Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. The Chieftain is always entertaining with his humorous remarks. "A significant emotional event" is the most low-key morbid euphemism for "blown into little bloody pieces" in army lingo :P
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  2. I had the privilege, honor and absolute pleasure to train two batches of Estonians, here in Denmark, in the mid to late 90s. Absolutely stellar lads! There was some, shall we say, "difference of mindset" in the beginning, but once it clicked with them that we expected them to be actually thinking soldiers we had tons and tons of fun with designing missions they only had "half the information" about, and see how they would adapt and come up with novel solutions. As soon as they found out that they would never get yelled at for trying something new their creativity shot through the roof.
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  3.  @IridiumRedTheOrigina  When your neighbour is Russia and you're not a member of any big alliance you quickly realise that "If necessity is the mother of all invention scarcity is surely it's father" :P
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  4.  @pablogutierrez5767  "The interview" yes... aka "the sales pitch" :P
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  5. @- Yeees... but if you look at cars from the year you were born. Every single aspect of them, besides the principal of the basic drivetrain, have been improved upon by orders of magnitude. Yet the MP5 is still to this day considered the best submachinegun ever made, and the suppressed version even more so. I think that's quite the feat in a world where 10 year old computers are borderline museum pieces. When this gun was designed Jupiter had 7 moons. Now it has 79-and-counting. When this gun was designed quantum mechanics was a plausible theory. 4 years ago the Higgs Boson was finally observed at the Large Hadron Collider. Also since then black holes have been proven to exist and gravitational waves have been directly measured.
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  6.  @jon2067  Perhaps Finnish sayings about rifles produced in Terni never made it back to Terni because Italians don't care about Finnish sayings?
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  7. I know how: Being internationally recognized and respected for not only his knowledge but also his unrivaled ability to communicate sensitive topics gingerly while remaining objective. This basically boils down to: "It doesn't matter if you're an oil Sheik, the Pope, a Russian aristocrat in exile or Donald Duck. If you have a cool and rare gun you call Ian McCollum!"
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  8.  @KuK137  Except Ian has done extensive videos on Polish resistance fire arms production. And they made sub machine guns. Not sniper rifles. Because making a simple blowback sub machine gun that will reasonably reliably hit at ranges a 9mm Parabellum can realistically do is a far cry from making a sniper rifle that can hit something so far away you need a scope the size of a roll of biscuits to see it. The Poles weren't idiots. They knew the limitation of their production means and produced firearms accordingly. They knew you can't produce to micrometer precision with determination alone, so they simply didn't bother.
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  9. The story about the Latvian Forest Brothers is very interesting. They were some of the most fierce, conning and brave resistance groups I've ever heard about.
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  10. But that would only have given you a nicer triggerpull and not reduce the lead time... so less PR blabber in the brochure. Also, that key at the bottom should have been a switch.
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  11.  @thecommissaruk  You actually have a really good point. If you load this thing correctly and fire it you have a handheld pipebomb that makes normal pipe bombs look like cherry bombs.
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  12.  @explodingbearz  NO! COMMIE BASTARDS ALL BAD! NO GOOD! NEVER! ONLY BAD!
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  13. "Every one of those sketchy Glock carbine setups" had me in stitches :D
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  14. You've got to put this into serial production Ian. I'm hearing that the Elbonians are looking for something exactly like this. Perhaps a few speed holes in what's left of the hand guard, and you'd have a total winner!
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  15. Ah Ian... The burden of success :P People are apparently so genuinely interested in the book itself that they don't care about silly perks. If that isn't "The Internet's Seal of Approval" I don't know what is :D
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  16. I can assure you the Ukrainians swap barrels with some amount of frequency. If your enemy is satisfied with a "have more bodies than the position has bullets" strategy, then quick change is a must... if you have more ammo than a barrel will handle. There is another country, with a vary large population they don't care too much about, that I find it likely to employ the same tactics if push comes to shove.
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  17.  @egertroos-qh7hw  They were used to "You do what you're told. Exactly what you're told, and nothing but what you're told, and if you misunderstand what I say you're the one who's getting punished". It was a bit of an eye opener to them that it could be the instructors responsibility to make sure everyone has understood everything correctly.
