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

  1. It's what they are most known for, and what they still manufacture in Italy.
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  2. Really not.
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  3. Sometimes I wonder what the viewers actually see when they watch theese clips. It's acutally a lot easier to strip field this than a BAR. The bolt of this gun is made of 4 parts in total. The one of an MG34 is made of 28 parts.
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  4. There is the video about the Breda PG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0utf9Wu--W8&t=6s
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  5. No. The 6.5 Carcano is not "whimpy" (it's more powerful than the 5.56 NATO and in the same range of the 6.5 Grendel and 6.8 SPC). The problem of short recoil actions with rifle cartridges is that, when the barrel stops, and the bolt keeps on moving, the cartridge, in respect to che chamber, accelerates fron "0" to the max speed instantly, and that can cause a too harsh extraction and a case rupture (the problem was not that the MG didn't extract, but that it ripped the base of the cartridge from the side) .That doesn't cause problems with pistol cartridges, because they are short (so there is not much surface of the case attached to the chamber) and low pressure. But already with shotgun ammos, Browning invented the complicated long recoil action to give the cartridges all the time in the world to shrink down and be extracted at slow speed. All the short recoil rifle action that don't use oil or fluted chamber use a "cam" system that starts to extract the cartridge when the barrel is still moving (Fiat 1914, Browning 1919, MG42...). BTW, the Hispano Suiza HS404 20mm cannon, and all its derivates in use still nowadays, uses oiled cartridges.
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  6. It was the Blish lock of its days. IRL, for when the piston had moved those about 3mm necessary to close the ports, the bullet had long left the barrel and the pressure in it dropped to safe level. The system didn't offer any advantage over conventional ones, and had several disadvantages in return.
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  7. It will probably fix the occasional ruptured cases and most of the failures to feed (it depends on the quality of the magazine too). Not the failures to eject.
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  8. Answer to the "correction". "To call a modification that prevents the gun to discharge when dropped simply an "upgrade" means that, to you, to sell a gun that discharges when dropped is acceptable. Is that only your personal opinion, or it's SIG's official policy?"
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  9. It had been replaced by plastic, that's cheaper.
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  10. That multi-lug bolt had been already used on the 1912 Carcano semiauto conversion, for the same reason. To limit the degrees of rotation of the bolt before unlocking in a short recoil action. https://youtu.be/jrp7QLSlKD4
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  11. Both SIG and Beretta refused to submit pistols for the XM10 trials. The Army used off-the-shelf M9 as control weapons.
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  12. Like all the pre-war cartridges, it was too big for what it developed.
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  13. It was supposed to be used with a shield, and with it it was plenty stable. https://modernfirearms.net/userfiles/images/smg/smg127/villar-perosa_1915_3.jpg That hole sight was literally the only hole in the shield. The weapon was designed to be a point weapon. Like a long range shotgun. Put it to surveil obligatory passages (alpine trails, openings in the barbed wire) and, when an enemy shows up, throw a short burst in his direction. With half a dozen 9mm Glisenti bullets in his body, he’ll think better. The MG-42 for example, with its 1200rpm ROF was designed with this job in mind. Not fire continuosly, but fire when you actually see the enemy. Given the charateristics of the two warfares, it was more suited the Villar Perosa to WWI (when you almost always had some obligatory passage to surveil) than the MG-42 to WWII.
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  14. The Marine Corp never adopted the M45A1. They adopted the M9A1.
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  15. That was not the last time. It had been only during WWII that someone bothered to see if the .30 Carbine round could be conveniently fired in a blowback sytem, and discovered that a 570 grams bolt was enough even for proofloads. All the M1 carbine manufactured, with their gas systems and rotating bolts, could have been replaced by much cheaper to produce, simpler to service, and even more reliable, blowback weapons.
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  16. What shown is not a field strip, but a disassembly of the rifle. A normal field strip (to clean the gas chamber, inspect and maybe replace the recoil spring, clean the bolt and maybe replace the firing pin) can be made in seconds without tools, that was not a given at that time.
