Von Chacal American TV (for the most part) has suffered a severe dumbing down in the past decade. In order to save ratings and overall profit, channels like History and many others are forced to put out "reality" shows to gain popularity. Pawn Stars is alright, I do like that show. However nothing really compares to the historical content that was previously shown on History channel, in my opinion.
+Buffy McMuffin almost every firearm of the modern age came from Germany whether it be the Mauser which introduced magazine feed rounds or the the Sturmgewher or storm rifle which later would give birth to the most infamous assault rifle the ak 47 and the MG 42 which later came machine guns like the M60 and others
@@michaelmurray7199 The Ma Deuce was mounted on vehicles, so things like Shermans and scout vehicles had them. The GAU-8 avenger would not even be invented for another 30 years after WW2. The thing that made the MG42 scary was a lot of Wehrmacht units carried this. Like, a lot of them. The fact that it was easily portable, relatively easy to hide, and only required 2 soldiers to use made this thing an absolute terror. They said it best. You heard this thing, you weren't gonna have a good day. And that's if you were lucky and weren't cut down in the opening barrage.
As good as the M2 browning 50 cal was. It never was meant for infantry engagement as it's been positioned ontop of the Sherman's more of an Anti air and anti unarmored or lightly armored vehicle weapon. During those days you can only have so much ammo considering you had to carry gasoline for the Sherman's, ammo for your own personal firearms and other things such as repair tools and so on. So you can fit so much on the Sherman with 50 cal ammo boxes. And that you carry only enough for where ever your going. The movie Fury had shown that. At the end of the move they only had so much ammo with them and even the m2 browning being fired at the Germans it still wasn't enough.
a 19 year old german spent over 4 hours behind one those things in a bunker overlooking omaha beach, he spoke off seeing everyday the image of men just dropping flat on a beach.
+X Caliber indeed, must have been a bumber for the troops landing at Omaha Beach. Commander: He's changing! Charge! *soldiers charge* Germans: Fire the rest of the MG42's! The idiots are charging! *other five mg42's unload thousands of rounds on the attackers* Soldiers: Skrew charging them. Stay in the fox hole.
- A trained German soldier with an assistant gunner could change the barrel in under 7 seconds - There were often more than one gun - If you charge the gun while the barrels are being changed, you’re still vulnerable to rifles
Not only that.. how far can you run in 7 seconds with all those equipments you carry on your back and eventually seek cover..? Prolly 7 seconds passed way too fast and you're still running in the open..
Alexander Sigg What? I was referring to the fact that German scientists were taken into project Manhattan, thus creating a nuclear bomb...what are you smoking?
+eskon12345 I think where there were two or more machine guns in close proximity, savvy gunners (and WW2 Deutsche Soldaten were some of the best) would have made sure one gun started firing 5 seconds after the first one. That way, there was a constant stream of deadly fire as barrels would be changed at different times. Allied soldiers: Oh Fuck!
+eskon12345 History proved otherwise. As usual Ermy gets carried away. An inspired design, It was never properly supported. You win a war by designing a great variety of weapons to work in conjunction with each other. By the time the MG 42 saw action, Germans were generally fighting from defensive positions with little room to do anything but hold positions with little support against all arms firepower form mortars/semi-auto rifles/machine guns/artillery etc which neutralized the threat .
+White house gaming "Full Metal Jacket" is one of the best 'tell it like it is (was)" film about army training camps and men at war (in this instance, Vietnam) I've ever seen. Fan-bloody-tastic! Anyone who likes war films should not miss this one.
GUNNY CAT Its illegal to open carry in my state. I did find an iwb holster for mine but its a little uncomfortable for all day carry so my ccw is an m60
Franz Schrodinger Yes, the extremely wealthy guys in state government, who kiss the arses of/take bribes from tax-evading fascist corporations, regard free healthcare as more evil than slavery, and openly praise capitalism every chance they get. Just huge, huge Communists.
The german Bundeswehr still uses its successor, the MG-3, introduced in 1957. I've fired hundreds of bullets with this monster, which now uses 7.62 FMJ. That was quite impressive. I also liked the good old and very reliable H&K G-3, which uses the same ammo and was extremely easy to maintain and clean...
@@22fret oh im just surprised that a _german_ weapon is reliable AND easy to maintain lol, their cars (at least anything beyond the mercedes W124) are a completely different story...
To the inexperience shooter watching you think "not that bad only a couple logs down" trust me if you cant hear anything in between shots of a fully automatic weapon its devastating/ horrifying. Especially if you take into consideration the size of the round the mg42 was firing. I believe they should of got larger logs to really show the awesome destruction this weapon can issue.
More than one Country , My dad was In the RCN and served on a Wooden hulled Converted fishing boat The Government confiscated from The Japanese fishing fleet in BC ..which they patrolled the Pacific coast line ...He told me when the Italians were fighting with the Germans they would send the Italians in first on the front lines ....
They could ve won despite the near endless resources and manpower of the allies if it wasn't for blunders that Hitler made they were dabbling in nuclear tech, had rockets and jet planes later but threw it all away for useless giant ass canons and let half their army freeze in snow for nothing
@@pratik1568 Yeah, German tech was out of this world during WOII. They had the first cruisemissile (V1), the first ballistic missiles (V2), the first guided bomb (Fritz X), the first SAM (Nebelwerfer), the first air-to-air missiles (R4M and BR21), and even nearly fielded the first guided air-to-air missiles (Ruhrstahl X-4) they discovered nerve gas, they were on the forefront of nuclear physics, they had the first jet-powered airplane (Heinkel He 178), the first jetfighter (ME262), the first jetbomber (Arado 234), and the first jet-powered stealth attack plane (Horton Ho 229). They also pioneered submarine technology, and by the end of the war they had stealth submarines with rubber coated hulls against sonar and low RCS periscopes and snorkels against radar. But as mentioned, Hitler was a egomaniac who felt untouchable halfway during the war. If he would have been more realistic and cautious he wouldn't have started a war against the USSR, with who'm they had a non-agression treaty. During the battle of Britain they had the british in such as strong chokehold that the British were eventually only weeks from starvation, that's how much of the merchant shipping bringing in goods from North America was sunk.
DeutschwehR yeah really it was when Hitler pissed off the west by invading Poland. If he had just left it alone, he wouldn’t have had the allies against him. Same goes for Russia, but that was his biggest mistake, especially during such a cold winter. Napoleon, Hitler. Seems history likes to repeat itself.
+ledari Actually not. Once they started firing everyone hit the ground and found cover which would stop an advance and it was fired in burst fire. It could put a lot of rounds into a compressed area allowing for a better possibility of a hit on individual targets but infantry tactics precluded troops from bunching up. It was a tool but not a super weapon. There were no super weapons. The German problem was that they generally were in defensive positions and once a MG was located, mortar fire or artillery could take it out or force it to withdraw and if that didn't work then tanks or tank destroyers would root them out. Accurate semi auto fire from M1 Garands and full auto fire from BAR's also helped keep it from causing too many casualties. The Allies, especially the Americans, became masters of combining arms. A weapon is only as good as the weapons supporting it. The US modified/copied it and it served well, no question a great design for new tactics but it was never a decisive weapon in any conflict.
