Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "FNAB 43: From WW2 Italy to Algerian Independence" video.

  1. It works like that. In 1942 FNAB contacted the Army, shown the prototype and stated "we can make X samples of this gun per year at this price". The Army tested the gun, the price was acceptable, SMGs were needed, so "OK, start production". Since the price was right, the Army didn't care what the manufacturing technique was.
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  2. If you have steel bars and cutters but not presses. As you can see, the machining of the receiver was pretty rough. It's precision machining to be expensive and time consuming. To cut a straight line with a blade is no more time consuming than welding stamped parts.
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  3. The MP40 hope to be the FNAB43
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  4. Also is "precision" machining to be expensive and time consuming. To simply cut a rough straight line, or drill a straight hole, is no more time consuming than welding stamped parts.
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  5. Compared to the MGs of the start of the war it was not complicated. It was compared to those of 1943.
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