Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. 11:20 - Given that the projectile isn't touching the walls of the barrel, the smoothboreness might not degrade the accuracy nearly as much as with a chemical firearm (where you get the ball or whatnot bouncing from side to side as it goes down the barrel), so a laser sight would probably make more sense for a coilgun than for a musket.
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  2. When you have to neck up an autocannon cartridge case to get the cases for the ammo for a rifle... that is a REALLY FRELLING INSANE RIFLE.
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  3. Especially given that cannons and such used to be classified as 2-pounders, 6-pounders, 64-pounders, etc., and bore gauge is literally just the reciprocal of this ('cause, for stuff smaller than a 1-pounder, it's less clunky to say, say, "4-bore" than "one-quarter-pounder").
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  4.  @PartyCrasher04  One of the burglars in the 1974 shootout did.
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  5. Remember to quicksave periodically while loading your Am180 mags, folks!
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  6. Better than an M72 - the RPG has way less backblast (its rear danger area is way shorter than most rocket launchers; it can even be fired from within a building if you're careful) and you can reuse the tube instead of having to throw it away after one shot.
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  7. Agreed; that looks like something deeply unpleasant to be hit with.
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  8.  @sirrivet9557  Plot twist: the noble's so insanely rich that he can afford to equip all his bodyguards with them as well.
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  9.  @arthurmoore9488  "which force the DOD to "Buy American" if available must buy that one" Tell that to the Army that for years's bought its rifles from Belgium (and now Austria too).
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  10. I wonder if that particular American Chauchat benefitted from the loving touch of a post-manufacture gunsmith?
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  11. You may not be able to fix stupid, but you can make sure it stays away from you.
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  12. 14:04 - Of course, those lawmen also had to deal with B&C shooting back with their own BARs.
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  13. Less impressive when you realize how little force it actually generates. The bullets from this thing legit had trouble penetrating ordinary clothing.
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  14. 8:09 - "If you reload the stuff, more power to you." Both figuratively, and literally. 😜
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  15. Which actually has me wondering why the OSS wasn't able to come up with a suitable poison for the Flying Dragon. Immobilizing large temperamental animals takes some extremely powerful sedatives, enough to knock out a human in seconds if they accidentally stick themself with a large-animal dart and to kill them within a few minutes from respiratory failure if the antidote isn't immediately administered; those lethally-powerful sedatives would seem to be the perfect poison for something like the Flying Dragon.
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  16. The FAMAS teardown actually reminds me of taking apart a computer.
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  17. Seems like a good way of damaging the exposed wheellock mechanism, TBH.
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  18. 0:33 - Minor quibble here. While the revolvers themselves are indisputably cool, the Confederacy's legacy is in no way cool.
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  19. 4:23 - Ah, the M1798 Thompson.
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  20. The ideal situation is of course a belt-fed pistol.
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  21. And then, of course, the Boers ended up running the country anyways.
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  22. That firing pin is big enough to serve as a weapon in its own right!
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  23. How does the gun keep its EMP from frying its own electronics when it fires?
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  24.  @mickywanderer8276  Possibly the only situation where it's legal to drop explosives from a civil aircraft!
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  25. Why do we almost never see revolvers with this many cylinders nowadays?
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  26. 9:32 - Accident or potentially sabotage; back during the Vietnam War, the U.S. planted captured AKs in North Vietnamese / Viet Cong - controlled areas where one of the cartridges in each magazine had its propellant replaced with high explosive, in order to make the Communists distrust their guns and ammo (they were successful in this regard, although it still didn't win them the war).
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  27.  @johanrunfeldt7174  ...What's wrong with .45 ACP?
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  28. To think that they could've shaved off the same amount of weight by keeping the steel cylinder and removing material from various parts of the frame, without risking the exploding-cylinder problem.
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  29. 20:39 - If anything, I'd imagine the fast-moving jet of flaming fluid would tend to create a venturi effect and draw in more oxygen from behind the shooter.
