Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. I guess this system makes more difference in full auto, as it was intended, I've seen a video of AK-107 being fired, and that was really impressive - almost holding still. It was shot by one of Russian IPSIC amateur shooters, specialised in shotguns.
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  2. Shame it's not bundled with a tank.
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  3. Greeting from Latvia! This model of Winchester made it into our literature classics, I don't know, how it is now, but when I went to secondary school one of the must read books were "Dvēseļu putenis" (Blizzard of Souls)written by Aleksandrs Grīns, who himself served in Latvian Riflemen units first under Russian Empire and later as part of army of independent Latvia. In the novel Winchester 1895 was used by the father of the main protagonist sort of as a marksman rifle, and it's stock got covered with more and more markings for each German killed. It was a good rifle, however there is a common complain about lever action rifle - when you are in prone position in a field under machineguns fire, it's quite easy to get shot in the right shoulder due to the way how one moves while reloading, something like this doesn't happen with bolt action rifles. Even worse, if one kept the rifle vertically while loading from a stripper clip, lever is sticking down making rifle noticeably higher, so if that man wanted to check what he is doing and rose his head up... better to be shot in a shoulder than let Germans to score a headshot. P.S. Since WWI there are such grim/cool placenames in Latvia as Nāves sala (the island of Death) and Ložmetējkalns (the Machinegun hill).
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  4. Russians usually say, that SKS was a backup, a "plan B", an insurance in case if the idea of an assault rifle - AK doesn't take off. Besides SKS used proven technologies, while stamping used on AK was still brand new back then. IIRC in Soviet comedy "Maxim Perepelyica" (Максим Перепелица) made on 1955 or 1956, starring very famous actor of the period Leonid Bikov (Леонид Быков), where the main heroe serves in army, you can see soldiers carrying mostly SKS's and some AK's, which is unusual and rare, as, just as you said, the period when something like this was happening was really short.
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  5. "Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work you can always hit them with it."(C) Boris "the Blade"
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  6. Many of those after service were converted to other calibers (like for 16 gauge), and sold on civilian market. "Berdanka" ("берданка") for a while, at least for the first half of XX century was synonymous with cheap hunting rifle or shotgun.
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  7. Simplified STEN? Pardon, did I hear that right?
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  8. So, basically an PDW, an indirect spiritual predecessor of MP7, that Germans use now.
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  9. EdM240B The embodiment of the KISS (keep it simple, stupid!) engineering principle. Besides, why make a specialized part, when a standard screw does it just as well?
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  10. WoW, it's looks a bit weird, has some DIY vibe to it, yet is also very aesthetically pleasing.
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  11. WoW, so much (over)engineering, it really took some development to come to much simpler designs. I'm actually somewhat surprised there is no oil radiator and oil pump on this thing to prevent lubricant on all those shafts and cranks from overheating. XD
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  12. WoW, ну нихрена себе! That's some quite unexpected combo. Maxim pretty much is the one who got me interested into firearms beyond that initial "this one looks cool" level.
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  13. While duels might have been forbidden by that time, they should have sold those in pairs anyway. 8D
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  14. Sounded like French. XD Besides it was more like "оскопляет меня" (it castrates me) than "оскорбляет меня" (insults/offends me), but who cares?! P.S. Whoever said "Воздух" at 19:43 is either a Russian speaker or just did it perfectly well.
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  15. Speaking of guns made in isolation. Would Iran fit that description or it would not, since it already had some weapon industry? Anyway, it still would be interesting to see that Iranian made bullpup version of AR15 named Khaybar KH 2002
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  16. When in late 1980s or early 1990s (very ear;y, it was still in USSR) I saw in a pop-sci / technology magazine for youth a drawing of several SMGs (IIRC, others were Tompson, MP40, M3 etc), including PM63, this one definitely was the most unusual and eye catching.
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  17. In Russian armed forces it isn't just top-down command, it's idiotic top-down. Like in the beginning of war, when Russians got stuck near Kyiv, they decided to dig in. A trench was dug near a crossroads, which seem to make sense - to control any movement on either road, except it wasn't that - at least part of the trench was in between two large fences, at least one of them was made of concrete, like around typical Soviet era factories and facilities (repair shop for tracktors or something like that). So the soldiers in that position were blind and unable to fight anything. Likely an officer pointed on a map "dig here!" and so they did, because "who are we, to argue with an order?"
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  18. Yeah, I hoped Ian would wear that white "armour" suit.
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  19. No, no, no, Ian, you don't use the expression "to cut costs" in corporate parlance, you should say "to optimize".
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  20. Yeah, but they believe in Jesus too, in their own way. Besides, what does it matter which sort of BS exactly believers buy in?
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  21. Well, how about Chinese nationalist uniform and "a canon in a box" Mauser next time, you know, for a balance?
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  22. Cossacks picked shashka as their weapon of choice after Russian colonial wars in Caucasus, thus the origin of the word itself is not Russian, it comes from Adyghe language.
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  23. On contrary - artillery often paves the way for entry, no doors will stay locked, the bigger - the better. However, not in the sense of it's affordability.
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  24. It might sound awful from a business and financial point of view, but makes sense to keep the best in the arsenal and get rid of junk.
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  25. - My pig speaks French! - Common, that got to be complete BS! - Huh! Watch this! Puts pig on the ground, then "asks" it: - Parlez vous Français? (kicks the pig) - Ouwiiiii!
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  26. One of inflation calculators I just looked up gave this result: $25 in 1864 → $408.55 in 2019 I 'd say, that mere ~410 bucks are still not much for a fine and advanced weapon. P.S. Well, maybe not so fine, it had some problems.
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  27. I recommend "Cowan"s War. The Story of British Naval Operations in the Baltic, 1918-1920" - it's a fascinating read, giving insight from a perspective of someone actually participating in those events. I read it in Latvian translation. And a small technicallity - nobody was figting to join USSR back in 1918-1920, as USSR as a "union" was established only in 1922.
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  28. 1:10:21 - "alarm" goes off XD
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  29. M27 IAR substituted machine guns in Marine service, and those MGs had linked belts to them... designated M27. So in a way M27 was replaced by M27.
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  30. Got to rewind a 28:10 to get how the new pistol is called, it's "Удав" (Udav or Udaff), which means a "boa snake".
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  31. Put this at post office and deliver papers in mornings without going anywhere.
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  32. Obrez is not exactly a weapon for troops, it's an iconic weapon of Russian Civil War era gangs.
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  33. Someone definitely needs this for a steampunk cosplay photo set.
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  34. TheFirearmEnthusiast A new one? Because Soviet era production should't have such defects... in theory. I remember reading an advice from 1990s Latvian (that's Nort-East ex-Soviet part of Europe) car magazine on how to choose and buy a seconf-hand car was to look if it's symmetrical, because if it isn't, that may indicate she has been in an accident. A note followed - that doesn't mean anything if it's a "Moskvitch" (a car made in Moscow AZLK factory), since being a bit scewed has been a norm for them for decades. 8D
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  35. "spin in a circle" This reminds about the myth (supposedly) about older UZIs used as a sort of improvised anti-personnle grenades. Story goes like this: older UZI with some wear can fire on it's own, if dropped hard on a ground, so to clear a bunker Israelis simply dropped in there a cocked and loaded older UZI, which then proceeds to do a mag dump, while spinning around due to recoil and sending bullets ricocheting more than once from concrete walls.
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  36. I guess SMGs wasn't just considered a silly idea, there was some ideological background - SMGs were considered a weapon of police in those damn capitalist countries (Germany with MP18, USA with "Thompson" etc). Then came the Winter War and 'oh, shhhh....!!!" P.S. Also, during the war partizans (guerillas) found out, that it is easier to make a replika of a supposedly more complicated guns like PPD, than a PPSh, I guess that's because in a "Khaiber pass" level workshop, where the main tools are a file and a hammer, it is easier to copy milled, than stamped parts.
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  37. TheFirearmEnthusiast That's what I suspected - an "Izh" aka "Baikal" (their name for export). Since 1990s or even late 1980s QC on Russian production is almost non-existing. On Russian gun blogs and sites one can find really terrible examples of pistols, where barrel is obviously not coaxial with the slide, brand new military issue guns having metal shavings in them stuck in  cosmoline (sometimes ammo also includes foreign bodies) and other horror stuff. Rumour has it, that the only batch of AKs that was made with good QC and tolerances were AK-103 for Venezuela. No wonder the factory nearly bankrupted, so the state had to intervene in save it.
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  38. More or less the same everywhere - GULAG system in USSR, Khmer Rouge regime, and numerous others. It is really, really hard to believe someone would do something that insane and evil, so people don't resist, sometimes they try to prove their loyalty to regime and even refuse to believe they got imprisoned intentionally, not by a mistake.
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  39. LoL, out that's exactly now it wotks in real life, isn't it? Obviously, I'm not the only one who has noticed this somewhat ironic use of words "peoples" and "democratic". It's just I was born and grew up in USSR, so I also had some insiders perspective too.
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  40. Russia? Perhaps, you should contact Max Popenker the author of "Modern Firearms" website and several books on guns. He speaks English, besides for a year or two he works for "Kalashnikov Concern". However Korobov worked in a different factory - Tula, not Izhevsk.
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  41.  @tsartomato  Yeah, it's sort of grammatically correct, but still wrong, it's not a real Russian idiom, the real one in English would go like: "That crap pisses me off, fuck it up!" XD
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  42. So, first the mass of the barrel driven by the power if the spring slams your shoulder, and then on top of that comes the recoil. Genius! It's like a terrible appetiser before equally bad main dish. XD
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  43.  @lovecraftcat  Ha! English speakers... Sometimes Russians themselves have problems with that floating stress. Simple word "передохнуть" can be pronounced as "peredohnUtj" or "peredOhnutj" having radically different meaning. Quite stressful isn't it? XD
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  44. Funny, in Russian "davka" (давка) means "a crush" or "a stampede", which in a way makes sense.
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  45. Thousands to sign?! Ian, you are screwed! XD I've signed several dozens, up to a couple of hundreds of papers at once (I've made my signature really simple and fast to do exactly for this reason), and it was bad enough. Well, not like exhausting, but really boring. But thousands....
