Apache Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 I presume this 'rifle' is not another name for the MP44. If that's correct, who would be armed with it, where, when and why? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 http://world.guns.ru/assault/as51-e.htm Final version appeared under the designation of Mp-44 (MachinenPistole 1944), and then Hitler finally approved it, but the new gun received also a new designation - SturmGevehr-44, which stands for no more than "Assult Rifle" in german language. This was pure act of propaganda, but the name stuck not only to that gun, but to the whole new class of automatic weapons, designed to fire intermediate cartridges. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirocco Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 The weapon was known as the MK42, MP43, MP43/1, MP44 and finally the StG44. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Progression was the MkB, MP43, MP44, and finally Sturmgewehr 44. The MkB was significantly different than the others that followed. The MP44 and StG44 are identical, the MP43 nearly identical. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirocco Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 And the MP44 was the one that was most widely issued? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 hehe... I guess I should dust off my much expensive book that details the history of this weapon before responding Been a while since I've gone through all this, but don't have time to brush up on it now. The MP44 does appear to be the one that was produced and fielded in the most numbers. My book has detailed production figures in it somewhere, so I'm just going from memory. Many of the late war weapons production (MG42, Panzerfaust, etc.) never made it to the field thanks to the destroyed infrastructure and general chaos. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirocco Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 I think I may have come across the claim in the same book. It would be nice to cross check it with another source. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 I have the numbers easily reachable via Buchners book. According to the Heereswaffenamt records, which he uses, there were issued (to the army): - 53 833 Mkb42 and 43 (All four types) - 79 501 MP43 and MP43/1 (though some 19 000 of these were merely renamed Mkb43(H)) - 346 476 MP44 (only from december 1944 and on called Stg 44, or Stgw 44). Cheerio Dandelion 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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