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  30. 8:31 - Assuming, of course, that the steam-discharge hose doesn't get clogged (in which case steam buildup will raise the pressure within the water jacket, increasing the boiling point of the water in the jacket and allowing it to get hotter than 100C) and that the water in the jacket doesn't boil completely dry (in which case the steam filling the jacket will start to heat beyond 100C).
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  31. 15:01 - If you wanna get technical, it looks like the later revolver's barrel marking is in a form of blackletter script.
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  32. Winchester 1876: The Search for More Muzzle Energy.
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  33. 4:07 - Gibraltar is a peninsula, not an island.
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  34.  @josephledux8598  Any armor which resists projectiles by some means other than passively sitting there is a form of reactive armor, not just explosive reactive armor. The sole difference between NxRA/NERA (such as Chobham armor) and ERA is that NxRA uses the energy of the incoming projectile to power the reaction, rather than using prestored explosive chemical energy.
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  35. I can think of one justification for using the biggest round possible for sniping, iff you have accurate ammo and an accurate gun; a bigger, heavier round has a higher ballistic coefficient than a lighter one (lower surface-to-mass ratio, courtesy of the square-cube law), hence is slowed down more slowly by aerodynamic drag and less affected by crosswinds between you and your target, hence is (potentially) more accurate at long range, hence is (potentially) usable for sniping out to longer ranges than something smaller (also, even if a big round had the exact same ballistic coefficient and impact speed as an equally-accurate smaller round, the big round would still have greater kinetic energy at impact - and, hence, lethality - due to its greater mass, making it still, potentially, useful out to greater ranges), hence can take potshots at the enemy from further away than they can shoot back with their own rifles.
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  36. 4:19 - Granted, if you're in a knife fight with this thing and it goes off due to impact, that's probably going to be while it's pointed in the general direction of your opponent, so...
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  37. I wonder what a dedicated machine gun based on the M14 would've looked like.
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  38. Hell, even firing it at an enemy in the normal way sounds like it would be pretty unpleasant for the enemy. Magnesium burns hot...
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  39. 3:40 - And that, viewers, is why you never put your fingers next to the front end of a revolver's cylinder unless it's a gas-trap Nagant.
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  40. 1:28 - Also, if hydrogen ignites when you don't want it to, this is very hard to detect quickly, since a hydrogen-oxygen flame is essentially transparent.
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  41. "How many rounds?" "ALL OF THEM."
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  42. I wonder if the OSS had people looking into if literal black magic could be made to work...
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  43. Hey, at least it extracts spent cartridges without trouble! 😜
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  44. That locking lug gave its life so that the boltstop could do its job...
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  45. Out of curiosity, why doesn't a lighter projectile allow a higher muzzle velocity with a coilgun? The force on the projectile is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field acting on it, and the acceleration of the projectile is proportional to the force on it and inversely proportional to its mass, so it intuitively seems like decreasing the projectile's mass should still result in a higher muzzle velocity.
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  46. Good luck reloading one of those cartridges.
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  47. 3:33 - ...What's wrong with sockethead screws?
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  48. 5:27 - Slight correction: Dönitz was an admiral, not a general.
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  49. Is the rear plate with the writing engraved in it one of the non-original parts? Asking because, e.g., "Protestant" instead of "Proteſtant".
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  50. Question: How did Spain handle firearms proofing during the Spanish Civil War? Presumably the two sides weren't agreeing to joint custody of the proof house...
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  51.  @allangibson2408  And .22 Extra Long, .22 BB, .22 CB...
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  52. Is it just me, or did the gun seem to cycle noticeably slower with that last magazine?
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  53. The Chauchat's magazines remind me of nothing so much as some sort of pastry.
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  54.  @alexm566  I was asking about American -produced guns imported into Europe, not about native European ones.
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  55. 9:10 - If you break an extractor finger, shouldn't it still be possible to have a new one custom-made somewhere?
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  56. Why would stamped metal parts have lower trace-metal requirements than forged ones? Both of those processes involve pressing the metal into shape under force; the difference is basically just whether it's cut before or after shaping.
