StG 44

Specifications

Type: Assault Rifle

Caliber: 7.92x33mm Kurz

Capacity: 25, 30 round box magazines

Fire Modes: Safe/Semi/Full Auto

Info

Developed by Nazi Germany in 1942, based on Haenel MKb 42(H) prototype, the Sturmgewehr rifle would revise the long-forgotten concept of an "assault rifle" (a concept developed in Russia in 1916, but wasnt popular with military leaders in Russia, and wasn't built on until the StG) . It was known as the MP43, MP44 (despite it being a full-sized rifle, not a submachine gun as the 'MP' designation would indicate), and finally as the StG 44 (Sturmgewehr = storm rifle) as development on the rifle progressed. The StG 44 was the first assault rifle able to be made cheaply, with good quality, an was a highly effective design. Until this point, assault rifles were usually difficult to produce, suffered high recoil, or were not reliable. The StG's platform layout was the precursor of all the world's modern assault rifles, most notably the AK-47.

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The Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle appears in the following movies, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Sturmgewehr 44 - 7.92x33mm

Haenel MKb 42(H) - 7.92x33mm

Film

• Frank Glaubrecht in Die Brücke

• Henry Fonda in Battle of the Bulge.

• Tino Struckmann as Capt. Klaus Mueller in Brother's War (2009)

• The Bunker

• Telly Savalas as Zeno and German soldiers in Escape to Athena

• Various German soldiers in Downfall aka "Der Untergang"

• Various German soldiers in The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

• Manfred Karge as Gilbert Wolzow and Klaus-Peter Thiele as Werner Holt in Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt

• German soldiers in Ich War Neunzehn

• 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

• Weaponology

Video Games

• Medal of Honor: Underground

• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

• Medal of Honor: Airborne

• Medal of Honor: Frontline (as the "Stg44")

• Medal of Honor: Infiltrator

• Medal of Honor: Heroes

• Medal of Honor: European Assault

• Medal of Honor: Vanguard

• Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45

• Call of Duty (as the "MP44")

• Call of Duty: United Offensive (as the "MP44")

• Call of Duty: Big Red One

• Call of Duty 2

• Call of Duty 3

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (available only in online play, and as the "MP44")

• Call of Duty: World at War

• Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts (as the "MP44")

• Call of Duty: Black Ops

• Commandos 3: Destination Berlin

• Company of Heroes

• Day of Defeat: Source

• Battlefield: 1942

• Hidden & Dangerous

• Silent Storm (as the "STG43"]

• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

• Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

• Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood

• Forgotten Hope 2

• Forgotten Hope

• Darkest Hour '44-'45

• Velvet Assassin

• Wolfenstein (as STG-43)

• Singularity (Beta version only)

Anime

• Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

• Hellsing used by Nazis

Animation

• Robot Chicken (shown as belt-fed)