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

  1. Add that the optic on the dust cover eliminates any pretense of accuracy. That thing is just not solid enough (not by chance the sights on the original AK are NOT attached to the dust cover).
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  2. Much more pieces. Too complicated for a pistol.
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  3. Any bolt action of that era had a rear sight adjustable up to similar ranges. The M38 was the exception.
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  4. The shotguns rented by Argentine outfitters for dove hunting shoot on average 1250 rounds a day, so they can easily see who's the more cost-efficient. Their lineup is almost entirely made of Beretta and Benelli.
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  5. in typical loads, it's slightly more powerful than 9mm Parabellum, but, due to the larger case, it obtains those performances with less pressure, so it's less punitive for the action.
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  6.  @ozfifer7392  For example, the class under 2200 joules can be defined "Lightweight Rifle Cartridges", or LRC. The 2200-3000 joules class "Medium rifle cartridges", or MRC. The over 3000 joules class "Full Power Rifle Cartridges" or FPRC. There are already definitions for the infantry rifles that use the first and last class of ammo (Assault rifle and Battle rifle), we only need a term for the rifles that uses the MRC, for example "Squad Rifle" (that doesn't make less sense than the other two definitions).
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  7.  @EnjoyCocaColaLight  It's unsuited for individual automatic fire.
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  8. Portugese.
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  9. He actually inaugurated the tradition of filing for bankrupcy.
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  10. They didn't in the middle, but in 1938. Then the war begun (in June 1940 for italy) and they decided to scrap all the 7.35 thing and fight it only with 6.5.
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  11. It's a linear hammer infact. A striker is spring loaded and direcly hit the primer.
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  12. This MG has very few parts actually, even by modern standards. They are big. Like any industrial tool design of the time. In WWI only the Hotchkiss was simpler.
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  13.  @lairdcummings9092  It's simply the way to have a 50 rounds magazine in an era when a simply staggered 50 rounds magazine would have been unreliable.
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  14.  @lairdcummings9092  Canvas belts (the only available in WWI) became obsolete, magazines didn't. Actually canvas belts are EXACTLY the reason why this MG is way simpler than any WWI belt-fed one since, using a canvas belt, the weapon has to extract the cartridge form the belt rearward, then move it up or down, out of the way of the belt, then push it into the chamber (Rube Goldberg design). The Madsen magazine never held 50 rounds.
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  15.  @lairdcummings9092  Cloth belt were so satisfactory that they became obsolete with the end of WWI, magazine didn't. they are still used. There is nothing "Goldbergian" in a magazine. Thanks, infact it is.
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  16.  @J.DeLaPoer  Maybe they had been inspired y the look, but the two weapons are different enough to not infringe any patent.
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  17. How effective was the BAR? The BM59 can't really be fired in full auto from the shoulder, but it can be fired in full auto from prone position.
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  18. Allied reports of the time actually compared this gun favourably with the Bren, particularly for reliability in dusty environments.
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  19. In all the pictures available when the safety is visible, it's free and functioning. It had never been a issue IRL.
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  20.  @ShutUpBubi  And it's lighter, has better ergonomy, and far better double-stack double-feed magazines. ;)
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  21. A lot had been made in WWI. In WWII we have an Army letter requesting some scoped Carcanos to the Terni Arsenal, and the answer of the Arsenal stating they had 80 samples ready, but it's not known if those rifles had ever been issued. Some experimental sample is still visible at the Arsenal.
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  22. Infact it was. Putting it back in the strip, and you don't need an ejector, and a separate ejection port for the cases and the strips, that are entry points for dirt and weaken the structure. We need an "explanation" on why it works that way, because we are not used to this system, but the only answer is "because it was easier this way".
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  23.  @alexm566  There's no vintage picture of that weapon used on the field with the safety deactivated. It seems to be a problem only for modern days commentators
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  24. A straight copy of the 6.5 Carcano.
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  25. The bolt of this gun is made of four parts. The one of a MG34 is made of 28 parts.
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  26. There is a strange fascination between Germans (or Swiss-Germans) and roller locked-delayed.
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  27. 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. IE field stripping this is MUCH simpler than field stripping a M1 Grand.
