Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Call me crazy but, at 1500 rounds per minute, I'd say it would make for a pretty good door gun on a helicopter.
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  2.  @xcr75  The Russians are concerned about costs though. Their reasoning is rather that they can't afford to let Ukraine become a member of Nato, because the security risk it poses is too great for them to ignore. They're also counting on that whatever economic sanctions the west slaps Russia with will be nullified by trade deals with China, India and other non-western countries. Whether things will play out that the Kremlin hopes remains to be seen. Also, as for the Scandinavian countries and Finland, they'd pose a very difficult nut for Russia to crack if they entertained the idea of an invasion. Ukraine has a respectable amount of manpower, but the weaponry is not on par with the Scandinavian and Finnish arsenals. A big reason why Ukraine has been able to mount such a formidable resistance is owed in large part due to the fact that western countries are sending in modern weaponry to sabotage the Russian advance. I know Sweden is one of the countries that have contributed with anti-tank weapons that has been used.
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  3.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  If only there was a weapon that could be used to take out small flying objects... Oh there is. They're called shotguns.
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  4. The computer has to control the timing of the way the magnetic coils start attracting the projectile and also turn a coil off once the projectile has passed it. I don't know if they have yet perfected the sequencing of it because suckback is an artifact of improper sequencing. So with coil guns in general, there is still a lot of room for tweaking and optimizing.
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  5. Easier to smuggle or explain away possession of a weapon when it doesn't actually look like a weapon
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  6. It's impossible to tell when hearing damage will occur. Sometimes a single shot from an unsupressed rifle can be enough to cause permanent hearing loss. No good reason to risk it when suppressors are available.
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  7. Vulf Almasy: I work at an airsoft store. We have one of these in stock as an airsoft version. Some COD nerd with too much money will probably love it. But as an airsoftplayer myself, I wouldn't go near it. Because internally, there's no difference between this or an M40A3 or an L96. They all shoot the same plastic pellets, and with upgrades they'll get the same level or performance. So the Cheytac airsoft version is just mostly dead weight with no added performance whatsoever... Which is fine for some people, since they enjoy weighty guns just for the feel of it. I like airsoft-guns with a weight close to the real thing as well (I use real weapons on the range, so it just feels "wrong" if the gun is too light). But I wouldn't buy a cheytac, because that huge load of extra weight doesn"t give me any advantage or added performance, like a real Cheytac would.
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  8. I have a small derringer. An heirloom from my grandpa, but I don't know the manufacturer or anything. It has a very small caliber. Smaller than this one. It must have used rimfire cartridges and at the back of the breech there's like a swivelling hatch that swivels out to the left side, but holds the cartridge in place at the back when closed. It also has a sort of manual extractor plate at the back too. Anyone who'd be able to guess what gun it is?
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  9.  @Bird_Dog00  Those damned Swiss prototypes
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  10.  @daedalus6433  Eh, I'd like to see some facts to back up those claims, my friend. Modern soldiers have to lug more gear around than soldiers during WWII had to do, and in most parts of the world, the demands in physical fitness tests have only gone up since WWII. The average soldier during WWII wasn't a professional soldier either. They would be conscripts and/or volunteers with a very short and quick training period, whereas modern soldiers train for years.
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  11. Honestly I don't think that will happen. Rail guns and gauss guns are some of the more promising "sci-fi weapon" technologies at this time. Especially since there is a great industrial demand on the world market in general for more advanced batteries and ways to manipulate electrical currents (on account of the electric car industry). Laser guns are much much further into the future, since the power demands for direct energy weapons are that much higher to ever be of practical use. And then there's plasma weapons being a common sci-fi trope, but also presents a whole slew of other problems like being able to generate plasma hot enough to cause lethal damage and also finding means to project it in a desired direction. So out of these three, gauss guns and rail guns are definitely the most viable.
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  12.  @nicholassternon5857  It isn't at the moment. What I am refering to is the fact that there is a market drive to introduce further sophistication into the components that the gauss gun is using, which means that at some point it's very likely to supercede the performance of conventional firearms. And also making a comparison between different sci-fi gun concepts and the respective problems developing them presents.
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  13.  @jacobwoolf2010  It depends on the ampunt of energy behind the wave. Electronics dependant on microscopic components would be the most vulnerable to EMP, since they have the smallest conductors, and thus would burn out rather quick, as opposed to 1980's electronics that use much more bulkier components with larger conductors. Even so, all electronics are susceptible to EMP, except if protected by a barrier that won't allow electromagnetic waves of a certain wavelength to pass through.
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  14.  @Klaaism  Naturally. The problem sometimes is that the people being concerned are of soldier backgrounds rather than engineering backgrounds. And engineer would tell you that when it comes to conductors: the thinner the area of the conductor, the more resistance it exerts on the electrons passing through it. Resistance = friction = heat. When operating under normal voltages and amps to which the conductor is designed for, there are nor problems. But an EMP basically cause a massive jolt of current and amp through circuits in the vicinity, which risks burning some conductors out on account of being too small to handle the added energy. Build your electrical components sizeable/thick enough to handle an overcharge and they won't burn out, even due to an EMP. Basically like you'd design any gun for the military: make it rugged and reliable rather than prioritizing small size and lightness.
