Quote Originally Posted by Frederick303 View Post
The MG42 fired too fast...not if you understood Germanicon doctrine it didn't, and the Germans were the ones that used it....pretty darned effectively, it is the only WWII design still seeing active service nearly 80 years later (with a caliber change).
As I just happened to see a photo of a Browning M2 in Britishicon first line use, can this really be true? And of course the M2 was practically a WWI design, was it not?

Anyway, you've clearly got more of this info to hand than the rest of us, but that jumped out at me.