Social Meme Thread v.79: *Fringe Minority* (Honk, Honk)

[Witchhunt]

 

[Witchhunt]

 

[Witchhunt]

 

[Witchhunt]

@S Class killin' it...

 

[BroRogan]

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[BroRogan]

I mean don’t let your fiction get in the way of another fine comedy piece

 

[ElKarlo]

is that part of a railway gun or something similar? those are battleship-sized rounds

It’s a siege cannon up in the mountains against Italy. 42cm. So yeah it’s basically a large battleship type shell. I suspect it’s more mortar like than that what a battleship would fire

 

[Deorum]

 

[ElKarlo]

Allied troops capture a German assault rifle

Btw I loved those memes about the left messing up rifle and cannon calibers.

 

[Deorum]

Allied troops capture a German assault rifle

Btw I loved those memes about the left messing up rifle and cannon calibers.

I've actually pondered getting an StG-44 reproduction but ultimately decided that sort of like the Winchester 1887 lever-action, it's all a bit too gimmicky. I appreciate it for the influence on the aesthetics of the Kalashnikov, but it wouldn't be worth dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a legit piece manufactured in the 1940s. In that case, just get a MG42 or M60.

The StG-44 was the world's first successful assault rifle, with features including an intermediate cartridge, controllable automatic fire, a more compact design than a battle rifle with a higher rate of fire, and being designed primarily for hitting targets within a few hundred meters. Other rifles at the time were designed to hit targets of over a thousand meters, but this was found to be in excess of the range in which most enemy engagements actually took place.

The StG-44 fulfilled its role effectively, particularly on the Eastern Front, offering a greatly increased volume of fire compared to standard infantry rifles. The StG largely influenced the Soviet AK-47, introduced two years after the war concluded. The StG's influence can still be seen in modern assault rifles, which, after World War II, became the global standard for infantry rifles.

 

[HARRISON_3]

 

[HARRISON_3]

 

[ElKarlo]

I've actually pondered getting an StG-44 reproduction but ultimately decided that sort of like the Winchester 1887 lever-action, it's all a bit too gimmicky. I appreciate it for the influence on the aesthetics of the Kalashnikov, but it wouldn't be worth dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a legit piece manufactured in the 1940s. In that case, just get a MG42 or M60.

The StG-44 was the world's first successful assault rifle, with features including an intermediate cartridge, controllable automatic fire, a more compact design than a battle rifle with a higher rate of fire, and being designed primarily for hitting targets within a few hundred meters. Other rifles at the time were designed to hit targets of over a thousand meters, but this was found to be in excess of the range in which most enemy engagements actually took place.

The StG-44 fulfilled its role effectively, particularly on the Eastern Front, offering a greatly increased volume of fire compared to standard infantry rifles. The StG largely influenced the Soviet AK-47, introduced two years after the war concluded. The StG's influence can still be seen in modern assault rifles, which, after World War II, became the global standard for infantry rifles.

One could only hope. I need to get my brother to start getting good stuff like this. His buddy has a garage that is massive and he has an M-113 APC, iirc An actual one plus like 80 other cars or something absurd. ysha for us regular people I’d go with a mg 42. Tons were made and widely available and you can possibly afford it
And yeah being an assault rifle meant it was way smaller. A lot of wwi rifles were meant for 1km engagements and it showed. Those things were like 5’ plus long.

 

[ElKarlo]

Looks like someone used Google translate and didn’t want to copy the entire field and just added their own nonsense to it.

 

[Mr Holmes]

 

[BroRogan]

 

[Mr Holmes]

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

 

[J_C]

 

[J_C]