Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "How did NATO change this gun's design? The Experimental FAL with firearms expert Jonathan Ferguson" video.

  1.  @smokedbeefandcheese4144  that worked both ways. In 1941-1942 it was more about germans studying captured soviet equipment - several mortars were copied, gas system of AVT-40 was copied, many F-22 guns were trophies and documentation and tooling for that gun was also captured so it was turned into stop gap 3inch AT gun germans used in Africa against british before Pak40 was finished, they looked at T-34 and initiated VK.30 program, dropping all VK.20 projects, KV-1 influenced which Tiger was chosen over the other and so on. And then came 1943...
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  2. 4:40 When time and resources are limited I always try to choose PTRS/PTRD solution. Context: those are soviet AT rifles rushed into production in 1941. PTRS was overall better semi-auto rifle, PTRD was cheap, fast to produce, "good enough" and still reliable single shot rifle. They produced BOTH. PTRDs task was to saturate the army with AT rifles, PTRSs job was to rearm army with better one. So proper solution was to put FAL into service ASAP and start small scale production of EM-2 for paratroopers, marines, vehicle crews and so on that would have allowed to iron out all the problems in the meantime. Yes, logistics hates doubling analogues. But they have operated with worse during the wars and they're not exactly filling the same niche at that stage.
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  3.  @robsnizzle79  it's not getting around. Grendel 6.5 is part of bloodline that starts with russian 5.6x39 high velocity experimental round that was sidelined by more conservative 5.45x39. Finns didn't drop the project like soviets did though;)
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  4.  @robsnizzle79  meanwhile .280 was a first gen assault rifle round similar to 7.62x39. It MIGHT have ended up being basis of second generation round just like case of 7.62x39 was used to create 5.45x39, but that's NOT a guaranteed outcome. Plus .280 kind of had a heavy case. So it would have likely stepped down for 5.56x45 either way, but that doesn't mean I'm saying that .280 was bad, just that its time had passed. It would have been great to have it and FAL instead of M14 until M16 entered the scene.
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  5.  @robsnizzle79  plus adoption of FAL means that M240 would be adopted in US sooner.
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