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  15.  @vidard9863  No, that doesn't always happen. And frankly, a government that can't protect it's sovreignty without resorting to turning every civilian into a combatant is a government that has no right to exist to begin with. No government should ever be defended at "any cost".
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  16.  @vidard9863  Like what Zelenskyy is doing right now is using Ukrainian civilians as meatshields to protect himself with.
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  17. He should've also said: "You should know that it's the army's fault that it's on there to begin with."
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  18.  @justforever96  It tries to do both pistol and SMG, while doing neither particularly good. That's my objection.
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  19. Selfies... Lot's and lot's of selfies with the gun in view.
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  20. A thought occured to me. This pistol should've had like a sharpened punch, so that if you get some rubber sheets of the right thickness you could stamp out your own rubber baffles to replace used ones with. Probably a nifty feature to have in a pinch for deep cover agents who may not have an easy time to get re-supplied in a hurry.
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  21. "So what can I get you? A knife? A gun?" "Yes"
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  22. I've always loved the look of the SP1.
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  23. DerMeister821: It's pretty stupid that it takes six shots to kill someone as it is. In real life you wouldn't be standing up even after just one shot. If you're lucky you got hit in the ballistic plate and might survive, but you're out of commission for the day.
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  24. TheAntiQuest: You'll like the thumbhole stock all up until you actually put your thumb through it, only to realize that the placement of the hole makes it impossible to reach the fire-selector without releasing your grip from the trigger.
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  25. LuukvdHoogen: It's just small pieces of metal. Unless we're talking Aluminium, metal corrodes and disolves in nature over time. And while the lead in bullets might be a bit polluting, the amounts are so minute as to have that much of an impact. It's worse with plastics and Aluminium that nature can't break down with the elements.
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  26.  @lavrentivs9891  But that's still 2 years in prison for defending yourself against two people trying to kill you. Oh and let's not forget: any criminal record means all your gun licenses go bye bye. So I would NOT bank on any Swedish court letting you off the hook when using a firearm for self defense. No matter how clear and open and shut a case might be.
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  27. Would be interesting to see this get stress tested. Not because I assume that it's gonna fail, just geuninely interesting. I prefer simplicity over unecessarily complicated mechanical solutions, because the simple mechanisms tend to work better anyway.
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  28. Wow, the internals are gorgeous. All of them individually numbered, and no pesky coil springs to deal with either.
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  29.  @theutoid5663  I said it in another thread I think, a lot of armies "have" really cutting edge and high tech toys. But the crucial question is: in what numbers and what sort of distribution? See most countries put the carriage before the horse. They like to demonstrate their latest and most advanced inventions to the world to show how great they are and basically say "Yeah... Don't mess with us. We got this brand new superweapon developed". But at the end of the day, most of these latest and greatest superweapons tend to have low production numbers, and the actual equipment being issued to the troops to be used in present day is of an even lower number. This is true for Russia, but it's also true for the U.S, most Nato countries, all of the EU countries and China. It takes literal decades for a "new" piece of equipment or weapon to have been produced and distributed in numbers significant enough to be fielded for general purpose use.
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  30.  @emberfist8347  I'd say a tank is like a light, mobile pillbox in urban enviroments. It can serve as an armored strongpoint and cover for supporting infantry getting peltered by small arms fire. But it'll be taken out by man portabe anti-tank weapons, making the urban enviroment rather dangerous for tanks.
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  31.  @theutoid5663  Never try to make sense of the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of military logistics. One needs to be insane to understand it.
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  32.  @Covert_Arrangements  Much respect to your service sir. It's nice to know that the marines study pragmatic examples from history.
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  33.  @drud3792  Did I say I think it's "okay" or desirable? No, I don't believe I did. I'm just describing reality, without passing moral judgements. You can't expect to always retain a moral highground in war.
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  34. The engine block of a car will protect you from a Minigun it seems... Won't protect you from Ma Deuce however. :)
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  35. Was thinking the same thing. I bet they did what they were supposed to do rather well in Congo. The African conditions don't seem to be very nice on guns or machinery in general, so the simpler the design the better.
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  36. What part of "shall not be infringed" does the lawyers not understand?
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  37.  @xcr75  Russia did not "attack" in 2014. Crimea and Donbass have a majority ethnic Russian population who decided to secede from Ukraine, after the Euromaidan rebellion. The Euromaidan's goal was for all of Ukraine to join the EU. Which would put Ukraine in the hands of a western military alliance and on a straight path into Nato. The Separatists did not want to become a part of Nato, and so they broke out. They had support from Russia in terms of arms and equipment. But the separatists forces are still primarily composed of Ukrainian citizens with ethnic Russian origins.
