 is significantly different from the sturmgewehr. So, please, don't take away the credit Mr Kalashnikov deserves. Now, if you say that the Germans were the first ones to introduce the idea of an automatic assault rifle, then I'll agree with you hands down; but to say that the Germans developed the AK-47 is a straight out lie, to put it mildly.
mardamek1 5 months ago 2
@mardamek1 Actually I think the AK47 was made by the experiences of the Soviet soldiers with the PPSH-41. That weapon is probably the closest thing to an assault rifle before the STG44.
nightfireivey 5 months ago
@nightfireivey, it's tough to get into Mr Kalashnikov's head and tell exactly what the AK-47 was based on, but what you're suggesting is very possible. I guess the one big difference between the PPSH-41 and the AK-47 is the round size; since the PPSH-41 is pretty much like a hand gun firing at a very high rate, whereas the AK-47 is much more powerful, although not quite to the levels of a regular rifle (say, Mosin Nagant, for example).
mardamek1 5 months ago
@mardamek1 My best educated guess is that they took the information they had of the PPSH-41 during the war and used it and applied it with the design of the STG44/MP44. The FG42 is another rifle that likely influenced the assault rifle concept. It was a light machine gun but it worked much like an assault rifle, I have no doubt that the Soviets got a hold of these weapons.
nightfireivey 5 months ago
@nightfireivey, you could be right; I don't know. Like I said, it's hard to go back in time and know exactly what happened or to get into Mr Kalashnikov's head and know exactly which existing weapon influenced his designing of the AK. In any case, I don't like some viewers saying he "stole" the design of the German weapon and the credit he deserves is exxagerated. In fact, I think he didn't get anywhere near the amount of credit he deserves for the AK (in USSR, at least).
mardamek1 5 months ago
@mardamek1 Yeah, he deserves much more. Even if the Strumgewehr wasn't even invented, the AK47 would of still existed, perhaps many in a different design...maybe not. However the STG44/MP44 being the only reason that the AK47 was made, is extremely false.
nightfireivey 5 months ago
@casperryan95, by the way, exterior similarities/resemblance should not be enough of a reason to consder one weapon being based on another. I say this, knowing that the AK does strongly resemble the sturmgewehr, although being significantly different in design.
mardamek1 5 months ago 3
@mardamek1 it catches the STG44`s spirit though
FrontlinerCdV 5 months ago
@mardamek1 The AK-47 assault rifle was based on the Stg 44.
JeremyNML 4 weeks ago 3
@JeremyNML I'll repeat again. The AK was inspired by the success of the Sturmgewehr and it did strongly resemble it on the outside. However, I don't see how you can say one thing is BASED on another when it doesn't share a common working mechanism, it is not the same or similar from an engineering standpoint. Looks like it - absolutely, based on it - absolutely not.
mardamek1 2 weeks ago
@DoubleVisionandco actually Kalashnikov did not stole the MP/STG-44 gun the outside look of it, but if you compared the inside of an AK-47 to MP-44 its different, even MP-44 was not there on the war, Kalashnikov would have still made the AK-47 but a different outside look, Also Kalashnikov took the design of the SKS,
the Soviets made their own assault rifle.In conclusion MP-44 and AK-47 is mechanically different.
8900609 10 months ago
@8900609 but the MP44 was first.check and mate.
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8900609 10 months ago
@zachplaysfallout3 you nuts? it is not that the first one was the beginning/cause of a next generation, ever read the biography of Kalashnikov?
8900609 10 months ago
From the creators of the Stg44... In a Hollidays in Spain.... The CETME... a when return to Germany, Buy the license an make the.... H&K G3... The same weapon as a CETME.
megadriver1 1 year ago
Sauerkraut is tasty, healty and makes you smart. In comparison to Burger and warm ale... however, maybe a blessing for all of us that serial production came so late...
dirtyfritz 1 year ago
Sauerkraut (one word) makes you smarter in comparison to Burger or warm beer:)
dirtyfritz 1 year ago
@scassidy0526 no they shouldnt have, if they were we would all be eating saur kraut
MrDarkwolf1995 1 year ago
this was such a inovated and damn effective weapon in its time, it should have been somewhere between the 5 best rifles ever made
1996Mircea 1 year ago
i grew up with allied propaganda, never heard of mp 44 until playing CALL OF DUTY, IT WAS THE MOST INNOVATIVE rifle of WWII but allied propaganda kept it buried, then allies copied it like the russians with their AK 47, an improvement only, AK 47 should receive zero for innovation instead MiLIEtary CHannel again gives maximum points to it , c'mon.
MrBobe9 1 year ago
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MrBobe9 1 year ago
It keeps saying mp43
pfundz 1 year ago
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MrBobe9 1 year ago
wow looks like the AK-47 cool
Cool2345Guy 1 year ago