Why the Nazis spent so much time making a worse STG-44: The MP43/1
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The Sturmgewehr is no stranger to WITW, providing Jonathan with a fair amount of 'emotional support' over the years. This week, Jonathan gets to grips with an extremely rare example with a radically different gas system that only made the STG-44's already excellent design a little bit worse.
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