WW2 Guns in Service Today
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Published 2021-06-08
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All Comments (21)
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“Excluding irregular forces” If they were included this video would be an hour long lol
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My dad bought me an old Mosin Nagant about 25 years ago. It was $40. It still has the Russian Imperial stamp on it and was made in 1902.
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Captured a few Nagants with integrated chisel bayonet, and an MG 34, in various actions along the Cambodian border in 1969. The MG had an inscription in Vietnamese carved into the wood buttstock. I thought it might be something exhortatory, like “All together we will win!” etc. Our Kit Carson scout (former VC) got down on one knee, looked up, smiled, and said ‘It say ‘Oil gun or it not fire well.’
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If Browning was still alive we could’ve have plasma rifles and space guns by now
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John M. Browning is worthy of a Mark Felton episode! There are so many iconic weapons he invented.
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Imagine being the inventor of a gun that's so well made people are still using it 80+ years later.
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Shooting the MG42/MG3 is so much fun. Imagine lying on a football field in front of the goal and Manuel Neuer performing a goal kick right to your shoulder.
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I served in the Taiwan Army field division in 1979 as a 2nd Lieutenant. My standard weapons were a 1911 pistol and an M1 carbine. Although it was 35 years after WW2, but they still funtioned excellently.
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We captured a number of K98ks in Iraq. My unit managed to bring a few back for "historical" purposes. Our neighbor battalion captured a StG-44.
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When I was in the US Army in the mid 80s as a M60A1/A3 Armor Crewman I carried the M1911 and M3 Grease gun.
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Captain America used two weapons; Thors hammer and a 1911. One is the most powerful weapon in the universe, and the other is from Norse mythology.
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I was a MG 3 gunner in the Bundeswehr (2003-2011) and my MG was basically a MG 42, just rechambered in 7.62 and with "new" stamps from the Bundeswehr, but u could still see the original stamps from 1944. And oh boi, this thing was insane... During a 4 week manoeuvre, called European Challenge, i dumped almost 16.000 round into a small forest with an old brickstone building in it. After the 4 weeks, the forest was almost gone and the buiding collapsed at day 5.
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When I was in the Army in the late 90s we still had (in the armory..not in service but still there) M3 grease guns and a few M1919 .30 cals. Most were leftover issue from armored units. Got to play with the grease guns a couple times infact.
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As German conscript in 2010 we had MG3's with the MG42 overwritten. 😂
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My father carried the M3 sub inside his tank through out Vietnam. He loved it. He said it was easy to move in and out of the hatch due to its short length and low weight. Carried the same ammo as their pistols, M1911's, so they only had one type to worry about. I could go on, but you get the point.
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A friend of my Dad who was in the Bundeswehr in the late 1980s was once issued a machine gun during an excercise that apparently was a Mg42 build in 1944.
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The American M/1917 boltaction rifle is still used by the Danish Sirius patrol, with the designation m/53
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Mark provides an answer to a question I didn't know I had!
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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"...
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I have a friend in the norwegian tankbatalion, and he found a nazi signal pistol still in use in his tank. It still has nazi symbol on it.