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  46. Gevelot? It, spelled and pronounced "жевело" is still a well known type of primer in shotgun shells among Russian hunters... Or maybe not for shells, I'm not into that myself, but definitely used by hunters. Besides it might also be a typo of a conical shotgun slug.
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  47. It's 69, it got to be all about penetration
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  48. Salvation for boredom and ignorance!
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  49. BTW, sometimes Russians jokingly call AK "SturmAK" on their gun forums and blogs, because of the "AK is just an StG-44 ripoff" BS The name SturmAK  would perfectly fit this conversion.  8D
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  50. Nick Miller I've met them only on streets, nice guys, so it's really sad they are dedicating their lives to imaginary goals, in a way even virtual items in MMORPGs are more real. My closest encounter with religion was going a couple of times with meetup of 'moonies" (weird spin-off of Christianity originating in Korea). On the last time I went there, their pastor (or whatever they call it among their ranks) started to explain their dogma, and I just couldn't stop laughing, that "WTF?!" expression on his face was just priceless. 8D And while back then I wasn't an atheist, I was still very much a materialist, not willing to dive too deep into ""supernatural' sh.. shtuff.
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  51. Grifter Wouldn't this look more appropriate in hands of an Ogrin?
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  52. TBH, any shootout has terrible hit rates, as far as I'm aware, something like 1-2% of the shots fired, a trained professional can score 5%. Well, it's not just stress, paper targets don't shoot back, so you can hit them with 100% accuracy, not the case with ingagement with s gunman.
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  53. +Antwon Jenkins (Slooooow clap) Actually, "never to be cleaned" wasn't exactly Armalite's invention, it just some guys heard what they wanted to hear, but what designers of the rifle never said.
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  54. +Joseph Cantwell Yeap! I haven't done a lot of that, but am a little familiar with this, "I have a cool idea!", drawed it in CAD, ran simulation... Nah, doesn't work!
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  55. @Jake Cain Executing such refugees would be insanely stupid, that would prevent others from fleeing, thus only strengthening communist regimes.
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  56. Exactly, "Firefly" and "Blade Runner" were first things that came to my mind.
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  57.  @xochiltepetzalailhuicamina2322  I'm just reciting Russian Wiki article on it, but yes, it's true, that Russian has many deep-rooted words of Turkic and Persian origin, like "сарафан" ("a sarafan", I type of traditional Russian female dress) comes from Persian "saref". So maybe it got to Adyghe first and then to Russian.
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  58. Indeed. However, wouldn't it then make more sense to connect such safety device the a buttstock plate?
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  59. I might have seen that crap like a quarter century ago, if that's the one where bad guys sends a drug addict into a bus with a small case and promises him another dose after all is over, of course, the case actually had a bomb in it. Now movies of that era should seem unbearably bad.
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  60. As someone already has mentioned in one of the previous videos - those tables with covers on them really make the impression, like you, guys, are in a morgue XD
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  61.  @tsartomato  Просто уточнение ДЛЯ ТЕХ, КТО В ТАНКЕ (ba-doom-tssss!) XD
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  62. So, urin isn't flammable, eh? Well, depends on one's drinking habits.
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  63. Thomas Especially if that's a postcoital cigarette.
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  64. "Gun-shaped object" lol, but really, this could have been a jackhammer, it only lacks a hose for compressed air.
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  65. Actually, the first thing that came to my mind as a counterpart to FG-42 in Allied service was BREN used by Commandos, and Ian too mentioned BREN, so... Will story be continued or not? Except, I believe most British handguns (unless it's Browning HP) might suck, at least compared to P38 they should.
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  66. Aren't Lithuanian guns still "groving" in gardens under occasional rinse if machine oil? XD
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  67. SaltyWaffles It's only impractical for small arms, Soviet/Russian automatic grenade launchers (AGS-17, AGS-30) have been using caseless ammo for some time. Except it's not exactly "caseless", some call it ammo with "fly away case" - instead of small cavity on it's back, or solid brick of propellant (like in German G11), projectile has whole case containing propellant attached to it. So there is no much win on weight, but no need for extraction and ejection either. Anyway, let's wait and see if LSAT program is just another experiment or will it come to fruition.
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  68. It actually reminds me Fallout 10mm pistol, but with a protruding barrel.
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  69. Here is a particular creator on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons/posts Basically, you 'subscribe" - donate to a creator/creators of your choice on monthly (like in the case of Forgotten Weapons) or per issue basis (some guys make 2-3 videos per months, so the total changes based on the amount of work done) a sum you want.
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  70. If this is meant to fool anyone, it's not aimed (no pun intended) at you or to scare Israelis, it's a "Potemkin village" for their sponsors, showing "look, we put your money to good use, send more!"
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  71. ​ Plantman Whoreticulture  I don't agree to that, some of my girl classmates are now serving in police or army, one has a rank of major (maybe even higher rank now). And around 15% of our armed forces personell are female. It's not sex or gender that matters, but competence and abilities (including physical abilities, of course, if job requires those).
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  72. As a back-up gun.
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  73. Why does the upper part look so complex? Are those sights, rails for something or just ribs to strengthen the already bulky slide? Oh, BTW, since yesterday I'm one of your "only a buck a month" patrons. 8D
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  74. LoL, this reminds me "abibas" and "reebook" sneakers and sportswear or cheap "Santo" (instead of "Sanyo") electronics etc.
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  75. Michael Cerda Well, around 2008 and a couple years after that he was one of those guys, who satiated my lust for more information on firearms, but now... Nah!
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  76. Hmm, Estonian guns, Lithuanian guns.. What's next, Latvian Lee-Enfields?
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  77. Shouldn't L2 "Sterling" be pretty high in the list of best post WWII SMGs, or it was not mentioned because it is not present on the US collectors market?
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  78. I actually forgot about APS, I'd rather imagine Balalaika with something with a greater kick and reach, like AK-74 or Dragumov, of course, while wearing camo and a blue ВДВ beret.
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  79. "Curve"? That's not how you spell the word "kurwa!" P.S. Playing online games ("World of Tanks" in my case) on European servers you do eventually learn words like this. XD
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  80.  @Gronbar6  Nah, not in that case, it wasn't made for advertising "Kalashnikov" concern production, Russian army or anything like that, just guys enjoying getting such a relatively rare gun.
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  81. I've heard those and 70/90 are quite front heavy, can't neither confirm or deny that.
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  82. 6:26 - "..both extremes..." LoL, this is gold, that's why I love real life from the frontītes reporting so much.
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  83. Latvian Riflemen divisions of Russian Imperial Army were organised in late October of 1915, so something doesn't match up.
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  84. Schlegelmilch? One of our most famous racing drivers Haralds Šlēgelmilhs, yes, it's spelled in a diferent way than in German, but that's the same surname.
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  85. Uh-oh, don't be too surprised if butthurt guys from India start commenting here calling you stupid, ignorant, racist and what not, also claiming INSAS series has been fixed too. Who knows, maybe it really is, there just isn't enough reliable information about it.
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  86. EllAntares Wasn't it about separate loading on IS like on naval guns and other artillery? If you call that "caseless", then muzzle-loaders from XIV century use "caseless" ammo too.   8D
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  87. One thing missing in such construction is a lever, that would pull release and allow much handier reloading.
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  88. "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
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  89. It doesn't matter how corrupt Ukraine is, it's a democracy invaded by a dictatorship. P.S. Also this is a perfect example, why we - almost whole Eastern Europe, are now in NATO - so such invasion be by an ex-empire waging a neo-colonial war would not happen to us. We warned the West about the threat presented by Russia for decades! Nevermid, now we just ought to do everything we can to help Ukraine with the West or not.
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  90. 15:40 - the joke at first went like this this: Russian army supposedly was the second best in the world, turns out, it's the second best in Ukraine. However, after June 24 "Wagner" march on Moscow, it got altered: Stages of down-rating of the status of Russian forces: 1) up to 2022 - second best in the world; 2) 2022 - second best in Ukraine; 3) 2023 - second best in Russia. P.S. On the issue of "Wagner Group" supposedly being very good - yes, their very core consisted of veterans of FSB "Vimpel" special unit and former GRU (it has been renamed a while ago) Specnaz guys, but that's not the shocking part, estimates show that during war in Ukraine "Wagner" alone consumed around 5% of Russian budget in payments, ammo, equipment and supplies. I mean... WoW! That's just one "private" part of Russian forces, how much all of their forces combined consume?! And we in NATO sometimes are complaining about 2% for military budget being too much.
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  91. Yeap! Kalashnikov, anyone? P.S. Besides, among gun designers, there were several dentists, IIRC, Gatling was one. People chuckle, that's because they are used to bring pain to people. XD
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  92. So, "rocketjump" in videogames is actually based on real story. XD
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  93.  @Tunkkis  Nah, that's a tale from real IDF soldier over the Web on a blog about weapons, but even he said that seem to be a myth invented decades ago, and when a story is told and retold (every time enriched in more details, of course, to make it fancier) for a long time and is relatively widely known, it becomes ingrained in culture and seldom questioned.
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  94.  @66MetalDevil6  I don't think it's that hard, as to me personally it reminds "zicher", so it's not that confusing. But yes, in other Slavic languages "zastrelit" / "застрелить" also means "to shoot down (someone)".
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  95. +patrick frazier I wouldn't say he is bad (well, he might be little nuts when it comes to politics, I prefer Hickok45's calm approach). It's feels more like I graduated his class and had moved on.
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  96. I posted this separately, so I'll just copy-paste it here too: Is it just "Raith" or rather "Iraith"? I mean, there is a suspicious lines to the left of "R", could be a letter "I" or "J". Googling "Iraith" resulted in bunch of Spanish Facebook and other social network pages, as it seems that "Iraith" is a persons name, maybe a surname sometimes, judging by one example. Anyways, it could be Iberian peninsula in any case.
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  97. It's not ugly! It's "kvadratisch, praktisch, gut"! I'm certain Germans would be glad to come up with a similar design.
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  98. Often, when watching videos like these, I feel really parted. On one hand I feel sorry for those guys, who had and industrial project, which would be nice to succeed, but then I remember those where CSA, and it's sort of good they failed. Also serves as an example what advantages industrial nation has over an agrarian one, thus also hinting those where not slaves, who built the wealth of the nation, so CSA would have achieved much more, if they had dropped slavery already and had more free men on their side. P.S. But exactly because these are so few and so different even in the same batch, collecting them must be exciting.
