Steyr StG 77, aka the AUG

it's crazy that this design is so old. Looks futuristic still

Still in service in the Australian army, who changed to these from SLRs. Rumour has it someone mispelt Austria and we got a box of them and decided that they were better than SLRs.

I was in the Australian Army and I remember the transition from the 7.62 SLR to the Austeyr. There were some of my mates that thought it looked weak. I thought it looked cool. Our WO2 showed us a video on VHS the durability of the rifle. They put that thing through hell, like driving over it, pouring cement on it, throwing it into muddy water (shouting obscenities at it :). The tester then quickly picked up the rifle up into a crouch position and fired it downrange with the rifle functioning perfectly. So it impressed me right from the start. I was never a fan of the SLR anyway. It was inaccurate, heavy and just too long and awkward. I thought if I ever have to go into combat with an SLR, I'd have a greater chance of killing the enemy by throwing the rifle at them, I hated the fkn thing. But the Austeyr fit me like a Speedo. The accuracy with it was outstanding. My grouping went from basketball size at 300 meters to a golf ball size and that was my first experience shooting with it. The fore-grip allows you to make adjustments measured in microns. With the fore-grip hand on your knee or any stable platform, you can make easy and accurate adjustments by squeezing the fore-grip. As your fore-grip fist tightens the rifle's aiming elevation increases and relaxing the fore-grip decreases the aiming elevation. This allows you to make pinpoint shooting easy as piss. Someone told me that when the Kiwis (NZ) got their Steyrs they got a cross reticle in their scopes. The Kiwi's were targeting for head shots with it (and getting head shots btw), which is not what you're trained to aim for. We're trained to aim for the center of the seen mass, which of course is to maximize your chances of hitting your target. So anyway I think they had sorted that out when we got our rifles with the standard donut of death. So that's our rifle, as beautiful as a Penthouse pin up and as deadly as the plague. If only she were a real woman, I'd marry her :)

I love this weapon. Don't forget - the cleaning gear is also included in the backside of the weapon, and it is very easy to clean.

hat to clean 600 of these.... and disassemble another 500 help the quartermaster inspect them. I went from thinking they were pretty cool to not wanting to see another one of these for a while.

Cool its a nice gun, it was my service rifle when i was in the austrian army, cool to see gun jesus blessing it

Every modern gun is just a cold war mechanism with attachment rails on every inch of it. This gun and its iconic scope are simple yet elegant, still looking more revolutionary than the tacticool stuff of today.

American GIs in Nam: "These new M16s are just plastic junk." Austrians:

The "doughnut of death" reticle is a stadiametric rangefinder. The outer diameter is as high as a Soldier at 150m. The inner diameter is as high as a Soldier at 300m.

AUG is the sound you make when shot at by the StG-77.

Hello, I served in the Austrian army for longer time and know this gun very well. I don’t know if someone posted it here - One thing to the loading handle not important but one nice feature - the button on the top you can use for silent loading. Normally you pull the handle completely to the end and let it free slide to the front. If you load silent, you pull the handle back - slide it slowly to the front - the shutter is not closed yet. To close the shutter you push the button – hold them – and push the handle completely to the front.

"Das Sturmgewehr 77 ist ein Gasdrucklader mit starrer Verriegelung ..." I remember loving and cursing that thing during my time in the Austrian military xD.

This looks like something a CIA operative with shades would use when he’s raiding a research facility in Mt. Yamantau, Russia

"Forgotten weapons"? The AUG will always be in my heart.

This gun is OP in literally every game it appears in.

Having been a New Zealand Army armourer that worked on these, I learnt only one thing from this video. The Austrian made Steyrs issued to us must have been adapted, as ours had 3 position fire selectors/safeties. Ours had Safe, Semi auto, and Full auto. The push bar selector kept the trigger from being pushed back in safe, then had a step cut in at the Semi auto position, and then a full cut through for the Full auto position to allow the trigger full travel backward. This did make it annoying to fire full auto, as they still had the 2 stage trigger, so they would fire the first round slightly slower in cadence than the following full auto: ie: Bang, brrrrt. This made the barrel climb off target just as it went full auto.

you know what else uses a substantial amount of polymers? the Zip22

The AUG is one of the sexiest guns on the planet.

I am Austrian and have worked with that weapon for years as a soldier. I am amazed how good and correct the background information about that weapon is presented! Good work!

The AUG still looks futuristic even by today’s standards.