Kalashnikov Dead

**Sarmatian** · 01-02-2014, 21:21

Originally Posted by Husar

You seem to know everything about it, so why don't you start with explaining who Meinfeld is? Google obviously cites you as the only source on his work on the StG-44.

Frags is just giving too much weight to dubious blogs. Even a layman could see the differences if both rifles were disassembled in front of him.

Seamus is right, AK-47 was influenced by various previous designs, but it isn't a copy of any single one.

**HopAlongBunny** · 01-02-2014, 22:59

RIP

**Brenus** · 01-02-2014, 23:45

a“Err, silly question”: Nope. The French did use the Panther after WW2, And Japanese planes as well, at the start of the Indochina Wars, but not the Stg44. The AK was simpler and that is it. It was better suit for fighting that the Stg44. Could be a problem of munitions. 7.92 mm was not the usual one.

**Husar** · 01-03-2014, 00:18

Originally Posted by Brenus

a“Err, silly question”: Nope. The French did use the Panther after WW2, And Japanese planes as well, at the start of the Indochina Wars, but not the Stg44. The AK was simpler and that is it. It was better suit for fighting that the Stg44. Could be a problem of munitions. 7.92 mm was not the usual one.

Well, you didn't use the AK, but you did actually use the StG-44 according to wikipedia.

There is however still the problem that it was not in production anymore, Iran also still uses F-14s but they are becoming fewer and fewer because they have to cannibalize them to get spare parts. In most cases armies also do not want to give rifles to half of their infantry and completely different rifles to the other half of their infantry. With fewer than 500,000 StG-44 produced and probably even fewer available after the war, no serious nation could have equipped its entire army with StG-44s and thought that this was a somewhat future-proof equipment. I wouldn't even say the AK-47 is worse, it has quite a few advantages, but to cite the number of users as proof given that one rifle was basically limited in the numbers available is quite odd. It's a bit like saying the VW Golf must perform better than a McLaren F1 because it has more users.