Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1.  @heycidskyja4668  The power defines the purpose. Hence, every time a cartridge like the 6.5 Grendel, the 6.8 SPC, the .270 British, etc, is proposed as service cartridge, you see the debate "it's an intermediate cartridge / it's not an intermediate cartridge".
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  2.  @heycidskyja4668  To you. To others they aren't. Hence the problem.
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  3.  @heycidskyja4668  They fit what definition of intermediate cartridge if they are in the same energy ballpark of full power cartridges? Other sources describe them as not intermediate cartridges. Hence the problem. Other than your evident comprehension ones.
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  4.  @randymagnum143  The 92F shown the longest service life of any entrants in the 1984 XM9 competition.
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  5. Simply THERE WAS NOTHING BETTER AROUND, so none felt the urge to improve it. Prototypes of single barrel, stocked versions came out since 1916, but they were not put in production until late 1917 and not used until march 1918. It's meaningful that the Austrians copied it exactly as it was.
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  6. Another useless M14 chosen for the same flawed reasons.
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  7. It's a short recoil weapon infact. Depending on the shape of the loking block, you an have the bolt recoiling exactly at the same speed of the barrel until they are unlocked, or the bolt recoiling at a slightly higher speed. That was useful to give a little primary extraction to the case, that avoided the need to oil the cartridge or flute the chamber.
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  8. In this case, the disassembly is really similar to that of the M1 Carbine, and sometimes Ian does errors. In this case, IE, to unscrew the rear screw was completely unnecessary, like it is in the M1 Carbine.
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  9. TV: "We made this ammo. It weighs 30% less than it's brass counterpart, doesn't use strategic materials, provides more muzzle speed for the same pressure, keeps the receiver cooler, every .308 weapon can shoot it only with a barrel change". US Army. "Too bad. We wanted an higher pressure .308 not compatible with anything we already have".
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  10. Never let anyone hear you while you re firing a mortar.
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  11.  @justforever96  As already said, loading belts "was a backline activity". If you believe Germans loaded their MG belts in first line, you should check your brain (or, better, having it checked by someone with a functioning one) before talking of the intelligence of others. As for logistic, as already said: "the Volkssturm was armed with a pletora of different weapons, that had different spare parts and would have required different training that none could give to the militians." The idiocies you are "sure of" are your business only. Simply the Germans had grandiose (that was quite usual for them late in the war) plans to distribute HUGE quantities of rifles to the militia. For that quantity, convertion was convenient, and so they started to convert. But that quantity was also completely unrealistic given the conditions of their industry. "For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds." "you don't also want to be digging out warehouses of captured enemy ammo and distributing it to units all over a chaotic front with the limited transport you have left." So, you already dug into those very same warehouses FOR THE RIFLES, and ignored the crates of million rounds sitting there already packed and ready to be transported. Then, "with the limited transport you have left" you carried the rifles to arsenals to be converted to single shooters, so consuming THE LIMITED INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY YOU HAVE LEFT, to make a single shooter out of a repeater. Then "with the limited transport you have left" you carry those single shooters to "a chaotic first line" WITHOUT SPARE PARTS OR TRAINING FOR THE GUNSMITHS, believing they could be good for something, instead of taking the rifles, the ammos for them, and simply delivering the rifle along with the ammos. Now, let's see what the Volksturm really had. On 15 January 1945, for example, the Volkssturm in Gau Bayreuth had a total of 1,148 rifles Model 1888 ( needed obsolete 8mm "88 patrone" cartridges), 1,265 rifles Model 1898 (from World War One), 543 Karabiner 98k, 5 Gewehr 43 (semi-automatic rifles), 17,562 Italian Carcano rifles, 1,974 French captured rifles, 64 Russian rifles (Mosin-Nagant), 1 Romanian rifle, 34 Dutch rifles, 129 Belgian rifles, 134 Czech rifles, 13 Polish rifles, 2 British rifles, 34 Austrian rifles, 173 9mm pistols, 2,038 7.65mm pistols, 982 6.35mm pistols, 1 Italian pistol, 19 French pistols, 25 Belgian pistols, 3 MPi 40, 2 MG 13, 4 MG 34, 2 Polish machine-guns, 2 Czech machine-guns, 1 French machine-gun, 1 Austrian machine-gun, 2 Czech heavy machine-guns, 1 mortar 5cm, 1 mortar 8cm, 1 French gun, 4,436 pieces Panzerfaust, 690 grenades Eierhandgranaten, 720 grenades Stielhandgranaten. So, surprise surprise, not talking of all the OTHER calibers. Only the Volksturm of a single German region of 2.2 million people had more Carcano rifles than the entire production of converted rifles of Krieghoff and FNA Brescia. So, surprise surprise, the Germans dug into those warehouses in search of ammos after all. So, surpsise surprise, to add a logistic supply line of converted 7.92 Mauser single shooter Carcano rifles to the already existing and vastly preponderant supply line of 6.5 repeater Carcano rifles, only complicated the German logistic. Who would have told?
