A folding stock could be added with a pistol grip and the barrel lengthened as well.
I think a good name for this gun would be the "Steyr Kar-35".
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The volkssturmgewehr as the german WWII rifle
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A folding stock could be added with a pistol grip and the barrel lengthened as well.
I think a good name for this gun would be the "Steyr Kar-35".
Sekhmet_D
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That may be, but the assault rifle has a lot more in the way of complicated moving parts and such.
The volkssturmgewehr vg 1-5's were designed to be as simple and easy to manufacture as possible, they were along the same lines as the Sten SMG.
Stamping tech wasn't there yet for earlier. This could not be made in 35.
Stamped guns was something that grew out of the mid war to post war era and was actually really tricky to get right. Had they had the tools to do it they would have picked something much nicer than the volksturmgewehr, well actually they DID pick something much nicer, namely the Sturmgewehr 45(M) which evolved into the CETME/G3.
Stamped guns was something that grew out of the mid war to post war era and was actually really tricky to get right. Had they had the tools to do it they would have picked something much nicer than the volksturmgewehr, well actually they DID pick something much nicer, namely the Sturmgewehr 45(M) which evolved into the CETME/G3.
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It should also be noted that the volksturmgewehr was an absolutely atrocious rifle that was made to be easy to make with the correct stamping tools but absolutely horrible when it came to reliability, simplicity of operation, ruggedness and accuracy when compared to other kurz rifles. There is a reason why this particular type of action never saw much success, especially in rifle designs.
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This is Nazi Germany we're talking about. Do you think even for a moment it wouldn't end up massively over engineered and complicated?
Any sources that can confirm that vkstg was absouletly atcocious rifle, absouletly horrible when it came to reliability, simplicity of operation, ruggedness and accuracy when compared to other kurz rifles?
The Wehrmacht requested a simplified GMPG shortly after the MG-34 entered service and the result was the MG-42, which took half the man-hours to produce as its predecessor. The MP-40 was a simplification on previous submachine guns. The early Panzers were most certainly not overengineered, even if their suitability for mass-production was not optimized to a T. The Panzerfausts were simple designs. The The stereotype of the stupid German who'll make everything too complicated is just plain wrong.
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It is cheaper than the Kar-98, and would be more useful in close assault. However, German infantry doctrine was all about the GPMG, and having 2 different rifle rounds for a single section probably erases whatever economy had been gained from the cheaper rifle.
No it can't, it's semi-only and it's mechanism would beat itself to pieces if fired in full auto.
Well first the action which requires 6 springs for it to function and the receiver which was assembled from many smaller parts (actually has significantly more parts than an AR-15, twice that of a G3 or AK) held together by screws (big eyebrow raise) instead of a few monolithic ones, this does not bode well for anyone who's ever looked at a rifle and then there is the action which was to put it mildly not suited to rifle use, kurz or no. The number of individual parts in the mechanism also makes dissassembly and general usage a pain.
Then there is accuracy, 7 MOA was atrocious even for the day. There isn't much else to say.
This was a rifle designed to be handed out to a person whose long term life expectancy and time with the rifle was measured in weeks or even days. if he had to maintain or dissassemble it he'd exceeded expectations by miles. It was cheap and its parts could be manufactured by smaller shops, but it was not simple, ergonomic or even very practical.
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So how many rifles use this particular method of gas delayed blowback?
marathag
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At the end of the war, metal shortages meant they were replacing propeller blades with wood.
So you want more wood used.
