¨Dragon Rifle¨

Semi automatic dragon

In the year 1882 , the mexican general called , Manuel Mondragon had desing the very first , semi-automatic rifle , called Mondragon rifle , it was gas operated , whit cilinder and piston arragmnent , this was not very usual at the time , the calibre of the wepon was 7mm , whit a magazine of eight rounds , however a trail LMG version had a 20 round box magazine and a bipod , this rifle , was first used in the Mexican revolution , for the army , the manofacture of the rifle , was a problem by the time , because in the country the war was just keep going and going , so the mexican army try to make and agrement to  US corprations , so they can manofacture the rifle , but whit no succes , so they try whit the european SIG , wepon manofacture , fainally an agreement was made an by 1901 the firsts rifles where ship to Mexico , however they make a role in the world war 1 , as the germans buy the wepons and used as a rifle of the air crew , some of this rifles where used by the navy , the rifle proof to be exelent for dry and arid climates , but not so good whit mood envroiments , this was a problem for the ones that used it durig world war 1 , this rifel was used by the Mexican army until 1943 . and was used by severlal more countries like , Brazil , Peru , Soviet Union , China , Austria - Hungray , Vietnam ,Chile Etc.

The STG 44

                                                      The First assault rifle
During the days of the nazi Germany , the creation of new and better wepons to support the war , became something popular and common , this is because combined whit the demands of Hitler to his ingeniiers to develop new wepons , and the need of tecnologycal supremacy over their enemys to win the war , lead the nazi engeniers to develop a lot of new wepons in an effort to win the war . One of this new wepons was the inovating Sturmgewehr 44  better known as STG 44 , it was the first known modern rifle the Stg 44 was an a short name to the sturmgewher 44 that means ¨storm rifle ¨, this makes the reference to ¨strom the enemy position ¨ , the transaltion in english (assault rifle) was the name that where give to the gun , became the common name to this new kind of wepon . The wepon production began in 1943 ,  by the company  C. G. Haenel Waffen und Fahrradfabrik , the gun whight 4.6 kg whit magazine empty , and 5.2 whit full magazine , it can fire from 550-600 rounds per minute , and have and effective range of 400 m . it have been debates of if the rifle was really effective in full automatic mode , this is because in the manual , it said ¨full automatic mode , only for emergencys¨ so the rumors begins if the wepon was really accuarete , but some others said that this was to prevent that a regular german soldier waste a lot of ammo in targets , personaly , i think is more for the second tought ,  but anyway , the wepon prove to be an exellent and superior gun aggainst the normal rifle that other troops used , it was more used in the east front ,but the war didnt go much longer , to see if it actually can make a significant change to the war .