Automatic Weapons: American vs. German

Film bulletin from the war department outlining the advantages of American automatic weapons compared to Germany's.

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[JasonStogia]

I don't know about you but I always pick German weapons on Call of Duty 2.

[dunjak111]

And a few years after this, they took the MG42 as a model to build the M60...

[shogunrommel]

I know I watched this video once but it's still as hilarious as before. "Remember, their bark is worse then their bite." Makes me laugh every time.

[the308capital]

BEST in class weapons of WWII. Best general issue service rifle: M1 Garand. Best Sub Machinegun (Machine pistol): PPSH-41. Best Machinegun: MG-42. Best Bolt Action Rifle: Arisaka type 99. RUNNERS UP: Lee Enfield SMLE MkIII, Browning M1919a4, MP-38/40. I base these choices on the overall influence they had on the battlefield. The Stg 44 was a great rifle but was develped too late to produce major impacts. In the end, numbers not quality won the war. German guns were best quality overall.

[xJohn37]

@hakalacurtis The MP40 isn't an assault rifle...

[hakalacurtis]

Mp40 and the stg 44 where the best assualt riffles in WW2.

[bed792]

germany did have some great shit

[slim77k]

wow this is the biggest load of propaganda i have ever saw, its b/s to the german's dident use heavy machein gun platoon's. every squad was bassed around a singe MG team

[CaptHawkeye]

@poenschepper Yeah. Now i'm sure some people will say "oh noez FG42 is still german ergo german tech > all" but it's not as if gas pistons were a foreign concept to the Americans either. The M1Garand used a gas piston after all.

Rather I think the Americans copied the way German machine guns were *used*, not designed. Which is not the same thing as what many of the Wehrmachtophiles believe.

[poenschepper]

@CaptHawkeye you are right my man, the M60 derived from the FG42 a gas operated weapon (German WW2) turned into the T44, a US made FG42 but beltfed and after some tests it got into service in '57 as the M60.