As a gamer and someone who is very interested in WWII I feel embarrassed for those guys who pretend they are gun experts after playing a few games and reading wikipedia.
My love for WW2 games and modern war history got me to buy a book named'Weapons Of WW2'. Covers everything from light SMGs to Heavy Tanks to devastating Special Weapons.
MG42 - best MG of WWII StG44 - best firearm of WWII Mauser K98k - best rifle of WWII ME262 - first jetplane of WWII ME109 - plane with most victories of WWII Pz.Kpfw.V Panther - best tank of WWII Pz.Kpfw.VI Tiger - most feared tank of WWII V2 - hello, London. Go home, allies.
LOL, if you disregard that the Krauts were just getting their teeth kicked in by the Russians (Stalingrad, Kursk) back in 1943, yeah, they were on the brink of winning the war - NOT! :-)
+Benjamin Fuller (Dallenson) Armed by old men and fresh recruits, It still took around twelve thousand lives to get up the beach :P Real scary when you think about it.
+Benjamin Fuller (Dallenson) Armed by old men and fresh recruits, It still took around twelve thousand lives to get up the beach :P Real scary when you think about it.
+Benjamin Fuller (Dallenson) Armed by old men and fresh recruits, It still took around twelve thousand lives to get up the beach :P Real scary when you think about it.
I was at a ww2 reenactment a couple of weeks ago sitting behind a blank firing mg 42 in between 'battles' while people were walking around and looking at all the weapons and equipment. As I was sitting in the warm sun proudly showing off the weapon an older guy walked over to my machine gun nest and stood afront the gun staring at it with a look of what I can only describe as utter discontent and quite simply hatred. I asked him if he'd like to have a closer look at the gun and cycle the bolt etc. Almost ammedeately he quite calmly declined the offer and said quite simply "I would never sit that side of the gun, i hate that gun". He took me by surprise by saying this and I naturally jumped up to defend the gun stating the obvious points (e.g. rate of fire etc) to prove how successful the gun was as a weapon. I proceeded to ask him why he disliked the gun, to which he simply replied 'because this gun took my friends'. It became apparent to me at this point that the guy was a veteran and I instantly felt a deep regret for defending the gun. After later inquiry I found out that the elderly gentleman had served in the 3rd infantry Division and landed at sword beach on D day, sadly his friends never made it too Bremen and beyond due to German machine gun fire. It opened my eyes to the reality of reenacting in the sense that everything we do happened and as interesting as statistics can be the human element must never be forgotten.
If you got a trained gunner team, you can significantly cut down the time needed for the barrel change. Plus, while the manual mentions about 150 rounds, many gunners in the field will keep it going until the barrel's glowing red, if the battle dynamic demands it. Last but not least, the barrel heating up sometimes causes the rounds to ignite without being hit by the striker, speeding up the cycling process and increasing the firing rate to up to 2000rpm, meaning that an MG42 lost precision but spit out more lead in sustained fire.
However they wouldn't overshoot too much unless needed too, unless it was an entire soldiers charge then they'd rain extreme hell with one barrel and that it really sucked for the allies considering the bunkers had two MG 42s each. One machine gunner will fire upon the boats and beach while the second can be firing at any American soldiers coming close and they can exchange positions too making a cycle of nonstop machine gun fire. Kind of like an first and second layer of fire even if you got past the first machine guns fire the second machine will be on you already. Even worse the mortar and artillery bombardment on the beach.
Unless the heat caused it to fire out of battery which destroys the weapon. You just pulled that remark out of your ass didn't you ? A round must be seated in the chamber to fire less bad things happen.
Norwegian armed forces still use this. I have fired this several times, an awesome weapon. The version used is MG 43. Not much have changed from the original MG 42.
There was one american show ( weapons that changed the world ) and they said that mg 42 needs atleast 5 supporting person. SUCH A LIE AND BULLSHIT! If tank could be operated by 4 people how the hell in world machine gun needs 6?
Thats how it was supposed to be, Gun commander, A soldier that carried the gun, a soldier that carried the tripod, and 3 other guys to carry tools, barrels, ammuniton. In reality the germans had a team of three: Gunner, Loader, and Spotter. You have to remember that the germans didnt use mgs as supporting weapons as the allies did, they used it as an very important primary.
Oh god, using a machine gun without any kind of gloves is giving me nightmares. Even with the FN-MAG and its handle to allow an ungloved barrel change I still saw people get second degree burns accidentally touching the barrel with their hand.
The two really clever part of this weapon system are the quickly exchangable barrel to prevent overheating and the tripod - that can be adjusted so that the gun only moves horizontally and not up and down. You press the triger and just move from left to right or adjust it carefully on to a target and fire a burst. However, the Danish designed tripod from DISA is a lot more flexible - the gun can be positioned closer to the ground and still be fired from the tripod.
Yes, but the gunner had to literally dig his boots in when in a prone position and need to have the strength in his shoulders to still keep the gun from dancing. The MG42 is a fuckin beast.
02:36 Seven seconds to attack (barrel change time). Problem: The shooter is covered. Nobody knows whether he is changing his barrel or aiming for a new target. Therefore hardly feasible. Was a machine gunner himself (MG3 / Bundeswehr). I know what I'm talking about. And by the way, it really only takes seconds. Only save the weapon and the barrel can be changed. The belt can remain in the weapon during this time.
Truely terrifying weapon.. the psychological effect seems like hell in itself, just to name others with similar effects were most likely v1 rockets and stuka dive bombers. It must have been hell encountering these new wonder weapons.
So if the enemy only attacked while the MG42's barrel was being changed, why not set up two at the same time? One hoses down soldiers, and when its barrel needs changed, the other one starts firing, and they just alternate back and fourth every time.
They did, kind of, however the MG42 was usually set up on a mount for a specific fire line, and the MG42 nests overlapped to be able to partially cover each other. Overall this was much more efficient than to waste two MG42s to cover the same area. You only have so much resources and there is always a gap somewhere. The MG42 needs to reload too. Also the 5-7 seconds is for a tired soldier that didn't have his morning coffee, so the chances of getting through a line during the barrel change is pretty slim anyways, as there are other people shooting too.
@@PlasmaHH they also had mortar squads then as they do now as well as handheld communications. I'm sure a call to an observer who's running a M2 Mortar would take care of an MG42 nest
That is why the German soldiers at that time were trained to fire in short bursts unless they are given orders to suppress the enemy. I was taught the same as an infantryman manning an LMG during conscripted days.
everytime I got home back from school my pop would always watch this show as soon as he got back home and I would find him watching until the episode ended or at least until another show came on - i guess that's why i grew so much on ermey
Devastating thing. I cannot imagine the fear that the mere sound of it created. That barrel change mechanism is superb. You really dont get much time...and when used in short bursts your entire platoon is in serious trouble. I imagine they covered the barrel change with withering fire as well. Terrifying.
