Men of D Company, 2/9th Infantry Battalion, awaiting to move into action at Finisterre Ranges New Guinea during the Battle for Shaggy Ridge. Lest We Forget." - Australian War Memorial
Pictured left to right back row: Private H.F. Hedges; Lance Corporal E. Booth; Private W. Robertson
Front row: Corporal C. Bush and Private B. Vowles
Comments on the Facebook page this picture came from stated that the dual mag Owen gun was created after trials in the field and that the Australian Army supplied joining clamps with wingnuts.
Unfortunately Google doesn’t seem to have much information on this but you can see the photograph right there and from my understanding this was not a one off soldier’s modification like the M2 Stinger for example.
I would assume feeding from both mags because otherwise it would be pointless and a double mag would only intefere with sights more so yeah to me theyd only do it if it was more ammunition that could be fired at once.
66 rounds.
Thompson submachine gun users frequently taped two 20-round magazines together to speed reloads and compensate for the limited capacity. This spurred official development of the 30-round Thompson magazine, which included the experiment of welding two 20-round magazines face-to-face (dropped in favor of the 30-round magazine). The United Defense M42 submachine gun was occasionally issued with two 20-round magazines welded face-to-face.[6]
Taping magazines together in order to speed up reloading became so common among troops using the M1 Carbine that the U.S. military experimented with the “Holder, Magazine T3-A1”, which came to be referred to by some infantrymen as the “Jungle Clip”. This metal clamp holds two M1 Carbine 30-round magazines together without the need for tape.
so it seems like it is 2 magazine clamped/welded for ease of reload.
When we have the concept of body armor and arbitrary numbers of the devs make up nothing makes sense anymore especially for when it only seems to apply for the Soviets and the allies.
And if you’ve even seen the new BP weapon for Germany which was leaked we only can fire that weapon if we’re lying down prone or bipod while every other faction gets away with their own nonsense And we also gave up the Shop for faster BP seasons And that was supposed to mean everyone got this stuff equally fast but yet for some reason Germany and Japan were always magically delayed or things always went wrong with us but when it comes to the Soviets or the allies they always get their stuff on time.
Yes but the Japanese one has no restrictions while this one does and this new mechanic is being tested in the test server and it only seems to apply to the Germans when we’ve had our stuff held back for who knows how long and yet we’re still being tested and not even giving cool toys to have fun with
What anti-tank weapon would I give Germany for 1 BR? I would give this - “PZB M.SS.41” to the tech tree, as it was mass produced and used quite massively and was also officially in service.
