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

  1. 10% are rocking with the south paw... So if you want 10% of your army to perform suboptimally just make sure everything is right-hand-only.... simple...
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  2. "It's a little bit grungy"... which is a LOT better than some hack-job "restauration".
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  3. "Respectful, objective and neutral" is what I describe him as. Especially when he is talking sensitive conflicts it is really nice to hear him describe the objectives, concerns and requirements of each side, purely in relation to the practical mechanics of the weapons they were developing/testing/procuring.
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  4.  @clothar23  I don't know if those options were available in the mid 90s when we adopted it. But yes, it felt overkill for such a flimsy little bullet that needs windage adjustment long before it need magnification. It did, however, make the poor shooters better right out of the gate - which I suspect was the point of it. It had a more lukewarm reception among those of us who were already good shots with the G3. I'll still take that heavy clumsy thing with iron sights over the C7 simply because it ends the conversation about what constitutes "sufficient cover" much quicker....
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  5. ZOMG! Gun Jesus is going to fondle my best parts and call me a quality manufacturer! UwU
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  6.  @marcusborderlands6177  Just the same as every piece of pipe from the hardware store can be turned into a barrel. The point of regulation is not to prohibit ghetto items. Because the ghetto is gonna ghetto regardless of regulation. The point of regulation is to define a legally registrable item and place safety/inspection/embargo/export laws on it.
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  8. It is, however, a perfectly valid military question :P
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  9.  @imrickjames717  People who drive Koenigsegg consider the Corvette a poor mans car...
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  10.  @RedXlV  14Gs is doable for anyone with a masters degree in any of the engineering fields. So upper middle class. Vintage Ferraris on the other hand....
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  11. B&T: Which attachments, expansions and options would you like? Gun connoisseur: YES
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  12.  @adrianparker-e9f  Ian was sort of incorrect that we made the "final payment" in '96. We made the "last payment" in '96 and asked the Bundeswer for shipping instructions and they pretty much replied "your own local metal recycling facility would be most convenient for us, thank you very much". For that reason 25.000 were put together of the best parts and put into storage, and the second best replacement parts were kept to service them. In case of general mobilization that pretty much means that all back-end logistics personel will be equipped with them. Which sucks, as it is objectively a better combat rifle than the M16 (yes, I served with both for extended periods of time). TL;DR: It was a legally pure renting but turned into lease-to-own by declining to receive them back.
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  13.  @maronitoni5934  Elbonia is a fictional country that Ian uses tongue-in-cheek when looking at modified weapons because youtube has decided that weapons modification is a big no-no. So Ian pretends that it was the Elbonian army who had wildly esoteric demands that ultimately lead nowhere. Just search youtube for "Elbonia" or "Elbonian" to see the quite humorous episodes this has spawned.
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  14. Dont worry. The second he gets access to them he's going to break out the camera. What Ian films is pretty much just depending on someone giving him access to it. In a perfect world Ian should be an eccentric billionaire who just absolutely had to own one of every firearm ever made so he could make a video about it. But if you know of a museum who might be willing (with a little convincing about Ian's provenance?) to give Ian hands-on time with those guns, don't hesitate to contact them and see if they would extend an invitation.
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  15. The difference is "Can everyone in the building hear it" or "Can everyone 5 buildings over hear it"... apparently that kind of thing is important to sneaky squirrels.
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  16. "A contraption that against all odds turned out fine"?
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  17. BWAHAHA! Thanks for the laugh! :D
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  18.  @jmmartin7766  It is, however, not a feat the Elbonians are particularly proud of! But you must admire them for their can-try attitude! :P
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  19.  @charles_wipman  Perhaps the rationale was "If the target is so far out that point-in-general-direction-and-shoot doesn't guarantee a hit then 32ACP is only going to produce a smurf kick anyway..."
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  20. Yeah.. we should probably send him flowers and a bottle of something... I mean, who does The Oracle Itself consult? He must feel truly lost...
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  21.  @PalleRasmussen  As someone with an army marksmanship medal: Calling Henry "really good" is an understatement. How the effing bloody hell he is able to get those kinds of results without putting at least a couple of hundred rounds through each rifle before doing the accuracy test is elleventeen kinds of beyond me....
