World War 2 German Army Machine Gun Test Firing at Dellwood Park in Lockport, ILLINOIS See the same Gun at the Same Park in 2013 here: • WW2 German MG42 Machin...
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@thebeautyofnature36163 жыл бұрын
my grandpa heard me watching this video while he was outside in the garden and threw a handgrenade through my window.
@FMFInnovations3 жыл бұрын
LOL!!!!
@carlosalcazar86513 жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha🤣
@ariefj48133 жыл бұрын
Your room was a bunker
@darkmiracle18053 жыл бұрын
idk man my grandpa is just doing a weird dance on the floor
@jonaswagner23493 жыл бұрын
@@darkmiracle1805 you guys😂😂😂
@CRsportfishingca6 жыл бұрын
Can you believe that thing was designed 70-80 years ago ? Unreal rate of fire
@Polarcupcheck5 жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure this platform is still in service in Germany under the M3, I believe.
@kinghadu96115 жыл бұрын
@Focke Wulf German Cars today are trash much like American cars. Go read consumer reports or heck even scotty killmer youtube channel you will see the Japanese engineering is far more reliable than the money pits the Germans put out. The 1940's was a different time. I do agree with you back in WW2 nothing could touch the German Engineering it was far far ahead of its time, however the Japanese had superior planes than both Germans and Americans during the war
@YTOnceAgain5 жыл бұрын
@Focke Wulf Well, nowadays there aren't many truely bad cars around anymore. The German brands you mentioned, however, are notorious for being much costlier (acquisition and maintenance) than other brands. So from a price-performance view, one might call them trash.
@Kinderlieder-Kindergeschichte4 жыл бұрын
@@kinghadu9611 agreed, they purposely reduced the quality/durability, so that even a brandnew beemer needs to get a checkup every 10k km
@deanofcrews70224 жыл бұрын
Rate isnt everything, you can make a very fast rate of fire just by overgassing it and a short bolt travel time a strong spring helps too. The extraction of the cartridges from the belt is truely a feat though.
@cs-73 жыл бұрын
"That's pretty cool, I must say" Wehrmacht: first time?
@rooseveltingudam63543 жыл бұрын
lol
@Lucas-cgdjr283 жыл бұрын
imagine how many it killed in ww2
@cs-73 жыл бұрын
@@Lucas-cgdjr28 quite a few...
@guntherbgunnerson89893 жыл бұрын
Wehrmacht: now on to the next activity!, Cyanide
@heinzthorvald46752 жыл бұрын
@@guntherbgunnerson8989 Nah, that's the job of the SS.
@airshredder73143 жыл бұрын
The mg42 was so far ahead of its time like lots of other German WW2 inventions. Some armies still use variances of it today (the mg3)! A WW2 icon.
@normanquednau Жыл бұрын
I shot the MG3 during my german army service... It was a beast as well!
@user-xu2pi6vx7o Жыл бұрын
And the mg45 was as ahead of the mg42 as the mg42 was ahead of basically everything else.
@TheManiHimself Жыл бұрын
Its funny, the US stunt their military tech and in every major war with the europeans they’ve been behind in the arms race
@MrOiram46 Жыл бұрын
I heard that most modern mg’s are based on how the mg42, structural-wise
@r3mixthe2nd53 Жыл бұрын
Yes, though it now has reduced fire rate and caliber size
@Rascal3560006 жыл бұрын
I never stopped being impressed by the MG-42
@rune.theocracy5 жыл бұрын
supressed* (I know it's almost 1 year now)
@albertryman67765 жыл бұрын
@@rune.theocracy haha
@paulhebblethwaite71684 жыл бұрын
The guys arriving on Omaha Beach had a different opinion. There were apparently only about four of these MG-42's in situ and they accounted for most of the killing in the first few hours. The German bunkers were to have bee taken out by bombing pre-landings but this failed due to a miscalculation and they were dropped around 3 kilometres away. Killing a herd of cow's.
@mauserk98bnz444 жыл бұрын
Inherently Wicked Chauvinist WN62 is a book the guy co-wrote about his story.
@lindaoneil50854 жыл бұрын
@@Reichsritter Yes, the MG-42 Mauser was a bad a$$ mofo.
@Hannibalkakihara3 жыл бұрын
"whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword has obviously never seen a machine gun" -Douglas Macarthur
@coenvdb60323 жыл бұрын
A pen ended the war, because of machineguns
@VengefulPolititron3 жыл бұрын
the pen distributed the ideas that started the war. the pen also showed the plans for the machine gun on blueprints.
@donaldyeung96583 жыл бұрын
Me: *laughs in John Wick*
@themanformerlyknownascomme7773 жыл бұрын
@@VengefulPolititron everything is interconnected
@VengefulPolititron3 жыл бұрын
@Evolve Project give us a nibble then
@vincevonderheyden7887 Жыл бұрын
I read from a war diary of an American soldier in 1944. This soldier described how the U.S. soldiers were initially quite emboldened as they approached the German positions. But when they heard the "bone saw" live from a distance for the first time, the advance slowed down as if by "magic". Some of the more experienced soldiers knew this haunting sound all too well. He described that this "melody" and enormous succession of fire had as frightening an effect on a person as the sirens of the Stukas. I can completely understand how this sound triggered a paralysis of fear.
@usuariopromedio963 Жыл бұрын
Indeed. ..
@Leon_Kennedy_19776 ай бұрын
in World War II, the entire blow of Nazi Germany was taken by the Soviet Union, think about it, 25 million people died, what is happening now is the rehabilitation of fascism, this cannot be allowed, history is being erased in Ukraine and monuments are being destroyed, if you do not know what is happening, try to find out reliable information.
