The StG 44 (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 44, "assault rifle 44") is a German assault rifle developed during World War II by Hugo Schmeisser. It is also...

by the Czechoslovaks in the ZB vz. 26 machine gun, and also used in the StG 44. The second prototype had a revised gas chamber and the cocking handle was...

(English: "curved barrel") is a bent barrel attachment for the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44) rifle developed by Germany in World War II. The curved barrel included...

World War II. The first assault rifle to see major usage was the German StG 44, a development of the earlier Mkb 42. While immediately after World War...

The StG 45(M) (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 45, "Assault Rifle 45") sometimes referred to as the MP 45(M), was a prototype assault rifle developed by Mauser...

World War II. Cleverly, the CB rifles took the design of the Nazi German StG-44 and tweaked it for more modern use, as a lot of countries tried to expand...

troops. On entering service, the weapon was known as the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44). Following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, U.S. forces briefly...

Gewehr 98). However, it was during the war that Germany also produced the StG 44, which is capable of controllable fully automatic fire from a 30-round magazine...

employed the same 7.92×33mm Kurz intermediate cartridge as the earlier StG 44 assault rifle and also used the same detachable 30-round box magazine. The...

Maschinenkarabiner 42(H) designed by Haenel, were predecessors of the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44) assault rifle. As early as 1918 the German Army began to study the feasibility...

(1884–1953), who was also a famous designer of infantry weapons, including the StG 44. His other son, Hans Schmeisser, was also a well-known weaponry designer...

research into a new MP-44. In April 1944 the new weapon received the designation of "Sturmgewehr 44" ("Assault Rifle 44"). The StG 44 was arguably Schmeisser's...

later and saw widespread use with the German 7.92×33mm Kurz used in the StG 44 and the .30 Carbine used in the American M2 select fire carbine during the...

Vampir weighed 2.26 kilograms (5.0 lb) and was fitted with lugs on the StG 44 at C.G. Haenel in Suhl, the weapons production facility. As well as the sight...

warhistoryonline.com, The German FG42 German Automatic Rifles 1941-45: Gew 41, Gew 43, FG 42 and StG 44, by Chris McNab, Osprey Publishing, ISBN 1780963858, page 67...

the capability of select fire, which made it close to the likes of the StG-44. Auto-Ordnance also submitted two other models not based on the Thompson...

the 7.62×51mm NATO round. Demand for the ammunition still exists, as the StG 44 is still in use by some within the Lebanese Forces militia, Djibouti and...

rifle combining the best features of the American M1 Garand and the German StG 44." Kalashnikov's team had access to these weapons and did not need to "reinvent...

The first fully automatic rifle to see widespread usage was the German StG 44, which was well liked by troops, as the 30-round, selective fire rifle gave...

variant of the Mannlicher M1895, the 7.92×33mm Kurz cartridge used in the StG 44 rifle, and the 7.65×53mm Argentine cartridge. In early 2009, the company...

warfare GSG-1911, a .22 copy of the Browning M1911 pistol GSG-StG 44, a .22 copy of the StG 44 GSG-MP40P, a 9mm, semi-automatic pistol lookalike of the MP...

British Army began experimenting with lighter rounds after meeting the German StG 44 in combat. The Army began development in the late 1940s, with subsequent...

1960–2002. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-78200-076-1. JWH1975 (September 27, 2015). "StG-44 in Africa after WWII". WII after WII. WordPress...

McNab (2013). German Automatic Rifles 1941–45: Gew 41, Gew 43, FG 42 and StG 44. Osprey Publishing. pp. 34 and 40. ISBN 978-1-78096-387-7. gives the G43...

military doctrine. The first mass-produced assault rifle, the World War II StG 44, and its preceding prototypes had iron sight lines elevated over the bore...

replace both the Karabiner 98k rifle and MP 40 with the new, revolutionary StG 44. By the end of World War II in 1945, an estimated 1.1 million MP 40s had...

(Luftwaffe) in 1941. Another German design that used selective fire was the StG 44 that was the first of its kind to see major deployment and is considered...

could be replaced with semi-automatic Gewehr 43 rifles and occasionally, StG 44 assault rifles could be used to re-arm the whole squad, besides the machine...

West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1990. OCLC 24416255 G. de Vries, B.J. Martens: The MP 43, MP 44, StG 44 assault rifles, Propaganda Photos Series, The Sturmgewehr...

the EM-1, while Jeziorański was designing an infantry weapon firing the StG 44's 7.92×33mm Kurz, the EM-2. A second infantry weapon was developed by Metcalf...