Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Sounds like a good point. Where US infantry and armored divisions had the M2 76mm and the organic division artillery assets and TDs along multiple independent artillery battalions/groups firing 105mm, 155mm (both howitzers and field guns) and 8 inch. Never mind air support which while it might not have actually knocked out that many tanks sure the hell shot up the logistics. A tank without ammo or fuel is just as effective as one that is a burned out wreck. I wonder how many Tigers or Panthers broke down between the factory and the train to shipped out on.
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  2. To the Southwest, thousands of them.
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  3. Its Swiss by way of France (no wonder it caught Ian's interest). That space in the hand grip is for storing your chocolate to nibble on while at the range
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  4. It is 0 because your magazine rapidly holds 0. If Ian wants to take some time off I'll gladly step in. 😁
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  5. "And Goldilocks found the Three Round Burst was just right."
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  6. l think I'll pass on the alarm clock version
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  7. The other night I watched "Siege of Jadotville". This was an instance of Irish UN peacekeepers in the Congo in the early 60s. They stood off a force of around 3000 mercenaries and Congolese Katangan rebels or 5 days while equipped with mostly British small arms. Everything from Lee Engield MkIVs to L1A1s including Bren guns. The Irish unit was 125 men all of who survived.
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  8. The bed spring, don't forget the bed spring.
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  9. Oh, and by the way. It's a Rifle, Ball, Rocket, Model 1.
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  10. It should be "I have cases and cases of French .30 Longe in the back
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  11. PIAT, Point It Again Tommy!
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  12. ​ @Slimetime69420  No extra M-16s or M-4s. Joe forgot them in Kabul.
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  13. So you don't like the food? Say hello to my little friend.
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  14. One can reach a much higher level of precision by hand than most people understand. As an example people who hand grind telescope mirrors for reflecting telescopes. It is possible to produce very flat surfaces by hand using The Three Plate Method in which three flat surface plates are produced using two plates to check the third and alternating which plate you are scraping by hand. Scraping is an art all in itself. The trick is of course developing the set of standards and measuring tools required for two individuals in different locations to produced parts within tolerance that will work together. Some would say the development of the first screw cutting lathe really jump started the Industrial Age. Some would say the steam engine. In reality it was a number things working together.
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  15. Forgotten Hangovers
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  16. As long as the springs haven't been compressed and released 100Ks of thousands of times and gotten rusty there's no reason they should have failed.
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  17. Or the Culinary Institute of America
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  18. Two key developments in the ability of the ability to produce tight tolerance work on a mass scale was the development of the first commercial micrometers (Palmer in France and Brown and Sharpe in the US) and gage blocks by Johannson in Sweden. These combined with flat surfaces allowed the inspection levels required. Moores Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy covers a lot of what is really required.
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  19.  @gregsmall5939  P D's might be interested in them for riot duty. I'm not sure what the size the gas cartridges today are. But if they are still 37mm that would be one way to differentiate them from military weapons. At least in a legal situation. Truthfully the old Bloop Tube reminded me of the older tear gas launchers. It's just my opinion but the pump action looks like it would be far more user friendly in terms just carrying the damn thing. That revolving cylinder on the one that was adopted might work. But it's big. And yes they should have stuck to the Hi-Lo 40mm. At least in terms of chambering. I could see the idea behind being able to shoot flares if needed though. If they wanted to fiddle with the design (some things they did make sense) why not look at adapting say the Remington 1100 autoloader action. But only if it allowed a faster follow up shot without an increase in complexity. For sights a simple Red Dot optic that rotates on its mount for elevation. One question. Do they make 40mm Flash Bangs. If the US deploys troops into a combat situation I want them to win. If it takes killing the opposition fine. After all they had a choice and made it. But there are times when I could see it might be useful to take the opposition alive if possible. Intelligence for one thing. Another is why make a martyr out of somebody if killing them just helps create 2 or 3 new enemies.
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  20. When my brother was in the reserves he said they practiced tank main gun firing at the Army Reserve facility in Milwaukee. Indoor facility with a .22 mounted in the breech of an M60 turret.
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  21.  @KickyFut  Since the Legion used some maybe it's for the extra sand to put in their boots.
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  22. How in the world did they test these things. Not as trowels but as the sharp pointy thing. Pig carcasses's? Unwilling volunteers? Willing volunteers? Grave robbing? Or did they finally find something useful for Second Lts to do.
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  23. I remember people complaining about "them goldarn new fangled plastic shells"
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  24. An AK leaves the factory with a "I could of been a Madsen" bumper sticker
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  25. Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo beats 'em all with his appearing and disappearing bullet holes.
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  26. In the early 70s I remember seeing something on TV about gunships in Viet Nam using rockets that had flecette warheads.
