The Assault Rifle that Changed the Future: STG-44 | World War II Documentary
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- In this World War II documentary, we explore the groundbreaking development of Germany's STG44, the world's first true assault rifle that forever changed the landscape of modern warfare. From its origins on the battlefields of Europe to its lasting influence on contemporary firearms, the STG44 set the blueprint for future assault rifles and revolutionized military tactics, used by all branches of the German Army, from the Heer to the Waffen SS. Join us as we delve into the history, innovation, and legacy of this iconic weapon that shaped the future of armed conflict. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more in-depth historical documentaries. #education #history #ww2stories #worldwar2 #ww2 #military #army #documentary
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Women-“Men only want one thing and it’s disgusting”
Men-I would die for a STG in my collection
Haha
@@troymcgowen3512 It's disgusting, with its long barrel and release and whatnot😆
These documentaries must take ridiculous amounts of time to make thank u for the efforts
These videos were probably made using AI but whoever is producing them was definitely not being lazy about it and knows what they doing. I don’t even mind he is using AI the videos are so good and well made! Although I would appreciate if he included more maps of troop movements instead of stock footage but other than that the videos are perfect!
EDIT: I retract my statement the videos are too good to be made with AI it just appeared that way to me because they use big words sometimes that I never use lol
I appreciate your nice comment but these videos are not made using AI, where did you get that from? Months ago when we first started making documentaries we used to pay for a third party narrator that used a robot voice apparently. But we work very hard on these videos, and aren’t made with AI, if AI could make these please tell me how😂😂
Thank you :)
Use AI to scan thru reddit and wikis and grab bs made up stories and then present them as fact. Works for a lot of channels across the platforms.
Issue is many channels on UA-cam are doing just that, Originality is becoming more scarce.
I salute you 🫡 to your dedication to uploading these detailed videos, one after another. Thank you.
Thanks Mitch🤝
My favourite history channel, it’s nice to have such original content similar to mark Felton, your both carrying the WW2 scene, great work 🎉
Literally
Mark Felton is an obvious Allied shill
@@adambane1719oh I know, but he has interesting stories never the less.
Video suggestions: Germany‘s V2 missile: the ICBM that changed the future
Germany‘s Messerschmitt ME 262: the jet that changed the future
Problem: It wasn't an Intercontinental Ballistic Missle, by a long stretch.
The rocket & jet were the2 wonder weapons. Fortunately there wasn't enough fuel/pilots for the jets to turn the tide of the war. To use those jets as dive bombers was an asinine decision by Hitler.
Fritz X - the guided anti ship missile
And Germanys defeat: that changed the future
@@thomashenebry8269 it was
13:45 that short scene of the man walking in the foreground with the Earth on fire in the background. Never leave my mind. I've never seen that before. That is so powerful and terrifying
One of the reasons that Hitler rejected the issue of MP43 to Wermacht was its higher production cost. Instead an early order for MP43 came from NDH-Independent State of Croatia.
These old photos of German soldiers wielding the StG 44 looked so badass.
Then again, no matter what they're holding, the Germans always looked badass 😂
My wife once said something like "Those Nazis were awful people, but they were snappy dressers".
@kevinwilson9589
Hugo Boss was partly to blame for that.
Great video, you never let your viewers down. SALUTE to you.
Superb content my favourite channel for ww2 topics
Thanks! :)
Congrats on this beautiful 1 hour documentary I love this a lot, I’m a big nerd of ww2 and this was great
Thank you for another great video, there’s always need for more learning , and I definitely learned a few more things watching this video THANK YOU .
That's the power of German engineering and design.
So many bangers recently
The birth rate implies the opposite.
But mpox rates confound the brown eye 👁....
One of the best rifles ever made. The father of all assault rifles.
Fascinating presentation, thanks for posting it!
Nearly an hour of STG content 😅
I’m sure all of us ww2 enthusiasts at one point said “man, I could go for more STG content” 😂
Yup!
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❤
... That's a good thing🥴 (less you have a short attention span of a child/teen)
A lot of people don't know this is the first assault rifle
It wasn’t. The MP-43 was. Really superficial program!
@@nickrusso1189 wrong that is a sub machine gun
The first assault rifle was the FAMAS
@@CopiumFactory wrong
Loved all the colour footage! Great video
Thanks so much!
A fearsome weapon !!
The US Browning Automatic Rifle was produced from late 1917 to the end of WW2, 350,000 total.
The MP44 was only produced from 1944 to 1945 but 450,000 were produced.