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  17. Cock on opening allows to give a second try to an hard primer (open, close, and the fifle is ready to strike the same cartridge) but tends to make the action a little stiffer (because it adds resistance to the opening movement, that's already the harder of the four).
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  18.  @wingracer1614  99% of rifle exchanges in WWI had been done at less than 100 yards, so 1 Lewis and 4 SMLEs vs 5 Chauchats is a no-brainer. Chauchat for the win. However a more realistic comparison should be a 100 men company with two Lewis guns and 98 rifles vs a 100 men company with 10 Chauchat and 90 rifles.
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  19. Much simpler than a BAR actually.
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  20. "commercial" meant governments' agencies. They wanted new stuff anyway, not armies' leftovers.
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  21.  @nja7402  200m battle sight make sense because the maximum elevation of the bullet over the line of sight is just few cms regardless of the environment. The M16 had a dual aperture sight, with the battle sight, zeroed at 250m, used from 0 to 300m (the long range sight, 300m to 400m was practically never used). It had been made to be used in forests.
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  22.  @nja7402  Finnish Mosins had a 200m battlesight as well.
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  23. The problem with all those design was that their bullets were ball, so, even obtaining a penetration, it was only a lucky chance to succeed to stop the tank.
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  24. It depended on the spalling effect. Problem is that the spalling effect works, and not always (it depends on the quality of the armor) only for impacts very close to 90° and, even when it worked, you had only a piece of steel of the dimensions of a small coin flying into the armor, not an explosion. To make an example, The Brits had problems with their QF two-pounder AT guns, because, not having explosive bullets for them, often even multiple penetrations were not enough to stop an enemy tank, and those were 40mm projectiles weighting 1kg! Obviously, being the Wz. 35 relatively cheap, you can manufacture more of them, and more projectiles, so there were more occasions to shoot, and so more chances to obtain a decisive hit, but more danger for the shooters too, since they were more targets for the tank's reaction.
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  25. Parkerization does wonders on corrosion resistance for cheap and, reading the requirements of the XM9-XM10 program, it's evident the US Army at the time cared A LOT about corrosion resistance and practically nothing about resistance to sandy environments. Unfortunately, parkerization and sand are instead a recipe for disaster, since sand tends to stick to parkerized surfaces, so we can have an idea on how this pistol would have performed in the next 30 years, had it been adopted.
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  26. It's a false problem. BREN instructions indicated an ideal ROF during battles of a magazine (of 30 theoric rounds, and 27 practical ones) a minute. Early in the war it was contemplated an emergency ROF of seven magazines a minute but, during the war, experience on the field lead to reduce that to 4 magazines a minute (and alerting that, at that rate, the barrel had to be changed every ten magazines, and the entire provision of the squad was of 20 magazines, so 5 minutes of fire). You can easily keep that pace with the Breda 30 as it is. Infact Allied wartime reports didn't indicate the practical ROF of the Breda to be a problem at all.
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  27. Then how can belt-fed MGs survive any type of field use? Than cuts on magazines instantly make them jam is an armchair mith. In reality the difference in performance on the field is marginal.
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  28.  @thefreese1  If you want to shoot the 6.5 Carcano using a round nose 160gr projectile, Steinel makes very good and accurate rounds of the correct dimensions that allow you to use the original sights. If you want to shoot a spitzer (but at that point the rifle will shoot high, if you don't rise the front blade) PPU makes 123 and 139 grain spitzers of the correct dimensions (but only for reload. PPU complete carcano rounds use .264 diameter bullets). Obviously, with the large V-notch sight, you'll never reach match accuracy. It had been made for rapid target acquisition, not for range shooting.
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  29. It's not exactly a competition between the best but, between this and the BAR, this is probably better.
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  30. Breda shotguns are inertia locked too. The Breda inertia lock had been the last design made by Bruno Civolani, the same guy that previously designed the system for Benelli . Really, when Benelli introduced the Inertia lock, the firm was owned 50% By Beretta and Breda, and Civolani worked for Breda. Also in the '70s decockers for SA/DA pistols were not that common. The CZ75 and the original Beretta 92 had 1911/style safeties too. It would have been interesting to note that the frame is stamped. Among the possible advantages of the system, it has to be said that Benelli was the first company to publicily advertise the gun as being able to shoot safely extremely hot loads.
