MG42

The MG42 is a 7.92x57mm Mauser general-purpose machine gun designed in Germany and used extensively during the second half of World War II. It was intended to replace the earlier MG 34, which was more expensive and took much longer to produce, but in the...

The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") was a 7.92x57mm Mauser general purpose machine gun that was developed in Nazi Germany and entered service with the Wehrmacht in 1942. It supplemented, and, in some instances,...