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  28. Because, for a limited production in not specialised workshops, casting is easier and cheaper than stamping. Stamping becomes convenient only with higher production levels.
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  29. And, to change the drum of the Lewis Gun, you have to expose your head over the weapon. A particularly useful charateristic, for the enemy.
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  30. This had been adopted years before any "conventional" SMG.
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  31. It's practically a scaled-up Glisenti 1910 pistol action, so yes.
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  32. 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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  33. It's 9x20 Browning, and it's not easily obtainable.
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  34. Tripp426  Anywere, it's an obsolete caliber.
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  35. During Fascism, in Italy, was usual to write the U, in capital letters, as V, like in ancient Rome. The writing is actually "AVTOMATICO" (The "I" and part of the "C" are cancelled).
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  36.  @commando552  It only depends on the shape of the front and rear surfaces of the locking block if the distance between the bolt and the barrel remains the same for all the rearward movement, until they are unlocked, or the bolt is free to slightly accelerate in respect to the barrel, so providing to the case a bit of primary extraction, and avoiding the need to lubricate it or fluting the chamber. In any case the bolt is not free to move indipendently from the barrel, it’s geometrically linked to it, and so the breech is locked. The shape of the rollers in roller locked systems make so that the bolt is even more free to move, but they are roller locked anyway (and they works well with bottleneck cartridges exactly for that slight degree of movement allowed).
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  37.  @mattholland8966  As said, the selector lever was not physically installed on M14 infantry rifles. It was given separately to the unit armorers "in case" and it remained in storage. The M14, as it was used in Vietnam, was a 20 rounds Garand.
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  38. And, more than for this gun, that, altough impressive, saw relatively little use during the war, the town is known in for its 20X138b "Long Solothurn" ammo, that was the standard 20mm Italian and German AA and AT automatic cannons round, so million of samples had been made of it.
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  39. That's the safest place to put a decocker. Frame mounted decockers only decock to half-cock position. That way the space between hammer and firing pin is open for debris to enter. A slide mounted decocker rotates the firing pin out of the way of the hammer while releasing it, so it can decock the hammer completely.
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  40. Short recoil breechlock action.
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  41. Actually the Villar Perosa had NEVER been designed for aircraft use. Unfortunately Ian's previous video contributed to spread this old tale, but it's evident from all the paperwork, relations, manual, ecc... that it was originally meant to be a field light machinegun and it had been used in this role right from 1915 (Italy's first year of war). It and had been adapted to aerial use in very limited numbers, simply because the Army destined the first 350 samples manufactured to the Aviation (that was a branch of the Army at that time) because they wanted it to be in full production first to start to distribute it to the troops.
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  42. 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. Ian is a human, and often "struggles" to strip down weapons whose strip-down sequence is simply different to what he's used to.
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  43.  @skepticalbadger  To me the ARX160 is beautiful, especially the last iterations, with the more vented handguard.
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  44. The Marine Corp adopted the Beretta M9A1 in 9mm. Some special unit was given that Colt, without any competition, mostly due to Gen. William M. Keys connections, and had little else than just problems with those. That's why it had been replaced after only four years of service, to adopt a 9mm.
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  45. It's still in service, but it's currently being replaced by the brand new Bertetta PMX. In respect to the PM12S the PMX is more compact, lighter thanks to extensive use of polymers, and fires from a closed bolt, so it's more accurate in semiauto. https://www.berettadefensetechnologies.com/pmx-submachine-gun
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  46. The grenade sights double as gas cutoff. When it's raised, the gas port is closed. If the soldier wants to launch the grenade from the ground, and the sights are not usable, the original sling double as an emergency sight. With the stock on the ground, the number of studs on the sling you can see off the ground is the distance in meters.
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  47. See the Beretta 1951 for example, or the SIG P210. It's common with single action only pistols with a "push type" trigger bar.
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  48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDS1OcfAw5Q
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  49. Ask to the Germans, that made the MG34, whose bolt was composed of 28 precision machined parts (that of the Breda was composed of... 4 parts, recoil spring included?).
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  50.  @zoiders  Mauser patented the pivoting locking block in 1911. Walther waited until the expiration of Mauser's patent first to submit their own one in 1936, It expired in 1950, exactly in time for Beretta to introduce the M1951.
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