English Research paper question!?

[curry1]

MP-44 Sturmgewehr is needed the FIRST assault rifle it used a revolutionary intermediate round between rifle and pistol had plastic parts the whole shebang.  It was the best weapon of its time.

[minke]

MP-44 for sure

Thompson

Gatling gun for its revolutionary concept (no pun intended) you can incorporate its reuse and redesign in modern warfare

BAR

MG33 and MG42

[Dichotomy]

Just out of curiosity have you checked your subject with your teacher?  As mamby pamby as schools are getting these days it wouldn't surprise me if you wrote it and got put on some list and offered 'counseling'. 

Not trying to be funny for once.

[Guppy35]

Might consider narrowing it down to the ones that really forced change starting with the Maxim.  Which of the hand held pistol caliber mgs set that trend.  Which rifle caliber automatic was the trend setter.  While the Sturmgewehr 44 was the first with the intermediate round, I'm hard pressed not to say that the AK47 really set that ball rolling.  Is it fair to say the M-16 was the first of the 'plastic' rifles that sent things in that direction?  Does the introduction of the semi-automatic rifle like the Garand warrant inclusion?

Just thinking out loud so to speak although I do think you could shorten your list and expand on fewer weapons that really caused change.

[Babalonian]

Gotta cover the STG-44, it was the predecessor to the perfected AK-47 and overall first economicly mass-produced stamped-steel selective-fire-mode single-person assault rifle.

Civil war erra gattling gun and the first browning machine guns of WWI (that were refined into the browning .30 and .50 cals of WWII) should definetley be in the list too.

You can do the M60, which was based off the German WWII (infamous) MG42 and MG34 (which if you do the MG42, you gotta touch on the 34) designs.

[Wayout]

The gun that made the biggest change in warfare was the Maxim.

[Jayhawk]

A short discussion on modern ammunition could be relevant as well.

[Ack-Ack]

Don't forget this!

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What you see is the Sturmgewehr 44. This design was responsible for pave way to the momst popular assault rifle ever in the history of the world... the AK47

Despite some claiming the AK-47 was based at the StG44 (some claim the gas system and layout was influenced by the StG44) but Kalashnikov himself as disputed this.  According to him, his influence in designing the original AK was the SKS (which he lost to in an earlier design competition), M1 Garand/Carbine (trigger, double locking lugs and unlocking raceway) and the Remington Model 8 (safety mechanism).

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[redman555]

Just out of curiosity have you checked your subject with your teacher?  As mamby pamby as schools are getting these days it wouldn't surprise me if you wrote it and got put on some list and offered 'counseling'.  

Not trying to be funny for once.

Haha, yes I did he said it was fine.  I took same prof as I did last semester.  He didnt mind, im in college not HS btw lol.  So not as if im a 12 year old lol

-BigBOBCH

[KgB]

Despite some claiming the AK-47 was based at the StG44 (some claim the gas system and layout was influenced by the StG44) but Kalashnikov himself as disputed this.  According to him, his influence in designing the original AK was the SKS (which he lost to in an earlier design competition), M1 Garand/Carbine (trigger, double locking lugs and unlocking raceway) and the Remington Model 8 (safety mechanism).

ack-ack

In 2009 Mikhail Kalashnikov admitted that Schmeisser "helped" design  AK-47.
In my opinion Kalashnikov is charlatan. In all his years as an " inventor" not being able to design anything else is a bit of a give away.   AEK-971 clearly much better rifle was designed over 25 years ago but lost to AK series in competition. I'm thinking Kalashnikov was blowing entire Politburo and that's why AK  is still in production.

[Perrine]

I'm thinking Kalashnikov was blowing entire Politburo and that's why AK  is still in production.

Can't they come up with something new? Or it's that AK is THAT GOOD as is right now?

I mean right now you can buy a pirated African AK for less than a pirated Chinese AK and much less than an original Russian AK

[KgB]

Can't they come up with something new? Or it's that AK is THAT GOOD as is right now?

I mean right now you can buy a pirated African AK for less than a pirated Chinese AK and much less than an original Russian AK

You just read last sentence of my comment didn't you?

[Guppy35]

Can't they come up with something new? Or it's that AK is THAT GOOD as is right now?

I mean right now you can buy a pirated African AK for less than a pirated Chinese AK and much less than an original Russian AK

Suggest you do a little research into the history of the AK and all it's variants.  Today's AK is not the original AK.  They have kept up with the times.

[Rattler]

um...not too keen on weapons but what about the M1 Garand? wasn't it like the first semi-automatic weapon?or something along those lines?  i don't know...

[Jayhawk]

um...not too keen on weapons but what about the M1 Garand? wasn't it like the first semi-automatic weapon?or something along those lines?  i don't know...

Either way, his paper is on the evolution of automatic weapons.  I suppose semi-auto is part of that evolution, but if he did that, he'd have to address every step along the way of the firearm.