I have worked with a German company several times over the years. I walk into their Pittsburgh office and I see a (what is now called a meme) that says Nietzsche was right. I ask about this as it caught my attention. I was told, though I cannot confirm that he said that if you want something designed in an overly complicated manor have a German design it.
The Germans decided on caseless fir the G11, because that was the only way they could see to make the 'hyperburst' work, as it cut out the step on having to eject the round, plus other side benefits. When the Russians looked at the same idea, they made it work using standard ammo, by deciding 2 round bursts were good enough, and a sh¡t ton of cables and pullies. Thus the AN94, a gun that is both gas and recoil operated, at the same time.
@@unsafe_at_any_speed Funnily enough, Toyota’s are technically more “over-engineered” than BMWs. The difference being that they geared everything towards mechanical simplicity That being said, I personally never had much trouble with BMWs and German cars in general. The only problems I had were wiring related, but wiring sucks regardless of the chassis’ origin
Female fan here. I was playing this video while my husband was driving us home from town. As soon as you said the "saw in the weed whacker" bit, before you could even finish the thought, he said, "Nope, won't fit." He'd actually tried it. Dear God in Heaven. You're right.
TBH, I don't know why people don't just buy the the weedwhacker that comes with the sawblade attachment. Sure, it costs a little more - but it's an investment.
Uh, I don't live in the US.... Circular saw blades *are the default* weed whacker here. That option died by the roadside long ago. We're in "can I put a tiny circular saw blade on my angle grinder and harvest bamboo with it," "can I fit a bamboo hatchet into a silky saw handle," and "look, here's the tiny-ass pick-up, there's the snowplow, grab a welder and let's make some magic" territory.
@@oldgus01 "can I put a tiny circular saw blade on my angle grinder and harvest bamboo with it" Yes. I mean I used a 5' woodcutting blade and I was just trimming the bamboo, but it worked brilliantly. The biggest issue was figuring out if I should just run an extension cord to run the grinder, or can I mount the blade to my cordless drill?
So I asked my husband about the circular saw blade thing. His response: "yeah that's like putting a chainsaw chain on an angle grinder. Works well, until it flips off and decides to climb up your clothes and eat your face." There's a reason we call him " Mr. Safety".
Right I understand weapon technology advanment but if anything to be taken away from ukraine war is that a determined volunteer with a 100 year old Moisan nagant is more deadly than a russian conscript with an an94
Never underestimate the DOD's ability to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and decades to pick the worst possible option. Case in point UCP camo.
Or their ability to piss away hundreds or millions of dollars with no perceptible benefits, and come down like the wrath of God on a soldier for losing/breaking a $3 piece of equipment in the field.
When the G11 was presented. Germans: “It fires 3 round bursts, has caseless amo, a futuristic look, and a scope.” USA: “It’s perfect.” Germans: “And here is how it works.” *opens up the gun revealing a grandfather clock of machinery* “Truly a marvel of engineering, wouldn’t you say?” USA: *complete incomprehension* “Why are you like this?”
The most amazing part of this is that the pencil pushers at the DOD didn’t understand that rifles don’t hit things on their own and the person shooting them has to be able to see the target
@@Furiousmodels seriously I fully support giving everyone in the military full authority to fire literally anyone under them combined with a culture of rigorous meritocracy. The check on the power is if you abuse it anyone above you can fire you
As a veteran myself, I can honestly say that the US treats the military just like every other "problem" it encounters..... Flush a shit ton of money down the toilet and see which bill clogs the bowl, then use that dollar bill until it falls apart!
The great DoD Paradoxical demands with 'insert-project-here': GOOD, FAST and CHEAP ... yet somehow they land the exact opposites 95% of the time 😆 ~Always seek your end-users (military rank-&-file) unfiltered feedback throughout development; whilst having strong 3rd party audit oversight/transparency throughout...
The grandfather clock bit got me 😂. As a colleague of mine at the independent Porsche-centric shop where I used to work once told me, paraphrasing, "once you remember that German automotive engineers are the latest descendants of a long line of mechanical clock and watch makers that goes back centuries... you start to be less surprised by some of their design decisions."
My dad was at AAI at the tail end of this and worked on the propellant for their round. According to him everyone there knew this project was a dead end and they were just having fun.
You know, this should upset me as a taxpayer.....but oddly enough are government drops the dough on way dumber shit (digi camo has entered the chat) at least with this there was a somewhat effective outcome 😂
I've shown your channel to my girlfriend and she didn't find it amusing but she's a hs history teacher and shown a few videos of yours to her class, then came home pissed because her students not only took in every word but managed to do so while pissing themselves with laughter. The cheese cave being their favorite
I can confirm the US Army still has examples of all of these weapons stored away and I was lucky enough to get my hands on all of them. Very cool stuff!
