WW2 Guns Still Being Used Today
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Published 2024-07-04
They may be old, outdated, and gathering dust, but World War Two weapons are still lethal bits of military tech that should not be taken lightly. Even now, among the arsenals of modern armies and police forces, these tried and tested instruments of death can still be found doing their job like it was 1945 all over again.
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All Comments (21)
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If it can shoot straight and you can hit the target, it's good
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John Browning. The patron saint of firearms
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If a gun that was made in 1943, is well maintained, has ammo, and a trained person wielding it, then it is as deadly as a firearm made in 2023.
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My husband told me while his service with the SANDF in South Africa they ran into insurgents and criminals who had STG-44 even took a picture of his Lieutenant holding a captured one. My husband’s bring back was a weird looking Cetme with an Ak style rear sight
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The M2 Browning .50 cal will probably outlive us all. It's kinda hard to replace a .50 BMG heavy machine gun that isn't just the "Ma Duece" that looks different but functions the same. It's already 100 years old, and most likely will live 100 years more. That's the legacy the HMG has, and is still carrying to this day.
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You know what they say! "Old reliable!"
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M2 will probably be on space ships 100 years from now
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M2 Browning Is the only weapon created on max status that didn't need further upgrades.
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All goes down to one principle: The human body never gets more resistant to bullets.
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Dad said they had a Grease Gun in their armory, this was 1970 Vietnam...
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The Maxim is the oldest gun used by a military force, and the first automatic machine gun, dating back to 1884, even older than the Mosin Nagant from 1891
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Mikhail kalashnikov said in his own memoirs that he drew inspiration from the m1 garand, the stg44 had nothing to do with it.
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Actually, the M1 Garand was the inspiration for the AK. AK may look externally more like the STG but internally it is a lot like the M1 grand.
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if a weapon can still fight, it will fight once more
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2:03 that german soilder whistling like nothing happened 😂
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Tbh I still can’t believe a 1911 was designed in … well you get the idea. It always seems so modern to me… even decades after I first held one
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The M2 is the best, most resilient, machine gun I have ever used. Love that thing.
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Everybody loved the M1911 pistol. Ever since the Moro Rebellion in the Philippines, because the 38 caliber pistol or revolver don't have the power or the firepower to kill or take out Moro Rebels and that the M1911 was born.
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according to mikhail kalashnikov, the ak was based more on the m1 garand than the stg but it's still the first assault rifle
