Re: Machinegun Weights

[Shawn Mulock <salamndr@xxxxxxxx>]

festusdirk@urbia.de wrote:

> just my 2 pfennigs added
>
> > HK21E(MADE IN GERMANY, BUT NOT ISSUED TO REGULAR
> FORCES)
> > (BIPOD, 4x TELESCOPIC SIGHT-UNKNOWN MANUFACTURE)
> > Weapon Weight=9.299kg, DLB, 100rd=2.994kg, Spare
> Barrel=2.2kg, Telescopic
> > Sight=0.65kg
> > HK23E(MADE IN GERMANY, BUT NOT ISSUED TO REGULAR
> FORCES)
>
> never bothered if the 7,62 or .223 version, but regular
> mexican army units used them in chiapas news footage. in
> europe some 7,62  might be "borrowed" from the german
> federal border guards (uniformed federal police) or the
> "kampfschwimmer"-company (kind of seals) by enterprising
> cells.
>

Cheers!

> > MG3(GERMAN)/MG42(SPANISH?)
> the mg 42 is the ww2 german designation of the design,
> originally in 8.something or whatever the german
> standard was. mg 3 is the federal german name for a 7,62
> version. austria uses the same, so do many forces that
> use german tanks and apc, the various yugoslavian states
> and factions use a wide variety of leftover old ww2 and
> newer ones, designation may vary wildly, but their
> basically pretty much the same.
>

Thank you for the clarification, I appreciate it!

=)

S.