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

  1. The Marine Corp adopted the M9A1 actually. Some special unit was given that Colt, without any competition, mostly due to Gen. William M. Keys connections, and had little else than just problems with those. That's why it had been replaced after only four years of service.
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  2. It's Korth.
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  3. The M45A1 was adopted out of any competition due to the connections of Gen. William Keys. It had nothing to do with desires or performances.
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  4.  @eloiseharbeson2483  Because you should be someone "who knows more"? Without understanding basic math, physics or even having really learnt to read? You are a blatant example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, aren't you? I already told you what the performances of the two cartridges are. It's not my fault if common pistol cartridges' performances in general have not increased much in the last century. It has to do with human anatomy. 8mm Roth Steyr was nothing exceptional in 1908, like .30 Super Carry is nothing exceptional now. As for "knowing so much about the performance of .30 SC", I don't know much. I only know a little more than the "nothing" you do. I just cared to know enough about ballistic to understand what I read and, knowing enough about ballistic to understand what I read, I can explain you (or better, I can explain. Unfortunately you can't comprehend) WHY having more than doubled the case pressure in respect to the 8mm RS resulted in a so meagre increase in the performances of the .30 SC, when the external dimensions of the cases are so similar. Do you know what's the difference between a 21500 psi case and a 45000 psi one? Brass thickness. But increasing the brass thickness of a rather small case, you significantly reduce the internal volume, and that hampers the effect of the increased pressure, because the initial spike in pressure decreases more rapidly as son as the bullet starts moving.
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  5.  @eloiseharbeson2483  More than they taught Physics and basic grammar in your evidently. For the second, I said "MORE similar", and there's no doubt than the 8mm Roth-Steyr is MORE similar to the performances of the .30 super Carry than the 7.65X20 Longe. You can check the meaning of "MORE". For the first, muzzle energy is 1/2massXsquare of the speed. .30 super Carry 100gr, 380m/s, 470Joule of energy. 8mm Roth Steyr, 116gr, 332m/s, 409 Joule of energy. It's not that much of a difference, especially considered that the speed of the bullet, for a given pressure tend to increase linearly with the reduction of the mass, while the energy increases with the square of the speed, so, with a 100gr bullet, the 8mm Steyr Roth would develop more energy. Also 45.000 psi is not "three x" of 21.500. So your elementary school was not that good for math as well it seems.
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  6. The 9mm M38 cartridge was a sort of super +P+ 124 grains, 428m/s 732Joules of energy at the muzzle.
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  7. They should have used Hollywood engineering.
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  8. almost any first generation SMG had the same problem.
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  9. Yeah. It seems you can recollect all of them holding a glass.
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  10. At 500m a FMJ 9mm Luger projectile can still pass completely through a human body, even more a "9mm M38" cartridge (the super hot 9mm cartridge developed for this SMG) that, at 732 Joule (124grains, 428m/s) power wise was in 357 SIG territory. It's true that it's more difficult to aim a 9mm carbine in respect to a full size rifle due to the more arched trajectory and shorter sight radius, but this SMG can fire in full auto remaining stable, so the possibilities to hit and kill, or even better seriously wound, an enemy with a short bursts were not that low.
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  11. I'm starting to reevaluate the Brixia mortar.
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  12. Yeah. Like the later 9mm Makarov, it had been designed to be the higest power that could be conveniently used in a blowback handgun (without weight disadvantages), Infact, the 9mm Glisenti, that was a bit more powerful (same muzzle speed, but with a 124 grain bullet instead of 110) needed some "trick" (the buffer spring and pad of the Beretta M1915 and M1923) to spare the frame and slide without overweighting them.
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  13. Made in 1914. Belgium was invaded shortly after.
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  14. They tend to keyhole, but they were intended to be issued to rear echelon troops, the same that in WWI were armed with converted Vetterli rifles.
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  15. Actually to manufacture the 7.35 was cheaper than manufacturing the 6.5. they gave up due to logistic considerations, since they couldn't build enough rifles to equip the entire army in short time, and didn't want to supply two different rifle ammunitions.
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  16. All the Carcano episodes had already been filmed, so, even if he understood by now, they'll not be fixed.
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  17.  @Danimark_92  Actually there were several manufacturers in Brescia that made some batch of Carcano rifles at some point: the Brescia state arsenal (the ONLY rifles that are marked "Brescia"), "Lorenzotti Brescia", "Mida Brescia", "FNA Brescia" (those three are actually the same that changed name several times), "Napoleone e Vittorio Castelli Brescia" and "Metallurgica Bresciana Tampini", anyone with a different stamping, because a stamping indicates a unique manufacturer.
