Comments by "Ember Fist" (@emberfist8347) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1.  @Calvin_Coolage You don’t seem to realize that not all militaries are going to buy commercial off the shelf as it is called because they won’t meet their requirements. The MHS insisted on handguns being modular for example and wasn’t written with a specific caliber in mind. You need trials.
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  2.  @danielkantor5693 What the military and what civilians want are not always the same. For one of the big reasons the Glocks weren’t adopted was that the military wanted modularity with different drips and multi-caliber compatibility that Glock doesn’t offer.
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  3. Because they were eXperimental
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  4.  @user-njyzcip  No the designations of the US work better.
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  5.  @JonMartinYXD  Except that ignores the Marines werne't only branch to adopt the F-35 and how is the X-35 any different from the XM1 Abrams?
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  6. Last I checked SIG isn’t run by Howard Hughes.
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  7. The MG-42’s quick change barrel system made it hard to mount in anything but an open turret.
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  8. Because the M9A3 still had many flaws like a chunky grip, the guns being upgrades for weapons that were long in the tooth and not functioning as reliably as they were when they were first adopted and the Army wasn’t even sure if they wanted to adopt another 9mm or switch to a different caliber when the MHS requirements were given.
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  9.  @WH250398  The SIG has a adjustable backstrap.
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  10. Ammo wouldn’t be a problem if they had cleaning kits.
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  11. It wasn’t. The pistols were worn out and showing their age. It is the same reason we replaced the 1911s with the M9.
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  12.  @travelingspartan2035 Yeah I call bull. The army wouldn’t let a soldier who can’t hit crap past basic.
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  13.  @chmandcrm Wrong. Modularity is the way of the future. There is no need to keep around several different pistol variants when you can get the job done with just one.
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  14. Not really most combat is around 300 yards
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  15. No they had requirements that neither gun fit.
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  16. @ I am not a SIG fan but the M9 has many issues including being unreliable, old, and not having good ergonomics for everyone in the Army. If it was just fine they wouldn’t need to make four revisions. Also many of the requested changes were made by soldiers themselves.
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  17. I can buy the fire if you don’t pull the trigger thing. I think it was the SIG Cross they had to recall because it could fire from just operating the bolt.
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  18. The is arbitrary with how powerful guns are. The Volcano is a hand cannon in the game stronger than the starting Colt Single Action Army when in reality, the Volcano never was successful because it was weaker than a peacemaker.
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  19.  @olslimy6428  Well the actual reasons was that AA machine guns fell out of favor soon after World War II began when aircraft started being armored. Germany was also surprisingly for the logistical nightmare they had everywhere else trying to standardize on certain calibers and cannon designs. For example, the 37mm aircraft cannons were the same ones they used for the AA role and on their Panzer IIIs. Only the US was still using a machine gun armed SPAA in Europe from 1943 on as everyone switched to autocannons or bigger. They were lucky by the time we landed men in Normandy the Luftwaffe was a bookkeeping organization with no real aircraft to fly.
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  20.  @Never_heart  I think that is true. The problem with the Carcanos I read was the ammo coming from different batches being mixed together in the clips.
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  21. Wait I thought that the Sten was built to the MP-40 mags. That was supposed to be the main concept. Soldiers or insurgents with Sten guns could get fresh ammo from the MP-40s the Germans used.
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  22. Well there was other reasons. First there Luger was WWI pistol so you need to consider the two decades of wear and tear it had going on. Also the Luger was never designed for a military setting. All the parts had to be hand-fitted which goes against most militaries where the parts should be interchangeable from one gun to the next. The cause for the Luger was probably a combination of those things. And these issues exist with other guns. 1911s and Walther P-38s spent decades in service and by the end of their service lives they were described by the soldiers using them as requiring “seven or eight warning shots and one aimed throw”. The M55 Reising which Ian did a video about years ago also had the issue of hand-fitting being needed but it was a weapon issued to the Marines who don’t treat all parts should be interchangeable from one gun to the next.
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