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

  1. Considered how reliable were the magazines and drums of those weapons...
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  2. Sorry, but the Army didn't want ANYTNING else than the M9. The XM10 trials had nothing to do with slide separation, It was the Congress forcing the Army to redo the test to appease S&W, since, reading the XM9 requirements to the letter, it shouldn't have been eliminated after the life expectancy test, as it did. That's because, thus performing worse than both Beretta and SIG, it was still above the minimum required (the S&W had been eliminated after one of the three pistols tested cracked a frame before having fired 5000 rounds, but the requirement was for a life expectancy of over 5000 rounds ON AVERAGE, and, on average, the life expectancy was over 5000 rounds) and so it should have passed and competed on price with Beretta and SIG. In the end, Beretta won the XM10 trials without even competing. It refused to submit pistols for the tests, and so the Army used off-the-shelf guns.
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  3.  @oldscratch3535  It doesn't matter what, or who, you believe either, for that matter. Physics doesn't work according to your wishes. According to Stoner, the AR action "is a true expanding gas system instead of the conventional impinging gas system". Unfortunately that's EXACTLY how the Rasheed, or the MAS 49, actions work. Thanks to gas expansion. Have you noticed how the "open gas tube" of the Rasheed, or of the MAS 49, enters INTO the bolt carrier, instead of simply resting against it's flat face? It's because, to work, EXACTLY like in the AR action, they need pressure build and gas expansion for a certain time. Not simply a supposed "kick" of the gas against the bolt carrier. So, or all of those system are direct gas impingement, or none of them is.
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  4. Lots of pieces? An MG34 bolt is composed of 28 parts. That of a BAR is composed of 18 parts. This one is composed of ...four parts, recoil spring included.
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  5.  @stanleystrycharz2572  MG42 bolt, greatly simplified in respect to the MG34, 16 parts. Bren bolt, 30 parts. Breda 30 bolt, still 4 parts. So, what's the part of the weapon that has so many pieces to make up for the fact that its action had from 1/4 to less than 1/7 parts that that of the concurrent designs, and to make you state "I guess Italians never understood the K.I.S.S. model of designing things! "?
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  6. It's not a question of grip angle. Italian pistols of the '70s were not made for HP, since armies don't use them, and expansive bullets were (as still are) banned for civilian use. If they worked well with HP it was only by chance. IE the Beretta 92, even the first series, work well with them because, due to the tilting lock design, it doesn't have a feed ramp. So there was no way to design it wrong for HP.
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  7. There are not loose rounds if you remove a loaded mag.
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  8. FG-42 was not available in 1930. 20-25 rounds magazine was the norm for LMGs then. More meant to be in search of problems.
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  9. Spent cases would jam the action.
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  10. We don't know if the optic was zeroed or not. The iron sights surely were.
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  11. Not really. To change the 50 rounds belt took much more time than to reload even this LMG.
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  12. Probably more the fact that Beretta outsourced the building of many parts to family workshops in Val Trompia (they still did for their shotguns for several decades after the war). Once the workshop had tooled to produce a part, it was simply not economical to retool, and, since the workshops were labour-intensive family business, the economy in building a part that was intended to simplify mass production was negligible so, along with the mass produced parts built directly by beretta, there was still a continue influx of original M38A parts.
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  13. ? Actually that action is simple even by modern standards. In WWI only the Hotchkiss was simpler.
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  14. Imagine them done at the time in .30 Carbine, actually functioning and with the silly ejection tube shortened. They would have been serious contenders.
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  15. If your MG is belt fed, to have the same cartridge for the MG and infantry rifle has practically no advantages. It's not like you can feed the MG with spare infantry ammos. Instead, using a lighter ammo for infantry rifle, your soldiers can carry MORE ammos for the MG. Think of the AKM (7.62X39) PKM (762x54R) combo.
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  16.  @ToastytheG  The Villar Perosa was adopted in 1915. the MAB 18 (a single Villar Perosa barrel mounted on a Moschetto TS stock) was adopted in 1918. So the weapon had not been modified for almost three years. As already said THERE WAS NOTHING BETTER AROUND.
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  17. It's part of the strip field. It's not like you have to disassemble the rifle every time. The parts that needs to be cleaned-replaced more often (the gas chamber, the recoil spring and the bolt/firing pin), are easily reachable.
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  18. It's simply a severe case of "if it's different from what I'm used to, then it must be wrong". It's a disease that affects many firearms commentators.
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  19. ​ @user-tv4lz5ie5u  Mussolini was popular. Hitler was popular. Pinochet was popular... Dictators are usually popular until they do something massively stupid. When the regime controls the media, it's easy to be popular.
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  20.  cody sonnet  So you think Franchi drafted the LF-57 at the same time it hit the market?
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  21.  cody sonnet  So?
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  22. Semplicemente all'Esercito non piaceva che il gruppo di scatto non si potesse smontare.
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  23. 20-25 rounds were the norm for LMGs in WWII. Bigger magazines meant to be in search of troubles.
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  24. The fundamental fault of thoses flapper delayed systems is that they rely on actual springs for the flappers to close. Springs can break or remain clogged, so the flapper can remain open. Roller, lever or toggle delayed work purely thanks to geometry.