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  18.  @hendriktonisson2915  The ZB.26 had been tested prior to the adoption of the Breda 30. No army replaces an MG just adopted only because there is on the market something marginally better. All the "Breda 30 bashing" is a modern "internet era" thing. At the time the opinions were MUCH more blurred. Allied reports praised the Breda 30 in comparison to the Bren.
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  19. Those were MAB 38/49. Same as the 38/42, but with a cross bolt safety.
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  20. Scotti used the same design scaled up in several calibers, up to 37mm automatic guns. Chinn, in "the machine gun" higly appreciated it. It was economical and practical.
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  21. +mytmousemalibu All the weapons designed by Alfredo Scotti (7.7mm and 12.7mm aerial MGs and 20mm AA automatic gun) used a slight variation of the same action, but this one is the only one that, at least at this stage of development, required oiled cartridges. In 1939 the weapon was tested again to be adopted by the Italian Army, this time VS the Breda PG and the Armaguerra 39 (the winner). The Breda and the Armaguerra didn't require lubrication. It would be nteresting to know if the Scotti still required it at a more avanced development stage.
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  22. What about the Colt All American...
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  23. +canicheenrage What I meant is: "the water cooled HMGs of the time had the reliability advantage of weighting a lot". As said, they were overbuilt in respect to the work they had to do. The more you remove weight, the more is difficult to mantain the same reliability, because parts become more subject to external factors.
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  24. Actually the Austrians ended up straigh out copying the Villar Perosa with the Sturmpistole M.1918 in 9X23mm Steyr, that saw action, so they rejected that specific gun, not the idea.
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  25. chrisloUSA It's a classic case of "the better is the enemy of the good". Adopting the rifle in 1933, and even counting a further year to better adapt it to the Army's needs, the Italians would have had all the time to field it for the entire Army first than the war (also cause the rifle was very simple to produce). Then they decided to adopt a better anti-personel round than the 6.5 (and the 7.35 was. It tumbled more easily in the body, and had a flatter trajectory in the first 300m). Then they decided to give to the other designers a chance to submit better weapons than the Scotti (and both the Armaguerra 39 and the Breda PG probably were, but, by then it was too late), but, searching for the better, they lost the chance to have the good.
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  26.  @Cyan_Nightingale  "much better" in respect to what? The BM59 was not adopted without competition, see the Franchi LF59, that in itself would have been an outstanding battle rifle, easily on par with the FAL and G3. The BM59 won because it was not inferior, thus being (for the aforementioned reasons) more economic. As said, many countries didn't adopt an intermediate caliber AR until recently. The 5.56 NATO cartridge had been standardised only in 1980. Before, it only existed the .223 Remington. A cartridge that the US Army decided to use, but not NATO standard.
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  27. In the '80s selection for the 5.56 NATO rifle for the Italian Army, in the end, the AR70/90 competed with a AR15 derived rifle, the SOCIMI AR831. However the AR831, like the Daewoo K2, replaced the direct impingment with a long stroke gas piston with an AK-syle recoil spring over the bolt, so to use a folding stock.
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  28.  @JR-pr1xh  Italy and Romania (licence produced) as standard infantry rifle, then it's used by the special or police forces of a dozen other countries. The derivate ARX200 had been selected as standard infantry rifle by Argentine (replacing the FAL) and Qatar (replacing the M16).
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  29. It's the contrary. Beretta and SIG parted ways because Beretta wanted a AK style action (long stroke gas action, three lugs rotating bolt) and SIG a roller delayed action. In the end SIG didn't manage to make a roller delayed action reliable enough to fire the 5.56 NATO cartridge and ended up making a roller locked gas action for the SG530. After the market failure of the SG530 SIG adopted a bolt nearly identical to that of the AR70 for the SG540.
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  30. In the '80s selection for the 5.56 NATO rifle for the Italian Army, in the end, the AR70/90 competed with a AR15 derived rifle, the SOCIMI AR831.
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  31. In the '70s several bullet trap grenades had been developed for .223 Rem. IE the French APAV40
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  32. They didn't. O = Ordinaria (normal), C = Critica (critical). Like in the selector R = Raffica (burst).
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  33. Kasserine Pass?
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  34. Judging from the level of machining required to make a Thompson, while this is made of stamped parts. A SMG made starting from this gun would probably have had a lot of advantages in production.
