Youtube comments of Simon Nonymous (@Simon_Nonymous).

  1. "Children had to be kept under control". Now that would be a nice feature in any 21st century public visitor attraction.
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  2. Inside the cockpit - "Cockpit not available due to conservation reasons." So let's watch "Outside the cockpit". EDIT - still worth watching, thank you"
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  3. get it on the back of a pick up and drive it at 70mph, the world needs to see this sight in action!
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  4. I wonder if the nine 'wrongly stamped' pistols are worth more than the correctly stamped ones? A lovely pistol, and I would love to own a vanilla one just for nostalgia's sake
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  5. The reason the Chieftain isn't in this vid is that he needed medical treatment when he heard the track tensioning system had been damaged by the air burst
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  6. Is the "9mm cartridge" gag the first time Ian has consciously done a joke on FW? Made me spit my tea out laughing... EDIT, in line with Ian's thoughts about guns should be kept able to fire so we can understand them better as pieces of engineering, and also in their firearm capacity, this is one weapon I would love to see being used on the range. So many useful features done on a tiny scale - as Ian rates it: PDC.
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  7. "Crikey - must be Scottish!"
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  8. There must be somebody somewhere with a biplane two seater who'd turn uo for Big Sandy just to try it for real
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  9. I think the same German designers were sent to the USSR and then worked for World of Warplanes and War Thunder... possibly.
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  10. Perhaps Ian has a full length oil painting of himself tucked away in the attic?
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  11. Don't let the Chap on the Range see this, it could severely upset him.
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  12.  @PipMan1101  it's very interesting to look at the various 'moral panics' in the UK that have led to various restrictions and/or bans, including: flick knives and gravity knives, the Ninja style weapons you mentioned, the 'Samurai sword' issue, and most recently 'zombie knives'. Meanwhile, the knives most commonly used in crimes are those found in any kitchen... go figure.
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  13. So, at some point, the trials board said "Now for the Money shot". A moment that should have been recorded on a wax cylinder for posterity.
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  14. "We want the largest guns known to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now."
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  15. I find Ian's ability to talk fluently and comprehensively on his subjects very impressive - no obvious cuts, edits or autocues, just knowledge and wisdom. Bravo!
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  16. If you ever visit the German shore battery at Longues sur Mere, you will see direct hits from naval gunfire through the gunshield of one of the 152mm shore guns... I think the bombardment was assisted by radar ranging but it's still chilling to think of what happened when you see the entry hole and the holes made by shell splinters.
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  17. Anyone watching 'Saving Private Ryan' should be made to watch this first.
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  18. It looks like someone has kindly said that in UK RM Commando speak, it's spoken: four five Commando, not fourtyfive Commando. The little things do matter, thank you Ian!
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  19. EDIT - Olympic medallist with a 'disability' that would nearly stop him serving in the USN. Do you think he and Nelson are up there in Heaven having a laugh right now? While King argues with God over the seating arrangements?
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  20. Very interesting, and I would suggest somewhat influenced by the STEN Mk V with the stock and grips? However the two safety devices to hold the bolt firmly shut look innovative and practical too. Many thanks Ian!
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  21. I've been to Pegasus Bridge, and St Mere-Eglise. For the time this was using cutting edge technology, brave men all of them.
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  22.  @deanomarino31  Thunderbirds wasn't real? I am a broken man.
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  23. Bloody hell just finished Matt's video and you pop up - will I never get to eat my dinner?
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  24.  @andersjjensen  I have never heard that extension of the quote, but will use it from now on!
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  25. I am very dismayed by the so called comments section here. They are all informative, adult and also constructive when they are not totally complimentary. What sort of people are you?
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  26. Agreed; a lot of more modern 'surplus' in museums from the gunpowder era onwards always seems very small, possibly because it was never issued.
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  27. As much as I love the main content, I love working out where your little funny clips come from too.
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  28.  @Kremit_the_Forg  plse add 3a) - 'Alec, are you sure?'
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  29. So one of your sports is tank hunting? Serbia - oh yes . USSR - oh yes tank hunting of Fascists a national sport. Finland - hold my 67% alcohol fruit vodka and bathing trunks.
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  30. What I really enjoyed about this one was the lack of clickbait title, just a very well researched and presented slice of lesser known history. Your content is always good by the way ! Thank you.
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  31. I loved knocking rounds through the batten that held the Figure 11 up on a 100m range and watching them fold and fall.
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  32. I've just got back from the pub after a six pint session and got this gem to watch. Thanks Ed!
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  33. Not only that he holds it up with one hand - that is an impressive feat!
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  34. Thank you Jens for your contribution. Another good case of "did it work as intended?" vs "OMG it is OP/UP in WoT". The only factor I didn't see covered (but I am usually wrong) was that the 122mm gun was at first an interrupted screw breech artillery piece but eventually got a semi auto breech like most AT or tank guns. Please discuss and correct me as always, and keep safe everyone. Love from England!
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  35. Yes, the Archer served into the 50s, and perhaps shows a good example of how to get it right whilst this video shows how to get it wrong. The Archer weighed a ton less than the Valentine donor tank; it had a tried and tested propulsion, suspension and steering design made for a vehicle of its weight, and managed to keep its crew in an open topped but splinter/bullet proof superstructure; everything in it looks low down, so no centre of gravity issues either.
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  36. Nice comment - my biggest regret was that I'd never heard of him till now.
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  37. Bloody hell - would you have liked just half that haul yourself Ed when you were doing your thing?
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  38. thank you for your Uncle's service. I hope he found his well deserved peace.
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  39. Agincourt 25 October, 1415, and the battle of Balaclava 25 October 1854. Well spotted, but not sure what Taffy three might have been translated from!!
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  40. Ideally ones close to a distillery... it'd be one shot after another.
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  41. NB the image of the flipped tank at 24:31 is of a Tiger II, and the chap next to it is Dwight Eisenhower - it's in the Wikipedia entry on the Tiger II. The location given is Chambois, which is 57km from the ocean, therefore this is probably not due to a warship's shell, and is most likely to be due to bombing. PS - the Oerlikon on the LVT4 is not historical, it would have been the similar Polsten cannon. Just servicing my inner nerd folks!
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  42. I love your sense of humour. A lot of these "top ten" and "bottom ten" lists are rubbish in any case; your holistic look at the plane's development actually reflects how quickly technology moved between the early 30s and the outbreak of war, plus numbers count, as does fighting spirit.
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  43. I was about to post a comment "find a plane that DIDN'T do well in the hands of the Finns"!
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  44. The closed turret systems of Cold War AAA were also due to the requirements for vehicles to be NBC capable I think? Good summary though CB!
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  45. Wow! What a rare treat! Although I would have been tempted to move your target to where the first bomb landed, and see how the rest fell?
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  46. Glad you are surviving Alan, and a good precis of the issues seen from the museums' point of view.
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  47. Happy All Fool's Day, Ed!
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  48. Great video and as always a touch of the real. Do a quick mental breakdown of how an army fights in the front line in % terms - tanks, AFVs/APCs/IFVs then the soft targets. Even a tank with one track broken is a very expensive pillbox.
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  49. The modern era of being sorry for everything: I love weapons and their use but need to apologise for showing what they actually do to a head made of jelly.
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  50. *almost the same.
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  51. it's a long standing 'trick' from at least the days of world war one sniping (I think I have read it in Hesketh-Pritchard), and from my range days in the 80s, a damp t-shirt or scrim face veil was used on dry dusty ranges. I am surprised it's taken Ian that long to 'discover' it!
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  52.  @barrybraynen8786  power makes up for a lot of things... in the UK our very unattractive ex Health Secretary resigned recently after being caught nobbing some bit of crumpet who wanted his influence. And precious bodily fuids.
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  53. A small plea for 'Dido' to be pronounced with the first syllable to rhyme with "my" - or is there a reason the RN mispronounced itfor the Dido class cruisers please?
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  54. I love watching videos about Malta and will love to visit your country.
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  55. Soviet casualties at Kursk were higher than Axis losses, but we all know who won the battle.
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  56. naw it'd be raped just like so many other bits of history with Jon Bon Jovi, Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman stealing a He 177 to fly back to the USA.
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  57. Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you Ian for a great year of output. I toast you with a small glass of Laphroaig!
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  58. An early form of Schrage Musik in its' night fighter role then?
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  59. @Cal Dev maybe the opinions of the 404 people who have downvoted the video as it didn't tell them what they wanted to hear? Maybe (speaking as an Englishman) we are not very good at admitting our own faults in WWII, and shy away from talking about them?
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  60.  @travishabursky4362  the irony that a man of the cloth increased the killing power of firearms... but yes.
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  61. Yes the chap at Historic Dockyards who guided me round the Armada section made the point that we don't really talk about our failed armada the year after this, and perhaps we should.
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  62. I'd agree except swap out the word Americana - the things I love about Ian and this channel are not exclusive to a part of the world.
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  63. I wonder if the Germans had attempted Plan Z what the effect on the development of the RAF would have been as well... hopefully more orientated about flattening shipyards and antishipping capability? We can only speculate :-)
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  64. 102 - a man who used his years well! What a legend, what a man to look up to.
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  65. Well you're no smoothie are you? ;-) EDIT SonsOfLorgar beat me to it!
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  66. Hmmm... you can tell Poland wasn't short of wood. If you got stuck in the winter that stock could be burnt to keep you warm and cook your rations for 24 hours.
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  67.  @yam83  ESS ELL ARR mate!
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  68. Nazi planes? Come along now, how can a plane hold a political view?
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  69. Well I'm sat with a beer making a 1:48 Airfix Blenheim and this one sails up - how nice to see your build and paint jobs. It's now over 40 years since I first went to war with a tape measure and a handful of lucky dice, so it's dead good to see people are still wargaming with models in this day and age. NB I've stumbled across a very good AFV channel and the best compliment that he gets paid is that he is the Drach of the AFV world - you sir are a yardstick of worthiness!
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  70. I signed up to HoWaW a long time ago. It's good to see how their channel is attracting more high quality You Tubers who can be watched in ad free freedom.
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  71. Not totally related but.... I collect and build plastic model kits; I let the missus see ones with 1970s price labels on the box.
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  72. oh more more more please - what a thoroughly nice bloke Dr Hocker is.
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  73. "What were you doing outside with your friend dear?" "Oh just some science love." The respirator - protector of both lungs, and facial hair. Very wise.
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  74. Downfall/Der Untergang was criticised for making Hitler seem human... this video is a good example of not being afraid to tell a story, no matter how despicable that man became, he was still human. I've never seen a comment on this channel that suggests Dr Felton is anything but factual and nonjudgemental as far as is possible. Rara avis!
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  75. It's a very good point; I am sure you know that some 'day' fighters were used against night attacks, but the majority of night fighters were multiengined radar equipped types. So especially with radar control and automated fuse setting, German FlaK was a 24/7 weapon. Probably cheaper to produce and crew than aircraft, and possibly a lot less vulnerable? In the sense that Luftwaffe aircrew would take losses, but how many FlaK positions took casualties and daamge in the air raids?
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  76. It was worth a mention - thank you :-)
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  77. Sounds like an insurance job to me. "I need new windows" = "I think the Kaiser's in my chateau, have you thought about bombing it a bit?"
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  78. Sorry to make you last in my list of replies Mick but yes. I read The Real Cruel Sea about 10 years back, and I was flabbergasted by how badly the MN suffered in the way you describe, and how the basics like pay stoppages when your boat was sunk were at first deemed normal. Rightly, a lot of this was amended during the course of the war, but I take my hat off to them; they bought the cost of our freedom with their lives.
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  79. I must have been a Hislop fan for decades now as a comedian and wit, but never quite grasped how intelligent and knowledgeable he actually is.
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  80. kemlokemlo correct; George I was 300 years earlier!
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  81. GardenState2012 apart from being wrong - you're wrong. Having shot my SMLE all morning....
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  82. We enjoyed your input, thank you for sharing it with us. Nb - I am not that great at science and chemistry, but you never lost me the once with your explanations and dialogue - you are very easy to listen to as well. All the best!
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  83.  @Morgan_Sandoval  I hate to say that you are right. I'm in the UK following a rebuild of a Lancaster Bomber.... it's pretty well funded but we are in year four out of a ten year project. It's the same for old buildings too - the skills are now forgotten, the tools are long gone, every part that is replaced is built by hand, no mass production lines or parts bins to raid. Even to get a Flower class corvette seaworthy would be a massive undertaking. Thank you for bringing me back to earth from the planet of dreams.
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  84. Yes there are equivalents in Scotland, eg Tarbert across Kintyre, it seems to be a fairly common procedure where the geography allows. Greetings to Norway!!
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  85. Seconded - just looking at the images used here, I am guessing there were thousands of people doing their stuff on a man made island in the middle of nowhere. I would love to know more.
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  86. Watched and enjoyed this last night on HOWW with no crappy adverts to annoy me.
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  87.  @johannderjager4146  or even just politics world wide I am afraid.
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  88. So which Islay malt were you enjoying? Just so I know what to buy you if I ever visit the US.
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  89.  @letoubib21  and an engine, please be fair 🙂
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  90.  @greenkoopa  produce proof that the people were involved were Nazis - I'll give you a head start, the Italian officer would at most have been a Fascist, so that's 1 - 0 to me :-)
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  91. Interesting that as the IL-2 was originally a single seater, what a balls up to make the conversion from the two seater version back to a single seater a bit of a mess! EDIT - thank you to my learned friend below.... it was originally a two seater after all. But still a balls up :-)
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  92. he does a very good job on being curator and collector, and explaining what goes on behind the scenes
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  93. +Thamuze Ulfrsson wait till you see the .55" Men (Joke!)
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  94. I think you are correct; I think this should have been part of the cost benefit analysis. The FlaK that was built could be used, the fighters that could have been built could not.
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  95. Firing pins - on this basis should all edged weapons in museums therefore be bluntened etc?
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  96. Quite so - and as a righty I never found the 9mm mag felt like it was there, it was nicely in place just over my left arm. It's also interesting that I found the folding stock very useable and comfortable, and Ian hasn't criticised it in this vid, so another nice feature of this weapon.
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  97. Brutal. But true.
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  98. ah what was I doing this lunchtime anyway...feet up, smile on!
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  99. This has been a most excellent video, despite me taking two days to enjoy its full goodness. Good to see Matt and his expertise, love the Trafalgar Gun lads too. Thank you Drach - it was worth the wait. One more day to Trafalgar Day - we always celebrated it at my school in Newcastle as one of its old boys was a certain Cuthbert Collingwood.
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  100.  @loddude5706  over most of the young ones' heads I suspect but it made me laugh 🙂
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  101.  @meegz149  thank you for your ethical stand... I note that the OP simply wanted to praise the bravery and ingenuity of the commandos but there has to be some weharaboo type who can't even accept that.... what a silly billy they are!
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  102. Ian, please can you explain your scale of coolness; is "kind of cool" better or worse than vanilla "cool", or "really cool"?
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  103. Aw come on Ed, I'll not get a pot washed today if you keep releasing stuff.
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  104. I looked at those USN after action analysis drawings, and the images of ships like CA-32 and breath a lot. Fix it or burn or swim seems to be a great motivator. Respect is indeed due.
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  105. An interesting comment, thank you very much for your knowledge.
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  106. Good to see you back on top form Ed.
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  107. Do you follow the Royal Armouries - Ian McCollum did a quick cameo appearance there too!
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  108.  @chuckschillingvideos  indeed the best of them were, chillingly so - again it would be interesting to see who brought down the RAF night bombers, and see if the proportion of fighter/FlaK/accidents is significantly different?
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  109. I couldn't hit a house if I was stood inside it.
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  110.  @genericpersonx333  it's always good to see proper referenced sources otherwise we go round in circles repeating and often amplifying anecdotal evidence, and then people trying to explain a myth. Rob at British Muzzleloaders or Bloke on the Range are good examples of channels where such myths are looked at skeptically, and David Fletcher at the Bovington tank museum is a good example of someone who likes to retell fairy stories and give them an aura of respectability.
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  111. You sir, are a poet. If shewill not marry you now, I would!
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  112. @ Marcus WC Tipton - I have also read that in British counterinsurgency campaigns, they realised that a .303 or later 7.62 could go through tree trunks if the enemy used them as shelter. If the bullets didn't find their mark, the splinters could.
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  113. I wanted a quick vid while my bath runs.... I think I will watch it in the bath instead. Water, steam... all adds to the ambience!
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  114.  @Neomalthusiano  but to be fair - not all warfare even on the western front was based on trench warfare eg the opening battles of 1914, eg Mons or Le Cateau, or the closing battles of 1918; and there was a lot of warfare that was not in Flanders. Based on how British infantry was fighting in the later 19th century, the volley sight wasn't that stupid. And if you are a fan of the Vickers gun, it replaced a lot of the volley fire functions of riflemen by using what was called plunging fire to create a beaten zone in just the same way volley fire was supposed to work.
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  115.  @memofromessex  an interesting post, thank you. When there are discussions of colonialism by the UK, it is wise to remember what conditions were like in some countries prior to colonisation, and what happened to them when the UK left, often at the armed insistence of nationalists who then proceeded to make a balls of it once they got into power.
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  116. That is so interesting, thank you for posting it up. The thought of there being Swiss bank robbers seems so wrong... I just can't explain why!
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  117. Fascinating detail - your spelling is fine by the way!
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  118. yes that was my first thought too with "Where's Eddie?"
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  119. After a quick Google on the case; there was a lot more in his collection than just the Panther, including firearms and ammunition, and a lot of Nazi memorabilia that was on display (this was the original cause for his house to be searched, on the suspicion he might own art pieces looted by the Nazis.) There was much debate about whether the weapons were viable weapons or not. His sentence is suspended, and items that he is not legally allowed to possess must be sold on to museums or collectors within two years. The fine is real - but it seems he is a man of means, and the sale of the Panther would cover his fine and leave him quite a lot of change. If any of these facts are incorrect, please feel free to correct us.
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  120.  @plummz  not as such no... Bloke on the Range does a good video about this I am sure, but all the gunner needs to do is traverse the Bren to create a beaten zone of the required size, not too tricky. Where the GPMG comes along is that it has double the rate of fire of the Bren, and belt feed... especially in the SF role, this can be useful.
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  121. Or Australia could just have made the STEN as intended instead of tinkering. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Or outback.
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  122. I disagree only in the sense that it was a question of recruiting today's brightest and best who have very different career drivers from my era? I don't like it either though!
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  123. Indeed - I've been doing some internet reading about this and the 'south jettison area' story and the Portland fisherman's tale both seem not to hold water.
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  124. A very good comment; if the effects on armoured vehicles, soft skin vehicles, and even horse drawn equipment and foot soldiers were factored in, air power did do a lot to defeat the enemy, but tank killers they were not. Making movement and deployment difficult by day, breaking down German logistic supply, etc probably helped more than the direct kills? I would bet there were more tanks abandoned through lack of POL and parts caused by air attack than were ever knocked out directly?
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  125. I did hear mention of a red herring - maybe he had that instead of his egg?
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  126. Thank you Radu - good to hear more information!!
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  127.  @trojanthedog  oh they will except it will be the USAAF and feature Tom Hanks in a corset...
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  128. I am old enough to have seen Gnats flown by the Red Arrows. Did we have some reluctance to let Israel get their hands on these, as I would think this would have been right up their street?
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  129. Captured British battle dress was supplied to u-boat crews.
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  130. 1:13 and 4:14 - Madsen LMG (again); Ian's Forgotten Weapons series is very fond of this LMG that was introduced in about 1902 but carried on in active use until possibly 2010. And also I think this is the origin of the phrase 'a banana replublic'.
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  131. I am sold already. I suppose I am a revisionist and iconoclast by inclination. Good to see our British/English national myths put into context under the microscope with the benefit of hindsight. Lovely to get to hear from Paul - someone I think I might just be following from now on.
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  132. Aha! As soon as i saw the title I was hoping Balasz would be here from Cap and Ball. He's a great fellow and I love his channel too, in bright Hunglish language!
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  133. There is an alternative theory that it only rains if you go outside, with the chances of it raining being doubled if you are on holiday, own a motorbike, are camping or want to go climbing. The chances are tripled if you own a new gun and/or want to go game shooting. Plus there is the Test Match factor.
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  134. He asked for it in .22LR but seems .5" BMG is easier to get
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  135. As soon as you said interruptors and synchronisers I could have cried with happiness. Then you said you would like to do a video on it, and I did a little dance :-) I know you should't rely too much on flight sims but in IL2, they have managed to replicate the synchronisers so you get a lovely sweet spot in engine RPM where the Vickers guns go onto overtime.
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  136. Wow! Another well researched tale that has never been on my radar Mark - thank you! Thank you also for remembering that the Baltic states were illegally invaded by Stalin, and the repression there was pretty much as bad as it had been in Poland, with mass executions as well as deportations. These started again when the USSR retook the Baltic states. These lads were lucky - many people who ended up in Allied hands but their home country was in the Soviet zone of occupation were simply handed back to face almost certain death. Not the prettiest part of the Allies' war record, but it is good to see that they are remembered here.
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  137.  @tristanhodgden4286  you're right in that the moving working parts vs the weight of the overall weapon is minimal, it's in a nice straight line into the shoulder, and if held correctly, makes no actual difference when the trigger is pulled. Unlike the SMG, where I felt you had to allow for the working parts flying forward when you aimed.
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  138. Great video - lots of good context and history. Poor buggers though... even if they were our enemy at the time.
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  139.  @brittakriep2938  thank you for your explanation. It's also worth saying that the Allies were quite happy to use gas and flamethrowers once Germany had used them first, and arguments about the morality of what each side did in a war are always difficutl shall we say?
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  140. Aye, spent their days fighting for their lives. no chance for them really.
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  141.  @solarissv777  I completely agree with your point but would still encourage shooter to have both.
