RARE Sturmgewehr STG44

In the world of military small arms, many would argue that the most significant one in the last century is the Sturmgewehr.
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[@jakubukleja2553]

The Stg44 does not have an M16 style mag release. The M16 has an Stg44 style mag release.

[@dolphinerofachero3159]

Walt Kowalski how?

[@MrBiggins9999]

Cheeki Breeki because Stg44 came before the M16..

[@dolphinerofachero3159]

Just waiting for a mate thanks mate

[@Dja05]

The mp40 already had a side button :v...

[@usamahamada7355]

AK 47

[@elidennison9902]

this gun is 72 years old and could still kick ass on the battlefield if used today... crazy... anyone else get chills when the weapon broke open like and M4?

[@KC-bg1th]

eli dennison Most guns on the battlefield today are from WW2.

[@skylerhester6220]

Kevin C of course they are remade into better weapons, like the AK-47, it’s been replaced with a lot of newer AK brand weapons, the M-16 is used a lot now, however the M2 Browning started being made in the early 1900s and is still being used today on the battlefield, usually it takes 3 people to hold it, 1 for ammo cause many boxes of 50. Caliber ammo is very difficult to carry with the gun, 1 carries the stock, barrel, and the tripod, the last guy carries some ammo and the rest of the gun assembly

[@pratiktandel5706]

yes yes yes

[@rajeevd.296]

Some 3rd world rebels still do use this gun. Very rare, but they have been recovered from jihadis in the middles east

[@tourettesguy3858]

Ive heard that insurgents in the middle east are using them.

[@justinebautista1383]

Germans are pure Genius in firearms The Mauser bolt Action The MP 08 The MG42 The STG44

[@jonny2954]

MG42 in it's modified version MG3 is still in service with today's german armed forces.

[@andreasschulz4086]

PHOENIXHDGAMING// HQ And the germans are pure genius in rockets at ww2 they touches the space.

[@Franz420]

THX man

[@StarsWithScars]

FR yip he is called wernher von Braun

[@debdeepmondal5636]

Mp5

[@3gunslingers]

An old man told me a few years ago something interesting about the magazine and the STG44 in general. As a litte boy he worked in the office of Haenel (the developer of the StG44). They were fully aware about the problem with the wiggling magazine, but they decided not to fix it, because they thought it would help to unstick the cartridges in the cold russian winter. Germany had no big experience with long magazines. "It's not a bug, it's a feature."

[@OwlManoloPR13]

where did you meet this guy?

[@3gunslingers]

OwlManoloPR13 I think it was at a small festival at my village in southern germany.

[@OwlManoloPR13]

+Keyboard runner Damn I love Germany FREE COLLEGE ALL THE WAY

[@3gunslingers]

OwlManoloPR13 :)

[@OwlManoloPR13]

+Keyboard runner Im going to study astronomy in Munich but thats in 3 years btw is it true the German government r going to allow to wifes? I read that a while ago dont know if its real though

[@jonathancooper4914]

The STG44 is still a stunning weapon, even now. Lightyears ahead of its time.

[@alexm566]

eh, the ak47 is very close match.

[@davidturcotte5677]

@@alexm566 as a guitar is to a piano.

[@ΚωνσταντίνοςΠατριανάκος]

​@@alexm566 mp44 is more like a mix of hk g3 and ak47

[@Chino56751]

Great grandfather took home a Kar98 bolt action from the beaches of Normandy, and it still works. German engineering.

[@kingbarryscott8664]

Agent Washington My Grandfather had an Enfield from World War Two, he has sold it before he died, it still worked. And to this day, Indian Police are packing Enfields from World War One.

[@Chino56751]

Some designs are built to last

[@GenScinmore]

+Agent Washington like all bolt action rifles...

[@Chino56751]

German engineering

[@Chino56751]

That was a bad business, Doesn't count/

[@apb2887]

The sturmgewehr is my all time favorite assault rifle. Definitely at the top of my dream list. It is scary how advanced germany's military was in WW2. small arms, LMG's, tanks, missile technology and jet engine technology.

[@gustavoechevarria9369]

And still lost 😂

[@apb2887]

I wasnt aware of that, thanks for pointing that out

[@wrongthinker4475]

@@gustavoechevarria9369 Wherever you're from, the Germans would have destroyed your country in a matter of days, maybe weeks if your country was their only enemy.

[@gustavoechevarria9369]

Alexander Alaric writing on a 2 year old thread won’t get you anywhere, but noted

[@beverlywilliams8458]

@@wrongthinker4475 *Laughs in American* The Civilian population of America alone would destroy Germany's army lol

[@stephenn6657]

I dont care about its weaknesses. This gun is amazingly stable in full auto.

[@xmm-cf5eg]

+Stephen N Because it weighs 10 pounds, More weight usually decreases weapon recoil to an extent. For example: an Ak variant weighs 8.5, and the Mosin-Nagant 91/30 weighs 9.5

[@NavySturmGewehr]

+7.62 -39mm Weight was certainly a factor but the design of the recoil system was also part of that. The action is allowed to travel 3.5x the overall length of the cartridge. This allows the bolt carrier to run out on the recoil springs without striking the stop at the back of the buttstock. Even in semi-auto the recoil impulse feels like nothing else, but sounds similar to the AR15.

