I saw that and I'm excited to see how it performs!

Forward military planners back in the 1930's mostly knew that intermediate full auto rifles were the wave of the future. Of course some did not want it and we still some like that today. The 7.62x39 cartridge dates from about 1943 and the soviets knew they wanted something like the MP44. The German went ahead without Hitler knowing about it. He did not want them wasting resources on the project. Besides the fedorov rifle, in WWI there was some limited use of converted to full auto 351 winchester Semiautoloading rifles.

Yes and no. They saw the need for an intermediate cartridge but the action of the AK-47 is completely different than an StG-44. The trigger of the StG alone has over 200 parts. Another example of German over-engineering.

@@chuckcribbs3398 Certainly the AK is different, but when I said: ''soviets knew they wanted something like the MP44. '' Like means a rifle with select fire and firing an intermediate cartridge. The MP designation mean submachine and the soviet initially intended the AK to take the role of a submachine gun and the SKS was to be the rifle. Well that went by the wayside obviously when the SKS was considered second line equipment. The Soviets even imported germans to help them with learning how to stamp sheet metal and that did not work too well either initially. Took a few years to get AK stamping technology right.

The designer of the Sturmwehr 44, Hugo Schmeisser, was most likely involved in the design of the AK-47. On April 3, 1945, US troops occupied the city of Suhl and immediately imposed a production ban on all weapons factories. Hugo Schmeisser and his brother Hans were interrogated for weeks by teams of weapons experts from the US and British secret services. At the end of June 1945, the Americans evacuated Thuringia and the Red Army occupied the plant. In August 1945, 50 assault rifles 44 were assembled from existing assembly parts and transferred by the Red Army to the Soviet Union for technical evaluation, at the same time as 10,785 sheets of technical drawings for the production of military weapons. In October 1945, Hugo Schmeisser was obliged to work in a so-called Technical Commission of the Red Army. These commissions had the task of determining the latest status of German weapons technology in order to incorporate the results into their own Soviet developments. In October 1946, Hugo Schmeisser was forcibly deported to the Soviet Union for several years as a weapons technology specialist as part of the Ossawakim operation. This fate affected many weapons designers from the factories in the city of Suhl. On October 24, 1946, the German weapons designers were brought in a special train to Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurt ASSR in the foothills of the Middle Urals and the location of a weapons factory (today Izhmash) since 1807. Little is known about Hugo Schmeisser's exact activities in Izhevsk between 1946 and 1952. How important he was for the Soviet Union became clear again in 1952, when all other German specialists were allowed to return, but his stay in the Soviet Union was briefly extended by six months, so that he did not return to Germany until June 9, 1952.

They weren't. Different bolt. Controls. They were planning on creating this type of rifle during WW2. It was concurrent.

No.

Unless they could be able to arm all their men with STG44 and every Panzer division with Tiger, and still able to maintain it...then maybe. Weapons only play a role in war, logistics and production are more significant.

Because it was donated by a lady. If it was a man, I doubt he would give it away 😂

@macobuzi Na your right. He would know its value

i worked in the factory in germany making those rifles

Nicht alles was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich... Garand und G43 würde ich eher empfehlen.

@@poseidonle Das habe ich doch geschrieben.

Well, this gun has a 30-round capacity, is fully automatic and lighter than the M1 Garand. The M1 only have an edge in firepower since it uses a full-power cartridge, while the STG44 use an intermediate cartridge, but it will sure still get the job done within 300m.

It’s not your ammo so it doesn’t really matter how we use it right? Typical American… lol no buddy, we had the pleasure of shooting this iconic rifle in full auto… that’s it! Sorry we didn’t throw the tin can in, maybe next time!

Least we can own guns