A little too little too late-!!!. Same with the, ME( 262 ) jet fighter
This is relevant how? It would be far better to compare a similar weapon. This was an Infantry rifle far more similar to say the M1 carbine. Same idea medium caliber infantry weapon. The US produced somewhere around 7,000,000 !
This gives you a real idea of the lop sided scales Germany faced in the war. Out produced 7-1, 10-1, by the US alone. Never mind what the UK and the Soviets did on top of that.
@@TP-ie3hj Comparing the M1 Carbine to the STG-44 and calling then "similar" is what US Army Ordnance did. I get your point about production numbers. On just numbers, the STEN, the PPSh-41, even the Thompson submachine gun all overwhelm the StG-44 in quantity. Even the US M3 Grease Gun was made in larger numbers--about 2:1. Of course just over a million of the MP-40 were produced by Germany:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP_40
The numbers tell one number. There were a quarter million Great War Chauchat machine rifle or light machine gun or automatic rifle (whatever you want to call it) produced--the Chauchat had a 200-meter effective range even with the powerful 8mm Lebel cartridge against a 400-meter StG-44 and its 7.92x33mm cartridge in a smaller, lighter, and far more reliable platform. Trying to compare platforms and cartridges is difficult--comparing numbers produced is easier.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP_40
The M1 Carbine was produced as a personal defense weapon, something that was half the cost and weight of the M1 Rifle and more compact too, a weapon that was supposed to replace most pistols and the submachine gun. Original specs were for a 300 YARD combat range, select fire capability and 20 and 50 shot magazines, but in October 1941 the M1 Carbine was adopted in semiautomatic format with 15-shot magazines. The M! carbine filled the role of arming weapon crews, small unit leaders and other front-line troops who were not riflemen so well that mission creep set in--improved sights to increase accuracy, bayonet mount, rifle grenade launcher, selective five capability and 30-shot magazines made the M2 Carbine more versitile and effective, and there were even versions made with folding stocks. The M3 carbine was a specialized night combat system for fighting in the dark to a distance of 150 yards. A conversion unit was developed to convert the M1 Carbine into the select-fire M2 Carbine and over six million Carbines were in service. Wait, there's more--the M2 Carbine was still less than half the weight of the StG-44 and cost Uncle Sam less to make than tooling up to make a copy of the StG-44.
The flawed StG-44 outperformed the M1 Carbine in combat. The Soviet AKM of 1962--two decades of improved small arms technology--had twice the effective range of the M2 Carbine, was more reliable, and hit harder, but weighed more--and the AKM is a better assault rifle that has been made in larger numbers than the StG-44 and M1 Carbine and Browning Automatic Rifle and Chauchat families combined.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKM
Numbers alone tell one story. Performance tells another story. Then there is politics and getting the victorious US Army to adopt a Nazi Kraut gun wasn't going to happen, not when the M1 Rifle and Browning Automatic Rifle gave the US Army a one kilometer kill capability on paper. Korea demonstrated that the basic four small arms (carbine, rifle, submachine gun and automatic rifle) were inferior under some conditions to submachine gun-armed Chinese infantry using infiltration tactics that got the Chinese inside of hand grenade range in trench warfare. That was mostly situational, and US Army brass wasn't letting go of having the ability to punch holes in paper targets at 1000-yard rifle matches! Study after study--including combat reports and the US Army's own S. L. A. Marshall--told the same story--squad level weapons were seldom effective beyond 400 meters and the decisive battle took place at under 50 meters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._L._A._Marshall
The 400-metter reach was important, it's nice to have a half-kilometer range for infantry platoon weapons (about 30 infantrymen), and heavier weapons plus armored battlefield transport to deal with machine gun fire and artillery bursts plus specialized precision rifle teams (snipers) proved to be the way forward. Getting 1000-meter range that could rarely be utilized at the expense of effective fighting at 50-meter distances didn't work as well, especially when the "old fashioned" infantry rifle was designed to be fired by an entire rifle company at area targets, at enemy regiments and battalions. Modern combat and old-fashioned guerrilla warfare was firing at single enemy targets, often at close combat distances. The First World War (when the assault rifle concept was born) had forced dispersed combat, going from formations of 1000 soldiers to formations of 10 soldiers in order to survive a blizzard of high explosive artillery shells and machine gun bullets. The area targets of the traditional 1000-meter infantry rifle had vanished and it had become suicidal to mass a firing line even in field fortifications. The smaller maneuver elements had to develop the same combat power as the older rifle companies forming battalions and regiments.