@@Hannibalkakihara No it's not. It was a slur created by a jewish journalist Konrad Heiden. No Germans ever called themselves Nazi's. Just like no Brits refer to themselves as Limeys.
Catalin Marin The Barrel does take longer to change and the rate of fire isn't as fast but the 7.62x39 does have better penetration than the 7.92 Gewher round, the PK family isn't exactly fun,it's an economy weapon like the AK family, cheap to produce,sell and easy to operate,with a cheap round,so if I was the head of the military I would buy the PKP or PKM over the MG42/3 but as a private owner I would buy the MG-42 since as you said,is fun to use and that's true.
josryg No,the Yugosliavian Version(Zastava M84) uses the 7.62 NATO,but the PK machine gun family uses the 7.62x54 mmR(I was wrong about the 7.62x39) which is the standard Soviet Machine Gun round along with the 12.7x80 round.
US army created propaganda videos in which they were telling their soldiers MG-42 is crap, its bad, its...bla bla. I saw some of this US propaganda vids on youtube.
Josh Phillips From ww2 documentary, US documentary. Before US soldiers named it buzzsaw and before US entered ww2 US army was showing propaganda movies to its soldiers claiming Sherman is as good as any other german tank, german machine guns are slow and bad...etc. And yes USA had propaganda machine and used it without mercy. Their propaganda was so good you are still under its influence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_during_World_War_II
***** This is 1945 movie, there is earlier, 1944 version. But even this 1945 version is propaganda. German MGs are depicted as: they bar but don't bite which was nonsense. Both MGs were very precise in fact.
150 rounds equate to 7 1/2 seconds of sustained fire before a barrel needs to be changed out. That makes it critical to do small, short bursts, and even then, a barrel swap every 60 seconds isn't unheard of.
R. Lee Ermey was actually a badass Marine that is actually looked up to with respect. And rest in peace as well, Semper Fi. He played in one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants in Inmates of Summer. 🪖 🏅 🥇👍
Funny thing is, he wasn´t a gunnery seargent when he made that movie...he got promoted post-service for his portraial tho, so now he actually IS a gunny XD
A real beast,but the scary thing is that the Germans had another MG with the same high rate of fire.The Mauser MG81 with a rate of fire up to 1600 rounds per minute.
The Maxim was worse.It was the first MG used in WW1 and sold to everyone who wanted it.It was a far more deadly(not superior) from what i understand it.
Purify Well, she is saying WWII, and the Maxim, while used during WWII, was usually given to second-class reserve units and other less important infantry. It still probably caused many deaths, but it was absolutely nowhere near as effective as it was during World War I, due to WWII being a mobile battlefield, and the Maxim being a medium/heavy machine gun, used for static positions rather than on the move.
Years ago when I was a younger US Army combat MP, I was a M60 machine gunner. The M60 was in my experience a piece of junk. I have seen the MG 42 and the NATO equivalent which seems to be a better MG then the M 60.
The M60 was sweet, when it was firing. Lot of barrel burnout (remember the oven mitt to change hot barrels?) and feed failures. That's why they replaced it with the FN M240 starting back in the 70's. Little slower ROF, but much more reliable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M240_machine_gun
In practice, the rate of fire depends on the weight of the bolt installed. The present-day issue German MG3 has been slowed to 700-900 rpm due to the heavier bolt. Put in a lighter weight bolt and this thing can run at 1600 rpm.
@creambeam No. The MG42 is recoil operated, gas assisted. The booster at the muzzle redirects gas to increase the reliability of the system, this does not happen until the bullet has left the barrel, so to answer your question...no.
No it's not. You said "I don't know what you're hunting, but if it's not a fucking tank, sayonara baby" implying that the mg42 is only capable of taking out a tank which is the opposite of the truth
That and its not a very accurate weapon. The spread is too large that you can't effectively fire at a single target. Its still a very effective area denial weapon.
Player 2 Yep...and there are like 116,000 American soldiers lying in graves all over Europe! Have no clue how many died at the business end of the mg34 or 42 but I imagine it was a lot! The gun was accurate for it's intended purpose. It wasn't a sniper weapon. At 20rps for the mg42 if just 10% hit you from a 3 second burst you would have 6 very large holes in you! Extremely 'bad' shooting but you're also extremely DEAD!
true. this beast`s hunger on rounds is hard to satisfy. thats why you often see german troops with extra belts hanging around their neck on ww2 photos, they just gave a belt to every member of the platoon, to still the hunger of the mg. and that also was the reason, why they would lower the rate of fire on the post-ww2 versions of this gun. like the german mg3 or the austrian mg74. have approximately half the rpm.
The Germans still use it. It's re-chambered for 7.62 NATO, the cyclic rate is reduced, and it's called the MG3, but any of the guys from the Heer 75 years ago would know how to use and clean it.
They didn't change the MG42 for the German Army until today, they only change the name to MG3 and change the cartridge. The whole process and system is basically the same.
The Americans actually tried copying this weapon, it was chambered in 30-06 and designated the T24. Although they scrapped the project because the weapon had durability faults because it couldn't handle the stress created by 30-06 rounds.
That's R.Lee Ermey, (Full Metal Jacket). 2 years later he was in another great war🪖 flick, The Siege of Firebase Gloria. Semper Fi, God Bless America & carry on.
Ironically the MG42 was cheaper and easier to produce than the MG34 while being more effective. German efficiency at its finest ;-) But the MG42 did have a problem: Its rapid rate of fire meant that the crew would need a lot of ammo to keep it running. Ammo which would mean more weight. To combat this the Germans centered their squad tactics around the machine gun, advancing when it fired and so on. Individual soldiers would often also carry additional ammo for the MG42 and most were trained to use it.
Actually the Mg42 is 1500 Rounds per Minute the 1200 Rounds per Minute version is an Nato Standart Ammo using version the Bundeswehr used for quite a long time. Also the Barrel ONLY needs to be changed if you do 150 Rounds Sustained Fire like he does in the Video. Usually you would fire in Bursts which would greatly increase the number of Rouns you can Fire before changing the Barrel. Also 150 Rounds Sustained Fire is only the amount of recommended Bullets before changing the Barrel since then it could cool out and be used again without having any deformations. In Reality especially in Combat most German Soldiers used the same Barrel far longer. This of course damaged the barrel it could not be used anymore ever again. But since German Soldiers werent stupid they knew the Allies would attack if they changed the Barrel so they used it as an trap quite frequently. Greetz
150 rounds is only for sustained fire and it's purely a recommendation, you can fire the gun for more than 150 rounds. In 5-7 round bursts at a controlled rate, it can use up a box of ammo (Typically 250 rounds) before it requires a barrel change. Troops would change the barrel after they used up one ammo box, when firing at a controlled rate. German gunners were usually very disciplined and would not often fire at the kind of rate shown in this video.