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  35. It seems to be made mainly of stamped parts, and the ohters has very simple machining. Probably it was more apt to be mass produced in respect to the other breechlocked designs of its era. It makes sense if the plan was to provide handguns to all the soldiers of the army, and probably someone thought of it, since pistols proved to be more useful than bolt action rifles in trench fight (like almost anything really). However shotguns and SMGs proved to be better than pistols, so...
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  36. They got carried by their own dreams. For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds.
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  37. In Italian a "calibro" is a caliper, and it measures in mm.
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  38. At that time a functional patent lasted 17 years. They last 20 years since 1995. A design patent lasts 14 years (15 years before 2015).
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  39. The 7mm British ammo energy was almost exactly in the middle between the German 7.92 mm Kurtz and the Soviet 7.62x39, so it was aligned with the known intermediate cartridge designs of it's era (but with a somewhat lighter and faster projectile).
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  40. An Hi-Point slide weights only about 520 grams, and it's enough to delay 9mm +p and .45 ACP. The entire Astra 600 weights 1.08 kg, easily more than 500 grams are on the slide as well.
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  41. They are comparable (IE a Hi-Point 9mm has a factory 17 lbs spring, like that of a Glock 17). Contrary to what's often believed, the stiffness of the recoil spring has a negligible effect in delaying the opening of the action in a blowback gun, and a too stiff spring would close the slide too fast to give the mag spring time to lift the next round. It has to be noted that much of the "bulky" appearance of a Hi-Point is due to its slide being made of zamak3, with a density of only 6.7g/cm3. Steel is about 8g/cm3, so a steel slide would have about 20% less volume having the same mass. Infact the slide of the Astra doesn't seem that bulky.
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  42. In the end, an Hi-Point slide weights only about 520 grams, and it's enough to delay 9mm +p and .45 ACP. The entire Astra 600 weights 1.08 kg, easily more than 500 grams are on the slide as well.
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  43. Mind that the most famous automatic rifle until the Belgian FAL and the Italian FAL (that were about the same weight) was the 20 pounds BAR.
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  44. Several BM59 issued to the Italian troops had been done using not only Beretta made, but original US made M1 receivers, and still had the original Springfield or Winchester markings on them. http://www.collezionareexordinanza.it/uploads/source/IMG_6484_1.jpg
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  45. And more controllability than the M14, and a selector permantently attached, and a bipod permanently attached, and a grenade cutoff and sights permanently attached, and winter trigger...
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  46. BM stands for "Beretta Modifica", a modification of an existing model. So much it was a modification that many BM59 issued to the Italian troops had been done using original US made M1 receivers, and still had the original Springfield or Winchester markings on them. http://www.collezionareexordinanza.it/uploads/source/IMG_6484_1.jpg
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  47.  @bryangrote8781  Ian forgot one issue with shotgun shells. Due to the rapid decrease in pressure in the barrel, and so decrease in temperature, shotgun shells are ineherently dirtier than smallbore bottleneck ammo. That’s why recoil actions had remained relevant for so long in shotguns (and still are) while they had become little more than a curiosity in rifles, and that’s why gas action shotguns have complex self-cleaning pistons, often with multiple ribs, while rifles have much simpler ones. The disassembly of the Auto-5 is really not the simplest, but other long recoil action shotguns simplified it a lot.
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  48. There had been two separate issues. A pair of cases on the SEALs 92SB, and yes, that was due to very high round count and firing an unprecised mix of ammos. Then on some Army M9, tested for endurance in 1988. 12 had been tested. Generally they reached a very high round count, but a pair of them had the slide cracked at low round count. Initially the Army determined it was due to the steel alloy of the slide, requested it to be changed, and Beretta modified the slides so that even a cracked one could't be projected out of the gun. However Beretta technicians were not persuaded. They were selling 92 series guns to military and police forces all over the world, and only the M9 of the US Army seemed to have problems. They analysed the results of the test, and noticed all the low counts slide cracks happened only when a single batch of Federal Cartridge ammo was used. Once tested by independent labs, it was determined those rounds developed pressure in excess of proofloads (Beretta sued the US government at that point, and the lawsuit was settled with them receiving further $ 10m). Ironically, the 92 remained known for the "slide cracking" problem, while, at that time, its slides were arguably more robust than those of any Browning design competitor.
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  49. Actually Frommer managed to create the simplest long recoil action possible. Yes, it's still a little more complicate than a Browning short recoil, but not that much, and it has the advantage of a very low bore axis. Unfortunately he made it for a .32 round that could have been fired by a blowback handgun of the same weight, or even lighter.
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  50. It does.
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