Originally posted by Kegger26
Well I didnt say they sounded the same. The dont.. We were fired on in Kosovo by a WWII era MG42. I dont know what those boys in WWII felt like, but that sound....is pretty damn scary. It makes you stop and drop pretty quick. We were two blocks away from it! It puts out a frighting amount of fire. The downside is it is hard to hit anything with it. It seems to be mostly a suppressive fire weapon more so than a direct contact support weapon. Mr MK19 mounted on a HUMVEE put a 40mm right though that window it was in. Ended there day preatty quickly.
Yep, the Mg42 was basically a suppression-fire only weapon. It really was not capable of hitting anything at distance, but it was able to keep everyone behind cover because of the insane amount of lead it threw out. The MG42 crew was very vulnerable once someone broke through the flanks, however, and because of the nature of the weapon, most crews actually abandoned the gun to retreat, rather than pack it all up and leave themselves extremely vulnerable while doing so.
On a side note, the reason the MG42 doesn't even sound like a gun is because the bullets fire so fast that the human ear can't register each bullet being fired, so it sort of melds together into a very loud, frightening, roar.
