Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "The STG-44: The Original Assault Rifle" video.

Dreyse Rifle? Stg-44 didn't win any wars by itself. Because war changed so much that no weapon can do it(even nukes arguably). But Dreyse did. Yeah, technically it did in completely different world. The next jump was Maxim/Madsen/Colt that helped WWI get stuck in the mud and thus allowed it to turn into a war of artillery. American Civil War/Crimean War is a weird case where a LOT of new tech appeared, but all the sides involved were too poor to mass produce any of it so the impact of new tech was on scale of statistical error. Plus they happened right BEFORE dynamite hit the market... Speaking of which, dynamite and later on smokeless powder were next revolutions. The latter one allowed existence of automatic firearms. Though the first prototype of Maxim apparently was designed to run on black powder. Would be cool to see if it's true and automatic gun on black powder is indeed possible without choking on its own grime.
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