10SFD, that's a nice write up. I appreciate your effort to write it up. I'm not sure how to break it up into specific points, nor what is the exact purpose of this post. The original post was about Kalashnikov regrets. Let me address some issues first in no particular order.
1. Spying on your enemy and stealing state secrets is a norm. Israel spies on US and we are "best friends". Not to spy and not copy the best technology ... I don't know, I call it dumb and I don't see anything negative here. You make it sounds like it's something dirty.
2. He he, you totally got it about BMW motorcycles, except that Soviets did not steal that during the war, it was taken before the war when Furer and Stalin were best butt buddies, or so it seemed. Also Izhmash's came out with .... Izh bikes and I am pretty positive that many of the German engineers worked on those
but obviously not enough though
3.
GAU had pretty good information about German Sturmgewehr from 1943 but it was not enough and whatever was available in 1943
You must speak of MkB42 ... there were plenty of those on the Eastern front, plenty, enough that even UPA had them.
MkB42 != StG44 Ok?
4. I would not call AK47 or StG44 or even MkB42 "invented" rather "developed" Inventing implies something completely new concept, like a ray gun shooting unicorns. Intermediate calibers and smaller assault guns were nothing new. Kalashnikov did not invented it, neither did Hugo.
5.
You may know that German manufacturer of STG 44 had difficulties with Hitler because their design was not precise and Hitler wanted more sophisticated and more precise weapon.
Nein, it wasn't "precision" that was an issue and Hitler was actually right, there were insane stockpiles of your regular 8mm rounds and Poulte produced jack shit, never enough ammo for you magic gun.
6.
Many teams were asked to adjust what was stolen so it can be produced on existing equipment in Soviet factories.
No, actually Soviets had enough of their own crap to produce, look up the story with Zis3 and Gory, when you got factory tooled up for certain production it's not easy to change up. This was an issue with StG manufacturing and improvements to the design.
7. Hugo was member of NSDAP from 1933, so what? His political views have nothing to do with his ability to make great guns. You can admire whomever you want, communists, Nazis, non-Nazis, non-communists.
... and here the main attraction of your post
...whatever was available in 1943 did not help Soviets to make a gun which would make a difference in WWII.
No, it would not make any
****ing difference. StG is not some magic gun that changed everything, it really is NOT. Have any of you even handled StG? The
****er weights a tonne, when it jams there is no way to see wtf is going on inside of that receiver. It sucks, plain as that. It's a sucky, shitty gun.
This is how I feel about your shitty StG and this thread,
****ing engineers
go shoot your
****ing StG, read some actual
****ing books (not internet blogs of
****ing wiko-peado) about some magic german guns that could have turned the war around