The upcoming update gives the Uragan SMG to the soviets which will have a rate of fire of 860 RPM, something stupidly high for BR2 which should have gone to 3, and combined with the fact that the M1A1 thompson is going to be lowered as well, this means that German TT SMGs are even worse off then they were before. The MP 40, a good gun in it’s own right, but isn’t enough to counter either of these guns, and had a hard time against lanchesters and PPS 43s as is. So how do we, with a TT SMG, lower the power difference between these SMGs? We give the FNAB 43, which has a ROF of 400, it’s historically correct value of 800 RPM.
And also increase rof of M38/42 by 50 so it would reach 632 rof with full upgrade.
This new model, the Model 38/42, had a fluted barrel to aid cooling and save weight. It also had a slower rate of fire (550 rpm).
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and changeBR2 to BR3
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Honestly, as long as Urugan and M1A1 Thompson are BR2, FNAB-43 must stay BR2 as well.
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the same guy we can see shooting the FNAB-43 on the video wrote this:
He goes into details about the gun mechanism, its a form of delayed blowback and by its very light weight nature should have a very high rate of fire!
(Considering that Italians inspected Király39M and even suggested adopting, I think the mechanism might be related in some way).
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And keep it at BR2 as Germany needs fast firing reliable SMG, and other fact as Soviets have PPS-42, PPS-43 and Urugan, while Americans have multiple Thompsons and Lanchester
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9mm SMG is strong in medium range and Soviets 7.62x25 SMG high rate of fire low damage in medium range. in BR2 9mm SMG rate of fire high limit in 700 rpm if higher need move to BR3
Yeah but think about the m1a1 Thompson in the next update since it’s getting a downtier to 2 though the mp40 already counters the m1a1 pretty well
Then change uragan from br2 to br3?
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I would agree that the FNAB should either have it’s ROF raised, or drop the SOB to level one. I would love to have reason’s to use it because I like it, but it’s to slow for level two, and at it’s current firing rate, I would use it at level one. But DF needs to do something with this gun. However DF, don’t buff it and raise it to level three. 
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It doesn’t, it can’t keep up vs Lanchester/Sten 2 at close range. And they even put Sten 2 for no damn reason to BR1. They don’t even play their game.
I honestly do pretty well with the mp40 but still I like to see the rod boost for the fnab and for it to still be a br2 smg
that is what I think at now USSR have only one BR3 SMG in research tree
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M1A1 is great when they move BR3 to BR2 this gun is bad when compare with Lanchester. hard recoil control on medium rang and slow bullet speed
M1A1 Thompson has insanely high DPS thanks to its 8.3 damage at 10m.
Skill issue really, its stats are clearly too strong for BR2.
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No M1A1 Thompson is Bad in BR3 and now they move Barretta M38A (40) BR4 to BR3
If this gun don’t move to BR2 this gun will be trash. and now U.S.A not have Good SMG on BR3 if they don’t move M1 Thompson and M28/21 to BR3
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Move the Beretta M38A (40) to the BR2 for fair?
Lets look at stastics than
When comparing the MP40 (best BR2 Axis TT SMG) with the Lanchester, Beretta38 (40) and M1A1 Thompson its clear that the MP40 is inferior to all, in fact Lanchester does the same DPM as Beretta38 (thus you can’t see the orange line).
M1A1 Thompson has even better DPM though.
Allies have many strong BR2 SMGs even without M1A1
Even best Japanese SMG of BR2 is comparable to Allied weapons of BR2 without the M1A1.
However let us also take a look at the best BR4 SMGs of each faction with the next update:
Thompson M21/28 is perfectly fine on BR4, its only the Tokyo Arsenal that should be moved to BR5 for balance.
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That would be a great idea, because it would be historically accurate, and it would be a good way to give the germans a “high” capacity fast firing SMG that some people want.
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In the video shown above, there is also a guy advertising one of his videos of him shooting a Beretta M1918, and it is indeed a semi-auto carbine, unless it was converted to semi-auto only for civilians (if the guy is italian, I guess full auto guns are forbidden for civilians there too), but given the fact that there is a manual for the gun in italian printed in the early 1920s, I think it is more likely that it was already semi-auto only at that time.
The video in question:
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Regardless of whether the FNAB gets the firing rate or not, you and a few other people in the comments here are apparently overlooking the Beretta M1918 which with upgrades ends up at over 900 rpm and is on BR2. This is in my eyes the best counter against Soviet smgs and actually together with the MP40 the main armament of my guerrillas