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The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II.
The Maschinenkarabiner 42(W) (German: "machine carbine model 1942 (Walther)" ) or MKb 42(W) was an early German assault rifle designed in 1940-41 by Walther during World War II. The Mkb 42(W), and the more successful Maschinenkarabiner 42(H) designed by Haenel, were predecessors of the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44) assault rifle.
The Maschinenkarabiner 42(H) or MKb 42(H) (machine carbine Model 1942 (Haenel)) was an early German assault rifle firing an intermediate round of World War II. Designed in 1940 – 1941 by Hugo Schmeisser working for C. G. Haenel Waffen und Fahrradfabrik, several thousand were made and the gun was used on the Eastern Front in 1943.
A further development of the MG 1A1 was the MG 1A2 (known also as the MG 42/59), which had a heavier bolt (950 g (33.51 oz) for a slower 700–900 rounds per minute cyclic rate of fire, compared to 550 g (19.40 oz)), and a new friction ring buffer made suitable for using the heavier bolt.
Maschinengewehr 34: Mauser-Werke various others 7.92×57mm Mauser: Wehrmacht Kriegsmarine Luftwaffe Waffen-SS: Adapted from MG30 and adopted as standard machine gun in 1934. Issued to German troops starting in 1935. Maschinengewehr 42: Mauser-Werke Steyr-Daimler-Puch Gustloff Werke: 7.92×57mm Mauser: Wehrmacht Luftwaffe Waffen-SS: Successor to ...
Maschinengewehr is German for "machine gun" (literally, "machine rifle"). The standard naming system for German machine guns was a prefix of "Maschinengewehr" (abbreviated as MG ) and a two-number suffix giving the year in which the gun was designed.
The MG 34 was the mainstay of German Army support weapons [16] from the time of its first pre large scale production issue in 1935 until 1942, when it was supplanted by the next Einheitsmaschinengewehr generation Maschinengewehr 42 or MG 42. Although the MG 34 was reliable when competently maintained, it was sensitive to extreme weather ...
1 x 7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70: 2 × 7.92 mm Maschinengewehr 34: 1943 6000 44.8 Beobachtungspanzer Panther – artillery observer Medium Tank Nazi Germany: MAN AG, Daimler, MNH 1 x 7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70: 2 × 7.92 mm Maschinengewehr 34: 1943 44.8 Used for forward artillery observation Tiger I: Heavy Tank Nazi Germany: Henschel: 1× 8.8 cm KwK 36 L/56