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According to McNab (2012), the Stabilimento Militare Armi Leggere Terni or SMALT had produced a conversion kit to adapt the MG 42/59 GPMG (Italy's license-produced version of the MG 42 / MG 3) to 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition (p. 25). Uncited entries on Wikipedia claimed that the conversion kit consists of a new barrel, bolt head, feed opening and cover, recoil-enhancing element, and a lighter bolt. It is also claimed that the weight of the modified 5.56×45mm MG 42/59 GPMG remains unchanged from the original version.[ATTACH=full]705937[/ATTACH]SOURCE: McNab, C. (2012). MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns. Osprey Publishing.An online search on Google has yielded little to no information on such a conversion kit for the MG 42/59. Does anyone have any information and pictures about this conversion kit? Did such a conversion kit actually existed?
According to McNab (2012), the Stabilimento Militare Armi Leggere Terni or SMALT had produced a conversion kit to adapt the MG 42/59 GPMG (Italy's license-produced version of the MG 42 / MG 3) to 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition (p. 25). Uncited entries on Wikipedia claimed that the conversion kit consists of a new barrel, bolt head, feed opening and cover, recoil-enhancing element, and a lighter bolt. It is also claimed that the weight of the modified 5.56×45mm MG 42/59 GPMG remains unchanged from the original version.
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SOURCE: McNab, C. (2012). MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns. Osprey Publishing.
An online search on Google has yielded little to no information on such a conversion kit for the MG 42/59. Does anyone have any information and pictures about this conversion kit? Did such a conversion kit actually existed?