@happosai27 The key is to change the barrel before it overheats, that's why in the manual they stated that you shouldn't fire more than 250 rounds in a single burst. The reason being that after 250 rounds the rifling would start to wear out really fast, if you change it before it gets too hot, you can re-use it after it's cooled.
Actually, firing in 3-round bursts enables machinegunners to hide their position more effectively, as they sound closer to the sound signature of the assault rifles they are supporting.. Started in Vietnam...
I remember ramboing this gun in DoD. Was so good with it people were calling me a cheater, but all the regulars on the server knew better because they were around when I was always practicing getting it down to a science.
MG42- 150 rounds of continuous fire before requiring a barrel change. John Browning fired his prototype for the M1917 .30cal for 48min 12sec without a stoppage, that's approximately 40,000 rounds. The MG42 was a great weapon, no doubt about it, but the best??? That's arguable.
the mg42 is still in use today. you SHOULD change the barrel ever 100 rounds of training ammo ( blanks), or 150 rounds of life ammo but you can use the same barrel for upwards of 1000 rounds if necessary in combat. Don't let this film fool you, if you are on the wrong side of an mg42, and if you are visible, you are as good as dead.
The funny thing is, we didn't hire a rifle company, but a mass production steel factory, they took the best parts of different guns, put some own things to it and put it all together, it was cheap, simple, effective and deadly
Loved these shows, back when "History" channel actually talked about history
+Pill Baxton What happen to them i wonder.. Pawn star.. running short of pennies i guess
Von Chacal American TV (for the most part) has suffered a severe dumbing down in the past decade. In order to save ratings and overall profit, channels like History and many others are forced to put out "reality" shows to gain popularity. Pawn Stars is alright, I do like that show. However nothing really compares to the historical content that was previously shown on History channel, in my opinion.
Pill Baxton Good thing they have Vikings..
+Pill Baxton and Discovery channel stop discover new shit
kris lee Haha pretty much
The engineering involved to create this weapon was easily thirty years ahead of its time.
+slap n pop Germans know how to built stuff!
+Buffy McMuffin almost every firearm of the modern age came from Germany whether it be the Mauser which introduced magazine feed rounds or the the Sturmgewher or storm rifle which later would give birth to the most infamous assault rifle the ak 47 and the MG 42 which later came machine guns like the M60 and others
+Travis Kopplinger *Sturmgewehr
+slap n pop The fact that this gun is still used by the German military proves how advanced this weapon is.
+mitch johnson Or simple, rather.
R.I.P GUNNY
Hellgee yeah... for a while
Triggered Much? Lol he died last month. RIP.
Now i got to watch joker interrogation scene
what is that.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
The MG 42 was a great machine gun. German engineering was incredible at that time.
Why was? it is still in the german troop ;) slightly modified
JazzJaRa Yup. Rheinmetall MG3 - a modernized MG 42
JazzJaRa Not only in Germany, it is in fact one of the widest spread LMGs in the world, currently used by more than 35 countries.
Deutsche Ingenieurskunst ;)
Scott Davis lets be honest here: german Engineering STILL is incredible.
Truely the scariest machine gun of WW2
I thought that’s what the Browning Ma Deuce was. Or was it the GAU-8 Avenger?
@@michaelmurray7199 The Ma Deuce was mounted on vehicles, so things like Shermans and scout vehicles had them. The GAU-8 avenger would not even be invented for another 30 years after WW2. The thing that made the MG42 scary was a lot of Wehrmacht units carried this. Like, a lot of them. The fact that it was easily portable, relatively easy to hide, and only required 2 soldiers to use made this thing an absolute terror. They said it best. You heard this thing, you weren't gonna have a good day. And that's if you were lucky and weren't cut down in the opening barrage.
For sure
If you saw a n@zi with it you'd be more scared
As good as the M2 browning 50 cal was. It never was meant for infantry engagement as it's been positioned ontop of the Sherman's more of an Anti air and anti unarmored or lightly armored vehicle weapon. During those days you can only have so much ammo considering you had to carry gasoline for the Sherman's, ammo for your own personal firearms and other things such as repair tools and so on.
So you can fit so much on the Sherman with 50 cal ammo boxes. And that you carry only enough for where ever your going.
The movie Fury had shown that.
At the end of the move they only had so much ammo with them and even the m2 browning being fired at the Germans it still wasn't enough.
Poor men of d-day had to face this monster
it was hell
a 19 year old german spent over 4 hours behind one those things in a bunker overlooking omaha beach, he spoke off seeing everyday the image of men just dropping flat on a beach.
Jean Kirschtein Nuttin compared to the poor soviets in Stalingrad
Navi Blue soviets could not even step back
Yes
The problem with waiting for the barrel change is sometimes there were more than one gun.
+X Caliber indeed, must have been a bumber for the troops landing at Omaha Beach.
Commander: He's changing! Charge!
*soldiers charge*
Germans: Fire the rest of the MG42's! The idiots are charging!
*other five mg42's unload thousands of rounds on the attackers*
Soldiers: Skrew charging them. Stay in the fox hole.
At Omaha it's not just the mgs you had to worry about
+X Caliber and the fact that you could change the barrel in under 5 seconds was another problem
- A trained German soldier with an assistant gunner could change the barrel in under 7 seconds
- There were often more than one gun
- If you charge the gun while the barrels are being changed, you’re still vulnerable to rifles
Not only that.. how far can you run in 7 seconds with all those equipments you carry on your back and eventually seek cover..? Prolly 7 seconds passed way too fast and you're still running in the open..
German : crazy weapon maker
Murican : crazy weapon user
well.. beautiful mixed
Mix the two and now we have nukes
Nato ^^
Alexander Sigg What? I was referring to the fact that German scientists were taken into project Manhattan, thus creating a nuclear bomb...what are you smoking?
Hex jewish german I guess
sure im a black jewish nazi german
Only attack during barrel change
Firing Stops?
Charge!!
*Mg 42 starts singing again*
Soldier: Fuck
+eskon12345 LOLOL
+eskon12345 with that weapon dont fear the one that fire all the rounds at ones fear the one who use it in burts
+eskon12345 I think where there were two or more machine guns in close proximity, savvy gunners (and WW2 Deutsche Soldaten were some of the best) would have made sure one gun started firing 5 seconds after the first one. That way, there was a constant stream of deadly fire as barrels would be changed at different times. Allied soldiers: Oh Fuck!
+eskon12345 how would you know if he stopped to change barrels , reload light a smoke or just didn't see anything worth shooting at?
