Diemaco variants

[Greenronnie]

Plus we don`t wear earings, make-up, nylons, smoke dope and have a RM union

Only at the weekends anyway!!

[Greenronnie]

Luckily the Danish infantry still has our good old MG3(updated MG42-The Saw)

we will still keep using the MG3 for mounted operations..

Yeah we loved them too!!

[harry hackedoff]

Ronners, that rug is sooo you

I think the old MG 42 deserves a thread all of it`s own.
Imagine if the team from Pimp My Ride ever gave it the same treatment they gave to GPMG?
First time I saw one fired was in 86 ish in the Sjoa region. Nog Army gave my section the good news and I thought they were using live-ers!
Imagine their surprise when mister farking angry landed in their fire trench
Er, sorry, Knut

Short version, neg stock, drum mag a la minimi?
Wot jew fink?

Sounds like a winner

[Holger Danske]

Nope.
It's perfect already.
Okay, it could be a few pounds lighter!

Full auto(20 rounds per second!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmIUdPf9-A

Crazy weapon!

Eric writes…

One of the byproducts of conducting security operations in Iraq is you end up with a lot of confiscated weapons, and over the years, quite a respectable collection had been assembled by the various units rotating through the IA mission on our FOB. Naturally we had such staples as the AK-47, AKM, RPK, RPD, and PKM, but we also had some pretty cool specimens as well, like Dragunov SVD sniper rifles, a working DShK, RPGs, even such oldies but goodies as a couple of Mosin-Nagant M1891bolt action rifles and a PPSh-41 sub-machine gun (non-functional unfortunately, otherwise this thing would have been a blast.)

The piece d’resistance, though was a brand-new, never been fired, fully functional German MG3.

We came about this little gem after detaining a collection of Iraqi oil and pipeline security folk who were conducting illegal shakedown checkpoints out in the hinterlands. In the process of cataloguing their equipment the scribing NCO described the MG3 as some sort of Star Wars blaster rifle, and so it’s true nature went undiscovered until I happened to see it propped up against the wall in the supply room, whereupon I discerned the true nature of this fine piece of warmongery.

The machinegun itself was in a sorry state. It was bone dry (a blessing as it would turn out), packed with dust, and had never been fired. Since it had never been lubricated (that I could tell), cleaning it up was simply a matter of field stripping it, blowing the majority of the dust out and then giving it a good bath and scrub in solvent. Once clean, dry, lubricated, and reassembled, my MG3 and me went out to the range to convert some linked 7.62 NATO into heat and noise.

For those of you who have never had the opportunity to fire an MG3, it is quite possibly the finest, single barreled medium machinegun ever built. Based on the German MG42 of WWII fame, the MG3 is essentially the MG3 rechambered from 7.92mm Mauser to 7.62mm NATO. Its ROF is 1,200 rounds per minute and it is an absolute dream to shoot.

Had we simply found the weapon in a raid I would have ditched my M16 and hauled that sucker with me everywhere, but alas and alack, I had to give it back when we eventually released the Iraqis we had detained. I shudder to think now what state “my” MG3 is in, but for the week or so we were together, and the thousands of rounds we fired together, I was in absolute heaven.

-- Eric Daniel

[Holger Danske]

Some info.

http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg33-e.htm

Reports from Helmand says that fire-superiority is normally gained through this weapon every time a Danish foot-patrol gets ambushed in the Green Zone!


Fark PKM!

[PoliSci]

The c-7 is one of the best Armalite variants in the world. In arctic environments you just strip off the oil and cover the moving parts with carbon shavings from pencils and it will never jam. Ive fired thousands of rounds without ever having a jam. The only problem comes if you take it into a warm environment where it sweats then take it back into sub zero where it freezes... then you have a problem... a big problem.