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  57. What's the cause of that prolonged thunder-roll sound following each shot in the chronograph footage?
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  58. Watching Karl shoot, working a lever action looks a lot quicker and smoother than reaching up to cycle a bolt; I'm pretty curious why militaries essentially abandoned lever-action rifles in favor of bolt guns.
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  59. 0:30 - Ethiopia isn't in NATO either, but you referred to their 7.62x51 as "NATO"...
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  60. Genuinely curious; would it be possible for some of the speed dispersion seen by the chronograph when you're testing rounds to be due to slight differences in the angle at which the bullet passes through the 'graph (slightly altering the length of the path it has to follow between the two gates)?
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  61. Did American manufacturer-proofed guns imported into Europe have to be re-proofed at a European proof house before being sold?
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  62. 16:41 - Is "Rick B" the name of the seller?
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  63.  @josephledux8598  The Abrams does have reactive armor, just not explosive reactive armor.
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  64. 14:23 - ...That is, assuming you put your own name on the guns. I can just imagine someone making counterfeit Colts putting a different manufacturer's name on them to cover their tracks and potentially get a competitor in legal hot water...
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  65.  @ForgottenWeapons  Could it've been adapted to a belt-feed system?
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  66. 4:50 - "...and an anvil that prevents the hammer from just pushing a primer around." Theoretically, there's another possibility; if the hammer hits the primer at a high-enough speed, the primer's own inertia can serve as the anvil, removing the requirement for a separate physical anvil. In practice, good luck getting the hammer to move that fast.
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  67. 8:51 - ...Um, is the explosive powder supposed to be accumulating static electricity like that?
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  68. I wish this'd been adopted as the standard U.S. service bayonet.
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  69. 1:34 - Technically, there is still a situation where there's a requirement for a working model, but it only applies if you're trying to patent a perpetual-motion machine.
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  70. 32:44 - I am curious, and slightly afraid, to know what a police department wanted a flamethrower for.
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  71. 21:41 - One of the big uses for TEA nowadays is lighting big rocket engines, where you really want reliable immediate ignition (if unburned kerosene and oxygen get a chance to pool in the combustion chamber and only then ignite, the engine tends to explode).
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  72. 10:28 - Bad news for historical accuracy, that is. Good news for the Germans in those real-life bunkers who were probably quite glad that they weren't flamethrowered...
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  73. I'm curious why they used a battery-powered rather than a piezoelectric firing mechanism; piezoelectric crystals don't lose their power just sitting on the shelf.
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  74. 8:54 - It does sound just like a mouse click!
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  75. What's wrong with straight blowback for a .45? Straight-blowback guns have been mass-produced and work just fine with calibers all the way up to and including .45 ACP.
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  76. 12:19 - Would the routine use of suppressors on standard rifles really expose the riflepeeps to enough carbon monoxide to create toxicity concerns?
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  77. 18:09 - Finally, the Army moves away from auto-fouling rifle actions!
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  78. 5:15 - ...How does 80kpsi blow out the back of a cartridge case when the bolt face is in the way?
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  79. If the pressure inside the case is enough to bust brass, won't making the rear of the cartridge out of steel simply mean that, instead of the rear cartridge face rupturing, the cartridge parts at the junction and the steel base flies backwards while the brass sticks in the barrel?
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  80. Well, you certainly opened it... now it's dispersed all over the range.
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  81.  @alexsis1778  It kinda does make sense; shotguns are way less powerful than rifles of equivalent caliber.
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  82. 11 inches of armor penetration... that's thicker than the armor of a lot of warships.
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  83. 14:19 - Basically, the cartridge case is the liner, not the structure.
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  84. The black-powder era's Fat Mac - basically as big as you can make a gun before it starts being an artillery piece.
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  85. Light weight is basically the only advantage aluminium has (at least, in non-electrical applications).
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  86. And to top it all off, it was designed to replace something that didn't need replacing.
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  87. 25:04 - Ah, yes, because of course fouling only accumulates in the chamber itself.