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  12.  @Jay22222  You mentioned the fixed sight being a problem, but a fixed sight 0 to 300m became pretty common after the war. It was considered to be a pretty good solution. A 7.35 M38 sighted at 200m had a maximum elevation of the bullet of 3.15" at 100m and a drop of 4.55" at 250m.
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  13. No. The last Carcano using progressive rifling was the 91/28 TS carbine.
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  14. The FG-42 is more controllable, thanks to the inline stock. But it's also more expensive to build and less durable.
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  15. It remained at the base of the barrel, and was pushed forward when the new cartridge was inserted, so sitting ahead of the new bullet, to be ejected when it was fired.
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  16. Bicycle troops were common in those years. They obviously didn't replace cavalry, but mounted infantry (troops that traveled by horse, but fought without them). A man on a bicycle can travel longer distances in shorter time than one on a horse actually.
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  17. The doctrine of employ was that you didn't rely on ONE rifle for sustained automatic fire. Any rifleman, if he was in the right spot, could act as a LMG gunner and cover the others for brief time, then someone else would have covered him.
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  18. To load 7.35 ammos in 6.5 rifles s impossible (unless Pvt. Snuffy decides to hammer the bolt in battery). If you load a 6.5 cartridge in a 7.35 barrel you end with a pretty inaccurate shot.
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  19. It's the MPL that's similar to this.
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  20.  @chris101ward  The "heat extraction thru metal cases" had ALWAYS only meant "in respect to caseless ammos". Caseless ammos are ineherently hotter than brass ammos, because the burning powder is in direct contact with the chamber. Here's the opposite. Plastic, that's an insulator shields the chamber from the heat of the burning powder MUCH better than brass, that's one of the best heat conductors existing. Heat remains in gasses (that expand more, that's why they need less powder for the same muzzle speed) and it's expelled from the barrel with them, because also gasses are very bad at heat transfer. Plastic cased ammos actually heat up the weapons MUCH LESS than brass ammos.
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  21.  @derekakaderek  And when exactly did you test the weapon to know it's not "proper"? What are the bases of that statement?
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  22.  @derekakaderek  Several police agencies adopted it. The Jerusalem Police among those. But I bet you think they didn't know that they were doing and needed your expertise to make a better choice. Been there, seen it.
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  23.  @derekakaderek  Ian read on his report that several police agencies adopted this pistol. Jerusalem's Police was among them. I bet you think they didn't know that they were doing and needed your expertise to make a better choice. Body guards don't "adopt" pistols. Try again.
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  24.  @derekakaderek  And how you started from "It was quite well made, and worked very well. It just never managed to be at the right place and the right time, and was never adopted by any organizations of significance" (that's his report) and arrived to "it was not adopted because it was cheap?" I'm curious about the way a brain can change the meaning of a statement like that. Again. Several police agencies adopted this pistol. IAN CLEARLY STATES THAT AT 10:20. Jerusalem's Police was among them. I bet you think they didn't know that they were doing and needed your expertise to make a better choice.
