{"id":27438,"date":"2025-07-23T07:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/krieghoffs-bizarre-prototype-fg42-proposal-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:27:44","slug":"krieghoffs-bizarre-prototype-fg42-proposal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/krieghoffs-bizarre-prototype-fg42-proposal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Krieghoff&#8217;s Bizarre Prototype FG42 Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09Y231o2lCw?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Check out Headstamp Publishing&#8217;s extensive catalog of excellent books:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/home-forgotten\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/home-forgotten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the Luftwaffe was looking for its new universal paratrooper rifle, six different German arms companies were asked to submit proposals. Only two actually did; Krieghoff and Rheinmetall. Krieghoff designed this very interesting system, clearly optimized to reduce weight and length as required by the design brief. It uses a tiny vertically traveling locking block and an unusual gas trap system combined with an under-barrel piston. The total number made is unknown, but both fixed- and folding-stock models were produced (the German museum at Koblenz has a fixed-stock example on display). This particular example appears to have been tested after the war by engineers at Springfield Armory by drilling a hole in the gas tube to measure pressure while it cycled.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site for giving me access to this rare prototype from their reference collection to film for you! 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Only two actually did; Krieghoff and Rheinmetall. Krieghoff designed this very interesting system, clearly optimized to reduce weight and length as required by the design&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/krieghoffs-bizarre-prototype-fg42-proposal-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Krieghoff&#8217;s Bizarre Prototype FG42 Proposal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27439,"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-27438","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\/27438","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=27438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}