{"id":23024,"date":"2023-08-23T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/the-post-war-legacy-of-the-fg42\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:00:53","slug":"the-post-war-legacy-of-the-fg42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/the-post-war-legacy-of-the-fg42\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post-War Legacy of the FG42"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wCCs19sgFLw?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Get Entered to WIN this legendary FG 42!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/go.getenteredtowin.com\/forgottenweapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/go.getenteredtowin.com\/forgottenweapons<\/a><br \/>DEADLINE to ENTER is 08\/31\/23 @ 11:59pm (PST). <\/p>\n<p>If the FG-42 was such a great gun, then why didn&#8217;t it get used after the war? Well, two answers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1) It was crazy expensive to make and there weren&#8217;t very many lying around for people to use in quantity after the war.<\/p>\n<p>2) It was used; there was at least three post-war development projects based directly on the FG-42. One was the British EM1 Korsac Light Automatic Gun, one was the Swiss WF Bern competitor to the SIG Stgw 57, and one was the American M60 GPMG. So let&#8217;s have a look at all three, and what they did or didn&#8217;t take from the FG!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Entered to WIN this legendary FG 42!https:\/\/go.getenteredtowin.com\/forgottenweaponsDEADLINE to ENTER is 08\/31\/23 @ 11:59pm (PST). If the FG-42 was such a great gun, then why didn&#8217;t it get used after the war? Well, two answers&#8230; 1) It was crazy expensive to make and there weren&#8217;t very many lying around for people to use in quantity&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/the-post-war-legacy-of-the-fg42\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Post-War Legacy of the FG42<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}