[@xmm-cf5eg]

NavySturmGewehr nice to know, thanks.

[@cornellkirk8946]

What grouping have you had at fully auto and at what range?

[@cadu_kilmister7672]

Lol

[@linkieloos]

We should all have sturmgewehrs! You get a sturmgewehr, you get a sturmgewehr! *EVERYONE GETS STURMGEWEHRS!!!*

[@kennuppenau5818]

-erection intensifies-

[@MarikHavair]

@@kennuppenau5818 *Ready, UP!*

[@2PLUS2FIVE]

WELL U SOUND LIKE A SOVEIT!!!!!!

[@blackegret666]

PUT AN EIGHT CENTIMETRE ROCKET UP THEIR ARSE!

[@23GreyFox]

@Niko Umicevic Wow, stalin was talking about 5 million dead, decades later it bacame 20 or even 40 million. In 20 years it will be 100 million dead sovjets.

[@TheAngrySaxon1]

I'm honestly surprised the former Allied powers didn't just straight up copy the entire design. It was way ahead of its time, would have given the West a comparable rifle to the Soviets almost immediately, and it really only needed some minor detailing work. National pride getting in the way of good weapons as usual!

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

Zenith, the U.S. and NATO, having won the war with 1930s technology small arms, were late to jump on the assault rifle bandwagon. Britain didn't declare the Lee-Enfield bolt-action obsolete until, get this - the 1990's! The U.S. jumped somewhat sooner, with the 1960s M16. Britain's SA80 bull-pup came into service in the 1980s. You are right about national pride; quality is quality, regardless of nation or origin.

[@douglaswalsh9629]

Anton Kalashnikov more or less did that

[@y0Milan]

@@GeorgiaBoy1961 You do realise that the British had the 7.62mm FN FAL as their service rifle by 1954 (L1A1 SLR), before the Americans had the M16? The British made the 'jump' to a modern polymer body self loading rifle a decade before the United States. The Lee-Enfield was kept in service only as a 7.62 sniper/marksman's rifle after the L1A1 was widely adopted. .

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

@@y0Milan - Yes, I am aware of all of those things. What's your point?

[@y0Milan]

@@GeorgiaBoy1961 read your comment? You said that britain didnt replace the Lee-Enfield as its service rifle until the SA80, and America had the M16 while britain retained the Bolt action.

[@qpr3n9nl42]

STG 44 has changed everything.

[@Kyrichenko]

***** Mnoge je pretvorila iz živih u mrtve...

[@gast128]

+Herceg Bosna 90 it didn't change the outcome of the war though

[@gast128]

+КОСОВСКИ ОСВЕТНИК Yes I understood that; my remark was partial ironic indicating that this (r)evolutionary weapon didn't have a big difference on the outcome of WW2. It couldn't beat the war production statistics of the Soviet Union.

[@derscharfschutze6444]

+gast128 Quality and technology was beated by numbers and fucking piece of shit worthless garbage allies like the italians romanians hungarians and whoever else was on axis exept finland and Japan.(btw I am a romanian )

[@gast128]

+VidandRico The fact of the matter stays that while Germany made good weaponry, they could never win it over the sheer numbers produced by the Soviet Union. In retrospect that was a good thing though, since otherwise the atomic bomb had fall on Berlin besides the other horrifying things the Nazi regime did to humanity. Please come up with arguments next time instead of childish name calling, or a you one of those brain dead gun enthusiast without any connection to reality?

[@digitalblasphemy1100]

Definition of a perfect video. Perfect amount of information, perfect pacing, editing, effects, and composition. TOP NOTCH! Thank you for not putting a rock song over it. The gun makes music, no reason to ruin it.

[@timothymeyer123]

Great video. In the Marine Corps, using the M16A1, we never loaded more than 28 rounds in a 30 round mag for exactly the reasons you mentioned. And these were new magazines, but this is what we were taught in OCS/TBS. You fill it up with 30 and it jams every time.

[@JonSkinner1944]

That was probably the best STG44 video, I’ve ever seen. Outstanding job!

[@titanplatoon]

german engineering!

[@Lazorvictory]

M773 dude, the STG44 was the most advanced assault rifle over made during the Second World War.

[@Lazorvictory]

I mean ever made.

[@llKoopav2ll]

M773 lay off your salt, go grab a bigmac and be happy

[@llKoopav2ll]

M773 now the salt factory collapsed. idgaf where you live or why do you tell me? you want to date me sissy? thanks but no

[@luisborja9736]

M773 If you called him a Nazi based off of his profile picture, you really have much research to do.

[@jakewolf079]

it's a living piece of art.

[@Hyper_Vyle]

loved that slowmo on the mechanisms

[@FeatheringitBrother]

I've always had a fascination for this firearm. Fantastic showcase, great slow motion as always, & good pointers. Thanks Larry, as usual, I'm seething with jealousy.

