They were also using the MP44 for the elite 63rd Parachute Brigade into the early 1990s!
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Originally Posted by Panther Al
Non-Functional save for the gun and turret though: From what I understand it was a monument they managed to get bits and pieces together enough to get at least some use of it.
Nothing more than a bunker.
But do remember: this was Yugoslavia, they still used lFH.18/40m as a standard artillery piece, and that was the standard 105 used by the whermacht, as well as the MG42 - not the MG3, the 42 - as a standard issue Machine Gun all the way into the late 80's and early 90's. They worked very hard - and for naught in the long run - from becoming to obvious a puppet of either the west or the soviets during the 50's and 60's. Which is why they had a slew of WW2 era US and British Equipment. The 42's and Mauser Rifles are a legacy of them inheriting a couple of German Factories that was set up to supply the German Heer during WW2.
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