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StG 44
Revision as of 12:53, 11 September 2009 by Maralex334 (talk | contribs) (→Film: correction to my previous entry)
Specifications
Type: Assault Rifle
Caliber: 7.92x33mm Kurz
Capacity: 30 round box magazines
Fire Modes: Safe/Semi/FullAuto
Info
Developed by Nazi Germany in 1942 it was known as the MP-43,MP-44, as well as the StG-44 as development on the rifle progressed. The rifle is the first "assault rifle" developed which can shoot medium power "intermediate" ammunition, and was the percursor of all the world's major assault rifles, notably the AK-47 and the M-16.
The Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle appears in the following movies, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
- Battle of the Bulge. This is the rifle that Henry Fonda examined from a captured German patrol while he was checking the personnel in a bunker in the early scenes of the movie.
- Tino Struckmann as Capt. Klaus Mueller in Brother's War (2009)
- Telly Savalas as Zeno and German soldiers in Escape to Athena
- Various German soldiers in Downfall aka "Der Untergang"
- Manfred Karge as Gilbert Wolzow and Klaus-Peter Thiele as Werner Holt in Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt
- German soldiers in Ich War Neunzehn
- Zolo's Men & Ira's Men in Romancing the Stone
- Rebel Alliance soldiers in the original Star Wars trilogy (as the "BlasTech A280" and "A295" blaster rifles)
- Pirates and crew members in Piraty XX veka (modified to resemble M16 rifles)
- U.S Army soldiers in Solo Voyage (modified to resemble M16 rifles)
Television
Video Games
- Medal of Honor: Frontline (as the "Stg44")
- Call of Duty (as the "MP44")
- Call of Duty: United Offensive (as the "MP44")
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (available only in online play)
- Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts (as the "MP44")
- Silent Storm (as the "STG43"]
Anime
- Hellsing used by Nazi's