[@FeatheringitBrother]

James Xavier​ That's where they got the idea from supposedly. & People tend to think that this was the first Assault Rifle, but as larry explained, it was technically the Federov. Good luck finding one these lol.

[@FeatheringitBrother]

James Xavier Lol 30-40k minimum.

[@SONOFAZOMBIE2025]

Sir Strange STG is actually very easy to find. There are dozens for sale everyday. (finding the money is hard part) :D

[@FeatheringitBrother]

Son of a Zombie I don't recall mentioning they were hard to find?

[@ma.luisadestreza2392]

@@FeatheringitBrother Lol the fedorov avtomat is the first assault rifle?! WTF stop deluding yourself. An assault rifle fires an intermediate cartridge and is select fire. It fires the 6.5x50mm Arisaka cartridge and is used by the type 38 bolt-action rifle, therefore not an AR cartridge. *pls stop embarassing yourself here kid ;)))*

[@joeynice123]

Such an revolutionary platform. I attended a machine gun shoot once and waited over an hour to run the stg44 and it didn't disappoint. Unbelievable firearm...especially for its age. Ran 4 mags through it at a bus and made it look like swiss cheese.The reciprocating charging handle makes it fedl very controllable and the rate of fire is just about perfect A dream list rifle.

[@gratefulguy4130]

Nice pfp

[@braedenh4687]

Hey sir, Mr. Vickers, whatever you want to go by, I've been watching your absolutely amazing videos, and I'm just here to say 1) your videos are astounding, and 2) thank you so much for your service. People like you are the people that make my country free. I salute you

[@excesshorsepower1452]

Enough with the random slowmo and cuts to different shots. Let me see a whole magazine in automatic.

[@dchartier1]

I agree!

[@phils866]

I was just going to post that, but you got there before me!

[@haleynathanielanderson2615]

Yup! Couldn't agree more!

[@descriptiondescriptiondescript]

Is it safe to call this a masterpiece?

[@VRichardsn]

***** The passage of time isn´t free.

[@rajeevd.296]

@Fawthur after some modifications and chambered in a modern caliber, yes. Just like the ak series.

[@Wehraboo-fi9vm]

99CCFF756e6b6e6f776e6578696199CCFF647072746c646b *No! If you call this a masterpiece it most mean you’re a NEO NAZI*

[@C10-l1m]

@@Wehraboo-fi9vm are u stupid? Just because something was developed in a certain era doesnt mean it has anything to do with the politics...it sure was a masterpiece when it comes to weapon design at that early ages. Following that retarded logic you couldnt use german 'autobahns' without being a nazi, 'cause guess what, Hitler came up with building them. See how stupid you are?

[@adonisguy3243]

@@Wehraboo-fi9vm , the Iron Cross and Swastika predates Nazi Germany!

[@badweetabix]

Larry, your videos just get better and better. Thank you for all the hard work that went into this and your past service to our nation. They sure know how to train you guys to shoot in Delta.

[@mohamedwassimahmed6645]

AK47: Hey Assult Rifles I am your father. STG44: Cough Cough, you're my son AK.

[@gonuts4donuts]

The Fedorov was used in the same way the Chauchat was. A crew-served automatic rifle isn't really an assault rifle like the MP43/StG44. The StG was THE FIRST in its class.

[@thermionicemission6355]

That info is incorrect I believe, I can't remember where I found it, but there was a video (after WW1 I assume) which showed it being used in bursts kind of like a modern AR.

[@Артём-ц5э8з]

You're wrong. Fedorov is an individual weapon. It was used in exactly the same way as any modern assault rifle. The only difference was in the use of a rifle cartridge. But in this direction, Fedorov outlined the meaning of the modern assault rifle. He used a weaker Japanese cartridge, not a more powerful Russian one. The Germans did absolutely everything the same: they weakened the cartridge and added automatic fire. The difference between these weapons is only in age and the Russian Revolution that prevented Fedorov. And the meaning and purpose of these rifles is absolutely the same.

[@Felix0770]

Those camera angles and slow motion effects were actually really cool. More please.

[@AdrianDotis]

Very nice footage of the STG44 in action. The close ups and slow motion gave an amazing insight into how the firearm functioned. Hats off to you guys!

[@NKA23]

German engineers: So you want a three-or-four-weapons-in-one kind of firearm, right? German military: Yes. German engineers: It should be capable of laying surpressive full auto fire on the enemy like a light machine gun, be as compact as a submachine gun or a carbine and as accurate as a normal semi-auto rifle, right? German military: Yes, exactly. German engineers: So basically you want a weapon of the future, a kind of weapon that will become the new standard for infantrymen firearms for more than the next 80 years? German military: Yes, please. Can you design and build a weapon like that? German engineers: Of course we can, we're German engineers, that's what we do.

[@gutsjoestar7450]

Wehraboo

[@MOSINNAGANTM]

Guts Joestar Stfu Geek your country in ww2 didnt have assault rifles like germans

[@kilppa]

This has always been one of my favourite guns. It just blows my mind how they did not see the obvious flaw of the front grip overheating. That seems like a small thing but might've had a major impact on the battle effectiveness of the gun, because gripping from the magazine isn't nearly as good, especially for your average soldier.

