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

  1. Well, props to whoever they are, seeing as they did a hellava good job!
    1
  2. I hope the use of a name that acronyms to that of a type of snake was intentional.
    1
  3. That complex ammo sounds like it'd've been horrifically expensive to manufacture in large quantities.
    1
  4. 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?
    1
  5. 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.
    1
  6. 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.
    1
  7. One of very few rifles to have a bayonet longer than its barrel.
    1
  8. This thing fires crayons... of lead.
    1
  9. FG-42: DNS.
    1
  10. 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.
    1
  11. 5:52 - 15 inches of what kind of steel armor? Mild steel, nickel steel, Harvey steel, Krupp noncemented steel, Krupp cemented steel...?
    1
  12.  @ForgottenWeapons  I imagine you'd need to take more care to prevent corrosion when you're putting water in it than with jellied gasoline.
    1
  13. 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).
    1
  14. 15:45 - Ian, nonchalantly: "And now I've lit the ground on fire, so excuse me one moment."
    1
  15. Six-shooters, Low Countries style.
    1
  16. Flamethrowers are awesome!
    1
  17. 10:12 - "...although [Jewish faith in German humanity] did decline as they made their way through the extermination process." I wonder why...
    1
  18. 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.
    1
  19. 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.
    1
  20. 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.
    1
  21. What happened with the loaned rifles when the ZAR ceased to exist?
    1
  22. 12:58 - Chinese Frankenpistols: going up to 11 since before Spinal Tap!
    1
  23. 6:16 - And you've got soldiers and guerrillas holding their Stens by the magazine and bending things out of alignment in there.
    1
  24. 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?
    1
  25. 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.
    1
  26. 9:59 - "what's wrong with this..." It's a Crossfire. That's what's wrong.
    1
  27. 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.
    1
  28. 13:53 - Maybe some warlord issued that pistol to a pilot on his payroll?
    1
  29. 11:28 - That is a very odd T.
    1
  30. 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.
    1
  31.  @loger_2floofyboogaloo278  If true, karma's a bitch!
    1
  32. 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.
    1
  33. So kind of a two-stage blowback action?
    1
  34. 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.
    1
  35. 2:12 - I think I heard an airplane going over in the background while you were saying that - how appropriate! :-P
    1
  36. 5:16 - Ah, the China Lake likes it rough... ;-þ
    1
  37. [MADE IN CHINA]
    1
  38. 3:25 - Horses Do Not Like long pointy things.
    1
  39. 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.
    1
  40. 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.].)
    1
  41. 11:09 - I'm curious, why would a range be concerned about ferromagnetic rounds?
    1
  42.  @ForgottenWeapons  Ah, makes sense.
    1
  43. 12:02 - Especially since latheing down a bulged barrel reduces its thickness and can actually make the pistol dangerous to fire.
    1
  44.  @therideneverends1697  In what way is the M1911 obsolete? Old≠obsolete.
    1
  45. 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?
    1
  46. ...Why couldn't you stamp sheet metal into a shape suitable for accepting the Thompson's T-lug magazines?
    1
  47. 1:20 - Bavaria actually continued to have its own army right up through World War I.
    1
  48. 7:58 - "It is, in fact, in a batch with several other Reichsrevolvers..." Alles der Reichsrevolveren!
    1
  49. 7:55 - It shouldn't be too hard to find the L on an intact gun by X-raying the Nagant...
    1
  50. 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.
    1