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  27.  @ForgottenWeapons  A key to the door would be nice too. Not going to happen of course. Also if you were getting any financial compensation from say RIA then the other auction houses might say thank you, but no thanks
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  28. Maybe that's why US mafioso have such colorful nicknames.
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  29.  @viperscot1  I suspect the high VC count had something to with taking the sting out of Islandwana. Not that the defenders of Rourke's Drift didn't put up a stiff fight.
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  30. And likely each one had a lot of time by an armorer going over them to make sure they functioned properly before being issued.
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  31.  @johnfisk811  That or Sgt Mackenzie will have him forking out the stables forking quick.
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  32. There's an old cautionary tale about the F-86 Saber. There were a number of fatal crashes that were ultimately found to be attributed to an assembly error on the wing leading edge slats caused by a case of an individual on the shop floor knowing "better"
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  33.  @72mossy  Well at least the whole mission in the Congo was pretty clear cut case of greed on the part of the mining companies. Glad he got home safe. I firmly believe we need an organization such as the UN. But not necessarily this UN.
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  34.  @Alan.livingston  I'm not talking about people exploiting the misfortune of others. I'm talking about the new homes that were built in the 30s. I'm sure the number was down. Just like auto sales were down. But Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nash and a few other independents continued to operate. GM and Nash also continued to earn a profit. I'm not saying times were not tough for a lot of people. But the idea that everybody was out of work is plain wrong. Both my Grandfather's had steady work during the 3Os. One was a Tool and Die Maker. The other was a Stationary Engineer. I also realize more real millionaires were made during the Depression than the 1920s. And that was people able to buy stocks and property cheap. And some of them were vultures
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  35. But how does one tension the tracks? Besides if the tanker ever needs his tanker M1 he has already experienced a significant emotional event.
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  36. Probably boxes of 5 colors. Red, Blue, Yellow, Black and White. Crayon is of course pencil in French Techniques for wax colored drawings go back to at least the 1st Century AD.
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  37. Even for a "simplified version" beautifully made. My father served in an independent artillery battalion in Italy (173rd Field Artillery). Made up of part of the 32nd Infantry's division artillery that got split off when the division went from a square to triangular formation. When in Italy they managed to pickup some intesting pieces of equipment. One time he said they got their hands on some of these. He said compared to the M3 Grease Guns they had the Barettas were a Caddilac compared to a Model T. He said it was very easy to shoot with your left hand just supporting the stock behind the magazine. A lot of people make fun of Italian manufacturing (1) but over the years they have produced some very good machinery. Excellent machinists and foundry skills. 1) I think a lot of it has to do with their automobiles. Properly cared for they drive great. Just a little too lightly built for they way most Americans treat their cars. Especially in the days before imports tipped Detroit a new one. At one time if you wanted to buy machinery in certain industries you went to certain countries if you wanted the best. The UK for printing presses. Germany or Switzerland for really high quality machine tools. Italy for textile machinery. The US for machining lines capable of putting out millions of specific parts over decades. Or high quality grinders and gear cutting machinery. Not that other countries weren't able to produce good machinery. But there is always somewhere that's just a little bit better than the rest of the world.
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  38.  @xoxo2008oxox  Hand stitched by Ricardo Montebalm
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  39. I wonder if the escape by balloon was the inspiration in part for Jules Verne's Fantastic Island
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  40. There are any number of locomotives from the Steam Era I wish had been preserved. The M8lwaukee Road's Hiawathas come to mind.
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  41. Plus wootz was sourced from India. It gets termed Danascus because that was were people were trading for the ingots.
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  42. Insert face palm picture. That was bad.
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  43. Ian should have been dressed in sheep's skin jacket, pants, gloves, flying helmet and goggles. And standing in the waist of a B-17
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  44. A mistress. There has to be a mistress in the mix somewhere who is actually a Flobonian agent extracting secrets under the covers 😁
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  45. Bayonets? We don't need no stinkin' bayonets. We've got katanas!
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  46. Tooling today is easier to produce due to two technologies. CNC which is still getting better. And the tooling. Which allows finishing with zero to very little hand work in polishing the molds. But in the future 3D printing will take over more and more. Especially for low volume production
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  47.  @justnsaliga8518  The M4s not starting when being off loaded was probably due more to dead batteries than anything else. At US factories building tanks I would expect the majority needed to be driven on to the rail cars in the plants shipping yard. Not a complete test by any means but you do know the damn thing runs at least.
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  48. A while back I was watching the film "Vera Cruz" here on YouTube and sure enough Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster are walking around with Colt Single Army pistols and 1873 Winchesters. The movie is set in about 1866.
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  49. +Benson Inner a former life these served as cannon at Trafalgar
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  50. And places for it to get out of alignment. In a way it reminds me of the table saw I've got for just general use. It's got a sliding table that movable on the fence rails which are moveable all on a sheet metal box with an cast aluminum table. Cuts nice when set-up properly. But it is a real PITA to get set-up.
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