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  142. Absolutely brilliant work chaps thank you. UBoat.net has long been a favourite of mine; it actually let me find out details of the U-boot that sank my great grandfather's troopship in 1917 when I was researching my ancestry. Also World War 1 submarine history deserves more attention - I hope this helps.
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  143. Yup it's even marked up as an L1A1, possibly better to refer to it as an SLR rather than a FAL. But great video as always.
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  144. Wiki: 308 Winchester vs. 7.62×51mm NATO Although not identical, the 308 Winchester and military 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges are similar enough that they can be loaded into rifles chambered for the other round, but the 308 Winchester cartridges are typically loaded to higher pressures than 7.62×51mm NATO service cartridges.[12] Even though the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI) does not consider it unsafe to fire the commercial 308 Winchester rounds in weapons chambered for the military 7.62×51mm NATO round, there is significant discussion about compatible chambers and pressures between the two cartridges based on powder loads, chamber dimensions and wall thicknesses in the web area of the military compared to commercial cartridge cases.[13][14] As the chambers differ accordingly the head space gauges used for the two chamberings differ.[15]
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  145. never watched it for just that reason. After Saving Private Ryan, I realised that any nod to history would be replaced by gratuitous rubbish to please the pop corn munchers.
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  146. I love these quirky things - usually at the end when Ian tells us that it cost as much as an auto pistol that was smaller and carried twice the ammo, that's why they never took off.
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  147.  @Assdafflabaff  I'm not totally sure YouTube autodeletes them... much more likely they are deleted after complaints from real people. You do seem to have a perverse view of history indeed.
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  148.  @WarblesOnALot  never let a plane's real performance get in the way of box art fantasies!!
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  149. As will anyone who's fired one!
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  150.  @craigwelsh  Iain says Bradford instead of Bradfield a couple of times. This may explain it. I would suggest it is the Berkshire college as Wison Laidlaw suggests. There's nothing a quick Google turns up, so I'll leave it to the weapon's new owner to do the leg work
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  151. the best laugh I have had all week - may I say SMSL?
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  152.  @MystificationSwarp  one of the most forgotten facts on WWII was that my country (UK) went to war with Germany because it invaded Poland, but did nothing when the USSR did the same 13 days later- in fact did quite the opposite, right through to Yalta and beyond. As for 1920, and 1980... I think someone has already suggested that "became part of" would be more neutral, and a lot more tactful.
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  153. sergeantbigmac it's a story I'd suggest... the end of the Empire wasn't in sight in 1928, the Indian army and police had modern firearms in any case, and as it turned out, they were used more on each other during and after partition rather than against the British.
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  154.  @loquat4440  I could suggest that if you don't want to talk politics, then you are allowed not to talk politics. Those that wish to discuss politics should be able to do so; if their opinions are wrong, please correct them, or debate them. If their comments are of no interest, they will be ignored and passed over. I am sorry that wherever it is you live, your forums are subject to censorship and intense moderation unless posted in the correct area. My assumption is that you live in Russia if you are not allowed to freely discuss opinions?
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  155. I think I would have seen them at either Bawtry or Finningley, and yes in those days, you didn't need binoculars to the the planes, you needed ear plugs and to tie your hat on!
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  156. How many times a year? Month? mainly weekly to be honest, bless his cotton socks.
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  157. Go ahead, you scoundrel and cad, make one's day.
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  158. The baby was fostered by Corgi Models.
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  159. yes isn't it? Were there any other rimfires using dual or multiple pins?
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  160.  @eloiseharbeson2483  yes indeed; Drachinifel does it, so does the Chieftain, therefore I can cherry pick if I want to; it's a very helpful tool, and well worth the time the authors put into it
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  161. No, just misinformed and closed minded. This 'discussion' started as I really do believe Churchill would have happily tried to take on an assassin; trauko seems to disagree. The character asassination seems to have started from somewhere other than my thoughts, other than my comment that Churchill even as PM was no coward worried about his own skin. Despite Churchill's human flaws, his own writings do show a reasonable sense of self awareness about his own failings, and his honesty about depression should be there to be heard in our own century. Just because trauko has a drum to bang based on whatever information they might have been given, and what they choose to believe, doesn't make them sad, just someone to be talked with. Even if it is very hard talking to the deaf.
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  162. Great video; Churchill's rather famous quote emerged quite a time after the battle had been won, as he shone a kind light on himself after the battle had been won. But is possibly the most important campaign fought by the west in the period.
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  163. How very timely. Last week we were on our honeymoon, and in Pompey looking at the new Armada map display in the RN historic dockyards. Now I have three videos on this subject to enjoy.
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  164. I'm with you there. If George Cayley had access to a light and powerful internal combustion engine, or had used rocketry, maybe the Wright brothers would have stayed making bicycles. You are braver than I am though, I am not sure I'd be happy under water for so long! Enjoy your retirement.
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  165. I preferred you as Swordfish puller #3, but a lot of this is down to your artistic interpretation of roles. And your manly arms.
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  166. well said sir.
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  167. I think the OP's point still stands - Fairbairn is a Scottish name, and the language of Burns is a lot more than 'just a dialect'
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  168. Very well put; could I suggest that your weapon technology has to be capable of dealing with your enemy's logistical train and industrial infrastructure/economy?
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  169. A nice fun way of testing it - "sounds the same?" "yeah sounds the same!" Why not try a run over chronograph possibly, or borrow a decibel meter? That would satisfy my inner nerd1 Love the vids Ian, keep them coming :-)
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  170. They were chosen to land on D Day for very good reason - one of the best units available. As an Englishman, I will always thank those who defeated the Nazi menace, especially those who fought not as conscripts but as volunteers - which would have been the case with your Uncle Ernest. Hats off.
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  171. Yes, Prime Minister.
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  172. I could listen to you all day Drach - oh it looks like I will have to!
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  173.  @TomFynn  thank you from a UK Tom Lehrer fan!
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  174. As much as I really appreciate your insight and academic rigour, I also love your humour, especially with the sponsorship section of today's video. Very inventive, and sponsored timer bar is actually very useful if we want to skip the advert.
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  175. +sharkfinbite sounds dodgy to me - apart from calling a Tommy a GI - I started using the Rifle No. 4 at the age of 12 and 35 years later (and shot one 6 months ago) I have never heard of any such advice being given. What was actually said - I think - was load with 10, but when you're down to 5 rounds, use the 5 round stripper clip to recharge the mag, ie never empty the mag unless it's the mad minute time or the Germans are on top of you etc. NB yes moving to a 5 round internal mag in my opinion was a step down, as the reliable 10 round magazine gave the Lee-Enfield a small advantage for rapid firing over the 5 round competition. NB - the obsolescent .303 round continued happily until the mid 1950s! Happy shooting guys :-)
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  176. It's predecessor by the same author is a quality read - it is worth the price.
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  177.  @kleinjahr  and weirdly, in UK English the word is still - portage! Although we pronounce it like port (the wine) + age as in "what is your age?"
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  178.  @Ragefps  you are right. Heavy bombers did a lot of bombing in support of tactical objectives in Normandy I think
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  179. No, it was Alan Clark who attributed it to Ludendorff I think, but when later pressed as to the origin of the phrase, it is claimed he said he made it up. Apologies if I've not remembered totally correctly, but it's in Corrigan's "Mud, blood and poppycock' book.
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  180. Another very worthy comment - thank you
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  181. Well said. I'd also quibble very slightly with Ian's comment re the Lee-Enfield, writing it off, as this question isn't about just having a long service life. The Lee-Metford/Lee-Enfield family experienced an awful lot of updates, which is why Ian has done so many videos on them ;-)
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  182. Always a pleasure to watch and to listen (I make model aircraft so like something good to listen too when I build.) And I like the way you use IL2 to illustrate your videos... 30 years ago graphics of this quality would be very expensive.
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  183.  @marc0523  they are usually 'positive pressure' sytems where air is drawn in through a compressor/fan system and filtered, then injected into the crew compartment and allowed to exit through orifices naturally. As long as the pressure is high enough for long enough, opening the breech to insert a shell, or the very brief opening of the spent case hatch, should not really upset the system, as the filtered air should flow OUT and naughty contamination should not flow IN. This would also help with any fumes from fired weapons by using fresh filtered air to push stale or polluted air out. I think.
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  184. It shows him - and his black comrades - as being all the better for rising above the racism.
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  185. 1940 - "Not today short man with tache"
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  186. ​ @xanten69 excellent knowledge of French... Thank you for sharing!
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  187. Well so far, so good. Some of the more unusual decisions emanating from the early 30s are explained well here, and are not as silly as some choose to make them out to be. Great vid - will resume after walking the dogs on the beach. TTFN! Yup - great video, very informative indeed. Thank you gentlemen.
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  188.  @andrewpease3688  it might be a rumour; I'd observe that UK forces were issued the L1A1 known as the SLR, not the FAL. Yes there are a couple of ways to get an L1A1 to fire fully automatic and a matchstick was one of them, but none of the Falklands vets I have known ever mentioned it in this context.
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  189. I would have to agree with this, even if the cigar wasn't actually lit. His biggest issue was that he always wanted to be the brave frontline officer, and best ever general/admiral. His biggest asset was pulling the enemies of the Nazis together, no matter what the cost, and also knowing when he should bow to the experts. Not a perfect man by any means, but a brave and sincere one.
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  190.  @LucioFercho  so you start with a stereotype. Excellent. All politicians are liars. That must really shorten your sources of information about anything in the real world. List his lies with sources if you can be bothered, then tell us how misleading that lie was. I assume you have read his own books where he discusses his own failings.Or had someone to read it to you?
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  191.  @LucioFercho  proaganda?What's that? None of the units that intervened in Greece (and Yugoslavia) took part in Barbarossa? Some did. Some didn't, or some came in later than required as they were deployed to the south or rebuilding. The only use of German paratroops after Crete at operational level was in the Ardennes; I think that is a matter of history? For all I know you'll be typing in capital letters next and using multiple exclamation marks. I stand by my point. I think Churchill was the sort of man who would have happily gone to see his assassin off. A lot of poor things he was, but a coward was not one of them. But that's my opinion OMG LOL PMSL and extra exclamation marks where required to appease people who like things in black and white to make it easier for them.
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  192. Not much I can say that hasn't already appeared in the comments but will share on FB to try and get more interest in this horror story Ed.
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  193.  @johnmccallum8512  I read that flogging was abolished by act of Parliament in 1879; I believe that sodomy is now optional though 😉
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  194. I feel there might be a book in the making here?
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  195. My thoughts exactly... but before we laugh too much, Ed's note about the Gladiator is a good reminder that even in the early 30s, biplanes were almost the rule, and so it was in Germany, Italy and Japan. By 1936/37 - stressed skin monoplanes are in Squadron service. What a fast moving time for technology.
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  196. No need to thank me, I thank you. I am sitting drinking Scotch (with a wee bit of water) and very grateful for the most objective and fun and friendly and informative firearms channel on YT. BOTR, C&R, Cap'n'Ball are all up with you in my top 5, so on pay day I am off to your Weapons and War channel ; I did the trial, and it's great. No adverts no filler.
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  197. This might be a bit of a trope - I was told this over 20 years ago about French/English translation which turns this phrase into "blind lunatic". Also try working out what this was supposed to mean in English - "Donjon alembique!".
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  198. Ian, as much as I love all your gun videos, you have excelled and shown your inner 'GP all history is good' historian here too. Thanks for being fair to us Empire Colonial types too.
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  199. I recall it being released in the UK and watching it every week. My uncle who was ex Royal Navy watched it with us, and thought the poor lads must have been bonkers to volunteer for submarines - he was after all on aircraft carriers! I watch it now on DVD in German, the full theatrical release.
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  200.  @noahs-a2631  there's eleven of them now. Must be the de Lisle carbine owners club.
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  201.  @kleinerprinz99  not so much... but I am struggling to get the full sense of your first sentence.
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  202.  @victoroduarte  that made me laugh 😃
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  203. I like its looks! It was so cutting edge yet so 20s - evaporative cooling, stressed metal skin fuselage, potentially a great engine, yet open cockpit, fixed landing gear, and using Vickers MGs. As Forgotten Weapons would say, a bit of a cludge. I like the Bf 109 type rudder, and also when you shows pics of the Westland competitor, it was funny to see what looks like a Lysander with an inline engine: I guess some plane makers build the same plane more or less, until it finds a niche :-)
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  204. Interesting stuff Ed, thank you. If Iran did actually supply weapons to Putin, either covertly and get caught, or overtly, what might be the consequences? Would the US give Israel carte blanche to intervene? Worrying times, but personally glad to see more support for Ukraine from the USA.
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  205. what a smashing idea - he looks like a nice bloke too.
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  206.  @kemarisite  usually when there is a global war on and they would like protection from the enemy who keep wanting to sink them. We didn't seem to have an issue on our side of the pond.
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  207.  @ragnkja  great answer - add hops to ale and you get beer! Which is why Jason mentions ale, not beer, here. If you trust Wikipedia, hopped ale or beer only started appearing in the late mediaeval period, and took some time to grow in common useage in England. Hopping ale uses the antibacterial qualities in hops that makes it last longer, hence less frequent large scale brewing became practical. I think. Possibly.
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  208. Weird isn't it, periods of rapid development then eventually you get plateaus where planes seem to serve forever with occasional upgrades
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  209. well said sir! (or madam, etc)
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  210. I got it if no one else did. Regrades, Spine Millington. (Dec.)
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  211. How fascinating! Are the British better shots? Ah yes I see your edit, and your lack of medical knowledge is at the same level as your crime rate knowledge. Please see posts below re comparative murder rates crime rates and murder by firearms rates to educate yourself.
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  212. I was allowed to use on in a regimental museum in Sheffield when I was a lad; just feeling the weight of a service rifle, and using a steady hold was hard. Maybe there are better ways today to train without firing live rounds but for training those who have never held a rifle... A lovely bit of nostalgia for me Ian - thank you.
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  213. And what was your point? The Ross rifle was trialled by Ross with his own British unit in the in the Boer War - I am not sure why you think you should be seeing pictures of it in the hands of Canadians at this point, as by the time it was accepted for Canadian military service, the Boer War was over. The video's point is that if you do manage to reassemble the bolt incorrectly (which was made impossible by the rivet mentioned) then the bolt could hit you in the face, but tales of them flying loose etc ...... What isn't so mythical are the issues of jamming in action. As for the rest --- yes it proved totally unsuitable as a service rifle when used in trench warfare, was quite rightly replaced by the SMLE eventually when there were enough to be issued,  but the use of it by snipers  who would and could have time to give the weapon the TLC it needed are not myth, in the same way that the P14 was utilised. The SMLE lived on and rightly so as a good main battle rifle. Best forgotten - definitely not as there are still shooters out there who love their piece of Canadian history, and secondly, a good example of how sometimes cutting edge technology isn't always what a soldier needs.
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  214. Is your language like Finnish/Suomi? You are right to be proud of your nation. Keep being humble 🙂
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  215. Same for me too in the CCF except we never had any 9mm weaponry full stop. We did have one SF kit for the Bren though! I can tell you now WARPAC wargames for the invasion of the UK always steered away from grammar schools ;-)
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  216. They are still there and as enormous as ever! The whole coast is worth a visit to remember this vital battle. NB - using similar technology, there were also cast concrete barges made for inland British waterways, so as to not use up steel, and three are still to be found partially submerged next to the Manchester Ship Canal at 53.39110160483134, -2.4954362884492767 - a good vid from a local lad about them can be found here: https://youtu.be/ExKPh9mszFE
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  217. You're doing the commentary on the fly.... most amusing Ed! 🙂
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  218.  @ramonzzzz  very informative - thank you. I appreciate these raids may not be seen to have been typical, but chilling statistics none the less!
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  219. As soon as anyone says "this was of course due to socialism" you can, if you wish, disregard anything they say from then on as they might just have a political agenda, let alone debate whether the Labour government of that time could actually be called socialist, with a big S, or even a little one. . Let's just put it this way - how many capitalist/fascist/non-socialist countries made a success out of airships for intercontinental travel in the 20s and 30s. I will buy you a pint of beer for each one who did.
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  220. I love Dinger's stuff - the drawings/paintings in particular. I finished a biography of Frank Whittle "Jet Man" last month, it's a decent read if you wish to know more, albeit I think it's rather gentle on Whittle and his way of working. Just my opinion of course!
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  221. Excellent work Ed - there are a lot of unknowns and changing bits of information/disinformation to process when you do a survey like this! Wouldn't it be interesting to compare the monetary value of aid given in proportion to each nation's GDPs or 'normal' military budgeting, and see who really is going the extra mile to help a victim of aggression? Maybe don't attempt that until your migraine has worn off.....
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  222. Small fact correction if I may - radar cannot penetrate any solid body of water. The centimetric radar allows smaller objects such as conning towers, periscopes, and snorkels to be picked up. Basically radar cannot 'see' anything smaller than its own wavelength I think.
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  223. and as I read you comment I was drinking ...Calvados de Pays d'Auge. Salut ami, your great uncle lived in a beautiful land.
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  224. Two viewers were T-34 drivers.....
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  225. Seems ok but can you recommend a reliable armourer to make sure they all have the right sort of pistols? Is there a book on the subject you could recommend?
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  226. Brad, I thought the same when we visited last year.. so we are going again this year.
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  227. and if it's based on trench warfare practises, once set up and registered eg on a likely approach line or gap in the wire, could be then fired in the dark blind as such, and manually traversed to sweep the defined area?
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  228. yup I've just rewatched it to see what he had to say about the zeroing issues... nothing earth shaking or anything that stopped the No 5 being a useful weapon; I'll see if Bloke on the Range has any content on the same subject
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  229. Aha - I have a 45 min lunch break and here is a 37 min video. Lunch is cooked in 8 mins. Perfect!
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  230. I think Ian has outdone Charlie Bucket and got at least two Golden Tickets... or possibly more?
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  231.  @scooter2099  I know - I have seen how to do it too, but we were politely told that if this knowledge was put into action, we would be in big trouble. And they made me carry the LMG anyway so it was a moot point!
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  232.  @mikael7084  because some of us a) like the fact that there is content yet to come and b) if a 23 word comment is a blog to you, then good luck!
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  233. well said Tristan, I think this is one of the many reasons so many of us love Forgotten Weapons.
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  234. You said what I was thinking. Goodness knows what it would take to get Ian angry but I don't think I would like to see that happen. Off to Utreon now and yarbles to YT.
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  235. I can only say - or maybe admit - I now have five 1:72 models of the Folland Gnat on my mantelpiece with two more to follow, and Ed's Sabre Slayer video is my go to vid if anyone goes "Why?" (plus of course I am old enough to see the Red Arrows flying them.)
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  236.  E Van  he never said Ukraine would win, or that anyone would win. He said the war might be over. Thank you for excessive use of capitals and calling people 'dude' - it means I can be 100% sure of putting you on my block list.
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  237.  @startedtech oh goodness yes! We scanned some 35mm negatives and slides at home, I was very impressed.
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  238. I saw an Eyetie antitank gun in the War Museum in Malta that was sent over to bolster the defences during this time, as things were that bad, and believe there were a few dispatched; I'll try to dig out the specs but let's just say that a) the 2 Pdr was a better gun vs armour and b) against a KV-1 or KV-2 it would have been somewhat irrelevant in any case.
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  239. Looking at the wings, I might say German B-24 perhaps? Good video as always Ed.
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  240. Fabulous; the Sterling was the first and only SMG I have ever used. So nice to see it's stepsisters here. NB every time I see you Ian at the Royal Armouries in Leeds I feel the need to rush over and introduce you to Yorkshire bitter (beer). I then think that this was of course recorded months back and put the car keys down.
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  241.  @gunner678  the question is what else could have been done in the east, with a French ally that was keen not to have to go on the offensive. Indeed eastern Europe was carved up by wearers of jackboots - both German, and Soviet - and there was little the UK could do in 38, 39, or 45. Still a good question to ponder on though, and all these years later, we're still in the same quandary I guess. Reflects badly on us as a planet I suppose.
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  242. Lovely bit of history again! I was interested to see that the US started its own Legion too , as here in Britiain the British Legion did the same function, and was also was the bunch that made the poppy on Armistice Day a big thing plus - backed very much by Earl Haig - sought to make sure all ex service personnel could get a job, no matter if they were fully able or not. I also recall reading that in the 1920s that many relatives of those lost in the war would go to Flanders and France to see the cemetery where their loved one was laid to rest, or more sadly, the cenotpahs to those who could not be identified. Nice to see something positive Ian from such a horrid history - thank you as always.
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  243. I would like to ask the same question Iain!
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  244.  @richardvernon317  interesting information - I wish YTubers would try to stop passing this off as a world beater when it wasn't and probably could never have been without a massive cash injection that the country couldn't afford.
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  245.  @rtello45  to be fair, that's always been a good thing to do as good sims are often as good as the real thing :-)
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  246.  @mjxw  but GB did ally with the foremost European power in contradiction to your assertion, and were indeed the poor relation of the French when it came to the fighting.
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  247.  @kemarisite  that's a helpful explanation Frank - there may be someone out there who knows better than I - but the real lesson from 1917 was that convoys did work, and did work rewally well, hence they came in here pretty quickly in WWII, no ifs, no buts. King's refusal to accept that was the start of the problem; as I understand him, if he wanted black to be white, it would be so. A matter of authority in a nation at war seems unlikely. Thank you for your response - I am usually wrong, so appreciate hearing what you said.
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  248. When all we have is HMS Belfast, I hope the USA preserves this marvel of engineering
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  249. Good little story; both films about the assassination are worth a watch (Op Daybreak and Anthropoid). Also worth a read is Jeremy Paxman and Robert Harris' "A higher form of killing" which discusses chemcal and biological warfare. It suggests that the modified antitank grenade used may well have contained anthrax, and that Heydrich's symptoms matched typical anthrax poioning symptoms. All interesting stuff Mark - thank you for a great story.