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  99.  @Matt-md5yt  Yeap, wood furniture around receiver instantly sparked certain associations with Fallout.
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  100. Matthew Kriebel English sh and German sch obviously are not a single letter like Russian ш, but some languages (including my native tongue) with an alphabet based on Latin script do have letter š or some other character for this sound.
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  101. "Jigsaw" maps somewhat reminds me how back in the days, when I had not dropped out of university, we - students of architecture, were given a task to design a suburban house. The model of each house included the plot of land it was on, and those plots where next to each other, so then all our models (all made to the same scale) could be put together and thus made up a model of whole village, or at least a couple of streets of it.
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  102. "Calico" guns run flawlessly, as is evident from my experience in "Dalta Force: Land Warrior" from good 20 years ago. XD And G11 was cool too.
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  103. In my personal biased opinion 177 and Proto are the most interesting, but I'm not a US resident and not a buyer, so who cares! XD
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  104.  @lenny6281  At least in use by Russian paramilitary Internal Troops (Внутренние войска) which are now part of Rosguardia (basically a Gendarmerie / Carabinieri type of forces - they do police / SWAT functions during peace time and are a part of armed forces in war), no idea, if shotguns are used by Russian Army too.
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  105. LoL, companies "Star", "Astra" and "Llama", so it's "star", "star" and "flame".
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  106. 1:13:13 - Oh... isn't that a humidity issue? I mean I live in Latvia, and I've heard from people from Siberia, that Baltic "mild cold" (like -10°C) bites worse than -20°C back in their home. It's almost always very humid and often very windy here.
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  107. Обрез (obrez) is more associated with the Russian Civil War (1917-1923), when those "pistols" were mostly made of Mosin rifles. Also known by the nickname "Смерть председателя" ("the death of a chairman") - chairman of a collective farm in this case, which likely puts the origin of that one to early 1930s to 1940s and WWII.
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  108.  @Roman_Patriot  No, "to choke" would be "душить", while it's "work in progress" or "удушить" if that's a completed action, like "to choke one out".
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  109. This is just a speculation, but perhaps "L" in .CAL.22.L designation stands for "léger" - light (like in FN FAL - Fusil Automatique Léger).
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  110. BWX Yeah, "socialists", LoL. By the time this crap got adopted Britain was run by Conservatives.
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  111. pietzeekoe  To me it doesn't look so unique, maybe for a weapon it is, but it looks like a cheap car with "Ferrari" sunshades, wheel covers and other stuff all over it, or like kids use to "improve" things with stickers, or like on Soviet block some counterfeit production was made looking cooler by using fake Western brands on it. BTW, don't believe movie."Moscow on the Hudson" (1984): a) nobody here had heard about "Calvin Klein" (I believe that was just a lame product placement), we believed the top of the tops jeans were "Montana" and b) there was no queueing after toilet paper, we had cheap and soft Soviet newspapers.
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  112. New about two of these. Maybe you should look into Lifesize Potato channel. He has particular interest in rare and weird handguns.
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  113.  @СашаПопущенец  Ukraine has free and fair elections. At no point since 1991 it has lacked elected public representatives, except on territories occupied by Russia, of course. In 2014 a corruption official - president Yanukovich, run to his puppet masters and was replaced by the speaker of Parliament, just as constitution demands it, until pretty soon he was replaced by an elected president. That's what sнiтнeads like you call "a coup".
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  114.  @AirOne1333  I've learned only very, very basic French many years ago, after a breakup with a girl, so I went to those classes after the work, to keep myself busy and at least in some company.
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  115. IMO, the choice of standard round may also partly be dependent on the geography of the country. Where I live, we hardly need a full power rifle round, land is pretty much flat and heavily forested. However, when they got to Afghanistan... Carbine in 55,6 is nice - precise and light, but then suddenly carrying some of the old G3 (which by that time army didn't had anymore as far as I'm aware, those rifles got passed to national guard) suddenly made sense again - large plains and mountains, that pushes view distance incredibly far. US likewise reintroduced good old M14, didn't they? Now think of Argentina and Turkey - a lot plains and mountains, sure, towns and forests too, but not to the degree most of Europe has them.
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  116.  @tsartomato  "Через плечо!"(C) Типа "меня эта хрень заебала (или "бесит" в более приличном вариате), убери её нахрен!" у последней фразы так же могут быть и более грубые, и более мягкие версии.
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  117.  @oneproudbrowncoat  Yeah, "don't you know, what Jesus said in Luke 11? Don't trouble me, the door is locked!" XD
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  118. Sometimes they are called sub-ethnic group. My wife's relatives on her mothers's side supposedly were Cossack, but after Stalin's rule her parents were... let's say "transferred" to the Far East of Russia and only one family of their relatives was left in Samara. Besides historically not all Cossack were the same, the one in current Ukraine were pretty organised, while those living on Southern and Eastern outskirts and steppes outside of Moscovia were gangs of all possible kinds of people - various ethnicities and various reasons for leaving settled territories - escaped prisoners, bandits, those looking for land and freedom (running away from serfdom). As one of tsars wrote to a khan about them: "our and your Cossacks" ("наши и ваши казаки").
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  119. +Christopher MacLennan I was just about to suggest something like that. XD
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  120. Emm, is this a reddesigned Walter? P.S. Ah, this came before Walter, OK
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  121. "Maxim Parabellum" (or is it "Maxim para bellum"?), LoL, that's pure gold! What's next, "Colt Wesson"? Sure, they might use an excuse, that it"s just a Latin phrase, but common, who's buying?!
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  122. Да пофиг! I'm not into drinks with no distinctive taste. I mean, sure, different vodkas really have their distinctive properties, I'm just not into them, if I even drink at all, it's likely to be wine, vermouth or liquor. HOWEVER "Poteen" from "Celtic Spirit".... It's special - strong yet sweet at the same time.
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  123. It is noted in the science of politologs, that those usually are the wealthiest and most developed provinces, who try to break free and start separatist movements, which makes sense, as: 1) to them it feels like the rest of a country is a burden, that keeps holding them back; 2) if you don't have resources and influence, any attempt to break away might fail. CSA was a failure at both of these, yet they were dumb enough to start the conflict themselves, which is sort of hilarious.
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  124. The crazyest thing is, one of the first pictures of VHS rifles I've ever seen outside some show settings, was not on this or some other channel or from a range, but photos form Syrian civil war.
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  125. Pikes? Perhaps for cavalry? After all, they were used in that role as late as 1920s as far as I'm aware judging by pictures of Russian civil war era.
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  126. Soviets too had similar youth organisations, three tiers of them, depending on the age group, the medium ties - pioneers, largely got many ideas snatched from scout organisation, even name is along the same lines. We got to shooting air rifles at school age 9 or 10.
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  127.  @neutronalchemist3241  LoL, "Figli della Lupa" sounds interesting. First tier in USSR were oktyabryata / октябрята - October's little ones, meaning kids or successors of the October revolution, also sometimes named "Lenin's grandchildren" in songs and stories.
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  128. LoL, it accent should be on the second "a" - "Mah-cAr-ow", like "hey, dude, dats muh cAr get ow it!"
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  129. Andre Krumins I'm sure am. Greetings from Riga!
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  130. Andre Krumins Yeah, I've noticed.
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  131. "Marketing not talking to engeneering guys" LoL, that story is as old as the civilization and is all too familiar, unfortunately. It goes like this: "We already have a contract signed, so here are deadlines and budged you ought to follow. Now, what do you think, how long it will take and how many materials we need to buy for this project?" 8D
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  132. Forgotten Weapons Speaking of unlicensed production. Maxim Popenker once mentioned in his blog, he always has been under the impression, that Finland bought licence and documentation to manufacture their own version of AK, then Israel contacted and bought a licence and documentation from them and made "Galil" on the base of Finnish assault rifle, and finally, "Galil" in turn spawned some South African weapons. Questionable part here being, he never encountered any mention of Soviet-Finnish deal (maybe someone even denied there has been one, don't remember that part), so... Were Finnish RK series licensed or counterfeit?
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  133. I guess it's not that the upper handguard is that much longer, as it is that the lower one can't bejust as long because of the bayonet lugs.
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  134. Little Girl Well, given that hard drives were named "winchesters" because of "Winchester" 30/30, who knows.
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  135.  @comradeinternet467  That's some "collaboration" when Bandera was held captive by Nazis
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  136. While the letter K in the designation in essence does mean "heavy", it's not exactly the same in literal translations, as "крупнокалиберный" means "of a large calibre".
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  137. I'm not a peoples person, I'm not any good at being polite instead of straight and blunt honest, however that letter was absolutely terrible even without any context, it literally screams "I'm butthurt loser, but I'm trying not to show it!" I mean, even I would not write something that awful, even if that's more or less what I think.
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  138. Well, if I was a nerd... It would be impractical to do this directly, because work (action) depends on cosine of the angle the force is applied, so the greater the angle, the less impulse is transferred to the slide (at 90° cos=0 and no force is transferred). Thus the result being - little or no kick being absorbed by the movement of the slide while little or no power to reload is transferred. Impractical, unless you want to use some overpowered cartridge or very light slide, then... who knows.
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  139.  @puppetguy8726  WoW, two month salary?! I can't say about US, I live in one of the poorest EU coutries, an ex-Soviet one/ Here minimal pay after taxes are around 365 Euros, average is somewhere in the region of 1000 Euros, while median (which is closer to most typical wage than average one, as it excludes extra high and extra low wages) is nearly 1/3 lower. This would put the price for my country above 200 Euros then, which is more than 2200 USD.
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  140. 4th group, crazy anime fans longing for longslide or Luger pistol chambered for .454 Casull, because... why not?
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  141. WoW, it turns out to be BS, just like everything (well.. ALMOST everything) else they say, what a "surprise"!
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  142.  @farmerbrown84  Well, that's neither female nor male issue, that's plain stupidity and incompetence.
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  143. I've seen Russians complaining about the state of their gun design / engineering like "how bad it must bee, if the best SMG is still the one from 1943?" Sort of shows, how hard it is to beat something really good.
