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

  1. It's considered lever delayed. Lever delay (the acceleration of the bolt carrier) can be obtained via a lever or via inclined surfaces (like in this case).
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  2. Also because the Breda single-lug rising bolt action is a VERY interesting action that Breda employed successfully from 6.5 Carcano to 37mm AA automatic guns. It's simple (that bolt is made of five pieces in total, charging handle included), lightweight (see the dimensions) and it locks on the front of the bolt. The last part is important because we see, I.E., that the tilting bolt, that was very popular in the '30s-'40s-'50s (SVT40, STG44, FAL...) is no more used, because, locking on the rear of the bolt, it requires a sturdy receiver for all the lenght of the bolt itself, while, locking on the front, rotating bolt actions like those of the AR and AK, can have the receiver made of aluminium or light sheets of steel. The Breda action, thus not being a rotating one, has this advantage too.
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  3. Yeah, but mostly at the expense of other Glock models on whom Glock has more margin.
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  4. He made closed bolt versions also. Mind that this action did born for a 20mm automatic AA gun, then it had been adapted to this rifle, belt fed 12.7mm HMGs and 7.7mm MGs, 6.5mm LMGs and so on. It's a machinegun action (so a naturally open bolt action) adapted for a rifle. The closed bolt versions came later.
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  5. Beretta and SIG started designing an AR toghether, then parted ways in 1963 because SIG wanted to use a roller delayed blowback action and Beretta a AK-like long stroke gas action. SIG ended with the unsuccessful SG530, gas actuated, roller locked. Beretta made the AR70. SIG adoped a nearly identical action to the Beretta one in the SG540.
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  6. If you make a pistol for you own enjoinment, you are successful when you have made it the way you intended. In a certain sense, it doesn't even need for it to really work. If you are a manufacturer, your gun is successful the moment it makes a profit AND doesn't tarnish your reputation.
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  7. No WWII battle had been decided by the rifle. For what the importance of the infantry rifle had been, WWII soldiers could have been equipped with nerf guns.
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  8. The safety CAN be used with a round in the chamber. IT'S MADE FOR IT. You don't need a safety when a round is not chambered and, when you chamber a round, you are supposed to want to fire it, so IN THAT CASE the safety automatically disengages. If you don't want to fire it, THEN you can engage the safety AFTER having put a round in the chamber.
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  9. JFK conspiracy nuts: carcanos the worst rifle ever
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  10. You are welcome. Mind also the post-WWII battle rifles that still had the provision to be fed with stripper clips (M14, FAL, BM59...). Originally the M14 armed GIs were not issued with all the rounds already in magazines, but with four or five loaded magazines only, and the rest of the rounds in stripper clips (and you needed four stripper clips to load a 20 round magazine). Because magazines were expensive.
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  11. There is a double layer of safety. The decocker only decocks to half-cock and, even in case the sear fails, there's the firing-pin block.
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  12.  @Jukahetube  It has to work as a semiauto AND as a pump action AND not have a recoil spring in the stock. Those were the needs.
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  13. And the Franchi LF-58, in .30 CArbine too http://www.exordinanza.net/reprint/Franchi_LF-58-59/LF58.jpg
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  14.  @tiortedrootsky  Yeah.
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  15. 1) I can't see how this remark can apply to this gun. 2) Actually Germans are pretty famous for overengineering firearms.
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  16. The Finnish government requested the sights to be zeroed for 100m instead of 200, so fucking the entire logic of the system (being able to hit a human-sized target from 0 to 300m aiming at the center of mass). Zeroed for 100m, the bullet dropped too much first to reach 200m, so at normal combat distance.
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  17. While taking this monstrosity into serial production, Colt had the beautiful 1971 and SSP prototypes in some drawer.
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  18. Because the soldier on the side preferred to not eat brass.
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  19. Had it been an Inertia failure, he would have had a failure to eject, but the ejection was very strong and consistent. Probably, due to the right-handed grips, he inadvertently hit the slide-stop lever during the recoil, infact the gun didn't fail to feed (like in the round hitting the ramp and being stuck there), but simply held open.
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  20. It was the .276 Pedersen. It was a pretty hot .276, and the M1 clip held 10 rounds instead of 8.
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  21. Actually there were worse. This is the worst Italian machiegun, not the worst WWII.
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  22.  @firepower7017  It doesn't make any sense. The BAR had been used in WWII, the Type 11 had been used in WWII, etc. They are not exempt by anything.
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  23.  @firepower7017  And so? Any weapon ever made had been made for a reason. When is mentioned a "worst" is implied "used in a perceptible quantity".
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  24.  @firepower7017  And in this sense, the BAR was definitely worse. Allied reports actually praised the Breda 30. All the bashing is a modern-era thing when, in armchair reviews, there is an annoying habit of "if it's different to what i'm used to, then it has to be wrong".
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  25.  @firepower7017  The BAR was actually much criticised during WWII. Its limitations were well known (but the US could simply "throw more BAR to the problem"). It acquired a semi-mithical status later, because "it won the war".
