Your favorite WWII gun
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The Lahti L-39, in my opinion
Just looking at the gun you think god damn, I don't wanna get shot by that.
It was a gun designed for the sole purpose of shooting through heavy armor to take out tanks and light vehicles and even aircraft. When the German army wised up and reinforced the armor in response to the massive devastation these types of rifles could inflict on them the gun was repurposed to a fear tool as well as a method of harassing idle tanks by shooting phosphorus shells into open hatches or ports to smoke out the crew for sniping or other troops.
The main disadvantage was the size and weight of the gun, with the clip alone weighing more than a standard sub machine gun. When overrun, the gun was usually abandoned but it was incredibly easy to manufacture so it didn't hold back much of the war effort.
But for me it gets the prize because if you got hit with that, you would probably get shipped home in about 15 boxes and 80% of you would be unrecoverable. Hell, its nickname was the "Elephant Gun"
Just looking at the gun you think god damn, I don't wanna get shot by that.
It was a gun designed for the sole purpose of shooting through heavy armor to take out tanks and light vehicles and even aircraft. When the German army wised up and reinforced the armor in response to the massive devastation these types of rifles could inflict on them the gun was repurposed to a fear tool as well as a method of harassing idle tanks by shooting phosphorus shells into open hatches or ports to smoke out the crew for sniping or other troops.
The main disadvantage was the size and weight of the gun, with the clip alone weighing more than a standard sub machine gun. When overrun, the gun was usually abandoned but it was incredibly easy to manufacture so it didn't hold back much of the war effort.
But for me it gets the prize because if you got hit with that, you would probably get shipped home in about 15 boxes and 80% of you would be unrecoverable. Hell, its nickname was the "Elephant Gun"
Thank you! Mosin Nagant kicks ass!!theSovietConnection said:The Mosin-Nagant sniper variant.
I have one waiting for me, just need my PAL and she'll be coming home finally.
In the classic words of Sarge from Red vs Blue
"When you kill your enemy, you want to look him straight in the eye....preferably 500 meters away through the scope of a rifle"
Ha, I forgot about that quote.Madara XIII said:Thank you! Mosin Nagant kicks ass!!theSovietConnection said:The Mosin-Nagant sniper variant.
I have one waiting for me, just need my PAL and she'll be coming home finally.
In the classic words of Sarge from Red vs Blue
"When you kill your enemy, you want to look him straight in the eye....preferably 500 meters away through the scope of a rifle"
THe M-1 Garand. The greatest rifle ever created. Patton himself said so. Are you going to argue with General Patton? No, you're not.
Its a 'tie' between, the PPSH-41, the mp40, the thompson, the mg42, mg34, colt 1911, Lee Enfield, and the always favorite, the Bren.
That's not a tie is it, more like a giant mix-match up, but the winner is the BAR, .30 cal rifle rounds, 20 round mags, and it wieghs 16 lbs(unloaded)!
That's not a tie is it, more like a giant mix-match up, but the winner is the BAR, .30 cal rifle rounds, 20 round mags, and it wieghs 16 lbs(unloaded)!
I've fired an M1 Garand and it is unmatched in how it feels to fire. It's my fav rifle. The only other WWII era guns I've fired was the Owen gun (mentioned above, suprisingly) which is completely un-aimable and the BAR which broke about 5 times in the half hour i used it.
He would've had a bloody hard time if he was only aiming for Americans.Ldude893 said:
Some german single-handedly killed hundreds of American troops using this weapon on D-Day.
The M-1 Garand by far if you just want to talk about standard issue rifles.
Best Machinegun: MG42
In terms of Sub-machineguns they were all fairly evenly matched, although the Thompson was the most widely produced.
Best Machinegun: MG42
In terms of Sub-machineguns they were all fairly evenly matched, although the Thompson was the most widely produced.
Different countries had different beaches. The Brits and Canadians didn't have such massacres as Omaha beach, but different nationalities weren't really that mixed. The Brits had Gold, and Sword. The Canadians had Juno. And The Americans had Utah and Omaha. Omaha was probably the hardest one that was taken and it produced the most casualties of any of the D-day Landings. Each nationality had their own beach to take, so you wouldn't expect a Canadian at any beach other than Juno, and you didn't see a Brit at any beach other than Gold or Sword.THEJORRRG said:I've fired an M1 Garand and it is unmatched in how it feels to fire. It's my fav rifle. The only other WWII era guns I've fired was the Owen gun (mentioned above, suprisingly) which is completely un-aimable and the BAR which broke about 5 times in the half hour i used it.
He would've had a bloody hard time if he was only aiming for Americans.Ldude893 said:
Some german single-handedly killed hundreds of American troops using this weapon on D-Day.
The most widely produced SMG in WW2 was the Russian PPsH-41shotgunbob said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41
Anyway, my vote goes to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTRD
One of the best small arms weapon systems ever designed. IIRC either Hungary or Austria still produces a variant for use with their military.