Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "DemolitionRanch" channel.

The way it looks one can be surprised it's not designed for firing active/reactive two stage munitions or something just as weird. Flechettes? Salvo rounds?
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Brandon tried to be a bit too much of "crisis control". The most apolitical one is "History of bankruptcy of small engineering entrepreneurs in US"... also known as Forgotten Weapons.
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Now a lot of subscribers will find out the truth... that you're a veterinary. No, seriously, first time I hear about this.
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The way it looks one can be surprised it's not designed for firing active/reactive two stage munitions or something just as weird. Flechettes? Salvo rounds?
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It's more about US not caring much about army in comparison to air force and navy. If it was really all about Browning's genius, they would have accepted HiPower asap, don't you think?;) Just look at M2 and how many HMGs have soviets gone through during that time and each one was an actual improvement over the others. Nowadays you can have 20mm autocannon in dimensions and weight of M2, but US army would still use M2 until at least 2500. Because who needs modern equipment, am I right? Just think of how we ended up with M14 instead of better guns with intermediate ammo and how AR-15 was literary sabotaged on every corner by the army for almost a decade in an attempt to smear mud onto intermediate firearms. Who knows what would have happened if AK hadn't existed as an example one can point at every time someone said "nah, cartridges smaller then .308 are dumb".
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This may sound heretical, but can you convert .500 Magnum into revolver carbine if you don't like it as impractical showoff firearm? Are there stock options for it?
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At this rate Magnum Research can make fully automatic version of DE that uses the same ammo as MP-7 and still find a buyer for that. Call it Surprise Eagle or Troll Eagle or whatever...
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Question that you probably won't see, but I'll ask anyway: Given that technology often comes to small arms after it already became a staple in artillery once it becomes cheaper and/or possible to minituarize, do you see the use of muzzle reference devices on rifles or even adoption of APFSDS "flechettes"(SLAP is APDS) on "assault smoothbores" in the future? Or will small arms jump over that tech/not reach it at all?
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@NotablySped even (some) WWII tanks have enough accuracy to hit it from several hundred meters. You're not firing on the move, you ALREADY know the range, you have ballistic calculator.
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@Bill.Papadakis considering we're talking about a block of tungsten thicker then armor on Challenger 2 turret(which uses just a bit of tungsten rods in its structure)?
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Wow, those 3rd person drone shots with the vehicles... just wow. Love the subtle "always at two stars because ATF exists" wanted rating.
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@theshapeexists way ahead of his time? Hold on, let me see how many SMGs have he designed... oh, maybe LMGs? Oh, how about renowned automatic rifle that was BAR(that US had mistaken for LMG in WWII)? No, wait, that one was also just a year behind Isaac Newton Lewis's "shock" rifle. Yeah, about this whole "ahead of his time"...
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@iceman5117 not exactly. You're thinking of DShKM. There were also DShK before it and DK even before that. Only NSV was actually noticably better then modernized variants of M2(although US army haven't gotten those modernized variants either, but that's another example of interservice sabotage). However nowadays we look at M2A1 vs Kord and it's not a good comparison, especially since the latter was designed in early 1990's(and knowing Russia, it was just a variation on even older soviet design from 1980's, maybe started out as some NSV modernization or replacement).
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@MotorcycleEnjoyer01 polygonal rifling? Electric trigger? Caseless ammo? Gun technology changed a LOT, we just can't afford it. If all countries had the same civilian firearms market as US did before the bans, we would see all of that actually implemented decades ago.
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@chillfill6512 then why would you buy 1911 instead of one of their pistols?;)
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@MotorcycleEnjoyer01 so you don't use red dots and prefer revolvers because "those semi-autos are unreliable" and you apparently are a GIGN professional?:D
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@nominalvelocity you know, you can actually read my comment before answering. There is a reason I said that some things are too hard or expensive for mass production. Yes, please point me to mass produced polygonal rifling two centuries ago. You CAN make it just like you can make a revolver in Middle Ages... with a battalion of jewelry workers, half the annual income of a small kingdom and around a decade of trying. Yes, surely this is what can be called practical and what I've meant. So you claim that all caseless ammo is the same, pressure and clean burn don't matter? I mean you call caseless(which it wasn't btw) musket ammo and modern caseless ammo the same, don't you? I said electric, not solenoid. There is a difference between electric trigger and magnetically propelled firing pin. And yet we spend billions on not only incremental, but sometimes just perceived improvements. Because incremental improvements of potential opponents make us nervous...
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Question that you probably won't see, but I'll ask anyway: Given that technology often comes to small arms after it already became a staple in artillery once it becomes cheaper and/or possible to minituarize, do you see the use of muzzle reference devices on rifles or even adoption of APFSDS "flechettes"(SLAP is APDS) on "assault smoothbores" in the future? Or will small arms jump over that tech/not reach it at all?
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@gratefulguy4130 yes, that's current situation. I was asking about the future. How exactly did you simultaneously read my comment and completely skipped it?
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@gratefulguy4130 P.S.: though thx for noticing.
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