+eskon12345 History proved otherwise. As usual Ermy gets carried away. An inspired design, It was never properly supported. You win a war by designing a great variety of weapons to work in conjunction with each other. By the time the MG 42 saw action, Germans were generally fighting from defensive positions with little room to do anything but hold positions with little support against all arms firepower form mortars/semi-auto rifles/machine guns/artillery etc which neutralized the threat .
i love that marine he is the best R. Lee Ermey. hes got the best USMC Drill Instructor voice ever.
He sounds like a real drill sergeant
Watch full metal jacket. :-) he is in it
+White house gaming "Full Metal Jacket" is one of the best 'tell it like it is (was)" film about army training camps and men at war (in this instance, Vietnam) I've ever seen. Fan-bloody-tastic! Anyone who likes war films should not miss this one.
like, really??
He was a real DI during the Vietnam War
My open carry weapon
GUNNY CAT Its illegal to open carry in my state. I did find an iwb holster for mine but its a little uncomfortable for all day carry so my ccw is an m60
Lol
+notafraid06 damn commies in your state government
GUNNY CAT my concealed carry
Franz Schrodinger Yes, the extremely wealthy guys in state government, who kiss the arses of/take bribes from tax-evading fascist corporations, regard free healthcare as more evil than slavery, and openly praise capitalism every chance they get. Just huge, huge Communists.
That thing was decades ahead of it's time, a remarkable piece of engineering
The german Bundeswehr still uses its successor, the MG-3, introduced in 1957. I've fired hundreds of bullets with this monster, which now uses 7.62 FMJ. That was quite impressive. I also liked the good old and very reliable H&K G-3, which uses the same ammo and was extremely easy to maintain and clean...
a german gun being extremely easy to maintain and clean? damn son...
@@edbo10 Yep, I could do that blindfolded to this very day...
@@22fret oh im just surprised that a _german_ weapon is reliable AND easy to maintain lol, their cars (at least anything beyond the mercedes W124) are a completely different story...
@@edbo10 lol i feel you on that bro. I have a mk4 golf....freaking turd.
@@grekygrek VWs seem to be a wild card. You get some people who have no problems for 200,000 km and beyond, or they're lemons right off the lot
To the inexperience shooter watching you think "not that bad only a couple logs down" trust me if you cant hear anything in between shots of a fully automatic weapon its devastating/ horrifying. Especially if you take into consideration the size of the round the mg42 was firing. I believe they should of got larger logs to really show the awesome destruction this weapon can issue.
Just one aspect of how one country was able to hold off the rest of the world for 6 years.
More than one Country , My dad was In the RCN and served on a Wooden hulled Converted fishing boat The Government confiscated from The Japanese fishing fleet in BC ..which they patrolled the Pacific coast line ...He told me when the Italians were fighting with the Germans they would send the Italians in first on the front lines ....
They could ve won despite the near endless resources and manpower of the allies if it wasn't for blunders that Hitler made they were dabbling in nuclear tech, had rockets and jet planes later but threw it all away for useless giant ass canons and let half their army freeze in snow for nothing
Друг and declaring war on us
@@pratik1568 Yeah, German tech was out of this world during WOII. They had the first cruisemissile (V1), the first ballistic missiles (V2), the first guided bomb (Fritz X), the first SAM (Nebelwerfer), the first air-to-air missiles (R4M and BR21), and even nearly fielded the first guided air-to-air missiles (Ruhrstahl X-4) they discovered nerve gas, they were on the forefront of nuclear physics, they had the first jet-powered airplane (Heinkel He 178), the first jetfighter (ME262), the first jetbomber (Arado 234), and the first jet-powered stealth attack plane (Horton Ho 229). They also pioneered submarine technology, and by the end of the war they had stealth submarines with rubber coated hulls against sonar and low RCS periscopes and snorkels against radar.
But as mentioned, Hitler was a egomaniac who felt untouchable halfway during the war. If he would have been more realistic and cautious he wouldn't have started a war against the USSR, with who'm they had a non-agression treaty. During the battle of Britain they had the british in such as strong chokehold that the British were eventually only weeks from starvation, that's how much of the merchant shipping bringing in goods from North America was sunk.
DeutschwehR yeah really it was when Hitler pissed off the west by invading Poland. If he had just left it alone, he wouldn’t have had the allies against him. Same goes for Russia, but that was his biggest mistake, especially during such a cold winter. Napoleon, Hitler. Seems history likes to repeat itself.
This gun chopped down soldiers like ants.
Ripped vehicles like a coke can.
+ledari Actually not. Once they started firing everyone hit the ground and found cover which would stop an advance and it was fired in burst fire. It could put a lot of rounds into a compressed area allowing for a better possibility of a hit on individual targets but infantry tactics precluded troops from bunching up. It was a tool but not a super weapon. There were no super weapons. The German problem was that they generally were in defensive positions and once a MG was located, mortar fire or artillery could take it out or force it to withdraw and if that didn't work then tanks or tank destroyers would root them out. Accurate semi auto fire from M1 Garands and full auto fire from BAR's also helped keep it from causing too many casualties. The Allies, especially the Americans, became masters of combining arms. A weapon is only as good as the weapons supporting it. The US modified/copied it and it served well, no question a great design for new tactics but it was never a decisive weapon in any conflict.
+hoodoo2001 Well,its still used in the german bundeswehr with small chances
American MG's are pretty much all variants of the original German design. M60, etc.
ants what you talking about ? it killed brave men who were fighting for freedom . never forget
As a gamer and someone who is very interested in WWII I feel embarrassed for those guys who pretend they are gun experts after playing a few games and reading wikipedia.
not everything on wikipedia is wrong.
Like you? Kidding, haha :) If I wanna learn about these weapons, I'd rather crack open a book
Danox94 Er, you DO have to read up on basically any discipline to become good at it.
My love for WW2 games and modern war history got me to buy a book named'Weapons Of WW2'.
Covers everything from light SMGs to Heavy Tanks to devastating Special Weapons.
Danox94 So... you? I've shot this gun in real life and have read a lot, that doesn't make me an expert.
My dad was a WW2 medic. He talked about being under fire by German machine guns. The American response was well aimed artillery, and plenty of it.
MG42 - best MG of WWII
StG44 - best firearm of WWII
Mauser K98k - best rifle of WWII
ME262 - first jetplane of WWII
ME109 - plane with most victories of WWII
Pz.Kpfw.V Panther - best tank of WWII
Pz.Kpfw.VI Tiger - most feared tank of WWII
V2 - hello, London.
Go home, allies.
But sheer numbers won the battle.
Walther P-38 - The 1st Modern Firearm
No nukes tho
Germany back in the day = way ahead of everyone else.
+Elite Trader Hell, you're excluding the G11. Guess 1960 is still back in the day.
Germany today = way ahead of everyone else.
LOL, if you disregard that the Krauts were just getting their teeth kicked in by the Russians (Stalingrad, Kursk) back in 1943, yeah, they were on the brink of winning the war - NOT! :-)
RevoMation! Truth
Germany still leading.
