This Germany Machine Gun Is More Advanced Than You’d Think – Rheinmetall MG-3 Machine Gun
The MG3 is one of the most successful machine guns in the world today and remains in production and widespread service more than 61 years after it was first adopted. It is an early Cold War era machine gun of German origin and a designation for various machine guns developed when Germany entered NATO. It is well known for its high rate of fire. The MG3 or (Machinengewehr Modell 3) was introduced into service in 1968 under the Rheinmetall brand label and continues in widespread use today. These are basically a conversion of the MG42 machine gun which was widely used by Na – zi Germany during World War 2. Besides the Belgian MAG, the MG3 was the most common type of Western machine gun during the Cold War. The weapon was developed as a multi-role General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), this classification denoting a specialized group of a machine gun in military service.