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

  1. Cacciatorpediniere means a ship that had been made to hunt another class of ships, today disappeared, called "torpediniere". Only later they had been adapted to anti-sub role. The French equivalent is "contre-torpilleur". "Destroyer" has the same meaning. In English it simply lost the first part (every warship is a "destroyer" of something. A Destroyer was originally a "torpedo-boat destroyer").
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  2. An improvement over the flimsy, ill-conceived and unreliable M60, but too heavy for what it does. The PKM provides the same service weighting 3kg less and with the only downside of a slower barrel change.
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  3. It's a tale. And not told for the Breda 37 only. It seems that, since the Breda 30 lubricated cartridges, then all the Italian MGs had to lubricate the cartridges. The manual actually advises soldiers to NOT lubricate the ammos for any reason.
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  4.  @pregno1421  Civil wars are not clean things. Fascists did A LOT to be hated, from daily petty acts of prevarication to tortures, summary executions and selling their countrymen to nazis. It would be silly to pretend that those acts should not have produced any act of retaliation. Really the redde rationem, in Italy, had been A LOT less violent for the fascists and collaborationists than elsewere (IE in France). Italian fascists should thank God that their enemies were SO equanimous.
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  5. MGs are crew served weapons. The pretense they are not always led (and keeps on leading) to problems.
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  6.  @aaronwilkinson8963  And how many ammos does it has with two people carrying gun, tripod and ammos? What's the effective firing range from the bipod, if you choose to not carry the tripod? If you are limiting an MG to the number of rounds two (or one!) people can carry along with the gun and tripod (and a spare barrel I hope), you are seriously misusing it. Reality is that the FN MAG, today, is rarely seen not placed on a fixed position, or mounted on a vehicle, but today is not WWII. In WWII the thousands of rounds a MG could fire in a single action had to be CARRIED BY SHOULDER. And, as soon as a vehicle is no more available, that's still true today. Of that 9 men crew, three carried the weapon, the spare barrel, the tripod and all the accessories needed to mantain the weapon. The other six were ammo bearers AND any of them had a carbine and ammos for it. It's not that, while the ammo fired and two people (gunner and loader) were servicing it directly, the others were doing nothing.
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  7. Mind that's a scaled up action originally made for a pistol (the will-be Glisenti 1910), and it's still used on the FN Fifty-seven and Ruger 57.
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  8. Some year before Tanfoglio reverse-engineered the CZ75. They surely didn't have the blueprints, they had not government aid, and I would be really surprised if they had more than half a dozen samples to study.
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  9. Made in 1914. Belgium was invaded shortly after.
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  10. In WWI, among the HMGs, only the Hotchkiss was simpler than this.
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  11. Every MG42-MG3 manufactured since 1942 has a rattling barrel (and a front sight on the barrel shroud). None ever noticed those being problems at all. Once fired, the expansion of the brass tightens all the parts.
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  12. The M60's receiver is quite flimsy and kept toghether with rivets. At around 10-15000 rounds it's stretched beyond usability and the weapon has to be phased out.
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  13. Two. The 7.35 had been aborted due to the start of the war. Both Sweden and Norway did the same, keeping the 6.5 for rifle duty and developing a specialized MMG round, while Nederlands kept the 6.5 for rifle duty and adopted the 8mm Mauser as MMG round. US instead had one rifle and one carbine cartridge, and the Germans one rifle and one "sturmgewehr-volkssturmgewehr" cartridge. Japan had the most confusion, with the 6.5mm and 7.7mm rounds both used for rifles.
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  14. Air-cooled, fires from a closed bolt, and it hasn't a quick exchange barrel = It's a magazine cook-off waiting to happen.
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  15. Proprietary mags, not rock and lock, but straight in. The improvements over the M14 were that, for the same weight, every single BM59 was an effective grenade launcher (grenade sights, gas cutoff, winter trigger) and an occasional LMG (muzzle-brake/compensator, bipod).
