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

  1. It would be great. Any patent for it expired ages ago (design patents last for 20 years), so anyone can make a perfect copy. However, it's an all forged steel gun. The tooling had been most likely scrapped. So to reintroduce the model would be quite expensive.
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  2. Also is "precision" machining to be expensive and time consuming. To simply cut a rough straight line, or drill a straight hole, is no more time consuming than welding stamped parts.
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  3. Maybe it's made with aerospace technology. But the finishing of the frame is just terrible. It seems like something that had been cast during WWII. Not to say about the bizarre idea of not having replaceable grips in a metal frame.
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  4. It seems like a promising prototype put in production before all the elements had been figured out throughly. Very good and simple operating mechanism, barrel change mechanism, general ergonomy, controls, gas settings… But three sets of lugs? That bipod (I’ve seen better in WWI)… no handle to grab a scorching hot barrel… And that magazine… It could have easily been so MUCH better.
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  5. A tilting system, being it a tilting barrel like the Browning or a tilting locking block like the Beretta/Walther will always have less surface friction, and so less lubrication needed and/or surface wear.
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  6. It comes from the time of black powder muzzle-loaded guns in warships. Those guns recoiled during fire (tipically of a broadside) into the ship, so that it was possible to muzzle-load them. Once done, they had to be pushed to the side of the ship again, once there they were "in battery" (with all the other guns), ready to be fired again. Today, "in battery" means that the cartridge is perfectly seated in the chamber, and the breech is closed, so the firearm is ready to be fired safely.
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  7.  @rudolphantler6309  You are welcome. It comes from: "Old French baterie, from battre ‘to strike’, from Latin battuere . The original sense was ‘metal articles wrought by hammering’, later ‘a number of pieces of artillery used together’".
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  8. The Japanese Type 11 was way worse.
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  9. The fixed sight rifle had been made for the 7.35mm cartridge. With the sight set at 200m it had a maximum elevation over the line of sight of 4" at 100m, and a drop of 11" at 300m. It's the short side of an A4 paper sheet. Do you really think it makes a difference on a human sized target aimed at 300m with iron sights? A conscript would have had much more problems trying to estimate the distance to set the sights. With the 6.5 bullet, you have to add a inch more in elevation at 100m and a couple in drop at 300m, still not enough to make a difference. In reality a 300m shot with iron sights had been an incredibly rare occurrence in both world wars. Over 90% of the rifle exchanges happened at less than 100m. In much of the possible battlelfelds, a soldier is not able to even see an enemy standing in broad daylight at 300m distance, because there is something between them. The M16 had an aperture sight set at 300m. The bullet had a maximum eight of 5" above the line of sight at 175m, crossed the line at 250m and was 7" below it at 300m.
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  10. Equal in dignity.
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  11. Some decades ago, when Carcano milsurp rounds were abundant and cheap, and 7.62X39 were unobtanium in the US, cartriges for the AK were obtained shortening the Carcano cases.
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  12. It's not even close to be as bad as the L85. The first generation L85 has the only merit of being accurate. For the rest it seems to be made to be the least functional and reliable that's possible, with obvious design flaws (receiver made of too flimsy metal sheets, biodegradable plastic furnitures...), and with a backward ergonomy, so that all the things seem to work in the least predictable way (see for example the auto ejecting magazines when you squeeze the AR to the chest). This instead is a sound design with little care given to the ergonomy, so that it's not as user friendly as it could have been, but not disastrous either. Certanly, this seems to be a weapon of the same generation of the FAMAS, only made 20 years later.
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  13. Thanks.
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  14. The Marine Corp adopted the M9A1 really. 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.
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  15. In all the pictures taken at the time, and all the preserved samples, the safety is still there. It was not a problem at all IRL.
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  16. In 1977 the original Beretta 92 had been already upgraded to 92S (slide mounted safety-decocker) and that made it a superior service gun to the CZ75 to me. Many Police departments had to learn the hard way that a service DA/SA pistol without a decocker is plainly dangerous for the shooter and who is around him.
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  17. Itr would be great ot have a review on the "Bernardelli Semiautomatico" shotgun, made form the end of the '40s to the end of the '60. Other than having a detachable magazine, it used a peculiar delayed blowback action that many think it's a forerunner of the Inertia system. https://www.armeriasebina.it/uploads/2013/06/Fucile-Semiautomatico-BERNARDELLI--800x533.jpg
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  18. There are stainless "superalloys" that makes for better blades than standard carbon steel. Stainelss is not too soft, and is as heavy as standard steel, (carbon and stainless steel frame and slides are made with the same dimensions). It's REAL problem for use in semiauto pistols was galling, since it's very prone to it. The problem had not been really solved since the '80s.
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  19. This is an HMG, the Breda 30 is a LMG. This had been replaced by the Breda 37 (that Allied reports deemed to be "exceptional") and the Fiat Revelli 14/35, that's this very same weapon adapted to belt feeding and 8mm Breda cartridges.
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  20. Actually the Breda 30 it had a better real ROF than a BAR. As Ian said, the MG was initially issued with two spare barrels. After the first clashes, it was seen that they were not enough, and the provision was rised to four. A barrel had to be replaced after 200 rounds of continuous fire. So there was the real problem to fire more than 600 rounds in continuous with this gun. A the same time, a BAR, after 150 rounds of continuous fire, was pretty much a club, waiting for it to cool off.