I was in when we (Marines) went from open sights to ACOGs. Let me put it this way. I shot rifle expert 7 times in my 7 years in. When the ACOGs were added we freaking loved em. We all felt like "Snipers" and this was mad unfair to the poor bastards that were gonna go against us. You should have seen the faces of guys who shot "Marksmen". Suddenly after instruction they were shooting "EXPERT".. Optics are a GAME CHANGER
Reminds me of the story of Iraq claiming the US was executing soldiers due to the amount of headshots, then a investigation took place and it turns out that ACOGs were the reason😂
@@elchjol2777 Yeah.... If I remember it correctly, they were investigating them for war crimes (aka, execution of prisoners) due to the high number of headshots made. Turns out, when you give troops used to using iron sights to score 'marksman' or better a magnified optic, they tend to go for headshots if they can.
Most of the Marines in Fallujah got the acogs right before or during deployment. It wasnt even the whole unit, I remember being amazed when one of fellow Marines let me look down one
Der Deutsche Michel: Here you go, Yankee. A wunderbar combination of flawless Deutschland engendering and design!" Uncle Sam looking over G11: I can't tell if its a gun...or a piece modern art. DOD: Is it ticking? Uncle: Yes. DOD: Then its a gun.
Fun fact: They make metal blades for weed whackers that are very much like circular saw blades, but in some cases, they are far more aggressive. Some of them are "universal." Others are brand specific. With the right blade, you can cut down small trees with your weed whacker.
I want to live in the alternate universe where America adopted the G11. Can you imagine magpul, tacticooled out, picatinny mounted G11s. God what a vibe.
Fallout 2 had the G11 and G11e1 with the Vindicator Minigun all shooting 4.7mm caseless. That was my first experience with these guns and God I wish the G11e1 was real...and the Jackhammer
@@BarelyTabletopthe jackhammer is real. If I remember correctly, the blueprints that had been up for sale for YEARS was bought in recent years (1-2 years ago) and ig they've just been sitting of them or fixing the shit the jackhammer had wrong with it
@@BarelyTabletopin the words of Zach Hazard, Lord of the Gun Rants "THE PANCOR JACKHAMMER IS NOT A REAL GUN!!!" And I agree with him. The Jackhammer can _stay_ not a real gun.
I work commercial lawncare. Can confirm, with the right adapter stack a redmax bcz260ts can accept 10" table saw blades. Disclaimer: Do not try at home. Much experimentation was done and the exact right stack and order of bushings and washers is required to prevent it from unscrewing itself and going SOMEWHERE at 10k rpm.
Fun fact: the HK G11 is banned specifically by name in Canada despite never being commercially produced. This almost certainly means that a Canadian politician watched Demolition Man and thought the coil gun was real...
Fun fact: This is because the Canadian government knows that it's population will commit acts of aggression that will be addressed at the next Geneva Convention! Or it'll all go horribly right, and they'll be stuck supplying hideously expensive ammo to their military forces. The lever action rifle was considered for military contracts during the American Civil War, but was turned down since the government thought that the troops were going to use an excessive amount of bullets, thereby blowing the budget off the charts. At least, that's what one of my history books stated
The Serbu Buttmaster is also banned by name in Canada, despite having a total production of one(as a joke). They seem to have just gotten a list of guns and walked through it.
I’d like to humbly request a video on “Jumping Mad” Jack Churchill. He is the only person in recorded history to get a confirmed kill with a bow & arrow in all of WW2 (or at least the European Theater). Plus, his deeds during the 1930’s are insane and he did them all because he was bored.
This video is super cool for me...as a young PFC at Ft. Benning Ga in 1988, I was put on a range detail for about month, we were testing possible M-16 replacements...I distinctly remember firing the flachette rounds because you could hear the THA-WACK! as the round hit the big fancy piece of plywood we were shooting at. Also fired the weapon with the caseless rounds which we called the Hershey bar gun because, well it looked like loading a f*ing Hershey bar. There was also a long barrel colt with the M-16 lower receiver but the upper weighed six million pounds so it was super awkward to shoot unless you were prone. Another amazing thing: one of the civilian contractors (who fed us Burger King every day) had a phone in his truck. Blew my mind back then! Great memories! -M.Faul, 1-18 INF
To be clear, YOU CAN MOUNT A CIRCULAR SAW BLADE ON A STRING TRIMMER. They make an adapter for that that fits most modern string trimmers. I looked, and I almost bought one but my kids Mother said NO, we already have a Shtil trimmer with a saw blade attachment on it! (It takes two hands to operate and is gas powered, and IT IS AWESOME!)