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  144. ​ @sectero9450  They are neither police nor military - not under the Ministry of Interior Affairs nor MoD, it's a separate structure subordinated directly to the dictator / "president". They got various types of AKs, like AK-105 which is handier than full length AK-74, machineguns, RPGs, some armour (BTRs and "Tigr", but not tanks) etc.
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  145. So, as long as there was water, a Maxim gun's barel will stay cooler than some CPU's with not big enough coolers, while doing hard calculations.
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  146. So, it took only five decades since 1972 to work out the flaws. XD
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  147. "Wide open", "you can manufacture" Sooo, let's say all it would take for a reconstruction of famous "Paris gun" would be money and some paperwork? And would a ballistic missile of V2 sort be just another "destructive device" or not?
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  148. +Autism Is Unstoppable If there is a home left after shooting this indoors.
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  149. I've seen AK receivers before, and I'm plotting layouts for punchpress, since that's my work... Just look at want you can actually do with it! And we have banding machines too... (scraches head 8D ).
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  150. For the Emperor!
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  151. On the thumbnail it looked like a gun designed for suicides, LoL!
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  152. Nice audio and visual background.  8D
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  153. +AGS363 Even stranger fact is - Germans largely got into such minor formalities only under French occupation during Napoleonic wars. French were.. well, not terrified, but certainly annoyed that the same person can be named Carl or Karl in different documents, just as the clerk, priest or whoever else who wrote it felt is right. So French, having more of the strict Roman legacy in their culture (which is ironic, since the Holy Roman empire was largely Germanic), put an end to this chaos.
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  154. +TheTokkin I guess that's partly because unlike here in Europe, Americans have no outer treats, I don't mean minor things like illegal immigration, but a full scale invasion by another country. So they are "eating up themselves" and have switched form protecting country to being defensive against their own country, like our own bodies may run into frenzy and cause autoimmune disease when our immune system lacks job.
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  155. No idea how it's done now, but in old arsenals (like one built is Stalin's era that held munitions for Soviet black Sea fleet) carts run on a softer metal, not steel wheels, in order to awoid sparks. Rails were still made of steel, I believe, othervice they would be bloody expensive.
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  156. Not like there hasn't been one: http://i58.fastpic.ru/big/2014/0327/a2/b678b7c77b386fb5cfc6562ba4b0efa2.jpg
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  157. Jeffery Liggett "..Metric, It is not a system I find useful for everyday use as it is to reliant on precision." So, are you saying Americans suck really badly with holding to tight tolerances? Well, judging by Åmerican car industry that actually might be true. 8D On the other hand, if we aer being serious, US makes some of the best precision rifles, and that doesn't go along the initial statement.
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  158. Tuton25 If you need "to make more sense' in current world while completely changing the system of how we write down numbers, go with hexadecimal, it would make more sense in current information age.
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  159. Pipes hanging from ceiling, that show height limits in some underground and multistorey parkings. I'm slightly above 1,8m (6 feet), I don't usually run into them, just sometimes touch with tips of my hair when getting out of car, but many guys here, like my younger brother, are 1,9 and taller.
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  160. +adam foye Well, being over 20mm in calibre, it can be called artillery, a hand cannon. 8D
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  161. +Andre Krumins Sorry for offtopic question, but don't you have some Latvian ancenstry (given you are aware of it)?
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  162. Andre Krumins Yeap, the surname.  8)   Krūmiņš is really, really common one.
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  163. Michael Moorrees +IKR? I've told my superiors several times, that in orderfor me to do my job better, I'd like to spend some time in our workshop (I wouldn't call it an "assembly line", of course, there are computerized punchpress and saw for aluminium profiles etc, but pretty much each detail is custom made, and there no more than 50 people in whole company both in office (engeneers, project managers, finances, lawyer) and the shop) and prefferably spend some time on machines, under supervision, naturally.
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  164. Forgotten Weapons Well, sometimes, maybe. Actually marketing and sales guys are not dummies, they do make schedules for production and deliveries. It's just that they very, very, VERY much love to dream about cutting costs, so "Let's be more effective!" How do we achieve this? Let's make less mistakes! For that we must run double checks and make more precise, more descriptive documentation that would include EVERYTHING! (a couple months later) Hmmm, engeneering departement costs per unit have risen 1,5-2 times, what might have caused it? I wonder...
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  165. I wonder, how much costs can be brought down by using modern so called 4D milling machines/robots on replica production? Sure, making just a couple of guns would not pay off, but how about making a lot of them on pre-order? Robot doesn't care what it mills, as long as there is 3d model/program to begin with - Luger, FG42, Scharclose, broomhandle Mauser or whatever else. Obviously, barrels, springs and stamped parts can not be replicated all that easily and would be much trickier to make. Still I believe there must be a market at least for Luger P08 (and the "artillery Luger"... OMG, are you kidding?!) and Walter P38 pistols, because they are so cool looking.
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  166. Cheap and very light things, perhaps.
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  167. Wait, it looks to me like one can't load a rifle from a stripper clip while a dust cover is on, at least on Mauser, without unlatching that swiveling locking detail around bolt handle. That's quite an issue, if true.
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  168. maciek qwerty Oh, thank you! Yes, then it really is somewhat different. Then I wonder, how an assault rifle / an automat is called? Since, basically, it's an automated carbine, Swedes even call it AK - automatkarabin.
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  169. +Max LoL, I wonder is it a Commandment or just a parable?
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  170. "The guy wjo ordered this knoew how to shoot" Maybe, or maybe he was just "tackticool".
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  171. One complaint about this lever action was - soldiers get too exposed in prone position when cycling and, especially, when reloading this rifle from a clip, they often got shot in a shoulder or even in a head, sure, that might be just a training issue. Yet guys loved it or at least there was some kind of "cool" about it, as far as I can tell from literature, since one of them, Aleksands Grins, wrote a book "Dvēseļu putenis" (snowstorm of souls) that is (or at least was in my time) a must read in Latvian secondary schools. One point where it is better than Russian design - one can't easily lose Winchester's bolt as it is possible with Mosin's rifle. However M1895 seem to be less sturdy, there may be some left here and there, but unlike bolt action rifles that still work, 1895 found in Russia these days are mostly in terrible shape.
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  172. ***** Lack of appropriate training, I suppose.
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  173. Salpeteroxid Maybe, but loading a gun from a stripper clip while holding it sideways while trying to prevent the stripper clip falling off might be quite a pain in the butt.
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  174. Salpeteroxid Who cares, that was a full century ago.
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  175. If I'm not mistaken, "Fabryka Broni" simply means "Arms Factory" (or armament factory), perhaps it could be called "arsenal" for short?
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  176. Soviet APS pistol had some kind of delay system in the grip, any chance to see that?
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  177. ***** Sure, Czech and East German made weapons were of the best quality in Comblock. Well, I guess Polish produce also was of a pretty high standard.
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  178. ***** Well, not exactly. Sure we were all under USSR (my country was actually incorporated into USSR itself for a while), but Czechoslovakia was a separate country, with a limited autonomy though, as was clearly demonstrated in 1968, so it was an "independent" state, but on a short leash.Still, even then Czechs always went their own way, after all, they didn't even adapt AK, but made an assault rifle of their own design.
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  179. Can't say about Estonia, but Latvian defence plan until spring of 1939 was all made to protect from the invasion from the South - from Prussia, as relations with Germany were tense after WWI and a short war with Germany in late 1919 - mid 1920. And then... ooops, realisation came, that we have another potential adversary too, but it was already too late. Besides there are no swamps, dense forests and cliffs like on border of Russia and Finland, I've been on the border of Latvia and Russia back in Soviet times - it was an open field (by late 1980s it was no longer a collective farm field, but a privately rented one - at the latest stages USSR tried to save itself by sort of imitating partially free market like China did, yet failed, as reforms came too late), then there is a small ditch, actually a small river, more like a spring - one can easily jump or even simply step over it, and on the other side of it that's Russia.
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  180. I'd say there was also a lack of "evolutionary pressure" - the fight was against retarded South, not against an industrialized nation.
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  181. Not for ants, but for aunts.
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  182. I wonder if airsoft guys would not be interested in something like this. Made safe by inability to launch real metallic shells, of course, only plastic "grenades" filled with bio-degradable plastic BBs.
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  183. Only when it's empty, bodies do soften sound, not to the degree the sound studio wall do, of course.
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  184. 1) self-loading pistol design were still in it's infancy, 2) as someone already mentioned - no antibiotics, 3) people actually were smaller with less mass, it's not just about guns, now in some Western countries even syringes now had to be used with longer needles than before, because of under-skin fat layer, 4) often few shots actually hits target, especially under stress, we know it now, I guess back then there was a belief caliber and power little matters if shots are well placed.
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  185. Šī pasaule reizēm ir pārsteidzoši maza XD
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  186. Some airheads
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  187. I don't now if they are still in use, but in 1990s and early 2000s while our armed forces were still short on western made NATO standard armament, they had some Soviet WWII era pattern anti-tank rifles with optical sights on them, not exactly a sniper weapon, but 14,5mm must be a really serious anti-material stuff. And I think I've seen similar rifles in videos and pictures from elsewhere in Central Europe's ex-comblock countries.
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  188. I wonder, why wasn't it more successful? Price, maintenance issues, like too complex disassembly procedure, just not enough widely known on the market or some other reason?
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  189. +Farley Moab Pff, that's just an engineering problem, not an impossible barrier. Stronger springs, gas seal break/lock as on some weapons (not an option for Luger obviously, which lacks slider, unless one manages to hide something like that in the frame), big muzzle devices, maybe led or even depleted uranium weights to increase inertia and make recoil more tolerable.
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  190. It is! Besides, handguns in .454 Casull exist, while impractical, they are nowhere near as terrible as you are implying.
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  191. A "corpsescrew"?! Oh, "a corkscrew"... Nevermind.
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  192.  @bobhill3941  Yeah, a lot of people in the Far East of Russia speak with characteristic Ukrainian accent, some say they also got a different mentality from typical Russians - more rebellious and stubborn. My wife spent there one year as a kid with her grandparents in a small town near Vladivostok and on return scared her parents with the newly acquired pronunciation of "gHe" instead of standard Russian "g". 🤣
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  193. Actually PRACTICAL joke.