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  250. ***** this happens to be totally true by the way guys!
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  251. +domnikoli Indeed for its time it was advanced, but 20 round mags, no barrel change facility, no pistol grip... perfect? Compare perhaps to the BREN or the MG34 with a 50 round drum and see what was being used 20 years later?
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  252. Whatever you think it was designed for, it was used as an LMG... so in its role obsolete. Poland made a much better job of trying to get the best out of it in the 1930s than the USA if you watch Ian's video on the Polish version of the BAR. As an autorifle... well Ian's fired it here and we can make of that what we will. Interestingly as full calibre autorifles were introduced in the 1950s (-ish) they were made to be fired from the shoulder, and Ian shows how hard this is with something that weighs nearly as much as a 'proper' LMG. Also interesting is how having developed rifles such as the M14 and FN FAL that could be fired as a normal automatic rifle, there was then a realisation that in full auto mode, they were almost uncontrollable so the trend then moved on again. The idea that if everyone had a BAR instead of a Garand... would it have made any difference? NB - TFB TV has a rather interesting view of the Thompson SMG as well in a comentary on overrated weapons. Spooky.
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  253. You go get your machine gun /assault rifle etc to 'defend' yourself and be democratically happy then but I'll bet my boots our murder rate is somewhat lower than yours.
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  254. Robert, an emergency surgeon will tell you that any wound's severity depends on its size location etc not just the mechanism that caused it. I have not stated that one type of wound is more dangerous than another, simply because of such variables.  My first point to Mr Obama is firstly that his allegation that there is more violent crime in Europe than (I am guessing) in the USA is poppycock. My second point is that for someone who claims to be a medical professional,  their knowledge is as questionable as their spelling and criminological research (eg a 'full body laceration' - a term I guess they invented...)
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  255. gump my 'expert book type knowledge' is that the Canadians were not permitted to manufacture the SMLE under license so had to look for a home grown alternative. The SMLE is much easier to look after - the bolt can be removed in one easy operation with no tools required - but I'd hesitate to call any rifle favoured by snipers for long range shooting 'junk' or suggest they should not be fired... An interesting video in many ways - my main interest was whether the bolt could be operated without moving he head out of the aim and it seems not. It also suggests that tales of bolts flying out of the action may be somewhat exaggerated.... Am I also right to think it's a 5 round magazine so any bonus in rate of fire is lost in any case, when compared to the SMLE which holds 10 and doesn't need you to break the sight picture when operating the bolt.
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  256. stormywindmill aye the gas regulator is adjusted with the tip of a round. Genius.
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  257. +NormanMatchem summed it up nicely - thank you for your knowledge
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  258. and the Peter Jackson reference too!
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  259. Nice to see what a nongunboi makes of all this excellent lunacy, and comes out understanding it! And yes - I have now seen the way I want to leave this planet too, exploded in a large green dinosaur.
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  260. Why does the engine look odd on this plane - looks like one of my first bodged Airfix kits - I assume it's mounted on the same axis as the standard Corsair engine but the cowl looks smaller or lower down, and just looks 'wrong'. Is it something to do with that hump between the engine cowling and the cockpit? Would love to know!
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  261. ​ @johnniewoodard648  and indeed your comment was about the horrors that men and women faced in the aftermath; not about how many were killed. Yes, what you wrote did make sense; we can see and respect great human achievement in the face of adversity, but doesn't it reflect badly on us as humans that this actually happened at all? That's why my heart dies when I visit war cemeteries, and observe Armstice Day here in the UK. Hats off to you, and thank you for your service.
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  262. The role of women in the war deserves more recognition - bravo Mark
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  263.  @johnmcmickle5685  wow, that's a great bit of knowledge, and no, I'd rather not be on one either!
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  264. me too Dave - I'm bracing myself to make a Manchester conversion from a Lanc in order to complete a 1:72 Bomber Command line up, but would love to make a Lincoln just to end the story
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  265. Quite right. Ignore the silly billy troll. As a very well educated older chap I still count myself enriched every time I come here. And yes, if we are English, we drink tea :-)
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  266. There was a similar kit for the UK L1A1 SLR too.
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  267. Bravo Ian! NB my Polish Resistance Fighter t-shirt just arrived in the UK today - happy Christmas to me :-) EDIT - in a moment of really wanting this project to come together I've tripled my original pledge. Hopefully - Belgium here we come!
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  268. I am wearing my battle studded thunder shorts while watching this.
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  269. Quite right. There are good reasons why this wasn't followed up in the Cold War era, and wasn't emulated in WWII by the Allies.
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  270. Ah - I mistakenly thought it was part of a T-34's gearshift assister.
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  271.  @dbmail545  nice explanation - thank you
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  272. Apart from unrealistic expectations from SONAR, that isn't really true. Many of the tactics of the Battle of the Atlantic were based on new technology, and the ones that weren't and had historic pedigree, such as convoying, were introduced very very quickly.
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  273. The best summing up of the turret fighter I have seen for a long time... nicely balanced.
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  274. The slow motion of the Beretta ejecting spent brass was poetic. Excellent shooting - both weapon and camera.
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  275. What bothers me is that here in the UK this story gets nowhere near the news, unlike the Jubilee, Boris Johnson's adventures, or footballers' wives stuff, so if you try talking to the average bod about it, you get blank looks, and that is a bad thing. I wouldn't know much if it wasn't for Ed to be honest.
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  276. Sounds like my ex wife.... she only owned one slave to be fair but that was me.
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  277. Well spotted! (Although the USSR would probably insist they were Soviet bombs and werry stronk!)
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  278.  @johnstirling6597  I am not sure if we know he was shot down, but it was indeed a P-38 he was flying on the flight he never returned from over Italy. I think wreckage has been found and identified as his plane - if I am wrong, my apologies. I would love Ed to make a Warby video - I think he deserves remembering - and maybe it would cover his last flight, and what we now know.
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  279. No volley sights? Rubbish gun....
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  280. I want one. For the missus. It might stop her dropping her bloody phone for a start.
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  281. Another great story of paper planes not working out quite so well in the real world!
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  282. Smashing video, and yes, I'd love an video just about the development of AI radar sets either just in WWII or even right up to the present day if that's within your capacity!
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  283. I am no way experienced enough to say I know better, but thought Ian's comment about sighting/instinctive shooting was not really such a big factor. Otherwise the OU shotgun's bottom barrel would be less than optimal. Thank you for your experienced thoughts sir.
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  284. Two Boer wars on record Ian, not several. And I always wonder why in just under 40 yrs since I first fired a Rifle No4, never heard them called smellies in the UK only ever heard it on the www from non UK sources. Ess emm ell ees is fine for me :-)
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  285. It's a really complex subject - Greg's Airplanes does the most in-depth look at it that I have seen. Liquid cooled inlines need to have coolant radiators and oil coolers which cause drag etc, and usually are heavier units. The other issue - if you look at how far in front of the wing the Merlins extend in Ed's video - is a change to the centre of gravity too; the Merlin powered Wellington had to have some work done to deal with the change of CoG, and looking at the Beau, I bet it really buggered the balance up!
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  286. it's fugly isn't it?
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  287. Based on this - I will now be a C&Rsenal subscriber. Well done gents - the goal is better knowledge for us all. A total win. :-)
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  288.  @AutismIsUnstoppable  advertise for new pilots on War Thunder - they are all trained aces ;-)
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  289. It'll be guinea pigs next, or Ed in a tight t-shirt firing a gun for us
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  290. Lovely video. When counting your hits Ian, just remember all those bits of research about how many bullets it took for each kill in various wars. As has been said already, many of those near misses would have me eating dirt, filling my pants, and generally keeping my head down. Brill video, thank you.
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  291. Yes please.
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  292. and altitude sickness ;-)
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  293. I think Ian has been somewhat circumspect with his language on this one - e.g. when the Germans 'took over' Czechoslovakia. I'm here for his knowledge of firearms though, not to debate his choice of pharses with you good people. 🙂
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  294. Hi and welcome to Forgotten Ammunition. Yes I am aroused already.
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  295.  @mek1429  Thunderbolt and Lightning - very very frightening!
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  296.  Alexander  erm yes we can... check your sources please.
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  297. I never thought there was a US/GB dichotomy on such an everyday word. It seems to be used here in proper context - no one knows if a Merlin equipped plane would have been a good step forward as it never flew, so it is a point yet to be decided. As Ed is English, seems to work for him, and for me too.
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  298.  @trolleriffic  very well written; this was a very complex problem. Reducing the argument to typical British stupidity, or typical Labour government, or a US conspiracy really does miss a lot of the real issues with the aircraft. I'd go as far as saying the subtitle of this video and its general submission that this bomber was perfect is misleading - like many prototypes, there were gaps between what it should be able to do on paper, and what the engineers of the time could actually get it to do without an endless supply of money. It's also worth mentioning that Polaris was being developed at the same time.
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  299. Cookies? Biscuits!! Remember that PIRA were the people who managed to land home made mortar bombs in the garden of 10 Downing Street too... some smart cookies at work there ;-)
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  300. I loved it too!
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  301. 1:15 a plane called D-AISY. Aw I want one like that too Ed.
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  302. I would like that too, mainly the Sexton as it's on the same chassis as the M7 I think?
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  303. Not totally news to someone who studied this when the Longest Day was the D Day film to watch, and we still read books. However, good to see that contingency operations get a mention, they could have made the difference between success and failure if those 155cm batteries had started to do damage to the invasion vessels. Thank you for popularising history in a professional, interesting and factual way. But Dr Felton you hit the nail on the head - the majority will now remember only Omaha beach and for one main reason, a rather successful film "based on a true story". Thank goodness Churchill and the CoS prevailed and OVERLORD happened in 1944 not 1943, and was five Divsions wide not three as the USA thought would work.
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  304. it's an interesting point - if Russia had shot it down by missile, gunnery or other means, they have still attacked an aircraft of a country they are not at war with in international airspace. I wonder why they did it this way, and not another?
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  305. If I sidestep your view of how the Commonwealth worked, some of this has roots in the debates in the very early 30s about the response in the UK to the threat of strategic bombing - the "Bomber will always get through" debate, to use Baldwin's well known phrase. Essentially, it was realised that another conflict was likely, that air power could possibly be a war winner or war loser, and that the RAF would play a significant role. The Baldwin approach was that the best response or deterrent to enemy use of strategic bombing, was to bomb them heavier and harder than they bombed us, and I think Churchill espoused this view as well. It may be fair to say that the roots of this bomber force were laid down in requirements made well before Munich, and so the UK entered the war with a fully drawn up heavy bomber development programme. Other counsels looked at the value of an integrated air defence system and a good fighter force; the story of the balance between fighter power and bomber power in the mid to late 30s in the RAF is an interesting story. Although the fighters and the Dowding system did get enough funding, and we chose not to totally rely on a bomber deterrent, the wheels were set in motion, hence our possibly unusually large heavy bomber fleets. A good example would be in Rex's Hangar's recent video on the Whitley. It would also be fair to say that after the Battle of France, Churchill saw heavy bombers as the only real way of striking at Germany itself, so the heavy bomber got shoved back into the spotlight. Whether it worked or not - that's another matter completely.
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  306. Nothing wrong with the sound Drach, you're always audible and comprehensible. The Devil's Chariots by John Glanfield is a good read for anyone who wants a more detailed look at the evolution of the tank in British/Empire service in the Great War
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  307. ... with someone's greenhouse and Pinocchio.
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  308. and they should really have been in this video as at about 100 men they might almost have come first
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  309. There's a lot about the first plane that shouts Hawker and Hurricane at me. And yes - you are up there with Drach and Ian McCollum!
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  310.  @reaperking2121  enjoy being a child of many languages!
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  311. I think it's a Malta specific camo - we saw lots of it in the museums there on helmets, Bofors guns etc
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  312.  @turbogerbil2935  thank you for clarifying
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  313.  @mjxw  well written, and thank you for taking that time. No I wan't point scoring, and I do disagree with you, even with points you have just made - but vive la difference!
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  314. Actually no just from Rutland, home of Rutland Weekend Television, and the famous band the Rutles. That is actually true, look it up.
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  315. @ actually I didn't, you got me fair and square there mate!
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  316.  @dominicrichardson5546  (and Motoben) - you can have all the fun of the fair with air weapons, and pistols make great garage guns. Ive shot the target style, and also the Umarex 8 shot types...I think there are clubs that run practical air pistol comps if you want to go tacticool and do as Ian does.. just more cheaply and more quietly!
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  317. I saw it/her last year - if you Google for it you will get the intersting history of the plane too...
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  318.  @michaelmoorrees3585  thank you so much - please forgive my ignorance!
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  319. The fore-aft tilt on the magazine - is this to do with presenting the round from the magazine at an ideal angle for the feed cycle? A bit like the STEN where this was an 8 degree angle, but this was implemented by the angle of the magazine feed lips.
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  320.  @flynlion-p9i  indeed - I know Ian said it's x3, but I am wondering what the field of view will be; early sniper scopes were very narrow field of view. I am also not clear so far as to whether the iron sights were replaced or not, as I am alos puzzling over why the scope is offset to the left... I'll type that all out in my own response!
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  321. Quite so - they used the new SABS bombsight which had to be calibrated to the Tallboy's trajectory, and the mission wasn't to unload on an area but to aim for a pinpoint target, so a small change of doctrine as well as a change in technology.
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  322. pancholom But I'd not like to call the infantry man unqualified --- Empire troops were very well trained in the use and care of their own weapons. Ok - misassembly when tired or stressed can happen, but having started to read up on this in response to another thread, the actual cases of injury caused by a bolt seem to be rare and of minor significance. The basic point of the video is that if the rifle is assembled correctly then you have nothing to fear, and that as soon as there were cases of the reversed carrier, a modification was ordered to prevent it.
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  323. +Vince L it's worth watching Ian's BAR video where he shoots the WWII version; as a man who knows his guns from shooting them, his conclusions are worth listening to. I've used BRENs in both .303 and 7.62 NATO, and it stayed in service because it did so well. The BAR was intended as an automatic rifle and for its time was good, but heavy. Its adaptation into a light machine gun had the limitations you describe, and I'd say it falls between two stools, designed as one thing, used as another. It was outclassed by the time 1939 arrived.
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  324. Thanks Jake - I'll see if I can get that title as an e-book. I'd recommend Gary Sheffield's biography of Haig; it does a lot to put several myths to bed. Interestingly you both misquote Haig, and the actual correct quote is invariably given out of context to further the ends of making Haig seem a dinosaur.  http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/30/horse-in-war/ The fun of history from the sources - it's always good to check the original sources as anyone with an agenda can write a book nowadays.
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  325. Well let's not stray off topic - I think we can agree that this is about guns and also an interesting discussion about not relying on poorly informed and poorly researched "sources".
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  326. Intentional homicide in western Europe is about a quarter of that in the USA. And you claim to be a medical professional? I wouldn't like you treating myself then as gunshots, especially high velocity or high energy ones are very complex compared to blade penetrations.  I'll leave it there.
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  327. I know - this was simply about gun control in the UK and western Europe having a significant and notable affect on public safety. Then we have people saying that we're all killing each other with knives and clubs instead, and cuts are more dangerous than firearms injuries. Good old www - lets you pretend to be anyone you want to be!
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  328. Used by the machine gun detachment of the 3rd Seaforth Highlanders, Ross' own unit, in the Boer War. Read "the Ross Rifle Story". I think when we get to the point of seeing you copy and paste your view a few times  then we know what your next response will be if we carry on trying to talk with you.  If you wish to believe Canadians were sold short by naughty British imperialists - carry on!
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  329. gump and your reference is.... missing, but at least you're pretty clear about your anti British bias now. Junk then, junk now, and you're best forgotten.
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  330. I wonder if Cap and Ball has watched this hunt with such a primitive firearm? Kidding apart, I do believe every meat eater should either do this or go veggie ;-)
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  331.  @SpiderGeometry  I am sure you can as well if you know the right people, safe with a rifle, and so on. Plus you can do courses with the British Deer Society, which I think covers all of the UK... yes you have to pay but... well that's down to what you value in your life.
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  332.  @krashd  yes, whatt a ttwatt.
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  333.  @TSZatoichi  yes indeed - I have enjoyed both the book and the TV version
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  334. Bloody hell I remember when Steve Hislop managed the first 120 mph lap in the early 90s... things are indeed moving on fast!
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  335. Indeed. Invasion of a neutral country brought Great Britian into war in 1914 and 1939; but when the invader is your friend or your potential ally, or indeed your own country, then no offence. It's mot been secret for a long time now that the USA was on a war footing in the Atlantic long before war was declared. Good video - just sad that the vast majority do not realise what actually happened.
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  336. A good point, but consider the cost and scarcity of telecopic sights at this time in history, plus I don't think anyone expected the trench warfare where modern sniping has its roots. By the end of the Great War, I would suggest Empire troops were possibly leaders in the field, but I am usually wrong :-)
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  337. I will easily recognise your cameraman by the ejected brass in his forehead ;-)
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  338. Ooooh - oh not on display. I'll see if I can catch Jonathan and bribe him to let me see it.
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  339. 0:27 and that is not a .303 round. A shame this has to only be about Spitfires, when both the Gladiator and the Hurricane took the .303 Browning into the air first, and the Hurricane was right up there with initial experimental cannon fits; they had the same issues as the Spitfire fits, strangely enough. Otherwise - a great collaboration, and the later wing types on the Spitfire are a really good story of how to get the best balance. Controversial? Not really, just an arguing point for the armchair warriors out there!
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  340. Best laugh of the day was when you called it a simulator:-)
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  341. This where I think combat flight sims should look next - 1920s and 1930s just to see planes like this in the air. And I must get to Dayton one day when I tour the USA!
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  342. Great video - looking forward to the next one.
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  343. One used to turn up at the Whitley Bay show every year and do low passes - mind buggeringly loud, but most awesome to witness!
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  344.  @uglyduckling81  a good point... the film did change quite a few of the facts to make a good story. The executions in real life were done in penny packets wherever the escapees had been recaptured and locked up. As far as I know, most run of the mill escapees during the war were returned to their camps for another bash, some repeat escapers were shifted to Colditz, but were not generally dealt with by the Gestapo as they were prisoners of the Luftwaffe.
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  345. Ah over an hour of bliss.... relax, sit back and absorb :-) So... I am not enough of a navalist to quibble with any of this, but being long in the tooth with wargames rules, it is so very hard to make an objective evaluation of nearly most anything to do with weapons of war, so bloody well done for trying to walk that tightrope. My only thought - and I think I mentioned this in your AAA piece too - is that weapons should be evaluated as a weapons system, not just tube by tube. Yes I know that introduces even more data into the mix.... no I'm not going to try it myself.
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  346. @mdscott6 I think that's a very good point you make, these were built in small numbers and saw no large combat testing to see if they really were as good as hyped. And as others have said, any plane appearing at the end of a long war is almost inevitably going to be more advanced than something one two or three years older. It's great to see this plane in Flying Circus IL2 but.... along with the DVIII it was as rare as rocking horse poo, and seems to have been inserted to give the Luftstreitaboos a boost!
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  347. yup spot on; additionally there is the 'spherical bastard' a phraise coined by physicist Fritz Zwicki. No matter which way you look at it from, it's still a perfect bastard.
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  348. Excuse my ignorance if this is the bleeding obvious or has been answered many times over. Shaped charge shells and HESH type shells in big gun capital ship warfare. Were they too late in the day to be thought worthy of use, not deemed as effective as the well established types of shells seen here and not looked at - or is there a story waiting to be told?
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  349.  @overboss9599  whilst stroking your cat in a most disturbing way.
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  350. You said 'we'.
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  351.  @Tunkkis  well remembered sir!
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  352. I do believe that the RAF is quite happy to recruit female pilots as they are better at the multitasking required. And please don't stereotype feminists too much - it allows them to stereotype us hairy macho battle winning men. Off to do the laundry and wash up dear! xxx
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  353.  @notthedroidsyourelookingfo4026  well explained, you said it far better than I did.
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  354.  @ajaxribaldo  bless the nerdology! And AFAIK, none of the post war upfettlements went back to the drum sight, so (if Ian agrees) it's pretty likely that drum sighted BRENs will be the first generation of the thing?
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  355. A very praiseworthy video!
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  356. 00:25 nice shot of an Avro Manchester, which was developed into the four engined Lancaster... but definitely not used on Op. CHASTISE on the dams raid. Sorry. It's good to see the Korean war get covered . However all I can hear in my head is Barnes-Wallace and Gibson tut tutting.
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  357. Give yourself a pat on the back Ed, you walked this tightrope very well. I wasn't initially in favour of the PM's increase in defence spending, but after a few days of reflection since Zelensky returned from Washington, I can start to see why this might be a necessary evil. My hope is that all countries in Europe contribute as equally as they can in terms of % GDP. Terrible times really ; I know we enjoy our history videos with you, but when you're living in 'interesting times' that one day will become history. I hope it has a happy ending. (No, not that sort of happy ending!) Nice one Ed!
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  358. Quite right - history was full of wonder weapons that never quite worked and still is. Meanwhile in 1812, the limits and expenses of factory manufacturing set the bar at muzzle loaders, let alone the limits of drilling and training soldiers who had very limited experience of machines. Even the muzzle loading rifle was used in small numbers because of these reasons
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  359. Yes I just spotted that straight away; I think it's a 30-06 rather than a 7.92 x 57
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  360. Hello from England. We were in Everglades City two weeks ago, stayed for a week near the Captain's Table, and watched this video while we were there. There's nothing fake about this, this is what the folk down there are like. We'd watched the sun set from the jetty at Smallwood just the night before, and it's a beautiful area. So very very quiet! Fascinating to see these guys walk where we had walked. We came in with open minds, and we loved it. This will be a video we will watch a lot when we try to recapture our holiday moments. Thank you Peter, and thank you Harrison.
