Which LMG of WW2 do you think is best? :?:
Id have to go with the British Bren LMG. It was highly accurate and very reliable, and easy to handle and mantain.
The British Military still uses the same design today. (modified of course)
i’d rather with fight stones and crude spears than using British guns of ww2 era.
LOL sorry S.A.M. but think im going to have to go with TexWiller on this one. 
I dont think it gets any better than the MG-42. If is sounds evil, shoots evil than is must be evil.
LOL sorry S.A.M. but think im going to have to go with TexWiller on this one.
I dont think it gets any better than the MG-42. If is sounds evil, shoots evil than is must be evil.
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Ya, but the MG-42 wasnt a light machine gun, you had to deploy it first. I think the Bren is deffinetely on par with the BAR. But id say its better.
Oh i was considering light machine guns anthing an infantry solider could carry with them. The bren would be kinda hard to shoot standing up I would think. Not near as difficult as an MG-42 
Most pics ive seen of the Bren it was deployed. But if the MG-42, MG-34 and the american 30 cal are all out … then ill go with the BAR.
the BAR was also pretty hard to shoot. The Mp44 i think was more of a sub machine-machine gun type. Didnt have too great of acuracy.
The modern version of the Bren is no longer in service with the British it was called the LMG and was rebored to 7.62 Nato standard.
It was possible to fire from the hip but obviously was designed to be deployed on it’s Bipod.
Having fired it I would vote for it
Yes that’s nice but you wouldn’t last very long so why don’t you like British weapons?
I think most British veterans will tell ya they would prefer a thompson or and MP44 compared to the Sten. Bren was an alright weapon but … it aint that great. Sten cheap to make and decently effective. However did jam the day when the Chechs tried to use it to assinate Reinhart Heydrich.
I can agree with you about the sten. Not the best of machine guns, however it did prove to be extremely helpfull during WW2. It did replace the Thompson by the time the Normandy landings in 1944. So it was alright. The Sten was also the first SMG fitted with a silencer which proved extremely valuable. It was a favorite amongst ressistance groups because of its compact size, ease of dismantling and hiding. Heres a funny poem composed during WW2.
"You wicked piece of vicious tin!
Call you a gun? Don’t make me grin.
You’re just a bloated piece of pipe.
You couldn’t hit a hunk of tripe.
But when you’re with me in the night,
I’ll tell you pal, you’re just alright!
Each day I wipe you free of dirt.
Your dratted corners tear my shirt.
I cuss at you and call you names,
You’re much more trouble than my dames.
But boy, do I love to hear you yammer
When you 're spitting lead in a business manner.
You conceited pile of salvage junk.
I think this prowess talk is bunk.
Yet if I want a wall of lead
Thrown at some Jerry’s head
It is to you I raise my hat;
You’re a damn good pal…
You silly gat!"
I dont know why you say that the Bren was alright, it was great!
The sten was one of the first mass produced weapons using pressed steel and was designed that way purely due to cost and ease of manufacture and was intended for use by partisan groups and therefore cannot be compared to the Tommy gun or similar, It was still in service until the 90’s so couldn’t have been that bad.
The Bren was very accurate and a useful weapon and I would be interested to know which Brits you asked about their preference for other weapons?
Id also like to know. According to the information I have read on the Bren, the Bren was one of the most reliable LMGs in WW2.
The Mp 44 was also a very good gun. I dont know much about it though.
For MP44:
http://www.answers.com/topic/sturmgewehr-44
http://infos.aus-germanien.de/Sturmgewehr_44 (in German)
The best all purpose weapon is deffinetely the German FG42
Great weapon but didnt seem like it was used or produced much. Wonder why? Looks like it could do just about anything.
Great weapon but didnt seem like it was used or produced much. Wonder why? Looks like it could do just about anything.
“The FG42, with its finely machined parts, was far too costly to produce in quantity.”
i guess that is the answer.
Comparing to FG42, “By the end of the war, some 425,977 StG44 variants of all types were produced. The assault rifle proved an invaluable weapon, especially on the Eastern front, where it was first deployed.”
Also:
“An intriguing addition was the Krummer Lauf, a bent barrel with a persicope sighting device for shooting around corners. It was produced in several variants, an “I”-version for infantry use, and a “P” version for use in tanks (to cover the dead areas in the close range around the tank to defend against assaulting infantry), versions with 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°, and a version for the StGw 44 and one for the MG 42. Only the 30° “I” - version for the StG44 was produced in any numbers.”
And: “The wisdom of the assault rifle concept has been borne out in that, with the exception of a few specialized positions such as the sniper, virtually every soldier in every army today carries a descendant of the StG44.”
Quoted from: http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Sturmgewehr+44&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1
I have nothing more to comment…
Krummer lauf (bent barrel):
http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.988/outputRegister/lowhtml