As many people know, there is an event weapon that’s a 200 round version of the Stinger, but the Stinger only ever used 100 round boxes in real life. So why not add the 100 round version and use it to fill a gap in the U.S. tech tree as its premiere BR5 machine gun. The M1919a6 is good but not as good as its competitors, and the Stinger would be a weapon that had more than one prototype and actually saw combat.
Now as for the event 200 round Stinger, it would remain noticeably stronger than its tech tree counterpart, which would benefit the veterans who have them. But if that’s too much, then they could always nerf it.
The 1919a6 is only “good” on defense when there is plenty of space between you and the enemy, needless to say it is not very good as assaulting or counterattacking.
While prototypes are already far too prevalent in the TT I don’t think putting a weapon of which literlly six were cobbled together on a ship is the way to address the TT MG weakness of the Allies at BR5.
Obviously, with the US and German factions being my main two factions I play with, I would be fine seeing an M2 Stinger in the Tech Tree, however, I see very little hope the dev’s will include it. Of course, if it were a Soviet weapon, with the Dev’s Soviet bias…I could see them adding it…in the 200 round version
I mean, this is was a field modification, it really saw combat and a variant is already in the game. I think it would be nice to have a counter to Axis high RoF MGs
It may have only been six but they were used in active service, were technically officially adopted, and made a not insignificant impact where they were used. Compared to fake guns such as the cut down M2 carbine and post war ones such as the USSR jet this is practically standard issue. Not to mention at least 25% of the guns in game never saw combat unlike this one.
"’ Johnson Automatics quickly drew up a design for a belt-feed mechanism to replace the magazine feed of the M1945 LMG. The fact that the gun already had a modular, removable magazine well was likely a big help in getting the design completed on April 27th, 1945. It was promising enough that Johnson won an $80,000 contract on May 23rd to finalize the design and supply two sample guns for testing. ‘’ T40 is exactly world war 2 prototype.
If you mean ho-ri it was never built?
October 1944
John Garand completed the T20 in October 1944 . The first of the “T” series, it was equipped with a B.A.R.-style magazine and a “lengthened” Ml receiver and had selective fire capabilities. The T20E1 and T20E2 followed with further variations.
Erm ackshually the T20 was desinged and produced during WW2. In fact several other varients on it were made before the end of the war as well, notably the T20E1 and T20E2. In fact the T20E2 was literaly about to be put into mass production as the M2 rifle but the war ended before that could happen. 100 T20E2 guns were made before the end of the war. The soviet jet in game would be the example your looking for but not the T20.