This is the military's ultra expensive version of when you company has to interview everyone who applies for a new job listing, when they created that listing for a specific person who's already got the job. It wastes their time, your time, and everyone elses time, but they have to do it because of some dumb law.
@@Jeff.78repealing laws is actually kind of hard to do and outside the purview of the DoD. Not saying it is or isn't because of a law, but it's a lot easier to make a new law than to remove an old one because that's how bureaucracy works. So instead of repealing things we get new rules about the old rules and then rules about those rules and et cetera. Bunch of bullshit and no one just decides to do it, the government's left hand doesn't know what its own fingers are doing.
The M198 Duplex 7.62x54 round was used in both the Garand and the M14 for testing the M855 duplex 5.56x45 was something they tried after Colt got ahold of the Springfield Armory, the Government facility not the current and unrelated commercial enterprise, tests for Project Salvo.
@@JosephDawson1986 Yes, a little more background on the duplex cartridge for the M14 rifle follows. The US Army Infantry Board tested a duplex cartridge in 1961 and found it 14% to 22% more effective at hitting "personnel sized" targets. Winchester-Western developed the M198 duplex cartridge which was standardized by the US Army in May 1964. The Army tested M198 ammunition at Fort Ord in 1965 and 1966. The result was more hits per target out to 545 meters. M198 duplex cartridge ammunition was used by 4th Infantry Division LRRP Company snipers in 1967 in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
Back in the late '70s I found a supplier making a 4-stack of .38 wadcutters. I handloaded a bunch of them to take to range qualification at the Sheriff's Dept. 50-round course. I shredded the target, it was not countable. The Rangemaster pretty much lost his mind. 8)
I've never heard something so true and so infuriating as "if it's not supposed to go there, make sure it doesn't fit". That statement perfectly describes why our world is filling up with garbage BUT there's a parts shortage
Its all about context. There is usually no reason an alternator from one car shouldn't fit on another similar car. For example. Can be the same with other products. Unfortunately, many companies do that not because of any valid issue like destroying something, but to make sure you HAVE to buy from them, which means that have complete control over if and when their products can be repaired, with many choosing for it to not be possible forcing you to buy another one from them. Louis Rossman talks alot about this with apple and right to repair.
5:40 I've had a fascination with this gun for many years. First came across it in a series of Playstation 1 games, Syphon Filter, where it was available in every game but the first in the series and performed basically as described here.
You should totally do a video on the Sherman tank. Lots of people shit on it but it was one of the most survivable tank in WW2 and it saw action on every single front.
Yeah, and the Israelis took them because that was all they could get and they worked on them, better tracks diesel engine, upgraded the gun to a 100mm tube, and took on the latest and greatest the Soviets had given the Egyptians and well you know the story of those 6 Days in June 1967. The Sherman was a fine machine, it was durable and repairable. And that generation had a lot of good shade tree wrenches driving them in War Number Two. You could build them and more importantly you could ship them with the existing infrastructure and they were light enough to use the bridges in Europe without much issue. Reliable and easy to fix, you didn't have to send it back to the factory when it broke like the Tiger I and II's!
Regardless of where the manufacturers originated, they all participated in the American government research and development, and all followed the science and philosophy of bigger bullets/more bullets = bigger holes/more holes, and bigger holes/more holes = less bad guys This has been among the most heavily studied group science project since the 1940's where the team that sent the most bullets down the range have an exponentially greater chance of surviving than getting unalived by the opponent
Somehow during all this testing, I get this sense of certainty that if they just asked the grunts about making their rifles more accurate, the grunts would have mentioned getting scopes enough times they could have saved some if not all that 300 million. Then again, military procurement being what it is, grunt feedback/ suggestions tend to be one the last things that happens, if it happens at all.
They really blew $300 million to learn that it’s not the gun that is the biggest accuracy issue, but the sights. Hell, any halfway decent hunter would tell you that!
Your right but you have to think like thr government they spend 1500 dollars on a damn toilet seat that you can get at most store for 30 dollars. So it makes Sinton me lol stupid government
If you recall the Sergeant Fearless video, the military has a proud and longstanding policy of not actually talking to the people who should be talked to about anything. Generals will talk to other senior officers about issues and never even consider asking for input from those who know what they're talking about.
Of course they did. This is the federal government we’re talking about! When’s the last time you can remember the United States federal government demonstrating the use of a single thread of common sense?
