StG 44

Specifications

Type: Assault Rifle

Caliber: 7.92x33mm Kurz

Capacity: 25, 30 round box magazines

Fire Modes: Safe/Semi/FullAuto

Info

Developed by Nazi Germany in 1942, based on Haenel MKb 42(H) prototype. It was known as the MP43, MP44 (despite it being a full-sized rifle, not a submachine gun as the 'MP' designation would indicate), and finally as the StG 44 (Sturmgewehr = storm rifle) as development on the rifle progressed. The rifle is the first "assault rifle" developed which can shoot medium power "intermediate" ammunition, and was the precursor of all the world's major assault rifles, most notably the AK-47.

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The Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle appears in the following movies, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

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Sturmgewehr 44 - 7.92x33mm

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Haenel MKb 42(H) - 7.92x33mm

Film

• Frank Glaubrecht in Die Brücke

• Battle of the Bulge. This is the rifle that Henry Fonda examined from a captured German patrol while he was checking the personnel in a bunker in the early scenes of the movie.

• Tino Struckmann as Capt. Klaus Mueller in Brother's War (2009)

• The Bunker

• Telly Savalas as Zeno and German soldiers in Escape to Athena

• Various German soldiers in Downfall aka "Der Untergang"

• Manfred Karge as Gilbert Wolzow and Klaus-Peter Thiele as Werner Holt in Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt

• German soldiers in Ich War Neunzehn

• Rebel Alliance soldiers in the original Star Wars trilogy (as the "BlasTech A280" and "A295" blaster rifles)

• Pirates and crew members in Piraty XX veka (modified to resemble M16 rifles)

• U.S Army soldiers in Solo Voyage (modified to resemble M16 rifles)

Television

• Weaponology

Video Games

• Medal of Honor: Underground

• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

• Medal of Honor: Airborne

• Medal of Honor: Frontline (as the "Stg44")

• Medal of Honor: Infiltrator

• Medal of Honor: Heroes

• Medal of Honor: European Assault

• Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45

• Call of Duty (as the "MP44")

• Call of Duty: United Offensive (as the "MP44")

• Call of Duty: Big Red One

• Call of Duty 2

• Call of Duty 3

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (available only in online play, and as the "MP44")

• Call of Duty: World at War

• Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts (as the "MP44")

• Day of Defeat: Source

• Battlefield: 1942

• Silent Storm (as the "STG43"]

• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Anime

• Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

• Hellsing used by Nazi's

Animation

• Robot Chicken