Hungarian paratrooper squad

[Valkay]

Hello bajtársak and fellow forumdwellers,

In the inter-war period flying was still considered a new and dangerous field and naturally many people were afraid to get on a plane. Now imagine a jackass getting on a plane to jump out of it mid flight only to land in a combat zone. Sounds ridiculous doesn’t it?
I think it will surprise no one that during the 1930s airborne operations were still considered a waste of funds by most, something for the great powers to experiment with.
The Royal Hungarian Army restricted by the Trianon dictatum was not allowed to utilise modern branches such as airforce or tanks up until the Bled agreement in 1938, thus the Hungarian army was 20 years behind in military technology just at the doorstep of another great war.
Desperate to gain expertise in at least one field, Hungary began experimenting in 1938.
By 1940 the first Hungarian paratrooper training school was opened in the city of Pápa.
On 12th of April 1941, Hungary became the first minor nation to carry out an airborne combat operation.

From a cold historian perspective, espionage operations were already carried out during the first world war by parachute jumps behind enemy lines.
The Cönder legion had airlifted thousands of Spanish colonial troops from Africa to Spain during the Spanish civil war.
Germany had already carried out two major airborne operations by April of 1941.
When we view history through the lenses of the great powers, Hungary’s achievements seem laughable or cute at best, but Hungary is not a great power and does not have the same resources as Germany or the United States had.

Lets put into perspective how impressive this feat was for a minor nation like Hungary.
Romania, which had the largest army among the minor Axis powers. The first Romanian paratrooper company was formed in 1940, but they only received the training and equipment necessary to carry out airborne operations by 1943 in Germany as Romania did not have its own paratrooper training school.
Canada arguably boasted the most capable modern army of all minor powers, the 1st Canadian paratrooper battalion was formed in 1942 and trained in the United States. The unit was placed under the command of the British 6th airborne division and used British equipment.

Without the help of major powers, neither Romania or Canada could have fielded a single paratrooper battalion.
In contrast Hungary fielded a paratrooper regiment trained in Hungary, equipped with domestic equipment and subordinate only to Hungarian high command.
Paratroopers were the Royal Hungarian army´s pride and were held in the highest esteem, as the elite of the Hungarian army.

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I believe that the most fitting firearm would be the paratrooper variant of Hungary´s most famous submachine gun:
The Danuvia 39M A

more pictures

Please also attach the 1935M Mannlicher bayonet

Known as the Király 39M in the game, the A variant was designed for the special needs of Hungarian paratroopers. Hungary found that jumping with long weapons can lead to injuries, thus a foldable buttstock was designed for the Danuvia 39M so the soldiers could land combat ready.
The gun cannot be used with the stock folded because the trigger mechanism is inaccessible.

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Unit: 1st paratrooper regiment - Szent László division
Insignia:

History: The regiment was formed in August 1944 from the veterans of the first parachute battalion to serve as the base of Hungary´s new elite division, The Szent László, an elite rapid deployment unit from the best available manpower Hungary had to offer. Since December of 1944 the first parachute regiment has been engaging Soviet and Romanian forces in Hungary.

The Hungarian (paratrooper) supply box

There is nothing unique in it for now because the only tech tree Hungarian gun is the Király 39M which would get duplicated.

Uniforms and customization of the squad

Jumpsmock

20M bocskai fieldcap

Features openable flaps

44M bocskai fieldcap

Also features openable flaps

38M helmet

38M helmet fashioned similarly to German M38 fallschirmjäger helmet.

Király 39M pouch

M16 backsack

35M haversack also known as 35M kenyértarisznya

1935M kulacs

R1 radio

100 genuine Hungarian given names

Aladár
András
Antal
Atilla
Attila
Balázs
Barabás
Barnabás
Bence
Bendegúz
Benedek
Bertalan
Botond
Bálint
Bánk
Béla
Csaba
Csanád
Csombor
Dezső
Domokos
Dániel
Erik
Ernő
Ervin
Ferenc
Gergely
Gergő
Gyula
György
Gábor
Géza
Hunor
Ignác
Imre
István
Jakab
Jenő
János
József
Kende
Koppány
Kornél
Kristóf
Kálmán
Kármán
Károly
Lajos
Lehel
Levente
Lukács
László
Lázár
Lőrinc
Máté
Mihály
Miklós
Miksa
Mátyás
Nimród
Norbert
Nándor
Olivér
Oszkár
Ottó
Petúr
Pál
Péter
Regő
Rihárd
Roland
Rudolf
Róbert
Soma
Szabolcs
Szigfrid
Szilárd
Sámuel
Sándor
Tamás
Tibor
Tivadar
Ugor
Ulászló
Vajk
Viktor
Vilmos
Vince
Zalán
Zoltán
Zsigmond
Zsolt
Zétény
Ádám
Ágoston
Ákos
Álmos
Árpád
Ödön
Örs

