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The Post-War Legacy of the FG42 (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-08-23 12:00:02 +0000 UTCIf the FG-42 was such a great gun, then why didn't it get used after the war? Well, two answers...
1) It was crazy expensive to make and there weren't very many lying around for people to use in quantity after the war.
2) It was used; there was at least three post-war development projects based directly on the FG-42. One was the British EM1 Korsac Light Automatic Gun, one was the Swiss WF Bern competitor to the SIG Stgw 57, and one was the American M60 GPMG. So let's have a look at all three, and what they did or didn't take from the FG!
Comments
Guido Schriewer
can't help it. I find the fg such a cool design! man I'd love one of those. they could have hurried some more with the 60, huh. korean war vets wouldn't have said no to that exactly.
Loke von Post
Very good video! Sure, I like watching guns get disassembled (and shot, that's really good too!), but I'm starting to realise that my favourite part of the "Forgotten Weapons experience" is the history & design ideas side; "where did this come from? What was the intent? What failed? What worked? Why?", stuff like that, so videos like this one are really interesting to me :)
Gareth McMahon
Excellent Ian, my favourite Wehrmacht firearm.