And you had to run up an open, mine filled, trap filled beach with potentially *dozens* of these things pointing at you.
+Benjamin Fuller (Dallenson) Armed by old men and fresh recruits, It still took around twelve thousand lives to get up the beach :P Real scary when you think about it.
+Benjamin Fuller (Dallenson) Armed by old men and fresh recruits, It still took around twelve thousand lives to get up the beach :P Real scary when you think about it.
+Benjamin Fuller (Dallenson) Armed by old men and fresh recruits, It still took around twelve thousand lives to get up the beach :P Real scary when you think about it.
+Jim Anderson 4414 confirmed dead. Over 10,000 total casualties including wounded and MIA
I was at a ww2 reenactment a couple of weeks ago sitting behind a blank firing mg 42 in between 'battles' while people were walking around and looking at all the weapons and equipment. As I was sitting in the warm sun proudly showing off the weapon an older guy walked over to my machine gun nest and stood afront the gun staring at it with a look of what I can only describe as utter discontent and quite simply hatred. I asked him if he'd like to have a closer look at the gun and cycle the bolt etc. Almost ammedeately he quite calmly declined the offer and said quite simply "I would never sit that side of the gun, i hate that gun". He took me by surprise by saying this and I naturally jumped up to defend the gun stating the obvious points (e.g. rate of fire etc) to prove how successful the gun was as a weapon. I proceeded to ask him why he disliked the gun, to which he simply replied 'because this gun took my friends'. It became apparent to me at this point that the guy was a veteran and I instantly felt a deep regret for defending the gun. After later inquiry I found out that the elderly gentleman had served in the 3rd infantry Division and landed at sword beach on D day, sadly his friends never made it too Bremen and beyond due to German machine gun fire.
It opened my eyes to the reality of reenacting in the sense that everything we do happened and as interesting as statistics can be the human element must never be forgotten.
If you got a trained gunner team, you can significantly cut down the time needed for the barrel change. Plus, while the manual mentions about 150 rounds, many gunners in the field will keep it going until the barrel's glowing red, if the battle dynamic demands it. Last but not least, the barrel heating up sometimes causes the rounds to ignite without being hit by the striker, speeding up the cycling process and increasing the firing rate to up to 2000rpm, meaning that an MG42 lost precision but spit out more lead in sustained fire.
However they wouldn't overshoot too much unless needed too, unless it was an entire soldiers charge then they'd rain extreme hell with one barrel and that it really sucked for the allies considering the bunkers had two MG 42s each. One machine gunner will fire upon the boats and beach while the second can be firing at any American soldiers coming close and they can exchange positions too making a cycle of nonstop machine gun fire. Kind of like an first and second layer of fire even if you got past the first machine guns fire the second machine will be on you already. Even worse the mortar and artillery bombardment on the beach.
Unless the heat caused it to fire out of battery which destroys the weapon. You just pulled that remark out of your ass didn't you ? A round must be seated in the chamber to fire less bad things happen.
Rest in peace Gunny
when it gets hot it gets up to 1500 rpm
also effective range is 1200 meters or around 1300 yards.
I'm german and I have shot that thing. It's awesome.
Best machine gun in the world!
Sure! Made in Germany! Handarbeit aus Deutschland! ;)
with a gun carriage you could effectivly shoot at stuff up to 3000-3500 meters. maximum range goes up to 4000 meters.
Awesome weapon! I absolutely adored firing this thing (a modified version). No wonder the modified versions are still being used today.
Omg it's the Full Metal Jacket guy
Norwegian armed forces still use this. I have fired this several times, an awesome weapon. The version used is MG 43. Not much have changed from the original MG 42.
There was one american show ( weapons that changed the world ) and they said that mg 42 needs atleast 5 supporting person. SUCH A LIE AND BULLSHIT! If tank could be operated by 4 people how the hell in world machine gun needs 6?
Thats how it was supposed to be, Gun commander, A soldier that carried the gun, a soldier that carried the tripod, and 3 other guys to carry tools, barrels, ammuniton. In reality the germans had a team of three: Gunner, Loader, and Spotter. You have to remember that the germans didnt use mgs as supporting weapons as the allies did, they used it as an very important primary.
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Yea but its utter shit that it needs 6 people.
Even 2 people are enough for MG 42.
Certainly not disagreeing with you but, that much ammo is heavy! Need some people to help you carry it!
Yea M60 needs 6 people too then.
Toni112007 M 60 doesnt shoot at 1200-1800 rpm ;) and like i said, it was supposed to have 6 men, but in the field 3 man operated it.
I've fired this thing with live rounds. It's unbelievable. You know a design is good when it remains in service for 80 years and counting.
Oh god, using a machine gun without any kind of gloves is giving me nightmares. Even with the FN-MAG and its handle to allow an ungloved barrel change I still saw people get second degree burns accidentally touching the barrel with their hand.
CoD 2 flashbacks man. Whenever I heard someone yell MG 42, I instantly chucked a grenade toward the direction of that sound.
Im playing through cod 2 rn this couldn't be more true XD
The two really clever part of this weapon system are the quickly exchangable barrel to prevent overheating and the tripod - that can be adjusted so that the gun only moves horizontally and not up and down. You press the triger and just move from left to right or adjust it carefully on to a target and fire a burst. However, the Danish designed tripod from DISA is a lot more flexible - the gun can be positioned closer to the ground and still be fired from the tripod.
Yes, but the gunner had to literally dig his boots in when in a prone position and need to have the strength in his shoulders to still keep the gun from dancing. The MG42 is a fuckin beast.
02:36 Seven seconds to attack (barrel change time). Problem: The shooter is covered. Nobody knows whether he is changing his barrel or aiming for a new target. Therefore hardly feasible.
Was a machine gunner himself (MG3 / Bundeswehr). I know what I'm talking about.
And by the way, it really only takes seconds. Only save the weapon and the barrel can be changed. The belt can remain in the weapon during this time.
Akimbo MG42 woo
we will see that in the next Modern Warfare. fo sho.
Huehehehe
This program was amazing. The character that presents it is geniously chosen.
Probably one of the scariest sounds of WW2 next to the Tiger tank and Stuka dive bombers.
"Stalin's Organ '. The most terrifying sound of World War 2... The Katyusha rockets
Truely terrifying weapon.. the psychological effect seems like hell in itself, just to name others with similar effects were most likely v1 rockets and stuka dive bombers. It must have been hell encountering these new wonder weapons.
and all the experts chime in!! love it. you tube is full of history majors and engineers!!lol
Gunny was one of a kind. He is missed.
So if the enemy only attacked while the MG42's barrel was being changed, why not set up two at the same time? One hoses down soldiers, and when its barrel needs changed, the other one starts firing, and they just alternate back and fourth every time.