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  25. Actually, for a pistol that size and weight, the B76 was unusually robust. Benelli had been the first manufacturer to advertise his gun being able to handle extremely hot loads (how many manufacturers still recommend to not use +P loads on their guns?).
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  26. 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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  27. Pretty much yes. The same guy designed this, then the Autorevolver, then the 2006M, and finally was involved in the design of the Rhino.
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  28. There are several clips of the shotgun being loaded and firing. ;)
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  29. 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 shields the chamber from the heat of the burning powder MUCH better than brass. 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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  30. There had been no stealing. The pivoting locking block had been patented by Mauser in 1911. When Walther used it, the patent had already long expired. Walther own patent (that applied only to their particular shape of the locking block) was submitted in 1936, and expired in 1950, so it was free to use for anyone in 1951.
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  31. Because it was not an exact copy, it only used the same locking system in a different caliber, and it had been put in production, with new tooling and changes in respect to the prototypes, even before the prototypes had been throughly tested. There are many unreliable Browning short recoil pistols out there. That doesn't mean all the Browning short recoil pistols are unreliable.
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  32. US Marines adopted the M9A1.
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  33.  @JG54206  The M45A1 is a batch of just 4000 pistols purchased out of any competition thanks to gen. Key's connections. Once delivered and tested, they shown to have many issues, the main one is them breaking before firing 12.000 rounds, so they had been rapidly phased out. Only the initial USMC contract for the M9A1 was for 82000 guns.
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  34.  @alexm566  Most but not all.
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  35. Allied reports of the time actually praised the Breda 30. 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. The Chauchat had problems even if kept perfectly clean (the barrel jamming in the shroud due to thermal expansion), but the real plus of the Chauchat was that France could manufacture 260.000 of them in a partially invaded country in the same time UK manufactured 50.000 Lewis gun. One vs one, the Lewis Gun was a better weapon, but one vs five, the Chauchat wins big time.
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  36. The frame mounted safety was there on the original Beretta 92, and it's placed there on any Beretta 92 model that has not a decocker.
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  37. 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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  38. Condidering that a rather small company like Franchi indipendently developed a perfectly serviceable battle rifle like the LF59 three years before... (It wasn't adopted by the Italian Army because the BM59 couldn't be beaten, for economic reasons).
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  39. The reason is that this cartridge, like the 9mm Glisenti (power-wise they are practically the same cartridge) was exactly at the limit where blowback action became impractical. More powerful and, if you wanted to use a blowback action, the pistol became heavier than a breechlock action, top heavy and less durable. Less powerful, and breechlock actions were more complicate than blowbacks without advantages, but, exactly at this level, advantages and disadvantages of the two actions were even. Infact the 9mm glisenti started as a cartridge for the breechlock Glisenti 1910, and was then used in the blowback Beretta 1915 and 1922. The 9mm Ultra was developed to be used in a blowback (the Walther PP), but then the Germans decided that the PP frame was no up to the task (infact the Beretta in 9mm Glisenti had a buffer spring to avoid the frame to take a too hard beating) and developed a breechlock action for it. But, if you have to use a breechlock, you might as well use a 9mm Parabellum.
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  40. Not really Rube Goldberg. An MG34 bolt is composed of 28 parts. That of a BAR is composed of 18 parts. This one is composed of ...four parts, recoil spring included. The only parts in the action that required precision machining were the "H block" and the rotating lock, so two small separate parts. it was actually an easy MG to manufacture.
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  41. It was enough to change the barrel, since the parent case was the same between 6.5 and 7.35.
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  42. They generally had problems of quantity, not of quality.
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  43. The only real similarities are that they are both blowback and looked like a 1911. The vietnamese one had a non rifled barrel, and many brazed parts to fire a more powerful cartridge than the 9mm largo, it probably was only a rank badge. This seems actually a well made gun.
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  44. But it weights like an N frame revolver with comparable barrel lenght.
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  45. Norwegians did, and they used the same cartridge.
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  46. "going into battery" means having the cartridge correctly seated into the chamber and with the bolt closed over it. "out of battery" means having the cartridge not correctly inserted into the chamber. It took the name from the naval artillery battery, where the muzzle loaded guns were moved "out of battery" for recharging, and then moved back "into battery" to fire.
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  47. Err... not really. An M16 is a quite complicate gun to manufacture. It's made of over 100 parts. Only the bolt is made of 19 parts.
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  48. Googling "C.O.M. Westarm" or "Westarm fucile" you can see several images of the sample n.33, that has a far nicer "civilian" stock and a flash hider.
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  49. Compared to the MGs of the start of the war it was not complicated. It was compared to those of 1943.
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  50. The long recoil action is notoriously felt-recoil-enhancing due to the heavy reciprocating mass. Hovever, at the time, other systems were unreliable, due to the charateristics of shotguns' ammos (too dirty for gas action, and with a lot of different loads). The first improvement over the long recoil for semiauto shotguns had probably been the Bernardelli Semiautomatico of 1949, a mix of delayed blowback and inertia actions.
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