In 1942, a field test of samples was passed from two competing firms.

Walter began to develop an experienced sample of weapons for an intermediate cartridge in the middle of 1940 by technical assignment government controlled Arms.Īt the end of the same year, the company Hugo Schmisser presented a ready-made example of 'Gever' (Sturmgewehr STG 44), which was still quite raw, but already had positive reviews of specialists. The development of an intermediate cartridge allowed us to proceed to the creation of a fundamentally new weapon for conducting effective combat on the average distance. The slaughterhouse of pistol cartridges at a distance of more than 200 m was insufficient. Rifle cartridges have uncomfortable dimensions for use in automatic weapons. Running into a series of modified version of Schmisser under the stg.44 labeling (MG.44) Taking into armament of prototypes under the MP-43A labeling (or MP- 431) The beginning of the development of a new small arms under the intermediate cartridge by WalterĬreating a company Schmisser Sample new weapons for intermediate cartridge History of the creation of a machine gun Sturmveger STG 44 (Sturmgewehr) dateĬreating an intermediate cartridge 7.92 × 33 mm KURZ (short) Thus, the German STG 44 Sturvecher can be considered a prototype of the entire modern weapon. And they became an assault rifle - 'Sturmheverber' (MG-44), which became a role model when constructing modern automata. Therefore, it was necessary to create a weapon that would occupy a niche between PP and rifles. The rifles had a sight and slaughter range measured by several kilometers, but their rapidity was insufficient to maintain melee. The first perfectly helped to cope with the tasks of the military units at the close distance, but were useless to keep fire for a distance of more than 500 m. Characteristics of the German assault rifle Sturmhever In the late 30s, the strongest world armies were equipped with two species small arms: Pistol-machine gun for melee and dirty rifles and carbines for positional battle. The slaughter power of German quality is the Avturmheverer 44, which has changed the tactics of fighting.

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