>rifle cartridge. >select fire. >AR weight. >detachable box magazines

>rifle cartridge
>select fire
>AR weight
>detachable box magazines
what makes it an automatic rifle and not a battle rifle?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it was issued to an autorifleman that's pretty much it. think of it like an M249 loaded with a STANAG

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How come everyone didn't just copy this thing for the BR era and we got garbage like the M14, FAL, G3 instead?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because thing is better on paper than in practice. It's heavier than FAL, has shorter barrel than FAL and M14, it is a new technology compared to M14 (which is basically.308-adjusted Garand) and G3 (upgraded StG45). I bet it also shoots worse groups than G3 marksman version.
      Also what is M60

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >. I bet it also shoots worse groups than G3 marksman version.
        Soviets tested FG42 it shoot much better groups then sniper Mosins.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Sniper mosins vary wildly in quality and accuracy, so thats not really a surprise.
          Sniper rifles, or service rifles selected for sniper conversions, of the era just had to make groups less than 4 moa generally.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >it is a new technology compared to M14 (which is basically.308-adjusted Garand)
        The core mechanism is a Lewis gun, which predates the Garand by decades
        >and G3 (upgraded StG45)
        The hint is in the names, anon. 1942 was in fact earlier than 1945

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Come now anon, just because it shares some design characteristics with a gun designed 40 years earlier doesnt mean the FG 42 wasnt more technologically more advanced than the m14.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >source: trust me bro
        people who actually used it or reproductions say otherwise, but why do they know?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Wrong classification.
      It's paratroopers machine gun. You can't arm infantry with paratroopers machine gun. You need an infantry rifle. And this is not an infantry rifle.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      in order to fit the gun into the nazi weight requirements, the fg42 inventor created a gun that is just barely safe and held together with paperclips and chewing gum

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's just a sideways bren gun

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it's a completely different gun, the bren is more than twice as heavy

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Nono.. if you look at the magazine clearly other anon is correct

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The report of the fg42 makes me very nostalgiac for day of defeat.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know man, shit, can you just enjoy something and stop asking questions?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      no

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty much because it wasn't developed or deployed as a standard issue rifle. Part of what defines a piece of equipment is how it's deployed.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The more you get into the weeds of militaria anon, the more you'll realize there's no exact science to classifying platforms. Its simply up to the country that's using it and for what doctrine.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Battle Rifle moniker is a made up term by the civilian market, functionally an automatic rifle and a battle rifle are the same, what they were for doctrinely isnt.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Weren't things like the M14 and FAL just called select fire rifles until carbines like the M16 started showing up?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Basically?
        The terms were all sort of amorphous, we would refer to an m16 as a rifle where someone coming from an m14 would probably call it a carbine.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    As for weight what weight is quoted?
    https://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt09/fg42-paratrooper-rifle.html
    Type I is 9lbs without magazine. With bayonet and bipod.

    G3A3 is 9lbs without magazine, without bayonet and bipod and firng weak and short .308.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >weak and short .308
      this fricking board lol, you aren't all running around with .338LM semi autos

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >not carrying .50 BMG LMG
        I doubt you can carry 20 mm HMG.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >20mm mmg
          ftfy

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >weak and short .308.
      It does it's job against human targets, has less recoil, does less stress on barrel and other mechanisms and weights less so you can carry more.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Point is if you remake FG42 (nit just rechamber) to use shorter round rifle would have shorter reciver and lighter weight.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Checked records. During Soviet trials FG42 shot 2.6 MOA groups. Ammo not stated bit most probably just ball round.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Might be.
      When Soviets compared their army Mosin, Finnish M39 and experimental Dragunov-modifies Mosin, they used "Lion" rounds (most likely Finnish Lapua).

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i want to FRICK that rifle

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >and not a battle rifle
    it never won a battle

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      fallschirmjagers equipped with the gun participated in multiple victories

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