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  22. One of the top comments is a French guy who is laughing his ass of at how correct Ian is about this. You can't burn people with jokes they tell about themselves! :P
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  23. We need to get Ian the kind of funds he needs to have ammo made for something like this. Seeing stuff like this on the range in "tomorrows episode" would be all the droooool :P
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  24. But the thing with museums is that they're kinda boring to everyone who hasn't gotten that specific interest. Which means they can't afford rent in an area that has a high population density... which means they won't get a lot of visitors.. which means they won't get a lot of income for rent/mortgage/real estate tax.
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  25. I thought it was a funny joke! Also, Top Secret was the bomb! :D
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  26.  @seanmalloy7249  Powder coating works "just as well", and they'd be wearing 3 hole ski masks/balaclava's in winter.
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  27. It is also important to have good barrel cooling for a sniper. A press-on barrel shroud with plenty of speed holes should do the trick nicely. But since weight can become an issue it should be aluminium. The speed holes might as well be M Lock so they can attach their slings anywhere they like while we're at it.
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  28. I'm glad he managed Romanian correctly. I could tell Ian tried his absolute best with Danish... and failed in several entertaining manners :P
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  29.  @kg-Whatthehelliseventhat  While decigram is valid (centigram would be 100th of a gram) it is uncommon to say the least. You'd say 100mg or 0.1g. While the usual orders of magnitude are valid for all units of measurement, there is a tendency, in everyday speak, to stick to measurements that are three orders of magnitude appart for weight and length, whereas for volumes below one liter the subdivisions are normal.
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  30.  @soudadmaouas7058  Oh, I'm not saying that it isn't. I'm saying that human beings are so soft that at normal combat range (up to 200m) the 5.56 is plenty powerful enough to make them incapable of fighting after a torso shot. Despite being a smaller round it has a higher velocity (the bullet weight to gun powder amount is much better on the 5.56) so it reaches the target quicker on close range making it easier to hit moving targets. You need to shoot at targets 250-300 away before the 7.62 "catches up" because it doesn't lose velocity as fast as the 5.56 Obviously the 7.62 has a much better penetration on harder targets, but that's the thing: unless you're fighting idiots who think a small wooden shed is actual cover, then it doesn't matter. Brick, concrete and tamped dirt structures are enough to stop it. Armored vehicles stop it. Normal cars, however, are not enough to stop a 5.56 either, so there it doesn't matter. As I've said, I've used both on multiple deployments, and having the LMG guy on 7.62 is obviously a nice backup, but I do prefer the lighter rifle with a 30 round magazine when trotting around at ground level in dense environments because the benefits of the 7.62 never really comes into play there. Now if I'm at an elevated position doing over watch with great visibility I'd obviously prefer the extended range... but at the end of the day, once you put a bullet in the target the caliber doesn't really matter. They either die or get pulled away screaming. Both of which means you don't have to worry about them any more. Sometimes the screaming can actually be of benefit: It occupies someone else for a while.
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  31. Jesus could turn water into wine. Gun Jesus can turn thin air into the appropriate comparison piece.
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  32. There's a cut most times after Ian's questions in English. That's because there's a translator present. Ian's French is passable enough to ask for road directions, order food and talk about the weather (and obviously guns!), but for the finer points both of them are at a huge disadvantage since this is a deeply technical conversation and not just the run-of-the-mill "How do like the latest pop single?" type interview. Even though I'm fairly fluent in English (and probably speak it better than Ian speaks French) I would also prefer to answer in Danish if I was asked to elaborate on some of the finer points and deeper insights in my own field of expertise. I suspect any bilingual will give you the same answer...
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  33. That was not even remotely boring. That's precisely the kind of discussion I'm here for.
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  34.  @tarmaque  Finnish soldiers don't get pissed off. They just patiently and effectively get to work. And then they don't stop.
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  35.  @markfergerson2145  It's a hotly debated topic with no clear cut answers. For instance, at the relevant time for the discussion at hand, southern Europeans described the Northerners as "effing huge". So it stands to reason that the size and weight preference of the Northerners differed from elsewhere. Secondly, if you're at an elevated position the over-hand throw is best, and if you're at a depressed elevation, the under-hand throw is best. The over-hand throw is best suited for relatively heavy rocks that you grab like a ball, and the under-hand throw is best suited for lighter rocks that you grab with your index finger and thumb, so round and flat respectively.