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  25.  @derekakaderek  What you copied and pasted, conveniently leaving out the part about the gun "was quite well made, and worked very well". was not what you said before. So, how do you passed from: "It was quite well made, and worked very well. It just never managed to be at the right place and the right time, and was never adopted by any organizations of significance" (that's his report) to "it was not adopted because it was cheap?" I'm curious about the way a brain can change the meaning of a statement like that. Again. Several police agencies adopted this pistol. IAN CLEARLY STATES THAT AT 10:20. Jerusalem's Police was among them. I bet you think they didn't know that they were doing and needed your expertise to make a better choice.
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  26. The problem was to use 7.62 NATO, for infantry rifle in the most efficient and cost-effective way. The result was a modification of the M1 Garand that, other than being a semiauto only rifle (like the FAL, the M14 and the G3 were), was a real grenade launcher (grenade sights, gas cutoff and winter trigger) and a real "emergency LMG" (tri-compensator and bipod) for the same weight and at a fraction of the cost of other battle rifles.
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  27. +marvincz3 "While you hold the grip safety, you are covering the magazine release." Not really. You can see, IE at 4:51, that the magazine release is well below the position were the left hand's thumb will be. Moreover, the position of the left hand gives to the gunner the exact position of the magazine holder, so it's impossible to miss it, even reloading in the dark, or not looking to the gun at all.
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  28. The purpose of an SMG was to have portable automatic fire, a full sized rifle didn't have it.
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  29.  @sandrodunatov485  Actually those things tended to be stupidly reliable. This, the Maxim, the MG08... Like the industrial tools of the time, they were so massively overbuilt that dirt, mud, ice, wear and so on, had little impact on them, and they went on firing thousands and thousands of rounds all day long. Those became problems when portability became a requirement, and so MGs had to be made lighter.
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  30. .32 ACP was quite popular and considered a perfectly viable self defence round in much of Europe in the '70s.
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  31. Mike Lilienthal Oh my god... It doesn't requires any special skill or material to fire 9mm para instead of 9mm Glisenti ANY PISTOL CARTRIDGE IS WEAK. Simply the Glisenti 1910 pistol was originally designed, and dimensioned, to fire 7.65 Parabellum cartriges. When the Army didn't deemed the 7.65 to be a viable military cartridge, and required weapons in 9mm instead, MBT (that aquired the design from Glisenti in the meantime) simply necked the 7.65 Para round to 9mm without changing the load, so that it could produce 9mm weapons simply changing the barrel. Power-wise, the 9mm Glisenti was on par with many service rounds adopted in the same period, or later.
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  32. More the higest number of tanks, ships, trucks and aircrafts. To have the best bolt action rifle in WWII was as important as to have the best shoelaces.
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  33. +Echin0idea Even the trigger mechanism is overengineered. There is no need to make a springloaded sear attached to the bolt and a spring loaded trigger, when all you need is a dent in the bolt where the sear, directly attached to the trigger, operates.
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  34. They got carried by their own dreams. For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds.
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  35. The Allies deemed the Breda 37, Breda 38 and Breda 20/65 machineguns to be "excellent".
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  36. It has to be said that, in the '70s, many decocker-less DA/SA designs appeared. CZ75, the original Beretta 92, Bernardelli P018... In all those designs, like in the B76, the half-cock position was intended to be the "safe" option for decocking, since you could hold the hammer (or put a finger in front of it), pull the trigger, allow the hammer to move only slightly, and at that point, releasing the trigger, the hammer would have seated safely on half-cock position. Only later it appeared to be clear that, for a service SA/DA pistol, a decocker was almost mandatory (It's revealing that, while the original CZ75 retained the 1911/style safety, the "clone" Tanfoglio TZ75 of the early '80s already had a Beretta-style slide mounted decocker).
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  37.  @andrewp8284  "mortella" is actually a gergal name of the myrtle in Italian, so "punta delle mortelle", where the original fort was located is "myrtle point".
