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

  1. 3:25 - Horses Do Not Like long pointy things.
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  2. 1:20 - Bavaria actually continued to have its own army right up through World War I.
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  3. 7:58 - "It is, in fact, in a batch with several other Reichsrevolvers..." Alles der Reichsrevolveren!
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  4. Looks like Burnside wasn't much better as a businessman than he was as a general.
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  5. 16:55 - Good on Karl for fighting fair. 👏🤝
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  6. 15:44 - What's wrong with Phillips screws per se?
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  7. 7:46 - Maybe the Bergmann #3 was conceived of as a purse pistol?
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 3:58 - "They bought Arisakas from the Japanese..." Oh, the irony...
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  14. 8:35 - Why are Allen screws "obviously not something the military would've accepted"?
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  15. 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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  16. What could have been...
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  17. [looks at the final sale price for the Royal Lorenzoni]: Dayum.
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  18. 6:25 - "PCP air gun" giggles
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 37:19 - Like the iPhone.
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  23. 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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  24. I'm actually surprised the Islamic State didn't have full-up industrial ammo production going on.
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  25. 6:48 - That C is actually a Cyrillic S.
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  26. Anyone else getting Sten vibes from the PPS?
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  27. Better hope there isn't a plane already above the airfield when you fire off one of those flares.
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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 18:09 - Finally, the Army moves away from auto-fouling rifle actions!
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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 5:16 - Ah, the China Lake likes it rough... ;-þ
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  38. ...Why couldn't you stamp sheet metal into a shape suitable for accepting the Thompson's T-lug magazines?
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. I love how gleeful the M2 gunner at 8:13 looks.
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  42. 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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