They did, kind of, however the MG42 was usually set up on a mount for a specific fire line, and the MG42 nests overlapped to be able to partially cover each other. Overall this was much more efficient than to waste two MG42s to cover the same area. You only have so much resources and there is always a gap somewhere. The MG42 needs to reload too. Also the 5-7 seconds is for a tired soldier that didn't have his morning coffee, so the chances of getting through a line during the barrel change is pretty slim anyways, as there are other people shooting too.
@@PlasmaHH they also had mortar squads then as they do now as well as handheld communications. I'm sure a call to an observer who's running a M2 Mortar would take care of an MG42 nest
That is what they did.
@@PlasmaHH More like morning methamphetamine, I bet that barrel change was QUICK!
That is why the German soldiers at that time were trained to fire in short bursts unless they are given orders to suppress the enemy. I was taught the same as an infantryman manning an LMG during conscripted days.
everytime I got home back from school my pop would always watch this show as soon as he got back home and I would find him watching until the episode ended or at least until another show came on - i guess that's why i grew so much on ermey
Imagine a bunch of MG-42's vs. a rampaging invading foreign migrant horde... Sweet
first came to mind xD
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Well this time it would probably work out good
It did lol. D-day...and they lost.
Corpse Of George Soros racists
'migrant' is not a race.
Devastating thing. I cannot imagine the fear that the mere sound of it created.
That barrel change mechanism is superb. You really dont get much time...and when used in short bursts your entire platoon is in serious trouble.
I imagine they covered the barrel change with withering fire as well. Terrifying.
I love it how he says "oorah" while using a nazi germany gun xD
It's a NSDAP machine gun. Nazi's only existed in Hollywood.
@@TucsonDude what? Nazi is short fo NSDAP
@@Hannibalkakihara No it's not. It was a slur created by a jewish journalist Konrad Heiden. No Germans ever called themselves Nazi's. Just like no Brits refer to themselves as Limeys.
@@Hannibalkakihara NAZI is the short form of: Nationalsozialismus
@@TucsonDude nobody gives a flying fuck what the nazis called themselves, they were nazis
I'll never forget my grandfathers horror stories about this gun. He said it frightened him more than anything on earth.
Best machine gun ever made ?
No,the PKM and PK machine gun family are better(in my opinion) since they are more reliable and you don't have to change the barrel as often.
sherif elsharkawy But are they as fun as the MG 34/42/3?
Catalin Marin The Barrel does take longer to change and the rate of fire isn't as fast but the 7.62x39 does have better penetration than the 7.92 Gewher round, the PK family isn't exactly fun,it's an economy weapon like the AK family, cheap to produce,sell and easy to operate,with a cheap round,so if I was the head of the military I would buy the PKP or PKM over the MG42/3 but as a private owner I would buy the MG-42 since as you said,is fun to use and that's true.
sherif elsharkawy correct me if i am wrong but isnt it 7.62x51 NATO round it uses? and not the soviet version?
josryg No,the Yugosliavian Version(Zastava M84) uses the 7.62 NATO,but the PK machine gun family uses the 7.62x54 mmR(I was wrong about the 7.62x39) which is the standard Soviet Machine Gun round along with the 12.7x80 round.
lol, the whippershnapper is like a WWII buff, the old guy is like, "I have visions of this thing chopping down trees." LOL
US army created propaganda videos in which they were telling their soldiers MG-42 is crap, its bad, its...bla bla. I saw some of this US propaganda vids on youtube.
PAT123717
Propaganda...
Josh Phillips
From ww2 documentary, US documentary. Before US soldiers named it buzzsaw and before US entered ww2 US army was showing propaganda movies to its soldiers claiming Sherman is as good as any other german tank, german machine guns are slow and bad...etc.
And yes USA had propaganda machine and used it without mercy.
Their propaganda was so good you are still under its influence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_during_World_War_II
Josh Phillips
US propaganda said sherman was better tank one on one! It also claimed MG42 is bad and slow!
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This is 1945 movie, there is earlier, 1944 version.
But even this 1945 version is propaganda. German MGs are depicted as: they bar but don't bite which was nonsense. Both MGs were very precise in fact.
PAT123717
What is pure truth?
150 rounds equate to 7 1/2 seconds of sustained fire before a barrel needs to be changed out.
That makes it critical to do small, short bursts, and even then, a barrel swap every 60 seconds isn't unheard of.
R. Lee Ermey was actually a badass Marine that is actually looked up to with respect. And rest in peace as well, Semper Fi. He played in one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants in Inmates of Summer. 🪖 🏅 🥇👍
Finally when somebody makes a video with an MG42 and they say full auto, they don’t pussy out and only do burst fire. Sgt. Gunnery was a legend
Is that the gunny from Full Metal Jacket?
Yeah
Funny thing is, he wasn´t a gunnery seargent when he made that movie...he got promoted post-service for his portraial tho, so now he actually IS a gunny XD
MG42. My favorite gun in video games and in real life
I think this wasn't meant to kill people, but something like a big U.F.O.
A real beast,but the scary thing is that the Germans had another MG with the same high rate of fire.The Mauser MG81 with a rate of fire up to 1600 rounds per minute.
I'm inclined to think that this gun may have killed more people in WW2 than any other gun?
probably but the 98k an MP40 got a head start killing people so ya never know
Red Army soldiers.
The Maxim was worse.It was the first MG used in WW1 and sold to everyone who wanted it.It was a far more deadly(not superior) from what i understand it.
Purify Well, she is saying WWII, and the Maxim, while used during WWII, was usually given to second-class reserve units and other less important infantry. It still probably caused many deaths, but it was absolutely nowhere near as effective as it was during World War I, due to WWII being a mobile battlefield, and the Maxim being a medium/heavy machine gun, used for static positions rather than on the move.
Yeah, it's between this, the K98 and the MP40.
I love the barrel change method, its like changing a magazine
Years ago when I was a younger US Army combat MP, I was a M60 machine gunner. The M60 was in my experience a piece of junk. I have seen the MG 42 and the NATO equivalent which seems to be a better MG then the M 60.
The M60 was sweet, when it was firing. Lot of barrel burnout (remember the oven mitt to change hot barrels?) and feed failures. That's why they replaced it with the FN M240 starting back in the 70's. Little slower ROF, but much more reliable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M240_machine_gun
In practice, the rate of fire depends on the weight of the bolt installed. The present-day issue German MG3 has been slowed to 700-900 rpm due to the heavier bolt. Put in a lighter weight bolt and this thing can run at 1600 rpm.
German is awesome,so as MG 42~
@creambeam No. The MG42 is recoil operated, gas assisted. The booster at the muzzle redirects gas to increase the reliability of the system, this does not happen until the bullet has left the barrel, so to answer your question...no.
I dont know what youre hunting but if its not a fucking tank,SAYONARA BABY!
+Vena Retro No way this could penetrate a tank.