@kapitancurtis3 жыл бұрын
for anyone who doesn't know, the MG42 is also the 'smart gun' from the 1986 movie ALIENS. Directed by James Cameron. While the M41-A Pulse Rifle was a combination of the m1a1 Thompson, Spas 12 shotgun, and a Remington 870 receiver concealed inside the spas12 cage.
@charlesd.mercuryii99639 жыл бұрын
That rate of fire is pure insanity
@wolfie838 жыл бұрын
+Charles D. Mercury II Nazi germany while fucked in the head were the greatest designers of weaponry the world has known. They took the battle field from archaic designed rifles and mg's to reliable full auto and select fire rifles.
@gosuc8 жыл бұрын
+Charles D. Mercury II The firing speed of the original MG42 was 2000 rounds/minute. As the alloy of the release spring was kept secret and is unreachable in some safe in switzerland, todays follower of the german MG42 only fires about 1300 rounds/minute. No one could produce the quality of the original alloy of the spring. During tests, every spring was braking sooner or later. From the tecnical aspect, it was a good weapon- But my father told me, that under extreme conditions ( about - 40 Centigrades near Leningrad) in Russia, the guns sometimes didnt fire if they were not recently used.
@leberverfettung21738 жыл бұрын
+gosuc In theory it was or is about 900shots/min, not 2000
@leberverfettung21738 жыл бұрын
+Itzamountainman Sorry, 1300!
@leberverfettung21738 жыл бұрын
+Itzamountainman Fuck, it is 1500, I looked it up xD
@grobsop66883 жыл бұрын
finally Ive found an MG42 with a historical accurate rate of fire. thanks
@volkspanzer8313 жыл бұрын
Yeah that thing is spitting 'em out quick compared to the last video I watched.
@harryballsacky2 жыл бұрын
AMEN
@jacobf69452 жыл бұрын
The deal is is that they are both accurate, the slower firerate is just due to the safety mechanism they added later on to keep the gun from firing out of battery
@mikeynorcross32222 жыл бұрын
Shame on me, I forgot you were there in 1944.
@technocrat46132 жыл бұрын
The MG74 is a CURRENT issue version using 7.62mm The gun fired here is using the Light Bolt and is firing at about 900 rpm. In field use a much heavier bolt is used. Any rate of fire over 650 rpm (which is what was typical of the water cooled guns of WWI which the MG34/42 replaced is considered a waste of ammo. The 900 rpm of this gun is for anti-aircraft use. Some people also quite an 1800 rpm which is actually two MGs together.
@rjuttemeijer3 жыл бұрын
Imagine having to face that when storming the beaches of Normandy!
@user-uz3qb4ht9f3 жыл бұрын
м да досталось им там с таким пулеметом пляж усеял пулями
@usafdirtboyz27973 жыл бұрын
Trump is cute....built good...
@Beethoven803 жыл бұрын
You didn't face it very long then.
@rjuttemeijer3 жыл бұрын
@@Beethoven80 Please explain
@davidprice56783 жыл бұрын
A teenager from the Hitler Youth killed and wounded possibly 1,000 men on Omaha with one such weapon. No, that's not a typo.
@greglinski22082 жыл бұрын
When my son was about 11 years old he entered a Jaycee Relay Race. He’d never ran track before and didn’t know everybody wore shorts. He came in jeans, to everyone’s amusement. He ran the last leg for his team - and came away the fastest runner of the day, and made up considerable distance to win. This video made me think of that day. How I wish I had been able to see it, instead of only hear and read about it. I was a single mom and had to work. My son was an amazing athlete. ❤️
@fatdad64able2 жыл бұрын
🤔 ? This vid right here?
@redtobertshateshandles5 ай бұрын
And your name is Greg??
@SJM67916 жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine being a soldier storming the beaches of Normandy facing down this gun. The amount of courage it took to do it is amazing.
@benjaminmiller99024 жыл бұрын
The butcher of Omaha was reported to have killed 1000+ allied troops with one of these, all by his lonesome.
@johnkulpowich52604 жыл бұрын
Sad
@erikcanada4 жыл бұрын
And that was a walk in the park compared to the Eastern front
@johnkulpowich52604 жыл бұрын
Walk in the park I think not Hitler's buzz saw. Was a one man army
@erikcanada4 жыл бұрын
@@johnkulpowich5260 learn to read moron. I said "COMPARED". Must be American to suck so bad at reading. And / or a Boomer.
@TheShockwaveDragon10 жыл бұрын
Couldn't imagine what a hundred of these would sound like going off at once, let alone all of them pointed directly at you trying to make your way off a beach while they're at it.
@comander203310 жыл бұрын
There were just 5 of them.
@x-Gingerbeard-x9 жыл бұрын
Alpha_25 Yep and Heinrich Severloh caused much of the casualties at Omaha Beach with just an MG42 (with one extra barrel) and 2 K98's. They even claim he was responsible for 2000 casualties (I think it's exaggerated quite a bit), but it gave him the nickname ''The Butcher Of Omaha Beach''.
@TheAndyCFC9 жыл бұрын
If there were 100 MG's on Omaha beach , 100% casualties for sure .
@comander20339 жыл бұрын
If there would have been 15 MGs on the Beach there would be 100% casualties aswell.
@Mardsds9 жыл бұрын
John Doe hell, if hitler wasn't fighthing all all the allied forces at once we all would speak german for sure. If someone with skill had just took over and finished what Adolf strated the outcome would be drastically different
@r.b.ratieta61113 жыл бұрын
This is the rate of fire that you get when a culture that specializes in making precision watches switches over to machine guns.
@ramonschlittler84033 жыл бұрын
thats switzerland ...