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  194. Were not some M14's shipped to Ukraine form Baltic countries? Supposedly we had a bunch of them, but I haven't really seen them here. AK4's (Swedish 3 variant) - sure, a few M16's too, national guard had some old AKM's, but M14's.... Yet supposedly there were thousands of those in service at least in storage.
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  195. Would you recommend this for a 4 year old? 8D I mean my kid's birthday is approaching and these books contain a lot of pictures.
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  196. Latvia?! WoW, that was unexpected. Interbellum Latvia didn't have much armour (still has not, except some light vehicles), but there were some armoured cars, there is even a monument a couple of kilometres from my house, where armoured units were stationed in Riga, near factory, that produced aeroplanes (now only furniture is made there). P.S. Here is the monument, I might been wrong about troops stationed there a century ago, maybe it's dedicated to the Liberation war 1918-1920: 1. Pasaules Kara pieminieklis https://maps.app.goo.gl/bTQNRsRsCHhkwuh16
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  197.  @LukeBunyip  No, not much of those either. Partially because railway in Latvia back then was a mess - a couple dozen different railway gauges were used, as even German WWI frontline railways were put to use. However Latvia did have a few French made submarines and British warplanes, maybe there was an armoured train too, or a couple of them, no idea really.
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  198. WoW, WWII era .45 ACP guns which went to USSR bu Lens-Lease (as standard items with American made tanks and aeroplanes), sure, but WWI gun, that's special.
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  199. I think this form-factor best fits airforce pilots and other crews - people who do not normally use small arms at all, unless they are downed somewhere.
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  200.  @ericmitchell985  OK, got it, thank you!
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  201. +moiseman Especially if you use that grandpa's gun not so much on the occupying forces, but on your compatriots of a different political affiliation.
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  202. A gun with a history. It might even work. Sometimes. Occasionally.
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  203. Ah, the serial number ФМ... When my cousin first learned Cyrillic alphabet, she said about letter "Ф" (Russian "F") "that's just perverted!" 8D And yes, word "phallos" / "фаллос" starts with this letter, I don't think it's just a coincidence, after all, Cyrillic script was somewhat inspired and based on the Greek one.
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  204. Very steampunk-ish looking gun, love it!
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  205. 7% mass and 5% speed increase, but energy is a function of square of velocity, thus it 18% (17,9675%) more total energy.
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  206. LoL, I've encountered an Indonesian, who claimed only white people can be imperialists, also was sort of proud how previous generations fought against Dutch colonial forces, yet Indonesia is known as quite aggressive state, like there in Papua. There is some sad irony in this. Of corse, newly found states often are quite nationalistic and aggressive, after all, my own country, less than two years old back then, declared a war on Germany and snatched a piece of it, but that's another story.
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  207. I would categorize 3rd generation not on the features common with rifles, but on their design philosophy: purposely built based on available technology and taking into account ergonomics, also designed without rush, unlike war time production; which distinguishes them from 1st rifle-like ones and from simplified for mass-production 2nd generation. BTW, doesn't this place small scale production SMGs made in war zones (like Balkans and Caucasus) in the 2nd generation slot despite them being made in 1990s?
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  208. Well, by UN definition everyone under 18 years is a kid, so it actually depends on which kid exactly it is. 8D I started with air guns when I was... well, I don't remember, but that's one of my earliest memories, my grandma learned me to shoot. We didn't had one of our own, but back then in USSR there were plenty of small air gun shootin' places (and military lessons in secondary schools and universities too where they taught how to assemble AK, since that country needed a lots of soldiers).
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  209. +Giloup92 My French is almost non-existent, but I gather that particular one was of 45mm caliber.
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  210. @byersm66 Then look for Schwarzlose Model 1908, but it's not as axotic as this Japanese one.
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  211. zumbazumba1 I guess they used ready barrels, there was no mass production, but even a few guns are better than none. Besides I've heard of a makeshift conversion of some looted rifles (IIRC those were K98) to semi-auto ones, at least one spring was needed for that job.
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  212. +swietoslaw How exactly Soviets initially not wanting SMGs make UK and Germany also not having them in large quantities a BS? It's a logical fallacy "does not follow" - there is no cause and effect here.
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  213. Is it just "Raith" or rather "Iraith"? I mean, there is a suspicious lines to the left o f"R", could be a letter "I" or "J". Googling "Iraith" resulted in bunch of Spanish Facebook and other social network pages, as it seems that "Iraith" is a persons name, maybe a surname sometimes, judging by one example.
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  214. ​ @lalli8152  Yes, similarities with initial invasion in Finland in 1939 are absolutely insane. Back then they also sent troops with uniforms for a victory parade in Helsinki, just like in 2022. Soviets even sent a military orchestra with other units, at least this time we haven't heard of that.
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  215. Hmm, to find a way around that patent I'd make a conical drum, which would be somewhat more difficult to make, but would be the same as regular revolver from users perspective, perhaps just a little bulkier. P.S. Same with bore through cylinder. Cone in not a cylinder, if the taper is noticeable enough. XD
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  216. I never quite understood why nobody used (sure I know only Webley-Fosbery and Mateba) gas operation instead of recoil for self-loading revolvers. might be wrong, but wasn't adding a muzzle device + rod (sort of a cousin of the "Desert Eagle") simpler than "sawing" revolver in two?
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  217. Oops, I did it again again, You placed there your thumb, And I hit it again.
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  218.  @a8205-w8h  How I'd that a problem? I'm aware of at least one female platoon commander during 1991 Desert Storm. P.S. Maybe officially it was impossible for her to be on th ed front line on desert, but soldiers are quite creative at interpreting regulations and finding workarounds.
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  219. Hmm, this reminds me that the centennial of the end of WWI is approaching, I wonder if and how it will be commemorated in Serbia? I'd ask "the Great War" channel about this, but I'm not one of their $5+ patrons, so I can't (if I'm not mistaking them for some other history or gun channel with such policy).
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  220. Identical internally? I've heard Swedish M40 doesn't have bolt accelerator, which makes slider is more sturdy, but might also make gun less reliable with weaker ammo ir when dirty.
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  221. I don't know if that was a joke, but the advice about face IDs goes like: disable it before getting in a fight, because camera may not recognize you with two black, swollen eyes, other hematoma, bruises and blood, at which point your phone will no longer unlock, thus making not just calls, but also Google/Apple pay unavailable. So... it may turn out, that beating home owners face first may render the gun useless, unless the camera somehow reads infrared and thus is able to recognize you by the network blood vessels under your skin, which is unique just like fingerprints. BUT that must not be an issue inside home, where people don't usually wear gloves.
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  222.  @UXB1000  He IS a Latvian - born only in 1987 (I was already going to school at that time), so he is not all that old. XD
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  223. What's all that terrible behind the idea? Artillery still to this day uses automatic extraction - ejects spent case, after which it must be loaded manually. So the concept on it's own is OK, it's just that the specific execution of the idea might be flawed.
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  224. @UCcIQXK-jYgvydGxuSmadtAg Indeed, it doesn't extract bullet on it's own either, only when hammer is lifted, I didn't realise that at first. And, as you just pointed out, there is no way for a live round to be loaded and securely sit ready to fire, as the breach block is not separate from the hammer, which is absolutely hilarious! XD Besides it can give user "a thumb", if breach block is released while fingers are still in the breach area.
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  225.  @bogdanbogdanoff5164  Well, in my native Latvian, which is not a Slavic language, but still has common roots, it's "deva", from "dot" - "to give", like Slavik "davat" or "davatj", while in Latvian "dāvāt" is to present something, to give away for free. It got to have a common Indo-European origin.
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  226. +carstengerm Game is free, most guns are not. But I agree, that toy/game is worth a look.
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  227. In 1980s, when a saw in a pop-tech magazine a drawing of this thing, it was pretty hard to figure out, how exactly does it look, since it's so weird and unfamiliar looking compared to later designs.
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  228. 8 rounds at 1200rpm... that's full magazine gone in 0.4 seconds. 8D Turns this into a sort of a derringer on steroids - brrrrooom and it's gone, but if you manage to hit, it might be worth it. Maybe.
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  229. Couch Ninja Warriors Welcome to the company!
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  230. At first all prices seemed quite reasonable and even affordable, for collectible items, that is, but then came key guns (LoL)... Volcanic and Henry... WoW, that's what I'd suspect being a really looked for item comes to. Not as pricey as rare art pieces, but still quite impressive.
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  231. AGS363 I remember him dissassenbling some French gun (I believe it was from XIX century, but I might be wrong, maybe it was from early XX cent.) and remarking that is is surprising how pedentically every part is numbered, supposedly because most people don't expect that of something made in France.  8D
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  232. Oh, so this thing has a name - "trigger slap". I've heard GSh-18 pistols have that, and not just deficient ones, it's unavoidable "feature" of their mechanism.
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  233. RushBuzzing It would be likely, if the gun was not designed for .22 court (French for "short"), so I'm out of ideas.
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  234. I wouldn't mind if modern rifles too had a way to re-cock hammer or striker, same with striker fired pistols.
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  235. I wonder why semi-automatic revolvers seem to be so over-engineered? I'd imagine a simple rod/slider running from muzzle to hammer. Maybe a muzzle device would be needed like on "Garand" or one akin to "Maxim" machine gun, or a gas mechanism like on "Desert Eagle", to ensure reliable cycling.
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  236. I do understand there is nothing in common mechanically, but it does have the appearance of one of those Spanish mauser-like full auto pistols.
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  237. Maybe crude, but still functional and nowhere as poorly made as Iraqi indigenous (sort of - a downgrade of an already downgraded T-72) tanks.
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  238. Oh, shit! I should have made the cylinder rotate the other direction! Well... let's fix it with a moving firing pin.
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  239. Mrdudeman That too. Also in 2014 for the first time since WWII one country has occupied another countries territory in Europe (most people don't give a ... when it happens in the 3rd world).
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  240. +Fredrik Häll Damn it! You beat me to this by 4 hours! Had the very same idea.
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  241. Wasn't it even more impractical due to use of black powder? Smoke screen can be useful, sure, but not when you need a clear sight of a target. That might have been even more of an issue for early Gatling guns, since they hold more ammo.