[@thumperpaul]

I think if this weapon had been developed earlier in the war, the designers would have incorporated a wooden fore stock.

[@ThisChannelFTW]

A weapons expert matched with a beautiful weapon. Thank the internet that we get to see this.

[@ezrapatty9795]

Myself you're actually a nazi

[@johng9431]

Myself a beautiful man matched with a beautiful weapon

[@chickenstrangler3826]

You must've been purposefully going for authoritarian

[@Modernww2fare]

Without this gun, there would be no AK series. Before he died, Kalashnikov admitted to having worked with Hugo Schmeisser while developing the AK47

[@MultiNihilus]

justinjacques766 Hugo Schmeisser designed the AK46 with Mikhail Kalahsnikov, but their design was refused. Mikhail made his own modifications that Hugo disagreed with and the AK47 was born

[@Modernww2fare]

Edgar Bin Laasen AK46, sir?

[@MultiNihilus]

justinjacques766 the first assault rifle Kalashnikov showed. It was a direct copy of the STG44

[@Modernww2fare]

Edgar Bin Laasen So the final product ended up being an upgraded STG44?

[@MultiNihilus]

justinjacques766 No, Kalashnikov got rid of the STG44 and the AK46 turned into AK47

[@nemo5335]

Finally, someone remembers the Federov Avtomat. Also, there was the Winchester 1907, which the French modified to be selective fire in WW1. They fired a .351 WSL cartridge which was very similar to 7.62x39, and so they were unambiguously assault rifles. The French loved those rifles and bought every one they could get their hands on, but given the manufacturing capabilities of the time, Winchester just couldn't make very many.

[@archangelst3]

I saw this Gun being used by Brad Pitt in the movie "Fury", he was playing an American Tank Commander in the film but seeing as how he opted to use this gun just proves how awesome it is.

[@TheRPlayG]

I give this video a thumb up not just because of your detailed presentation but the video & angle is also a top notch, well done.

[@codybrown1320]

The comparisons to other guns is actually really helpful in my opinion. Both to give you a better idea and to explain how the Stg changed firearms history.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Great video!

[@songgut]

Mrgunsngear Channel :D

[@Colin-kh6kp]

Its crazy that 80 years later and soldiers are still armed with what is basically the same weapon. WW2 soldiers probably imagined laser weapons with how fast weapons were advancing from the beginning of the twentieth century through WW2.

[@longshot7590]

The rifle you claim at 0:36 to be "The 1st Assault rifle" (the FEDEROV) isn't shooting to reduced power rifle cartridge - so it is NOT an assault rifle. It's just a full auto, box fed battle rifle shooting a full rifle caliber (6.5 x 50) weapon like the FG42 or the venerable BAR did. Therefore title of 1st Assault gun still goes to the STG!! The Innovation was the reduced rifle round!!!

[@adonizi]

I believe there were some prototype intermediate full auto rifles. But they were just obscure prototypes. STG44s were produced over 400 thousand, the name assault rifle comes from here. The looks and the controls come from here and the tactics and the concept comes from here. For all purposes this was the first assault rifle, even though some prototypes existed before it.

[@bolt2510]

Ur slow motion work in this video on the stg44 is absolutely beautiful thank you

[@kazoolordhd6591]

the stg 44 sights are amazing, so nice and clean, easy to understand, not like all american weapons m1garand onwards (split V)

[@Hibernicus1968]

+SkyDogsGaming Actually, the M1 sights are pretty simple. And there's a reason that the vast majority of modern iron sights use a rear peep sight like the M1 and not a forward mounted V notch like the StG44 -- the peep sight is a better setup. You get a longer sight radius, it's easier to pickup quickly, and it's more precise. It's a better system.

[@kazoolordhd6591]

Darren O'Connor how do I shoot with a V with a pencil in the middle, and a cheerio/fruit loop at the back, v notch sights are very natural, "peep sights" are shit, they have no feild of veiw.

[@Hibernicus1968]

Wow, then you are right, and the vast majority of armies in the world today are doing it wrong. You'd better hurry up and tell them.

[@Hibernicus1968]

That was sarcasm, in case you didn't get it. You solve the field of view problem by shooting with both eyes open, which is the correct way, BTW. Some sights also have a larger aperture for general use, and a smaller one for precision shots. If you use them PROPERLY, peep sights are better.

[@Hibernicus1968]

Really? I never had the slightest bit of problem with a peep sight, or shooting with both eyes open when I was shooting the M16A2, or the M4 as an infantryman in the army. I was in before they started putting optical sights on those things. Yes the rear aperture will be unfocused. You can still center the front post in it with no problem, and have a good field of view -- and I can do it, despite shooting right-handed and being left eye dominant.

[@marcschmitt5152]

The most beautiful Assaultrifle ever

[@marinkhan3066]

Sg44 has more in common with m16 then ak47 but I see alot if comments saying that ak47 is copy of sg44

[@zivoortexpsn4210]

Only the design

[@crashandburnbirner]

+zIVoorteX PSN The only similarities are the cartridge and the long stroke gas piston, thats about it.

