[threetango]

The MG42 has always impressed me with it's 1200 + rds per minute.
Buzz saw is an apt description.

Gunny narrates it.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL09sLcKW4M[/ame]

 

[havasu]

Great video! So I am to assume one the hot barrel was cooled down, it could be re-used over and over?

 

[SHOOTER13]

That is correct...MG barrel could be hot swapped...and left to cool while another was swapped in.

Cyclic rate was so quick a barrel would almost melt or start cooking off rounds...




The US made M60 owes some of it's features to the MG42...