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 machine gun used at the range was the German MG3, a weapon comparable to the American M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon machine gun.

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.

But SIG wasn’t done with machine guns. Following the success of their Stgw 57 assault rifle, they adapted the roller-delayed blowback mechanism to a new machine gun, the SIG MG55.