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These were very early days for portable radio technology. Without seeing one I'd guess that it would need at least a half a dozen valves to work. The filaments consume large currents at very low voltages (1.4-6.3V). If battery life was an honest 15 hours as claimed, then 4 out of the 5 lbs. of this radio set must have been just for the primitive & leak-prone carbon-zinc batteries (which likely came in a treated paper container as opposed to the metal housings we use now)! I would imagine that it used mostly "hearing aid" type valves for everything except the transmitter section final stage; those tiny valves didn't normally fit into sockets, but instead had long wires exiting the glass & were soldered directly to the other components. So much for field serviceability! That would also go a long way towards explaining their reputation for unreliability & fragility; if one valve fails, you're screwed! At least until it got sent to a properly equipped radio repair depot. IF it ever made it back there! The higher the frequency you go, the less efficient the radio gets, & the more precise your manufacturing technology must be. Circuit complexity also needs to increase, making the $1200USD (2023 dollars?) radio even bulkier, more expensive, & less reliable due to increasing complexity. Galvin was a very highly regarded manufacturer of mobile radios in America, even before they changed their name to Motorola. The Germans would have praised this set highly, because anybody that's ever owned a pre-2000 Motorola transceiver knows that they made about the very best radios EVER! We can laugh & poke fun at this stuff, & wonder how with "junk" like this, how the Allies could have won the war. A better way to look at it is that technology has advanced so incredibly quickly that we've literally gone from the 1st electronic device, Lee DeForest's "Audion" triode valve, to AI Technology & microprocessor chips with MILLIONS of transistors per square inch, that consume less power than a single Audion, all in less than 120 years!!!😳😲 A good analogy is the development of aircraft: In the same 120 years we've gone from Orville & Wilbur Wright flying a 10HP glorified kite less than 1 mile on an empty beach to skies full of near supersonic aircraft that can hundreds of people for thousands of miles without even needing to stop for refueling!🤪🤯

Russia and the US took their own design ideas from this great piece of engineering

*Allies thought they had the best AG, ARMOR, JETS..(what jets??) than anything German. HELL, who got us to space?* 🚀

2:19 Am I the only one who thought it was pretty unsafe, watching a bunch of soldiers load their rifles cock, and then put it down to the left side so it’s now loaded barrel is facing towards your head and chest?

I mean considering they misrepresented the capabilities of most axis weapons to bolster the morale of their soliders (like slamming the mg 42 for not being accurate although that was never its purpose as a defensive machine gun) I wouldn‘t be surprised if they did the same with the StG 44

I was in the Australian army during the 1980s, we used the canteen water collapsible to supplement our water bottles. We carried one down the inside front of our shirts and used them first. Vietnam stocks were still in the Q System. Very handy piece of kit 👌

Very interesting! Cameraman was only a few feet from the helmet. Yikes! 😉

I'm restoring a sowjet metal detector, from the 80s, i guess,just need a thorough cleaning, and New capacitors. It was also used to find landmines. It works as follows:you hear a continious Tone in the headphones,and when you come near a metal object,the Tone gets louder in the headphone.i can adjust two Potentiometers,one for volume,and the other one is for adjusting how deep it searches.cost 504 Euros,from poland, on eBay, i got my one at a fleamarket, for 20 Euros,good Deal,isnt it? I'm shure ,i get it working properly.

MAU!

MP44 and Stg44 are not the same, there are differences between the two. Source: Jonathan Ferguson in a video where he goes through and fires German ww2 weapons.

Ofcourse the allies have to downplay the gun. You can't be telling your soldiers that the enemy that they are about to fight have a gun that performs equally or better than the guns previously fielded by that country.

it was so bad that eugene stoner copied parts of it and made the m16

Interesting fact, the treaty of Versailles said Germany couldn’t use rifles, right, but IT FAILED TO MAKE CLEAR WHAT CLASSIFIES AS A RIFLE, so they began classifying all their guns(what were actually rifles)as carbines

Weird thing: Was Hitler right? He hated the Sturmgewehr? And according to contemporary enemy intelligence, the MP43/44 STG44 was nothing special. The exciting thing is that everybody copied more or less the design and concept.

Army Intelligence also said the term "assault rifle" was just a chest-thumping term invented as part of their wonder weapons propaganda.

