The 12 Worst Weapons of World War II (Part 2)

 In the Second World War, a large number of weapons were used which were far less dangerous to the enemy than they were to their own troops. 

Yesterday I posted the six first weapons on my list.

The last six ones are here: 

 Reising M50 

Because the Thompson was so expensive to produce, the Reising 1940 was designed by the Americans as a substitute. They also made only a minor mistake in the development. They created a police rifle, no army rifle. On a shooting range, in bright sunshine, she was a wonderful device. But even the smallest dust (not to mention water, sand or even mud) and the rifle had all the possible malfunctions at the same time. Up to explosions. It was harnessed over a hidden loading lever in the shaft - which made the troubleshooting almost as easy, as cracking a safe with a boxing glove. To make the gun even worse, it was designed in a way, that the magazine had to be fitting 100%, the slightest deviation caused it to not get stuck in the gun. To increase the thrill, the magazines themselves were made of a material, which was similar to that of aluminum foil.

 Gewehr 41 (M) 

The Germans realized at some point that they also need a semi-automatic rifle. However, it was designed by generals. As we all know, generals are useless in any kind of combat, and only a kind of living holder for many flashing medals. So they demanded a rifle without holes in the barrel for the automatic reload cycle, it should not have movable outer parts and in the event that the automatic fails, it had to be able to shoot without even these by a repeating function. Mauser designed the G41 (M) and Walther the G41 (W). Both were crap, but Walther won. But only because they simply ignored the two latter requirements. Nevertheless, of the Mauser variant were produced about 13,000 and of the Walther variant about 130,000 pieces. Both had, due to the wishes of the generals, the gas sampling directly at the mouth, which made the weapons complicated, quickly dodging, vulnerable and therefore very unpopular among the soldiers.

 AVT-40 

When the Russians and the Germans began to fight, Stalin (or his people) looked through the camps and sought an automatic rifle. He found the .30-06 Springfield - unfortunately it was meaningless, because the ammunition for the weapon was missing. There was also the DP-28 machine gun, which was however much too bulky and also no comparison to the weapons of the Germans. So they took the semi-automatic SVT-40, rebuild it and called it machine gun. Surprisingly, it turned out that an infantry rifle with 10 rounds ammunition capacity, is not quite the perfect machine gun. Also, the machine gun function was so oversized at 700 rounds per minute that the rifle could not withstand the load. The recoil was so strong that it damaged the shaft. Also a brief moment of inattentiveness was eniugh and the gun, in the truest sense of the word, beat the shooter to a pulp.

 PIAT 

Let's come to our tea drinking friends. No, not the British again. No, not even the Chinese. Yes, exactly, the Japanese. The PIAT is a grenade thrower which consists of a pipe with a spring. You know Newton? Each force has the same counterforce. So if the feather fires several kilos of grenades over 100 meters, then the same force will also hit your shoulder. Is not as funny as it sounds. Also inaccurate and difficult to tension. Just awful.

 Beretta M1918 

Probably you suspect in the meantime that Italian weapons were not so good in the Second World War. You're right. The Beretta was probably made in a meeting, when someone said, "You know what a good SMG would be?" A gun. " The M1918 was neither a good rifle, nor a good machine gun. Poorly designed and even more poorly engineered, it was about 30 years behind the weapons the others had. So like an IPhone, just not as fancy. Even in short ranges it could not shoot accurate, but this actually dont matter, because the weapon uses the Glisenti ammunition and as I already said this type of ammunation is just crap. So you didn't knew wether you shoot badly because of the bad weapon or the bad ammunation.

 Nambu Type 94 

Without question, the ugliest weapon ever developed. The Japanese weapons are not winning any beauty contests, this is well-known. But that? Looks as if an expressionist artist had designed the weapon from the description of a blind man. And she functioned even worse than she looked. As ammunition the 8mm Nambu cartridge was used, designed by people who had no idea what ballistics means. Their focus of the weight was high, which meant that the recoil felt like a hammer. Since she was used at the end of warfare, she was made of bad steel, which caused her to explode. As if that were not enough, the trigger is designed to go off when you put the weapon into the holster - so you shoot yourself into the leg.

That were my top 12 of the worst WW II weapons, what do you think is the worst one?

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 Thanks for reading. I hope you like it :) Excuse me if my English is not very good, but I am not a native speaker. Sources: Google Pictures and Wikipedia