@schimpansarvagn4363 жыл бұрын
@@ramonschlittler8403 look up A.Lange & Söhne, germans know how to make true quality watches as well
@TheLordNovo3 жыл бұрын
@@ramonschlittler8403 the Germans, Austrians, and Swiss are very closely connected. The Swiss are all about luxury items, but the Germans make a damn good watch
@alexpearson84812 жыл бұрын
Amen to that. Succinctly put. 😳👌
@chevinbarghest84532 жыл бұрын
That would be Switzerland
@natural-born_pilot3 жыл бұрын
Wow what a weapon. I’ll never forget when firing that weapon with the German Army Reservists while stationed in Germany. We fired the MG 43, G3 and P-08 during training and competition for award. It was crazy because we were only given a 50 round belt and instructed to fire 5 round bursts into each target. I remember the rate of fire to do that took some practice but I found that it’s heavy trigger pull really made that tuff. When I brought that point up to the range officer he laughed and told me that weapon has a lower firing rate set for training that is much slower than those equipped for combat. That blew my mind and heightened my respect for an awesome weapon.
@nuclearTANK3 жыл бұрын
Technically the Germany military still uses MG42 it's just rechambered in 7.62 nato and renamed MG3
@dom23313 жыл бұрын
But less firerate... some of them even have MG42 markings which got a X over it and next to it a new MG3 marking.
@cooldudicus76683 жыл бұрын
@@dom2331 Cool. German engineering is some of the best in the world. Us Americans can invent some cool stuff ourselves. The good thing is that we are fighting on the same side now.
@officerfriendly12303 жыл бұрын
Yeah I don't know anyone who uses a 7.92 anymore.
@zerotonine8073 жыл бұрын
@@cooldudicus7668 same side LOL because the US says so, all the rest is doing it. As the chief of the NATO, the americans just need others now to die for them as well as keeping up the negative Propaganda against Russia. In case of conflict, of course it has to be on european soil as the US will never have it in their own country. And then, they can say again they "liberated" something LOL
@doppelbanger57973 жыл бұрын
Whose on the other side ? Russia ? China?
@wtfshiiiiii3 жыл бұрын
They didn’t lose the war, they just ran out of ammo.
@17MrLeon3 жыл бұрын
thats stupid as saying "they didnt loose the war they just ran out of soldiers" Well mate, thats kinda called LOOSING THE WAR.
@Helperbot-20003 жыл бұрын
good to see 2 people who cant appreciate a joke...
@Helperbot-20003 жыл бұрын
@Wilhelm von Schnitzelnazi XD
@kagghaider13963 жыл бұрын
Germany hadn't enough oil, Romania and Italy were traitors, all opponents had much more soldiers and population. The Russians in the east and the Yankees in the west, also soldiers from french, british colonies and nearly against the rest of the world. Germany has a shitty geostrategical position in the mid. Germany fought a 2-front, then a 3-front war against masses of opponents and with raw material scarcity. And the ""funny"" fact, the opponents needed 6 years to defeat Germany. When there is a small, but strong guy, then Germany.
@kagghaider13963 жыл бұрын
@kim Jong-unsub Of course, forgot that.
@drummnjar55262 жыл бұрын
This is one of the few videos of GENUINE WW2 MG42 on youtube. There are thousands of videos showing MG3 and Yugo M53 MG's presented as MG42's. Thank you sir for posting this video!
@paulpecchio51042 жыл бұрын
The MG-42 was one of the best weapons of WWII! A machine gun with high rate of fire, accuracy and quality, low maintenance, easy to repair and simple to use. Even in the worst conditions of battle, in the desert, on the ice, in the jungle, with dust, humidity, water, it remained operational. Very German indeed, with its best reputation for design and engineering! So good that it had its original 7.92 mm caliber adapted to the NATO 7.62 standard. A weapon that remains current and effective even today, more than 70 years later... Paul Pecchio - bairro do Campo Belo - SP - Brasil.
@daveb.42683 жыл бұрын
It's good to see that Officer Tackleberry is still on the force.😆
@tical5233 жыл бұрын
All he says is “that’s pretty cool, I must say”. Lol!!!
@wesleyashton98133 жыл бұрын
Legend comment 😂
@MRGS483 жыл бұрын
I haven't heard him in aaaaaa looonggg timmmmeee🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@swissclimber13 жыл бұрын
Can we Fat shame him?
@Hulktom20003 жыл бұрын
be nice
@rolandberger74933 жыл бұрын
In 1994 I was a Bundeswehr-Soldier and used the MG3, which was basically a MG42 with modified barrel. With 10,6 kg it wasn't easy to carry around but fun to shoot. Astonishingly at this time was still a slightly modified version of the Walther P.38 in use, called P1.
@marcmonnerat48502 жыл бұрын
I did use a Swiss MG51. People have no idea how munition boxes are heavy. Something like 500 rounds on your back and you are not running anymore.
@tom3112682 жыл бұрын
In 1994, I was also a soldier in the Bundeswehr and often had to do with the MG 42 during exercises.
@silverjohn60372 жыл бұрын
The Browning Hi Power is still in use in the Canadian Military and that was also from the same generation as the P-38. We even have a few of our northern Ranger units (volunteer militias not Airborne) that still carry Lee-Enfields.
@Felix-fy7ki Жыл бұрын
@@tom311268 Nope. You are talking about the MG3, which is slightly different to the MG42. I was a soldier in the German army, too... ;-) Inst. Ausb. Kp. 9/II and later 1./240 in 1988/89.
@TeddyBear-ii4yc Жыл бұрын
@@silverjohn6037 Hasn't the Colt M1911 design been in service since WW1?
@da_plasma_catto18013 жыл бұрын
0:06 ah yes, two Whermact soldiers teach a police officer how to use a military grade mg
@Terminator._3 күн бұрын
Earth-726 😎👍
@softtaco82643 жыл бұрын
As a Gulf War and OEF veteran...I couldn't imagine charging through a field of fire coming from that piece of art "Grim Reaper"
@MajorT0m4 жыл бұрын
It's nice there are Wermacht soldiers still in the wild.
