The Karabiner 98 kurz ( German: ' carbine 98 short'), often abbreviated Karabiner 98k, Kar98k or K98k and also incorrectly sometimes referred to as a K98 (a K98 is a Polish carbine and copy of the Kar98a), is a bolt-action rifle chambered for the 7.92Г—57mm Mauser cartridge. Mauser (augmented by several other makers) The MP43 and its derivatives are a major revolution in the field of arms, marking the birth of the assault rifle in a caliberВ intermediate between that of the rifles and the machine guns / pistols, also the smart design allowed the manufacture of partsВ by many small and medium factories, maintaining safe production despite heavy Allied bombing.Karabiner 98k made in 1940 from the collections of the Swedish Army Museum The FG42 was an excellent and revolutionary weapon, designed to provide support to the paratroopers, mostly armed with MP38 and MP40,В the project was so good that from this developed in the United States Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60В (Look for T 44 machine gun)Д«ut The FG42 weapon was expensive and time consuming to produce and this will severely limited production. The MP40, an evolution of the previous MP38, was a practical, efficient and economica weapon which made extensive use of molded plastic and metal sheet, the MP38В was designed to arm the German paratroopers, then it was abundantly distributed to the infantry during the war.

The MG 34 was also soon joined by the MG 42 which made extensive use of stamped iron parts Over time, all non-functional parts of the bolt action and semi-automatic rifles were left raw, with no milled finish. The FG42 of the first type used molybdenum steel, a strategic material, and was redesigned while using simple steel and the precious aluminum of the butt stock, essential for the aviation industry, was replaced with wood in type two. The first G41 automatic rifle using the Gas trap action proved inefficient, and was replaced by the G43. So over time the simpler P38 replaced the old P08, the smg P38 which had the milled receiver was replaced by the MP40 which had the printed receiver. Milling is a time-consuming and expensive process that involves the waste of a lot of material. At the beginning of the war, almost all weapons were produced from solid ferrous material that was milled to produce the functional components. Nations entered the war with the weapons they had at their disposal, then over the years industrial production simplified production processes and tactical needs imposed the design of new types of weapons. At the beginning of the war still it had t some use, it could pierce an iron plate of 30 mm firing 120 meters away, on the Russian front it couldn't stop the Soviet tanks, so this heavy rifle who weighed 12 kg was quickly abandoned by German riflemen. B 39 was a single shot anti-tank gun, it was a direct evolution of the anti-tank rifle Mauser of World War I, it fired aВ 7.62 mm tungsten tipВ bullet housed in a cartridge case of 13 mm. The automatic rifle was produced during the war, but the two product models, the Walter G41 and the G43 were not a great success, as fragile and heavy, so, like the Russian Tokarev, were equipped with diopter and usedВ by snipers. The MG34 provided a very high rate of shooting of infantry squad, so Germany kept the bolt action rifle, rather to produce an automatic rifle. The secret was the possibility to replace the glowing barrel with a cold one in a few seconds, so avoiding any increase in the machine gun such the 12 kg of the system ofВ water cooling. This was the first General-purpose machine gun of the world, it means that it was the first machine gun that could be used as a support heavy weapon for the companies, thanks to the appropriate heavy pedestal, both asВ light machine gun platoon accompaniment. Here was born the MG34 machine gun, modified and simplified in the MG42 model. The armaments factory Rheinmetall circumvented the problem by buying the majority shareholder of the Solothurn Swiss armaments factory.

The victorious nations of World War I imposed severe restrictions on the German's weapons production. RPzB -В RaketePanZerBГјchse (PanzerSchreck)ДЇG- Fallschirmjagergewehr (Paratroop Rifle)

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