Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Oh, how wonderful! A 240B and a Five-seveN fell in love and had the most adorable baby.
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  2. "Heavy is good. Heavy is sign of reliability. And if it does not shoot, you can always hit him with it." - Boris
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  3. Well, that settles it. I'm gold plating my issue M4. And to think I laughed at all the gold Warsaw Pact weapons we confiscated. Little did we know that was Heat Proofing worthy of a NASA reentry vehicle
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  4. HAHA, that may be the cutest thing I've ever heard
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  5. Look on the bright side, the kids today absolutely DETEST the M320 that replaced it. So you got to live in the Noob Tube salad days
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  6. The People's Muzzle Blast has no time for your bourgeoisie comforts
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  7. Rule #1 of getting development money from the crusty old Generals at AMC: Make it look like some sci fi shit that they saw in 60's comics, and they will fork over millions for you to develop it. They really need to stop letting old officers who haven't held their own weapon in decades decide what grunts should have to work with. edit And don't forget to add the words Joint, Integrated, Force Multiplier, Warrior, Enhanced, or Lightweight (for an M88 Hercules) to the name, and you're in like sin.
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  8. Browning: What are you qualifications? Williams: When I was just a baby, my momma told me Son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno. Just. to. watch. him. die. Browning: Welcome to the team. Williams: Since they freed me from that prison, if that gunsmith job was mine, I bet I'd make a pretty sweet little carbine design. Browning: nervous laughter Eheh, Ok, that's...that's nice to know man. You can stop now. Just be here Monday at 7.
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  9. He's That Guy you run into at the range who comes up to your lane, apropos of nothing, and tries to regale you and your friends with rando gun trivia knowledge. And it's always something common knowledge, but he presents it like some secret lore that you couldn't have possibly heard about. And then you spend desperate minutes trying to get him to take the hint that he's being wierd and should probably piss off so you can shoot in peace. He's That Guy. And we've all had to put up with That Guy.
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  10. I feel like nothing in the firearms world today has actually been fancy since before WW2. Cheap & fast to make (yet with a high MSRP) seems to be all that matters other than tacticool peripherals and sci-fi inspired milling, which is nothing compared to the clockwork steampunk brilliance to be found a whole century ago.
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  11. When your 1st SGT wants you to police all your brass off the range, but it's already in your helmet
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  12. I bought a pair of Adidos at a bazaar in the Green Zone in '04. It was the brand with 4 stripes.
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  13. "I ain't got time to bleed." "You got time to duck?"
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  14.  @borismuller86  Top Hat II: The Toppening
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  15. That's just good recycling, right there. Waste not, want not.
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  16. No one is going to mention the field expedient 6-pack storage cylinder? Rly? I don't believe for 1 second that none of you didn't hide tall boys in your M239/257 smoke dischargers at NTC or 29 Stumps.
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  17. It puts the Cal in Technical
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  18. Just for the sake of being pedantic, this is legitimately not Small Arms. "Gun", "Ordnance" or "Cannon" is used at 20mm and above in official NATO military jargon, and this is 24 mike mike. Even Ma Deuce is Small Arms.
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  19. We didn't use the hanger method for the tissue box bandolier belts because, inevitably, the damn cardboard would be half turned into damp mush about 4 minutes after you reach the field or the ambient humidity was anything more moist than a dry-roasted Kuwaiti afternoon.
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  20. My Cylon descendents will love the way it looks next to their phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range
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  21. THE Ukraine. Accept no substitutes. You wanna invite more Russian bootlegs? UsKraine? YourKraine? RusKraine? The Donetsk People's Kraine? Look for the seal of authenticity wherever Kraines are sold.
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  22. I cried at the wedding and threw unlinked rounds as they went down the aisle
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  23. If anyone was posted at Ft Polk around '03....you might have spotted the gun cover on the display howitzer by the post commander's house: a purple floral sheet. I dunno if it's still a thing, but it always turned heads on post back then.
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  24. I shall not be satisfied that this weapon is worthy until it is chambered in .45 ACP, can make 1 pot of coffee per minute, and has defeated an ACR, SCAR, M107, and a Mosin in the Pugil Stick Pit without scuffing the logo.
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  25. It's proof that Ze Germans had first contact with Aliens. Area 51 is really just a big G11 stockpile. And why we can't let the hippies in there.
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  26. That's no sidearm. That's an 1883 Navy breech loading cannon with a pistol grip and a 57mm Bofors feeder.
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  27. I keep hoping he will find an MG131 But that unicorn be damn near extinct
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  28.  @erikcrouch7881  It's your absolute, basic, bare bones 12 guage. Let's just say the quality fairly reflects it's retail price. And like most things that come out of the arms room, it had been thoroughly abused as a duty weapon. The daily chores of disassembling and cleaning it after having slung over your IBA in the dusty work environment of a Sandbox deployment was.....not pleasant. It really makes you start to appreciate the simplicity standards built into Military arms design vs Civilian/LE firearms where KISS isn't a driving philosophy.
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  29.  @RedXlV  You must be new here. We ignore our problems until we adopt a new, pricier, no-bid contract one.
