Why did the STG44 not catch on after WW2?

[Tommygunn]

What were we talking about?

German stuff. .....

 

[Browning]

Personally, I've been interested in some of the small arms the Nazis were making towards the end of the war. My late uncle brought back one of their Volksturm rifles and it was a fascinating thing compared to their earlier designs. Very rough and crude, yet it still worked well enough. Never learned the model or who made it,though.

Did it look like this?

 

[RedlegRick]

No it did not. It was a very bare bones bolt action rifle. Last time I saw it was almost forty years ago, when I was twelve or thirteen. He gave it to my other uncle because he was a deer hunter. No idea what happened to it after that.

 

[cheygriz]

If the MG-42 fired too fast,....somebody forgot to tell the Wehrmacht. Their infantry squads were built around the MG-42.

If ground fire really should be confined to 600 RPM,. why do we install Dillon mini-guns on hummvees, trucks, etc?

 

[tark]

If ground fire really should be confined to 600 RPM,. why do we install Dillon mini-guns on hummvees, trucks, etc?

You are comparing multi barreled weapons mounted on vehicles to single barreled weapons carried by soldiers. Apples and oranges. The reason the MG 42 was so effective in spite of its insanely high rate of fire can be boiled down to one thing. The superb training of the German soldier. They kept the firing time during bursts to a bare minimum.