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  361. mrjockt - lies, we don't even get proper snow, we just get sleet and pretend. That day two years ago was in June as I recall.
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  362. indeed - see what images, symbols and names will get you banned from Facebook or any MMO, but then use a hammer and sickle, call your clan =NKVD_killas=, but you should be ok.... I can't even post my plastic models of German planes with swastikas on FB forums but Stalin and Mao's red stars seem totally acceptable. Down with this sort of thing!
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  363. Interesting they used N for NATO when in French it's OTAN
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  364. Funny - maybe even true - but in northern England we say it "garridge" with the stress on the first syllable, and that will probably be true for Small Heath too, but the people that paid for it say "gararge" with the stress on the second syllable just as it would be in French. (See also grass vs grarse, ass vs arse and so on....)
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  365. Ah the joys of German pronunciation! And his next fighter was a dinga it seems ;-)
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  366. Odd factoid. In 1981 I was in France, and was given in my change a one Franc coin dated 1943. It was aluminium. I've still got it now.
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  367.  @azura2790  I'm sorry I can't agree with that completely, but it's a good debating point - thank you :-)
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  368.  @LucioFercho  read the rest of the books then, not just bits. A lot of historians still blame Mussolini's adventures to Greece and Hitler's diversion of war aims as a factor for the overall failure of German war aims. You can pick any Google hit you want, but I asked for proof of lies, not differences of opinion. I still think the man would have faced an assassin down with his own side arm, but that's just an opinion. Oh sorry, this is 2021 - erm PMSL ROFL!!;;!!!
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  369. Possibly more of a "Fat Girl Guide" rifle? I have heard there is a bipod currently being built at Cammell and Laird.
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  370. What a lovely bit of iron, and beautifully presented too Ian. So what is in my mind is why the Mauser and not this? The disassembly and operation look squaddy proof. All it needs is a ten round mag and it might almost be as good as an SMLE, and I'd bet a 10 round mag in that calibre would barely upset the balance of the rilfe, and would win in terms of shooting comfort?
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  371. Very true - Ive also spent ten seconds trying to wipe your avatar off my screen with a tissue as I thought it was an eye lash....
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  372. Thank you for approaching an emotive subject in a factual way. Could I guess you will be doing a similar episode on the liberation of Bergen-Belsen? I hope so.
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  373. David Stirling approves. How many miles deep in Thailand were these bases - it's a hell of an approach march I would guess?
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  374. Indeed - the facts are important, but they are only a skeleton for further analysis, and I quite agree with you even as a Brit. I did do a degree that was partially history, but it was so much more interesting as it was about analysis, whether a truth could be established or overturned, whether sources were reliable and so on.I've seen how the current generation get taught now in the UK - it is so much better, being about themes and topics.
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  375. Spot on; also I note your comment about NATO planning to use autobahnen as airstrips... I believe that during WWII, the Germans had actually already done this.
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  376. Very nice video, watched it on WaW. One downside is no comments/discussion so a question; the internals: are they from something like a Ruger .22 tweaked a bit, totally original, or is it hard to tell?
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  377. I am immortal. So far....
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  378. Thanks Ed - Dinger's webpages look great, and his page on the Whirlwind was fab. As someone else has said, I wonder what Greg's Airplanes would make of this.... (probably an excellent 45 minute video with lots of NACA references and at least three graphs!)
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  379. Lovely video - thank you - even the physics is broken down into bite size chunks my cat can understand. Purrfect.
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  380.  @stephenbarker5162 , it's not probably, it's a fact. The UK changes came about after 2007 when a pair of arms dealers were busted for converting possibly over 3,000 deactivated firearms back into viable weapons, and funnily enough, they weren't sold on to FAC owners but to criminals who I presume were not into punching holes in paper targets or collecting rare and historical weapons. Link to news report here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/09/ukcrime.ukguns
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  381. Well up to your usual standard. Interested to see that the reference to a God was such a late addition, and the conflation of atheism with communism.
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  382. Thank you Ian; we have just completed a small one week tour of many RAF stations/museums and possibly have seen more RAF Brownings this week than I have ever seen - wing guns, turret guns and pintle guns. Very good timing to watch this tonight - thank you Colt and J.M.Browning, and thank you Ian. PS - I wonder if this WWII video is interesting to any of you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NScptsa5zJA&t=2s&ab_channel=JoluqaMalta
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  383.  @MilitaryAviationHistory  thank you; I would think most of your subscribers are here because of your content which is always excellent.
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  384. Possibly explain that gun synchronisation and gun interruption are two separate methods of firing through a spinning propeller? (Or the helix - I like this term!) But thank you for a great video
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  385. Another very intelligent and well presented analysis; I appreciate that this is about the USAAF, and the day light raids. If we consider that the air war was on at night as well, I think that this analysis would benefit from examining who did the damage to RAF night raids, and the results combined to give an overall picture. After all you did start by asking who downed more Allied bomber planes, not USAAF ones....
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  386. Pardon?
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  387. I have always thought if you want to neg rep anything you should have to post why in more than 25 letters. I think that might stop such bollox.
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  388. I was about to say the same thing... but also now thank you to the experts who have provided the model details. Cheers!
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  389. and save for the fuel to run it ;-)
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  390.  @monyclair5357  that I think is where the saying comes from, and you beat me to it Steve Clarke to translate it!
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  391.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  thanks Ed... Not much you can do about it really. Hands up anyone who likes the YT algorithms?
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  392.  @iatsd  the drop bag is the sort of genius I like... totally bloody obvious when you think about it, very low tech, and made from stout canvas like most Land Girls' knickers were! NB - great link, not seen that website before.
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  393. Thank you Ed and Prof. Searle for a deeper insight than the TV and radio news gives me. I hope for the best possible outcome for everyone.
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  394.  @2157AF  I was wondering if Iain would tell us the weight... thank you for the data
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  395.  @helbent4  a fair point.... I wonder how it will do at auction.
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  396. Excellent - I realised I never knew anything about this plane, I didn't even know it existed. Shame on me! NB - I think I am right on this, another reason that the superprop bombers were discontinued so quickly was due to a wee plane called the Canberra making its way off the drawing boards at the war's end, and jets were seen as the future? What a shame the surviving planes were scrapped too :-(
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  397. yes, I hate it when I hear that word scrapyard
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  398. Very good; the revisionist historians are well worth a read, and they do a lot to address perceptions that were shaped the post war writings of Churchill, Lloyd George, and Liddell Hart. You may not end up agreeing with them, but they go a long way to asking us if our commonly held beliefs are based on facts or not.
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  399.  dimapez  at least they bought some of our British airplanes until things got 'complicated'; I am glad the UK never had to fight the Finns!
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  400.  @kalui96  I think that is a fair point.
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  401. it was indeed; a single seater intended as a fighter rather than bomber, it was also unusual in that the port engine rotated in the opposite direction to the starboard engine in order to try and reduce torque effects.
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  402. Nice video but... even a look at Brian Dunning's Skeptoid episode on the subject, let alone 5 minutes reading anything by Dennis M Spragg, would safely put the south jettison zone story, and the fisherman's alleged find of a Norseman, out of serious consideration. But - always good to keep history alive, and under scrutiny.
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  403. Dear Mr. Erixon; one good comment like yours makes all the faults of the internet go away, and restores my faith in the human race. Thank you.
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  404.  @rmdoyen1  unless you could get her to plane! ;-)
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  405. Thumbs up given, spade of salt taken. See you next time!
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  406. I am very sure I have actually seen this at a reenactment, plus the pricking of the vent also served to see if there was a charge in the breech
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  407.  @BleedingUranium  I agree - but having handled a .303 and a 7.62 version, the bits that matter still impress me in my memory with their weird magic of looking beautiful, sliding in mysterious but meaningful ways, the different colours of their metals.... the best bipod I have ever used, and the lovely way they go pop pop pop and send the bullets where I wished them to go. I am very biased, but they are works of art in my British eyes. And no, I really couldn't get as turned on by a STEN.
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  408. Completely agree - the same with his back up gun choices.... it's not just about winning but having fun too!!
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  409. excellently funny"
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  410.  @lloyd28khz43  FDR could also be seen as very naieve (sp?) in his dealings with Stalin... it wound Churchill up no end as he was much more aware of the sinister side of the Bolshevik beast. But as is discussed here - how could it have been different, without a continutation of the warfare that the Commonwealth couldn't afford, and the USA wouldn't sanction in their shortsightedness?
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  411. Enjoyed this on HoWaW! So Ian you mentioned the three gun challenge; with your love for turning up at shooting matches with interesting weaponry, what would you use as your shotgun just to be different? I'd love to see you with a traditional side by side myself, in shooting tweeds. And fully loaded tactical hip flask of course.
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  412. Tiger II as per a comment I made a few mins ago sir.
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  413. no crew accounts seem to survive... well would you own up to it? Great vid - love this approach to the dustier corners of history.
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  414. Subscribed chaps - if you weren't 6 hours drive away I'd sign up as an unpaid volunteer. Love what you do!
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  415. Pretty typical of the behaviour of our ex-allies the USSR in those darker days; even when we were trying to fight Hitler together they were problematic.
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  416. It reminds me of watching TV out in the sticks in the mid 70s!
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  417. Yes a comparative study would be nice - I can only reflect what I have read, that their sighting reports accuracy for the U Boots to head for, was truly uninspiring.
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  418.  @peterthomson4632  quite so, and you can then add other aspects of post Bismarkian Germany, with the Kaiser sticking his oar in, looking for his 'place in the sun', and generally chesting up to France, Russia, and the UK. A rotter.
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  419. I'd buy that for a dollar!
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  420.  @ginacalabrese3869  I believe it's older than that, from the Latin of the Roman empire; we still use dextrous, from 'dexter' right handed to indicate good hand eye coordination etc. I prefer the term 'cack-handed' - it leaves little to the imagination ;-)
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  421. Lovely video - a nice piece of history. Off to read Jonathan's take on it, thank you for providing a link Ian. NB - a worthy precursor to the Stupidly Long Rifle L1A1!
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  422. Good speech! You're only an alcoholic if you lie about your drinking.
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  423. I love these little videos - the history as as interesting as the ships.
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  424.  @matiasvarpanen9203  it was made from barley malt most of the time as it's a clever way of getting sugars out of the grain. However the product might not look like modern clear ale/beer; the Anglo-Saxons sometimes called ale "liquid bread", so there might be a degree of cloudiness in it.
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  425. One of your best Ed; well done on the 50k barrier, it speaks volumes about you and your channel. I'll bet you a bottle of Scotch* this plane appears in Warthunder or WoW in the next 18 months as another 'blueprint' design with amazing superpowers! *single malt if you win the bet, LIDL's blended if you lose ;-)
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  426. Thank you for keep this evidence based and a skeptical enquiry into the facts of his death. I do wonder about his reputation - was he as good as has been made out or indeed, as bad has has been made out? Anyway you're keeping the tin foil wearing hat brigade busy this evening!
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  427. "Mainly trades missions with the United States"- thank you USA for lending your fire hose to the German Empire.
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  428. A very good point and well made.
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  429.  @pickeljarsforhillary102  Let me know when you find a dictionary. Mwah xx
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  430. Another winner! And great comments from the community too - very educational, I learnt a lot. I will try one of these in 1:72 to fit in my Bomber Command project as and when I can get the conversion parts!
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  431. +Philip Kerry yup I loved mine - could hit Figure 11s 90% of the time at 600m at Leyburn once I'd worked out the wind.
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  432. Daniel Olbris Pardon?
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  433. Same for me IRL. Not the same as a Bisley sling for sure but for field shooting, the 'hasty' sling is usually enough if there wasn't a rest for my rifle, and I do/did use it most times. But still good how a simple idea can try to make shooting easier. I like!
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  434. +Landon Truman as a Brit.... I still think it's a good saying. Some historians refer to the world wars as the European civil war. It's worth thinking about even if you don't ultimately agree. Peace all xx
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  435. Now I do disagree with that - and I can say that as I live here :-)
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  436. Jake - if you can reference it that would be great because where you read it and who wrote what you read do make a big difference; eg the old worry of fact vs opinion - I do like to know where these things come from. It's not as if you're against Pershing as I thought you wouldn't be, but in the UK there is a lot of bad history about generals such as Haig, where poor history is quoted as fact, so I am a bit picky about accepting wikihistory if that makes sense? I can only compare to the article on the Owen gun from this site which is good - then look at the comments on it which would suggest Owen had a fully functional SMG ready in 1939 and the 'stupid' government made his life hell. The truth is very different. So - no offence to yourself, I just like to know where these things come from.
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  437. I wondered too if it was accident or chance. But I like the 7's veneer explanation best iatsd! Thanks for the info all of you. NB - Bakelite does not have an R in it ;-)
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  438. Stick to singing Johnny, you make a poor criminologist.....
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  439. +Richard Maunder Handguns are banned in all of the UK*; a few are owned on a Section 5 ticket for very specific purposes, and this is nationwide, not on a regional basis. So could you share the source of your information - or I will be tempted to think you are making things up. I am ready for your pithy response and looking forward to seeing you spell some four letter words correctly. *Edit - I neglected to say Northern Ireland has its own system.
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  440. Watch the full version if you can guys! But despite some webbing and hats, does anyone else wonder what 2 members of of ZZTop are doing in this video? Only joking Ian - this channel is the best I have found on YouTube, and it's a mine of useful information and is very addicitve NB - well done for all your left handed shooting!!! EDIT - and in a shoot off, to win vs a right handed shooter is even better, but surely not a fair test of the weapons? NB I think it's fair to say that by 1917/1918 British Empire troops had evolved their own combined arms infantry assault teams by 1917 and were as cutting edge as the German approaches used in spring 1918. Sturmtruppen were not unique to Germany. Gary Sheffield or Gordon Corrigan are the best revisionist authors if you wish to read further. Peace to all.
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  441. +Laurent Belkacem Yes I completely agree, it's a Model Ten, but it's written Model X for reasons Ian did explain. Use of Roman numerals is common in other European countries. As others have said we do't talk about the German Panzer eye vee tank but the Panzer four etc. Indeed we also refer to World War Two but not World War Eleven, and Henry the Eighth not Henry the vee eye eye eye. NB I believe there was a RAAF Sptifire also modified to carry beer, the Spitfire Mk XXXX
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  442. Indeed - memories can be tricky but on the other hand the British can not make War without Tea so even greasy powder flavoured Tea is still Tea. I'll buy one of these next pay day and see what we get!
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  443. Or like leaflets dropped by the RAF in 1939/40 used for something a little more basic.
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  444. Adding to the general consensus here, to win the battle Germany would have had to have damaged the British fleets to the point where the blockade of Germany could not be enforced. The German fleet ran for home, the RN remained in command of the battlefield. Your presenter could have explained how Germany's fleet had prepared to fight the RN in a close blockade, not a distant blockade, hence their attempts to coax the RN out to fight. Your presenter could also have considered that Germany chose to start this arms race.
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  445.  @mattbowden4996  me too - your last sentence there sums it all up nicely!
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  446. If the camera mike is set to autolevel instead of a set manual level Id be surprised if we could tell any difference - if there was one?
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  447. Likewise - came here to post what you just posted! Snake!!! Snaaaake!!!
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  448. I'd suggest the people who wrote the script for the video read Clay Blair's two books on this subject. His detailed research makes interesting reading, and doesn't always support certain common assumptions.
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  449. Quite easy - in the UK - as long as your driving license has Category H on it for driving tracked vehicles, and you can find someone to insure you. There's a collector/restorer 250 metres from where I live, and saw him take an M47 down to the petrol station to gas it up!! Here's a nice little guide: https://www.intotheblue.co.uk/blog/2015/04/17/the-essential-guide-to-where-to-drive-a-tank-and-who-can-drive-one/
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  450. So, it seems that the current owners had enough money from the crowdfunder to buy the plane, and to dismantle it for movement to another site, but not enough to reassemble it. (Source: various similar news reports from April 2022 found on Google). I cannot find any active fundraisers or campaigns to bridge that financial gap - does anyone know any more, as it seems almost criminal to let this old girl be recycled into pots and pans.
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  451.  @Ni999  great answer - so that's why it appears not to match the fuselage like the normal Corsairs. Four rows of seven - what a monster!
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  452.  @allangibson2408  you're right on the money here old boy, even if technically it only entered squadron service in Jan 1951 (what sort of a pillock argues the toss over a month!) You could even argue it was a 40's plane, and was only done away with when there were suitable replacements in its role, see also , Shackleton, Vulcan, B-52, F-4, Buccaneer and so on, where with avionics and weaponry updates they could still fit their design role nicely, or take on new roles like laser designation in Gulf War II etc. I think it might be truer to say that the cutting edge tech in each decade raced away from the last, but some good solid designs trundled along just nicely thank you :-)
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  453. according to the NRA article they improvised a moderator and used blankets and mattresses to stifle the sound as much as they could... have a read, you'll like it
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  454.  @unknownmenace1957  116 years? And then some.... from1066 to 1815 approximately, and it's English spelling, not everyone in Britain speaks English (thank goodness!)
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  455. I'm glad this had a happy ending. No, not that sort, the nice jolly sort.
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  456. Oh and bloody hell - Liquid Poly - that dates you! I've just got to the end of the vid and to be honest I'd love to see more of this, the other side of Drach, as I guess in some way we all feel like we know you a little through the history vids, it's a bit like when Ian from Forgotten Weapons sits down with a large scotch in his smoking jacket and just has a natter to camera about stuff - less intense, more fun, and so cosy. Thanks!
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  457. David, what you write about averaging out any minor errors in the flight of a projectile is correct and very well explained - it's the same with diabolo air weapon pellets being fired from a rifled barrel. However I am sure I read in Flowers and elsewhere that the fins were a redesign to prevent tumbling experienced with initial straight fin designs. I am trying to find out how fast it would be spinning on impact, as I imagine that this gyroscopic effect would help keep the bomb stable? If I find out I am wrong - I'll stick an edit on the end of this :-)
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  458. I've just checked in Stephen Flowers' book "the operational history of Barnes Wallis' bombs", which is pretty thorough, and he writes that the fins were at first straight, but oscillation led to the trial and then use of the angled fins to use the gyroscopic effect to stabilise the bombs especially as they passed through the sound barrier. I can't find any data on how fast the bomb was spinning when it hit though.
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  459. I think to be fair, it was there just in case the Nazis used chemical or biological weapons on the United Nations forces first.
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  460. Allow me to post you a Terry's chocolate orange for your excellent spot!
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  461.  @Oligodendrocyte139  pfft mere details, you have added to history! Plain or milk chocolate?
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  462. Nice one - it would be great if someone who was qualified could opine on why a plane such as this was a bugger to fly - was it really just underpowered, was it the airframe where the wings look quite small compared to a Mosquito, was it in fact just as good/bad as a Mosquito, or was it just pilot training?
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  463.  @dominionofquebec10452  yes indeed - good spot and totally agree.
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  464. Well said Ian and commenters too. There was a time when historians could be peeved by genuine errors or deliberate disinformation from other humans, and try to address it. Raising awareness of this as a growing issue is a good thing to do. But is AI the issue, or is the real problem the people who create and circulate this stuff, knowing it's fake, not caring if it's fake, or not being able to spot it's fake? Faked images have been out there almost since the invention of photography; am I right to think that an AI generated image isn't a computer somewhere getting bored and acting autonomously, but is initiated by human agency? Anyway a fascinating story, I will seek out a book that tells me more about her. EDIT - Marooned in the Arctic bought for me e-reader. I needed a new book, thank you Ian.
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  465.  @genericpersonx333  some very similar issues here to what the USAF faced in Vietnam re visual ID?
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  466. Fab! Love the aid section at the end - have 160 Mosquitoes, Tito!
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  467. When do we see your Swordfish video Drach?
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  468. very well said Sir.
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  469.  @Archangelm127  and when experimental archaeologists get to work on trying to fathom how they did it... my respect increases. Especially when they show it could be done with two planks of wood, some string, and a big pair of balls.
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  470. "No matter what you do, just stay alive!"
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  471. Left wing and right wing are inaccurate and subjective terms - I prefer your last comment about totalitarianism, it matches Mussolini, Mao, Franco, Stalin, Hitler and certain South American rulers at certain times in their history. But good debate, as are Streuner's thoughts - much better than the very eloquent Katy "Grow up" Jones.
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  472. The Welsh turned it down too
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  473. Very very interesting. I've read a lot about the bush war in Rhodesia, seen a lot of photos, and suddenly a lot of it all makes sense. You said the video wasn't that exciting - well it's exciting for you, knelt there wondering if you have a dud or a hangfire before you manually operate the action. Rather you than me! Tahnk you Ian - slainte!
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  474. yes they did
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  475.  @dylanshandley1246 spot on - see below for handy cheat measures!
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  476. Aaron - yes I know. Here's the easy ones that come up a lot in weapons that I seem to know off by heart... .3" = 7.62 mm, therefore 3" equals 76.2mm, and also 0.5" = 12.7 mm; this covers quite a lot of rifles, pistols, SMGs and cannons from WWII. There are approx 30cm in 12", so getting naval, your 6" guns are approx 15cm, 4" guns are approx 10cm, 16" guns are approx 40cm, and so on.
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  477. Thanks
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  478.  @MilitaryHistoryVisualized  no, thank you! Have a great 2022 and beyond.
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  479. Nice vid hope there is a shooting one to follow :-)
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  480. And my respect also. Bravo Ian! Oh crivvens I have bought myself one. A good source for English speaking readers that I read again and again is: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003GUBIO8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 I hope it's ok to include that link Ian?
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  481.  @GreatPolishWingedHussars  I am not sure if Ed will see your comment as it is a reply to my comment... maybe offer him your expertise when you're not busy with your own videos? A very interesting adddition to my knowledge - thank you.
