This led to the weapon being variously designated the MP-43, the StG-43 and the StG-44. Germany managed to churn out over 426,00 StG-44s out of 4 million planned before its defeat.

This led to the weapon being variously designated the MP-43, the StG-43 and the StG-44. Germany managed to churn out over 426,00 StG-44s out of 4 million planned before its defeat.

The StG 44, chambered in 7.92 mm Kurtz, was the world's first true assault rifle, and it was capable of either semi-automatic or fully automatic fire. It's fed from a 30-round detachable box magazine.

The STG-44, or Sturmgewehr 44, didn’t just rewrite the rules of rifle design – it created a whole new category of firearm. Developed by Nazi Germany during World War II, the STG-44 stands as ...

The creator of the AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, developed the weapon in response to a German-engineered firearm called the Sturmgewehr 44 rifle. Let's take a look at the AK series by the numbers.

The AR-15 rifle is a testosterone-dripping, hand-me-down spit-ball of a rifle from its Nazi father, the WWII Sturmgewehr-44 and American mother, the WWII stamped-out American M-3 “grease gun ...