A densely paced company front was 30-to--50 meters by about 10 meters deep and about 1.5 meters high. An individual soldier was about 1.5 meters tall and half a meter wide--a much smaller target. Instead of having 100 riflemen firing into an area target, now it was one or two or three soldiers trying to hit an individual infantryman. The target and the firing conditions have to be considered.
Also considered is that despite smaller small units, infantry combat is still a team sport with really big teams. Infantry squads have to mutually support each other, and dispersion between squads may be 25 meters to in excess of 100 meters. If an infantry squad is pinned down by an enemy 50 meters to its front, and friendly forces are 25 to 50 meters on the flank or to the rear, a 50-meter submachine gun just doesn't have the effective range to suppress and destroy the enemy. Beyond 200 meters from the squad in contact, artillery fire and close air support is more effective even though that's "danger close" in most armies. Infantry is a close-combat force, and its arena is 100 meters from the center of the squad, with ability to influence enemy behavior to about 500 meters.
'Ever hear of the atomic bazooka, the M28/M29 Davy Cockett? It was an effort to put atomic artillery in a soldier's hip pocket, to oversimplify things:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
What does an atomic bazooka have to do with assault rifles? The AKM and Davy Crockett were contemporaries, even though the AKM was an individual infantry weapon, and the Davy Crockett was an anti-tank weapon with a 2.5-mile range. We Americans are crazy because the Davy Crockett warhead (20 tons TNT blast equivalent with an enhanced radiation feature) had a bigger casualty radius than the light M-28 launcher's 1.25-mile range. AKM-armed infantry in troop carriers or on foot or riding on the tanks are softer targets than the tanks. If the Davy Crockett had been around during the First World War... Crazy Americans! Using a Davy Crockett to capture a building means capturing radioactive rubble--but using hand grenades and assault rifles means being able to occupy a damaged building after the battle.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing.
If Germany had produced as many of these as they did the MP40 and Kar 98....man they'd have been unstoppable.
The leadership in Berlin consistently either delayed or made bad decisions.
But they DIDN'T.
So, they LOST
@@asullivan4047
No Hitler had been an britsh Agent and the two Times Blessing of 1942.
Hell yes.thank you from Redding California
Great video thanks for the work you do
Thanks Jonny🤝
It was the world's first true assault rifle, and after Germany's surrender it was copied by the victors. People will say that the AK was not born from it, but that's a lie.
May such informative videos keep coming, good luck ❤
Winners write history, winners publish history, winners own history, and most of us know only what the winners want us to know about that so-called good war.
If the losers had won you would likely have never been born unless your lineage met the approved criteria.
Yes the winner is Right history but the winners still give a lot of credit and some even worship the wehrmacht. Even though they lost we give credit because without them we wouldn't have AK technology, space rocketry a lot of Germans were begging to the medicinal and chemical stuff it's just they were leagues ahead of us in terms of innovation
Nobody has ever called it a good war. Trying to sound deep. Of course the victors write the history. The losers committed suicide or were executed. Key figures at least.
Bs
Absolutely the victors write history. There is a whole other side of WW2 that is not covered and most people know nothing of. The Germans are painted as pure evil, and honestly I think they need to really push that so the allies own war crimes and things they did were overlooked, and also why the Soviet Union was able to get away Scot free while Germany wasn't, and right after the war we had issues with the Soviets and to this day still have issues with Russia.
Remarkable feat of purpose driven imagination and ingenuity. Appreciate the content.
Very well done and spoken 🫡
Sir ! OUTSTANDING 17:00 documentary ! I usually watch mark felton. today is 20-08-24,,I ran into your channel 2 days ago,,,,I have not stopped looking at your channel,,,,very thorough,,, informative,,,,,and lots of information I've never heard or seen before ! My dad was a battalion tank commander in Patton's 3rd army,,,, he got me into this history,,, he said don't only look at our side,,,,,, look at the other side,,,,,he said Whermacht,,,,SS divisions,, were the most determined trained soldiers he had ever seen ! He had the utmost respect for all them ! YES,,,,they tried to kill him and he tried to kill them,,,,,,he looked at them with utmost respect, ,,he actually formed a bond with many in their later years as a warrior to another warriors,,,,everyone had the utmost respect for each other,,,,because it was war. keep up the e GREAT work SIR ! TY ! I'm 74 years old
Thank you so much, really glad you’re here. Your dad sounds very tough! Much respect 🤝
ty,,,he was a mean sob,,,, but he was my dad !😂😂
Your Dad was a very smart man , showing respect to the enemy as he did is probably the main reason why he survived ,one can still show respect to others even though one may disagree with what the other has done , depending on the circumstances .
