Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. They were too stupid to even copy. The FG42 derived bolt suffered of chipping locking lugs (the armorers were supposed to stone them. Yes, your locking lugs are falling apart, stone them) because the locking lugs were smaller than the original ones and cut at a straight angle, while the original ones, cut sligtly angled, didn't slam metal on metal on closing.
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  2. Cobalt, chromiun, tungsten steel alloy. Heat and wear resistant, but difficult to machine. Industrial cutting tools are made of that.
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  3. The second. In theory, with the legs closed, the gunner, or servent, was supposed to be able to grab the scorching hot barrel to swap it (already the fact that, in the middle of the action, he was supposed to close the bipod and extract the barrel, while the open receiver had to be laid down, on sandy or muddy terrain, because there was no more a bipod to hold it, demonstrates how retarded the design was. Any other LMG design sorted that out since the late '20s) In practice, asbestos gloves.
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  4. The M60's receiver is quite flimsy and kept toghether with rivets. At around 10-15000 rounds it's stretched beyond usability and the weapon has to be phased out.
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  5.  @robertmoran7024  You can put it as close to the muzzle you want and STILL have it attached to the receiver (MG42/MG3 IE). The difference is that you can swap barrel without having to change your position, or that of the gun, at all, without having to lay your open gun on muddy soil, or invent ways to not have to.
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  6. Already 19th century bolt actions had nuts that couldn't unscrew by themselves. Until the M60 it was completely obvious for any weapon designer. IE https://youtu.be/KCvIEioG9Y0?t=601
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  7. It works. The M60 more or less worked in Nam because of nearly unlimited flow of spare parts and eroic efforts of the armourers to keep them running.
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  8. Who had the best economy. That was the only thing that counted.
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  9.  @Armageddon2077  The Beretta 35 had been adopted by the Italian Navy and the Air Force. The Army went with the 34 in .380 ACP. Despite the Walther P38 nominally being the standard sidearm of the Wermacht, during the war, it fielded more Sauer 38H, Walther PP and Mauser HSc in .32 ACP. As said, the factories had better things to do that manufacturing complex breechlock pistols.
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  10. Italy used .380 ACP, Germany a mix of 9mm and .32 ACP (because factories had better to do than manufacturing complex pistols in 9mm). In the end, Italy's choice (to select form the start a round that, thus less powerful, spared manufacturing time during the war) was probably better. After the war the Soviets made the same choice with the 9mm Makarov.
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  11. @Jazzmaster Jay The original 6.5 Carcano used a 160gr bullet. Heavier than standard 7.62 NATO bullets.
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  12.  @hendriktonisson2915  Also the spitzer 6.5X55 had been adopted by the Swedes only in 1941. Had they been invaded like the Norwegians, they would have used round nose bullets in WWII exactly like the italians and the Norwegians.
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  13. At some point in early '30s the Frankford Arsenal tested the Terni 1921 rifle, in 7.35X32.
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  14.  @hailexiao2770  But less projectile choices and probably more resistance to be adopted. Better sectional density is really significative only past 300m, and the US infantrymen didn't (like they sitll don't) train past 300m (then it was 300 yards, 274 meters). Infact, in the end, they adopted the .30 Carbine.
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  15.  @Horseshoecrabwarrior  The first intermediate cartridge to be adopted didn't hit 1500 foot-pounds (neither the precursor 8mm Ribeyrolle and 7.35X32 Terni). The 7.62x39, and even the 6.8 Remington SPC are barely above. The .223 Remington is well below and the 5.45X39 doesn't even hit 1200 foot-pounds. And those are the only intermediate cartridges that had been used in any significative number. To me anything that had been designed for automatic fire from a not overly heavy rifle is below 1700 foot pounds.
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  16. Grendel is not really an intermediate cartridge. Originally the goal of the designers was to duplicate the 6.5 Swede ballistic, but ultimately, with those dimension constraint, they only managed to duplicate the 6.5 Carcano (IE, PPU 6.5 Carcano round, 123 grains, 2690 FPS).
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  17. In every blowback action, delayed or not, the rearward movement of the case starts when the pressure is very high (it starts the very moment the ammo is fired). The trick is to stay into the possibility of the metal of the base of case to stretch until the pressure drops to the point to allow the case body to move (before, the same pressure sticks the case body to the chamber so, if the opening of the action is not delayed enough, you risk case separation).