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  482. Only the best on HoWaW!
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  483. or a couple of tactical muffs?
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  484. I was waiting for Ian to end the video, and stand up in a) his boxer shorts b) a kilt or c) a tutu Such a lost opportunity.
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  485. Quadriplania.
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  486. Hopefully you enjoyed the video.... has any one ever said, actually no I didn't? Grat vis, will deffo visit, and what an interesting rifle. Thx Ian!
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  487. I've actually got a bit tearful watching this one even though I know the story well. It is always amazing to see warplanes dropping food, supplies and medicines instead of bombs. A genuine question though - if the food restrictions started in late September why did it take so long to feed the poor citizens of the Nederlands? A nation that suffered much through little fault of their own.
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  488.  @kyhber1  and would you believe it, that too is one of my favourite films!
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  489. 8:45 I could be very wrong but this bit of footage which shows the port engine stopped may be from a demo flight where DH's test pilots showed the Mosquito could do full rolls on one engine alone. If any one wants me to check this out fully in the Haynes Manual, just say but once again - thank you Mark for a great bit of history, very well illustrated with well chosen film clips, and a fitting tribute to those brave young men.
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  490.  @Activated_Complex  thank you for one of the most useful comments I have read on this subject. I also disagree with you A320 CAT3DUAL, that I'm a bit sensitive to unfair criticisms of the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and I've never noticed anything from Dr Felton that's bothered me.
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  491. What a beautiful plane, and nice to hear you refer to Ceylon not Sri lanka.
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  492. I had to Google Glencarin (sic) Bill, as I only them as lamp glasses due to the shape (and own a few too!)
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  493. aw no down range footage Ian? :-(
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  494. More than once but hey, it's a long video, and look at how much you got right :-)
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  495. Well I was about to do my usual "please call it 7.92 x 57 mm" rant but read up a bit more and looks like I was wrong. What an interesting story though.
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  496.  @PeteCourtier  - the man posts 99.9% correct stuff so indeed - a very small error and totally forgiveable.
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  497. Ah time to log in and listen to the second half of this excellent piece. Cheers chaps!
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  498. Indeed. I suggest that if they had tried rescue they risked being attacked too,plus I am not sure what their ASW capacity was but I would doubt they were up to fighting a modern nuclear submarine.
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  499. Sorry - I called it a Bren even when I was told it should be called the LMG, but then again I called the L1A1 a gat.
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  500. Your statements on appeasement are getting a bit out of date Mark... could I suggest a video on this subject in the light of more modern scholarship that looks a bit deeper than just Churchill's version of history?
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  501.  @bacarnal  glad to have an expert on board! Semper fi sir!
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  502. would it be that hard to do with a redoing of the board as a jpeg or PDF to print at home then some clever 3D printing to give you the pieces? Get inventing Braydon Jones, if you can make it. I will buy it.
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  503. I nevr knew that - fascinating! Thank you.
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  504. Absolutely! What also fascinates me is the longevity of the weapons that emerged with the move to smokeless powders.
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  505. Lovely video - what a beautiful gun with the barrel but also the very unique patterning on the fore grip. A good reminder to us all that it's a bugger of a job to make a video about a weapon when it's not in full working order. thank you Ian!
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  506.  @andrewpease3688  yeah maybe so!
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  507. yes that would be a good double feature, especially if all done like Rob does it inperiod costume. Oh bring the Bloke and Chap on the Range over too. Should only be a few days worth of video.
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  508.  @nebras__  erm please explain?
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  509.  @vk2ig  I agree that trying to change their mind is usually a waste of time; but there may be people reading who might care to see the other side of an argument? Thank you for your kind comment in any case. 30 seconds rattling these keys isn't a big use of my time anyway ;-)
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  510. A couple of questions/observations on a great video... - the gas plug, I think that the button to release it could also be pressed in then turned with the nose of a live round? - pressed steel fore grips vs wood or polymer? Any thoughts about why?
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  511. none that I know of - they appear in the background of The Dambusters film - but the only one I know in existence is at RAF Cosford as a ground exhibit.
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  512. absolutely - I've used both .303 and 7.62 versions in my life, and loved the thing! The original Zb26/27 with the 7.92mm round and straight mag looks as if it already knew we'd knock it into 7.62 NATO
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  513.  @dentonw6ir0qf15  I might have this wrong but I think it's sort of the other way round - there were Northern Ireland issue mags for the LMG which would at a pinch work in the SLR due to a better/stronger spring. Happy to be corrected if I am wrong as always!
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  514. A very good question; you can find on Wikipedia why the RAF went for eight MGs in the Hurricane and Spitfire. Essentially it was felt that when air to air combat might depend on split seconds bursts of fire, lots of lead in the air all at once was more important for causing damage than being able to fire for longer. So, as Vickers guns were replaced by the Browing, the focus was on high rates of fire from multiple guns. Right or wrong, it was not done on a whim.
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  515. Tell him thank you from England if you can please. We love what we saw, I'd buy him a drink face to face if I could.
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  516.  @skylongskylong1982  please do tell us which Council this is, so we may ask them to explain their decision.
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  517. Isn't hindsight wonderful? As is the question: well what should they have used instead based on the power to weight ratio of the time, and what was actually able to fit in the wings of fighters at the time?
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  518. and as a Brit - aliminum and aluminium ... they are both right!
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  519.  @seytanuakbar3022  source of your story please?
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  520. Genuine fact - 10% of alcohol in your blood stream will leave your body in your urine.
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  521.  @samulilahnamaki3127  that is a very interesting fact Samuli, thank you for posting!
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  522.  @dirtydave2691  good news - another real historian is born again. And an older head I think is better for history.
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  523.  @lllordllloyd  you are so right; my Latin teacher (language, not dance) made history come alive. My history teacher could have bored a glass eye to sleep, as we say here in northern England.
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  524. How very sad to see lives lost in any accident, and to see historic planes lost too. They can't be replaced. It is very sad indeed.
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  525. I love this approach - instead of choosing the optimal weapon to "game the game" we have Ian picking something marginally less effective than a slingshot. Way to go, and ooooh fit bod too. Nice.
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  526. I am the odd one who had never heard of Vince O'Hara - until now. I consider myself educated, and thank you.
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  527. Foreword by Martin Pegler, author of "From out of nowhere" - the book is sold!
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  528. And yes, you should be sipping a single malt from a cut glass goblet, and smoking some sort of rare cheroot or Balkan Sobranjie in an ivory holder sculpted from walrus ivory.
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  529.  @jpjpjp453  I know - embarassing isn't it?
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  530.  @sarjim4381  are you sure? Mosquitos with blown bomb doors could take a 4000lb cookie to Berlin and get back in time for a repeat mission on the same night with a second crew during the winter period. Shall we discuss loss rates or just note that the post war bomber solution was the B-57 Canberra? Just pulling your leg old boy - my Revell 1:48 model of the Memphis Belle has pride of place in my lounge, and hats off to the USAAF bomber crews for their big balls.
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  531. Thank goodness they didn't call in the RN....
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  532. Thankyou Canada
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  533.  @zsoltmolnar1143  highest rate as 'a per centage of people murdered where the weapon is a knife'. Homicide rate per head is less than one quarter than that of the USA . Thank you.
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  534.  @johnladuke6475  ​ you've made up your own defintion of conflation there John, here is the dictionary one : to combine two or more separate things, especially pieces of text, to form a whole. The irony to me is that Bellamy was a socialist Christian, as Ed noted. Atheism and communism are two separate things.
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  535. What a smashing bloke - thank you both for this.
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  536. Another gem - looking forward to the next episode!
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  537. and my sausages, bacon, and fried bread. And tea.
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  538. The Seawolf missed the boat.... not really what you want to hear in a carrier aircraft ;-)
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  539. 24:14 "being able to stay submerged for days at a time"; I appreciate yes it would have enough battery storage to facilitate this, but I didn't hear anything about any new technologies in the Type XXI to scrub the air etc, as this is the other limiting factor. Or did I miss it?
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  540. It was also a weapon that was fully developed and tested, and used available ammunition. Indeed lightweight with a high rate of fire, they were the best available at the time - of course 20mm cannons and .5" BMG come along eventually, but this video makes quite clear the introduction of the 20mm was not a smooth process.
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  541. Clickbait title - I expected better from you to be honest.
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  542.  @pavarottiaardvark3431  that is a very good piece of knowledge.. I wonder how many parts on those four engines were interchangeable too? I would bet the answer is 'quite a lot'
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  543. Would Peasholm Park in Scarborough be interested in HMS Hermes for their warhip battles in the lake there? EDIT - email sent
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  544. A good format - and as always, Ian will actually ask the question that should have been asked, but thanks to the Patreon for getting the ball rolling, as essentially it is a good question. Just one question or point re the STEN being brought in as Germany had used SMGs in the Battle of France; was it more a case of wanting arms then and there to replace the more costly rifles and MGs lost in the retreat from France as cheaply and as quickly as possible? My quick research suggests the STEN cost less than half of a rifle in money terms, and could be knocked up it any bicycle repair shop where someone could weld, ie a lot quicker than a rifle. And Ian - if you need some English accent coaching, please do contact me :-)
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  545.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  yup, hit happens! LOL
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  546. My first ever full bore rifle, at the age of twelve. A good job we only got ten rounds at the annual range practise in the Cadets!
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  547. Oh so clever, you'd think you are an engineer. Oh, you are. Your analogue was very well done, it tempts me to ask you to progress this process with the question: what did they do to projectiles to try and counter this? Eg rounds that won't shatter and so forth, AP-C shells... I hope you managed to hoover up all the shrapnel in any case, it was fun watching you do what I did in the 80s with my BSA Airsporter in the name of science.
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  548. Another great true story. It's worth looking for videos on YouTube about the Boeing 314 Clipper folks - including the one that had to fly around 90% of the world to get back to the USA, when the USA went to war in 1941. Great plane - loved seeing it here.
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  549. 'Hopefully you will find this interesting' - I've never been disappointed yet Ian. Thank you.
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  550. I think Rock Apes also a RN term for the Royal Marines, mamy jokes made when docking at Gibraltar about visiting the relatives.
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  551. After - Ian says so at about 5:10,
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  552. It served 1939 to 1945, just like the Hurricane and some others... not the best ever, but good enough to last a war. The real reason we like the Bf 110 is that is was one of the best Airfix dogfight doubles sets with originally a Spitfire Mk IX, then a Spitfire Mk 1a
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  553.  @John.0z  I understood that to be the case too - as Grahame Pigney notes further down with the B.II Lancaster - that Halifaxes, Wellingtons, and Lancs all had RR and Bristol engined variants to make sure they worked - just in case of supply interruptions.
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  554. Did you eventually run out of apostrophe's Drach ;-) Great vid anyhow, possibly one of my favourites; the museum at Arromanches is very worth half a day, as is the 360 degree cinema there too. It's not all about having the best tank, it's all about having POL ammo and compo.
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  555. No but I know a man who might. If it's still in the UK, there was a running AMX13 5 minutes walk from me.
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  556. Me too!
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  557. Great video - glad you mentioned the F-16 as there's a few features that reminded me of the similarity too!
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  558. What a lovely man - it would be a privelidge to share a long train journey with this chap.
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  559.  @thomas316  not sure that he ded but he was a good goal keeper for his football team
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  560. Well there's Russians, then there's Ruthenians, Byelorussians, Ukrainians, Crimean Cossaks, Azeris, white Russians and three Baltic states to play with... very few of whom would like to be called a Russian or a Muscovite. Like someone else commented the USSR was an empire made of different peoples. Not sure where you're from Lynx, but I'm a Yorkshire man, a Northerner, English, and finally British. In that order :-)
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  561.  @Keaperman  I vote for this too (Admiral King episode plse Drach) - speaking as an Englishman - he was no fool. He fits in with western democracy commanders like le May, Rickover, Montgomery, Harris... not peoplr you wanted to be on the wrong side of , but they didn't fanny around trying to pleae all of the people all of the time.
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  562.  MrMajsterixx  and they still are.
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  563.  @observationsfromthebunker9639  and number 4 - the German HSF never set out to challenge the RN again in the vital area of the North Sea in this war, and the blockade of Germany played a large part in its collapse in 1918. This was the British war aim achieved, the battle was decisive. No, there was a lack of effective pursuit, but - did it matter?
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  564.  @Nastyswimmer  what a fascinating language we share - thank you explaining!
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  565.  @assafperetz7470  that's not totally true. Lead with enough energy can go through steel.
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  566. Pin this post please Chris - it's very useful, thank you.
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  567. Did he wear his grubby mac when he flew?
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  568. Ardbeg fan - visiited it at least twice :-)
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  569. Great name - are you old enough to remember Kenny Everett?
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  570.  @Yandarval  have I missed the point here (as I usually do). UK military nomenclature is even more idiosyncratic than our day to day language. 😜
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  571.  @tsk13  ah of course, I totally forgot that. Did that involve the fort at Bomarsund or am I making things up?
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  572.  @tsk13  ah thank you - I knew the name from this YT video... forgive an old chap for his fading memory 🙂
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  573. It's a very interesting question to ask - and the answer isn't quite as simple as 'appeasement', but concerns the state of the rearmament programme in the UK, the perception of German strength, plus France's defensive strategy... amongst many other factors. But an interesting why noy/what if all the same.
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  574. Get to the Czopper!
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  575. I posted the same - perhaps a letter O could be confused with a number zero 0 or some other explanation.
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  576.  @truckerallikatuk  oh someone replied on my post it is a standard NATO abbreviation so not actually in French.
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  577. I always enjoy your videos Ian. A thought passed through my head about the computer games I play, eg DayZ, SCUM EXILE, where the firearms technology is basically current/futuristic. Would the period 1850 - 1870 make for a much better game as firearms technology made such big leaps?
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  578. Just watching this video all over again and it's work of the highest quality from both presenters, plus the many people who made this happen. We will visit and enjoy - keep safe ship mates.
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  579. A really good point. Despite what some commenters here might say, it wasn't that easy to go monoplane - the E.III wasn't so good due to its wing configuration, quite the opposite, it was using prewar wing warping technology, and was a bit of a bugger to fly. It did the damage with it's interrupted/synchronsied forward firing machine gun. Engine design had to advance to a point where the power could drag a plane along fast enough to reduce the lift needed to what could be provided by a monoplane; this I suppose was also linked to the ability to build airframes strong enough and light enough to take the power of the newer engines. But - yes I have always pondered this too, and such a shame that war took a massive part in driving technology so far and so fast.
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  580. Yes it is a Rubicon moment in sophistication, but not in intent or responsibility. Mines - on land and under the sea - go back a long way, and as you say so called smart weapons require smart and ethical operators. Thanks for keeping us informed Ed - my fear is that they will be used by so called 'friends' of the west against soft targets in separatist areas.
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  581.  @zoiders  he'll be back to tell you you're pretentious next ;-)
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  582. Good analysis. I know the situation changes almost hourly, and there is a lot of shadow boxing going on, but keep us informed Ed. You're trustworthy, objective, and skilled enought to spot the bollox when it matters.
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  583.  @lucas82  thank you for sharing , ignore comments like Lone Wolf's - you've brought another bit of forgotten history to our eyes. One day he might learn to read AND write....
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  584. I'll watch this properly when my internet decides to work... subscribed as well, the Manchester/aeroplanes theme suits me, some of the radio stuff is more arcane but liked the one about the pylon up on Blackstone Edge/Windy Hill. There is of course a story behind this....
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  585. And indeed, how many correct decisions did he make, which don't get recognised as quickly. The loss of tonnage and cargo was bad, but percentage wise, a fraction of what was delivered possibly. Every loss or injury is an individual tragedy of course, but the human losses in PQ17 would have been a quiet day in WWI, in 1944 Normandie, or especially on the Eastern Front where these supplies were heading.
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  586. He has the patience of a saint.
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  587. @ that's fair enough, thank you for expanding.
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  588.  @Touay.  oooh nice quote - is it yours, or where is it from? :-)
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  589. me too
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  590.  @neiloflongbeck5705  that's fascinating - details of his life I didn't know, thank you.
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  591. And also in original UK form, in early versions of the Hawker Hunter and Handley Page Victor, and all Gloster Javelins. Wiki nicked info btw.
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  592. Thank you from England :-)
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  593. I'm glad they both survived and hopefully lived a long and happy life; their sheer coolness is amazing! I am sure there is a similar story of two French lads who fled German occupied France by nicking a German plane. So next time, leave a beach towel over your cockpit....
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  594. There was one flying at the Southport airshow in 2019 - mindbuggeringly loud it was!
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  595. Just deciding which to join as a newly retired English police officer and ex TA occifer!
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  596. Pardon?
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  597.  @simonhumby323  sadly it has an element of truth - Clem Attlee authorised 40 RR Nenes to go to the USSR where they were copied and stuck in the MiG - 15s. However it was Bevin who was the man responsible for accomodating the Poles who had been fought the Nazis so both sides of the Labour Party there for you.
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  598.  @Piromanofeliz  spot on. The M16 is exactly the same, as the top of the stock is in line with the barrel.
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  599.  @Ukraineaissance2014  thank you - there is indeed a lot of error in what I think he said, but wanted to actually understand what he meant before I dismantled him! Slava!
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  600. Ed, can't fault your love for this warbird. But no. I'm sat on the edge of Bomber country tonight before I get married, lots of RAF Bomber Command strips quite close. My money goes to rebuild Just Jane at East Kirkby. We have two flying Lancasters left in the world, I'd like to make it three. I have no doubt that the Catalina deserves more recognition, I love it as a plane and for what it did to pull us out of the clag. There must be some US millionaires who can fund this and use it as a tax dodge (joke!), but I hope they get the money to keep her going, and you are right to flag this up to us. Old warbirds are very precious.
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  601. From a Brit - thank you for making me good about my silly old country!
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  602. An excellent ending - it's so easy to judge with a) hindsight and b) when you are not the key decision maker
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  603.  @edwalmsley1401  or when they stuck a round lead ball down the barrel instead of a kind of arrow. APFS was a thing in the thirteenth century I am led to believe.
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  604.  @Sugarmountaincondo  well said. Have you read 'the Real Cruel Sea' as it details what merchant mariners faced, and it's not a pretty story.
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  605. The most common one is calling it medieval ;-)
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  606.  @DH.2016  yup it's about tiny armies not the size of the country to be fair!
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  607. After those lovely Belgian planes, we get this. There must be a good reason that tandem planes didn't catch on and it's not just about their interesting looks!
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  608. Tell it like it is Mark, there is no purpose to forgetting the more sickening parts of our history. NB - the author Sven Hassel pops up in the comments a couple of times - is there any mileage in a video about him and the alleged historicity of his books etc? Take care everyone.
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  609. Hydrogen was also ever so cheap to produce in the volumes needed - this would have been a good addition to the video - helium really was not an option.
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  610. Beautifully written - thank you.
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  611.  @ultranitro437  weirdly enough - I plugged in my Playstation1 yesterday and yes... not optimal by todays standards!
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  612. it is now on my post retirement visit list, even though the missus is ex RAF. That's diversity for you all.
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  613. Good video but so glad my country had the Bren gun; if the barrel needs to come off quick, put a handle on it. Meanwhile the M60 happens.
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  614. Harrison, commented above but we came from England two weeks ago, and yes, it's magic there. We watched a sunset from the Smallwood store, totally peaceful, and we saw so much wildlife. If we could live there - we may be would. Keep safe, I love people who love where they live.
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  615.  @jameshodgson3656  a good summary thank you; I thought that Israel has felt threatened by Iran and vice versa for a long while, eg the strikes to destroy Iran's nuclear programme as an example of intervention or US assassinations of a Republican Guard General. May be these were justified, may be not, but I would worry that Iran supporting Putin may lead to a spread of the war. I am probably wrong as usual, but thank you for your opinions about Iran's capabilities in this case.
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  616. I loved this pistol as soon as Ian uncased it yesterday... so two silly questions! 1 - how hard is it to shoot right handed with a pistol like this if you are a lefty (as compared to long firearms?) 2 - the heating up. In a normal blow back, is a lot of that heat going straight out of the barrel, whereas in this design, some is trapped in the mechanism for long enough to transfer heat to the pistol? Greetings from the UK!
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  617. You clearly know little about which you pontificate. Try Gordon Corrigan's 'Mud Blood and Poppycock' or anything by Gary Sheffield to try and expand your horizons.
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  618. Lovely stuff. I remember the first episode of yours, sipping Scotch in a hotel room.
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  619. we know this from the interrogation of his pet cat.
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  620. Very well put.
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  621. Or maybe HMS Thunderchild?
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  622.  @pkt1213  quite right. I always know what day it is, it's whisky day. Cheers!
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  623. A tightrope walk of great dignity Ed.
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  624.  @FTWIHA  from someone who can't write or punctuate, I'd be very reluctant to take any guidance on writing styles from a nob like you, especially when TomFynn was simply quoting a song writer far wittier than you could ever be.
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  625.  @Kevin-mx1vi  quite right
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  626. Ian, your French is already in progress every time you say carbine instead of carbine. But seriously, I am impressed you want to learn another language just to know more about weapons. Formidable mon brave, á bientót!
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  627.  @Farweasel  damn right! I've just been over to Normandie and my school French doesn't cope with their accents, but I bet their BBC English/Hollywood Amurican wouldn't cope with a trip to my area (Burnley) or my parents' area Whitley Bay. Vive la difference, our kid.
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  628. I quite agree. It is clearly not a Matilda I that Blomberg is known to have inspected, and the description fits the Mk V perfectly.
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  629. ​ @Joe_Not_A_Fed  you're right, the very first cruise missiles didn't have GPS, or anything apart from inertial guidance, but this was 1944 when the first V-1s were launched! Joking apart, you're dead right - these things are made to be a stealthy missile, and hard to hit; there's a good thread re the use of AAA vs cruise missiles above.