[@pashapasovski5860]

marin khan finally, a normal comment, AK47 is totally different then,SG 44,they look simular, to a point M14 looks like AK and who caress anyway! AK 47 is the most successful weapon ever created, bar none!

[@dejavecu]

Pasha Pasovski www.ar15.com/forums/ar-15/The_AR15_AR10_VS_to_the_STG44/118-489158/

[@heinz490]

hk m 75

[@trob1173]

Just came across this video. Excellent, straight to the point and no extra bs! Love that solid, mechanical sound when firing. It almost looks flmsy, but sounds rock solid. Very nice!

[@annestyk]

Everything about the way larry vickers behaves and carries himself is so cool, it kinda blows my mind. While he's explaining the firearm, he's all business, no time for sidetracking, like he's too cool for this and he has cool places to be. He confirms this by saying "im about to go live here" as if to punctuate that he has shit to do, so stop bothering him with your admiration.

[@ForTehNguyen]

magpul needs to make STG44 mag then

[@SpadesNeil]

People say the AK-47 copied the StG-44. This is bogus. The M16 is more of an StG-44 copy once you know how the guns work.

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"....

[@MEleven-wh2kh]

I would disagree, the AK has a similar long stroke gas piston that of the STG and people always talk about the M16 recoil spring and how is similar well the AK also has a spring that works in a similar fashion and the similarities in the disassembly process,well the AK46 also had a similar disassembly, and people say that the AK only got the looks of the STG, well my response to that is, coincidence?. My point here is that the STG has influenced most if not all assault rifles including the AK but that doesn't mean that the STG didn't had any external influences on its own design either, I'm sure it did.

[@mr.laughington5740]

Yes, that's true

[@Skmax673]

Both are copies of STG 44.

[@erickolb8581]

I personally see elements from the FN series rifles copied from this design

[@user-qe3fg3uv5m]

STG-44: "I am your father" AK47: "NOOOOO"

[@mr.laughington5740]

M16: (sneaks past the two)

[@wolfdima]

Man, you're a pro. It's rare to see such profound understanding of weapon design and features on KZbin. Respect. Let me add my 50cents. One of the cool features of STG44 as an assault rifle was a use of innovatinve Kurz 7.92×33mm cartridge - with just the right impact force for a long range/low recoil. Fedorov proposed the same concept in 1913 (!) with even cooler 6.5mm small brass cartridge, but it was too innovative for the time, alas. These days many modern weapon makers say that 6.5mm Grendel are ideal size for future ARifles.

[@redtsun67]

A beautiful firearm, innovative, and game changing firearm.

[@roufdrapht]

It doesn't have an HK-style disassembly, HK has an STG style disassembly

[@MarikHavair]

Semantics, he also said "that's where HK got it", so it's a redundant statement.

[@blankearth5840]

Man that looks like a true modern gun! Absolutely ahead of it’s time!

[@charlie82671]

Your review by far is the best I have ever seen on the STG 44 anywhere. What an excellent review on this historic firearm.

[@user-cm8en8or1p]

Great slow motion footage of the rifle's mechanisms. Amazing rifle.

[@P90XGetRipped]

Such a beautiful rifle!

[@colonelburton8451]

Slow-mo at the beginning did it for me.

[@Sangth123]

The Fedorov was a battle rifle, not an assault rifle. Assault rifles use intermediate cartridges, battle rifles don't. So no, the STG was in fact the first assault rifle.

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

Some firearms historians - such as Tim Mullin, former U.S. Army infantryman and U.S. Marshall - consider the American M-1 Carbine, especially in its fully-automatic M-2 variant, as the first assault rifle. Whether one believes that probably revolves around whether one considers its pistol-derived .30 Carbine cartridge as a true intermediate or not. If memory serves, Larry Vickers himself calls the M-1 Carbine the world's first PDW - personal defense weapon. Obviously, the MP44 is the prototypical assault rifle from which all the modern days designs trace their heritage.

[@MarikHavair]

Naw man, the first Assault Rifle was obviously the 1860 Henry Rifle.

[@lightmetro7508]

The ribeyrolles 1918 would like to have a word with you

[@stevedaly7070]

I have an H&K model 93. Surprisingly it shares many features of this weapon.

[@davidturcotte5677]

The HK G3 is a direct evolution of the STG series. After the war, Germany wasn't allowed to make rifles, so the engineers went to Spain and Portugal to produce the Cetme and G3. They are now made in the US by PTR in South Carolina from the original HK jigs. Great guns!

[@curtc2194]

Definitely ahead of it's time

[@liampalmer4370]

Stg-44, FG42, and an MG42 if I had these I'd be happy for the rest of my life.

[@davidturcotte5677]

Don't forget the MP 40!

[@Hitr-yq6el]

MG34 , MG42 and STG44 - deadly beautys!