@@golden36 This is something Trump needs to learn.
It was a StG44 that was the best firearm for the German infantrymen, without ammo it was nothing more than scrap metal.
Which is why the 8mm Kurz made, and in a way, broke the German Sturmgewehr. The new rounds was the heart of the weapon, yet obviously the Germans had zero reserve of such, unlike 8mm Mauser Rifle or 9mm which was produced since WW1 and had ample reserve. Providing a completely new round for frontline infantry use was an enormous industrial task - Italy and Japan both tried to replace their rifle rounds with more powerful calibers, only to discover the difficulties in replacing sheer amount of rounds they stockpile for decades in just a few years, and when the war started they were stuck midway, complicating logistics with two different rifle rounds and Italy tried to went back years worth of effort and issuing back older rifles.
The German leadership clearly realized such problems and Hitler put a lower priority on the rifle program since the new ammo production and reserve were far from ready in 1942, especially existing industries had to supply massive amount of 8mm Mauser for MG (the Kar98k (which StG44 would replace) was seen as support weapon for MG42/34 and only use small share of 8mm Mauser) and could not be spared. Adopting the StG44 early on was simply not an option for German armies and industries at that time.
Producing tens of thousands StG in 1943 that would only receive sufficient rounds in 1944 would be counter-productive and waste of valuable German industrial effort that could be spent on existing weapons that could be used immediately.
As such German leadership allowed the 8mm Kurz production and logistics to gradually set up while in the meantime blocked the program on the army distribution level simply because the logistics were not ready yet.
A popular myth that Hitler completely disregarded and halted the entire StG concept doesn't add up when one consider when the German leader first halted the program (before allegedly officers tried to "hide" it), the Mkb42, it was essentially 80% finalized product, with the MP43 next year being a more-or-less finalized, (aka it already finished development by then). Had he actually halted the program then Mkb42 wouldn't even existed in the first place.
Superb. Sturmgewehr. Assault weapon. Great show.
Great video and information l like the historical footage the stg 44 will live for ever
53:23 LMAO, im taking this
You make awesome content, I love watching and listening to these videos. Thank you for making such high quality videos for us all
Thank you Connor, glad you enjoyed 🤝
Fantastic job. Any chance we get a similar video on the FG42? My favorite historical firearm
Amazing 😊😊
Cheers Rob🤝
What is mind boggling is the fact that the Us only had a full operational main battle rifle ( Assault Rifle) almost 20 years after the Russians ( and 20 + years after the Germans).
As a super power that the Us were after WW2 it's very hard to understand how they were not able to produce an reliable,rugged and very simple to operate under any conditions,like the AK-47.
The M-14... Poor American soldiers that went to war with that Nightmare of a rifle.
And even with thousands of Stg 44 in their hands the Americans couldn't grasp the concept behind that kind of weapon.
Unbelivable.
There's many theatres of war where the accurate, powerful and mechanically reliable M-14 would've done a good job. Vietnam wasn't one of them though. Also they had that shit with a full auto mode thinking it was gonna replace the squad machinegun lmao
The Americans had the BAR (Browning Assault Rifle) in WWII. So, not sure where you are getting your info from. Hit was heavy but I dare you to find a soldier/Marine equipped with one that didn't love it and would trade it for the M1.
@@robertschumann7737 Man, really??!!!
Are you for real,the BAR,for God's Sake man get your act together because doing a fool of yourself is never a good thing.
The subject is Assault Rifles,not a 9 Kg 120 cm rifle that only one Man in a squad was able to carry.
Get real
@@jpmtlhead39 LMAO and the BAR is not firing intermediate rounds but full powered .30-06 rifle cartridges !
BAR is a LMG/BR
@@bsaintnyc that's the reason why every American soldier in korea and on the first years of Vietnam carry an BAR, right...if was such a good and superior rifle why not issue a BAR to the thousands of American soldiers who fought in Korea and Vietnam...??!! Wonder why.
It's nothing short of amazing how the germans managed to invent so many groundbreaking weapons during an intense war and lack of resources. To develop a new AR, with engineering, construction and testing may take 4-10 yrs nowadays. They did it in months, wether it was a rifles, tanks or planes, and they did all at the same time, and many designs are still the same as then. It is hard to grasp.
The StG-44 isn’t just widely considered the first assault rifle though, it literally is/was the first one. And others that came after were not just a little inspired by it, those others were based on the StG-44 after thorough investigation and testing. You can even see that by just looking at it *cough* *cough* AK-47 …
yes exactly the ak 47 is literally a copy of the stg 44
@@Rayder4Life Can you be more precise. because I can only find one (1) common thing and even that is not the same. The gas piston.
