Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Water-Cooled .50s: The US Navy Mk22 Pedestal Mount" video.

  1. The quad 50 was affectionately known as, "The Meat Chopper"
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  2.  @Lord_Ronin_The_Compassionate  our founding fathers were some big brained blokes. The best England had to offer. Our 2A is based on English law even. You people still drive on the wrong side of the road today. That was so your sword arm would be presented to a passer by coming the other way.
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  3.  @Lord_Ronin_The_Compassionate  there's two kinds of countries on Earth, ones that use the metric system and the one that's put men on the Moon. If you're not failing then you're just not trying hard enough either.
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  4.  @Lord_Ronin_The_Compassionate  as I understand it Britain did have a fledgling space program. Space exploration is a rather large undertaking though. When Britain did manage to launch their first satellite we Americans promptly knocked it out with a nuclear explosion. I think it lasted a full two weeks? Whoops we bad.
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  5.  @Lord_Ronin_The_Compassionate  everyone's in it to win it. Which is why only a select few end up having nice things. For there to be any winners there has to be a lot of losers. Just how it is I'm afraid. Just don't let them clean you out too badly.
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  6.  @Lord_Ronin_The_Compassionate  sorry to hear that. We're all here temporarily. Just how it goes. I suppose that's what makes life so precious. So try to steal as many moments as you can. I know I do. Sometimes just watching a sunrise puts things in perspective.
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  7. With a war on things have to work.
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  8. At $30 a round it can get very expensive real fast to fire that gun. Both those cans full is $15,000.
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  9.  @Lord_Ronin_The_Compassionate  ammo ain't cheap. Sometimes you can't get it for any price. But yeah 50 cal rounds are stupid expensive to buy. They are very big. By the foot pound I guess they're in line with what everything else costs? Oh wow I found a guy selling them for $3.60 a round! I've seen them for $30 a round. Now at $3.60 they're a bargain. But you do have to buy 200 rounds to get that price. That brings the price of a mag dump down to a mere $1,800. Christmas comes early!
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  10. A mag dump would cost a cool fifteen grand.
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  11. In the Pacific against Kamikaze attacks you either knocked planes out of the sky or you went to the bottom of the sea. So people were pretty motivated. This is the smallest armament they'd be using. They'd also use 20 and 40 mm auto cannons and the 5" guns too. The 5" guns could score hits because they used proximity fuzes. For most of the war only the Navy got to use those. They were top secret.
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  12. Pretty much until shells come rattling out of the barrels.
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  13. Sometimes sailors didn't. I heard a story about one after a firefight that said, It's hot then jumped overboard. And no they didn't go back and get him either. He was never seen ever again.
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  14. They had semicircular platforms around the gun a gunner could stand on. Was kind of like a bench around a tree type of a deal. If you were firing elevated you could be on the deck or depressed up on the platform.
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  15. I just watched a video about the Laffy attack. They survived 56 Kamikaze's trying to sink them once.
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