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  242. As usual a Russian word is pronounced in such a way I can hardly recognise it.  8D
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  243. A hot glue gun?
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  244. +Szalami I have the same question - why covers were not further improved and mass produced during interbellum period? However, I may imagine French thinking there will be no need for them exactly because of Maginot line - it's made of concrete bunkers, not muddy trenches.
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  245. In USSR we as kids learned to shoot either an air rifle or a "melkashka" (sort of "tiny one", "smallbore") - ,5,6mm rimfire, which is just another name for 22LR
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  246. jsm666 I guess mounting a Gatling gun previous to jet era would be a real PITA task. First, it has multiple barrels, which means weight, common, Germans even used MG08 / Maxim deriatives with no water in them, and steel is much heavier than water. In most cases a propeller obstucts the line of fire (unless aeroplane is built with a pusher propeller), mounting a synchronizer on a rotary gun might actually be impossible or very complicated so it doesn't make sense. Mounting in the wings decreases the effectivenes of fire. So the only planes that could carry a Gatling gun would be two engine fighters, like P-38 Lightning. However, Gatling guns surfaced only after WWII because speeds of jet planes demanded high rate of fire, before that it was not such a big issue.
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  247. shadowrundas Well, when I think of it, there are nanometers, but no nanoinches  8D
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  248. TheBadandy2021 Chinese is a good language, but their spelling system sucks, Vietnam did a really sensible thing moving to phonetic alphabet. Some may consider this to be just a legacy of French colonial regime, therefore Turkey might be a better example of this. IMO, in engineering metric system does make more sense, while it's not impossible to use Imperial units especially to those who are used to them, but simply writing tolerances of 0,2mm seem to be easier than the same number expressed as 1/128 of an inch. Perhaps I'm just biased, here metric system has been a standard since 1924.
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  249. I was going to mention that too. Heard about an airgun on that expedition on "the Thomas Jefferson Hour" podcast, but it didn't went into much detail besides mentioning it had reservoir in the stock and how Indians was amazed by it, after all, that was a gun capable to shoot with "nothing".  8D
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  250. +Scott hutchings Because gentlemen don't wear head covers indoors.
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  251. So, 800-850 Psi is roughly about 54-58 atmospheres.. Oh my!
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  252. Just an illustration on how "a rifleman behind each blade of grass" do not work very well against seasoned soldiers with automatic weapons, aviation, armor and artillery.
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  253. +Forgotten Weapons Agree. Still we got some very basic and irregular shooting exercises from age 10, and I shot air rifle even before that. So in theory you could in regimes like Nazis and Soviets train teenagers to shoot and shoot pretty good. Carrying rifle, ammo, thinking tactically... well, that's a different story.
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  254. So, they were considered obsolete by early 19-teens and even before, but what made them obsolete, what replaced them?
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  255. Well, Ian didn't say usual "I butchered that name", but he should have! 8D It's not "noo", "eu" is pronounced as "oy" (like in "a toy") in German.
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  256. The basic idea of patents perhaps was not so bad, but then came lawyers and turned everything to shit into a profit, often out of thin air. Imagine, you are a poor guy with an ingenious idea. Can you patent it and start getting royalties? No, because you need to pay first to get it patented. Besides then there are monopolies, trying to keep their dominant position, like the one that tried to keep a monopoly on the very idea of an automobile (steam, gasoline or electric engine, doesn't matter). At least that's what they did in USA in late XIX - early XX century.
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  257. LoL, I thought this will be about quite popular tale how "Schmeisser is the real designer of AK".
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  258. IMO, as "instinctive" these sights suck. I'd design both rear and front sights as rings, so you just have to align them in a concentric pattern, having them look about the same size (which means that the from one has to be bigger, since it's further from shooter's eye) would help too. A couple of months ago I got my hands on "Minimi", those sights are pretty much what I was thinking of as my ideal, loved them, no shooting though, it was just a public even of our armed forces and police, some US paratroopers participated too.
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  259. Love it's looks, but then I generally like short rifles / carbines.
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  260. Ah, OK, then it's not that bad, still, I'd like to see the process of loading and shooting itself, or at least the cycling of the bolt with dummy rounds.
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  261. "sImonov"?! LoL! It's actually pronounced like "sEE + monOv". Not that it matters much, the story is more important than such finesse.
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  262. +Juan Ulysses Duoooooooode!!! XD
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  263. +bludmakesgrassgrow LoL, perhaps.
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  264. IMO even if Pedersen's design had won, they'd run into trouble around mid 1940s when trying to develop marksman version and night sights (like the M3 we saw here recently), as locking system really leaves no space where it's needed, unless one places a scope on the side, like on some Wild West era rifles.
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  265. Isn't RKM short for "Ruchnoy KuloMet" (don't get mad at me, Polish guuys, i dont' speak Polish, so I trying to spell it as I could without googlong it)? Which means "hand machinegun" - a machinegun that can be carried around by a single person like a rifle, it's the same in Russian like RPK - "Kalshnikov's hand machinegun" and my native Latvian, that is "light machinegun" in English.
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  266. Salpeteroxid Right now we are having fun switching from Lats to Euro, you can actually pay for goods in any of the two currencies for this and the next week, naturally the result is slower service, especially because people are getting rid of all the small coins they still got.  8D
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  267. So, when out of ammo gunner can disassemble this gun and actually shoot the firing pin at someone? Sure, that's not much, but at least that's a metal rod not an airsoft BB. 8D
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  268. Press barrel catch, squeeze trigger, see some tube flying away. 8D P.S. Wait! The barrel at that point is locked with the bolt... OK, that would work in such a spectacular way.
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  269. ***** Mmmm, no vz was a Czechoslovakian.
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  270. ***** Actually one who wants to prove something can dig up documentation, it's not like this was done in an era bedore literacy 8D , But that's not me.
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  271. ***** LoL, since when this advice has worked? 8D Muricans just elected the guy, who spew out insane amounts of BS (plus some factual statements). See? Talking without an actual subject works!
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  272. Any ideas what could be the best SMG in terms of balance of simplicity of construction, price and reliability? I mean, I live in a NATO member state which borders Russia, and IMO SMGs are under-appreciated as an option to arm larger National Guard type territorial forces. Our army use small number of H&K UMP and our "Zemessardze" (Latvian National Guard, Estonia and ithuania have similar structures) have some old used ex-Swedish SMGs (Carl Gustaf M/45, i believe), but wouldn't it be nice to be able to produce something like "Sterling"? After all, where I work we could in theory mass-produce receivers for AKM, not internals or barrel though, only what could be done by cutting, bending and welding as can all who have similar machinery (punch-press , laser or water cutting or whatever else of that kind).
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  273. I am one of those guys who turns architectural drawings into actual blueprints for manufacturing, so.... yeah, very familiar story. Luckily, what we do can't really screw up functionality, only some visual design features.
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  274. An RPG game in real life for gun owners - choose your class to dedicate to!
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  275. What would Ian do with that sword, had he really dishonoured himself with abysmal results?
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  276. Hmm... I live in a country, where one can own and carry firearms, yet not USA, so... not exactly sure about possible legal (and financial) obstacles and should I enter the lottery.
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  277.  @ForgottenWeapons  OK, thank you for clarifiation!
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  278. Well, you know there are guys, who buy cars as "a project". This is a bit like that, but in another field.
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  279. Hugs & Kisses
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  280.  @clasdauskas  and Soviets collaborated with Nazis for two out of six years of WWII, actually, war would be impossible without that Soviet political and material support to Hitler. And I don't really have point beyond stating the well known facts, which might be new to some. Stating that Bandera "worked with Nazis" is misleading, intentionally misleading. Saying, that his movement wasn't extremely nationalistic and xenophobic also would be wrong. One can be both - killing Nazis, Commies, Poles and Jews at the same time, and Banderasx regime were extremists. Or cooperating with Nazis and having no hate towards Jews, like Japanese empire or kingdom of Bulgaria.
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  281. Wow, if this was an inspiration for Black Adder, that got to be quite deep (like whole six feet) in the field of dark jokes.
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  282. 1:00:43 - I can partially answer that about new countries - it also depends on who are your allies. For example, the independence movement of my country was supported by Brits in an effort to create a buffer zone between Bolshevics and Europe, so 100 years ago we got weapon deliveries from British empire. Today it still depends on who is backing you, like Kurds were firing "Milan" and TOW missiles at ISIS suicide bomber cars, not Soviet/Russian made "Kornet" or other Russian ATGMs. And I've heard an argument, that qualities of neither AK, nor AR-15 derivatives can be judged by their popularity, since both got handed out as foreign aid form Soviets or USA throughout XX century. While the weapon that was also very popular and wide spread, but bought and produced by countries themselves was... (drumroll) - FN FAL!
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  283.  @TimPimentel3006  Right? Every time it's mentioned, Stormtrooper blaster comes to mind. XD
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  284. H&K = Hugs und Kisses
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  285. Not "energy", but "impulse".
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  286. So, any idea, what was the back story of Korean bring-back AK?
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  287. Peters principle is an interesting one, I'm actually scared of something like that myself, and IIRC, this happened during the Second Punic War - a very good and popular centurion was given command over a whole Roman legion, and failed miserably.
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  288.  @salty_cracker69  No surprise, the idea is pretty obvious.
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  289. Guns shot with welders mask on for safety.
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  290. As an armored our army commented a situation, when he got two G36K carbines with a slightly twisted and deformed handguards after an improvised "torture test": Shit like this never happens on missions, only back at home base, when guys get bored.
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  291. WoW, life is strange indeed. I have had my own share of weird coincidences. Shame this one didn't turn out to be entirely true.
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  292. Tried one of inflation calculators, it says that 68$ in 1958 is currently equal to 742,6$, which isn't exactly cheap for a military rifle, yet much cheaper than insane 200$ for a Tommy gun decades earlier.
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  293. How else you can use M2, at least it's barrel? Well, here is an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i96ArjlqYj0
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  294. LoL, a more modern take on "Velodog"
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  295. Fun fact, live just next to Russia, where traumatic weapons are produced and legal, while in my country we can carry actual firearms and traumatic (less lethal) weapons are banned, like that wasn't enough, a used PM pistol here costs less than it's traumatic and pneumatic replicas, like half the price or less a new pneumatic PM shooting BBs would cost you.