Zachary Richardson Thats what i said.
No it's not. You said "I don't know what you're hunting, but if it's not a fucking tank, sayonara baby" implying that the mg42 is only capable of taking out a tank which is the opposite of the truth
Zachary Richardson
No,i implyied that the gun can take anything that is not a tank.
Mafia 2. Harry's shop
Love watching these videos with gunny in them. That guy is a pure legend.
good gun. only problem is that it shot too dang much. they would need eight extra men to carry all the ammo
That and its not a very accurate weapon. The spread is too large that you can't effectively fire at a single target. Its still a very effective area denial weapon.
That's a myth right out of the GI training manual...
tubedude54 Theres reports of GI's laying in a trench for 45 minuets taking fire every few minuets before being able to slip away.
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Yep...and there are like 116,000 American soldiers lying in graves all over Europe! Have no clue how many died at the business end of the mg34 or 42 but I imagine it was a lot! The gun was accurate for it's intended purpose. It wasn't a sniper weapon. At 20rps for the mg42 if just 10% hit you from a 3 second burst you would have 6 very large holes in you! Extremely 'bad' shooting but you're also extremely DEAD!
true.
this beast`s hunger on rounds is hard to satisfy.
thats why you often see german troops with extra belts hanging around their neck on ww2 photos, they just gave a belt to every member of the platoon, to still the hunger of the mg.
and that also was the reason, why they would lower the rate of fire on the post-ww2 versions of this gun.
like the german mg3 or the austrian mg74. have approximately half the rpm.
The Germans still use it. It's re-chambered for 7.62 NATO, the cyclic rate is reduced, and it's called the MG3, but any of the guys from the Heer 75 years ago would know how to use and clean it.
PTSD as a gun!
Still miss that magnificent bastard... miss my Mail time with Ermey.
deutschland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can have all the "best" weapons or vehicles, but it's the person that's operating it that truly puts it to the test.
Is that Sergeant Hartman?
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman you maggot, but yes :D.
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Sir no Sir.
Tstewa4869
Sir, six feet sir.
***** I didn't know they stacked shit that high!
***** I love that movie XD
They didn't change the MG42 for the German Army until today, they only change the name to MG3 and change the cartridge. The whole process and system is basically the same.
Belt feed was changed, and manufacturing as well
I think the Bundeswehr planned to replace MG3 with MG5 in near future. But it's inpressive that the gun was still used almost for 80 years now
MG 42 11 kg Deutscher Stahl :D
The fact the man/company that created this thing and they were complete novices in gunsmithing is completely crazy.
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Ahh i always use this guns signature model "Buzzsaw"
The Americans actually tried copying this weapon, it was chambered in 30-06 and designated the T24. Although they scrapped the project because the weapon had durability faults because it couldn't handle the stress created by 30-06 rounds.
...take a look at r.lee ermey's stance and body language....fruity with a hint of mint....and, he was in the marine corps
Could be why he got into acting.
That's R.Lee Ermey, (Full Metal Jacket). 2 years later he was in another great war🪖 flick, The Siege of Firebase Gloria. Semper Fi, God Bless America & carry on.
These need to be installed on every 20 feet of Trump's wall
#MakeAmericaGreatAgain
RIP gunny you will be missed.
loved to see the Gunny getting some trigger time. Get Some!
Ironically the MG42 was cheaper and easier to produce than the MG34 while being more effective. German efficiency at its finest ;-) But the MG42 did have a problem: Its rapid rate of fire meant that the crew would need a lot of ammo to keep it running. Ammo which would mean more weight. To combat this the Germans centered their squad tactics around the machine gun, advancing when it fired and so on. Individual soldiers would often also carry additional ammo for the MG42 and most were trained to use it.
Actually the Mg42 is 1500 Rounds per Minute
the 1200 Rounds per Minute version is an Nato Standart Ammo using version the Bundeswehr used for quite a long time.
Also the Barrel ONLY needs to be changed if you do 150 Rounds Sustained Fire like he does in the Video.
Usually you would fire in Bursts which would greatly increase the number of Rouns you can Fire before changing the Barrel.
Also 150 Rounds Sustained Fire is only the amount of recommended Bullets before changing the Barrel since then it could cool out and be used again without having any deformations.
In Reality especially in Combat most German Soldiers used the same Barrel far longer.
This of course damaged the barrel it could not be used anymore ever again.
But since German Soldiers werent stupid they knew the Allies would attack if they changed the Barrel so they used it as an trap quite frequently.
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The mg 42 is still Superior to most modern machine guns today
When the 42 is heard you go to the dirt and pray it doesn't hit you, that's a fucking machinegun.
150 rounds is only for sustained fire and it's purely a recommendation, you can fire the gun for more than 150 rounds. In 5-7 round bursts at a controlled rate, it can use up a box of ammo (Typically 250 rounds) before it requires a barrel change. Troops would change the barrel after they used up one ammo box, when firing at a controlled rate. German gunners were usually very disciplined and would not often fire at the kind of rate shown in this video.
Seeing all these comments from 7 years ago.. then from 12 years ago.. Gunny was a young man, RIP
We miss you, Gunny. RIP, Sir...
@happosai27 The key is to change the barrel before it overheats, that's why in the manual they stated that you shouldn't fire more than 250 rounds in a single burst. The reason being that after 250 rounds the rifling would start to wear out really fast, if you change it before it gets too hot, you can re-use it after it's cooled.
Actually, firing in 3-round bursts enables machinegunners to hide their position more effectively, as they sound closer to the sound signature of the assault rifles they are supporting..
Started in Vietnam...
I remember ramboing this gun in DoD. Was so good with it people were calling me a cheater, but all the regulars on the server knew better because they were around when I was always practicing getting it down to a science.
MG42- 150 rounds of continuous fire before requiring a barrel change. John Browning fired his prototype for the M1917 .30cal for 48min 12sec without a stoppage, that's approximately 40,000 rounds. The MG42 was a great weapon, no doubt about it, but the best??? That's arguable.
the mg42 is still in use today.
you SHOULD change the barrel ever 100 rounds of training ammo ( blanks), or 150 rounds of life ammo
but
you can use the same barrel for upwards of 1000 rounds if necessary in combat.
Don't let this film fool you, if you are on the wrong side of an mg42, and if you are visible, you are as good as dead.
Norwegian army still uses this and I can tell you it is a fantastic gun, miss it so much!
+Duder McBroBlaster German army as well, although in a modified version, the MG3.
+Talon3000 Yeah totally forgot, of course using the MG3 in Norway aswell haha
The funny thing is, we didn't hire a rifle company, but a mass production steel factory, they took the best parts of different guns, put some own things to it and put it all together, it was cheap, simple, effective and deadly
Mater really did a good job explaining about the gun
Crazy how ahead of the times this mg was. Would not wanna be assaulting any mg42 emplacements
*Sigh* We miss you Gunny