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*Near the end of war, Grossfuss designed MG45 or MG42V which derived from MG42. Unlike the predecessor, MG45 designed with low-grade material due the low amount of resource to manufacture more MG42. MG45 beats Machine Gun in term of Rate of Fire, only being rivalled with ShKAS Aircraft Machine Gun, 1.800 RPM. However, combined with low-grade material and blistering Rate of Fire, MG45 is extremely prone to overheating which damages the component or even severely breaking it and affect overall performance. Interestingly, MG45 able to accept 75-round Patronentrommel which used by MG34. Only 10 units were produced during wartime.
*Unlike her older sister, MG42 cannot be mounted as coaxial MG on tank hull mount because the square-shaped heat shield will obstruct the small hatch at the right of MG42 to replace a barrel. While so, MG42 was popularly used in sandbag emplacement, captured building, and mostly bunker.
**However in very rare cases, MG42 was used as pintle-mounted weapon on commander cupola in order to sway off enemy aircraft or approaching enemies. While so, MG42 was actually used in first production of Jagdpanzer IV as coaxial machine gun and , some of German Halftrack. Or , and the BMW motorcycle which can be mounted on the Sidecar.
*It was also known as the "Linoleum ripper", "Bonesaw" and "Calico-tearer".
*U.S had reverse-engineered MG42 and replacing the barrel which designed for 7.62 Springfield(.30.06) known as T24 Machine Gun. In order to meet U.S cyclic rate requirements, heavy bolts was installed to reduce rate of fire for better control and accuracy. However the design engineer made an error where the 7.92x56mm Mauser caliber was shorter than .30.06 Springfield(7.62x63mm), resulting of continuous stoppages during field test. The project of T24 was ultimately abandoned after considering too much effort and times to redesign it.<ref>[https://www.forgottenweapons.com/light-machine-guns/us-t24-machine-gun-mg42/ US Copy of MG42]</ref>
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