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=Additional Images= | |||
[[File:FG42-Prototype.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Rheinmetall Paratrooper Rifle - 7.92x57mm Mauser. The prototype of the FG 42]] | |||
[[File:FG42 8mm kurz.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Sturmgewehr M-51 - 7.5x38mm Kurz. 1951]] | |||
[[File:FG42.jpg|thumb|none|450px|FG 42 7.92x57mm Mauser early version with ZFG42 scope (top) and late-war version with ZF4 scope (bottom)]] | |||
[[File:FG42 2nd with bipod and bayonet.jpg|thumb|none|450px|FG 42 second model with bipod and bayonet deployed - 7.92x57mm Mauser]] | |||
[[File:FG 42-1 granatnik.jpg|thumb|none|450px|FG 42/I with [[Schiessbecher]] grenade launcher - 7.92x57mm Mauser]] | |||
[[File:Knorr Bremse Paratrooper Rifle.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Knorr-Bremse Paratrooper Rifle - 7.92x57mm Mauser]] | |||
=Discussion= | |||
Hello, I'm pretty sure the [http://shoeiseisakusho.co.jp/hp%20ZFG42%201.jpg ZFG-42] is the optic seen on the early pattern FG-42, not the late pattern one. | Hello, I'm pretty sure the [http://shoeiseisakusho.co.jp/hp%20ZFG42%201.jpg ZFG-42] is the optic seen on the early pattern FG-42, not the late pattern one. | ||
::[[User:OngYingGao|OngYingGao]] ([[User talk:OngYingGao|talk]]) 05:55, 21 January 2017 (EST) | ::[[User:OngYingGao|OngYingGao]] ([[User talk:OngYingGao|talk]]) 05:55, 21 January 2017 (EST) | ||
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Right now the page categorizes as a Battle Rifle. However, other sources out there categorize it as an automatic rifle/light machine gun. Are these categories valid? --[[User:Wuzh|Wuzh]] ([[User talk:Wuzh|talk]]) 19:36, 28 November 2018 (EST) | Right now the page categorizes as a Battle Rifle. However, other sources out there categorize it as an automatic rifle/light machine gun. Are these categories valid? --[[User:Wuzh|Wuzh]] ([[User talk:Wuzh|talk]]) 19:36, 28 November 2018 (EST) | ||
:I'd certainly say so; it was intended as a hybrid rifle/LMG hybrid, hence some of its strange features (e.g. the closed-bolt semi-auto/open-bolt full-auto setup, the presence of a bipod and a bayonet, etc.). It's sort of like what the U.S. intended with the [[M14]], except that it actually worked as a support weapon, instead of trying to physically wrench itself from your grasp in full-auto. [[User:Pyr0m4n14c|Pyr0m4n14c]] ([[User talk:Pyr0m4n14c|talk]]) 21:41, 28 November 2018 (EST) | |||
Latest revision as of 13:05, 13 July 2023
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Discussion
Hello, I'm pretty sure the ZFG-42 is the optic seen on the early pattern FG-42, not the late pattern one.
- OngYingGao (talk) 05:55, 21 January 2017 (EST)
Can the FG 42 be categorized as a Machine Gun?
Right now the page categorizes as a Battle Rifle. However, other sources out there categorize it as an automatic rifle/light machine gun. Are these categories valid? --Wuzh (talk) 19:36, 28 November 2018 (EST)
- I'd certainly say so; it was intended as a hybrid rifle/LMG hybrid, hence some of its strange features (e.g. the closed-bolt semi-auto/open-bolt full-auto setup, the presence of a bipod and a bayonet, etc.). It's sort of like what the U.S. intended with the M14, except that it actually worked as a support weapon, instead of trying to physically wrench itself from your grasp in full-auto. Pyr0m4n14c (talk) 21:41, 28 November 2018 (EST)