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  16. It's so difficult to do that you can do it only on purpose.
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  17. Actually the FN MAG, or other designs that were better than the M60, had never been considered. All that was considered in the adoption of the M60 was "it's better than the M1919?". In the design there were so many obvious mistakes (self unscrewing gas taps, parts that can be reassembled backwards, receiver damaged by just pulling the charging handle without a belt present) to make it doubt it had really been properly tested.
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  18. Tanfoglio (imported in the US by EAA with the name "Witness") is the oldest CZ75 "cloner". They introduced the "TZ75" in the early '80s and started developing the design from there, often introducing the improvements before CZ did (firing pin block in 1988, .45 ACP in 1992, large frame in 1995, polymer frame in 1997...) Almost all the CZ75 clones out there (Jericho 941, Baby Eagle, Sarsilmaz, Springfield, Armscor...) are infact Tanfoglio clones, often made, at least at the beginning, locally assembling Tanfoglio parts. Long story short, all the Witness lineup (bar the 1911) is available in 10mm already. See https://eaacorp.com/guns/handguns?pid=1:tanfoglio&search=&order=i.name&dir=asc&cm=0#tlb
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  19. Bicycle troops were common in those years. They obviously didn't replace cavalry, but mounted infantry. A man on a bicycle can travel longer distances in shorter time than one on a horse actually. Good luck in finding a BAR or a SMG in 1891.
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  20. ? Actually the rifle is very simple. Apart for the burst mechanism, that's an added part, not required for it to work, the parts count is the lowest it could be, and the field strip can be made in seconds without tools, that was not a given at that time. To have access to the gas chamber and the gas ports (that's the thing that requires cleaning, there is not actually much that could happen to the piston and op rod) you only have to remove the muzzle cover. To inspect the recoil spring, you can remove it from the trap door. To remove the bolt you only have to remove the dust cover and the rear buffer ("when the dust cover is off, it just slides out") and it comes out from the rear of the receiver. It isn't needed to remove the receiver from the stock. The bolt is made of just five parts, included one that doubles as charging handle. The trigger group is very simple too. Like almost every bolt action rifle up to then, and several semiauto rifle after then, this rifle is simply not made to have the trigger group and the receiver removed often from the stock (that's why they were secured with screws). While the parts that require cleaning, and/or have to be replaced more often (for the second case, almost universally the recoil spring and the firing pin) are very easily reachable. An M1 Garand, for example, is made with a completely different philosopy. The rifle can be easily disassembled, but is not really field-strippable. To reach the firing pin, you have to completely take the rifle apart (and have several small parts flying around you).
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  21.  @derekakaderek  While I said that professionals, in any field, tend to use the tools that, as Ernest Langdon said about his Savage .22LR rifle, "you can spend a ridicolous amount more, and not get any more gun". Amateurs are most likely to spend insane amounts of money on fancy stuff that does marginally better something and worse something else.
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  22. The MG 34 was milled, and VERY complex and expensive to manufacture. What's really expensive is not milling (every one of millions of M1 Garands, or tens of millions of bolt action rifles used in WWII, was milled) but precision milling.
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  23. They were designed for volley fire, that's one formation firing to another formation, not to single targets. It didn't become a thing only because that work was ultimately done by machineguns. At 2000m a 6.5 Carcano bullet still delivers more energy than a .44 magnum at the muzzle.
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  24. Why are they looking backward? It seems like they are laughing at the shooter.
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  25. It's not cause the Italians had friendly-fire incidents that much of the SMGs designed after the war uses some kind of automatic bolt locking safety. It's that the experience of WWII taught that the main sources of incidents with those weapons was a hit in the back, that makes the bolt retreat enough to catch a round, and not enough to catch the sear, so cycling and accidentally discharging it. That's only a very simple (it's a last ditch weapon after all) way to solve that problem that, by 1945, was well known.
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  26. Actually the P7A13 didn't reach the cost comparison phase of the trial. It was eliminated because it fared atrociously in the reliability tests.