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  38.  @haviiithelegogunner907  What? Actually the price point didn't matter at all in the P7 not having been selected in the XM9 program. The P7A13 didn't even reach the cost comparison phase of the trial. It was eliminated because it fared ATROCIOUSLY in the reliability tests. The 92F was the only handgun that passed those tests. The minimum threshold had to be lowered for the SIG P226, the second best, to pass them, since the Army wanted to have at least two handguns to compete on price point.
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  39.  @haviiithelegogunner907  I'm sorry to ruin the fairy tale you like to tell, but it's in an official document. The P7A13 tests had been "Terminated by the Army on September 18, 1984, for falling reliability and corrosion resistance requirements". In the 1984 trials the P7A13 had a failure every 158 rounds fired, the worst of any entrants (comparison Colt 1911 included, the second worst with a failure every 162 rounds) and a resistance to salt water corrosion of 86%, again the worst of any entrants. See NSIAD-86-122.
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  40. The Star Model BM (that's a simplified 1911) is around since 1972, and the IMBEL 9 (that's a real 1911) since 1973. The original colt Commander (1949) was in .38 Super.
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  41. A nice addition Beretta made to avoid the Garand thumb.
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  42. Just to be clear. The AR10 / AR15 system is as much as a “real direct gas impingment system” as this one. Only the point of application of the pressure of the gas changes (from the top of the bolt carrier to directly behind the chamber), not, in any way, the way the gas is used, pushing directly the bolt carrier. In the AR, like here, in the bolt carrier, there is a cup, a “blind hole” where the gas ends and the pressure applies. If you call the one of the AR “a cylinder”, then that “cup” of the Rasheed is a cylinder as well and, if you call the back of the bolt head of an AR a “piston” (that is not) then what you call in the Rasheed an “open gas tube” is a piston as well.
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  43.  @johnstacy7902  Easily done, since 6.5 Carcano and 7.62X39 cartridges have practically the same dimensions of the base. Back when the 7.62X39 were hard to obtain in the west and there were plenty of surplus Carcano ammos, 7.62X39 cartridges were made by necking down and reforming Carcano brass.
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  44. The Finns actually worsened the sights, asking for them to be zeroed at 100m instead of 200m before the rifles being delivered. That way they were practicaly useless past 150m, well into combat distance.
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  45.  @sthenzel  The Beretta was made to shoot the super-hot m38 cartridge (around 20% hotter than the standard 9X19), so to shoot standard Parabellum rounds is pure relax for the action.
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  46. Infact. Folded it becomes an utility knife.
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  47. It's the equivalent of the M1 carbine, but made mantaining the full blown cartridge. Something the US had been unable to do.
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  48. 1911 design is pickier than people tend to think of. Even in .45 as long as tolerancies start to reach "modern day handguns" level, the design starts to became less reliable with some kind of ammunition. Fine-tuning it for 10mm is even harder.
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  49.  @Cyan_Nightingale  To economically make BM59 you have first to have M1 Garand receivers to convert. Otherwise to machine a new receiver is out of this world compared to a G3 or a FAL. Beretta could make BM59 for the Italian Army because it received one of the two production lines for the M1 Garand (that of Winchester) and a ton of spare parts already produced (that's why many Beretta made BM59 have the original Winchester and Springfield markings). But in itself the BM59 is a great battle rifle. Easily the most controllable of the four in full auto. Easily the one with the best magazine (and it was straight in, not rock and lock) and the most complete out of the box (select fire, bipod, grenade launcher, winter trigger, muzzle brake). The problem was that it was a battle rifle, not an assoult rifle, but that was in common with the G3, FAL, M14...
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  50.  @stealthnoid  the 7.62X51 was what the NATO selected and used. The competitors to the BM59 were the M14, FAL, G3 and AR10, all in 7.62X51 period. It doesnt' have any sense to say that the BM59 was outdated in respect to something that couldn't exist in the west. The 5.56X45 was standardized as NATO cartridge ONLY IN 1980.
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