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  88. German? Looks to me like HK'd been importing Swiss watchmakers...
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  89. 4:37 - Even with a shaped charge, the velocity of the shell pre-detonation is still going to add to the velocity of the metal jet that the shaped charge spits out.
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  90.  @vksasdgaming9472  Adding the shell's 1 km/s forward speed (in reality likely considerably more, as the shell is going to be going faster, not slower, than a rifle bullet, due to the shell's higher ballistic coefficient meaning it gets slowed down less by aerodynamic drag) to the 10 km/s speed of the metal jet increases the jet's total speed by 10%, which results in a 21% increase in the metal jet's kinetic energy (remember, kinetic energy is proportional to the square of speed) relative to what it would've been if the shell were detonated while stationary, which translates into an equivalent 21% increase in the shell's penetration capability. Hardly "irrelevant".
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  91. Rack of six Thompsons on the wall behind Ian: "I feel inadequate."
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  92. 1:25 - Also, it [the magazine] looks ridiculous.
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  93. It seems to me like the best way to use this would be to fire it as you're in the process of stabbing/slashing your opponent with it, for extra damage.
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  94. 2:10 - The second line there looks more like a romanization of Ancient Egyptian than anything remotely resembling German.
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  95. Any idea why the early intermediate cartridges (7.92×33 mm and 7.62×39 mm) were made by shortening the cartridge but leaving its diameter unchanged, while later intermediate cartridges (5.56×45 mm and 5.45×39 mm) were made by reducing diameter while leaving the length be?
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  96. Wouldn't've mattered; the Army'd still've rigged the tests so that the M14 won.
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  97. 9:34 - Good aim hitting the camera with that ejected shell! :-P
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  98. "This is apparently much more of a debate than I would have anticipated online" Welcome to the internet.
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  99. 4:19 - Hold on... a Chinese mystery pistol experienced someone trying to shoot out a squib with another bullet... and held together?!
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  100. Were you experiencing microphone problems when filming this video? For most of the scenes, your voice is only audible on the left channel; the right channel only has a (fairly-loud) hissing sound, and even the left channel is somewhat hissy as well.
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  101. Well, props to whoever they are, seeing as they did a hellava good job!
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  102. I hope the use of a name that acronyms to that of a type of snake was intentional.
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  103. That complex ammo sounds like it'd've been horrifically expensive to manufacture in large quantities.
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  104. So basically all you'd need to make this gun reliable would be to A) add some mass to the bolt/striker assembly to slow down the action and give the next round time to feed and B) modify the molds to incorporate an extractor klaw on the bolt and an ejector ramp to kick the case out the side as it travels back?
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  105. Given how much of the gun they made of plastic already, I'm honestly surprised that it still has a few random parts made of metal (the guide rod and plate, the striker, the rear portions of the cocking rods, and that little plaque with the serial number on it); I'd've expected they'd've gone the whole hog and made the whole thing out of plastic except for the barrel, combustion chamber, springs, and screws.
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  106. 7:30 - Not just northern Italy. The Germans occupied almost all of mainland Italy following the Armistice of Cassibile; only the far south (roughly Calabria, Basilicata, and Apulia) managed to hold out until the Allies landed.
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  107. One of very few rifles to have a bayonet longer than its barrel.
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  108. This thing fires crayons... of lead.
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  109. FG-42: DNS.
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  110. 18:45 - "On the Russian gun, the handle [...] is straight." It's Russia, of course the handle is going to be either straight or very deeply closeted.
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  111. 5:52 - 15 inches of what kind of steel armor? Mild steel, nickel steel, Harvey steel, Krupp noncemented steel, Krupp cemented steel...?
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  112.  @ForgottenWeapons  I imagine you'd need to take more care to prevent corrosion when you're putting water in it than with jellied gasoline.
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  113. IIRC, they weren't banned, just phased out since thermobaric weapons could do the same stuff, plus blast damage, and could be delivered from much longer ranges (although personally I'd argue that there's probably still a niche for flamethrowers close in, where the target's too close to you to drop a TB on them and risk getting caught in it yourself).