AK copy Garand's gas piston.
@@Rayder4Life it’s not a copy, but very much inspired by it
Its not a copy it has nothing simular to it @@Rayder4Life
How much did it cost to produce at the time?
Excellent!
Another great video, love this channel! I've actually got an STG-44, its in 22lr, but looks exactly like the real caliber. :)
I strongly disagree with the title of this video, Everything Germany did changed the future 💪
Is that why you lost the war?
Von Braun's (V-2) rocket-!!!😉. Definitely changed the future for the better-!!!🤗
@thomashenebry8269 I doubt he's over 90 years old and fought the war.
@@thomashenebry8269 you communist. Are you mad it took the whole world to defeat Germany.
@@thomashenebry8269No the west lost the war. Look how Europe and even the western civilization is today. Mass immigration from MENA countries, wokeness, violence, rape and decadence. Both Gen. Patton, Walt Disney, Henry Ford and many more was right.
What I would like to know is if the Wehrmacht had been fully equipped with the STG-44 would their battlefield tactics have changed drastically? Their squads were used in support of the MG-42. Keeping it safe and firing was each soldiers battlefield objective. With an STG in the hands of every soldier how would the MG be used? The STG would allow for a true war of movement with the infantry. Its probably fortunate the Russians didn't have to deal with that Wehrmacht in 1941. Could you imagine stormtrooper tactics from WWI armed with STGs? Yikes
It was planned to actually remove the MG42 from the squad entirely and kick that weapon all the way up to brigade level. The Germans got cold feet and it was rescinded but I think it could still have happened. Had the STG 44 (as the MP43) been available in large numbers it would have made a big difference. In 1943 tank riding troops appeared armed with only PPSH submachine guns and these tended to overwhelm the German squad with 1-2 MP40 and an MG42 the rest bolt action. Also mid 1943 saw the Panzerfaust 30, both weapons would have worked well together though I think the more effective panzerfaust 60 was needed.
Should do a video of the G41(w) and G43 👀
I modelled an stg 44 for my stormtrooper ¡and looks well!
Why did you remove your old videos from the channel?
A great episode, I have a friend that has the GSG replica version of the STG44 in 22 long rifle and its a close copy down to the actual weight which is just over 9 pounds, quite heavy but a nice rifle to hold with great iron sights that are accurate, would love to have the real thing
Some amazing replicas out there! Glad you enjoyed🤝
I suspect the AK-47 borrowed a lot from the STG-44.
Like the grip, magazine and general sharp.
Look inside the M16 it's a straight up copy of the STG only the exterior is different, and the AK-46 is a straight up copy as well the model before 47.
And just look at the Remington, and AK you should see the similarity.
And it's damn good looking!
Just fantastic. 💯%
Appreciate it Jason🤝
If You Mind Me Asking Can you Make A Video Of How The Latvians Fought In The Forest Brothers But Everytime i watch your videos i feel like Wow Its Very Great That you can make a whole channel about WW2 And you spend so much time well done im proud of you
Although they were influenced by the stg44, the similarities end there. The gun that was an actual descendent of the STG is the German G3.
Did you take one of your blitzkrieg compilations downs? I think you uploaded it in like 2021 it was so good why did you take it down
Phenomenal
Some good work here. Allow me, if I may, to ask two questions.
1. My research on submachine guns indicates they, with rare exceptions like the Thompson, are far cheaper than standard weapons in World War II. Does your research differ and what are your sources.
2. It sounded like you said that the assault rifle combined the range of a regular rifle with the firepower of a machine gun. But I believe, that assault rifles don't have the range of a regular rifle. Am I wrong here and what sources were you using?
Thanks again!
The MP40 was more expensive to produce than the KAR98K almost double the price intact, the Thompson was also pricy at about 108 USD per unit, that’s why the American made the Grease gun which was incredibly cheap to make.
For 2: Assault rifles tend to refer to full auto for describing WW2. Assault weapons traditionally were close combat weapons such as bayonet, bum of the rifle, knife, shovel etc. Assault rifle has been coined as such because of its blend of rifle and a close combat capability, despite technical misuse of assault classification.
The round and barrel are what matter for damage caused. Assault rifles tend to have a shorter barrel compared to marksman rifles of same caliber. Less accurate but spraying far more lethal pew pew.
..while typing this up.. it is being covered in the video...
@@leighz1962 Thanks, and I totally agree. My comment had merely to do with the range issue. Appreciate your help.
