Semi OT- Twilight 1950

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Give me a day or two to find the link and I can give you a website that has some images of a few US prototype weapons from during and just after WW2 including the US MG42 that you mentioned and I think also some of the early M14 designs from the Garand.

Originally Posted by Cpl. Kalkwarf

Just think of the possibilities for the allies.

Say the US industrial war machine stamping out MG42s and Stg44s (possibly with some minor improvements.

One thing I was thinking of is the M1 Garand re-chambered the new US M3 .32 cal rifle cartridge (the 8mm Mauser). Even a magazine fed version.

M1g: standard M1 Garand re-chambered in 8mm

M1m: Magazine fed Garand in 8mm

M44: American made Stg44 (possible slight modifications for production purposes)

Just some of the Ideas.

The US army was actually thinking of adopting the MG42, they tried to re-chamber it in 3006 but did not have too much success.

[Cpl. Kalkwarf]

cool my players like pics.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Oh and I just remembered something else, Vogrimmler (I think that was his name), one of the engineers working on the StG45 rifle, went to France after the war and then on to Spain to help design the CETME rifles that were then redesigned into the G3 by H&K.
During his time in France he helped develop a carbine similar to the Stg44 and StG45 but it was designed to fire the .30Carbine round.
I know I have pics of the prototype somewhere and it's on the net somewhere, I just have to remember the rifles proper name but that way you could easily have an American StG44 type.



Edit: okay, I've been a bad boy at work and wasted company time looking for these...meh...

Anyway, the website I mentioned is here
http://www.forgottenweapons.com/

The French StG45 variant in .30Carbine is the CEAM Modèle 1950, a brief wiki page is here with one image but you can find others on the net with the rear stock folded and also one with the foreward grip (actually a bipod) folded down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEAM_Mod%C3%A8le_1950