What was that machine gun..

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..that the Germans used in WW2 that scared the crap out of everybody who heard it. Had some kind of insane rate of fire.
The Allies had a nickname for it but I can't remember.
 
Damn.

Designed to be low-cost and easy to build, the MG 42 proved to be highly reliable and easy to operate. It is most notable for its very high cyclic rate for a gun using full power service cartridges, averaging about 1,200 rounds per minute compared to around 850 for the MG 34, and perhaps 450 to 600 for other common machine guns like the M1919 Browning or Bren. This ability made it extremely effective in providing suppressive fire, and its unique sound led to it being nicknamed "Hitler's buzzsaw".[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_42
 
It is call the MG3 by the current German army.
maybe, but they're wrong
they did a lot of renaming stuff and rewriting history due to their great national shame.
screw that. they can own their past.
 
I had the chance to shoot a MG42 back in 1992. What a sweet shooter! The WWII German stamped receiver guns were generations ahead of the Allied stamped ones.
 
German machine gunners reckon it a mark of great skill to squeeze off only one round with the MG3.

If you wanna see someone get pushed around by the gun, put a skinny little 110lb Puerto Rican kid on the MG3.
 
Someone used to tell a story about the mg42, went something like the rate of fire was so fast that there were 3 bullets in the barrel at a time. Obviously not true, and I canā€™t recall who told the story or when.
 
I fired the MG3 doing some training with the (then) West German army. Standing behind the firing line, when a gun fired it sounded like a bed sheet being torn but in a deeper register. A heck of a lot faster than the chugging of our M60. The Germans were still traumatized by their war with the Soviets and weren't going to give up that volume of fire from the MG3. I was surprised that some German fireworks sounded like a Katyusha battery firing, it must've been hell for any eastern front vet attending a fireworks show.
 
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