The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II.

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The MG 42 was the Third Reich’s preferred general purpose machine gun in the second half of World War II. The MG 42 could also be used with a heavyduty tripod, the Lafette 42, to create a powerful sustained firing platform.

We show some great footage of Mickey Thompson's twin AA mounted MG-42s. This was filmed at Big Sandy Machine Gun Shoot in Arizona. There is a guy there th...

Nov 26, 2020 · To this day it has a unique reputation as being a fire-breathing dragon of the battlefield—despite the fact that Germany used many other highly successful belt-fed machine guns between the years...

Not bad for two single-barrel, 80 year old achine guns. These two beats throw out a combined est. 2,200 rounds per minute. That's half of the volume of fire of a minigun! Not bad for two...

The present standard dual purpose machine gun of the German Army is the MG 34; the latest known type of German machine gun to have been captured is the MG 42. It seems evident that this weapon is designed to replace the MG 34 although the actual extent of …

—The M.G. 42 is a combination short-recoil blowback weapon. Instead of the rotating bolt action of the M.G. 34, 12 the bolt is locked to the barrel by means of two movable locking studs, located in the bolt head, and operating on two locking cams on the barrel extension.

The MG42 appeared in 1941 to supplement the MG34, though not totally replace it. The MG42 was easier and faster to build than the MG34, with a substantial increase in rate of fire. The MG42, due to its looser design parameters, could ingest higher volumes of foreign debris and continue to function.

The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or “machine gun 42”) was a 7.92×57mm Mauser general purpose machine gun that was developed in Nazi Germany and entered service with the Wehrmacht in 1942.