Talk:MG 34

message: Lafette was spelled incorrectly as Laffette. I also added a citation and an effective range for the MG mounted to the Lafette.Dudas 91 (talk) 21:57, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Lafette

message: I added that the MG34 used a rotating bolt. I'm looking for a place to add that the MG34 used a short recoil operation aided by a muzzle booster.Dudas 91 (talk) 20:12, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Operation

message: Why would a 12Kg weapon require 49Kg of steel to produce? Paul, in Saudi 18:32, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: When you mill something, you cut away metal, so you have to start off with more to begin with. --Pelladon 05:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Why so much steel

message: An editor had added this nickname . Since his other edits were vandalim (obscenities) and the edit here was clearly misplaced I reverted it. If the nickname was widely known (Google has around 400 hits) please add it into the article. Pavel Vozenilek 00:05, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hitler's buzzsaw 

message: Replaced the current templatewith the recently standarised Infobox: Template:Infobox createde by the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Weaponry task force.  Deon Steyn 10:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: Somebody created the redundant article for the MG 81.  I redirected that article here. It's just an aircraft mounted version. --Asams10 22:35, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  MG 81 article 

message: I don't think there should be a space in the abbreviated name of of the MG, it ought to be MG34 in accordance with other German weapon naming conventions. Koalorka (talk) 20:45, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: A link to the following URL was undone by a user
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=152819&sid=5f202ee0230a854d506433b378348592&start=15
There are many internet sources without citations which refer to the use of the MG 34 in China, and the same sources usually refer to the MG-34 being manufactured in China, again, with no recourse to reliable sources being cited. 
Had MG-34 manufacture been commonplace, Chinese manufactured MG-34s would have been documented in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Instead, the ZB-26 was the most common light machine gun in use with the Chinese Nationalists.
The thread, to which a link was posted, shows photographic evidence of Chinese army personnel with MG-34s. Firstly, being inspected by the members of the 1943 Chinese Military Mission to North Africa, prior to being shipped to China. Secondly, a picture from a Chinese language book of Communist soldiers using a captured MG-34. I am not aware of other photographic evidence of Chinese soldiers with the MG-34.
Conversely, can anyone out there provide substantive evidence of manufacture of MG-34s in China, and back this up with production output figures? Keith H99 (talk) 21:38, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: MG 34 in China

message: For all information you ever wanted to know, plus more, about this subject - see Talk:8×57mm_IS#German_military_designation.3F.
* "7.92x57mm Mauser" is just wrong.
* In Europe, Russia and Chile, the CIP is authoritative for cartridge nomenclature. In North America, it is the SAAMI. Both talk about 8x57 IS. As a compromise, en.wikipedia included a "mm": 8x57mm IS.
* To alter an accepted nomenclature by two(!) standardisation bodies (standardisation is one of CIP's tasks, and SAAMI is quasi industrial standard in the USA) is WP:OR.
* To sum it up: In the Wehrmacht, Reichswehr and other German armed forces, it was either "Patrone 7.9mm" (w/o brass length) OR in civil use 8x57 I(nfantry)S(pitzer). "7.9x57 IS" is mixing different nomenclatures. "7.92x57" may come from the BESA machine gun by Great Britain, or it may just be an error, or both. In both cases, the BESA is a rather exotic weapon chambered for the cartridge, as opposed to millions of Karabiner 98k, military, hunting and sporting rifles.
Last time, there were endless edit wars against User:MFIreland. I hope now factual arguments will be heared and the reverts are not trolling. --Hornsignal (talk) 13:34, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:   "7.92" vs. 8 mm 

message: What was the gun's range? Urgos (talk) 21:19, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of its range 

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message: I think the soldiers in this image are modern day reenactors and if so that should pointed out in the caption. MG 34#Medium machine gun fire support role. SlightSmile 22:24, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Added the picture shows Wehrmacht reenactors. Wikicommons is quite clear regarding the 2012 reenactment status.--Francis Flinch (talk) 08:55, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image looks like reenactors 

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