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  18.  @jw-hy5nq  Those weren't 1 MOA rifles for sure. Most companies that make precision rifles cold forge the rifling by inserting a tungsten carbide rod with the correct profile into the bore and then crimp-hammer the blank around it so it has to be screwed out. Drilling and reaming a barrel blank to within a few micons is outside the capabilities of most shops that don't have ambient temperature control. Long-boring a rifling pattern into it afterwards, without screwing it up to the point it becomes essentially just a somewhat poor hunting rifle, is even harder. So that you knew a machinist who made ghetto rifles really doesn't tell anyone much until we see a 1000m grouping shot from a gun rest, as Hamas is claiming to be making sniper rifles. Not bullet hoses.
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  19. Yes... it's as if invading a highly industrialized and well educated people goes very very badly unless you can completely paralyze every part of society decisively in very short order. If only a certain other country had taken note of this fact...
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  20. 2 weeks was pretty cheap. One of the guys in our battalion sent a 7.62 through the roof of the guard house by the camp entrance. He spent his next 10 weekends doing more guard duty...
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  21. "Who made sure we can't buy this rifle in Denmark?" "The same people who cancelled Firefly...."
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  22. It's the most Croatian thing I've ever seen: A make-due solution that is borderline overkill for the task at hand while not looking the least bit like a make-due solution. It's the physical embodiment of "Too angry, too stubborn and too skilled to die!". Every other conflict, where people have been in a similar solution, has produced some absolutely janky crap where you're not entirely sure if it's the shooter or the enemy they're trying to kill. But this thing is only a bit of titanium and carbon fiber away from being a legit special forces weapon.
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  23. I was a gunner on an M109 (155mm/6" self propelling Howitzer)... the breech came back 96cm/3ft in 0.7 seconds when firing maximum load. The barrel alone was 8.5tons and I have no idea what the chamber and breech block weighed, but they were (obviously) chunky bois. "You only get in the way of this once!" was the teaching doctrine :P
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  24. I'd totally watch that as a movie. Tom Hanks as the chef engineer!
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  25. @Monochromatik Ahhh... what? Modern 16850 cells are orders of magnitude better than anything from the NiCad days in every single respect. They handle more charge/discharge cycles, they don't have memory issues and they handle harder charging/discharging... Just don't rupture them.
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  26. LOL! Also I think the main spring has to be a teeeny tiiiiny bit weaker for the gun to cycle... and I suspect the friction of a barrel that long might either stop the bullet entirely or just have it plop out at the end and fall to the ground... but besides that it would be sooo freaking funny to fire .22s from a gun this huge.... Kinda like having Arnold Schwarzenegger speak like a Korean tiktok girl :P
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  27. That would have gotten them obliterated. The planes figured they were shooting at a boring cargo train. If they'd shot back reinforcements would have been dispatched ASAP..... but yes, for a moment I was hoping the story would take that turn too! :D
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  28.  @testowacz1363  If that ends up happening I can't wait to hear Solovyov go apeshit on Russian State TV about how "Finnish special forces has been spotted in Ukraine".... The more I think about it, the more we need to make this happen!
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  29. You just described a substance I'll actively pay money to not come into contact with! :P
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  30.  @jon2067  He did not say it is a joke in Terni. He said it's a joke about Terni (in reference to the fact that "Terni" is the nickname for Carcano 7.35mm in Finland).
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  31. So much in fact that they have trouble selling their more modern UMP because the OG is still considered king of the hill everywhere by everyone.
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  32. The current owner probably has it in his will that this will go to the most prestigious firearms museum in Norway after his passing.
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  33.  @nextcaesargaming5469  Heck, armourers have reported all matching Ma Deuce guns, with manufacture dates from 1943, still working. While I like plasma, laser, ultrasonic cavitation and gamma weapons as much as the next guy, there is no denying that you just won't get capacitor collapse when the whole thing is just a hunk of steel that decomposes primitive nitrates into furiously hot expanding gas.
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  34. The angles were very chosen. You could not see what any of the dials were set to on the fractional distillation columns.
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  35. Making 6k per unit in gross profit on a 7k item is not as absurd as it might seem. A chip factory makes similar gross margins, but a chip factory costs 4-7 billion in construction and tooling, so you have to sell a whole lot of chips before you just break even on the capital expense. I don't know what it cost to set up shop, for the M249, in the US, but I suspect the unit bid price was pretty much calculated as "If we only get the US as a customer we're just going to be on the safe side of break even. Actual profits will have to come from additional sales". That they happened to get a medium sized country's worth of sales from the American public, on top of the original projections, is certainly making them grin from ear to ear, but in and of itself 10k units of something with as absurdly many machining and process operations, is relatively little compared to the capital expense of the tool line.
