Universal-Maschinengewehr Modell 42

Originally called the MG 39/41, developed by dr. Grunowem at the firm Grossfuss-Werke. The reason for this was its design was the simplification and cheapening of production against the MG 34. The army listed in 1942, was made of 750 000 units by the year 1945..

a little close up......

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easy replacement of the barrel.

MG 42:.

The end of the war prepared version of the MG 45-it was a simplified version of the MG 42,which differed only in the lock screen the conclusion that it was roller(they have, for example, all weapons Heckler & Koch) weight,which was only 9kg on the difference from the MG42 which weighed 11kg(with bipod)and rate of fire,which reached almost incredible 1800 shots in a minute!The weapon was tested from June 1944 and the trials are on the whole proven its production wasn't-thanks to the sequence of events started and it was made probably only 10kusů..

Exponát Canadian War museum
Foto Wozi via Dolin

The MG42 in the collections of the military historical museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden..

Here are some pictures of the MG 42 on the anti-aircraft was coming to. The use of anti-aircraft carriage against infantry it is widely documented dobovýma fotkama..

Zdroj :
Michailov L.E., Konstrukcii strelkovogo avtomatičeskogo oružija, 1983

na akci cihelna 2011

Baugnez 44 Historical Center, own photo, 2016

And here's a bit of MG 42 history:


The machine gun saw the light of day in 1885. It was introduced at various exhibitions by the American Hiram Maxim. But its first use had to wait for the British Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener.


The MG 42 became a heavy trench machine gun, but it would not be enough for everything, so there was a need for a machine gun that was "lighter".
And so lighter machine guns were created, with lighter barrels, rifle-like stocks, even pistol-like stocks.
Light machine guns were carried along with the infantry and were used almost like normal weapons. Of course, what the human brain hasn't invented. Eventually, light machine guns also became machine guns for aircraft and vice versa and anti-aircraft guns.
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In 1940 Mauser wanted to and did create a simpler successor to the MG 34 and MG 42, which incorporated the best features from the MG 34 and the MP 40 submachine gun.
- The MG 42 had a replaceable barrel if the original one overheated.
- The MG 42 was the best machine gun of World War II.
- The MG 42 could fire up to 1,500 rounds per minute.
- The MG 42 was also called the "Spandau"
- The MG 42 is still in service with the German army today under a different name, the MG 3.
- The MG 42 was in almost every possible theatre of war, from Poland to Russia, and from infantry to tanks.


So I hope that these brief extracts that I acquired a few years ago are sufficient.

to Eugen Roe while moderating this forum I came to your post I must admit that tears came to my eyes (laughing) what you wrote is partly nonsense, partly has nothing to do with MG-42.
The origin of the machine gun you described is interesting, but it doesn't belong in this topic, but I guess that wouldn't matter so much. Now I would like to point out a few nonsense you wrote here is the first one: the MG 42 became a heavy trench machine gun, but it would not be enough for everything, so there was a need to create a machine gun that would be "lighter".
And that's why lighter machine guns were made, with lighter barrels, with rifle-like stocks, even with pistol-like stocks. So for your information the MG-42 is NOT a heavy machine gun it is one of the first universal machine guns and was commonly used as a light machine gun (it became heavy when mounted on a "heavy stock". What a trench machine gun is I don't know I guess your special term, if you mean a machine gun primarily for use in a stable position then it is not an MG-42.
Second : Light machine guns were carried along with infantry and were used almost as normal weapons. Of course, what the human brain hasn't invented. Eventually, light machine guns also became machine guns on aircraft and vice versa and anti-aircraft weapons. The light machine gun IS a normal infantry weapon and is used as such, your digression between aerial and anti-aircraft weapons (especially with the piquant remark about the human brain) doesn't really fit here.
Third : In 1940, Mauser wanted to and did create a simpler successor to the MG 34 and MG 42 that incorporated the best features from the MG 34 and MP 40 submachine gun. Could you tell us what it was that mauser actually created as a successor to the MG34 and MG42 with the features of the MP40? I would be quite interested in that type.
Fourthly, you wrote a (in my opinion rather confused) list of features : - The MG 42 had a replaceable barrel if the original one overheated.
- The MG 42 was the best machine gun of WW2.
- The MG 42 could fire up to 1500 rounds per minute.
- The MG 42 was also called the "Spandau"
- The MG 42 is still in service with the German army today under a different name, the MG 3.
- The MG 42 was in almost every possible theatre of war, from Poland to Russia, and from infantry to tanks.


The barrel can be changed on most air-cooled machine guns (although it doesn't overheat - it changes just to keep it from overheating)
The claim that the MMG42 was the best WWII machine gun is questionable to say the least (other guns aspire to this as well.
The cadence of the Mg 42 is up to 1500 rounds per minute but this is a theory, in reality the cadence is much lower, (by the way you can't fire 1500 rounds because you have to change the barrel.
Spandau was the name of German machine guns in general (even in WWI) , commonly called both MG34 and MG42.
The MG-3 is based on the MG 42, but it's quite modified, as is the American M-60 based on the MG 42.
The MG 42 was used on the battlefield in Europe, and although it couldn't completely displace the MG34, your last statement can be accepted with some exaggeration.
Fifth : So I hope these brief extracts I acquired a few years ago suffice. Well enough for me anyway, if your extracts are all of a similar quality I would know what to use them for, I was originally going to delete your "beneficial" post but then I thought it would be better to leave it as an example of how not to look. Try to post only what you have verified and not similar "shouts in the dark" extra style like you want to sell toothpaste.

Also referred to as the MG42V, the high cadence was achieved by the so-called light bolt also used in the MG42. The bolts are seemingly the same, the locking is the same (roller), the only difference is the weight.


The Allies nicknamed the MG42 "Paperipper" - the sound of the shot sounded like tearing paper.


On Omaha Beach during D-Day, Hans Severloh fired 15,000 rounds from a single MG42 with one spare barrel, killing 2,000 American soldiers and wounding 2,500 more. It was not known until the 80"'s who the Beast of Omaha Beach was and that he was even in American captivity.


After the war, the MG42 was re-badged to .308 Winchester (7.62x51 NATO) and incorporated into the armament of the fledgling Bundeswehr as the MG3. However, the original MG42 was produced under license in Yugoslavia as the M53, the last time it was used in the Yugoslav Civil War.

This is an oft-repeated myth, but unfortunately only a myth. In comparison with the fact, especially the fact that the Omaha beach is more than five kilometres in length, there were a number of other machine-gun and artillery positions on it, and taking into account the number of rounds fired, the average number of rounds per soldier engaged would have been about 4 (sources differ and give 12,000 rather than the 15,000 rounds he had), which is of course virtually impossible given the firing cadence and the aforementioned proportions of the plaza and the landing process. If this were the case, this single German soldier would have accounted for almost all of the American casualties on Omaha Beach that day, which can easily be doubted. No one is saying that he did not inflict heavy casualties with his machine gun, but it is certainly doubtful that the casualties amounted to 4500 soldiers of the United States Army.


For the record, this soldier was at the fortified point WN62 on the almost easternmost high point of Omaha beach, below where the US military cemetery is now at Colleville-sur-Mer, i.e., he was targeting the US sector of Fox Green and shooting up the beach towards Easy Red, see map


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www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org


plus of course information on


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach

Great pics, I never saw a war MG disassembled, only when the guys in Macedonia destroyed it, but looking at the pics, the internals don't differ much from the current one, you can see that if something works, why change it... I don't know if the Mk 48 or M60E4(Mk 43) have similar internals to the MG 3