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

Don't forget about the FG42! Fully auto 8mm Mauser

[@Hitr-yq6el]

@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess 7,92 :D

[@dalanthis7634]

Interesting and well filmed, cheers for posting !

[@pweter351]

it looks so solid compaired to an AK47 in the slow motion videos an AK47 gas tube and barrel wobble all over the place. great video thank ypu

[@osmo4547]

pweter351 That wobble is the thing that makes AK style rifles reliable.

[@pj7362]

Great cinematography ! I really enjoyed watching the remnants of the powder and that gasing of the bolt. Fantastic shots. I've always been a fan of the sturmegewher. I hope to fire one some day.

[@dirtyweapons3459]

"Full auto baby" *Fires semi-auto*

[@crixtionn]

full auto *fires in bursts with useless fucking slomo and cuts*

[@Sparxxlsize]

German made baby, predecesor of all assault rifles, built almost to perfection

[@leneanderthalien]

no, the real predescessor from the modern assault rifles was the1917 Fedorov Avtomat (6.5mm arisaka)

[@lightmetro7508]

The federov avtomat and the ribeyrolles 1918 both predate the stg 44 by like 30 years

[@williestyle35]

The predecessors were the Madsen Rasmussen 1888 and the Fedorov Avtomat.

[@reb9977]

the ancestor of all assault rifles

[@deptusmechanikus7362]

Janky tilting bolt system, wobbly magazine, main spring in a fragile buttstock, ergonomics all over the place... ************PERFECTION************

[@Anonymous-xd1lo]

German weapons of world war 2 were pure genius, often generations ahead of their time. Respect from Pakistan.

[@TS-ev1bl]

And yet they still lost. Twice.

[@vadim5103]

@@TS-ev1bl maybe becuase they got gang banged by 3 super nation

[@lolkaslolpez4823]

@@TS-ev1bl and america lost to a bunch of rice farmers with ak's, so stfu

[@MOSINNAGANTM]

T S Doesnt matter lol I mean the allies should be embarrased they have Like more casualties than germans. Especially Those russians that got 25 million deaths

[@NoName-fe2ft]

Another great video thanks. Would like to see you do a head to head comparison of the WW 2 battle rifles. The good the bad and the one that had the greatest impact.

[@maxkb5515]

Early 20th century, and at the end of 19th, Germans were weapon engineers overmasters . Gewehr/K98 , Walther PP, Stg 44, MP18 , MP40, MG 42, Luger P08 , V2 rocket .... Unmatched geniuses

[@eugenederry1478]

Sturm is Storm in German, while Gewehr is rifle in German. It makes sense, because the word Sturmgewehr means storm rifle in German.

[@alvin3758]

tf it means assault rifle dmbas*

[@igkgigoh]

Sturmgewehr, not Sdörmgewier

[@Thom1883]

+Ostkreutz Rox Americans don't even try to pronounce these things...

[@mlgmake]

+Ostkreutz Rox Well in order to pronounce it correctly as a non-German you would have to say it in a arbitrary "German accent".

[@igkgigoh]

***** No

[@mlgmake]

Ostkreutz Rox No? I've studied several languages, one of the most basic things in every class is to learn pronouncing letters in a different tone, or an "accent" I guess you could say.

[@igkgigoh]

***** You're right but that's way too technical, the only thing you'd have to do is listen to it several times. It's not that hard. I'm not one who runs around and corrects people's pronounciation but when you're so in love with an assault rifle you might as well pronounce it correctly. Anyways who gives a fuck

[@walter2791]

... just ... WOW! Since I first saw this rifle I am totally in love! Most epic firearm EVER beside the MG42, FG42 and Luger 08! M1 Garand and AVT40 can fuck off.

[@boneheadedbruhs2445]

Wal Ter Did it win?

[@kiwi_comanche]

Argument sustained. Fantastic video man. My God that was superb. It's a pleasure to see these weapons put through their paces with such proficiency. Thank You!!

[@brooksbrown580]

Years ago I knew a guy that owned on these , his was a training weapon, Semi Auto only, but one of the funnest guns Ive ever fired, and he had just cases of original ammo, but yeah what a great weapon we fired that Gun many times at the range,

[@Chromic90]

"Full auto baby!" Proceeds to burst fire :P

[@a.c.2499]

Nope the STG44 was the first assault rifle, not the Federov. The assault rifle concept didn't even exist when the Federov was made, therefore not an assault rifle. The assault rifle concept was introduced along with the STG44. The Federov wasn't even used in the assault rifle role, it was used as a support weapon.

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

Firearms historian-writer Tim Mullin, former U.S. Army infantryman and career U.S. Marshall, makes the case for the M-2 variant of the M-1 Carbine as the first mass-produced assault rifle. The M-1 fulfills the design criteria for a true assault rifle - if you are willing to call its pistol-derived .30-Carbine cartridge a true intermediate. It is of short overall length and weight, and has a short barrel. In its M-2 variant, it is capable of select-fire operation as well as semiautomatic use. Its optimal range is 0-300 yards (the maximum for its rear sight elevation is 300 yards). It is fed from a high-capacity box-style magazine. Since its cartridge is not as powerful as a full-power, full-bore center-fire rifle cartridge, it is easy to control and has modest recoil. The M-1/M-2 beat the MP44 into action by arriving on the battlefield in significant numbers in 1942. The weapon went on to be the most-produced U.S. small arm of the war. Today, most firearms experts - including Larry Vickers himself - would call the M-1/M-2 Carbine the world's first PDW - but that is also a class of weapon which didn't exist in recognizable form in those days. Obviously, the MP44 is the prototype for what assault rifles eventually became, but the M-1 Carbine was no less influential of a weapons design.

