martes, 11 de octubre de 2011

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 .

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