@kurtschuster80784 жыл бұрын
YOU WIN
@originalganjaman6064 жыл бұрын
Actually a new population has resettled around the argentinian mountains and woods, they just wont die
@xNINJUTSZUx4 жыл бұрын
Wermacht denn sowas ? Die WeHrmacht Use your Google translator and look what happens.
@originalganjaman6064 жыл бұрын
@@xNINJUTSZUx einfach cringe diesen "joke" in ner englischen kommentarsektion zu bringen du kleiner Lappen
@xNINJUTSZUx4 жыл бұрын
@@originalganjaman606 Meine Muttersprache ist nicht mal Deutsch, du Aufreibfetzen. Abgesehen davon sollten die Englisch sprachigen wissen wie man Wehrmacht schreibt, schließlich kämpften diese Jahre gegen sie. Just my 2 cents
@taiming713 жыл бұрын
It shoots so fast. It was such a great design that its descendant the MG-3 is virtually unchanged and still used by Germany 80 years later.
@rohesilmnelohe3 жыл бұрын
Used by half of Europe. Extremely good machinegun. Reliable, accurate easy to use. The fact that the hot swappable barrels came out from the side meant that the operators didn't have to expose themselves at all and could easily do it while staying in the firing position...in under 5 seconds.
@penzman3 жыл бұрын
One ww2 vet was explaining how hearing these for the first time was terrifying. What a sound.
@chad6532 жыл бұрын
Dude this has got to be the most legendary gun of all time
@Crimson_Engage4 жыл бұрын
This weapon to this very day, is insane. The fact it was produced 70 to 80 years ago, there was nothing else like it. A lot of modern day weapons are based off this design.
@curtc21943 жыл бұрын
Yes I believe "the pig" the M60 machine gun was based on the MG42.
@acywei3 жыл бұрын
Uhhh....M2 Browning, invented 1918. and the Browning 1919 MG....literally in service to this day (albeit they have been updated slightly). Don't get me wrong, I love me some MG buzzsaw, cause I think it is cool and the psychological fear factor is big, but the M2/B1919 was and is a far more effective weapon. MG42s cyclic rate was wastefully fast. The purpose of these LMGs and HMGs is to provide suppressing fire, in which case you want the gun to be shooting for as long of a period as possible without having to reload. MG42, well yeah...
@VikariyReyn3 жыл бұрын
@Rail Skills lmfao
@russellking97623 жыл бұрын
A lot of modern weapons would have a hernia if they tried anything even remotely near this cyclic rate...FACT
@gatsbymaguire3 жыл бұрын
@@acywei i like the M1919 and the M2, but I think the MG42 is my baby.
@draganbanic81087 жыл бұрын
These reanactors are so proffesional and love what they do,not just in america but all over the world,just look at the attention to detaill with their uniforms let alone the weaponery, as a huge ww2 buff i really admire that.
@ArtypNk5 ай бұрын
I like how they resurrected some of the original owners to give that authentic training.
@eddielung313 жыл бұрын
Imagine you were in D day charging onto Normandy beachhead, and dozens of these firing at you at the same time
@rondotcom14263 жыл бұрын
Finaly, a future Weapon
@rondotcom14263 жыл бұрын
...and this in 1944!!!
@brucekilby99573 жыл бұрын
It's no wonder the death toll was so high on D Day, with a wellcoming of that amazing weapon. The Germans were advanced in so many weapons in ww2.🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇲🏴🏴🏴🇵🇱
@sce2aux4643 жыл бұрын
I'd be taking cover demanding that the Navy get it's damned act together!!
@peteschupp45453 жыл бұрын
Dozens of them firing at you at the same time? Have you any idea how much more American soldiers were present on d day compared to German ones. I know it was exaggerated by you but seems like Hollywood once again managed to distort history
@Ross.82193 жыл бұрын
Imagine running up on a beach straight into more than one of those.....
@johnkicklighter673 жыл бұрын
Plus mortar fire
@nvtnvt96173 жыл бұрын
Plus landmines
@billyyoung63653 жыл бұрын
@@johnkicklighter67 and artillery
@williamk22573 жыл бұрын
Ya they were some heroic sons a guns!! God rest alot of souls! And the one's that beat back evil to its core!
@khrissant3 жыл бұрын
and mines
@pigpig19383 жыл бұрын
you got to give the Germans credit. Their guns are 10/10
@Sapper201D3 жыл бұрын
I can only feel respect and sorrow for those who were on the opposing end of this nightmare. To the greatest generation. Thank you.
@fastmurx Жыл бұрын
I served the Bundeswehr in 1987, and I was trained as a machinegunner. Firing the first time a few rounds was extremely impressive,, even more when you compare it to the G3, the standard riffle at that time.
@scotchgod84787 жыл бұрын
a masterpiece of german Engineering and basically the best machine gun ever 👍
@dukecraig24025 жыл бұрын
Slow and weak.
@dukecraig24025 жыл бұрын
@Focke Wulf GE M61.
@ysosudden7754 жыл бұрын
@@dukecraig2402 Do you know how old this thing is compared to your fancy stuff?
@dukecraig24024 жыл бұрын
@@ysosudden775 Gatling guns are MUCH older then that dumbass 🤣🤣🤣
@purplehaze99774 жыл бұрын
@@dukecraig2402 and old gatlings are much slower dumbass
@stephenflowers85164 жыл бұрын
And to think the U S training films told troops " The German Machine Guns bark is much worse than it's bite."
@JeffSpehar-ov1cn4 жыл бұрын
But we still won, so fuck Germany.
@ichduoderer14984 жыл бұрын
@@JeffSpehar-ov1cn um no what you gonna do ? cry like the impowerd littele shit you are ?