@@historyatwar Thanks. My research over a number of years and earlier today comes up with slightly different numbers indicating the K98 cost meaningfully, if not a great deal more than the particular SMG you noted. Also, forgive me if I was not more precise in my comment. I was referring to the standard SMG adopted by many countries (Sten, MP 3008, Owen, M 3, etc.) in WW2 which were significantly cheaper, as in the example you gave. Thanks again for your response!
in fact, the cartridge was developed by the Polte Patronenfabrik in Magdeburg.(why didn´t mentioned it?) The STG 44 was constructed by Haenel around that 7,92 x 33 mm cartridge. This time, the egg was first, then cames the hen. I live next to the area of the ex Polte facility in Magdeburg. Today it´s abanoned, and an Asian Foodmarket found it´s place in there.
Bolt action Mauser with its impressive range of 2 miles? Wtf
7.00
AK-47 is the descendant of the stg44
Communism has yet to invent anything except its own delusional authoritarianism.
Based on what? It shoot bullets?
Only in concept, not in technical aspects.
@@Axemantitan Achtually... AK was supposed to be SMG before ruskies realise what they have.
@XtreeM_FaiL No, you're thinking of the prototype submachine gun that Kalashnikov developed. It lost the competition to the PPS-43, but it did attract the attention of the Red Army, and he was put into the assault rifle development program.
I heard that almost 500,000 STG 44s were made during the war. 80,000 seems low...
About 400,000+ were made of all types, From the first variants to the last.
MP44/StG 44 SturmGewehr 44 Best weapon on Call of Duty CoD !
Hugo Schmeisser, the developer of the STG 44 was captured by the Russians and assigned to work in the same factory as Mikhail Kalashnikov who was working on the AK 47 at the time. There are no formal records of them working together at any point. Although both weapons look VERY similar, there are some significant design differences.
If you look at Kalashnikov's earlier work on firearms design, you can see quite easily that he had NOTHING like that in mind before getting his hands on the STG-44.
Yes I know the operating internals are completely different, but Kalashnikov never designed anything even close to being in the ballpark, let alone Galaxy, on the level of the AK-47.
There is NO debate to be had, his total inspiration was the STG-44.. The Russians even had trouble making the stamped metal receivers for the AK-47 and for a time were FORCED to go to a solid milled receiver. Early AK-47s with their stamped sheet metal receivers - "proved inherently flawed, mainly due to the sheet-metal stamping technology found in and throughout Russia at the time leading many production AK-47s to be rejected right at the factory." They couldn't even get that right.
Schmeisser was in charge of the Ismash Factory when it turned out the first production run of the AK47. No one had ever heard of a Sgt. named Kalashnikov at that point. You really can't expect the Soviets to call their new battle rifle a Schmeisser47 can you?
@@Eric_Von_Yesselstyn the Soviets were always embarrassed when they got caught copying German ideas and they spent a lot of time fabricating propaganda and fake stories to cover for themselves. American are almost proud of being able to absorb good ideas from other countries. This is actually happened. The German Army developed two assault rifles. The MKB42(H) which became the STG 44 had a long stroke piston with a tilting bolt. The other was the MKB42(W) Which was a long stroke piston rotating bolt like the subsequent AK-47. Both rifles were produced in quantities of 15,000 and evaluated in combat on the eastern front. Many of both types were captured by the Soviets 1943. So when the Soviet started copying the German assault rifle idea they came up with the cock and bull story about Mikail Kalashnikov inventing the AK-47 in his head while it was recovering from wounds in hospital. It’s actually almost laughable.
-We do have to give the Russians credit with one thing. They actually saw a good idea and went with it. The American strong the Europeans into accepting their 7.62 mm bullet and forced the United States and Europe into ridiculously overpowered and heavy rifles. This mess wasn’t fixed until United States Air Force General Curtis LeMay had M16 tested for his airfield security guards.
my go to AR in BF5
Germany best weapons makers in ww2 for sure and had the best weapons
My dream gun, because it's only a dream that I will ever own one
Well, there is such a thing as the PPsh 41.
800,000 were produced, not 80,000.
400,000
They were eventually going to be replaced by the STG 45 by Mauser.
I have always thought the resemblance between this and the AK47 cannot be overlooked. The germans basically were to thank for the ak47 imo
What resemblance?
Oh, you made a typo and mean the AR-15 and not AK.
No reference to the MP-43!
