During World War II, the beleaguered German Army fielded a revolutionary new infantry weapon designed to make the German soldier the most powerful on the battlefield. The Sturmgewehr-44, or StG-44 ...

The StG-44 was a truly revolutionary weapon, bringing firepower down to the individual soldier level. It was no doubt an influence for Mikhail Kalashnikov, father of the AK-47 assault rifle.

The Stg-44 rifle was considered ahead of its time and launched a fundamental rethinking of the standard military firearm. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons, Das Bundesarchiv) During World War I, German ...

The StG 44 fired the 7.92x33 mm Kurz, which was a shortened version of the 8 mm Mauser cartridge. This gun and ammunition combination helped to fill the mid-range combat niche in the German's ...

Hill & Mac Gunworks, a startup in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, is reproducing the STG 44 Sturmgewehr, which was developed for German soldiers in World War II.The German word "sturm" means to ...

The drawing on the base of the statue (on the right) which showed Germany's StG 44 rifle Workers in Moscow have cut out part of a new monument to a Russian creator of the world famous AK-47 ...