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Why This 'Feared' German Machine Gun Made The US Army Produce A Propaganda Film

The MG 42. Hitler's Buzzsaw. 1,200 rounds per minute, so fast Allied soldiers couldn't hear individual shots. Just a continuous tearing sound unlike anything on any battlefield. Built by a lantern company. Designed by an engineer who never made a weapon. It stopped armies at Omaha Beach, Monte Cassino, and Normandy. The US Army made a dedicated training film just to stop their own soldiers freezing in terror at the sound of it. 80 years later its descendants are still on tanks in 30 nations. This is the weapon that changed how every army on earth thinks about machine guns. KEY SPECIFICATIONS Caliber: 7.92x57mm Mauser Rate of Fire: 1,200 to 1,500 RPM Weight: 11.57 kg Barrel Change: 5 to 10 seconds Effective Range: 200 to 1,000 meters Feed: 50 to 250 round belt Crew: 3 to 6 men BritishWarArmory — WW2 weapons and history every week. Subscribe. #MG42 #WW2 #MilitaryHistory