Cheers brother
Just like the ME262 the STG44 and the FG42 changed everything 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
The STG-44 was in development before WWII even broke out. Hitler was so confident the war would be over in a year he canceled all programs that would take longer than that to finish. His generals even restarted the program only for Hitler to shut it down again after he found out. Stalingrad is what finally convinced Hitler that it was needed. The Germans definitely had the equivalent of today's US military R&D back then. Just a short sighted Hitler kept them from some serious advantages early in the war.
It was part of his constant olive branches to the British. That's also why Germany didn't go into a war economy until years after the war started.
The new StG44 used the 8mm Kurz, a completely new round that Germany had zero ammo reserve of, unlike the 8mm Mauser or 9mm which had already been in service for decades since WW1. Hitler and German High Command never entirely banned the weapon program, but only shifted it to a lower priority that what more of the more enthusiastic German officer had hoped for, delaying its full-scale production and deployment until sufficient ammo production and reserve had been set up.
The limitation of German industries, and most importantly the existing massive demand of 8mm Mauser simply meant the Germans weren't going to get fully equipped StG44 units in 1941/42 as they couldn't make sufficient ammo until much later.
At 17:30 Michael J Fox is pissed off
Props for the Regiments soundtrack undertone in the beginning
Assad had some STG stored away and they were captured by the rebels, and then used against the Syrian Arab Army. A very distinctive recoil sound through a murder hole in 2013 Syria.
i have the book STURMGEWEHR! its great
Any chance of a video on how bad Shartler sabotaged Germany's chances?
The M1 won WW11.
World War 11??? You mean World War II
Negative! AIRPOWER WON THE Second World War
No it didn't 😂 and why don't you then use it now, rifles don't win wars and you would have never achived what Germany did in 3 years can't even take Afghanistan by the way the M16 is a straight copy of the STG and you used Erwin Rommels tactics in the Gulf war, an Abrams even had a picture of him inside So much for that, the whole Soviet Union made up of Multiple nations the whole British empire including Australia and India and the endless recources, but it was the M1 garand that won the war sure, you must also think the Sherman is the best tank ever made.
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This is really well done but I have to point out there’s a lot of talking in circles and even conflicting information.
Example:
“hiding” the weapon from Hitler being a myth just to turn around and explain how its manufacture and acceptance by the military was “obscured”
It was obscured in the aspects we stated like the hiding the name, as stating it’s a Karabiner to please Hitler and others we stated.
But yes the entirety of Hiding it was a Myth.
@@historyatwarI agree, but I still find the difference between the myth and the facts presented to be semantics. Still a great watch, though. I got through the whole video and it was very entertaining to see this much content on the weapon. The American company Palmetto State Armory announced early this year that they are going to start reproductions soon, and I may be getting one.
An Excellent Video Cheers and on a subject that can be much debated But the Way the German Weapons Research and Engineering Adapted and to a certain extent overcame the rapidly shrinking resources to produce such a cutting edge weapon stands as the Testament to their Skills.
Question..Did Krieghoff the Famous German Gunsmiths ever make the STG 44?🤔
My GSG stg44 replica looks a little like my AR-15, as proof right there the German rifle was at least 15 , 20 years ahead of its time 🤔.
If the Germans had made millions of it...
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Hum, if you take a look at Remington model 7, or model 8. The AK47 has the same bolt carrier, and bolt. The difference is Remington is recoiled operation. AK47 is gas. The STG 44 is tilt bolt, AK47 is gas operated. So, the M16 is closer to the AK.
I have a replica made by Shoei, the Japanese motorcycle helmet maker.
Russia took the design for the AK47
Wouldn't the .30 Cal Carbine for paratroopers be the first assault rifle?
The M1 carbine was good but it lacked full automatic and was less powerful. It could be modified in the field to become the M2 (in 1945 used in the pacific) which was full auto and with a 30 round magazine but it had a lot of barrel lift in full auto. The StG 44 barrel was aligned with the butt stock to limit recoil barrel lift. Thats why the gas piston was above the barrel.
No the M1 was semi-auto, thus it lack selective fire for full auto. It was not an intermediate cartridge round like the 7.92 x 33 Kurtz. Moreover its cartdrige was weird with round nose, not a Spitchescoss round.
@@carcajou1018 but could be modified to be full auto
@@marky555The M2 variant yes
@@carcajou1018you are talking about the M1 Garand which was only semi. I am talking about the carbine
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That Russian did not create the Ak47, Schmeisser was scooped up by them and taken back to Russia after the Allies screwed up and turned him down. If anything the Ruskie assisted him.
The Trial/experimental optics on the STG-44 were a nightmare and were never adopted, unreliable.