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  296. Something to try to assassinate Sherlock Holmes with.
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  297. I'm as fan of shorter rifles, thus the prettiest of those IMO in Gendarmerie one, as artillery one is a bit too short.
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  298. Да пофиг, но никто не против расширения аудитории. But seriously, I've seen a claim that only around 5% of Russians know some foreign language at a decent level. I guess, that's a problem, or rather a trait, typical to big countries, USA is not an exception. I live in a small Europran nation, and not speaking 2-3 languages here is sort of unusual.
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  299. Hmm, of all guns that are not out there in large current production, but people might be interested in... I know, "Stoner 63"! It might or might not be profitable, besides there might be or might have been some small scale production already, I just don't know.
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  300. I know I'm 5 years late, but still 1 аршин = 1/3 сажени = 4 четверти = 16 вершков = 28 дюймов = 0,7112м "Good old" non-metric systems XD So, an "arshin" is 0,7112 metres or 0,7777 yards And yes, pre-revolution Russian rifles very likely had their sights in arshins, since it was the standard unit of length in Russian empire since June 4th 1899. They even had their own calendar back then, lagging behind the rest of the world by almost two weeks.
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  301. Sort of, but then the issue with communications and electronic countermeasures arises.
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  302. Russians developed shotgun "Рысь" (Bobcat or Lynx) models RMB-93 and RMO-93 in 1990s with a magazine on top, but it is loaded by opening a cover of a receiver. It's also weird in the way, how it's bolt is fixed, so to chamber a shell one needs to pump a barrel forwards.
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  303. +Papa Cap That would be a scaled down version.
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  304.  @dumitruhodorogia3985  Nē! But saluti anyway!
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  305. Wait a minute! UK doesn't produce it's own firearms and is now leaving EU, so... Does this mean equipping British army will now cost more, because of taxes for imports, which previously came from European market?
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  306. Turns out, one аршин (arse-inn, yes, pun intended) is 28" = 71,12cm, so, it's 7/9 of a yard. So 2200 arshins = 1.565km = 0.972 miles = 1711 yards
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  307. Well, some people can shoulder fire a "Barret", so...
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  308. Take Gustloff Volkssturmgewehr as a basis and upscale it to 12 gauge.
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  309. Be a non-conformist, add milk first AND last!
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  310. Soviets also experimented with belt fed pistol caliber LMGs. And I don't think it was the case of being mounted onto vehicles, rather about relatively cheap and light gun with a lot of ammo carried.
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  311. +Farley Moab Yeap, the easiest way, besides a single loader, of course.
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  312.  @ДмитрийСветлый-я7т  Нет, и даже не славянин, просто неплохо знаю русский ещё с детства.
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  313.  @eugenebezrukov83  И нерусский тоже. Меня когда-то даже называли фашистом чисто потому, что я нерусский. Ведь это офигенно "логично" и ну совсем не по-фашистски делить людей на "фашистов" и "антифашистов" (то есть на плохих и на хороших) по этничекой принадлежности. XD
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  314. I was really impressed by how smooth it shoots keeping aim on target, some might mistaken it for an airport gun in the video, if only it was not for loud blasts in real life.
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  315. I believe it was VP 70, not this one. I didn't remember name VP 70 (got to look up on the web), but I remembered is was a bit weird looking, not as traditional as this P9S.
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  316. Polish made weapons - yes, absolutely! They still make their own weapons, only now in NATO calibers. And on attempts to replace AK, other than AN-94, most people would name AEK series, but it never went beyond small scale production.
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  317. So, a 15000 guns each worth months salary sums up to 1250 years worth of one workers earnings, isn't it? Even given the production must have costed less, as I suppose they were not selling at a loss, I guess this means the investment in production must have been very costly anyway. So the guys who invested money into this must have been filthy rich.
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  318. Johaidī! This was quite unexpected I'm not into gun law specifics, but here in Latvia one must also carry a concealed gun with no live round in chamber. Used pistols, like PM are quite cheap, not as cheap as in US, but it's OK for Europe, like 50-100 Euros, maybe even below 50 sometimes. And no handguns in a calibre over 9mm, which means one can still carry .357 magnum. "Not real" firearms - gas pistols are sold by simply showing a valid passport in a shop (not even a gunshop, could be sporting goods), which then is automatically registered to police, owner of such self defence device doesn't need to bother about it. P.S. Also, police in all Baltic states and, I guess, most other places in Europe (except UK), while being a civilian structure, is not restricted by laws on automatic firearms like in USA, so guys in uniforms can carry full auto assault rifles or SMGs.
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  319. @OneMansSanctuary Can't tell really, but if some gun blog can be trusted, little Schwarzlose pistol had pretty heavy felt recoil. At first I was confused, because in theory bullet moving through the barrel and pushing on rifling or barrel's walls actually partly eliminates recoil, but it does so in all weapons. Maybe it's because it's small, and the initiall recoil from the blast is followed by the second hit when the barrel forced by spring returns.
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  320.  @lycossurfer8851  No idea, but during current pandemic we seldom bought any deinfectent, as my father-in-law makes moonshine and spirits himself.
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  321. "It's a hybrid!"(C) I still don't know the original of this (either "StarTrek" or, maybe, "Doctor Who"), I'm just a regular listener of SGU (Skeptic's Guide to the Universe), where it's used quite often.
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  322. I had slight suspicion, that the guys name actually was Н. С. Сёмин, which is pronounced as "Syomin" (Cyrillic letter "ё" is a diftong "yo" like in "yo, whasss up!"
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  323. Ammo malfunction on Boberg was absolutely amazing and hilarious.
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  324. IMO, to be proudly put for a display on a wall - definitely a historic one; for occasional recreational plinking - a prestine one.
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  325. Well, that is a sticky situation
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  326. Hmm... Wouldn't it be simpler to put a modern laser into that contraption just to make it shoot a beam, while still looking retro?
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  327. Some of them were used as improvised sniper / anti material rifles during 1990s wars (Yugoslavia, conflicts in Caucasus region etc). I've even seen our, Latvian, defence forces using an anti-tank rifle with a scope (is Siviet 14,5mm calibre), before we got properly made Arctic Warfare and French "Hecate" sniper rifles.
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  328. "Булыжник - оружие пролетариата" (A cobblestone is the weapon of the proliteria)
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  329. Isn't it also SBR with a stock attached or SMGs got that covered already?
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  330. Should every gangsta crave for RAP pistol? And it's from Africa! Well... maybe not.
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  331. Crank start rifle.
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  332. Talking of right names, it is evident by the name, nothing gets fully locked since "halb" is a "half" in German, so naturally "halbverriegelt" is "half-locked" or "semi-locked". P.S. Geman was my 3rd foreign language at school, so I don't know it beyond the bery basics.
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  333. Ex-Swedish Carl Gustav /m45 SMGs still are in limited use in Baltic countries. Like really limited - used by National Guard, not Army (Latvian Army has some HK UMP9 SMGs), I guess it's more or less the same in Estonia too.
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  334. LoL, that "recon party" thing reminds me how Mongols first encountered Eastern Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians whatever). That was quite serious force, by local standards - back then some 2500-4000 men were a whole army. Yay, we defeated them! Turned you, that was just a scouting party ahead of the main force, which also wasn't the bulk of Mongol forces either, just sort of "expeditionary core".
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  335.  @JohnHughesChampigny  Nah! Why don't we go all the way for "Davy Crockett" or M65 gun?
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  336. Just had a couple of webbinars dedicated to simulation in CAD. It allows to "look into" working machinery without building mock-ups and prototypes "in flesh", yet it isn't cheap and one got to be a pro to be able to model it. On the bright side, there are more and more cloud services for that, so you don't need a super-powerful desktop (which then also needs upgrades) of your own and expensive software, you can now rent time and power of cloud service for simulations, which still isn't cheap, but got to be cheaper.
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  337. In times with no effective modern surgery and no antibiotics, being shot really was being shot.
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  338. Wow, that's really recent. Well, in theory... could someone make bolts out of metal to somewhat improve reliability? Perhaps even a kit - a bolt (or a bolt with extractor) + a some side plate with ejector. Or a gunsmith might just screw in a part, perhaps just a screw in receiver, that would act as an ejector. Of course, it's not like there is a large, lucrative market for that.
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  339. There is a slight difference in the sound of the video, but really negligible.
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  340. Any relation to trasnlucent G36 mags or are those completely separate breed?
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  341. ​ @JordanFlayer  OK, got it! It's just that my country and one of our neighbour nations use those, instead of STANAG magazines, so it's sort of curious, how many NATO nations lately have started using a manufacturer specific, not NATO standardised magazines.
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  342. Never cared to watch those movies beyond the very start of the first one. It was bad enough already, but then there was another issue - I do speak Russian too, and those idiots called him not the "bogeyman", as they believed, but the "wicked witch" (more like "old wench witch" in Russian).
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  343. Was the bolt moving fast enough? Also, how about getting a bunch of French surplus ammo and reloading it with new powder and new primers?
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  344. Sure, it's not impossible, but a rimmed cartridge for a SMG doesn't sound like a good idea. Besides Soviet 7.62x25 round was purposely designed for SMGs, so it's not a fair comparison.
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  345.  @realfnneato3111  Not like this one, looked like a muzzle device on AK-105 and some other shortened rifles of that series, it's more akin to "krinkov", than this.
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  346. I wonder how many opinionated commentaries about "they are not making proper wood and steel rifles anymore" this will cause.
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  347. The myth of the Lonly Rebel seem to be really ingrained in contemporary American culture, just like the tale of powerful marksman's rifle among guys responsible for US Army's arsenal. And that's really annoying how no facts can stand in the way of those.
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  348. Yes, 40mm Befors AA guns are still in service, but with a radar guidance, of course. Our -Latvian, armed forces use ex-Swedish ones, we had a lot of their military assistance after we restored an independent republic (vehicles, AK4 rifles (Swedish variant of G3), SMGs, Karl Gustav recoiless rifles etc). Of course now those guns are complimented by Swedish made RBS-70 missile systems and American "Stinger" MANPADS, besides there are NATO air patrols.