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  36. If price is not an issue making this out of inconel or another fancy nickel alloy would make it really damn light.
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  37. Not to mention Ian's fantastic ability to describe conflicts like an actual historian. There aren't many who appreciates that when he is describing WWII events for instance, but as someone who came home from a tour to Balkan it's been a blessing when he discusses weapons used in those conflicts.... To this day all I can say about that conflict is that everyone involved was as much a victim as they were a villain. Myself included... So it's incredibly nice that Ian manages to touch on in a way that is both neutral and somewhat distanced.
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  38. Eventually he will have gotten his grabby little mitts on every weapon ever made, and there will only be new developments to cover....
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  39. Since he has an armored police van this particular variation of Croatian Anger(TM) would be the perfect weapon to shoot it with.
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  40. Well.. It's an effective way to make sure the paratroopers don't drift too far of course before they hit the ground! :P
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  41. Yes, this is the backup. His main gun will be an M109....
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  42. LOL. We managed to have the M1 in service with the air force guards and some navy divisions, the G3 in service with the artillery and the C7 (M16) in service with the infantry... at the same time.
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  43. But when the answer is "Simo would do what comes natural to any demigod" you're still kinda screwed :P
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  44. I was issued the G3 first and the M16 6 years later, and I have shot several .308/7.62 hunting rifles. The G3 has a pleasant "distributed" recoil compared to a bolt action in the same caliber. If I had to go to war (again) and was given the choice between the Swedish AK4 update of the G3 and the latest iteration of the M16 I would chose the former without even blinking. Sacrificing 10 rds per mag and about a kg of extra weight in exchange for a rifle that hits a human sized target all the time, every time, in adverse weather conditions at 500-600 meters, and has the oomph to go through civilian cars, garden sheds, shallow ditches, etc, is an easy choice to me. Those of my buddies who were less good shots liked the M16, but it never won me over. The correct NATO cartridge change (as the US is figuring out now with the .277 Fury) would have been 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser. The 7.62 was too powerful and the 5.56 was too weak.... Oh, and that you put locking in quotes means you don't understand the mechanics. The bolt head stays in place until the bolt carrier has moved 7mm. The easiest way to think of it is to compare it to balls on a pool table. The "ping" from the cartridge sends energy through the bolt head to the wedge so it starts moving (like two touching pool balls being hit), which pushes the bolt carrier backwards until there is enough space that the rollers can retract, at which point the bolt head starts following the bolt carrier. It's as much a locking system as a rotating bolt head. It's just two different mechanisms that actuate the unlocking.
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  45. He hit them low because his sight died. In his previous video on this gun he made a spinner flip over in one bullet less than he's ever managed to do with 9mm.
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  46. When ludicrous necessity meets Croatian anger meets Croatian engineering you end up with shoulder fired Hell.
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  47. "It does red-dot stuff at the level I'm capable of shooting" is a fair endorsement from an instructor, but not professional competition shooter.
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  48.  @LeSarthois  Considering the lack of understanding sometimes involved in sketchy ammo production I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if both under powered and over powered ammo was circulated. Underpowered to cut cost and over powered sold as magic extra potent life saver ammo or some shit.
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  49. Basically anything you're not going to fire from a bipod or swivel mount would ideally be around 300-400RPM. At 5-7 shots per second you can fairly easily learn to shoot singles on the full fun setting, and it doesn't take THAT much practice to learn to counter the rhythm of the gun to keep it reasonably on target. For stable platforms it's basically a tradeoff between logistics of ammo vs how aggressively you want turn things into Swiss Cheese(TM).
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  50.  @JohnSmith-yv6eq  I know. I was a sergeant for 15 years. I tried many other rifles, and I saw how other people's rifles reacted. I think mine simply opened slightly too early (it was VERY picky with shoulder contact with live ammo as well). But since it was one of the most accurate rifles in our battery I didn't want the armourers to fiddle with it. I won several medals with it. And as I said, I managed to get around it's "funny idea" by just keeping it absolutely sloppered up in oil. But MAN was it hell to clean after blank fire. I mean, every file is always more dirty with blanks due to the blank fire compensator, but mine was GROSS. I would pick out entire "cakes" of gunk. Never saw that in another rifle.
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