Despite its flaws everyone on both sides grabbed up every M-1 carbine they could. The only statistic soldiers cared about was weight, not all the crap we talk about today. The U.S. report "The MP43 is now the MP44" the weight of the MP44 when fully loaded was double(12 lbs to 6 lbs) that of the M-1 carbine which was considered a negative. Second, its construction: "The receiver, frame, gas cylinder, jacket, and front sight hood are all made from steel stampings. Since all pins in the trigger mechanism are riveted in place, it cannot be disassembled; if repair is required, a whole new trigger assembly must be inserted. Only the gas pistol assembly, bolt, hammer, barrel, gas cylinder, nut on the front of the barrel, and the magazine are machined parts. The stock and band grip are constructed of cheap, roughly finished wood and, being fixed, make the piece unhandy compared to the submachine guns with their folding stocks. "

For what it is worth, I have carried (the same) original, unmodified, live and legal, StG44 for 20+ years' of reenactments. The weight is negligible for increased rate of fire and ability to carry a 3.5 times the ammo load in the mags and pouches as you can in 98k pouches with taking up almost no extra space on your gear. Any other place in your gear you can store 2.5 times the rounds for the same space. Yes this is true for live rounds as well as blanks rounds. (No. No we do not use live rounds for reenactments! It just a factual foot note). My favorite feature is that GIs mistake the 500 to 550 round per minute "chug, chug, chug" cyclic rate for that of a Thompson SMG. There is a design flaw in the receiver that only becomes apparent after firing more than 100 rounds through one to "create content": the opening for the hammer in the underside of the receiver is often widely off set to one side or another causing uneven support for the bolt ending in a jamb and a broken bolt. This is because the slot is stamped through the receiver BEFORE folding the receiver flat around the trunnion. This should have been milled into he receiver after the folding to keep in centered and it could have been 40-50 % narrower. Are the delicate compared to their contemporaries? Look down into that trigger group sometime and see how many delicate little stamping and springs their are in there. Now remember the full auto sear and the semi auto sear both run simultaneously 100% of the time, all the selector switch does is connect one or the other to the trigger. I'd give it a 9.5/10, Most of that is based on being able to say, Why yes this is an StG44. Why yes it does work. and then see the looks on collectors faces @christineshotton824 10 months ago

But Call of Duty told me it's the bestest gun ever, even in modern warfare!

all that negative review is just propaganda. USA loved it's design

I liked it in medal of honor but nothing beats BAR since that sounds like If The God had a nail gun.

Gotta love how some people still take this obvious propaganda for a fact.

And this is a good example why you can't take allied tests or reports too serious , they are all biased as hell . No matter if its about tanks or planes , lack of range and accuracy. 😅 The average firefight is under 300m , who needs a semi auto rifle that is practically good to snipe at 800m ? A full auto with 30 rounds at close combat is all you need and everyone build that after the war .

It honestly sounds like a bunch of cope. I dont think that the the soviets for example wouldve tried to get their own version of such a weapon out if it didnt convince them. Yet they tried with the AS-44.

It sturms Gewehr!

The ONLY radio that made it on Omaha Beach operational in the first waves.

'F' for this contribution.

US intelligence also reported that the MG42’s bark was worst than its bite and even made a training film to play for soldiers about to face them in combat saying just that! I wouldn’t believe anything they said about it .

Reminds me of equally desmissive "reports, " aka propaganda, about the submachine guns in WWI.

Dee Dee Mao!

What scares me the most in this whole clip is the opening image. Good old American propaganda, all butter and honey. Most of those poor kids, back home, would have faced a much worse enemy, unemployment, especially blacks ... 1-2 years of life lost, cut off from the world of work. There was no other option than to hope for a next war.

Between this and their claims the MG-42 wasn't dangerous, I"m convinced the Allies were either run by morons or just blatantly lying to the troops to avoid harming morale.

And Allies copy MG42 and STG 44 LOL

Gives us more of an insight in how propaganda worked from both sides than anything about the gun itself...

It was basically ahead of it's time, doctrine had not catched up to it yet...

Don't get your facts, education or opinion about firearms from video games. I owned a STG 44 and though it was fun to fire, I would have strongly preferred an M1 Carbine in combat.