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  30.  @mattmarzula  POWERED armor is functionally fantasy for now, not for technical reasons but for practicality ones. Range, cost, and deployability. What would allow for many of the benefits (increased load bearing capability for packs, weapons & ammo loads, ballistic/blast/incendiary/CBRN & environmental protection) as well as added mobility is not powered at all. *Torsion powered* Coil springs at joints and elastic posture-return tendons over long skeleton axis in full body frames. A full body spring-tensioned orthopedic frame ready to hang armor, gear, and load. All the way from down by the ankles of boots up to a semi-gimbaled neck ring for heavy helmet and night-vision systems. Simply put, it does the bulk of standing & upright lift/return for you. It eats the force of gravity while loading up the stored force, allowing you to effectively pump-track run or maintain posture effortlessly. There's no power required but gravity and the mass of the soldier and his burden to apply load-up to the spring and bungee system, waiting to be quite literally bounced back for returned momentum. And it would protect and absorb during impacts from things like a 5 point landing, overextention of the normal range of human motion, falls, rolled ankles, vehicle roll overs and impacts. Dumb, basic mechanical clockwork that alleviates what the human body struggles to support. And it would be a helluva lot cheaper and more practical in the field to replace a polymer-coated, thin metal thigh frame and a couple coil springs and bungee cords that don't get tired than pricey, short-ranged electric servos and batteries. And it wouldn't even be remotely as heavy. Take a good look at things like Motorcross knee & neck braces, and picture them full body with sprung architecture
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  31. Departmento Munitorum approved, but Army Materiel Command denied. Never underestimate the ability of H&K to be at the center of any armaments trials drama.
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  32. It's a good day to die. Because in the grim darkness of the semi far fascist future, they strapped a 12 gauge instead of a grenade launcher to the front of your explosive-tipped bullet launcher. Scoreboard - Colonial Marines: 1, Mobile Infantry: 0
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  33. In '03, our company in Iraq were issued a dozen pistol grip Mossbergs. They were specifically to blow door locks off for cordon and search gigs, not for combat purposes. Guys still managed to injure themselves with errant pellets, including an impressive dickshot that required surgery because he wasn't wearing his issue CockGuard panel on his IBA. By '10, we came back and found the same pistol grip hawgzlegz, but in MRAP turrets with riot ammo. For blasting looters off of convoy vehicles.
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  34. How to confuse privates on range cleanup detail: when there magically ain't no brass anywhere in sight to be policed up
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  35.  @0neDoomedSpaceMarine  And we're still using an Air Force Gun to this day... Goddamn disgraceful. But we got revenge: They still have A-10's. Knock. Knock.
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  36. The nomenclature is derived from the great Czech-Shinobi war of 1968. Ninjas hiding in the rafters were a serious problem. Countermeasures were needed.
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  37. Hell, I wish someone would just rejigger the .22 Spitfire to tip it with common M855 green tips for PDW use. Marry of a common case and bullet that could be cost effective enough to actually see production.
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  38. T-800: Sarah Connuh? Wrong Sarah: Yes? T-800: Could you open wider please? Cannot fit laser sight through door...
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  39. I would go 5 mikes higher. That's literally what it sounds like inside your CVC helmet & the gun trunnion when you're firing the M242 in a Brad or LAV, plus a "ka-chung" as the electric drive cycles after firing. Probably the same amount of smoke in your face too, before the fan evacuates it
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  40. Knurled for his pleasure
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  41.  @Wildcat425B  Dick Cheney's friends
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  42.  @T_bone  Actually we've had fielding teams coming and going for years now, overseeing the issue of the M26 MASS (that's the funky magazine fed underbarrel shotgun). It's getting to be as common in unit MTOE's as M320 40 mike mikes. In '04, I myself was issued and toted around a POS Mossberg 88 in country for cordon and search entry duties...i.e. I blew the locks off doors. And we gunners were issued riot ammo as well.
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  43. "When the Japanese charged, why did you shoot the man with the sword first? Did you realize that meant he was the commanding officer?" "No, you silly SOB. He was running at me with a goddamn SWORD " - Sgt Bob Shaftoe, Neil Stephenson's '99 novel Cryptonomicon
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  44. Jesus cracks whip: "I am the Light and the Way. You're welcome." Me: "Bruh, I was about to close on a 3.2% refi. I'm upside-down and in divorce mediation."
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  45. Deadliest thing on the battlefield is a grid coordinate No matter what you ride, your position data in enemy hands means your ass
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  46. It's that rare left-hand-fire only MG
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  47. legally not classified as a "firearm"? Ba-zing!
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  48. There's no story I love more than legends about some beancounter O-7 deciding to cut magazine sizes down to 'reduce ammunition consumption'. Which is a good way to reduce personnel costs, because once combat is over, you will definitely have fewer personnel left.
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  49.  @andrewschulze3865  The real question is: Does the Chieftan fit in the briefcase, and can he adjust the track tension?
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  50. Meanwhile, at Lock Picking Surgeon: "A click out of one, two is binding, nothing on three....We're gonna try this stent that Bosnian Bill and I made."
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