RDCL
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I'm just curious. I watched my DVD yesterday and I'm sure you all recall the scene where just after Capt. Miller & his men Blitz and capture a German radar site......and you see a close-up of the MG-42 smoking & cooling off....and as the gun cools off you can hear the metal clinking as it contracts, very much like a fixture on a stove after boiling water.......so I'm wondering, do real MG-42's make such noise as they cool-off....or is the movie mistaken?
The reason I wonder is because IF the gun got hot enough for the metal to expand THAT much the barrel would be glowing and would the gun not malfunction or even come apart?
....Or maybe I missed something in the movie and in fact the gun WAS jammed after all. I do recall one of men (Capt. Miller?) saying something before the attack referring to the MG like: ".....before they have time to change out the barrel"
A freind of mine says the scene is BS. I remain neutral.....I've never seen an MG-42 in operation.
Russ
The reason I wonder is because IF the gun got hot enough for the metal to expand THAT much the barrel would be glowing and would the gun not malfunction or even come apart?
....Or maybe I missed something in the movie and in fact the gun WAS jammed after all. I do recall one of men (Capt. Miller?) saying something before the attack referring to the MG like: ".....before they have time to change out the barrel"
A freind of mine says the scene is BS. I remain neutral.....I've never seen an MG-42 in operation.
Russ