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

  1. Flamethrowers are awesome!
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  2. 9:34 - Good aim hitting the camera with that ejected shell! :-P
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  3. 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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  4. German? Looks to me like HK'd been importing Swiss watchmakers...
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. ...Why couldn't you stamp sheet metal into a shape suitable for accepting the Thompson's T-lug magazines?
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. What's the cause of that prolonged thunder-roll sound following each shot in the chronograph footage?
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14.  @alexm566  I was asking about American -produced guns imported into Europe, not about native European ones.
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  15.  @loger_2floofyboogaloo278  If true, karma's a bitch!
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  16. 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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  17. 16:41 - Is "Rick B" the name of the seller?
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  18. 5:27 - Slight correction: Dönitz was an admiral, not a general.
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  19. I'm actually surprised the Islamic State didn't have full-up industrial ammo production going on.
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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26.  @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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  27. Rack of six Thompsons on the wall behind Ian: "I feel inadequate."
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  28. 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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  29. The Chauchat's magazines remind me of nothing so much as some sort of pastry.
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  30.  @josephledux8598  The Abrams does have reactive armor, just not explosive reactive armor.
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  31. 3:58 - "They bought Arisakas from the Japanese..." Oh, the irony...
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  32. 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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  33. ♫ Rocket baaaaalll... ♫
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  34.  @alexsis1778  It kinda does make sense; shotguns are way less powerful than rifles of equivalent caliber.
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  35. 3:33 - ...What's wrong with sockethead screws?
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  36. 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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  37.  @ForgottenWeapons  Could it've been adapted to a belt-feed system?
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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. I wonder if the OSS had people looking into if literal black magic could be made to work...
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  41. [looks at the final sale price for the Royal Lorenzoni]: Dayum.
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  42. Convention of the gun gods!
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