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  18. Tanfoglio (imported in the US by EAA with the name "Witness") is the oldest CZ75 "cloner". They introduced the "TZ75" in the early '80s and started developing the design from there, often introducing the improvements before CZ did (firing pin block in 1988, .45 ACP in 1992, large frame in 1995, polymer frame in 1997...) Almost all the CZ75 clones out there (Jericho 941, Baby Eagle, Sarsilmaz, Springfield, Armscor...) are infact Tanfoglio clones, often made, at least at the beginning, locally assembling Tanfoglio parts. Long story short, all the Witness lineup (bar the 1911) is available in 10mm already. See https://eaacorp.com/guns/handguns?pid=1:tanfoglio&search=&order=i.name&dir=asc&cm=0#tlb
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  19. It was not common. Italian rifles of the time tended to reuse the Carcano carbines sights. It's possible that this had been inspired by the big rotating knob sight adjustment of the ZB vz. 26 LMG.
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  20. Breda 37 and 38 were very good MGs. The breda 30 was the only weapon fielded by the Italian Army in WWII that required an olier. All the derivate of the Hispano-Suiza HS.404, used by the allies in WWII, some of which is still in service, used oilers.
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  21. Good find! A shame for the field strip anyway. Can we hope you'll do it another time?
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  22.  @LilSwinney  "in this case the british machine guns were gonna get the superior canadian ammo because as you pointed out they needed ever ounce of material" So to the Canadians were not given ammos? Otherwise this sentence has no sense. Had the Canadians tought their ammos were useful to keep their rifles working, they could have easily kept them. Nothing more difficult than to say "our rifles don't work with your ammos, sorry". Unfortunately they didn't because "Canadian experts said the chamber of the Ross was already large enough to take the new British ammunition in a pinch, and the tighter fit could only increase accuracy anyway". "Also the surrounded canadian troops..." "Nor they could intern some hundred of thousands of Canadian soldiers depriving the front of them (during WWI? Please...)" Again. The Brits desperately needed the Canadian support, not the contrary. UK was not in position to impose anything, nor taxes, nor conscription, nor tariffs, nor to use Canadian ammos, had the Canadians tought they needed them.
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  23. Heavy. Expensive. Despite being heavy and expensive, several parts were flimsy and had to be changed during the war. Several parts of the action were not correctly dimensioned and/or were made of too soft metal. It needed the highest quality ammos and no dirt at all to work properly. If the correct reassembling procedure was not followed, the rifle could seriously harm the user. It was really a series of defects with only one redeeming quality. If everything was perfect, it was an accurate rifle.
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  24. A reminder that you have to be careful in removing safeties.
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  25. Yeah, One has to wonder how Beretta, Benelli, Bernardelli, Breda, Franchi, Galesi, ect... survived. Oh, wait. They did selling tons of weapons.
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  26. Or about poor old Bernardelli, whose "semiautomatico", prismatic magazine, shotgun had been the first Italian inertia-locked gun.
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  27. All those pistols, like the Bernardelli P08, and this one, have the half-cock position. That's what was intended to replace the decocker, as, if you hold the hammer, pull the trigger, allowing the hammer to just slightly move forward, and release the trigger, the hammer will safely seat in half/cock even if you suddenly release it. From half-cock, the first double trigger pull is more pleasant too (same weight, but shorter pull).
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  28. The locking mechamism is unusual in it's operating principle, but the pieces are pretty simple to machine. The frame is actually stamped, so the simplest it can be.
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  29. Gravity is not required.
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  30. Giugiaro designed the PX4 Storm and CX4 carbine.
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  31. Everyone knows the FAL and G3 are not controllable in full auto ("inch" FAL don't even have full auto) even if they are a little bit more controllable than the M14 (thanks to the inline stock) but they are easier to manufacture, and the G3 works even in very poor conditions. Also, many of their iterations have at least a bipod. That makes full auto an option. What everyone wanted to have in Korea was a M2 Carbine. A hint that the Ordnance Corp didn't take.
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  32. M14. "A rifle that can't even stand up on a wooden block."
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  33. And it was not really needed. The BM59 saves the M1 Garand trigger group by adapting to it the M2 Carbine selector.
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  34. This is actually brilliant. For an handgun made to be inexpensive, it's so much more elegant than an Hi-Point. It only needs a simpler disassembly method (not really difficult to implement) and a better trigger (there is no treason for it to be worse than any semiauto SA hammer trigger, it's only a question of specs and assembly).
