Re: Machinegun Weights

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to festusdirk@urbia.de, on Wed, 04 Jul 2001 the word on the
street was...

> > 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.

7.92x57 mm, often called "8 mm Mauser" in the US and some other places.

> 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

MG 3 is the name for the 1968 model of the 7.62 mm version. Earlier 7.62 mm
versions were the MG 42/59 (that's the manufacturer's designation, IIRC, and
also used by some armies for the weapon), MG 1 to MG1A3, and MG 2. There
are detail differences between these versions, but for RPG purposes they're
identical, with the exception of if you care about the kind of belt it uses.

> 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.

AFAIK, all the Yugoslav versions are in 7.92 mm and called the M53.

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