100 genuine Hungarian cognames/family names

Alföldi
Aszalós
Asztalos
Bakos
Balga
Benczédi
Benke
Berecky
Biró
Bodzay
Budai
Bácskai
Báthory
Bátor
Békési
Csapó
Csíki
Csukás
Csák
Deák
Dibáczy
Dobó
Dömötör
Dürvanger
Erős
Faragó
Farkas
Fazekas
Fehér
Fekete
Fickó
Gyulai
Gáll
Göndör
Görbe
Görgei
Hajdú
Halmos
Halász
Hegedüs
Hidasi
Horn
Horváth
Hunyadvári
Juhász
Kaincz
Kassai
Kelemen
Kerekes
Kertész
Kisfaludy
Kiss
Kocsis
Kovács
Kőszegi
Lengyel
Losonczi
Lovász
Lászlófi
Marosi
Meszlényi
Molnár
Monori
Mártonfalvi
Mészáros
Nagy
Németh
Papp
Puskás
Pálfi
Rácz
Rákosfalvi
Róka
Sas
Sebes
Selmeczi
Somogyi
Szabó
Szepesi
Szigeti
Szili
Szilágyi
Székely
Szűcs
Sárosi
Takács
Tusay
Tóth
Vadász
Valkay
Varga
Vas
Veress
Verestói
Vitézy
Vágó
Vándor
Vásárhelyi
Zrínyi
Árva

Thank you for your time and attention!

[Yamoto4299-live]

@Valkay

That’s a really good photoshop job, looks official.

[Ma_theos33]

Knowing them its more likely that you will get Hungarian paratrooper experience by using slides in Hajdúszoboszló than Enlisted, but its a good idea

[Valkay]

@Yamoto4299-live

@Valkay

That’s a really good photoshop job, looks official.

thank you, I worked hard on this.
Its a huge shame that I couldnt have made this more interesting though.

@Valkay

Solothurn S-18/100

@Valkay

36/39M 8cm aknavető

scoped 35M mannlicher rifle

domestic Hungarian 44M rocket launcher

@Valkay

MG31 LMG

There are options to make Hungarian supply box more Hungarian and unique, but since only tech tree weapons are added to it, all of these additions would need to be added to the tech tree.

[Chris_Vector]

If only the devs actually looked at the forum/the helpers actually forwarded anything (aside from soviet bais stuff)

On a real note. Kiraly 39​:heart:

[iso_seppo123]

@Valkay

The Danuvia 39M A

I wonder if the type 100 para smg was inspired by this. They have very similar folding stock

[Gulyás_Bandit]

I doubt it. I think it’s just a case of: this makes sense to do with existing guns instead of making new ones with foldable stocks.

[Gulyás_Bandit]

Damn. It’s not possible to have a soldier with my name.

[Valkay]

Im sure your given name/keresztnév is on the list though.
Well if you insist I can swap out a cogname, just dm me your cogname.

[Valkay]

@iso_seppo123

type 100 para smg was inspired by this.

Seems unlikely, I doubt Japanese army could have come across a Danuvia 39M let alone a 39M A.

There is probably an even older third gun which had the feature first.

[GROOT0404]

Would love to have some more minor nation representation, especially with a gun as nice as the Király, which unfortunately is stuck in BRIV. More SMGs with bayonets should finally receive those so it’s nice to see it being mentioned here specifically.

[Gulyás_Bandit]

It’s just “Magyar”. But yes, keresztnév is there.

Edit: I don’t insist, I just thought that would be a more common family name.

[Valkay]

It is common, but I tried to avoid cognames that famous Hungarian politicans have.

[Gulyás_Bandit]

[SzepWaxweiler]

Japanese type 100 was inspired by TERA rifle (We have one in game but that is not the TERA rifle that inspired the type 100 Paratrooper)

This is type 100 TERA which we have in game for Japanese event paratrooper but later model (Type 1 TERA )had the same stock as type 100 which could be folded.


And this rifle was inspired by German K98K “Klappschaft” and Mauser 33/40 with folding stock


Both of this guns were very rare I don’t know how Japan could have gotten inspiration from them though my source says otherwise also beside this there was a takedown version of K98K which might have also inspired Type 100 TERA

[Valkay]

@SzepWaxweiler

And this rifle was inspired by German K98K “Klappschaft” and Mauser 33/40 with folding stock

man I need to dig up my book again on Király.
Maybe there is something about its folding stock I missed or forgot since.

[Valkay]

Okay so the book said nothing about the origin of the mechanism.
It did say that most sources were destroyed though so its not a big surprise really.
Its highly possible that the K98K “Klappschaft” did influence the gun.

All I can offer are some pictures
And the option to add the gun with curved mag.

About the curved magazine:
In 1942 Hungary became the last nation on the planet still producing the 9mm Mauser and Hungary did not have the resources necessary to increase production while 9mm Mauser usage increased by the day so they made a cheaper bullet that used materials plentyful in Hungary.
This new bullet caused feeding issues when fired from straight mags though, so a new curved mag was designed but there were too many straight mags to replace them so ultimate the weapon’s firing mechanism was redesigned instead which became the Danuvia 39/42M and with a few upgrades the Danuvia 43M.

The Király 39/A M could be made even more interesting by giving it a curved magazine, but its just a cosmetic change really.

Anyway, I did a typo and the offical designation is Danuvia 39/A M because model always comes last in Hungarian designations.

[blu3eyessS91-psn]

Jól megcsinálta! He did it great!

[Mortarion_Death]

Airborne squads are some of the most useless units in the game. But if that’s what you want, fine.

[LBE_S-G-44]

Gotta ave honest i love this suggestion