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  114. 15:45 - Ian, nonchalantly: "And now I've lit the ground on fire, so excuse me one moment."
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  115. Six-shooters, Low Countries style.
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  116. Flamethrowers are awesome!
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  117. 10:12 - "...although [Jewish faith in German humanity] did decline as they made their way through the extermination process." I wonder why...
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  118. The Chauchat is quite possibly the only machine gun I have ever seen fired that has a low-enough cyclic rate to actually count the rounds one-by-one as they go.
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  119. Pretty much anything up to and including .45 ACP can be made to work in a straight-blowback design, albeit with increased wear and tear on both the gun and the shooter.
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  120. IIRC the main reason wheellocks didn't use flint was that it would've worn down the grooved wheel too quickly, rather than due to it shattering.
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  121. What happened with the loaned rifles when the ZAR ceased to exist?
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  122. 12:58 - Chinese Frankenpistols: going up to 11 since before Spinal Tap!
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  123. 6:16 - And you've got soldiers and guerrillas holding their Stens by the magazine and bending things out of alignment in there.
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  124. Some of those fake proof marks actually look like they're sequences of hanzi; is it possible they might actually mean something in the original Mandarin/Cantonese/Hokkien/whatevs?
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  125. 19:44 - "That's a common symbol to see in China from this period." And for good reason, too; it's the (1930s-onward) symbol of the Republic of China, which all of these warlords were (at least nominally) subordinate to.
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  126. 9:59 - "what's wrong with this..." It's a Crossfire. That's what's wrong.
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  127. Why do drums have to be so mechanically complex? Intuitively, it seems like pretty much all you'd need to do would be to use a torsion spring to push the cartridges along instead of the compression spring in a box magazine.
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  128. 13:53 - Maybe some warlord issued that pistol to a pilot on his payroll?
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  129. 11:28 - That is a very odd T.
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  130. If only Operation Dragoon had been able to go off when originally scheduled, or the Resistance had found out that it'd been delayed... 😢 I can't help but wonder if there was some bitterness afterwards over what must've seemed like they'd been abandoned by the Allied forces.
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  131.  @loger_2floofyboogaloo278  If true, karma's a bitch!
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  132. 0:46 - Granted, not all high-altitude bombers had pressurized fuselages. As late as World War II, most strategic bombers had unpressurized fuselages where the crew wore oxygen masks throughout the mission - which actually makes quite a bit of sense, since a pressurized fuselage has to be heavier, repeated cabin-pressurization cycles produce all sorts of interesting fatigue problems (especially with aluminium alloys like those used for most metal aircraft, which are among the most-fatigue-prone metals that have ever been used for the primary structure of anything), and providing all that pressurized air requires an air compressor, which generally has to be driven from the engines, which can be a significant drain on the engines' useful power output when we're talking about WWII-era piston engines.
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  133. So kind of a two-stage blowback action?
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  134. That size hole wouldn't be large enough to cause explosive decompression, even at altitude. Still not something you'd wanna play around with, though.
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  135. 2:12 - I think I heard an airplane going over in the background while you were saying that - how appropriate! :-P
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  136. 5:16 - Ah, the China Lake likes it rough... ;-þ
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  137. [MADE IN CHINA]
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  138. 3:25 - Horses Do Not Like long pointy things.
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  139. 10:20 - Of course, if you're in an actual combat situation and this happens, the best option is often still to eject the round and hope it doesn't grenade while it's in the air; for someone engaged in active combat, the risk of the round being a hangfire that might explode post-ejection is often less severe than the risk of the enemy shooting you while you're waiting to see if the round is going to go off.