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  27.  Lassi Kinnunen  Design patents expire in 15 years.
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  28. Yeah, One has to wonder how Beretta, Benelli, Bernardelli, Breda, Franchi, Galesi, ect... survived. Oh, wait. They did selling tons of weapons.
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  29. Five rounds is the max allowed for hunting rifles. Sporting rifles can have up to 29 rounds. If a rifle is for hunt or for sport is decided by the manufacturer/importer that classifies it that way.
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  30. They started to develop it in 9mm, then during the development process, they made a .45 version too.
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  31. The locking lugs all around the barrel are kind of an overkill. They are not really needed. By simply interrupting the ridges on top of the barrel of a standard 1911 (so that they lock-unlock by rotating the barrel) you would have had the same number of locking surfaces (three) mantaining the slim profile of the 1911. The Beretta Cougar / PX4 only have one locking surface.
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  32. Actually this is a simple action even by modern standards. In WWI, only the Hotchkiss was simpler than this.
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  33. Allied reports of the time actually praised the weapon. As strange at it may seem, they praised it's reliability in sandy environments compared to the Bren. Internet "truth" are often only misinformations repeated many times.
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  34. What about the Colt All American...
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  35. Infact. And you change magazine with the right hand while holding the magwell with the left hand, that way you can reload even without looking It was pretty convenient.
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  36. This is a modern copy made in .45, not an original Luger. Same for the BM59, it's not an original Beretta made.
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  37.  @hendriktonisson2915  The SSP was a slightly modified M1971, that Colt could have put on the marked in mid '70s along with the Beretta 92 and CZ75 but, being Colt, they obviously preferred to miss the "wondernines" train. The fact that the SSP didn't win the JSSA program shouldn't have prevented them to put it on the market anyway like SIG, FN, Walther or Steyr did with their bids, but, hey, they are Colt, so....
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  38. Is like saying "why bother to have a car industry when you can buy used Fords".
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  39.  @samobispo1527  Given away for free vs. sell the cars you produce to others and not being dependent to others for spare parts. Better to produce anyway.
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  40.  @samobispo1527  200.000 guns had been made. 19.000 went to the Dominican Army, the rest had been sold abroad. So it had been better to produce it.
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  41. You know nothing of that action, do you?
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  42. Not only poor italians, since the system had been copied, after the war, by practically any power that mantained water cooled MGs in service (that's why, as Ian stated, we tend to think it was common in WWI, while only the Italians had it during the war).
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  43. Actually the Austrians ended up straigh out copying the Villar Perosa with the Sturmpistole M.1918 in 9X23mm Steyr, that saw action, so they rejected that specific gun, not the idea.
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  44. Gravity is not required.
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  45. Add that, even if Ian didn't mention it, the cocking lever doubles as the locking wedge (the gun is actually breechlocked).
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  46. Bicycle troops were common in those years. They obviously didn't replace cavalry, but mounted infantry. A man on a bicycle can travel longer distances in shorter time than one on a horse actually.
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  47.  @motohead077  Let's put it like this. Recoil accelerates the slide back for the first 1mm ot its run. Then the pressure drops and don't push it back any more. The recoil spring then decelerate the slide for the residual 4cm (that's 40 times the distance, and even more of the time) of its run. And the slide still slams into the receiver. So the K of the recoil spring is less (much less) than 1/40 of the force of the recoil. That's why it's not taken into consideration.
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  48. Infantry rifles had not influenced the outcome of any WWII battle. For how much they mattered, soldiers could have been equipped with nerf guns.
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  49. It worked, and the feeding was way simpler than in any canvas belt fed MGs, so...
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  50.  @firepower7017  The Browning worked well, but was not a simple design by any means. BTW the main problem of the Chauchat was the locking of the action caused by thermal expansion, not springs. That despite the magazines of a LMG (that has to be used in prone position in no man's land) are much likely to see mud than a fixed position HMG. The design is magazine fed MG. It had been quite succesful.
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