Some of the machine guns that first appeared in World War II are still in used today, most prominently the German MG3 of 1959 and its predecessor, the MG42, which originated in Nazi Germany.

The PKM is one of the most common machine guns in the world. Produced in great numbers by the Soviet Union, the PKM is found in the arsenals of almost every developing nation around the world as ...

While it was previously reported that the new H&K MG5 would replace the MG3 fully as the machine gun of the Bundeswehr, in March 2019, it was announced that Germany would resume production of the ...

The German government reported on March 24 it handed Ukraine three engineering vehicles Dachs for the first time as well as additional MG3 machine guns and drone detection systems.

The widespread use of machine guns in World War II resulted in the development of faster-firing guns. Variants of some of these machine guns are still in use today, including the German MG3.