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  35. Risto Mladich Actually, quality problems in wartime Soviet production were well known, and did not affect only rifle production. Artillery ammunitions, engines, aircrafts, were affected as well. Simply, quantity was more important that quality, and many of the production sites had to be hastly transferred, since the original factories were overrun. Whatever the theory is, the reality is that the Germans tested every captured SVT40, used those of acceptable accuracy, and discarded the others, and the others were a good percentage.
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  36. Risto Mladich Obviously they could, but there is a trade-off between quantity and quality, and this is more stringent in wartime. The more soldiers you want to equip, the more quality controls you have to skip.
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  37.  @Kuschel_K  They used the Bren for their tanks, both as AA machinegun than as alternative to the BESA in coaxial mounting.
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  38.  @Kuschel_K  The Brits used the Bren.
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  39.  @Giloup92  He said the Carcano M38 (not any Carcano) it was the best bolt action. Simple, fast to load, rugged and lightweight. Obviously semiautos were on another legue.
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  40. They replaced it with the Brixia mortar, that, being able of direct and indirect fire, and having a far higher ROF, was deemed to be a better solution.
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  41. The shortened case is only required so that the gun will not chamber a 9mm Parabellum round by mistake. It has no relation with the load contained. Power-wise the 9mm Ultra round is in the same ballpark of the 9x20 mm Browning Long, the 9x18mm Makarov and 9x19mm Glisenti. The first two had been specifically designed to be the most powerful load usable in a blowback pistol without weight disadvantages, the third one came to the same result by chance (infact it had been designed for the breechlock Glisenti 1910, but it was then fired by the blowback Beretta 1915 too).
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  42. Infact. They carry AR70/90 or the newer ARX160. It depends on the unit.
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  43. Keep in mind that at the same time, Beretta manufactured the MG42/59 for the Italian Army.
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  44. Not a single belt fed LMG for many years after the adoption of this gun.
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  45. fucile mitragliatore = automatic rifle.
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  46. At that time it was really a problem to design a magazine at the same time so consistently and well built to not have feeding issues and so cheap to be discarded on the field. In movies, and on the range, all is good, but in reality every WWII LMG had continuous jammings that the gunner had to clear, and most of them were caused by badly made or damaged magazines. Even the Brits designed a tilting magazine for the BREN to solve the problem. They didn't adopt it in the end, but it's reloading was even more awkward than that of the Breda. The italians decided to sacrifice a little practical ROF to always have a "perfect" magazine.
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  47. Not by any means. Allied intelligence reports of the time actually praised the weapon, comparing it favourably with the BREN. It was no perfect, but almost all the bashing is an internet era thing, when people tend to simply repeat what they heard before, every time extremising it to seem more interesting.
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  48.  @hannibalkills1214  "not advance in the same rate as the riflemen" doesn't mean he can stand in a fixed position to consume a 300 round belt at will. Reality doesn't work like that. US Army experts, analysing WWII infantly clashes, noticed that riflemen tended to gather around the BAR and the BAR was almost always the weapon that started the fire exchange. And US GIs were armed with M1 semiauto rifles and carbines (while the BAR was a suboptimal LMG), not with almost useless bolt action rifles.Yet the difference between the squad automatic weapon (20 rds) and the semiauto rifle (8 rds) was enough that the movement of the BAR dictated the movement of the squad. If the MG is slow, the squad is slow. I know the lafette mount, and you certainly know it was not always possible to use it. That's why the MG42 has a bipod as well. 2.5 seconds of fire at 6 seconds interval is reasonable. 3 seconds of fire at 2 seconds interval is better.
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  49.  @hannibalkills1214  I know what the point of the Gurttrommel was, and that it was better than a dangling belt, BUT IT WAS WORSE THAN ANY MAGAZINE ANYWAY, the Guttromel was a "necessary evil" to use a belt-fed MG as a LMG, but to use a belt-fed MG as a LMG was a sub-optimal solution. "an established position to provide covering fire"means that the MG is no more a LMG but it became a fixed-position HMG. It's not how it works if the squad is moving. It's fire-move-fire-move-fire... One of the most common WWII picture is the German machinegunner with one or two belts over the shoulders "el frito bandito" style (they decided that, compared to the guttrommel, the dangling belt was not that bad after all), but it was certainly not an optimal solution. 50 rounds in the MG42 are 2.5 seconds of fire regardless if they are fired continuosly or in short bursts. No "training" of the soldier can change the mechanics of the MG.
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  50.  @AbitantedelVault  Le Breda 37 e 38 erano considerate "eccellenti" nei report alleati, non si capisce cosa avrebbero di "antiquato".
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