Reply With QuoteThanx a bunch weissent!
Fallschirmjägers and their weapons and gear is my personal favorite WWII subject.
Great post, interesting weapon.
Thanx a bunch weissent!
Fallschirmjägers and their weapons and gear is my personal favorite WWII subject.
Oops; if you know it it becomes quite obvious... One bad apple in the basket hopefully doesn't spoil the restOriginally Posted by Johnny_H
This is actually a picture of a 1/6th scale replica for a dragon models action figureI would I know i have it
gos to show how realistic that **** is eh?
IIRC the FG-42 IS actually the older brother of the M-60. I always thought the M-60 was based on the FG-42, or is some kind of derivate of the FG-42
German FJ's suffered bad due to the practice of dropping without their primary weapons during the campaign in Norway. They got cut off from their canisters and were forced to surrender to Norwegian troops (most were quickly recaptured by advancing German infantry coming North).
I believe this incident made the British adopt the infamous leg-bags that cost many US paratroopers their weapons on D-day.
nice find!
Fundamentally, the M60 is an FG-42 with an MG42's feed mechanism. Obviously this is oversimplifying if slightly, but you can certainly see the paternal heritage. The US Army's Ordnance Corps literally grafted an MG42 feed mech onto the side of an FG42 rifle in the first experiments.
Mr. Popenker @ world.guns.ru:
The M60 medium/universal machine gun was designed in the late 1940's and its initial design strongly borrows from WW2 German developments - the MG42 belt feeding mechanism and the FG42 gas-driven action.
www.globalsecurity.org:
Looks like dobrodan and seventysixer are absolutely right...[The M60] was to incorporate the best features of other successful guns, and the two which took the imagination of the designers were the World War II German MG42 and the FG42. The locking arrangements are from the FG42 and the feed and belt are from the MG42.
one was for sell at beltring uk meeting, "nice" weapon
is it just me? in the slowed down part at the end of the vid it looks like 2 more shots fire AFTER his finger was off the trigger? is that some kind of malfunction?If you liked those vids, check this one out - serious gun ****!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpsJo...related&search=
According to the uzitalk-page, this FG 42 is part of the West Point collection.Got to handle one at the Gun Show two years ago. A gentleman had one that attracted a bit too much attention for the LEOs patrolling the show.
Very nice weapon, heavy but nice and ergonomic. Wish I could have fired it. They are apparantly loud as hell from the live fire videos I have seen and discussion about them.
Which museum?
I think Shoei did make full-size museum-quality FG42 replicas:
http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/?filn..._interview.htm
http://www.modelguns.co.uk/fg42_type2.htm
Great thread, Weissent!! Thanks! The FG42 is the one weapon I'd love to have, but know I never will. I'm sure there are thousands of other fallschirmjager enthusiasts who feel the same.
It would be nice to know how many FG 42 survived decomission/scrapping and found their way into private hands or museums. Not that the production numbers were high in the first place, but I guess there still may be a small chance to lay your hands on one ... provided you have the necessary change, mind you(Sadly, for most of us European guys there's not even a slim chance. Ah well...)
(upper)T-44, modified version of FG-42 made by US army after WWII to test the concept of GPMG. M60 took the place in succession to T-44.
anyone knows about this? i heard that it doesn't have big deal with M60 but somewhat influenced to it...
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