@NahuCommNS4 жыл бұрын
@Crimson Idol Even having some advantages in some areas or things, Nazi Germany would have lost WWII either way. It was just a matter of numbers and economic power, and as soon as the Allies and Soviet armed forces catched up to the Wehrmacht in terms of their doctrines and strategy/tactics, plus the big win in terms of intelligence and logistics (having broken the enigma coding machine and a much better thought military logistics), placed the last nail in Nazi Germany's coffin.
@ichduoderer14984 жыл бұрын
@joe Domjan neither in the 1940 nor in the 2020 sence
@rebatotem4 жыл бұрын
@@JeffSpehar-ov1cn Without the USSR sacrificing 10-20 Million soldiers and around equally as many civilians, the US would not have achieved anything in WW2. The Soviets had more dead soldiers in the Battle of Stalingrad than the US in the entire war.
@f.mazz.459 Жыл бұрын
Wow! I'm blown away by its high velocity rapid fire for such an old gun. The more modern M60 doesn't discharge rounds like that. Incredible!
@notottomedic2 ай бұрын
Every single time I watch a video of this weapon, I am floored by the fire rate. Even though I've seen it countless times before.
@socialisthater47268 жыл бұрын
The Germans were amazing with their weapons and equipment
@davidca967 жыл бұрын
Except the G43 it was garbage.
@VRichardsn7 жыл бұрын
Like other top nations, they had good designs and bad designs. The MG 42, however, was marvelous. There was nothing like it during WW II, except for its companion, the MG 34.
@scotchgod84787 жыл бұрын
Not to forget the legendary 88mm gun which was cracking allied tanks live sardine tins!
@omen8286 жыл бұрын
Socialist Hater Blah blah. They were beaten and their thousand year Reich lasted less than 13 years. Go get some cyanide and join your heroes in hell.
@german_spirit75456 жыл бұрын
G43 was like other Semi Auto rifles not better and not worse. The sound was nice :)
@hk4lyfe593 жыл бұрын
The Nazi engineers recommended the mg42 because the ray guns they developed were too expensive.
@romandmowski38283 жыл бұрын
Ruy gun was invented by Slavic Serbian genius named Nikola Tesla in XIX century.
@Gammelpilz3 жыл бұрын
@@romandmowski3828 tesla founded a lot, but this was way before his time. 🥱
@romandmowski38283 жыл бұрын
@Ярослав Гайдук Tesla>Braun
@mcw2803 жыл бұрын
german engineers......
@imgvillasrc16083 жыл бұрын
smh, Germany could have also tried at least to produce thousands of Pack-a-Punch machines to upgrade weapons for those at the frontlines. Much more cost efficient method than mass producing rayguns.
@splagyetsi32872 жыл бұрын
The rate of fire on this weapon is astounding. No wonder there were so many casualties during the D-Day landings.
@millieatr3 жыл бұрын
Imagine being pinned down on the beach with those roaring 42's thinking how the night before your buddy guarantied you that with all the naval bombardment there couldn't be a living thing left alive .
@Roscoe6ix3 жыл бұрын
i bet that back on the station the cop was like: "uh hey chief i think our department could use few of these...."
@GOJIKING063 жыл бұрын
Bruh if i could give them these i would
@NashmanNash3 жыл бұрын
The fact that he puts BOTH hands on the pistol grip hurts me :D
@robdog12453 жыл бұрын
@@GOJIKING06 no. No no no. They don’t need these, they do plenty of damage with what they have
@raindrophoh3 жыл бұрын
The crime rate would drop to zero if people know the police are equiped with an MG42
@bondrewdthelordofdawn37443 жыл бұрын
Also Request full body armor with backpack that hold ammo
Hä? Was zum Fick versuchst du uns zu sagen? Huh? What the fuck are you trying to say?
@noahbelanger70014 жыл бұрын
Bro i was looking for this comment the second i saw the video in my feed lol
@ilmarsbelevics4 жыл бұрын
@@noahbelanger7001 me too
@lindaoneil50853 жыл бұрын
Der MG42 funktioniert gut, ja?
@lurking0death3 жыл бұрын
The U.S. Army's M-60 machine gun that was used in Vietnam and then for 40 years was a direct copy of this German MG. They slowed the U.S. version down to about 650 rounds per minute so as to NOT run out of ammunition and attain more control of round placement.
@mechengineer48943 жыл бұрын
That noise was absolutely terrifying to the people being shot at because you couldn't distinguish one round from the next it was firing so fast. The US army had to make a film downplaying the lethality of the MG42 and it was a lie.
@jonsebastian13663 жыл бұрын
I saw that too. Great propaganda
@GitSumGaming4 жыл бұрын
I want to own this thing...for home defense
@rallyscoot4 жыл бұрын
I hope you dont shoot your self. Please dont look in the barrel.
@GitSumGaming4 жыл бұрын
@Eff dees Riot defense
@jasonpadula49164 жыл бұрын
And deer hunting....
@calanon5344 жыл бұрын
@@jasonpadula4916 You mean Squirrel Hunting.
@MarkGriswold0004 жыл бұрын
For protestors?
@leemason59536 жыл бұрын
Saw a interview with some of the guys that were in france with the 101st airborne during WW2,they say when you here one of these in combat it sounds like somebody ripping bedsheets cos its rate of fire was so high.
@SpeedyCorky3 жыл бұрын
thats a great description. i've heard combat vets describe it in that you cant even hear each single bullet coming out of the gun, its just coming out so fast that they blend together.
@Killgore833 жыл бұрын
@@SpeedyCorky Granpa fought together with german troops as a soldier of the Royal Hungarian Army. He described it'sound similar to a very loud and possibly damaged motorbike :)
@SlayerofFiction3 жыл бұрын
@@SpeedyCorky You hear the crack of a bullet breaking the sound barrier, not the bullet leaving the gun most often.
@SlayerofFiction3 жыл бұрын
Read "A Screaming Eagle in Bastogne' a four book set about a man in the 101st airborne "a" company. Way better than Band of Brothers evfer dreamed of being and far more intense. What those boys went through is unbelievable to say the least.