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  349. Since you mentioned it, some of the items in our armed forces (Latvian) arsenal are large calibre French made sniper rifles. So, I guess both French and British firearms manufacturers are into hunting shotguns and bolt action rifles (after all, "Holland & Holland" and other really, really expensive ones are still around), those are semi-auto rifles, pistols and machineguns they can't make domestically, they demand a different kind of expertise.
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  350. Yeeeeeah, judging by "excellent" timing of th ecylinder this got to be a Wobbly-Webley.
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  351. Maybe more complex, but lower weight allows to carry it in a holster just like a pistol, thus it could have been worth the effort.
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  352. I'm already donating through "Come Back Alive", first a little sum (that was day 2 or 3 of the open invasion), and then also subscribed for a small daily donation.
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  353. I still don't get why we in the West mostly have no MGs that would be more portable and less fouled if they had an attached container or pouch for the belt like Germans had back in WWII and like Russians have now on PKM and it's deriatives. Everytime I see soldiers picking up a belt hanging from M60, M240 etc when they need to move and then dropping belt back on the ground, I'm like "WTF?! Why?!"
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  354. Haven't heard about it before, so I got lost, sorry. Now, after being hinted I found, that's 1927 model, which never was officially accepted into service, but still was used during WWII. It wasn't shooting Nagant rounds as they were and as would be possible with almost any other revolver round, cases (but not their bottom part, which I thought would cause trouble, so I was wrong on that) were modified - necked a bit, to ensure better feed, yet still failed at that.
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  355. 900 pages?! WoW, THAT's a lot of work put in the book. I've only translated one text as a hobby, that is - I didn't came up with it from zero, I only had to adapt context in some places, find an analogues to puns, translate one short rhyme, nothing impossible if you know both languages (one of them my native) really well. After this I have immense respect to people doing translations - I had no deadline, no pressure, and the text wasn't insanely large (180+ words that's around 2,5 novels, since a novel by current standard is ~75k words).
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  356. LoL, that gas tube made me wonder "what if Kalashnikov made pistols?"
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  357. Now got to compare this to MG3, to see how the design was changed post WWII.
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  358. Sounds suggestive, isn't it?
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  359. Yeah, it goes like this: (some) Americans: we have 2nd amendment, but you in Europe can't own guns! French - roll out a cannon.
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  360. Thanks to all those guys helping Ian from us - his viewers, too!
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  361. Андрей Назариков Может быть, однако, словосочетание "полицейское оружие" с негативным смыслом попадалась в описании ситуации, почему не велась активная разработка ПП, хотя я не читал прессы или документов 1930-х.
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  362. +The Mad Marxist Well, that indeed does make sense. But then they, like everybody else in this situation found out, that a pistol or revolver alone for tank crews, artillery guys, pilots etc is not quite enough.
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  363. +Andre Krumins Of, wait, is it "Krūmiņš"?
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  364. I actually toyed with an idea of a simple device for box magazines that would sort rimmed cartridges (revolver rounds, shells, .22 etc) just before feeding them so in the box they would lie in whatever messy order... with no success, as far as I can judge from a primitive CAD simulation, turns out it's not so simple. 8D No wonder nobody seems to have made it. I believe it would be possible, however, with a little force added, but then it's impossible to use in an unmodified gun like 10-22.
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  365. For question at 9:25 the STEN gun was the first that came to my mind too, because... Well, it's such an obvious choice here!
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  366. Nein! Nein! Nein! Millimeter
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  367. Hmm, a M14 type rifle chambered for an intermediate cartridge... Isn't this a rival for Mini 14 then?
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  368. "A service rifle fixed by a French soldier in the trenches of WWI using trophy parts!" Oh, wait.... "Steyr" parts are form a wrong era... Well, then "compiled underground by a French resistance fighters!"
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  369. Basically, later they added even more mobility to turn this concept into a StuG. Except this is cheaper amd doesn't consume fuel.
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  370. "..Janz is a line of premium - costing up to 25,000 Euros..." OMG. I live in a really poor (by EU, not World's standards) country, were average pay after taxes is around 9640 Euros a year.
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  371.  @metamorphicorder  Maybe, but it's more than enough here, as there is universal healthcare and some other things are covered too, even if they are not top notch. After all, we got less than 30 years to develop as an independent nation, compared to over two centuries in USA, so we will get there eventually.
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  372. I guess that was the trend of the time for sporterised / civilian versions of assault rifles, as this have some vibes of HK SL-8 to it.
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  373. It looks amazing, but... Yewwwww! 8-/
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  374. I wonder, wouldn't it be a design with a gas piston that only turns drum and cocks hammer simpler and less prone to jamming than the one that recoils whole frame? Unless getting right pressure in a revolver turns out to be a problem because of leakage between the chamber and the barrel.
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  375. For years I've heard it's just politics, so someone made shit up. Besides that the armed forces of my country also use a variant of G36 and no such complaints have been heard. Shift of point of aim due to sunlight and other weather conditions, like wind or rain cooling one side of a barrel more than the other, s absolutely possible on any weapon, "plastic" or not, that's why tanks have thermal sleeves on their gun barrels. What has happened to those G36KV3 that our guys have is: 1) they have to rezero them when getting to high ground and mountains of Afghanistan and then when they get back home at sea level: 2) at least once two guys on the home base made an improvised torture test with their service rifles by multiple full auto magdumps (shit like that happens only at home out of boredom, never on missions). Handguards on both rifles got deformed due to heat. Gunsmith then changed burned out barrels, but left plastic parts "as is", to teach them a lesson (I know this from an interview with that gunsmith). No loss of accuracy was reported, although it was obviously lost, as rifling was damaged. And yes, I guess our armed forces keep on buying new G36s, as since 2014 (well... we are just next to Russia) the size of land forces was slightly increased and now not just Army, but our National Guard too are getting G36 rifles.
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  376. I don't know about USA, but in some countries there are limitations on how much projectiles an airgun can fire in a row. No idea how it is for crossbows and slingshots.
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  377. I'm not surprised at all. I love guns, but some people on arms community are plain idiots, who love to scream "damn Commies are coming after our guns!!!!" or something similar along those lines. So yes, I got that it was an advice in buying a good, but damaged gun really cheap, and a warning to owners, but not everybody saw it like that.
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  378. As far as I know, armed forces of my country use this rifle, as well as "AI" rifles, so both regular and large calibre ones are based on chassis concept.
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  379. I wonder, how exactly water was distilled? Heating it up seems like a fuel intensive, yet obvious way to do that, as I doubt they would use some solar heated vessels back then.
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  380.  @Roman_Patriot  no, it's not just that they are not the same, one is a noun, the other a verb. Are they related? Yes! But that's irreverent here. Common, I've been speakingRussian since childhood! XD
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  381.  @TheRealColBosch  And Russians still stick to it. So add Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Angola (40'000 Soviet military "advisers" went through it) and numerous other wars to the list.
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  382. I've never seen or heard this handgun's or it's creator's name as "Нагант" only "Наган".
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  383. Wow, I don't care if it's practical, it's awesome! Pistol could be an overkill, but dome French company definitely must come up with a knife that has built in lighter, and corkscrew, of course. You know, for a wine before and a cigarette after.
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  384. Talking of movies. Is it possible to tune a blank firing Thompson SMG to sound exactly like M41A1 rifle from "Aliens"?
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  385. I wonder... Can you take out a spring and follower from an AR magazine, attach it, and thus get a case collector that way? A small one. Or saw off upper part of a magazine, somehow attach a fabric sack to it, and thus get a bigger and more practical catcher / collector, free of risk of empty shells getting stuck, piling up and causing malfunction.
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  386. Basically, a hangfire is like latency in online games, only in real life.
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  387. Hmm, Spanish-American war started with a sunk ship, USA got into WWI after "Lusitania" was sunk, WWII - multiple ships in Pearl Harbour, Vietnam war - after alleged attack on a carrier, American war for Independence - technically no ship was lost, but there was a Tea Party involving cargo from British ships, American Civil War - a fort Sumter, not a ship, but situated in Charleston harbour, war on piracy very early in US history, that first got US into conflict with muslims... Seems like a long established tradition.
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  388. Uh, OK, obviously, carriers are the first thing that comes to my mind, when I think of US Navy. Besids there was a carrier involved too, so I had a brainfart XD Carriers first, then also destroyers with "Aegis" system and submarines.
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  389. +J Corbett Ah, OK, so I mistaken them for a Q&A video from another channel from yesterday. I actually was $3 patreon until last week, it's just I really, really need money now (2 implants and other dental stuff), so... Wait, formally I'm still their patreon for tomorrow, since this month has not ended yet!
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  390. Too bad we not going to see what a flamethrower that is in full auto with that short "jungle" barrel.
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  391. According to Wiki (I looked it up after seeing this on the range on your Instagram) O stands for "top ejection" (Oben).
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  392. LoL, a matching cleaning rod! On the other hand... If someone loses a rod from his rifle and then snatches one from a rifle of his comrade, this would make something like that a bit complicated
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  393. Seems like this Eugene Golubtsov bears the name Евгений Голубцов. Perhaps, no idea who he is and is he an immigrant himself or not.
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  394. "Jam Session"(C)
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  395. "Made in USA" USA! USA! USA! USA! Just when you thought, gaps on American cars look like shit compared to their European and Japanese counterparts, this shows up. OK, I'm just kidding, M4 and most other guns are good, many of them are real legends for a good, not bad, reasons.
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  396. While I watched the first video of the series, I thought Lewis will be the winner until I saw Madsen, but the final result turned out to be in reverse order for those two compared to my expectations.
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  397. I don't know if that's a worldwide tradition, but Baltic and Scandinavian anti-aircraft artillery guys have a tradition - if target gets direct hit, not just some close one, and target destroyed or detached from the towing cable and falls, squad that scored gets a cake and two bottles of whiskey. So even if the cake is a lie, you still got 2 bottles. 8D
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  398. I wonder how did they compensate for wear of tools in the old days? As far as I know, modern so called 4D CNC machines control cutting surfaces themselves by lasers and are able to compensate for wear automatically or signal when it's time to change or sharpen a tool. I get that the should have been control guys, who would measure either every detail or one out of a bunch to save time, but then what?
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