Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. In '94 we still had .45 grease guns as part of the small arms for M-88 armored recovery vehicles the US. They didn't get traded in for M4s until the oughts.
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  2. It is shaped like that to hold the brushes and oil bottle in the compartment Ian couldn't get open (and probably hasn't been opened since leaving the factory). It does look like it was whittled with a dull knife though.
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  3. Was he the smallest guy in the platoon? Because that seems to be an American Infantry tradition...
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  4. @4:12 "In Russia, officer tells you what to do and you go figure out how to do it." Nyet. In the Russian army, the officers serve the purpose on NCOs in Western armies. They have to directly supervise troops doing anything, from filling sandbags to conducting an attack. When they have to go do "officer stuff" or become casualties, the troops just slack off. They have no supervision, because the next higher level is the US equivalent of the Specialist, just privates who have been around long enough to learn how the game is played.
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  5. Nokitel is the name of a legit regional cell company.
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  6.  @manender1020  Yeah that is false. Its a lot more about no GAS and the money to pay for quality going into various pockets instead.
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  7.  @F82TwinMustang  "Lost". On Ebay.
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  8. IIRC this wasn't a late war desperation move. I think in '42 when some of the huge stock of captured war booty from the entire Soviet armies that were defeated during Barbarossa started being moved back to Germany. The Germans were always interested/needed to absorb and reuse anything they captured. Starting with Czechoslovakia all the way to using captured Shermans in the final months of the war.
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  9.  @manender1020  I once owned a Ural side car motorcycle rig. It was built with about as much "quality". Also go read up on Russian corruption. Just focus on military industrial, otherwise you'll have a lifetime's worth or reading..
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  10. That question would only be asked by someone who has never held a BAR. lol A "lighter" BAR is not a BAR. Basically what this concept eventually became was the M-14 which was still too heavy and inefficient compared to the M-16 and 5.56.
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  11. They know what they are doing, but they are constantly being given contradictory instruction from Congress and lobbyists of what to do.
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  12.  @manender1020  Take your pills and drink your vodka.
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  13. Still waiting for Nick's video on the T-62 track tension...
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  14. Yeah, these might give you a bruise or, you know.... put an eye out kid, but the don't have a practical level of mass/velocity. Yet.
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  15.  @wesleythomas7125  I think that would be my default operating procedure.
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  16. When the lowest bidder for the contract still has to pay "fees" to get it doesn't leave much left to hire the best of gunsmiths.
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  17.  @nowhereman6019  Thats really not true, not even in authoritarian socialist societies. People choose what they do based upon their personality and psychology.
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  18. Its only half as evil.
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  19. A true " MP-41(r) of the lake"...
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  20. @14:45 Or you run a roofer's magnet around behind your target and collect up all the slugs to use again.
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  21. Illogical and dysfunctional regulations are the product of the compromise between competing interests. I.e. "sausage making" .
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  22. And then there was the Hi-Point.
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  23. The Germans pressed lots of "Beutegerät" captured enemy weapons of all kinds into service, and this is just one of them. They were issuing these to troops in lieu of MP-40s because of production shortages and desperate need for small arms. Not with any idea towards being compatible with Soviet ammo.
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  24. Was it actually a sniper's rifle or something like an early DMR for cavalry units?
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  25.  @siler7  There are no stupid questions only stupid people?
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  26. I bet there is an interesting story about how a KGB silenced pistol came into the possession of the French police.
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  27. You send them to the Jedi skewl of marksmansip.
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  28. @1:00 "The Sten Mk. V is the really high quality, nice version of the Sten" Which is still not saying very much... Almost a gunsmithing backhanded compliment. lol
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  29. @19:44 "Ready to head to U" kraine. Would have liked to see how tracers are made, but that would be being a choosy beggar.
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  30. I wish I had bought one back in the day just to say I had one.
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  31. "So Gran'pa can hit stuff (it; at least the side of a barn) without his glasses on" would be my guess.
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  32. Allied German Control Commission... I bet that's not an item that stayed on their resumes for long.
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  33. Can we take a moment to remember all the scrawny little Koreans (and I guess Africans) who had to carry that pig....
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  34. @0:45 "and he knitted me this really nice sweater."
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  35. @4:36 If that were well advised for any firearm, it would definitely be for a Unica. lol. I nearly bought a Unica 6 in .357 many years ago. I wish I had, it has more than doubled in price.
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  36. Possibly. But some people lack morals, ethics, and empathy regardless of circumstance.
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  37.  @nowhereman6019  All the rich people who choose to commit crimes would beg to differ.
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  38.  @nowhereman6019  Are gas station employees told that they have to be gas station employees? Everyone is a product of their society, but its not even a main factor. Back to what we are talking about here, this is people who choose to do unethical and honestly, evil things, like build weapons for bad people that who's only purpose is to murder, when they could do many other things. That isn't the society, not even the criminal sub-culture telling them to do it, but literally them going out of their way to do so because its profitable and/or they are sociopaths who want to hurt people. What you are doing is trying to rationalize that.
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  39. Zeroing a submachine gun...
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  40. @1:10 It wasn't a blank look, it was their, "we're not going to pay license royalties for that" poker face.
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