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  630. Good lord what a beast!
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  631. +lptomtom for once I do have to say Ian, it is a flechette pronounced flesh - ate to rhyme with bet; two t's and an e in French always rhymes with bet, and in spoken British English we say it 'right'. I can get the carbine being said car-bean (as it is in French), but what is a saybow? No it's a sabot - sa bow - as it is in the original French. Having lectured you all, please forgive my Englishness, and let me thank Ian yet again for being good enough to do these sessions and educate us all. Peace all. NB - if you're in England, and come to the Royal Armouries at Leeds, please announce when/where - I owe you a drink and a meal for the knowledge you have shared!
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  632. joezzzify I think both the rear sight and the foresight are modified to get the line of sight higher than the pan magazine so switching between the two mags might not be so easy, plus it's removing the sighting axis further away from the bore axis. As Ian says, drum/pan mags have loading/jamming issues that stick mags are less vulnerable to.
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  633. go0fy11137 it worked very nicely thank you in its 7.62 NATO reincarnation, and its long service with the UK military reflects a sound design and a lovely weapon to fire. Also saw action in Korea, Malaya, Borneo, Aden, the Falklands...
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  634. pinz2022 Don't panic! Don't panic pinz!
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  635. Just a thought but what's the provenance of Jake's mention of General Pershing? It sounds rather unlikely hence my question of "did he really?" NB Paul; as you started this conversation with a bit of a silly post, thanks for at least reading  the several responses challenging what you said!
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  636. Tiger Custardman Tiger - I see Richard's posts seem to have vanished; will he have removed them himself or is there active moderation here? Maybe he's calmer now I hope...
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  637. +Barack Hussein Obama II By all means clarify it for us then if my reply is based on a misunderstanding; my apologies if this is the case.
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  638. Barack Hussein Obama II as per several posts on this thread, the statistics are quite clear. That's speculation is it?
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  639. Panzerbusche 38/39 had teargas ammo, then later tungsten.
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  640. I am disappointed as the Somme offensive didn't collapse because of troops drowning in mud .... channel removed from playlist.
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  641. pancholom and additionally the issues around machining costs etc would have been dealt with if it had gone to mass production. It's slightly odd to criticise this when modern equivalents sport scopes, lasers, night sights etc - you want the best or the cheapest?
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  642. Ritchie Wolf Sure - procurers always try to get the best deal for their £, and I have never said that cost isn't a factor. I mean it in the sense that these cost differences between one weapon and another are small change; the major cost of a personal infantry weapon per year comes from ammunition expenditure. I wasn't clear - hope this helps
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  643. +FirstDagger think about it... Australian plane carrying beer... Google for castlemaine beer if you still don't get the joke mate 😁
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  644. s.a.s elite not sure - I think the Ross only ever held 5 rounds, and the P14s and the M1917s brought out in 1940 when we were expecting invasion were also 5 shot magazines. SMLEs - always 10, but not sure if there were any 8 shot bolt actions out there... Anyone else?
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  645. j0nthegreat Razzle.
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  646. Yes us people are dreadful aren't we. Glad you have outed your hatred and bias Ted, it helps other readers understand why you fabricate and misunderstand in line with your own agenda. Meanwhile - the rest of us can try and understand history with a more open mind.  Ciao!
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  647. Fred - you can't help anyone who suffers from nationalism/racism etc as anyone who denies him his right to rant is "one of them". He's got as good a grasp of history and research as the next lunatic.  Let his unreasoned comments stand - I bet the only reason he hasn't abused pancholom as being a Fiendish Brit is that pancholom is clearly Italian speaking so can't easily be tarred as part of the Evil Empire!
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  648. Io parlo latino - il resto è stato facile
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  649. Et aussitot, je ne suis pas un anglais...
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  650. Oh don't call him 'old chap' that's too British. Just let him win.
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  651. We're safe guys - he thinks I am English and that you're called Mark. I love the man - he is the 21st century's answer to Oscar Wilde.
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  652. Michael Emberley I'm not sure that is right - the water jacket is isolated from the firing mechanism etc so no powder residue lube etc should get into the water which as it heated up to steam would be under a positive pressure in any case; I'm sure I have read accounts that soldiers would fire a belt off to make water to brew up with - or would use the opportunity to fire off a belt to make hot water. If it's been attempted with a Vickers in modern times and the water was contaminated - I offer my apologies!
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  653. +Sam Doohan have I understood you right? The condenser can is fitted by a pipe to the jacket, so what are you suggesting? Or what do you think I have suggested? NB - I was interested enough to try a bit of myth busting on the Vickers tea kettle story, and it appears that from the easily available sources, it may have been used as such but overall it wasn't common practise as Robert Graves would have had us believe , as Michael Emberley quite rightly maintains, the water would have oil in it that would make it a kettle of desperation, not choice.
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  654. Watching very happily on HoWaW, and I do have to say (or ask) - where did you get that shirt Jonathan? It is just fanstastic, and I even think I'd buy one if I was allowed. Great video as always and very interesting to hear about the issues of real firearms being represented in video games (I play hunting games more than mil sims) but didn't realise how much was involved.
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  655.  @mattbowden4996  excellent summary of German intentions, even if I disagree they achieved what they set out to do.
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  656. A truly sad story. Both the brutal murders and the racial inequality that has kept this piece of history hidden. Thank you Dr Felton for making me an older, wiser, but sadder man.
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  657. The long range sights - I had a quick read and there was a WP round for the weapon, so for use against bunkers etc, yes I can see why they bothered to do this. I remember seeing what I thught was a bazooka HE round which was two standard handgrenades end to end with the rocket motor behind... did I dream this or was it ammunition from a different system?
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  658.  @rogermcbadlad2812  it might have been that - I googled away and couldn't find any pics, so yes, probably my bad memory. Thank you!
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  659. Indeed - it depends where you live but I hear people saying WWII started on 3 September 1939 or even 7 December 1941.... Stalin's invasions of Finland, the three Baltic states, Bessarabia and Bukavina, and finally Poland all seem to get a bit overlooked. The USSR was another fascist state out to bully its weaker neighbours, like Italy and then Germany.
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  660. A very good contrast, based on sometimes how the dice rolled on the day, but also on how aircraft were used to their strengths.
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  661.  @patrickcannady2066  you are promoted to ground crew, potato peeling.
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  662. Mark it was the 79th Armoured Division, not the 78th which was an Infantry Division. Just a minor detail :-)
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  663. You almost had me up to the General McMaple point!
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  664. Not as amusing as the Sopwith Titwank.
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  665. I'm only halfway through watching, but I love this video for the ship it celebrates. It's on my bucket list of things to see. NB - I think it would be in good taste to raise a glass to Nicholas Monserrat. I wonder how many of us would appreciate this vessel and her story if it was not for the Cruel Sea and Three Corvettes?
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  666. nice trivia thank you
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  667.  @robertmutton4973  fascinating isn't it? I was looking at Turbinia for real only just last week, and thought there was gearing connecting the turbine to the prop shafts... so assume it was a 1:1 system, not reduction gearing which came along later?
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  668. Happy Christmas Ian!
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  669. One day soon Neil, I'll be retired, and we plan to tour a lot of Europe in a camper van or with a caravan, and this is on the agenda!
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  670. Nice - I wasn't watching when the top cover flew off but loved the Tom and Jerry sound effects as it hit whatever it hit
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  671. Nice analysis, and good to see that some number crunching arguments are a lot less persuasive when you consider issues such as logisitics and commonality. Here's a couple of thoughts for everyone: 1 - is the cost per round significant? A solid ball bullet is pretty damn cheap compared to a fuzed cannon shell, where are the trade offs? 2 - for the amount of explosives actually in each cannon shell, how much more damage will be caused? Is there a goldilocks zone of payload vs muzzle velocity vs ROF out there?
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  672. whereabouts was that Big Blue? Love the history of things like this :-)
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  673. Aardvarkski?
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  674. I've seen these comments, I always flag and report them. Yes YT could do better, but I hope if we all did the same it would get the fake profile/user banned more quickly.
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  675. Very very interesting! I don't agree with some of the ways you've evaluated weapons but.... it's a brilliant Baedeker guide to AAA on World War II ships, and I'veenjoyed every bit of it. Thank you.
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  676. Second!
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  677. Lovely stories - peace to you all
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  678. I think I liked the film when I saw it... thanks for reminding me of the film's name
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  679. yes I was trying to guess how big they were until I saw a human hand;
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  680. Yup I'd agree... then add there will always be SMGs that don't quite fit the defintion perfectly but why does that matter? It's like the arguments over what makes an LMG or a SAW etc...
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  681.  @theodorekell  good point, my language wasn't quite right there - thank you
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  682. 35 thumbs down from J.Stalin, Kuntsevo.
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  683.  @TheDkeeler  yes I beleive so - what I saw were resin parts to apply to an Airfix Lanc including different engine nacelles and presumably a filler for the outboard engione nacelles etc.... try searching on Scalemates
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  684. NB - https://www.blackbirdmodels.co.uk/avro-lincoln-conversion-x2872x29-1492-p.asp
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  685. Great video and yes, in light of current events, a sad video to watch. Thank you for your intelligence and sensitivity.
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  686. It's a bit of a nitpick to say the atomic bombings on Japan were a victory for the A bomb, rather than the strategic bomber - it was airpower that got the bombs over Japan after all. It might be better to propose that for the first time, strategic bombers had a weapon powerful enough to achieve what was dubbed 'the bomber dream'? Possibly. Anyway, another great talking point, and another great video - many thanks Chris!
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  687.  @grahamstrouse1165  very interesting information, but are you replying to the right comment? 🙂
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  688.  @BlackHearthguard  I believe so, although the wartime claims of how many tanks were hit/destroyed wasn't fully upheld once the Field Research Units looked over destroyed and abandoned tanks. And were Thunderbolts also used in this way - I think they could carry rockets?
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  689.  @kyle857  I did look, thought it was a B18 in the WT tree but I am usually wrong. And yes, placeholder cockpits that are 5 years old and more when new content appears every month now.... get a grip Gaijin.
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  690. Quite so. Just as air superiority is there to support and deliver the ground victory.
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  691. I think the Belgrano was sunk for just that reason - it's guns would have been very effective against a fleet built for the 70s and 80s not the 40s?
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  692.  @forcea1454  very true - my suggestion was that her guns were not old or outdated and she would have been a significant threat.
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  693.  @DamianMaisano  that was my understanding also. She was a significant threat, despite her age.
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  694.  @forcea1454  apols I have just deleted a post... too many postings, and my fault. Yes, she would have been a priority target by what ever means the task force had, I was thinking more of why she was was felt to be such a threat, ie big guns, unarmoured modern warships, and use of ships like the QEII as troop ships.
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  695. A video that talks about tanks' track records... pure genius.
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  696. Nicely done Ed!
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  697. Scary stuff, but so good no fatalities, and no one too badly hurt from the plane either I hope.
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  698. Is it too hard to call the 7.92 German rounds by what they were called by their makers and users, but have to stick to your US "oh it's really 8mm" version? Maybe just call 7.92x33 '8mm short' instead of 8mm Kurz as well, to avoid further brainache for viewers who can only think in 'Murican?
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  699. It'll be other shooters digging themsleves out of the dust thrown up
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  700. I am unreliably misinformed that it should spelt MOAR DAKKA, but I totally agree with your core principle.
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  701. Polikarpov I-15 influences? Still looks sexy and racy! Great vid as usual Ed, great research too.
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  702. 3:22 wooh! TARDIS sighted!
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  703. Watching quite happily on History of Weapons and Whatnot TV. Question/idea: conversions of bolt action rifles to self loading or selective fire... how many different types were there, what were they, how were they done, were they ever put into use?
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  704.  @colinkelly5420  this is a very good point that is far too often overlooked; it would be interesting to see the same casualty figure statistics for the German army in Normandy for instance, and to punt up a guesstimate for the actual lethality of the PBI's rifles and squad level LMGs. There's another side issue - that if you're relying more and more on poorly trained troops then whatever gain you might get from a more advanced battle rifle is further minimised if they are not fit to fight in all senses of that phrase?
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  705. Very enjoyable, and well pu together. Thank you.
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  706. Fisher and Tirpitz - torpedo boys. 1 - Compare and contrast, with observations on geekiness. 2 - Did any other nations have similar torpedo-centric contemporaries to these chaps, who were saw technology as a good thing?
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  707. aha - I was about to find out where it was and you did it for me - it's on the List of Places to Visit
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  708.  @jerry2357  if I hadn't had a glass of wine and wasn't rebuilding my house, I'd be on the M6 North tonight to see it tomorrow. I recall there is also a museum called the Devil's Porridge not too far away, and lots of mountain bike tracks and... actually we want to move up and live there. Thank you for the info - - it really is appreciated.
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  709.  @jerry2357  I grew up in the 70s - that sounds like a full day out with sandwiches and a flask to me ;-)
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  710. A thought, looking at the still images you used in this most excellent video. Could you - or another expert with you - give us some narrative, context, and explanation to some of this battle damage? Eg 13:41 where my amateur interpretation is that there was a penetration just at the top Plimsoll marking, which blew out through the compartment above the penetration. I think this might make an interesting episode. Open to all opinions!
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  711. 02:53 - Spitfire type undercarriage? Or Bf 109?
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  712. good luck with the firing - I hope nothing terrible goes wrong.
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  713. I look forward to the next one in December, thanks to you both. Paying Russian troops to surrender/defect with promises of safe conduct and resettlement - possibly a cost effective measure? Keep safe everyone.
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  714. Not brilliant carrier aircraft but it's a nice thought.
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  715. I actually like the rough cut version - it hints at all the buggering around you have to do to provide the full edited version...
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  716. Elgin marbles folks - the G is hard not soft. Thank you.
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  717. One of my faves - I must get a print to frame and hang in my bathroom to cheer me up ;-)
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  718. Afterburners? Nope - reheat on a British plane!
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  719.  @GreatPolishWingedHussars  I am sorry that was because I edited my comment then deleted it while editing. NB - I make model kits, my latest kit is a 1:48 Humber Mk IV armoured car - with the markings of I Armoured Division (Poland) with the winged hussars painted on it - what a coincidence! Good luck with your own videos!
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  720. Drífa - snowfall or snow drift, what a great name. Really good video Ian, and I applaud your respect for Island's history, culture, language and of course alphabet!
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  721. Damn saw the title and expected a video on British naval outerwear....
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  722. 21st century LEO satellites - no one's concern, smile and move on. A balloon - Defcon 3, phone the president, and initiate Wing Attack Plan R. Great video Ed, but sadly this grabs the headlines while Burma burns. Keep putting it out there, there are a lot of sensible people following you.
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  723. at least they didn't repeat that mistake in World War II.....
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  724. It looks very nicely made. As an old time user of the Sterling in 9mm, I'd love to have a go on one of these.
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  725. And Im double posting but ... the chef/head butcher bloke is now up there with Gunny Highway and Ian McCollum himself as a God. There is a man who knows food.
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  726. Biggest? Nope, not quite - 120mm UK recoilless rifle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_mm_BAT_recoilless_rifle. NB troop dispositions in UK armed forces take heed of such backblast areas, even down to the 84mm Carl Gustav we used to use. Not to be used inside a buidling, just like the Panzerfausts. Any chance of a look at the Davis recoilless rifle one day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_gun NB great slow mo footage guys :-)
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  727. Another great piece - thank you. As I'm usually busy making plastic models it's great to have these audio based videos to enjoy while my hands and eyes are busy. (Audio based video - does that make any sense by the way!)
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  728.  @aaronorr5586  that is just perfect. You get my vote.
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  729. The shirt is worth the view all by itself. You have to be a dude of the highest rank sir. And it would be fair to say, a bit like fake profiles on dating sites, actually working out how and why it is a fake is possibly more fun than finding a genuine item.
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  730. Possibly your best video yet!
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  731. Glass raised in tribute. A great miniseries Drach, thank you.
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  732. Making the word 'cludge' as popular as it needs to be!
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  733. enjoy Bovington!
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  734. 48:30 a pinnance - or a pinnace?
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  735. Elephant in the room - possibly. Ian, you make many references in your video to the 'correct technical definition', and kindly put it in the description too. Where did that definition come from please? If there's already a video from you about it explaining the history of the phrase/definition, that would be nice to watch. NB - weird firing range for the SIG 540 - old railway tunnels?
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  736.  @allangibson2408  that was something I never knew. Synchronising/interrrupting a machine gun was no easy task.
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  737.  @archonix  now that got me laughing!
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  738.  @donovangray7518  Left handed pilots
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  739. What were shooters 40 - 43 using? Wheel locks? I love these little gems Ian, keep it up.
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  740. I love the film, despite its historical inaccuracies; it captures the themes of paranoia, infighting, and brutality very well, but I am not sure I would call it realistic. Or maybe I would.
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  741. I can't make it that, too far from home but I hope whoever does go has the expedition of a lifetime!
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  742. Crikey - I was just saying something similar to the wife last night. As a kid, my dad always made me visit Mr and Mrs Jameson next door to my grandma to see if they needed anything doing, as she was chairbound, but he was a Great War flyer, and would always tell me a few tales and give me some Smarties. I remember a photo of him in uniform, then looked at that kind old man sat in his armchair.
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  743. I fluked an A in my Latin A Level blathering on about Vergil's version of this battle in the Aenid; we are definitely in the hands of Augustus' propagandists, I think.
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  744. 3:37 - you walked right past it, you walked right past it!!!
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  745. MNAM MNAM? https://youtu.be/8N_tupPBtWQ?t=12
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  746. Lovely video. The 'what ifs' areinteresting. The USA entering Vietnam with a .280 FAL not the M14 then M16... and how much did this versionof the FAL weigh please? Finally - the School of Infanry is at Warminster, but all the emphasis is on the first syllable. Great video - would love to see the .280 being shot live, and feedback on how it behaves.
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  747. Great question, great answers.
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  748. Drach, and community: I saw the wargames models used in this video. I am an old school wargamer (models, dice and tape measure) but if I wanted a Great War naval wargame for my PC, what's out there? I'm thinking sandbox style so you could in theory refight this battle 'as was' but also play with those 'what if' questions we all love.
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  749. Great socks, nice skills! I see you posted before BOTR ;-)
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  750. If only they called it the TBD-1 "Average on a good day"
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  751. Thank you for a story full of facts, not opinions. It's an interesting contrast to the story of the author Erich Maria Remarque. Maybe a video idea there?
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  752.  @thomasvandevelde8157  what a load of rubbish - little of what you write is true. EDIT - I hadn't seen your other posts here, it was your first Turing post I was referring to. Sorry old boy - your other stuff is good to read. Apologies once again.
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  753.  @alganhar1  convoying, whether escorted or not, had been a proven method since the wars with Napoleon... just reinforcing your pont.
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  754.  @seanmac1793  I made two posts in this thread, please let me know what is was you wanted me to expand on, thank you.
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  755.  @seanmac1793  it was about his post on Turing, which seemed a bit out of context to me, and not about his other good posts here - sorry as my comment didn't connect to his - my fault. In a nutshell, the relevant dates were 1952 when he was convicted of gross indecency, and 1954 when he died, officially by suicide; the relevant place is England. (Not somewhere in the 1960s). The phrase 'chemical castration' isn't one I hear frequently but yes, he undertook what was believed at the time to be a suitable treatment for sex offenders. I am glad we have moved on a long way since then. So no, he wasn't left to die from chemical castration, and there is reasonable speculation his death might have been accidental rather than suicide. The Govt did in fact get involved, as his security clearance was removed - to remove the risk of him being blackmailed over his sexuality and sexual activities - again, how times have changed. COLOSSUS was not being used operationally at this time but possibly two machines survived to be used as training aids. Thomas' post is a bit confusing as I am not sure what his point really was, but Turing was not left to die as suggested. NB - thanks for some interesting insights on Admiral King - a 'marmite' person I think?
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  756.  @seanmac1793  no problem, I also amended my comment so Thomas doesn't think bad of me, thank you for avoiding some unneccessary misunderstanding. I totally agree with your summary of King. A man of his time, like Rickover, or Bomber Harris. I am glad he was on our side!
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  757. Yay for the Lewis gun --- used on land air and sea for possibly over 40 years? Great test - it would be cool to see the test done with the crew served element in place too? But still - like soemone else said, this is a major piece of research that serves to inform us all. Thanks all of you - shooters, donors, road crew.
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  758. Another hit! Thank you Ed
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  759. Another ace video, and on a plane I have never heard of either. Those stacked engine pods look very unusual, especially the ones which have different engines top and bottom! Were there any precedents or subsequent designs that use this vertical stack? Cheers Ed!
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  760. Another excellent video - thanks to you both!
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  761. Now that Alan Rickman is dead, I feel I have spotted an ideal replacement for our 21st century screen villain. Add one cat and a cigarrette holder and presto!
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  762. No harm in trying - even though the weapon failed the experiment is a success.
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  763. Again source please, that withdrawing the helmets was actually considered in seriousnaess. Thank you.
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  764. Makes sense to me - British barracks whether for regs or territorials usually have plenty of access to indoor 25metre ranges for small bore shooting, so drills and practises could be conducted under cover in poor weather with artificial lighting if needed in the evening, and without the need for a full size range; There also exist .22 conversion kits for L1A1 SLRs and the Carl Gustav 84mm recoilless rifle, both still in use in the late 80s here in the UK. Ping ping!
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  765. Magazines that move and reciprocate - is this unique?
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  766. Could we please have information on the standard scales for measuring stabbiness - metric or otherwise. Thank you.
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  767. A very interesting proposal Ian - thank you for supporting Ukraine in the way you have done it. Was the Liberator pistol a deliberate inclusion? NB - the Red Cross will always take donations if you wish to give to them please.
