Comments by "Kevin Oliver" (@kevinoliver3083) on "Royal Armouries" channel.

  1. I think you mean "agreeing" not "admitting". "Assault weapon" is not a common usage in the UK. And those of us who know about guns have always used the term "assault rifle" correctly.
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  2. Surely there is argument that M45's double feed magazine is superior to the, German designed, double column, single feed design used in the Sten?
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  3. "Lights" Made me smile. And shows you do pay attention to your audience. And I got the gun right!
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  4. This is a British channel, as is 'this guy', so uses British terminology. If we Brits can put up with American terminology (eg. stripper clips for chargers) on American channels, without whining, you should have the good manners to reciprocate.
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  5. Puns like that, make you proud to be British!
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  6. Several of those VCs were actually won using Vickers-Berthiers. The two were often confused by wartime reporters.
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  7. So thats the third time the UK has rejected the HK 416.
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  8. The buttstock looks like it was adapted from the Pzb 39 anti-tank rifle. Which would make sense as that gun was obsolete, and out of production when the K42 was developed. So they probably had surplus parts to hand.
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  9. The Duxford Spitfire shows how the cannon were installed. Therefore, not futile at all.
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  10. The Lebel Mle 1886 wasn't 'just around the corner' in 1882. It was very much a rush job, after Poudre B was developed in 1884
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  11. Not so much a "forgotten weapon" as one I didn't even know existed. Still, I should have spotted the non-standard rear sight. Although I think the 300m setting on the "mass production" version is more realistic.
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  12. The US Army did reject the Lee-Remington. The USN orders were comparatively small fry.
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  13. Only if you were weak-wristed, blind or incompetent.
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  14. No the M1was not a "machine" carbine, as it lacked full automatic fire capability.
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  15. The "8mm" Chauchat not mythological. But it is rare as most were lost during WW2. In the mid-1920s Poland had about 12,000 Chauchats, in the original 8x50mmR calibre designated the RZM wz 15. About half of them were converted to 7.92x57mm, as the RZM wz 15/27. It was replaced by the BAR, but it was still a reserve weapon in 1939
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  16.  @lordDenis16  I don't have a Polish source (I couldn't read one anyway. But in the Wehrmachts list of Fremdgerät (foreign equipment) the Polish Chauchat conversions are listed as Leichtes Maschinengewehr 154/1(p) and 154/2(p). So the Germans thought they existed.
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  17. I think Owen Jones blagged his way into a job at Enfield based on the facts that he was an American and had worked for Colt's.
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  18. Is it just me, but with that grey plastic magizine makes the MP5/10 looks like a kid's water gun. I used to have a M3 shaped water pistol which used the magazine as the water tank. And it came with two spares. Happy days.
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  19. ​ @nerd1000ify The British passed on the necessary modifications to the US. Which the US Ordance Board promptly rejected and then spent the rest of WW2 trying to get their 20mm cannon to work.
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  20. Tranters were mainly for private sale. But the British Army bought a few hundred Tranters for the Zulu War.
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  21. The engineers were keeping busy so they could avoid being drafted into the army. The same reason there were so many different, and often weird, German aircraft projects in the last year of WW2.
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  22. Transter also made cartridge revolvers.
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  23. The .380 revolver cartridge was derived from the .38 S&W. The later should work fine in the Webley Mk.IV
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  24. Well at least Enfield hired an American designer. Owen-Jones was a former engineer at Colt.
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  25. The British Indian Army was veey keen to replace the Lewis Gun. Many of its trouble spots, ie. the North-West Frontier, were arid and dusty and the Lewis Gun had reliability issues.
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  26. ​ @calvingreene90 No, it was an unreasonable response to the RN seizing British deserters hiding on American ships. A practice that had already ceased before 'war were declared'.
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  27.  @calvingreene90  You were obviously "miseducated" in America. And I never kidnapped anybody in my life.😇
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  28.  @calvingreene90  Some genuine US citizens were indeed taken from American but they were returned to the US as soon as they had proven themselves not to be British. With compensation paid to them, or in the unfortunate case of those who died in service, their families. And you ignore the fact that impressment had been ended by treaty between the two governments before your country invaded Canada. Where far more civilians died at the hands of US troops, or due to their criminal actions, than Americans died due to impressment. You need to be careful who you call "murderers". PS. I cannot believe that you are actually advocating slavery!
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  29.  @calvingreene90  I notice that you ignore the war crimes committed by US troops in Canada. And your conflation of slavery with conscription of combatant nationals is morally perverse.
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  30.  @calvingreene90  Your are wrong but clearly unconvinceable. So, goodbye.
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  31. Even the Swiss would say that gun is over-complicated!
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  32. The Schofield cartridge was as powerful as the US Army's (underloaded) version of .45 LC. And no, the .450 Adams wasn't that powerful.
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  33. The British have rarely been concerned about a gun's origin. Just its performance. The one time politicians insisted the Army bought British they got the SA80. So that went well.
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  34. The magazine cut off was useful when firing rifle grenades in WW1 & WW2.
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  35. Which the British Army were using before the US.
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  36. Because the Guards are combat soldiers not just ceremonial troops. The Army does not want them to drill with a different rifle than they will fight with, to minimise re-training.
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  37. The pocket models had shorter barrels (2½", 3" or 4"). And usually short grips. The .380 Mk.IV had all those options, plus on the service version a 5" barrel and full size grips.
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  38. The reduction in calibre was to make training easier on what was after all a secondary weapon. The original 380 Mk.1 service cartridge was essentially the same as the "Super Police" with a 200 grain unjacketed lead bullet. Then the lawyers got nervous about "expanding ammunition". So a Mk.2 cartridge was introduced before WW2, with a 178 grain jacketed bullet.
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  39. The EW141 was a belt fed semi-automatic firing the 7.92x94mm round. It was installed in some Panzer I light tanks, replacing one of the machine guns. They took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union, but the cartridge was already obsolete. And they were soon withdrawn.
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  40. The Soley-Lewis was never offered as a sub-machine gun. It was originally developed, in the 1930s, as a cheaper Light Machine Gun, to supplement the Bren Gun. The 1940 lightweight version was offered as a alternative to the BAR, for the Home Guard.
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