A definitive guide to German second world war assault rifles: The STG-44 and MP 43/1
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The Nazis pioneered the development of the assault rifle and the intermediate cartridge in the latter half of the Second World War. It led to a host of weapons under different designations with seemingly little (to nothing) to separate individual models. Jonathan Ferguson explains the difference between the MP 43/1 and the STG 44.
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