@dougbrowne98903 жыл бұрын
Lucky man, getting to fire off a belt in one of those. I know I'll never get the chance. Thanks for sharing!
@dansprague22 ай бұрын
There are gun ranges in Vegas where you absolutely can fire one of these for a price. Thompson's, Schmeissers, all kinds of crazy weapons. Go google it.
@n3d.studio10 жыл бұрын
Best laxative ever made.
@Bakgrind6 жыл бұрын
This is the first video that I have ever seen where you can actually hear the ripping sound that the MG 42 was famous for. The open field outdoor acoustics really brought out the sound.
@dukecraig24025 жыл бұрын
It's blanks.
@flip556guest62 жыл бұрын
"ThAtS PrEtTy CoOl i MuSt SaY".... Thats a damn work of art. The engineering that went into that gun, the Germans were genius to have built something as advanced as that back in the day.
@JR-bj3uf2 жыл бұрын
I had a friend, back in the 1980s. Jack was in his 70s at the time and he was a WWII vet. He said he walked up the length of Italy because no one would give him a ride. He said you could tell which side was shooting at you. He said the Germans machine guns sounds good and tight while the American's weapons sounded rattly , like a bucket of bolts.
@ThomyThompson6 жыл бұрын
0:12 See the moment of enlightenment when he removed his left hand from the wrong place!
@1971irvin4 жыл бұрын
Yes I was thinking the same ting... Lol 😂 He should have put his hand on the buttstock... 😒
@LeeFred784 жыл бұрын
It was the first thing I noticed...his left hand should have been wrapped around the forward part of the buttstock.
@1971irvin3 жыл бұрын
@@LeeFred78 yeah that is what I meant... Lol
@daskarman4 жыл бұрын
Shocker ! anything and everything from Germany was and is a marvel of engineering !
@glennwilliams65224 жыл бұрын
daskarman Pity you cannot say the same about their politicians.
@faerieSAALE4 жыл бұрын
iNCLUDING THEIR ROCKETS - FOO FIGHTERS - AND ANTI-GRAVITY UFO'S!
@roshiroshi12403 жыл бұрын
@daAnder71 wow never heard such a wrong statement about the ww2. What about flak 88 or pak 75 mm or jet fighters, V1, V2 Tiger tanks etc etc
@russellking97623 жыл бұрын
This and the FG42
@Riteaidbob3 жыл бұрын
"Hey I have a $100.00. Let's go shoot some rounds." "Ok, sounds fun." (Five seconds later) "Let's go watch a game at my house"
@stevewheat90302 жыл бұрын
Quite possibly the best machine gun ever made...
@robertb45634 жыл бұрын
"That's pretty cool!" Understatement of the week!!
@Jcp1084 жыл бұрын
The Germans in WW2 had all the cool Good stuff
@williamtomkiel82153 жыл бұрын
yeah - - about that "leadership" thing, tho . .
@phillipweissburg18823 жыл бұрын
Really...they surrendered and went to POW camps to die in Russia.
@hexjumper10604 ай бұрын
My grandfather told me when he was marched from his prison camp one night ahead of Patton’s army to a concentration camp mid morning the next day, they were appalled by what they saw. Their guards were regular German Wehrmacht, the commander a Luftwaffe officer. He ordered all the SS guards disarmed and contained them, questioning their commander. An hour or so later they lined them all up, had them about face, and executed them using two MG-42’s. Not long after, they surrendered to the prisoners they had marched there and started giving the starving people first aid and what they could. Two days later the camp was liberated.
@mirvama2 ай бұрын
10 minutes of scrolling and then I see this. The story is amazing!
@XxChozzuxX2 жыл бұрын
Most of All MG42 videos r fake MG42, but in this video you can see that this is a real MG42 cause the rpm. Greetings from germany👋
@c.a.m.62764 жыл бұрын
Despite of its efficiency one must remember the engineering behind this weapon. Most of its components were stamped parts, which made easier for large production. This is a "win" in war times.
@jamesparker10636 ай бұрын
yes, a special "stamp" so they could be shipped, "postage-free"!!
@dwaynedwibbly61474 жыл бұрын
Imagine being a soldier on D - day and you've got this thing spitting lead at you as your coming off the boat. Brave guys
@davemiller60553 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine was in the Rangers. He trained with SAS, SBS, Mosaad, Spetsnaz, GSG9, Delta, and others. Both officially and unofficially. He said that the MG42 the Germans used in WWII was better than anything we have today. Hands down all things considered no questions asked.
@fluphybunny9303 жыл бұрын
He doesn't know what he is talking about. Even during the war it wasn't unusual for the Germans to prefer the MG34. Better made and the lower RPM (but fast enough) was a bonus to the troops who had to cart the ammo around.
@Giacomo0201893 жыл бұрын
@@fluphybunny930 also after an extensive use they even had to change the barrel since it was getting deformed form the heat
@k_balu-81042 жыл бұрын
@@fluphybunny930 The MG34 were more problematic, harder to maintain and such, had overall less reliability, they made the MG42 to be cheap and easily maintainable, also while both have fast change barrels, you still could change the barrel of an MG42 faster than the MG34, yes both had excellent RPM, 1200 for the MG42 and 900 for the MG34 which were more than enough, maybe the biggest problem for the MG42 is the lact of semi auto, for which the MG34 had a different trigger
@NJPurling Жыл бұрын
When the German Army was allowed to re-form after WW2 they re-introduced the MG42 in the NATO calibre as the MG1. This seems like it still had the insane rate of fire, which was later lowered by a new bolt and the weapon was re-sighted for the ballistics of the new round. There is also a MG2. This is a conversion of actual MG42s from store to fire 7.62x51. So the MG3 is the evolution of the MG42 for the modern cartridge. MG42's were also updated to full MG3 spec.
