Need Alien scientists to errr help them.
So everybody takes from everybody else
Except for glorious america!
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Because there wasnât enough Garandâs to put into every. Single. Soldierâs. Hands. So they dealt with what they had. Also, we had the industry to spare on several different production lines
Didnât say that
so why do you think germans continued production of kar98k? instead of switching all of their capacity to g43?
Yeah after they tried to do it when they had already lost the war. My entire point is Germany should have invested in rifles sooner
As you said. Doctrine focused on the MG 34. Rifleman can deal with WWI equipment and die to a hail of bullets coming from the enemy. I guess.
Germany could have won the entire war if they just invested in SAs sooner?
Cool.
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nah⌠existing tooling, experienced workers making that rifle, ease and speed of making it. if they switched to g43 they would be making maybe quarter of the rifles with double resources per rifle.
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Ok, so riflemen being abandoned by the doctrine and cost/ease of manufacturing. Got it
Literally all I wanted to know. Lol
Russia and UK won WW2 with this so kinda.
If Stalin only sticked with the SVT. Germans would not made it past Baltics and Western Ukraine if beyond borders at all.
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Armies are about cost efficency.
The Johnson/ Pederson (?) had also its advantages and some may say it was better than the M1G.
Yet it was not bought by the Army. Most likely because it was too expensive.
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âWhy didnât germans know the future?â
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I mean if the US, the least technologically advanced nation by the outbreak of war, had one in 36 then I donât see why other nations couldnât do the same
They tried it earlier but it was not worth it due to unreliability and costs.
US literary had luck to try this in the right time and was willing to overhaul itâs whole rifle production.
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btw you can check ppsh41 and pps42/43 as example on why existing guns are continued being made when superior alternative exists.
ppsh41 takes around ~5.5-8 hours to make (have seen different sources on this and i am lazy to research correct one) and takes ~13kg of steel. pps42/43 takes ~3 hours to make and takes half the steel of ppsh41. so despite ppsh41 being more complex to make and taking more resources, soviets continued making them cause they had all the tooling in factories, experienced workers working on them and resources to waste, while they equipped new factories with tooling for pps42/43.
can be said same to US that was issuing old m1903 and producing new ones to be issued to US riflemen.
idk what is so hard to understand that war is also about resources and industrial capacity. if they even managed to crank out g41 in 1941 instead of k98k, they would be equipping every 4th soldier with rifle, so idk if that would help them win the warâŚ
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Ok. Thank you. Literally all Iâve said is âthey shouldâve invested in semi auto soonerâ and âwhy didnât they?â
All I have wanted to know
So they tried earlier, failed
Doctrine didnât focus on riflemen
Expensive and took time
Old stuff was âgood enoughâ and could be produced easier and faster
Thank you
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i would say jap was the least technologically advance tbh i mean their plane and ship are good but their gun are garbage imo (im bias btw)
if stalin sticked with SVT instead of pps41, soviets wouldnt have 6 million pps41, but 2 million SVT 40.