The Sturmgewehr 52 (STG-52) was a

battle rifle A battle rifle is a service rifle chambered to fire a fully powered cartridge. The term "battle rifle" is a retronym created largely out of a need to differentiate automatic rifles chambered for fully powered cartridges from automatic rifles cha ...

manufactured by the government-owned

W+F Bern W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''double-u'',Pronounced in formal situation ...

of Switzerland. It was chambered in the 7.5mm Kurzpatrone cartridge and later the 7.5mm Swiss service round as the Sturmgewehr 54, which was fed from the left-hand side. The Sturmgewehr 52 was heavily patterned after the German

FG 42 The FG 42 (German language, German: ''Fallschirmjägergewehr'' 42, "paratrooper rifle 42") is a selective fire, selective-fire 7.92×57mm Mauser automatic rifle produced in Nazi Germany during World War II. The weapon was developed specifically ...

as it was fed from the side from a 30- or 40-round magazine and was also fitted with a muzzle attachment capable of launching rifle grenades.warhistoryonline.com, The German FG42
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*''German Automatic Rifles 1941-45: Gew 41, Gew 43, FG 42 and StG 44'', by Chris McNab, Osprey Publishing, {{ISBN, 1780963858, page 67 7.5×55mm Swiss firearms FG 42 derivatives Assault rifles Battle rifles Long stroke piston firearms Assault rifles of Switzerland Rifles of Switzerland Trial and research firearms Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1952

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