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  21. In the MG42 the rollers force the rear part of the bolt to recoil at an higher speed than the front part. Since the force impaired to the bolt by the cartridge is fixed, higher speed of the rear part of the bolt means slower speed of the front part. Since the rear part of the bolt is the heavier one, a slightly higher speed of the rear part means a considerably slower speed of the front part, and the speed of the front part is what counts to avoid extraction problems. The MG34 works the same way. Only it uses inclined surfaces instead of rollers. When the front part of the bolt rotates, the rear part (the heavier one) has to recoil at double the speed of the front one, but to accelerate something at double the speed in the same time, you need 4 times the energy. Here energy is fixed, so what you obtain is the slowdown of the front part of the bolt. In the Breda 30 the bolt doesn't rotate and is a single piece. Bolt and barrel recoil in a straight line until the barrel stops and the bolt snatch the case from it. Like in a typical semiauto pistol.
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  22. Actually the US intelligence deemed it to be superior to the BREN in dusty conditions. An oiler is less than ideal in those conditions, but that's only ONE of the charateristics.
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  23. It's the simplest way a strip fed MG can work The same bolt that pushes the case into the chamber, pull it out of it and back into the strip. It had several advantages. In respect to other strip fed MGs there was only an ejection port (not two, one for the cases and one for the strip) so the action was more closed. In respect to magazine fed MGs, the reload is faster (you don't have to detach the empty magazine), in respect to belt fed MGs, there are no dead times to change belt and the strip present the cartridges more accurately, so jammings are less likely.
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  24. No, because this gun is not in .45 ACP.
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  25. like all the pre-war cartridges, it was too big and heavy for what it could deliver. With new propellants you could have the same performances form a much smaller case.
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  26. They are so overbuilt that a little dirt can't really do anything to them. They are like all the industrial tools of the time. Workshops were really no tidy places.
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  27. It actually is. Except for the burst mechanism, that's an added part, the rest of the rifle is WAY simpler than a M1 Garand for example.
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  28. Because a regular Thompson was heavier than a M1 rifle.
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  29. "not designed here". The FG42 at least took some idea from the Lewis Gun, so they could say "we didn't copy the Germans". In reality they managed to worsen what they copied. IE the FG42 bolt had big and slightly angled locking lugs. Who made the M60 didn't understand why, and made them smaller and cut at a straight angle. Result, the metal on metal slam on closing invariably chipped the M60 locking lugs, and the armorers were supposed to stone them to keep them functional. OR, they replaced the double set of pawls in the MG42 belt pull mechanism with a single one, with the result that the M60 can't pull the belt against the slightest resistance, and it's much more likely to damage the cartridges.
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  30. It's simply him pulling it down. You can see the first three rounds rising the muzzle, then reflexes makes him pulling it down even too much.
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  31. Yeah. They were issued as emergency weapons to vehicles. Where full size rifles were too bulky. IE to A129 heli crews.
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  32. It has a fixed barrel and a two-pieces bolt. It's less complicate than any Browning tilting barrel design.
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  33. Astra had been successful first.
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  34. The Swiss never adopted them, but the Italians used it pretty intensively in N.Africa.
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  35. 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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  36. The quality of the Carcanos didn't vary as much as that of the Mausers do. Indifferently from when they had been made, they tend to be less refined than peacetime made Mausers, but better than wartime made Mausers.
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  37. Any pistol has an exposed bolt slamming back and forth at great speed.
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  38. To see it firing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWZNfSqY1A8
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  39.  @M.M.83-U  The standard gun crew of the time was 9. It was 9 for both the US and the Germans. A US machine-gun platoon had 4 MGs and 35 men. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fKeZNcL1Fw0
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  40. "Military" cartridges are not banned for civilians, where they are, because they are "dangerous". In Italy, when the 9x19 was banned for civilians, they could purchase plenty of more powerful rounds (.40 S&W, .45 ACP, 10mm Auto...). Those bans are made not to control the civilians, but the military. What the legislators wanted to avoid was, for the members of the armed forces, to privately purchase rounds for their service guns.
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  41. The Italian FNAB-43 smg was lever delayed too (here the bolt https://www.traxarm.it/area/prod/img002727A.jpg ) but only 7000 had been made (during WWII).
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  42. Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (later the desigher of the Fedorov Avtomat) recognised that already witnessing the battles of the Russo-Japanese war.
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  43. Fuego is fire. Llama is flame. Is also the third person present of "llamar" (to call).
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  44. The Glock is simple. That's what Gaston Glock nailed, and made his success. Gun enthusiasts constantly underestimate how hard it is for a non gun enthusiast to learn how a gun works and make it work. Things like "that's the safety. It works only if the hammer is in this position, not in this other position. That's the half-cock...". And Armies and Security forces must teach those things to legions of non-gun-enthusiasts. Glock is "you pull the trigger, it goes bang, end of the story". That enormously reduced training time and expenses for agencies in respect to SAO and wondernines.
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  45.  @immikeurnot  Nothing on the Glock was "revolutionary". As said, it's success was due to the simplicity of operation.
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  46. So it seems you need a stiffer spring and to shorten the feed lips.
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  47. The problem was not to penetrate the armor, but to penetrate the armor AND do some damage. Even the British QF Two Pounder (40mm AT gun) was blamed cause, even in case of multiple penetrations, it often didn't stop the targeted tank, cause the AP projectiles had no explosive content. The Solothurn 20X138b projectiles were explosive.
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  48. Actually is a very simple rifle. Apart for the burst mechanism, that's an added part, not needed for it to work.
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  49. There are 9mm carbines with sights up to 500m
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  50. You have to imagine the magazines with the ammos in them. https://modernfirearms.net/userfiles/images/machine/mg85/fiat-revelli_m1914_2.jpg
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