[@lightmetro7508]

The ribeyrolles 1918 was the first assault rifle, it fits all qualifications for one. It was ahead of it's time. Doesnt matter if military doctrine supported it, it's still the first.

[@HLetsPLays]

the STG44 was the first automatic assault rifle in the world. #germany

[@ValdemarZemelka]

+Käseauflauf look at Fedorov's assault rifle

[@WhiteReconcista]

+Käseauflauf LOL. NO.

[@Coldsoul95]

+xX Xx Absoluter Unfug, was du da laberst... "wieso deutschland" - vielleicht weil die Waffe in THÜRINGEN! entwickelt wurde unter Leitung von Herrn Schmeisser, einem THÜRINGER! "ist die waffe von steyr gemacht" - ne, von Walther und von Haenel wurde sie gefertigt. die fertige Waffenplattform wurde dann in anderen Firmen hergestellt, um die Stückzahl zu steigern, auch eben durch Steyr, aber wohl kaum primär. "und wurde für nazis gebaut" - du musst wohl Hauptschüler sein, oder? Selten dämliche Bezeichnung für eine staatlich geführte Armee. Die SS ist nicht die Wehrmacht, das weißt du aber natürlich mit deinem Halbwissen nicht. Stell dir mal vor, der Herr Rommel, Hitlers "Lieblingsgeneral", war nicht Mitglied der NSDAP (kennst du hoffentlich) und war auch nie überzeugter Anhänger derer Ideologie. Würde mir stinken so wenig Ahnung zu haben, aber dennoch wilde Aussagen ins Internet plastern... schäm dich!

[@leonc9915]

+Käseauflauf False.

[@manwithnoname7136]

+Kartoffel Not the first assault rifle in the world (that title goes to the Federov Rifle) however it was the first practical assault rifle (and the first mass produced).

[@John05.]

Such a beautiful weapon, I hope to own one some day

[@Droepram]

Such an elegant looking gun. Very nice lines and proportions.

[@patgray5402]

Why isn't Germany still using these? These are awsome.

[@Bakedbeans737]

+gooby pls The M2 Heavy Machine Gun is still in us since WW2 I believe.

[@Toni112007]

+Paul Ak 47 is outdated but sill most used assault rifle in the world?

[@coltonreeves6893]

+Firmus Piett The "AK 47" is no longer in use by any military, the AK platform in general is. The original AK 47 was phased out after only two years and replaced with the AKM, which is what makes up most of the guns now referred to as the "AK 47". The original AK wasn't even called the AK47, it was just the Avtomat Kalashnikova, the 47 came later to distinguish it from other models. Nowadays, most militaries don't even use the AKM. Russia switched to the AK-74 in the 1970s, and are in the process of now switching to the AK-103 and AN-94.

[@coltonreeves6893]

***** Ah that's right. Well they change AK models so often it's hard to keep track of it all.

[@Toni112007]

Colton Reeves When I was saying AK 47 I war also refering to its variants. Sorry for not pointing that out.

[@mozzberg590]

If the Germans had that in 1941 things might have been different.

[@Shellshock1918]

Not really. The Germans' problem was their lack of operational and strategic capability. The Allies would have captured some, tested them, and come up with their own copy.

[@troopcom]

I think the Germans over engineered weapons like the STG 44. They could not field enough of them to make a significant difference late in the war. With that being said, I would have to agree that if they started out with an "Assault rifle" to begin with, there would have probably been a different outcome in the war. I still think in the end the Axis powers would have lost, but it would have most likely extended the length of the war beyond 1945, without using an atomic bomb that is.

[@MrBigden37]

troopcom I disagree concerning the STG-44. The Luger, yes, but the STG-44 could be easily mass produced, however, due to it's introduction very late in the war(1943) and Hitler's internal politics which led to more delay coupled with the Nazi's dwindling resources and factories for production the writing was on the wall.

[@MrTangolizard]

They lost because the allies could out produce them simple as that

[@Shellshock1918]

Not so. Check out Richard Overy's book "Why the Allies Won"

[@marckraemer1479]

The stg44 is still in use in Libanon in serbia and the german Army has about 300,000 STG 44 from the East German Army Munition Kaliber 7,92 × 33 mm short fromr Fabrik Prvi Partizan in Užice (Serbien) .The AK47 is from Hugo Schmeisser not from Michail Timofejewitsch Kalaschnikow the Russian can´t say after WW2 look our new weapon designt by a German.

