7 MG-42s vs Ballistic Dummies!!! Mg42 700 rounds in less than 5 seconds!!!

Link to my MG 42 madness video https://youtu.be/Eu0ACD-K7og?si=3UUZeGUQRNXLWqVy

In the Bundeswehr (German modern army) we were only allowed to fire 25 rounds in training at a distance of 25 meters at a paper target at a time. You Americans are lucky....

We just witnessed about $15K spent in 8mm ammo, for the making of this great documentary.

"Remember boys: Its bark is worse than its bite. Now get in the landing craft!"

Propaganda was used against Americans by our own government stating this gun wasn't as deadly as it truly was. Learned that from this channel👍

Good experiment. My grandfather was a Red Army soldier in the WW2 (8th Guards Army) and served as a machine gunner. He told me that in 1943 he switched to MG-42 - there were enough captured MGs, spare parts for them and ammo. He just loved MG-42: easy to change the overheated barrels, good ammo belts, great firepower, light enough to carry in the hands...

Those poor bastards trying to cross the beaches of Normandy must have had balls of steel.

I have heard accounts of Werhmacht MG crew members that went crazy due to the damages they witnessed that they had inflicted. One cannot imagine what is was like to be a frontline witness to this kind of carnage. Very instructional video.

This was genuinely a beast of a machine gun, chambered in 7.92 x 57mm. Both range, energy, and rate of fire were astounding. Absolutely deadly. It gave the German army the edge to push forward and hold on as long as they did.

I served my country (Italy) in a battalion of Alpini riflemen in 1993 ( Battaglione Alpini SÜSA, 3° reggimento alpini)and as a team weapon we had the MG-42/59 (produced by Beretta in 7.62nato). we used it both in the field and on armored vehicles and on 4x4 fifth wheel transport vehicles. today the team weapon is the MINIMI, but the MG-42/59 remains as a light machine gun on vehicles and helicopters. it is a formidable and reliable weapon. it is no coincidence that, after 80 years, it is still operational......greetings from Italy ✌

The family of that single soldier: “can we see him?” Doc: “no.”

The best machine gun ever made.still working

9:37 imagine seeing that happen to your best friend since middle school right in front of your eyes and then someone telling you to “KEEP MOVING UP THE BEACH!!!!”

A soldier that landed on omaha said in a documentary that his friend was split in half by mg42 fire

That's some serious "over kill," I can't imagine what what a nightmare it would've been like to be on the receiving end of this machine :face-blue-wide-eyes:

Our friends from America always deliver next level machine gun testing. Love it 🇫🇷

My grandfather was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He took shrapnel in the neck and upper torso. The shrapnel was not from those MG-42 rounds directly, it was from bone fragments flying out of torn bodies!

US soldier about to step onto Omaha beach: "I hope I make it home alive" The guy next to him: 9:47

MG42s are basically long range shredders

The MG3 , basicaly a NATO-rized 308 MG42 was never fired full auto by us in my service time within the german Bundeswehr. I was the dedicated deputy of our tank commander therefore responsible for the heavy support weaponry, Panzerfaust and Maschinengewehr 3. I prefered my G3 Sturmgewehr, same caliber yet more of a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer BUT as a defensive weapon the MG3's distinguitive sound has a very impressive ability to instantly supress all enemy infanty movement