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  140. 2:50, 4:41 - The technical term for the Ge'ez script (that used for Ethiopian and Eritrean languages like Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo, etc.; its namesake is the ancient Ge'ez language, which is nowadays used only by the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox and Catholic Churches and the Beta Israel Jews, and then only as a liturgical language) is an abugida. Each individual glyph is composed of a base form which represents a consonant followed by a certain default "inherent vowel"; if a consonant is followed by a vowel other than the default, or by no vowel at all, this is indicated by tacking a small modifier decal onto the glyph. (The script was originally an abjad, where vowels simply aren't indicated and have to be inferred [like in non-Biblical Hebrew, r lk 'm dng n ths sntnc cls fr prpss f dmnstrtn]; when it was in this stage, the glyphs that today represent consonant + inherent vowel were used to represent the bare consonants. The Ge'ez script evolved from an abjad to an abugida by about 350 C.E. at the latest [around the same time as the Christianization of the Kingdom of Axum, the predecessor of modern Ethiopia], and possibly much earlier; around this time, it also switched from being written right-to-left [like Arabic and Hebrew] to being written left-to-right [like Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari, etc.].)
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  141. 11:09 - I'm curious, why would a range be concerned about ferromagnetic rounds?
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  142.  @ForgottenWeapons  Ah, makes sense.
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  143. 12:02 - Especially since latheing down a bulged barrel reduces its thickness and can actually make the pistol dangerous to fire.
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  144.  @therideneverends1697  In what way is the M1911 obsolete? Old≠obsolete.
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  145. The genuine Mauser stock looks to be pretty badly gouged in places; is it possible for bumps and bruises in the wrong place to obliterate the acceptance mark of a genuine stock?
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  146. ...Why couldn't you stamp sheet metal into a shape suitable for accepting the Thompson's T-lug magazines?
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  147. 1:20 - Bavaria actually continued to have its own army right up through World War I.
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  148. 7:58 - "It is, in fact, in a batch with several other Reichsrevolvers..." Alles der Reichsrevolveren!
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  149. 7:55 - It shouldn't be too hard to find the L on an intact gun by X-raying the Nagant...
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  150. I'm actually surprised that pistol bayonets weren't more common, given that pistol fighting generally takes place at the sort of extreme close ranges where a bayonet would actually be useful.
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  151. Looks like Burnside wasn't much better as a businessman than he was as a general.
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  152. 16:55 - Good on Karl for fighting fair. 👏🤝
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  153. ♫ Rocket baaaaalll... ♫
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  154. 15:44 - What's wrong with Phillips screws per se?
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  155. I love how gleeful the M2 gunner at 8:13 looks.
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  156.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  I think they meant that statement as (or, at least, I understood it as) "there are actual real-life soldiers who have sexually humiliated", not as "to be a real soldier, you have to sexually humiliate". Admittedly, not the best choice of words there.
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  157.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Video: about why real-life antitank rifles weren't generally used as sniper rifles. Master Gecko's comment: "Next episode: why don’t real soldiers teabag dead enemies", fairly-obviously intended to mean "why don't soldiers teabag dead enemies in real life". Dick Jifferson's reply to Master Gecko (for context): "im willing to bet a few have been teabagged irl, unfortunately" David Venegas's reply to Master Gecko: "Real soldiers do sexually humiliate killed enemies and civilians.", fairly-obviously intended as pointing out that "some soldiers do sexually humiliate killed enemies and civilians in real life", in the same vein as Dick Jifferson's earlier reply, rather than as a defense of sexually humiliating dead enemies and civilians. guppy719's reply to Master Gecko: "I guarantee you a real soldier has in fact teabagged a dead enemy.", again in the vein of "there is at least one real-life soldier who has actually teabagged a dead enemy".
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  158.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Do I what?
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  159.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Do I what?
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  160. Convention of the gun gods!
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  161. In fairness, that was actually the case back during the World Wars, when the "sniper"/"sharpshooter"/"designated marksman" roles, and the rifles for those roles, hadn't yet separated; a sniper would have basically a standard bolt-action rifle, just one individually selected for having superior individual accuracy.
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  162. 7:46 - Maybe the Bergmann #3 was conceived of as a purse pistol?
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  163. Why did self-loading machineguns and self-loading pistols both come on the scene before the end of the 19th century, while self-loading rifles took decades longer to appear?
