Nazis did tend to use the Mosin but looking into it, it's probably more due to availability of ammo and the fact that they didn't freeze shut like German rifles did
The one's who got the better made Mosins (especially Finnish ones) really did prefer it. But of course the wartime pressures on the Soviet economy made quality vary widely. (that's what happens when you move your factory half way across the country and try to make stuff with completely different steel.)
By the end of the war the Soviets had much better weapons than the Mosin available. They deployed millions of SMGs. meanwhile the Wehrmacht was still mostly using Kar98s and equivalent bolt action rifles.
Imagine thinking the Mosin was obsolete by WWII and not literally the MVP gun of that entire war.
Fuckin' Germans preferred to use captured Mosins than their own issued rifles
It was still arguably the best sniper rifle in the world til it got leapfrogged by the SVD in the 60s.
i have a mosin and love it to death but i really struggle to believe this is true lol.
Nazis did tend to use the Mosin but looking into it, it's probably more due to availability of ammo and the fact that they didn't freeze shut like German rifles did
The one's who got the better made Mosins (especially Finnish ones) really did prefer it. But of course the wartime pressures on the Soviet economy made quality vary widely. (that's what happens when you move your factory half way across the country and try to make stuff with completely different steel.)
In all situations, an inferior piece of equipment which works is preferable to a superior piece of equipment which is broken.
Thank fuck the Nazi tank industry never learned this.
Video game brain thinking that everyone in the Wehrmacht had an MP40 or some shit.
By the end of the war the Soviets had much better weapons than the Mosin available. They deployed millions of SMGs. meanwhile the Wehrmacht was still mostly using Kar98s and equivalent bolt action rifles.
The Soviets made six million PPsH submachine guns during the war and employed them with extreme effectiveness in the late-war urban combat.