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  36.  @thetalesofdaneandco  The disturbing lack of speed holes and awkward grip angle makes this waaaay too conservative for Elbonia...
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  37. I am really happy that Ian's book sales are going so well that he can get firearms like this one for himself. He has put his mitts on SO many cool weapons to show them to us... only to have to hand them back to the owner or auction house with a pained sigh. I can't imagine a better home for an original condition FR-F2.
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  38.  @Moneta_Kiss  Thank you for your service! I have seen footage from trenches where the piles of empty cases were near knee high, so I assumed someone had been giving it the whole nine yards in a prolonged fight. But if it's doctrine to move between different places in the trenches fairly rapidly, it also makes sense that the piles will build up over time on the spots that has the best visibility.
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  39.  @barttorbert5031  People who manages to fail even more spectacularly than anyone has ever succeeded tend to go down in history forever, whereas those who succeed are only remembered until someone supersedes them. Moral of the story: Lose with style in the most hilarious way possible to become immortal... Such are the teachings of Gun Jesus! :P
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  40. There were only 4000 of the 1918 pattern made. IIRC they made some 85,000 of the 1917 pattern...
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  41. I served in the armoured artillery for 17 years. For the first 15 of those I never had a reprimand, let alone an actual accident, with any firearm, ordinance procedure or cannon. During regiment guard duty, where two men fell sick with legionella and ended up in the infirmary, I had to pull an all-nighter. At barf o'clock in the morning I decided to give the supplied guard rifle a quick once-over as it had caught a bit of rain water at the last patrol round. For some reason my brain decided to jumble the last three steps: do a dry fire test, switch to safe and then insert the (loaded) magazine. So I merrily inserted the magazine, loaded the weapon, pointed it at the ceiling and fired a 7.62 through the roof of the gate house... Quite inexplicably I abruptly found myself in a new state of alertness that, by stark contrast, made it abundantly clear to me just how drowsy I had actually been only 0.1 seconds prior. The moral of the story is that coffee does not give you energy. It only suppresses the brain chemical responsible for telling you that you're tired and should pay extra close attention to things dedicated to killing people. So no, it doesn't only happen to Pvt Snuffy in boot camp.
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  42. I'm sad that the G11 never went anywhere. The engineer in me tells me that having a firearm that mechanically resembles a Swizz wrist watch is a very bad idea. But my fetish for intricate mechanics tells me it's a thing of true beauty that someone (preferably me) should baby frequently with the best lubricants and intricate adjustment procedures known to man.
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  43. Lol... redditor! :P Thanks for the laugh good Sir! :D
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  44. But since it's so small it only qualifies as a "bayonette" :P (I'll see myself out, thanks).
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  45.  @Simon_Nonymous  I have stolen it myself, so I can hardly blame you :P
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  46. With smokeless powder those rounds could work...
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  47. I don't know who this private collector is, but man am I grateful that he lets Ian put his mitts on every cool/rare/obscure/goofy item and present it to us! :D
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  48. After shooting this vid he went home and poured a Kyro whiskey and said to himself: "I'll just do 10 maybe 15 more videos on the history of Finnish firearms. Then I'll have decently expressed my gratitude for their hospitality and friendship during the Finish Brutality event." ... And THAT is why the doors to nearly every gun vault in the world are open to Gun Jesus. And quite often so even by specific request.
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  49. Lee Enfield rifles are like quantum mechanics. If you think you understand it... you don't!
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  50.  @FreebirthBoccara  Nobody is doubting that they can use a lathe and a mill. But people who know firearms and machining are saying you can't make a sniper rifle with a lathe and a mill. You can make basic firearms, like a submachine gun, with a lathe and a mill. If it's a really good lathe and you have the right metrology accessories you can also make something like a combat rifle if you're determined enough. But a sniper rifle is just a whooooole other ball game. Remember that a sniper rifle is supposed to hit a head sized target at 1000m every time, all the time. A submachine gun is supposed to hit an upper torso sized target at 50 meters. And a combat rifle should do that at 300 meters. Tripling the distance while dividing the target by four is a very very tall order that requires incredible precision at every level of production. To the point where even well established rifle manufacturers produce everything BUT the barrel, and instead opt to source the barrel from specialist companies that only make those.
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