Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

@JosephKano nope but it could be, it might only have a 7.62 on it right now but the Ukrainians have already shown themselves to be geniuses at field modifications, and they've captured a huge amount of Russian weaponry that I'm sure they could find a way to bodge onto this thing, like 12.7mm "Dushkas"
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@jules-9372 well bear in mind a lot of the other armoured vehicles it'd be likely to come up against aren't gonna be much newer than that
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@vetrogor8141 only if by "fearless" you mean someone too senile and mentally unfit to actually be capable of feeling fear
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Every few years some fancy new weapon or fancy new armour or fancy new uniform or some combination of the above comes out that's supposed to show us what the soldier of the future, the soldier of the 21st century will look like. And huge amounts of taxpayer money certainly goes into this stuff, but it never seems to ultimately lead to a soldier actually wearing or carrying any of it into battle though, instead when the sound of actual real battle calls it always, without fail seems to ultimately go back to sending in a dude in camo gear and a helmet with an M4, or some pretty small variation thereupon. If it ain't broke don't fix it I guess?
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Suppose it depends on whether you count the Falklands as having briefly BECOME Argentine territory during their occupation of them, if so then guess our guys DID fight on Argentine soil in that sense; of course since I'm a British patriot I don't recognise them ever having a legitimate historical claim to the islands prior to that time nor have I any intention of doing so, Rule Britannia haha; but I'm talking about actually during that brief time in 1982, after the governor surrendered and before the taskforce arrived, do we count it as having been Argentine then? Their flag was flying there after all
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@scottyotty2hotty he must've thought you meant the old L7 105mm tank-gun, that the old Centurion tanks put to such good use in the 40's-60's and that was indeed NATO standard for a while
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@Taskandpurpose isn't just you guys though, I'm a Brit myself, and I'm sure somewhere out there there's probably some small country whose entire military is equipped with rejected British Army equipment haha
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@scottyotty2hotty bad memories of the EM2/FN-FAL/M14/7.62mm thing with the Americans perhaps
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Willing to bet on that?
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Interestingly if you think the regular rifle's compact there's actually an even smaller & shorter carbine version, specifically intended for vehicle crews, the L22A2
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@cacwgm could even make a kind of makeshift Ukrainian Stormer or Striker out of it with a few ATGM's and/or Stingers mounted
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Surprised you didn't say anything about the rather cool special M231 Port Firing Weapons the Bradley's originally had in their first incarnation 🙂 basically a kind of unique fast-firing sub-machinegun made out of the skeleton of an AR15, and designed specifically to fire tracer and with a considerable rate of fire, and screwed into special round pintle-mounts in the sides of the Bradley's hull; no sights or stocks either as they were only supposed to stay attached to the Bradley and not be removed, and to be aimed using the stream of tracer rounds itself rather than sights. They were intended both to give the infantry riding inside something to shoot while still in there, and to provide an extra means of defence for the vehicle itself from ambushes by enemy infantry. They were soon removed however as it was felt improving the Bradley's side protection with armour side-skirts was of much greater importance. Suspect they were actually part of the inspiration for the "Chimera" AFV from Warhammer 40,000
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@BazzBrother by the same logic Argentina doesn't have claim to Argentina itself as the Natives were there first, so yeah of course formerly-colonial countries built on land that had prior owners are not gonna recognise prior claims or the dates of such claims having relevance. However in the Falklands's case this was never the situation, they never HAD a native population and the first people to live there WERE European, the French and then us, THEN the Spanish then us again, and we've been there by far the longest, everything of worth on those islands is stuff we created there, and we've a legal claim to the land that Argentina contests but that Spain and France don't, and that the United Nations supports
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@robertkalinic335 it's accurate, powerful, reliable and we actually have it in service, with plenty of parts, tooling and ammo available. If it gets replaced by a belt-fed 40mm like it was supposed to then great, but it'll hold the line if not
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@Taskandpurpose true but I bet they're just the bits that were considered most usable out of larger programs with the rest discarded, that whole business with the 'XM-8' family of modular weapon systems for example, led to the grenade launcher part being adopted (for a while anyway) and literally nothing else being didn't it (by the US I mean although I think one other country adopted the rifle part too)
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The Royal Air Force is slightly offended but only slightly, given they're being given the same abbreviation as the entire Russian military
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@johnathanh2660 with some add-on armour that I'm sure the Ukrainians are already working on it probably could handle older models of RPG's too from the sides or front, sacrificing some speed and lightness to get that way sure but it can afford to, and at that point it's as good as anyone can expect a vehicle like this to be, sure it still wouldn't handle an ATGM, drone-strike, landmine, IED or hit from a T90 but few vehicles could
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@johnathanh2660 agree with you but also make a point of my own, that a lot of the Spartan's current weaknesses can be solved through modifications and that the Ukrainians are fully capable of up-arming and up-armouring a Spartan, not saying they will but that they can, and might be prepared to accept some reduction in performance in exchange
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Don't know about infantry deciding the outcome of EACH battle, don't seem to recall something like Jutland involving infantry much
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That's the British HMS Queen Elizabeth at 11:20 guys, most definitely not a Chinese carrier, hope that's not foreshadowing of a future friendly-fire incident 😆
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@Fordmister I hope you're right about the whole being a prelude to building newer better completely seperate tanks thing, but in the meantime the Challenger 3 will have to do the job, and may well end up serving a lot longer than expected judging by it's predecessor. I just hope they get a shift on building the thing and do make more than the pitifully few they're talking about
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Well that's been the case in the past with good reason, national pride does matter and most of what we make is actually pretty damn good anyway; it's also just no longer true anymore though, we're buying considerable amounts of American and German stuff now and have been doing for decades to a lesser extent
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