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  768. Lethal Wespon?
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  769.  @Rundstedt1  I beleive that crude oil can be a bit hard to get burning but I could be wrong
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  770. Ah the pure dakka of it. Thank you Ian.
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  771. Ian, and community - based on this very good video, is there any theoretical equation that says if the cartridge does THIS then the blowback parts will have to do THAT; ie if I wanted to make a 7.62mm NATO blowback weapon what would I theoretically need on the recoiling side of the equation to keep it safe? This is assuming no delayed blowback trickery or advanced primer ignition wizardry of course.
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  772. Now that is a mission and a half.... nice one Mark.
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  773. I think even Ian says it can be a bit tricky....
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  774. Jeepers - you had to earn your danger money as a Soviet test pilot!! That was a very close shave.
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  775. A chilling story. Thank you.
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  776. Enjoyable as always!
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  777. Ian, you mention the cuts and stuff needed for Mk I - which was a lot of big numbers - have you any data for what it was reduced to in the modified Mk I and then the Mk II please?
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  778. Well done all those who gave, but thank you to Ian for making us aware too. So happy!!!!!!!!
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  779. I just googled it - yes it was Caravan and Camping Club after the Forestry Commission decided to knock the place down cos they didn't wnat to keep it in repair. Facepalm!
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  780. It would have been good to have a little about Beria's attempts to reform the USSR after Stalins death discussed. and his motivations likewise. But - not a bad programme. Thank you.
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  781. Great video, and great to see all our friends from Suomi here mocking us poor English persons who can't even say 'sauna' correctly. Loved the pronunciation jokes!
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  782. I think he said 50 Kg
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  783. Halifax video - yes please! I still haven't read the Haynes manual I bought, nor have I been to the one at RAF Elvington. My grandfather was an instrument fitter on the Mk IIIs from 1944 onwards, it'd be cool to know more.
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  784. I'd say World War I, and definitely WWII - even though the USA was on my side in the UK, amazing to see what got 'borrowed' and 'lent', seems to be the same in France. Nice guitar pic - rock on dude.
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  785.  @marknorville9611  that's not true at all
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  786.  @user-jo2cc1hd7y  all the ones I have seen have no badges on them, and for good reasons. Your definition isn't right
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  787.  @marknorville9611 certain people can wear armed forces unforms due to honorary ranks they are awarded in the Forces; there is no such equivalent for the Police.
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  788.  @user-jo2cc1hd7y  I don't need to look it up online old boy, I know my definitions the old fashioned way from Blackstone's, but very kind of you to suggest I Google it.
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  789.  @user-jo2cc1hd7y  it is all a question of intent - and to be fair I didn't read your initial post properly re having the necessary intent, so apologies for that, you were indeed right. But I would suggest that the reason he's togged up in police gear saying police on it is to make him look like the police to others... one for the Courts to decide maybe? TTFN!
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  790. Did a Google search but no joy - what's the difference between naval spec and merchant spec please? I assume the latter is cheap and cheerful.... thank you.
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  791. Good bit of history once again! Nice clips too - one shows the en bloc clip being ejected from a Garand as it fires its last shot, another shows a glimpse of the rare US camo uniform. I wonder what the price was for any poor civilians left in the city? I dread to think....
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  792.  @davidbrennan660  Sherry?
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  793. I send my regards to you and your extended family.
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  794. 5:25 nice shot of a Blenheim nightfighter in sexy black with radar aerial on the port wing.
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  795. Just do what you do - you're brilliant too.
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  796.  @Ihasanart  ah makes sense it's a NATO abbreviation not a French one
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  797. And when crews hang flammable kit bags, sleeping bags, TESCO shopping bags etc on the outside of their AFV it just adds to the flames and fun. Seen a few Russian AFVs recently that look like pack mules...
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  798. LMGs not understood in the Great War? Well not in the USA obviously, nor in WWII, meanwhile the Lewis gun...
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  799.  @Malikyte13  Both terms were acceptable when it was discovered, and still are now dependent on what language you speak. You took a bite at the bait he offered too. Smeghed.
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  800.  @ShimadaSharra  and I would say aluminium or aluminum should be spelt without a capital A, so either way you would have been correct, but you went and typed 'swiss' and blew me out of the water.
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  801. Lovely video. If you are ever in the area please visit the Royal Armouries at Leeds in Yorkshire. Thousands of guns, swords, etc - for free. I think we need to install Iain as resident curator?
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  802. It's an interesting question; we can of course assess these things with hindsight, but at the time the RN needed to put whatever it had into the Denmark Strait quickly to make contact, and draw Bismarck and Prinz Eugen into battle. The superior speed and manoeuvrability of the 'battlecruiser' concept didn't allow it to evade more modern fire control systems it seems - one good hit can be all it takes. But it did start the end of that great ship the Bismarck at the sacrifice of itself. That convoys were not engaged by German capital ships could be a suitable epitaph for the crew. A great documentary, and a very interesting set of comments too.
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  803. They should not be forgotten. The conecpt of air superiority started here.
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  804.  @Pete-tq6in  nice info - thank you!!
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  805. An intelligent and reasoned monologue! I don't think anyone could be offended by this one Ian. I do like your hypothesis about museums then and now, and think it holds water. I agree that to understand a machine it has to be used - what I would like the Royal Armouries to do is offer me a job putting this into practise. I can do 40 hours a week, have my own eye and ear protection, and am willing to work my lunch.
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  806. The Balvenie tin in the background full of gizzits and cleaning gear is worth my monthly Patreon fee all by itself... I tend to keep all my whisky bottle tubes for just the same reasons. Just lacking an M85 that's all.
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  807. Sorry if this is listed already, but how much heavier than the Bren was it?
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  808. Ah more Dr Fred... I'll put the kettle on and make some toast before settling down to enjoy this. EDIT Excellent science gentlemen, thank you. I ended up with a glass of red and the cheese board... it's a hard life. Now to watch the bang bang crash videos you linked to.
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  809. Damn right. I've only ever shot .22 rimfire and air rifles, but the first job you should do is work out what's the best ammunition for it.
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  810. @ if you believe him - he's been asked to name and shame them here twice, it went strangely quiet after that
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  811. @ you've been asked twice (at least) to name and shame. Still waiting....
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  812.  @lwilton  funnily enough I was going to suggest that both the Battle of the Atlantic and the USN submarine campaign against Japan were the battles that were very important in winning a war, but I don't think they fit Mahan's 'decisive battle' criteria; they do however fit the rest of his thinking, in that the Allies retained enough control of the Atlantic to meet their war aims, while in the Pacific, the Japanese did not. I can also agree that things had moved beyond one decisive battle in both the north Atlantic and the Pacific, in that it took a number of battles to write down German or Japanese forces. To be fair to Mahan, he was thinking and writing in the days before air power and submarines became effective. I wonder what he would have thought if writing in 1946? Just a wee thought anyway.
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  813.  @rdfox76  very worth reading - thank you for some excellent thought
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  814. I never get tired of seeing a man have too much gun fun 🙂
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  815. Dido, not Dido....
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  816. Noice - and Sea Vixen next? I was hoping for Drach to be glimpsed in this one too... never mind :-)
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  817. Good to see a man happy in his work. So - as good as an MP5 possibly?
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  818. Scott, happy to see you are mending nicely - I am not really sure what all the egg plant/aubergine and dinosaur stuff means but laughed anyway! Keep mending - love from England.
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  819. A steering system dating from 1915 - fantastic!
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  820. I watched a programme about where he was sighted in Minehead.
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  821. How much more criminal can that regime get? Scary stuff Ed, but thank you for the analysis.
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  822. Hope you get well soon Ian, and stop vibrating gently while you drink your whisky.
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  823. Plus how inaccurate old navigation methods could be, especially if the crew were not trained to be as good as was possible.
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  824. I have it on good authority it can be found in the Albert Hall.
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  825. A little bit linked... a lot of street names in England where I live are called after our various battles, and there is an Inkerman Street not too far from me. Lovely video Ian as always.
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  826. Jeepers what a horrorshow. It is indeed sad that this isn't front line news here in the west every day, and that our Governments don't seem to care. Looks like we have gone nowhere fast in the last 100 years to make the world a better place for everyone.
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  827. I might have missed something in the video; why is the title Super-Heavy, when in fact this is by the standards of WWII a medium machine gun in 7.92 x 57. Now if it was the ZB-60.....
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  828. * or if peasants use longbows. Now there's a video in the making: defining the moment where war bows were out and fire arms were in.
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  829. Any experts able to tell us whether this turboprop would be less of an IR signature to MANPADS etc than a jet?
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  830. Update - I have been reading this book for three days now and have only just made to to 1940! Very nicely written, beautifully illustrated, and also brings new knowledge to the table. There isn't a lot on tactics or deployment so far, it's nearly all about the rifles, the scopes and their ancillaries including clothing. This isn't a major draw back - we can always go back to Hesketh-Pritchard and C. Shore if we want to look at that aspect in detail. Thanks for bring it on here Ian - it is a book I am very glad I possess.
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  831. Yup a Norduyn Norseman - I plane I had never really heard of till I read a great book about the death of Glenn Miller. NB - did C-47s have selfsealing tanks?
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  832.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  Amen. Dates usually agree, historians should not.
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  833.  @tsegulin  my experiences of education too for the most part - mid 70s early 80s UK - and now, I love these channels that revise history but also explain what evidence they use. Let's keep promoting thinking - thank you for posting your thoughts, I think they are very inspiring.
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  834. A good video. Is it fair to compare Nazi and Soviet propaganda? I think it is, they have much in common about demonising innocent people to create an 'enemy within' they claim to defend their country/people from. The biggest difference is that Nazi propaganda has been exposed for what is was (unless you are the sort of person who denies the Holocaust); however Soviet propaganda seems to be alive and kicking, and there is still widespread denial of atrocities of the Stalin era.
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  835. I hope you enjoyed Praha Ian, and enjoyed some of the local beers. All the best to everyone for 2025!
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  836. It's a BLEN gun. Jeepers, it's like Isambard Brunel had made it over a weekend off. More rivets!
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  837. St Nazaire - say it like it is spelt Drach... 24:15 - you nailed it like a boss. I will e-mail you a croissant and a beret! Pausing at halfway to refill my glass, and carry on enjoying. So, no mention of the blancoed webbing or rubber soled boots?
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  838. Now I was today wondering about putting a request n for just such a video - how wonderful!!
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  839. Ah...anyone fancy a quick game of Boots and Saddles? I still have all that GDW series of games, plus Air Superiority/Air Strike... I should dust them off and be very retro.
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  840. Hmmm nice idea!
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  841. I'd heard a variation on this that it was built wide and straight to assist with the transport of Lancasters from the Greengate Chadderton factory to Woodford for final assembly. There is a video of the 80th anniversary celebration where most of a Lanc fuselage is on a low loader going from Chad to Woodford, but having tried to watch it a few times, I am not if it does go along Viccy Avenue, and of course, it may not have taken the 'oroginal' route if such a thing existed. Here's a link to the vid anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDdoufy6eQE&ab_channel=NeilDraper
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  842.  @PHI77IP85  that's what I thought having watched in slo mo a couple of times.
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  843. Hopefully this video wasn't all based on Meyer's book! It's another interesting tale of a plane/tank/ship/gun/boiling water vessel that never saw service.
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  844. Great video - and thrilled to think there are more to come! Correct me if I am wrong but I recall the bottom dust cover slid open on cocking, plus the 7.62 LMG version had its own wider sling - was this not the case for the .303 BREN which is seen here with a rifle sling? Finally - never knew the flash hider bit was stainless - was it necessary to leave it in the white, or could it not have been Parkerised? If anyone knows, I'd love to find out.
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  845. Great video - again - but what about Władysław Sikorski who I think deserves being rated as a leader for Poland.
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  846.  @shoottheheadcase  I was going to say Catapult to Twatapult...
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  847. Fugly.
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  848. Ian - I think you said 'rifle' at one point but referred to a shotgun it as well. I'm sure it's a smoothbore but what gauge/bore is it if you know please? Apols if I missed anything in your talk - my fault totally.
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  849. If only some of these cats looked like Hitler, I would consider my life complete.
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  850. More potential misery caused by corrupt and failing politicians seeking popularity by attacking a peaceful but weaker neighbour, and hoping for a quick win.
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  851. Brilliant video!
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  852. that would have been a good ending - but I got the feeling his brain was asking for mercy!
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  853. Is this a remake Ed? The first half looks familiar... or perhaps I dreamt it.
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  854.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  it was on another channel old boy, my mind wasn't playing tricks with me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFrfTEZT4A&t=16s&ab_channel=RuairidhMacVeigh but yours is better of course :-)
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  855. The sad thing is that Ethiopia (like a lot of other countries split by ethnicity/religion) has experienced periods of stability in the past, so like you say, people can live together if given a fair chance. It's a big kids on the outside of the circle shouting "fight fight fight" that are the issue; my fear is that we'll only see this conflict on mainstream new if it turns to a mass humanitarian disaster with famine and starvation. Sad news.
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  856. Assassination feels a little bit of a strong word - they were frontline soldiers in a war zone - but that is nit picking. Great story and great supporting clips - I am making an RAF B25 at thsi very moment, inspiring!!
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  857. Beautiful carbine, beautiful video. Thank you Ian.
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  858. Thank you Ian... a bit of your soul laid bare. I'd rather shoot my own food (or indeed gather it) than support farming methods I think are not nice. Now in England... that's seen as a bit weird. But I think you respect and value your meat more if you take responsibility for it. I love Cap'n'Balls hunting videos for the same reason - a certain sadness when you take anbother life, but always respect for the animal, and grateful that you have plenty when others do not. Thank you for your time as always.
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  859. or drizzle of course.
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  860.  @davewolfy2906  yup I was told it was because we were near the top of the Spetznaz hit list. I looked it up and it was actually Duran Duran. Weird innit>?
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  861. Long live Ukraine! Donation made to the Ukraine Red Cross appeal
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  862. What is the history of the magazine disconnect prior to this weapon if anyone knows please?
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  863.  @jeanwesleynew  I've never quite enjoyed a malt over 12-14 yrs old... what's the 18 yr old you recommend if you could be so kind?
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  864.  @slick_slicers  it wasn't really, it was the number of engines available. The woodwork/assembly aspect didn't rely on skilled labour that much. Source: Haynes Owners Manual.
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  865. Glad to see you transalted it better than Ian!
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  866. It is a good read..... and it matches the channel in quality.
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  867. 8:33 in and liked for saying that in our first world luxury, when did you last spend more than 4 hours in any environment when you were NOT able to just touch a dial/knob/button to warm yourself up. Additionally - in these days of perfect food, good to see you struggle with staple foods from days gone by. I can certainly tell you that when you are really hungry, you don't pick at your food for lack of sugars, salts and flavourings. Great video! I love the reaction to Scotch Coffee! Coffee made by someone who had only read about it, not tasted it. Utterly vile.
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  868. Brilliant video! Fascinating dead end weapon. Meanwhile in Europe, Chassepots and Dreyses are battling it out.
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  869.  @georgebuller1914  or used.
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  870. @kevin barker deep trouble one way or another; just use two hands as Palle says
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  871. If an army marches on its stomach, what does the navy do?
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  872. Lovely to watch and listen too while I varnish and glaze a 1:72 Hurricane... it's what Saturdays are for!
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  873. I'm curious... if the bolt was pulled fully back, and either placed in the safety detente, or not and was ready to fire, would the safety lever move and lock the the bolt from moving forward again?
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  874.  @Justanotherconsumer  neatly put.
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  875.  @johnladuke6475  that sounds like a conflation to me John.
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  876.  @johnladuke6475  I can send you a picture of my paper dictionary if you wish, it's the one I tend to use, but if you want to mention Google, here are the Google synonyms for conflate: meld, fuse, amalgamate, unify, consolidate, converge, unite, blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, network, mix, mingle, pool. Ive checked the next four hits and can't find the word confuse in any of them. Did you really mean to say communism inherently included communism by the way? I am sure you didn't. The interesting thing again is that there is still discussion about Marx and his own spiritual beliefs, and indeed 'religion is the opiate of the people' has been interpreted in many ways, not just to say Marx was an atheist. Marxism-Leninism is a slightly different kettle of fish I'll grant you.
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  877. Nice one Ed, I sat down to watch this one in peace as I knew it would be a corker. What a story. We heard about Adrian Warburton when we visited Malta last year, and perhaps he is a chap who's not heard of enough? (Hint, hint.) Coincidentally, we spent our honeymoon this year in a shepherd's hut in Dorset with a Landgirl/WWII theme called Esme's Escape, after the lady who lived in the farm during the war.. On the wall was a photo of her brother Eric flying - what else? - a Baltimore! Take care, looking forward to your next release.
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  878.  @emjackson2289  and you can see it off the A189! I think they also make breathalysers there (possibly.)
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  879. Just for the sake of saying it - HEAT does not work by thermal energy, but by the kinetic energy of the warhead exploding in a focused manner. Still a great video!!!
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  880. @onenote6619  yes that seems likely. I don't think it was until nuclear subs that there was enough power to electrolyse water to extract oxygen etc so the XXI would have been as limited as most subs of it's era?
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  881. I think I get a bit blasé about YouTube, and every now and again it's grand to see history revisited. It was unfortunate that the USA happily took Britain's advanced Tube Alloys project off Britain, then after the war denied Britain anything nuclear related back in return . As a Brit I feel a little bit smugger to know that our Lancaster would have done the job when their B-29 was still struggling to get off the ground without catching fire. The whole topic of US attitudes to British and Empire involvement in the war against Japan is a very sorry story I am afraid, so thank you Mark for putting up here in 2020.
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  882. and if you're still commenting, it makes everyone's day better too, I wish you a swift recovery
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  883.  @pavarottiaardvark3431  absolutely... there would have been many bodges and "it's good enough" solutions, but made so much easier by commonality in those engines.
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  884. I was wondering whether this was a bit unfair on the US until I saw the bomber parks at the end of the video - not much evidence of any RAF planes at all. Which is interesting considering the USAAF was supposed to be a precision instrument (and also interesting as recorded here that bomb loads contained a large amount of incendiaries.) Good video Mark!
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  885. I hope you enjoyed your lie down. Subscribed to you just out of principle, but also I liked the look of your videos too.
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  886.  @davidstrother496  me too please.
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  887.  @PlosmanD  really good thoughts; I'd suggest that in the book Compass Rose didn't go down in good order, and went down quickly and unexpectedly in the wee hours, the angle of her list prevented use of the proper lifeboats; the book documents both the problems of lifeboats when she went down, and also that she was torpedoed, thus the lack of the lifeboats was instrumental in the subsequent deaths of most of the crew. I would also suggest that in today's age, we forget how quickly advanced first aid has come; this was set in an era where first aid was pretty primitive compared to what we know now. To me, it portrays the tragedy of war in a semifictitious way; it is shocking, emotional, but as you ask - how much of that was real, and how much of it was dramatised for effect? I would also like to know. Thank you for asking a really good question, I look forward to understanding the books more.
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  888.  @ills6  is there ever really a bad time for it? I hope not 🙂
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  889. Good good! Big fan of the Western Approaches museum, great to see them doing what the bloody Council should have done in the first place. If it's any consolation, Liverpool lost it's world heritage status recently.... there is more to culture than football grounds, bars and restaurants!
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  890. YT linked me straight into another video where shooters actually match a No 4 Mk I (T) vs a BREN gun. I noted a pinned post from Nick Moran (the Chieftain) which seemed very much to defend the film's choice, not on the grounds of making the film thrilling, but that this could actually have happened. I hope I have read his post correctly. The big question - was there any suggestion whatsoever that this actually, really, happened?
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  891. Again, I find myself totally interested and not fast forwarding or skipping sections. Another fine video sir!
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  892. Another great one Ed!!
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  893. ab fab... and so objective too
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  894. I suppose for every starting pistol there must be the right amount of stopping rifles otherwise the universe may well collapse.
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  895. Good video and I agree with you; I see a lot of videos on YouTube that use film clips that are not from the period/area being discussed. I usually unsubscribe or never watch their stuff again
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  896. ANCA - we watched this on HoWaW!
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  897. I would trust this man with anything simply due to his moustache. Top tip - check curtains/blinds/drapes and unwanted reflections from windows before filming... luckily on this occasion BOTR wasn't stood working the camera in his Y-fronts
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  898. Cludged. A lovely word that we all know what it means even if it doesn't appear in any dictionary.
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  899. Saving Private Ryan had mistakes? Surely not! NB - are there any records of snipers in WWII operating left handed, in the days of right handed bolts for all?
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  900. or water that brown and murky...
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  901. Viz's Spoilt Bastard by any chance? "Mummy will buy you one darling!"
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  902. I thought the same - but you say carbeen, I say carbine, you say hose clamps, I say jubilee clips. You say royal armories, I say Royal Armouries, and so on. This may get UK English some leverage (not levverage!)
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  903. Hello from the UK,; good advice from this man - go to your primary legal sources, not just anyone on social media who tells you what you want to hear.
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  904. Hecate is not pronounced to rhyme with headache either in Greek or French - please Ian! You'll be saying carbine next instead of carbine. :-)
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  905. Not the best April Fool's video I have seen today, but thank you for trying.
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  906. Really interesting also to see all the swarf and crud that's flying around there
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  907. I am guessing it wasn't Ed, as I saw it too on the pic of Milch, but not anywhere else unless I've missed something - I am guessing it was a stock image he reused. I was tempted to comment on it, and how many other swastikas were in the same image that had not been censored.
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  908. 5:26 - the L42A1 has a fully free floated heavier hammer forged barrel - the L8(T) did not, as per the previous video on the L8
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  909. Visited the museum just this very week - well worth it, spent over three hours down there soaking up the atmosphere, and standing where people who helped win us the war stood.
