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Machine-gun Platoon (Afrika) (GE744)
with 2 Machine-gun Sections
Maschinengewehr-34 (Machine-gun, model of 1934), or MG-34, was the main infantry support weapon of the Deutsches Afrikakorps as well as the main vehicle (tank) machine-gun. MG-34 was also the first ever true Universal machine gun. It could be used as a light machine gun from bipod, as a sustained fire, medium machine-gun on tripod, as a tank or AA weapon.
MG-34 was designed in the early 1930s by the team at Rheinmetall. Final design, adopted for service in 1934, incorporated numerous features from experimental prototypes built by Rheinmetall, Mauser, and others. As was requested by German army, it was a truly universal machine-gun, capable of different roles.
It was put into production in 1935, and remained an official Machine-gun of the Wehrmacht until 1942, when it was officially replaced by the more reliable and cheaper to produce MG-42. Despite this the MG-34 continued to serve until the end of WW2, mostly as a tank machine-gun as it was better suited for the role than the MG-42.
In the Desert the MG-34 on the medium machine-gun tripod served in the Heavy platoons of the Desert Fox’s army. Along with the mortars they served as the heavy support platoon for the motorised Panzergrenadiers companies.
These miniatures are supplied unassembled and unpainted
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