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1 Why so much steel
2 Hitler's buzzsaw
3 Infobox
4 MG 81 article
5 Medium machine gun
6 Naming

[edit] Why so much steel

Why would a 12Kg weapon require 49Kg of steel to produce? Paul, in Saudi 18:32, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

When you mill something, you cut away metal, so you have to start off with more to begin with. --Pelladon 05:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Note: The article mentions the MG34 was used in tanks and vehicles because the MG42's barrel housing was square. While that's true, the main reason the MG34 remained in tanks was the barrel changing could be done from within. Not so with the MG42. The MG34 could also feed ammo from either left or right, the MG42 could only feed on the left side. --Pelladon 05:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hitler's buzzsaw

An editor had added this nickname [1]. Since his other edits were vandalim (obscenities) and the edit here was clearly misplaced I reverted it. If the nickname was widely known (Google has around 400 hits) please add it into the article. Pavel Vozenilek 00:05, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Hitlers buzzsaw refers to the MG42(69.251.127.235 22:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Infobox

Replaced the current templatewith the recently standarised Infobox: Template:Infobox createde by the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Weaponry task force. Deon Steyn 10:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MG 81 article

Somebody created the redundant article for the MG 81. I redirected that article here. It's just an aircraft mounted version. --Asams10 22:35, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Medium machine gun

Is the MG34 a Medium machine gun? --Philip Laurence 01:27, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Its a General porpous(spelled wrong i know) machine gun and could be used in either the heavy light or medium to answer your question and so was the MG42 (ForeverDEAD 04:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC))

The Germans referred to it as a universal machinegun, and had a designation for it depending on if it was being used in a light or heavy role. lMG.34 for light and sMG.34 if tripod mounted. As far as I know in the mid 1930's there were no medium MGs or a medium MG role. Only light (i.e. lewis) and heavy (i.e. Vickers). Certainly the concept of a universal or general puropse machinegun was completely new at the time.

I suspect that it's more likely that with the advent of machineguns firing intermediate cartridges that the meaning of light, medium and heavy machineguns has changed. GunpicsBAS (talk) 00:52, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

I don't think there should be a space in the abbreviated name of of the MG, it ought to be MG34 in accordance with other German weapon naming conventions. Koalorka (talk) 20:45, 27 November 2007 (UTC)