The powder gases were collected at the barrel muzzle and actuated with the help of a recoil amplifier and a gas piston at the barrel of the breech. It was the ‘Bang’ system, named after its Danish inventor. ‘Md’ stands for ‘model’ and ‘Gewehr’ is the German term for rifle.īoth weapons were quite similar due to the exact specifications and used an unusual system to fire the 7.92 mm standard cartridge.
The results were the self-loading rifles Md 41 M (Mauser) and Md 41 W (Walter), or Gewehr 41 (G-41 M or G-41 W). However, the first attempts were not successful and so it took until 1940 for the competing companies Mauser and Walther to bid for a production order with their models according to Wehrmacht specifications.
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