Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "The Soviet Success? The ShKAS Machine Gun with curatorial assistant Joe Ford" video.

ShKAS and MG-131 are two wildly different and yet equally fascinating approaches to the technical requirement of maximising firepower in form factor of medium rifle caliber MG. One increased rate of fire to crazy levels at the cost of barrel life, the other put higher caliber bullet in de facto rifle case to improve firepower at close range at the cost of long range ballistics. Makes one wonder what would happen if both approaches were to be combined. P.S.: there also was a prototype variant called UltraShKAS with something like 3000+ rounds per minute rate of fire and even worse barrel life. It's quite obvious why that one didn't get adopted for service and mass production 😅
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I predict that in around 3 minutes you'll receive a comment about UltraShKAS that will conveniently "forget" to mention how the poor thing was melting its own barrel and that's why soviets declared it a failure and never adopted it😅
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Nice bait, quite subtle. Many lack that skill nowadays 👍
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@Hasmasnafg eventually, but not at first. Plus Germany, USSR, Japan, UK and Italy have never afforded to shift to all metal planes, only US did. And USSR didn't fight US so 50/50 on that. I'd say it was quite effective up until 1942 and the bigger problem was the planes it was mounted upon at first.
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@lapantony they were. Meanwhile Ju-87 and majority of other planes weren't. Your point? IL-2 wasn't. Mosquito famously wasn't. The nations I've listed had all-metal airframes as exceptions, not as rules.
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@lapantony yes, with 30+k produced, just shy of IL-2 almost 40k production numbers, it was indeed very widespread aircraft. How is it connected to the context though?
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@Crash1973 ага, зато ты то точно всем правду расскажешь 🤣👍🤡
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