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MG 42
Maschinengewehr 42
Description
A German general-purpose machine gun built from stamped steel, with a very high rate of fire. Its design lives on in current service weapons.
Historical use
- Second World War
Technical data
- Year
- 1942
- Service
- 1942–1959
- Country
- Germany
- Maker
- Großfuß y otros
- Designer
- Werner Gruner
- Type
- Machine gun
- Mechanism
- Automatic
- Calibre
- 7,92 × 57 mm Mauser
- Weight
- 11.6 kg
- Length
- 1,220 mm
- Barrel
- 533 mm
- Rate of fire
- 1,200 rds/min
- Units made
- ≈ 400,000
Source: Wikidata Q153596
