See, this is how the myth that Soviet soldiers had to share the same rifle spread, Nazis were basically gun loot boxes so everyone was changing loadouts.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This guy is the reason some soviet soldiers had no gun

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Soviet opening up a dead Nazi: "C'mon, Luger, Luger, Luger... rare skin, fuckin' score!"

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

So Mothergunship was based on true events

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can anybody identify the guns? They don't look like MG42 to me. Maybe MG34?

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 8 points 1 year ago

Yes very likely, the round air-cooling holes are a good hint, although they can also be found on the MG30 but those didn't use drum magazines, the MG15 did but it had square air-cooling holes.

Also I think the other models didn't have the buttstock removable while still operational. That's because the MG34 later was often used as a vehicle mg in tanks and the like, where space was limited. During my mandatory service we trained with the MG3 (still in service) which is the successor and basically almost a copy of the mg42 and removing the buttstock would remove the recoil spring.