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  26.  @firepower7017  Actually the reliability of the BAR was really not good for various reasons that were partly fixed only after WWII. After WWII Italy simply changed service cartridge and BARs were cheap (actually they were free). They had been replaced with the MG42/59 and the BM59 as soon as the Italian Army had the money to do it. As for the attitude, no WWII report i know of criticised the feeding system of the Breda 30. It's barely mentioned at all (at that time there was more variety of designs, so it was normal for different weapons to work differently). And for good reasons. The British doctrine of employ of the Bren was to fire one magazine a minute. In exceptional circumstances was allowed a 4 magazine a minute ROF (keeping in mind that the entire squad had 20 magazines and one spare barrel, that, at that ROF, had to be changed after 10 magazines, so, for that BAR, the battle would have been over after 5 minutes of fire). For that practical ROF, the feeding system didn't make any difference. Ian here criticised the rattling barrel and the front sight on the barrel shroud, that's really "I know that this weapon is bad, so I have to invent something to say it's bad". NONE ever noticed the rattling barrel and the front sight on the barrel shroud being a problem in almost 70 years of use of the MG42/MG3. Today any LMG/squad MG has an optic fixed on the receiver. Do those optics compensate for the barrel change?
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  27.  @firepower7017  Any weapon had been desgined having something in mind. "armies prepare themselves to fight the last war, not the next one".
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  28.  @firepower7017  Not even the Germans predicted how the next war would have been fought. The main part of their army was not mechanised at all. They totally overlooked the improtance of bombing, ecc... The early success of the "blitzkrieg" had been a surprise for them too. In 1930 nazis had not yet taken the power in Germany. Aircrafts were still fabric covered biplanes. Germany didn't even start designing the Panzer I...
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  29.  @firepower7017  A decade is quite a long time. Especially then. The Breda 30 had been adopted in 1930, non in 1937. Poland was not really a surprise. France was, for the German generals as well.
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  30.  @firepower7017  the '30s HAD BEEN very long. Think to what the aircrafts were in 1930 and 1939. Think to what the tanks were in 1930 and 1939. The possibilities of those weapons had been revolutionized over that decade.
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  31.  @firepower7017  It's not exactly surprising that a decade last for ten years. what makes it "long" or "short" are exactly the shifts that happen during that time.
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  32.  @firepower7017  Think that a first line aircraft of TWENTY years ago, is still a very good fighter today. A first line tank of TIRTY years ago is still a very good tank today. In 1939, a first line aircraft, or tank, of 1930, belonged only to museums.
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  33. Really is the contrary. Field strip is very fast, disassemble requires 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. Like almost every bolt action rifle up to then, and several semiauto rifle after then, this rifle is not made to have the trigger group and the receiver removed often from the stock. 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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  34. The Swiss and Italian versions were probably much more "decent". They fired more powerful cartridges, and were more pleasant to see too.
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  35. The locking wedge is pretty beefy for what it has to do.
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  36. The "base in italy" story, and all the variations ("sell F16", "store nulear weapons") are 100% bullshit. The 92F won the contract simply because it performed better than any other handgun tested in the XM9 program. People tend to not understand how cheap the entire contract to sell pistols to the US army really is. Really, in respect to other expenses, those are pocket money. The few 76mm guns that OTO Melara sold to the US Navy were worth much more.
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  37.  @galenw2339  S&W pistol broke during the life expectancy test. Beretta one didn't. S&W lawsuit estabilished that the S&W pistol did break, but the rules didn't prevent the broken gun to pass the test anyway. Beretta won the re-run anyway. Because it performed better than any other handgun tested. Yeah. The testing was rigged. It was made so to give to the soldiers working guns.
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  38. Infact the USMC adopted the M9A1.
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  39.  @workinmanworkinman3889  For what's a pistol's function in combat, the more ammos, the better. That's why 9mm is better than .45 ACP.
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  40.  @workinmanworkinman3889  A pistol in combat is to be used to make noise while you are reaching a real weapon / cover your comrades that are doing so, so the more the ammos, the better.
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  41.  @workinmanworkinman3889  It's called "suppressive fire" and requires ammos. That's why .45 isn't good for it.
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  42.  @workinmanworkinman3889 The comment section isn't your. It's prtetty evident that you don't know what you are talking about. If you are using a pistol it's evident that you don't have a rifle.
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  43. Simply the Italian Special Forces asked Franchi to build a version of the SPAS-12 with prismatic magazine, because it was more practical than the tubular one, and to make other changes, suggested by field use. Franchi at that point completely redesigned the weapon.
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  44. Because it was not an issue IRL.
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  45.  @antoniomanuelrodrigues-sz7lb  The actions are not even remotely similar. As for the cases, 7.92x33mm is a shortened 8mm Mauser. 7.62X39 is a shortened 6.5mm Carcano.
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  46. Actually Benelli was the first company to publicily advertise the gun as being able to shoot safely extremely hot loads. (how many companies still advertise to not use +P ammunitions on their guns?)
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  47. No. When the breech is closed, the lever is pushing rear of the bolt downward (in the locking recess) due to the tension of the recoil spring. Gravity is not needed for the gun to work.
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  48. It had problems even when brand new. Practically the thing didn't last 15.000 rounds. An M240 lasts well over 100.000.
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  49. The Rhino is another design of Ghisoni. It's more like the Rhino is the portable (300g less for the same barrel lenght) and less expensive Mateba.
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  50. In 1932 this was way closer to be a serviceable semiauto rifle than the Garand was. It only needed some further refinement. "unfortunately" the Italian Army never had the money to afford the transition to a semiauto.
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