For those who don't already know, please don't ever count on Intelligence Bulletins as accurate primary sources from WW2. They are neither "bulletins" (in the sense that they are timely warnings) nor are they "intelligence" (because they're intentionally false). Notice the cover of the edition which pooh-poohs the StG - big full color drawing of some stupid Jap getting his clock cleaned by one of our fine American M1 Garands (bought with your mama's war bonds!). Illustrates nothing useful, but makes you feel like a real hero! The publication was created in a semi-comic book format exclusively for propaganda and morale purposes among the rank and file - their assessments are never accurate and always dismissive of whatever the Germans and Japanese are using. You could have lost 10 men in your platoon from a certain weapon and the Intelligence Bulletin will say "It's cheap garbage assembled by slave labor in a dictatorship - surely you're not afraid of that? You're worrying too much and not working hard enough."

You left out the number one most important reason: It makes you look like a dork. Wearing the helmet unstrapped makes you look like a cool grizzled vet in a war movie.

250 fps ? Thats a paintball gun . Thats fake as hell

Crap gun crap army

In the last days of WWII, a couple of Wehrmacht weapon engineers escaped to Franco's Spain. They bring, as their only possession, the blueprints from Sturmgewher and M42 that they sold to the Spanish Army. Spain created a statal factory, CETME, (Centro de Estudios Técnicos y Materiales Especiales, Technical Research and Special Materials Center)for developping both the ligth/medium machine gun and the assault rifle. I used both in my military service, compulsory at this time, back in the 80's, and both were fantastic, solid, accurate and reliable. A little bit heavy, certainly. In 1983, I think, Spain recognised the autorship ando sold the patent at the price of 1 DeutscheMark to Germany. The mechanism is exactly the same in Heckler & Koch for that reason.

I always thought the Germans should have modified their 98k bolt action rifles to take a 10 round detachable magazine before the war started , that alone would have increased soldiers firepower and accuracy, because when a soldier has to reload he has to take the rifle off target and his attention to what is going on is disrupted for a few or several seconds which sometimes is critical

G2(army intelligence) The new German weapon is useless. Gi: Man, I gotta get me one!

So bad, nobody copied the concept! You're right. Not the Brits, not the Americans, not the Russians,.....

British/jewish and American PROPAGANDA was the most toxic and criminal weapon of the second world war. They lied twenty times more than german or soviet propaganda. In fact even their own "democracy" and "freedom" are just BIG LIES for a population of SLAVES addicted to mass manipulation.

German soldiers who used it considered it a very effective weapon. Then consider the AK-47 and M-16 are logical evolution of this rifle.

It was revolutionary like so much of the Third Reich. Amazingly so.

Gun porn nerd - "but it looks so cool!"

I know from experience shooting a couple of different full-auto StG44/MP44s that: * The foreend really does get hot after a couple of magazines. By the 3rd magazine you can't hold it that way and need to hold the magazine. I expect that in a Russian winter it'll be miserably cold as well. * The sights are terrible. The tiny rear sight makes aiming accurately difficult under any conditions than a neatly-kept range with black-and-white paper targets. * The triggers on the ones I've encountered were amazingly good, given the conditions they were made under. German small-parts fitting at its finest. Definitely not like an AK, which has a completely different sear mechanism but is designed to go *bang* no matter how poorly it's made or maintained. * It's remarkably controllable on full auto. FA is generally a way to turn money into noise *very* quickly, and mostly just scares the enemy (which is the point), but the StG44 really is much more controllable than most full-auto rifles. The stock being inline with the bore, and the generally high weight contribute to this. * The controls are *weerd* by modern standards. The cross-bolt is the fire selector, the swinging lever is the safety. Not unmanageable, just very different to anything you see today. * It looks vaguely AK-ish in shape on the outside, but the guts are very different and the controls are very different. If the AK is a copy of it, only the general shape is copied. * Really tho, given some small improvements to the sights and a canvas wrap around the foreend, it's still a perfectly serviceable fighting rifle today. Far from the best, but not bad. An impressive feat for a rifle designed 80 years ago.

These were the same people who lied about the MG42 and MG34. Yet somehow the intermediate caliber rife and man GPMG concepts have been the standard across the world for the last 60 years.