It’s complete nonsense, just blind nationalism at its finest. He calls the mg-42 “inaccurate”, based off a bullshit account of a British solider who claimed he was being shot at for over 4 hours, at a range of 70 meters by a German machine gunner, and was not hit once. If the story was true, then the German machine gunner was either blind, or had no interest in killing the Brit bong.
He also says the Mg-42, and Mg-34 are the same guns, which is nonsense, Mg-42 heavier and was used in a more stationary defensive role, while the mg-34 was lighter often used the way light machine guns are used by solider’s today. He says that the allies won the war because the British had the better machine gun again laughable.
He goes on to say that since the Mg-42 wasn’t used after the war, and the sten was, the sten must be better. Even though many countries used the mg-42 even up until the 80s, and i believe Germany uses an upgraded version (mg-3) today.
The Mg-42 and Mg-34 were arguably the best machines guns of the war, they were very accurate and had an insanely high rate of fire especially when compared to other machine guns.
Both the mg-34 and Mg-42 were far better than the allied machine guns, and that’s coming from a very patriotic American.