Although the STG-44 and AK-47 are very different internally, Kalashnikov did indeed examine captured examples of the STG and took most of the basic principles of the weapon and used them in the AK-47. If you look at Kalashnikov's earlier work on firearms design, you can see quite easily that he had NOTHING like that in mind before getting his hands on the STG-44.
Yes I know the operating internals are completely different, but Kalashnikov never designed anything even close to being in the ballpark, let alone Galaxy, on the level of the AK-47.
There is NO debate to be had, his total inspiration was the STG-44.. The Russians even had trouble making the stamped metal receivers for the AK-47 and for a time were FORCED to go to a solid milled receiver. Do your homework, early AK-47s with their stamped sheet metal receivers - "proved inherently flawed, mainly due to the sheet-metal stamping technology found in throughout Russia at the time leading many production AK-47s to be rejected right at the factory." They couldn't even get that right.🙄
There's barely any difference, really. Use a rotating bolt instead of a tilting bolt, make the charging handle crescent shaped.
Other than that basically the same piston, sights (in terms of arrangement), furniture (plastic handguard was incorporated in all planned German upgrades), even the cartridge, which used the same caliber as the machine guns for ease of manufacture was copied in concept.
@@gratefulguy4130 Barely any difference? In that case the AR-15 is 1 to 1 copy of the StG.
What are kalashnikovs eary work like. Op acts as if kalashnikov was an arms manufacturer. He was a tank crewman that designed the weapon while in hospital from being wounded probably for not having such a weapon
@@chadrowe8452 Kalashnikov started work on a submachine gun design in 1942 and light machine gun design in 1943.
In 1942, the future world-famous arms designer and then tank sergeant Mikhail Kalashnikov was wounded and hospitalized, after which he was unable to return to frontline action against Nazi Germany.
Lying in his hospital bed, Kalashnikov began working on first weapon, which he believed the Soviet army needed - a new compact submachine gun for tank crews.
Kalashnikov submachine gun
The young engineer took his sketches and blueprints to an arms factory in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he was able to develop the first prototype of a small-sized weapon with folding buttstock, similar to the German MP38-40 submachine gun.
Kalashnikov’s weapon borrowed the small-capacity 25-round magazine from the most widely used pistol at that time, the Degtyarev light machine gun, and was given a front handle to improve its ergonomics.
“Kalashnikov was convinced that tank crews needed such a submachine gun because they were completely at the mercy of enemy automatic rifles once their armored monster had been destroyed. Armed with a new compact weapon, tank crews would feel more confident engaging the German invaders at distances of 50 meters,” says Vadim Kozyulin, professor at the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.
The weapon's fate is decided
After tests in Tashkent, in February 1943 Kalashnikov headed to Moscow for state trials of his invention by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“The weapon displayed average results: it suffered from hang fires and jammed several times during combat tests. In the end, it lost out to the Shagin and Sudaev machine guns, two high-tech automatic weapons for that time, made by eminent designers who the military had worked with for many years,” added Kozyulin.
As a result, the Sudayev submachine gun was selected as the army’s wartime weapon, but Kalashnikov himself at least gained recognition in army circles.
After 1943, he was sent to an arms factory in Izhevsk, where he began work on a new assault rifle for the Soviet army, which would go down in history as the AK-47.
For details of the AK-47 and Kalashnikov’s collaboration with German engineers in Izhevsk, see our separate article.
#1. Kalashnikov submachine gun specification:
Weight: 2.9 / 3.233 kg
Length: 750 / 535 mm
Barrel length: 250 mm
Cartridge: 7.62x25 mm TT
Caliber: 7.62 mm
Action: screw-delayed blowback
Rate of fire: 824 rounds/min
Sighting range: 500 m
Ammunition: 30-round detachable box magazine
Sight: ramp
#2. Here is the Kalashnikov RPK-43, light machine gun 1943.
Caliber: 7.62x54mmR
Weight: - 16.1 lbs (7.3 kg)
Length: - 47.2 in (120 cm)
Barrel Length: ???
Capacity: 15 and 20-round magazines
Fire Mode: Full Auto
So yes he had couple of designs made and neither of them were ANYTHING like the STG-44 in design or internal operation.
The Mother of all Assault Rifle!
Well before the MP-43 it was a competition between Mauser and Walther companies and as both saw similarities between eachother Mauser won and lead to the MKB-42(W)
Why no one is talking about the MKB_42 ?
Fairly sure I've been killed by this gun when I tried to play call of duty hehe
Germa😮 would still lose in WW2 even if they had it in 39
All while the Britts were trying to figure out how to scout and snipe. Lol