@getafterit46473 жыл бұрын
People these days thinking they have stress.. imagine being ordered to take out a machine gun crew of SS soldiers defending a position with one of these in an elevated position.
@JRCinKY4 жыл бұрын
I fired one about 15 years ago and it was AWESOME. One of the most memorable events of my life
@Morunic77711 ай бұрын
This machine gun can tear you to shreds.
@Ashnola6 ай бұрын
And to think the guy who designed it wasn't a gun designer. Created the best machine gun ever imo because so many of todays platforms are based off it.
@guhdzz79666 жыл бұрын
The Sound of the 40s
@CycleGranCanarias4 жыл бұрын
Imagine the guys at D Day running towards dozens of those.
@sam84044 жыл бұрын
More than dozens.
@sovietchadster9074 жыл бұрын
sam8404 actually not really, the D-Day you see in the movies did exist but not the extent implied. The Atlantic Wall was still under construction and all the Bunkers and entrenchment that you may visualize were rare and concentrated into small areas such as Omaha and Juno. The Americans only faced about 8 MG-42s per mile of beach, while the most killing was done by infantry in tactical positions and deadly artillery from behind the lines. The MG-42 was a threat but not to the extent you may think
@DieterRahm18454 жыл бұрын
And the Germans couldn't raise their heads because of the enemy planes and ships. The question is not how could the Allies land but how could the Germans hold the line for two months.
@Helperbot-20003 жыл бұрын
@@sovietchadster907 say that to Heinrich Severloh
@NiSiochainGanSaoirse23 күн бұрын
Honestly, it's a wonder how we ever won he war. Even 80 years later, with 80 years of gun technology, NOTHING will EVER conjure the fear and the terror which this weapon did.
@reinercreekman22 күн бұрын
You become canon fodder
@shadowsniper33423 жыл бұрын
There is this magical number of a weapons RPM where a gun no longer sounds like a gun. And I love it
@ihatewhitey66893 жыл бұрын
I amazed the D-Day landing were a success with those shredders in the cliffs.
@cooldudicus76683 жыл бұрын
If the Germans were not tricked by the allies into thinking that D-Day was a diversionary battle and not the real thing, history would have been very different. Luckily the Germans were fooled and the Panzer tanks got there too late.
@dudesqr3 жыл бұрын
@@cooldudicus7668 that, and the accuracy and fire rate + the number of allied troops
@ragnar7043 жыл бұрын
I’ve read that the Atlantik Wall defenses were much less prepared than the propaganda of the time indicated. I believe they literally weren’t stocked with enough ammo.
@daveb.42683 жыл бұрын
Fortunately, the German's had to change out the barrel every 250 rounds or they would overheat and shoot the "lands and groves" right out of them.
@lone-wolf-13 жыл бұрын
My father told me, Hitler was sleeping as D-day occurred. It was under death sentence prohibited to wake him up, he promised executing personally who ever dares to wake him up. Maybe one hour passed, before the first decisions... (don‘t know, if that is true, or historically documented...)
@dschoene573 жыл бұрын
That thing is still in use with the German Army today as the MG3. It has some very minor modifications, but pretty much all of the original MG42 spare parts still fit. In fact, when I was weapons officer in the Bundeswehr in 1994, we still had truckloads of MG42 spare parts in storage, complete with Swastika and Reichs-Eagle on the packaging.1.200 rounds per minute, but overheats quite quickly if you let it sing its songfor more than two or three minutes.
@kennethtyree47707 ай бұрын
How much is one worth to a collector? Machinengewehr, one of the greatest contributions America gave to Germany. Thanx for helping create the US Army. Baron von Steuben lived the rest of his life in NY.
@yesyesyesyes16002 жыл бұрын
M60: I almost won the Vietnam war! MG42: Hold my beer, lad
@buddychrist53 жыл бұрын
Now imagine running through medium to shallow water on a beach with multiple of these firing at you with some shelling from artillery. Mad respect for all WWII veterans who experienced the horrors of D-day. And to those that have passed on. May they R.I.P.
@NoMadManKZ4 жыл бұрын
The German MG 42 was the fastest-firing and best machine gun in the world. they can even mow the grass. Barrels can be changed during heating in 15 seconds and fired further. Your machine guns even now work on copies of mg42
@ricksgaming72983 жыл бұрын
Throughout WWII just the sound of that terrified soldiers.
@_highonstrife64103 жыл бұрын
it was known as hitlers buzz saw
@acedius9903 жыл бұрын
Imagine 2 or 3 of them at same time :o
@ricksgaming72983 жыл бұрын
@@acedius990 I think of you hear more then 2 or 3 of them it wont be for very long lol.
@acedius9903 жыл бұрын
@@ricksgaming7298 Yeah, except u are on the rear sight of the gun XD
@billsanders50676 ай бұрын
He knew that you should fire three round bursts to prevent the barrel from being burned out by firing sustained bursts.
@rolandkleinhenz38253 жыл бұрын
shot sequence faster than the MG 3 of the Bundeswehr. Greetings from Germany!
@briandcruze15817 жыл бұрын
That is a serious piece of machinery. Or a deadly piece of art you may say...
@EngPheniks6 жыл бұрын
One of the world's most reliable machine guns till today
@mako23505 жыл бұрын
The Germans still use and export a slower firing version of the MG42 in the MG3.
@Bacanalable4 жыл бұрын
@@mako2350 As with the MG42, the M3 also can be regulated at 900-1,200 or 1,500 rpm by changing the internal counterweight.
@warrocketajax3733 жыл бұрын
When I was in the Navy serving with the marines I had the pleasure of shooting the M240B and the M249. The 240 was my favorite. Sounds like a train chugging. Very accurate, reliable and solid rate of fire.