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  164. 5:36 - Also, remember that kinetic energy rises with the square of speed, so even a relatively-small increase in muzzle velocity produces a substantial increase in kinetic energy.
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  165. Caution, do not attempt to use the corkscrew as a corkscrew with the gun loaded. You will shoot someone with it.
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  166. Nothing wrong with your English; I've seen plenty of native Anglophones with worse! I'm glad your grandpa never had to trust his life to the Cursed Bitch.
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  167. 3:58 - "They bought Arisakas from the Japanese..." Oh, the irony...
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  168. The overall look of the FG-42 reminds me of a shark.
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  170. Squeee!!!!!
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  171. 6:39 - Did the armorer's kit, by any chance, end up going to the buyer of one or more of the German machine guns?
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  172. 10:53 - Mounting the trowel bayonet with the blade vertical to the right of the barrel actually seems to me like a more useful way of mounting it than the standard underbarrel mounting (which, for a trowel bayonet, would necessitate that the blade be mounted horizontally); with the blade on its side like that, you could wield the rifle+bayonet like an axe in an overhand chopping motion (using gravity to add to the force of the strike, instead of just the soldier's muscle strength), rather than being restricted to thrusting it or making side-to-side chops and slashes. (I suspect this might've been on the mind of whoever came up with that style of mounting!)
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  173. 8:35 - Why are Allen screws "obviously not something the military would've accepted"?
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  174. 6:25 - "PCP air gun" giggles
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  175. The problem with the idea of going to just one cartridge for both the rifles and the machine guns is that it isn't actually possible to go to just one cartridge. Even if you use the same cartridge in the infantry rifle and the GPMG, you still need a much heavier cartridge for the HMG, one that's way too powerful to be practical in any rifle other than specialized anti-materiel or long-range sniper rifles; as a result, you never get to the point of being able to simply grab rounds from your supplies and use them in whatever, and, as long as you still need to use segregated ammo supplies anyway, it ends up working better if you just give each class of weapon a cartridge optimized for it (an intermediate cartridge for the infantry rifle, a full-power cartridge for the GPMG, and a heavy cartridge for the HMG) rather than trying to share ammo streams between two or more weapons.
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  176. 4:20 - Are there any production 9mm Parabellum pistols that are built strongly enough to be able to safely fire the ammo marked as SMG-only?
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  177. Regarding the audio, I don't think you have to worry about how it turned out; I don't think I'd've even noticed the remaining traces of echoing if you hadn't apologized for them at the beginning of the video!
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  178. The prospect of five years in the brig probably wouldn't've been much of a threat to someone who'd been through the French Foreign Legion. ;-P
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  179. 4:57 - Also, the bit of carving on the right side might well aid in gripping the rifle, which would probably also help.
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  180. What could have been...
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  181. 34:00 - Come the heat death of the universe, the AK (in whatever caliber) will still be the go-to insurgent weapon.
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  182. 57:24 - Aren't the unit cost, logistical burden, etc., part of what makes a gun "the best rifle for the infantry" (or not)?
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  183. 52:44 - "Unless something radically changes..." There'd probably have to be a change in the laws of physics for caseless ammunition to become a serious contender.
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  184. 37:19 - Like the iPhone.
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  185. IIRC, the various sides in the 1946-48 Arab-Israeli war got shipped huge quantities of weapons that'd fallen into U.S. and Soviet hands in 1945 with the German surrender; that could easily explain the Syrian Sturmgewehrs.
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  186. I'm actually surprised the Islamic State didn't have full-up industrial ammo production going on.
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  187. 1:23 - I'm kinda surprised that motorcycle cavalry never really became a thing.
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  188. 6:48 - That C is actually a Cyrillic S.
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  189. Anyone else getting Sten vibes from the PPS?
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  190. Better hope there isn't a plane already above the airfield when you fire off one of those flares.
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  191. Did the jelled fuel create any difficulties with making sure the tanks were filled completely, without any voids?
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