[@raulagasov7615]

Mother Russia!!!! :D

[@marckraemer1479]

www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/03/14/designed-ak-47/

[@nickkorte]

I think every assault rifle should have the same rate of fire as this gun. It just seems like the perfect zone for accuracy and rounds down range.

[@angry_zergling]

Wow, that little dust cover is basically IDENTICAL to the one on the M16/AR-15. I didn't realize it was copied from the 'ol Sturm.

[@vinishshetty8055]

Daddy of the famous AK

[@keyehek1790]

m16 has more things in common.... like the mag release, magwell, long recoil spring, slightly the position of the safety.... the only thing the ak has in common with the stg is the stamped construction and the sights. and the sights were kinda standard stuff. the cartridge you also could argue is similar, but yet different.

[@Anbreit]

vinish shetty:not even close.

[@knut761]

Same German designer (Hugo Schmeisser) the story of the Russian tanker gone weapon designer was pure propaganda.

[@keyehek1790]

evidence?

[@knut761]

KEY EHEK Mikhail Kalashnikov himself, (though he just stated that Hugo "helped" him somewhat), and, in the fullness of time, documentation yet to have been made public.You could say, well as for the argument of documentation that is rather weak, perhaps, but my bet is that the documentation will prove this once and for all. It will take time though, because it would destroy the legacy of Mikhail Kalashnikov.

[@antonylee444]

One of my favourite weapons of WW2.

[@insidewolff5449]

Proud to be a German!

[@justustherighteous371]

Immer

[@Bartotown]

Natürlich!!!

[@heerstahlsturm7202]

Nazi!! 1!1!1

[@Chrisket]

@@argumasch663 that was clearly sarcasm lmao

[@Demons972]

deutschland uber alles!

[@c3po707]

What an amazing machine. Probably my all time favorite weapon. Mg 42 being second fav

[@benjmiester]

Every WW2 shooter game, this is always my fav! That sound! glad I'm just playing games when I hear it and not having it actually used against me 😯

[@ThePeace7273]

Wonderfull Weapon i wish we could collect them here in Germany but the Laws are hard specaly for WW 2 Weapons Thank you for the presentation

[@thewaterdrop123]

Americans also cant have them easily.

[@MarikHavair]

@@thewaterdrop123 That's more a matter of cost and availability than legality, although there's bureaucratic 'red tape' wrapped around fully automatic weapons, the $200 tax is hardly the prohibitive titan it was originally intended to be.

[@donder172]

Got to admit, the Germans knew quite something about weapon engineering during WWII. The STG44 is an example of that.

[@xijinping880]

Most advanced technology planes, radar system, guns are all German engineering Soviet Union stole German technology and USA did operation paperclip

[@tjquintino1568]

6:45 "full auto baby!!" Only does 2 round burst lmao

[@mohammadbino2333]

I have one , an original mp44 with the serial number on it . I know what you mean by right handed and left handed users . When i holded this rifle for shooting for the first time , i got confused is this a right handed or left handed . Amazing rifle it is .. Frankly speeking , i respect the german mentality in manufacturing , not only weapons but all kinds of machines . Nice video man . Thanks a lot .

[@davidturcotte5677]

Lucky you!

[@kingartison]

Saw one of these at a gun show earlier this week in Charlotte that thing beautiful

[@jannickbremm9483]

you would have to say sturmgewehr44 all the time because sturmgewehr on its own translates to assoult rifle... its like caling a ar15 THE carbine all day...

[@jannickbremm9483]

Jannick Bremm but nice video :)

[@nickresz2158]

Jannick Bremm well, the Stg44 is like THE assault rifle, there wouldn‘t be any M16 or AK or anything like that without the Sturmgewehr

[@dervpool]

Good 70 year old German Stahl shoots better than the modern m16

[@kennuppenau5818]

Uuuum.... Nein.

[@spencerervin620]

kruppstahl

[@lightmetro7508]

Yeahhhh no

[@thimonschreiber7577]

STG-44 > M16

[@joseffliegl4167]

@@kennuppenau5818 doch because it doesn't jam that often

[@AlexanderBogdanow]

Our german technology... BEST IN THE WORLD!

[@MultiNihilus]

AlexanderBogdanow Russian guns > Germna guns Russian tanks > German tanks Russian jets > German jets German cars > Everything

[@LegendaryTrollface]

Edgar Bin Laasen Russian guns are maybe more good for dirty war, but our tanks are way better than Russians. Our tanks are legendary. Deal with it. By the way, where do Russia have good Jets? Good joke. We have one: Eurofighter.

[@MultiNihilus]

LegendaryTrollface T90MS and T14 are better than any Leopard Germany could construct. Jets are better, Sukhoi for instance

[@LegendaryTrollface]

Edgar Bin Laasen Good joke! xD

[@HallioSchnecke]

Edgar Bin Laasen T90 and T14 are shit...

[@giedriustimbaras9780]

Thanks for the great report ! Now I know even more about fantastic my grandfather STG44.

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

Larry, you are the man! Pure-and-simple....

[@GRAFFDEMON]

Its so lovely.

[@alessiovalzano]

Nice Gun!