@stephenwarhurst66153 жыл бұрын
That Cop looks like he can go through as quick as many Donuts as that MG42 can go through rounds
@ObltKG43 жыл бұрын
Pants that once weighed 1 lbs now weigh 15, 80 lbs of gear, soaking tunic, puke from the landing craft on your boots, sea sick, tired, scared and no vision of the enemy yet you hear this and HE rounds exploding every few seconds with mortar bombs, and you have the sound of this from more guns simultaneously than screams of fear from your buddies. This is hell.
@Creedbunman653 жыл бұрын
When I was in the 82nd airborne we went to Germany. Walking to the qualification range the MG42 sounded scary. Completely different sound that out belt feds. The tearing sound. Shooting our assigned G-3s we learned quick when the instructor stopped us that no oil on the bolts. The clp smoke told the tale. My G-3 was 37 years old..That's right they run their weapons with no oil.
@kane38253 жыл бұрын
I trained with g-3 too, although on a bit different swedish variant ak-4, mg3 still rocks
@davecrupel28173 жыл бұрын
I didnt think any weapons WERE run with oil. Except maybe the M134 cause it is motorized.
@MrKirby236710 жыл бұрын
That big unit did not seem too affected by the recoil! He was made for the gun.
@scottg92588 жыл бұрын
+Bloodaxetheirritable Firing blanks, not much recoil with blanks.
@MrKirby23678 жыл бұрын
Goddamn ! Thought that looked different from WW2 file footage ! Thanks.
@stefanschroter38046 жыл бұрын
He handles the gun in a wrong way. Look at the "Zweibein", in front of the gun. He has to press his shoulder and weight against the weapon to make sure that he has control of the gun. He is not firing with real ammunition.
@waltrohrbach24594 жыл бұрын
@@stefanschroter3804 right. Blanks. Not a trace visible of the rather hefty recoil, You have to lean into this gun, flat on the ground btw ( heels dwn lol) or you wont hit anything. Dran, Drauf, Drüber! Lol
@georget10i Жыл бұрын
I think this is the first video I've seen that truly shows why this machine gun was called "Hitler's Zipper" or "Hitler's Buzzsaw"
@doug85253 жыл бұрын
I’ve always wondered what one of these sounded like....awesome!
@amysanchealarz37943 жыл бұрын
thats officers.thinking " we need these in all our cars"
@cryingcatgoesbark3104 жыл бұрын
A British American and Russian solider walk into a MG42 the end
@dirtysniper34343 жыл бұрын
Well let's see here, if we take the battle sense of each soldier and training, the scenario. All 3 lay on the ground and start arguing. The British starts digging a trench. The American starts rolling to the right to flank. And the soviet says "just wait for glorious t-34" In a nut shell american/ allied strategy was to flank and spank a place mg position. The British chose to rely on air support do to having more aircraft on standby as well as less of a chance to have casualties. The soviet ideology in a situation like this would be to wait until armored reinforcements could engage. This is evidence by many situations mostly seen in the post typhoon operations to push army group center back. Its believed if you can have a armored push you can cover more ground and be less likely to get stuck do to suppressing fire. German strategy was basically all hail the mg. If the my dies...... well that kar98 bolt action rifle won't do you to much good against americans who's main rifle is a semi firing rifle.... or the soviets who by 1944 gave all troops who were in urban combat ppsh submachine guns. And I mean everyone in urban combat. The brits.... well ig it would be a fair fight
@cryingcatgoesbark3103 жыл бұрын
Butch Coolidge, welllllll if the Russians British and American solider take out the Germans mg42 the Germans would be toast but since the MG42 will probably overheat ima say the allies would win
@Shustrik13 жыл бұрын
@@dirtysniper3434 The first mass rearmament of troops with rifles at the PPSh took place in Stalingrad in 1942. The Soviet command considered the PPSh a more suitable weapon for this operation than a rifle.
@Shustrik13 жыл бұрын
@@dirtysniper3434 In Leningrad alone, in one winter of 1942, the Russians lost more people than all the allies lost during the entire period of the war, taking into account all the losses, including among the civilian population. Most of the people starved to death.
@dirtysniper34343 жыл бұрын
@@Shustrik1 leningrad was under siege, and last I checked entrenched soldiers tend take more losses under siege
@squangan2 жыл бұрын
I can’t help but think of for how many Allied soldiers this was the last sound they ever heard.
@tomwotton93 жыл бұрын
Dear God! You read about it in books and think you know and then you hear it for the first time and it’s just amazing!
@borjastick3 жыл бұрын
This just shows how advanced the Germans were in their design and engineering. If they hadn't gone East they would have won comfortably. What a gun!
@jfayiii2 жыл бұрын
probably would have beaten us to nuclear as well - what a different world we'd be in today
@snickepie959 жыл бұрын
Americans in german uniforms look hilarious.
@thehandlesticks669 жыл бұрын
we like to dress up as the soldiers who asses we've kicked
@snickepie959 жыл бұрын
intellectlevel: 'murica
@davemannelig74859 жыл бұрын
ThomasRocksU 2fat4me
@glaubnix14589 жыл бұрын
Movie Soldiers
@dfwrvr44449 жыл бұрын
Das sind spezialanfertigungen in xxl
@j.lietka9406 Жыл бұрын
I would say it's an honor to fire that weapon!
@rummsmurmel12 жыл бұрын
Wenn der Polizist mit der linken Hand an der Schulterstütze festhalten würde dann trifft man auch. Dort an der Schulterstütze ist eine Art Griff mit dem man das Gewehr in die Schulter drückt. Schöne Video!
@MrChadbag3 жыл бұрын
That gun is still in use by many European countries as the MG1/MG3. Slightly lowered rate of fire and changed to 7.62x51 NATO rounds. MG42 (or post war Yugo MG53) is one of my wish list items. But the price has gone astronomically high.