Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "US vs German Squads (Mid-1944) Who was Superior? | Animated History" video.

  1. Yeah clearly they used effective RPM but with the BAR they used cyclic
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  2. It would just be a sniper k98 which is equipped with a scope but more often a ZF-41 because they didn't have enough ZF-39s
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  3. This makes that video so much less impressive. It's not the Americans fighting a proper army so much as it's fighting the last weak divisions of a dying empire. And even then they mostly lose at long range. It's now more simply impressive that the Germans were still able to hold out so well rather Than the Americans were good enough to beat them. And that's Just so sad for the Americans. Their best is just barely better than the German's worst.
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  4. It really wasn't very common. The STG was a bit over 400k of production. MGs and K98s were in the millions.
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  5.  @henrikscania-r1z  Not in any significant number considering only 400k and the size of the Heer at the time which was still around... let's say roughly 4 million as a conservative estimate as they were getting crushed on both sides even though I'm fairly sure it was larger. That's about 10% who get one. Now take into account that many don't even get to be shipped to the front and also that the ones that do get lost as men die in combat. So you're looking at roughly 5% or less of the army equipped with these at any one time.
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