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Austrian military Pinzgauer 712 light utility truck (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

the Germans actually even converted MG42s to the MG3 standard, there's guns with the original 42 markings literally crossed out:

but tbf, if you have the guns and the manufacturing lines set up, you might as well use them - the Yugoslavs also used MG-42s, both captured and their own manufactured ones:

plus StG-44s:

the Czechoslovaks inherited half-track tooling (since the Nazis had converted tank factories in Czechia to making their own models), so they kept making them for a while:

the Soviets seized the V-2 manufacturing facilities and kept making them under a new name:

and various other examples

A much greater sin than keeping the aesthetics of some guns is keeping the actual guys who ran the war