MG42V, MG45 and SIG-710? [Request for info+pics]

[muede]

German
MG42V
MG45

Swiss
SIG-710

(these all are supposedly more or less the same?)

Any info and pics you got would be most welcome, thank you! :)

[Zentrum Jagdkampf]

No, the MG45 is not the same.It was build out of some parts of the MG 42.

[muede]

No, the MG45 is not the same.It was build out of some parts of the MG 42.

Yeah, they all are variants of the MG42 (basic) that i know, and on SIG-710 have seen..

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=53747

There, but what i was looking was that if somebody here had those actual pictures / additional info.

IE on book: MG34 - MG42 German Universal Machineguns by Folke Myrvang there is on page 203 pic of MG45 and on page 200 a pic of MG42V.. So if anybody owns the book and a scanner.. ;)

[Zentrum Jagdkampf]

I thought the MG 45 was built after WW2.

[muede]

No, those would be MG1, MG2 and MG3.. which at least the MG3 is still in use. ;)

These were (MG42V and MG45) late war projects based on MG42 for less use of "strategic materials" and fewer work hours.. also they had elevated ROF.. ~1800rpm... (at least another had)..

So does anybody have anything about these?

[REMOV]

Finally I found it - MG45 ;)

http://www.militech.sownet.pl/inne/_MG45_02.jpg
http://www.militech.sownet.pl/inne/_MG45_01.jpg
7.92mm MG45 GPMG

[conscript]

Wow something new, didn't know this kind of version of MG :oops: Was it in use in some action if it was built in wartime or just sample?

[REMOV]

Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG42)

In 1944 the acute material shortages of the Third Reich led to a newer version, the MG45 (or MG42V), which used steel of lesser quality, reduced weight to only 9 kg, and yet further increased the maximum rate of fire. First tests were undertaken in June 1944, but development dragged on and eventually only ten were ever built. The MG42V had some influence in the postwar development of roller-delayed blowback, as in Heckler & Koch small arms.

[muede]

Thanks, nice to see you people didnt forget this, be it as it may that the photos have already been posted at that topic in "axis history forum" for months. ;)

[REMOV]

Thanks, nice to see you people didnt forget this, be it as it may that the photos have already been posted at that topic in "axis history forum" for months. ;)Hmm... mine are better quality (from the book "Пехотное оружие Третьего рейха. Часть VII - Пулеметы") ;)

[muede]

Hmm... mine are better quality (from the book "Пехотное оружие Третьего рейха. Часть VII - Пулеметы") ;)
Yeah i noticed their BIT better quality, and anyways, now i have em ALL. Thanks. p-)

[von_Kasbegi472]

Hi, MG45 fans if u want to have full quality pics [HQ] of MG45, here they are. scan is not my work, but the pics in form - as they are edited by me (on PC in Graphic software, to get them in undistorted form) are kinda my work (altough i havent taken the photos) .
so simply enjoy.
the pics were taken after ww2 by Russians when they have tested some prototypes (or just one) of MG45.

here is the link to down them (its on MediaFire, so there's not simplier way to download):

http://www.mediafire.com/?lhnndmgymmj

[von_Kasbegi472]

Here is the original photo from german tests of MG42v (prototype which later led to MG45) at Grossfuss testing facility. The photo is from unknown russian magazine about firearms (coz all photos done by Germans, were captured after WW2 together with documentation of MG45 by Red Army and so its why that the best photos of MG45 are from russian mil.archives, coz they have shot the MG45 for their purposes) xD

PS..sorry for the double post. i will never do it again, I swear. woot