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  910. You forgot Admiral-General Aladeen - but I guess we can forgive you for that ;-)
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  911. Waiting for Part II - mainly for the lack of audio therein.
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  912. Gun nerd alert at 1:47 to see a Madsen light machine gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madsen_machine_gun) what's the pic source Ed, as the wiki says these LMGs were around in South America but doesn't mention either of the two countries this video is about.
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  913. Did you shoot some card targets just to see how much the pattern is changed by the adaptors? Just interested!
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  914. Wonderful!! Has anyone any idea what the field of view of such a scope would be? I am also interested as to why it is offset to the left. I know that on early sniping rifles, offsets were to allow the use of charger clips (I think) but perhaps on this weapon it was to allow the use of the iron sights? Just guesses, would love to know more!
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  915. Interesting, and I wasn't surprised when they found it didn't really work. I was interested by the thought that planes couldn't climb quick enough to intercept the Luftwaffe, when the Dowding system had proved itself so well already, putting interceptors in the right place at the right time with height advantage. Double the lift, double the drag? NB was the P marking for 'Prototype'?
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  916.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  true, I also suppose there's a good history of ideas thayt shouldn't really have worked but did! NB - still got my Bentley Priory museum sticker on my jacker from last month - great place to visit!
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  917. I have an infestation of Velociraptors, and have great legs in shorts.
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  918. The Soviets stood strong as the NKVD was stood right behind them to just to make sure they were all good patriots; and I am pretty sure than my little island didn't surrender even at a time when the USSR was allied with Hitler instead of his enemy.
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  919. Watched the WaW version, very nice work if you can get it!!
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  920. Yup, all distilleries are generally the same inside.... and yes, so many questions we see are the 'wrong' question!
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  921. Please do this dressed as Princess Leia or Han Solo or similar. Awesome!
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  922. I suppose for every starting pistol there must be the right amount of stopping rifles otherwise the universe may well collapse.
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  923. Fascinating as always. Merry Christmas Ed and all the best for 2023. NB - doesn't it look so much like a shark with that air intake??!
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  924. There is also a certain irony that the USA made pretty much the same accusation against Britain in 1914 when Britain's blockade of the Central Powers included foodstuffs as something that would sustain Germany's war effort, and therefore would be stopped.
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  925.  @SCjunk  I would slightly disagree; the civilian population of Germany were starving by 1918, as Germany could not get food into their country effectively due to the blockade. A lot of that food came from the USA, hence their protests were as much financial as ehtical.
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  926. Possibly a step up from WARPAC warfighting doctrine then? ;-)
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  927. Ed Nash did an episode on them on his YT channel about four weeks ago - it's an amazing story!
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  928.  @Rob-e8w  wow I knew Whitehead Park very well, never saw the torpedo. Cheers for the info!
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  929. C'mon Drach - theatre; theee atter, stress on syllable one 😃What a shame about the sad ending though; too reminiscent of 'Johnnie' Walker of the RN. Also good proof that a bit of micky taking and nicknames are character building. Snowflakes take note!
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  930. ​ @WALTERBROADDUS  maybe because so often when you see simialr or identical ideas put into practise it was the case - reverse engineering, industrial espionage, etc. There are of course genuine cases of invention.
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  931. I still think it's a lovely looking plane.
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  932. Very interesting! A good response to internet instamemes that get repeated without question or scrutiny!
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  933.  @aasphaltmueller5178  that is fascinating - thank you. I also see that it was as effective as the 2 Pdr, plus it had an HE round too!
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  934.  @gm3dmo  I think some of us missed the point you were making; please expand your comment.
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  935. Good video, good research and well presented. It's great see to see so many people smoking next to the early airplanes, and hydrogen filled giants, and not catch fire.
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  936. https://youtu.be/d7NuyxZz-0k
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  937.  @vaclav_fejt  what is the revolt bit please?
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  938. Always HMS Compass Rose in my mind.
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  939. I can't answer the first part, but on the second part - yes. Barrel whip is one issue, in that the longer and slimmer a barrel is, the more like a tuning fork it gets, so harmonics become increasingly an issue. Also to keep the projectile accelerating down the longer tube requires more propellant, leading to the breach/barrel needing to be stronger at the closed end, a bigger charge needs to handled, plus higher bore pressures can lead to quicker throat and bore erosion. I'm coming at this from small arms and tank guns, and there's a reason why they pretty much tend to sit within a certain range re calibre or the L number. Guns like the German 7.5cm L70 and 8.8cm L71 were unusual I'd say. Hope that helps :-)
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  940. Looks like John M Browning wins this one - great video, and thank you for the shooting sequences The Full 9.
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  941.  @mazambane286  I think you are right - they do not have the UK style of muzzle brake/flash hider
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  942. Couple of quickies - did Ian mentioned whether it was closed or open bolt? Sorry if I missed that bit. The hold open device - in the Australian version you can see a hole towards the top of the vertically sliding hold open rod, that looks like it could have held the pin to engage with the magazine follower and make it back to an automatic hold open weapon? And - you made it all the way through the video without mentioning the BAR. Well done ;-)
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  943.  @minuteman4199  thank you - I need to listen better :-)
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  944. Again - thank you for another video that taught me something new, and good to hear that Kosacki seems to have had a long and fruitful life after the war; bless him for his selflessness. Can I have a micro nitpick though - Poles fled from two invasions, not just the German one you mention. Your video on the Katyn massacre shows you know your stuff about the Soviet invasion of Poland, so no doubt an oversight, and a very understandable one. Thanks for great content once again.
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  945. Please add a flying carrot and hey presto! Guess what you have then?
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  946.  @JohnyG29  well said. I forgot the Bristol.
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  947. Another great video thank you Mark. Links nicely in my mind to your video about Lancasters being suggested as delivery planes for the A-bombs as the bomb bays of even the mighty B-29 had to be modified to take them. Please excuse my small outburst of national pride there folks.
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  948. Great video - and happy anniversary too!
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  949. that is a very good comment, mainly because you are right.
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  950. I'm reading the title trying to work out the link to role playing games.... it must be time for another drink.
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  951. and could catch fire on take off a lot in the early days if my reading is to be believed. Still awesome though!
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  952. as Im sticking together an Airfix kit these videos are the perfect accompaniment
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  953. Final drive issues.... again.
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  954. It's a humbing video to watch - I am glad you have your faith, and are recovering well. Best wishes from England.
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  955.  @Vorpal_Wit  not much of what you've said there is true.
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  956. I'm trying to remember which Churchill biography warned of taking the man's own accounts with a healthy pinch of salt now and again. I like the comparison you made with the Duke of Wellington - leaders cast in the heroic mould. Thankyou for again making more people aware of history!
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  957. Interesting research Ed, such a shame that some folks assume they are always right and have to use vitriol instead of asking for a proper discussion.
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  958. So why was the fuselage so tall? I can't see what advantage this gives. Top marks for the Jimbo Jet smiley face though :-)
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  959.  @k3D4rsi554maq  well I didn't know that - thank you :-)
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  960. I wonder why seaplanes (aka floatplanes) died out... I can't think why. ;-) Nice vid Ed, one of my mates who does Airfix models did a YT vid on a kit of this aeroplane last month, I've linked your vid to his. https://youtu.be/EJkxpLBpHbk
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  961.  @rudolfthecat1176  apologies I thought I'd posted this earlier, if I've double posted, sorry; the Shinden grounded its prop in its first fast taxiing trials, and a comment made about the Brit version having dolly wheels to protect the prop makes me think this was in fact a problem.
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  962. Well said Daniel = I'm in England so just as academic for me too, but another interesting fire arm is good to see.
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  963. Big Flipping Gun
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  964. Awful pun but high standard production as always
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  965. A Webley-Fosbery flop? Someone will be for the high jumpt then.
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  966. Brilliant video. We get tumbleweed collectors and then a vulture/eagle in the background, then a load of people having fun! No apologies needed for this one Ian.
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  967.  @ronin3381  basically flash hiders to mitigate the effect of muzzle flash on the gunner's eye. You'll see them on infantry weapons such as the Bren gun or the No 5 jLee-Enfield jungle carbine.
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  968. 6:22 - Armstrong Whitworth Ensign in the background?
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  969. Seems to be a fair bit of barrel whip there - great slo mo footage!
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  970.  @gcox7013  well explained; if bart1842 was quoting from this video, then the video has made (another) error.
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  971. So... when did the RN run out of the old ammo, and what did they change to? 7.62 NATO ot 5.56 NATO? The previous video in this series should be longbow vs Minié rifles :-) Bless our wetleg RN cousins - rum bum and baccy all the way.
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  972. was there any record that his helmet stopped anything while he was lurking at the front?
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  973. Is there any information on how often the white phosporous round for the M9 bazooka was available or used please? I think any film clips of it in use would be easy to spot!
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  974.  @MothaLuva  a Bishop
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  975.  @adriangoodman8901  I think that is the general point... someone who confuses 'being knowledgable about' with 'being in sympathy with' worries me a lot.
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  976. Sorry if this has been covered already... bro in English English is often used instead of borough or brough - eg Middlesbro.The only Glenmore forest I know of is in the Cairngorms near Aviemore . Beautiful wepaon, expertly narrated. NB - many English Scottish Irish and Welsh nobility have/had mottos in French, eg Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, so a French motto isn't that unusual.
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  977. Lovely stuff. The minimalist SMG par excellence.
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  978. Great video - I play U Boat sims far too much! Can I just say I will always call a hydrophone a hydrophone, and never passive SONAR.
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  979. Lovely video Ian - I always learn something, and this time it was about how that nose cap was there to avoid the bayonet attaching to the barrel. Never apologise about the length of your videos - we have pause buttons nowadays while we top up the whisky and settle down for more wisdom and charm from you.
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  980. Perhaps research a bit more. Churchill did say that if Hitler invaded hell, he would at least make a decent refernce for the Devil. Ie - my enemy's enemy is my friend. I would not call that sympathy, I'd call it good realpolitik, and no one really seems to have any good alternatives apart from A Bomb the Commies. (Which in 1941 wasn't really an option was it?)
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  981. I was wondering if anyone else had spotted the Manchester there!
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  982.  @wulfie1199  I would love this too, we are saving up for a trip on her ourselves
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  983.  @bertbaker7067  good question, and maybe, how did it compare to the system on HMS Warrior?
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  984.  @mikepette4422  I (hopefully) appreciate your irony!
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  985. Fabulous work - and thank you Henry!
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  986. Terrific! Not much of a mystery really, but nothing wrong with that!
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  987. It's got three giant bipod feet... made me laugh, Ian is so perfectionist, it's so rare to hear/see him make a veyr small error Interesting to see a training weapon that is better made than a PPSh or a STEN Is this the Haenel that still make air rifles and ammo by the way?
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  988.  @Drachinifel  I use a lot of Vallejo for Airfix type kits, AK interactive is ok too. Mostly airbrush but with decent brushes their airbrush paints work well.
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  989. Well done Ian - you have done so much for people just by your videos, then you go and do this. You definitely deserve a place in the Last Great Armoury in the Sky.
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  990. Greetings from the UK; I have to agree that it is a tricky exercise to say one engine alone was the most important, and the Double Wasp is a good contender.
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  991.  @patrickradcliffe3837  quite so. If the Centaurus was tried and tested it would have been used, but - it wasn't. And this was a modern bomber, being a tail dragger doesn't make you old fashioned. Please tell us Aftastos who you design aircraft for, then we can look at your genius.
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  992. Have another thumbs up just for saying 'complete bollox' whilst drinking Scotch. Top man!
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  993.  @memofromessex  I understand your point, I was more of a student of the early middle ages, and it's very analogous. Anyway - what have the Romans ever done for us?
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  994.  @stevetournay6103  That would be awesome Steve; I saw Vera flying with our other Lanc when she visited maybe ten years ago. A vic of three - my knees might go a bit weak!
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  995.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Just Jane is looked after by lincsaviation, plus a chap called Neville Wheeldon does an almost weekly YT vlog about the stages of her restoration. We were lucky enough to afford a taxy ride in her last month!
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  996. I think this is a good question, even though my own answer would be that the differences that led to defeat or victory were not ideological ones. The Germans were determined to sweep the Allies back off the invasion beaches for instance if Meyer is quoted correctly. but perhaps the factors that made them lose in the west were not the same factors that lost them the war in the east. The only genuine factor I can think of is that surrender on the western front was thinkable, but trying to surrender on the eastern front ... I am not sure how much difference this made to outcomes but again, it's a good question.
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  997. @M. J. I do agree - all sides tried to do it. The interesting thing for me is how varied the results were, and I think it would be fair to say that Nazi attitudes towards the peoples in the east was somewhat different to attitudes and behaviours in the west (most of the time), and this showed in how their soldiers fought. But I don't think it won or lost Ger,any many battles.
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  998. We'll be down in Oct to visit. Interesting to see the TT. 35 Mosquito you have, that Airfix are trying to pass their new Mosquito kit off as a Mk. XVI bomber but it's a TT.35. (They used the one at Cosford as the template.)
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  999. Rather!
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  1000. Cmon Ian - don't forget that quite a lot of us forrins don't understand US gun laws but thank you for it being explained in the video - Curio and Relic it is.
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  1001. Mark, your video on the "alternative A-bomb attack" was linked on the Facebook Unofficial Airfix Modellers group.... and we all turned out to be viewers and likers. I think there can be no finer tribute to your quality sir. Now pass me the glue and some paint.
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  1002. Ian, if I may, here is a YouTube piece about the radium girls who painted this stuff on, it is from a very good source; thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIGz_3kYC8
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  1003. Argentine rhymes with carbine Ian, not carbine. If you get what I mean.
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  1004. Sorry but stop the US angle on this weapon; this example may well be a US manufactured version, but the UK was using them a long time before the USA entered the field....
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  1005.  @FutureChaosTV  so the title should be "Europe's Tiniest Armies BELONGING TO NATION STATES"? but not using caps like I did.
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  1006.  @maximilianolimamoreira5002  visit it - it is wonderful!
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  1007. Very useful as I have just started building an Airfix 1:48 Hurricane Mk. I !!
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  1008. Ed, this is bad for me. I am getting behind on my YouTube viewing already then you do this..... the comments below assure me that it's worth subscribing though.
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  1009. and I thought it said Erotic Firearms too....
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  1010. Very well explored, and thank you Chris for introducing us to another great expert who can present their case convincingly (despite one 'Joe Biden' moment at the end!)
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  1011. Would love it - and also if possible test them as they were actually used with crew - loaders, barrel changes etc? I'd buy the .303 for the BREN gun!
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  1012. An excellent video, I am looking forward to the Baltic section.
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  1013. Justified, and ancient and comes from MuMu land. The KLF.
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  1014. Because in 1941 it was a fecking awful tank and did not really have the impact people think
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  1015. It is still there but that part of the museum is temporarily closed due to a leaky roof :-(
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  1016. Feet up for lunch, cheese and pickle sandwiches, and water towers.
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  1017. Rocks don't sink as fast as Mk 14s.
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  1018. glad to see this key fact mentioned!
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  1019. Amazing - North America realises it wasn't the first at last..... and having seen a barrel bend with each shot, can I feel smug that we here only gave up the No 4 rifle once we found a rifle that actually did it better in terms of accuracy and fire rate.
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  1020. Enjoyed? No I loved it. On your coolomete, this is indeed very cool.
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  1021.  Abu Dabu  your figures are as inaccurate as some of your claims. You started well on your first line, then failed. I've plenty to say about the inequality of victors' justice but I'll be damned if I'll use this tragic story as a springboard to do so.
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  1022.  @malcolmrose3361  well said, and well reasoned.
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  1023. And how is the weather in Beijing numbnuts? He'd more balls than you.
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  1024. Oooh I like this SMG a lot - thanks!
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  1025.  @neutronalchemist3241  drag on the pilot, and lots of it, so they decelerate quicker than gravity can drag them down, especially if the emergency exit was topsides, the crew would be above the main wing as they can't fall through it can they, so maybe in a fighter plane no more than 1.5 metres before they pass the tail planes. The poor buggers didn't fall enough to miss the tail planes.. There are enough accounts of air crew hitting the rear tail fins, even in RAF night bombers, to make this not an unusual event.
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  1026.  @WALTERBROADDUS  usually the thinner parts of the plane were to the rear - the engine was much bigger than the typical empennage.
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  1027. A rifle that stacks the ejected brass into a tea cup.... how lovely.
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  1028. Battle rifles. A US definition of a certain sort of firearm, am I right?
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  1029. I'm surprised I missed this one Chris, but it's an excellent introduction; I'll try to read some of the sources below, although I am probably not going to be writing a book on the subject!
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  1030. I'm sorry I can't say this in German but yes +1 for being a Hill 80 kickstarter. I was one too :-)
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  1031. For 7.92mm full fat round that is an amazingly shootable rifle - thank you for this video Ian. NB - where are your arms?
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  1032. Ooh so similar to the Caudron Rafale in MSFS 2020!!
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  1033.  @dovetonsturdee7033  a comprehensive and helpful reply - I am indebted to you. Thank you.
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  1034.  @dovetonsturdee7033  yes, I think I read a lot of this in Clay Blair's books on the U Boat war. Thanks mate!!
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  1035. Fantastic! My subscription renewed last week, my inner voice said do it
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  1036. apologies if I heard/understood wrong - is the museum looking for the model ships painting? I'm a plane modeller but can adapt if that's what they need.
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  1037. If that didn't take off immediately maybe the balloons will... one of the best gags so far!!
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  1038. Very enjoyed it, and it is a good looking firearm, particularly the wood which matches the metal work beautifully.
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  1039. 4.4k likes, 3.4k dislikes. I bet we would get a similar split if there was a second referendum over leaving Europe, but in favour of remaining?
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  1040. So.... is this the winner in the longest serving model of gun category, or is it still the Maxims seen in Russian and Ukrainian service?
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  1041.  @KingSpittusFactus  aha of course, thank you!
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  1042. Jeepers I had a very realistic dream last night that I had one of these beauties in my hands for real. Stop doing this to me.
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  1043. Hurray! What a shame you couldn't release it on 21 October. I can't wait till ?2033? when the current renovation programme on HMS Victory will be finished :-)
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  1044. I suppose for every starting pistol there must be the right amount of stopping rifles otherwise the universe may well collapse.
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  1045. Good bit of lesser known history; sadly the war didn't end for everyone in November 1918.
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  1046.  @ragnkja  even more fascinating - thank you!
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  1047.  @sotros1  absolutely - and no needed to use gears when driving, just twist and go, one engine per track.
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  1048. Truly fascinating! And as a civilised nation, you get two hours for lunch :-)
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  1049. Fugly. Thanks for the mention Ed, I now consider myself famous.
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  1050. 13:16 Hawker Sidney? Really?
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  1051. Good to see you are healing physically and mentally, and hopefuly your family is too.
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  1052. Another great story. There's a silly part of me that wants a combat flight sim which captures that amazing 1930s period with all these oddities in it, like the Heinkel bomber you showed here. If I win the lottery I might be in touch with you Ed......
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  1053. I think Ian has already addressed the myth with the STEN that if dropped it could go full auto (unless the trigger spring also failed at the same time). Is it time to see how far back must the bolt go before it will fire a cartridge, and secondly how hard you have to drop it on its butt before this will happen? If it has been done, please let me know where.
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  1054.  Jermaine Johnson  nobody said what? Please explain :-)
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  1055. So - not actually a rifle if it's smoothbore?
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  1056. Thank you for posting my own thoughts!
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  1057. but never quite big enough inside I guess.
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  1058. Lovely video thank you Ian
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  1059. Not everyone in the UK - but we did let Poland down badly for the sake of the politics of the time. You're still my heroes from Battle of Britain, Monte Cassino, Hill 262 .... it's a long list.
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  1060.  @ukaszgrzesik7231  good idea, I second this (maybe with explanations of what 'damage control' parties actually do down there, not just 'do damage control')
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  1061. How lovely - I have just started making a Tamiya 1:48 Dingo.
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  1062. Yery much so Tom; in the 70s there was only one AVRO Lancaster kit I knew of, landing with an engine on fire. I now keep all my kit boxes, but my favourite is still the Vickers Wellington where a crew member walked out onto the wing during flight to put out an engine fire. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gforcemodels.co.uk%2Fairfix-172-vickers-wellington-mkiac-641-p.asp&psig=AOvVaw2pMK9x5cQTlqx01nmhBdSg&ust=1628974198705000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCMjFmvfvrvICFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
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  1063. 'Bovine excrement' - how charmingly put.
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  1064. Drach spotted there... nice vid.
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  1065. Agreed... I've been messing with an external mic on my camera; autosound levelling usually clips the louder sounds, maybe it was a manual audio setting?
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  1066.  @pickeljarsforhillary102  so the Tuskegee airmen are a tale? What a good place to air your opinion, I bow to your superior intellect and wit.
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  1067. Oooh 00:23 - Me 262 prototype with tailwheel! Rara avis!
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  1068. What a whopper - at times I was expecting a small desk top crane or set of armourers trolleys being used to move the parts....
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  1069. "The invasion was heavily criticized by the governments of Britain,[44] Trinidad and Tobago, and Canada. The United Nations General Assembly condemned it as "a flagrant violation of international law" by a vote of 108 in favor to 9, with 27 abstentions.[45][46] The United Nations Security Council considered a similar resolution, which was supported by 11 nations. However, the United States vetoed the motion.[47]." I'm ok to go with the UN on this one.
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  1070. Good looking kites all of them. Thanks for the 'normal' content Ed as I guess your inbox is overflowing at this time.
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  1071. Treat your camera lens to a quick clean old boy, but excellent pair of videos on this weapon, and would like to see what you think if you clagged on a standard AK stock instead of that converted bit of a crutch they used!
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  1072. I'm not old enough to have seen them on the road when they were popular, but if I could have one, I would!
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