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  38.  @TorianTammas  I don't think you're as well versed in their means of production as you think you are. Just because imported components have been used in the past (because it was cheaper to import than to set up domestic production) it doesn't mean that they will be at their wits end because of sanctions. This is Russia we're talking about. Not some third world middle eastern shithole. They beat the west in the space race with the first successful satellite in orbit AND the first successful manned spaceflight. There's no shortage of electronic engineers in Russia. And they're setting up their domestic semiconductor manufacturing as we speak. You're not going to "stop" their production of tanks and missiles through sanctions anytime soon. And even IF they fail to create a domestic production chain (and that's a big IF), they can still import all the electronics they need from China, because China isn't playing ball with western sanction efforts whatsoever.
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  39. A purist may think that a sear unit stamped in Finnish might spoil the provenance of the weapon. But I'd disagree. Discovering foreign markings on parts of the gun just make it all feel rich with history. This gun had an interesting story behind it.
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  40.  @Broken_Yugo  I get it, believe me. I just can't shake the feeling that we usually think of Garand clips by way of tradition. In fact, a lot of gun manufacturing designs are derived from tradition and not always from trying to optimize. But every once in awhile you see something that works well and also break the mold. Like that Alien pistol that Ian showcased before. I for one find arms manufacturing and engineering to be a fascinating subject and i'm confident that not all options have been exhausted. Compare it to the combustione engine. It's been around for more than a century. Yet we can all agree that the engine of a Ford Model-T is nowhere close to the performance of a Bugatti Veyron. The same thing also applies to nuclear power. The greens want to discard it, but the actual research into new reactors is really quite exciting and mould breaking compared to older designs. I guess that's why I think that ammunition clips might not yet be down for the count. I'm just trying to figure out a way to make them compete with detachable magazines again.
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  41. Might be a controversial opinion of mine, but i'm not too keen on bullpup rifles. I get the reasoning behind them (keeping the weapon short and agile, while not sacrificing barrel length), but I find that when you have a long magazine that far back on the gun, it causes problems when you're trying to fire from a prone position, which you might sometimes have to do. Regular rifles do have magazines that stick out too of course, but I haven't found it to be nearly as awkward to use from a prone position since you can usually prop something up in front of you (a tree branch, a rock, a mound of dirt or whatever) in front of you to rest the front of the rifle on and thus give some ground clearance for the magazine. Just my two cents on bullpup rifles with long magazines. Feel free to disagree.
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  42. Personally I would've prefered if the wire stock was a bit more elongated so that the part that is supposed to be pushed into the shoulder has a bit more area to it.
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  43. Always liked guns where the magazine slots into the side of the gun rather than under it for some reason. Just looks exotic I guess. 😄
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  44. The russians aren't too focused on a propaganda war in the west. They focus their propaganda at home. If you talk to Russian Putin supporters, they'll have you believe that Russian troops are getting landslide victories in Ukraine, where they cause no civilian casualties, and the Ukrainians are causing no Russian casualties whatsoever. Basically both sides are downplaying their losses, exaggerating their battle victories, and exaggerating the civilian deaths caused by the other side. So it's next to impossible to get a good overview of what is actually going on or who is actually winning or losing.
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  45. This sounds like the problem is having to deal with a national leader who also happens to be a veteran. Hitler applies his experience from WW1 into every decision and meddles a lot with issues that would probably have been better left to experts. As most of us know, this wasn't nearly the only weapon projects Hitler personally meddled with.
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  46. Frank Teryngel: No, air raids would make short work of the Maus. The payload dropped by bombers usually exceeded the power of even artillery shells, so cutting through one of those Maus tanks would've been no problem. In fact it would've been easier than other targets due to how slow amd cumbersume the Maus would've been. An expensive sitting duck for the airforce bombers to play target practice with.
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  47. Ser. Hudson: The M249 sucks compared to the MG3. Even American troops hate it. The CNA conducted several surveys where they asked servicemen who were armed with M249's and used them in actual firefights to give them reviews of the gun. A whopping 70 % of M249 users were dissatisfied with weapon maintainability, and too many of them complained of how difficult it was to clear stoppages. I doubt you'd find as many MG3 operators having similar complaints. It's wierd how Americans adopt European Machine gun designs (like the M249, based on the FN Minimi or the M60 based on the MG-42) and manage to make them inferior to the European original designs.
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  48. Oi! This 'ere gun runs on dakka!
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  49.  @SonsOfLorgar  Just to give you an example that isn't even gun related: a woman got violently assaulted by a man several years ago, and another man intervened. He saw her being attacked and grabbed a tire iron and hit the man assaulting the woman. He got sentenced for using "excessive violence". The court reasoning? He hit the perpetrator with the tire iron TWICE instead of just once. And that was enough to get him slapped with an excessive violence sentencing. So you can probably imagine what would happen if you shot someone in a clear cut self-defense situation. At the end of the day, the law matters little. It all bottles down to how the law is interpreted and implemented.
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  50.  @lavrentivs9891  Why should I have to warn someone intent on killing me as they're trying to break in to murder me? It makes no sense whatsoever. So my point still stands.
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