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 MP 40 (Maschinenpistole 40) is a submachine gun chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. Developed in Nazi Germany, it saw extensive service in the Axis forces during World War II.

The MG 40 was designed in late 1939 to early 1940 as a project to deliver an improved version of the MG 34 to machine gunners. However, the gun's identity was only made public in early 2000s under VERY limited amount due to its evolution to the popular MG 42.

Feb 19, 2025 · A rare variant of the AN-M2 machine gun, developed for aircraft use. The Colt M.G.40 shares some aesthetics w/ the much more common Browning Model 1919, though upon close examination is quite different.

The Colt Light Aircraft Machine Gun MG40-2 is an designed for airplane use and is capable of great rapidity of fire.

Aug 27, 2019 · At the time, the full size MG38 series had a model known as the MG30-40-1, so when the lighter gun was renamed, it became the MG40-2 in order to distinguish it from the heavier gun. As Dolf tells it, the sales of the MG38-40-1 dropped off and so the MG40-2 was then marked as simply MG40.

An evolution of the original Browning 1917 Machine Gun, the MG40 was a versatile, lightweight machine gun designed with an eye for the air service with reversible feed hardware for use in tandem or quad mounts and for use with "spade" grips in flexible mounts, remote lines for use in fixed wing/hardpoint mounts, or interrupter hardware for ...

Colt Light Aircraft Machine Gun MG40 -2 - General Description and Priciples of Operation : MG40-2 Operations Manual ... MG40 Owners Commentary : MG40 Pictorial : Browning Beltfed Parts Numbers: Specifications: Caliber: 30-06, 7mm Mauser, .303 Enfield: Cyclic Rate : 1200RPM (Adjustable from 900-1400) Overall Length: 39.9 inches (1346mm) ...

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Aug 15, 2011 · Authentic German machine-guns used in the series Combat! are the MG-34 and MG-42. The German army's Machine Gun 34 (MG 34) was the first general-purpose machine-gun. It could be used by infantry as a light machine-gun in an mobile attack or as a medium machine-gun in defensive, sustained fire.