Yeah, I know what you mean about putting the video into words. LOL.....I have written and erased several statements about it. Everything the guy said was true...though the inaccuracy is more than overcome by the greater number of bullets in the same amount of time, especially with the MG42, which was the purpose for the high cyclic rate.
But what else could you say? The primary automatic weapons used both by the Nazis and the US were fine weapons designed to be used for decades with minimal problems. There are MG42s and M-1919s still in use today in various third world countries. The M2HB .50 cal is still produced and being used every day.
Thanks for posting, it is a cool flick.
I think as the war went on even if the Nazi's have better designs the quality went down because they were using slave labor to make them
The quality did go down some but mostly due to new designs attempting to make the guns less timely and cheaper to build, i.e. stamped steel vs machining. The US did too, i.e., the M3 "grease gun", which was a fine weapon that was used by US tankers into the 1990s, but was nowhere near the weapon that the Thompson was, whose receiver was machined out of a solid piece of steel. There were only like three parts in the entire M3 that required machining.
Inclusion of the "grease gun" in the flick dates it to probably late 1944 or early 1945. Very few M3s actually saw service in WWII.