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  31. The Finnish government requested the rifle to be zeroed for 100m instead of 200, so fucking the entire logic of the system (being good to hit a human sized target from 0 to 300m simply aiming at the center of the torso). Zeroed for 100m, the bullet's drop was excessive before reaching 200m, so at normal combat range.
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  32. Looking at the movement of the lever when Ian releases the "trigger" (the lever recoils, but for some mm of movement the bolt doesn't follow) there is probably a lock in the last part of the movement, that's released only when the lever goes backward. https://youtu.be/-8Nm89NQK-A?t=388
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  33. Found the patent. it's called an expander lock. Due to the direction of the respective inclined surfaces, when the bolt is pushed back by the recoil, it can only push the lever downward and not rearward, so the bolt is locked. https://patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
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  34. Any LMG sorted that out since the late '20s.
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  35.  @scottfoster2639  Yeah, any OTHER lmg sorted that out since the late '20s.
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  36. It was a bad gun. It more or less worked, at the price of being exceptionally complex, mantenaince-intensive, and having many obvious design flaws (the most irritating ones being the ones that they changed from the designs they copied, only to make them worse), but it's difficult to point out a worse one that had been designed in the same period, and adopted by a major army.
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  37. The safety lever had never been a issue IRL. None used this one-handed. The front safety solved a real issue of early SMGs, and had never been a problem in combat situations. The fact that a design is unusual does not mean that's failed.
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  38. Infact that's the reason 9mm Luger case is not perfectly cylindrical.
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  39. Unfortunately in Europe there was only a limited market for 9mm Para pistols at the time. Or you managed to get a public contract (army, police forces...) or the model was doomed, regardless of the quality.
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  40. The 6.5X54 MS is a 6.5 Carcano, only different enough to not violate the patent.
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  41. Actually this is a simple action even by modern standards. In WWI, only the Hotchkiss was simpler than this.
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  42. In italy 9x21 replaces 9X19. It's even a hotter than most commercial 9mm loads (its equivalent to 9mm NATO). The overall lenght is the same of the 9x19. Only the case is 2mm longer, with the bullet seated 2mm deeper. It had been noticed that the longer case feeds more reliably too.
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  43.  @andrewscott8892  Don't know if 9x21 is available in Mexico. I know .38 Super is used there. Don't know all the countries where 9X19 is forbidden for civilian use, but there are several (France, Belgium...) the rationale is not, as often asumed, to "control population" (it would be ridicolus, since more powerful calibers are allowed) but to control security forces. The autorities there don't want a policemen to be able to privately buy ammos for his service weapon. However in Italy only 9X19 is banned. 5.57 NATO and 7.62 NATO are allowed.
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  44. The locking mechamism is unusual, but pretty simple. The frame is actualli stamped, so the simplest it can be.
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  45. A swan. The Bernardelli Cigno (swan) is also their trademark semiauto shotgun.
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  46. Unfortunately Ian left out the fact that's actually a LOCKED BREECH gun. It's called an "expander lock". In theory there's no limit to the power of the ammunitions this gun can use, as long as the frame is strong enough. https://patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
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  47. The .30 carbine is really in a gray zone. Both fired from a 18" barrel (the lenght of the M1 carbine) it's less powerful than a 10mm Auto, or a .357 Magnum, that are pistol cartridges.
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  48. "innovative" is an hard stretch. Mechanically is practically a Glock, with a magazine disconnect and a weird manual safety. The slide is made to resemble that of a Beretta.
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  49. The AR10 entered in several adoption trials along the FAL, and the FAL generally won. The AR10 was sligtly lighter (not even that much after the modification suggested by field use had been implemented), but the FAL was more easily mass producible (stamped steel), robust, and could use a folding stock. Both used an inline stock, so recoil management was even.
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  50. Complicata? Ha la canna fissa e l'otturatore in due pezzi. E' meno complicata di qualsiasi pistola con sistema Browning.
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