To be fair, the idea had been out there since the 50s. It's just people underestimate just how crappy optics were until like the 80s. From the 30s through to the 70s, the highest end top if the line scope of those days was worse than any random airsoft $30 Amazon special. And the mounts were usually either way to complicated and expensive, or just as crap. The ACOG was developed for the ACR program, and it was really the first 'grunt proof' optic. No batteries to forget or die, and it's actually acceptable practice to hit it with a rock while zeroing. The Marines have spent 20 years trying to kill those things, and you have examples where the half-life of the tritium has expired before the rest of the optic. That takes 10+ years. For something made of aluminum and glass to survive in active service. There are ACOGs out there that are older than the soldiers they are issued too.
When you talked about the AAI rifle being able to have a normal 5.56 round loaded but unable to withstand the forces, I immediately thought of the joke of being able to fit a 50 BMG round into the barrel of a 12 gauge shotgun in order to make a “makeshift” 50 cal
Except the difference is a regular ball .50BMG can be fired as the barrel is larger than the ammo. 12ga is actually 18.53mm and .50bmg projectile is 12.7mm. So the excess pressure just goes out the barrel along with unburnt powder and the projectile. In fact ignoring the BS videos by Sarkissian, Gsrand Thumb put .50bmg in a break breech double barrel shotgun and it was fine and Brandon Herrera fired .50bmg from a Saiga 12 and neither did any modification to said fire arms and neither blew up.
So, I just heard about the USS Biloxi because I went to the maritime museum in Biloxi and it was nicknamed the “busy bee” because it just went from battle to battle in WWII and was not seriously damaged even by Kamikazi. Thought you might make a great video on it.
Hey I am just here as a proud Canadian to mention that we have an amazing First Nations soldier who would make a amazing video, Tommy George Prince, an amazing soldier during the second world war who was aboriginal (indian) and used his tracking skills to sneak into enemy occupied land in Italy to repair a field telephone line disguised as an Italian farmer and then directed accurate indirect fire support onto Germans positions but was was also rumored to sneak into German positions wearing moccasins and slitting the throats of Germans soldiers at random intervals and stealing the boots of others to conduct phycological warfare, at the very least i believe this deserves some research into this badass career, unfortunately he passed away as a homeless alcoholic due to racial prejudice and lack of addictions support in the Canadian system, RIP. Id appreciate it if everyone who has seen this comment would like it so we can shoot it to the top and bring it the the Fat Electricians attention to give this man the attention he deserves.
American here. I'm so sorry for Mr. Prince's sad end. Prejudice is an awful affliction, along with rampant greed. I too would like to hear more about this man's service.
Weird thing is, the army had already tried Duplex rounds as far back as the mid 50s with M1 Garands converted to 22-06 duplex cartridges. Testing proved lackluster and the project was eventually abandoned. Also Winchester would take a crack at Flechette rounds with their entry into the SPIW project in the early 1960s which (in a common theme of the us military) would cost millions of dollars and end up going absolutely nowhere.
You should check out the H&R SPIW. It fed a revolver cylinder from a magazine and fired polymer cased *triplex flechette* rounds. Also had a revolving 3 round grenade launcher. Cold war was a wild time
I remember being voluntold for a detail at Benning in 89 to the known distance range where we were marking the targets for the shooters. This was for the ACR program (we didn't know it at the time). So I'm on my seat with the target raised and I can hear things whizzing over my head sounding like lasers. Dropped the target and couldn't see anything resembling bullet holes. Then they said they were using flechettes...nobody knew what they were. They explained it as a nail with fins. The holes were tiny. And scattered all over the paper with nothing inside the silhouette. I said "no hits". A little pencil neck engineer with a heavy French accent comes over and says the misses counted as hits. I said, "well, that explains a lot."
The weed whacker metaphor is extremely accurate. Not only have i tried with a circular saw blade, i also tried a grinder wheel (for science) long story short, trimmer line works just fine😂
And here I am the crazy mf that will completely reverse engineer something simply for the sake making something work. I will weld on or grind off metal, drill new holes, or add parts entirely to force something to work. Even if it boils down to electrical tape, a few zip ties, and a dremmel
The APFSDS darts are a thing of beauty. I know there isn't gonna be terribly much stopping power there given it has the energy of a handgun round, but the trajectory and AP on those things must be like... amazing.
This wife of a combat vet and mom of 2 active duty Army sons loves your channel. Always entertaining and informative. Keep up the good work! #armystrong
When i discovered the G-11 in Black Ops 1 and went down that rabbit hole, it awakened my autism in ways that only the YF-23, Legos, and the P90 have. That is a degree of space-magic that pushed me to becoming an engineer, and words cannot describe how fundamentally baller that machine is.
I was a huge fan of HK's XM8 platform and the OICW (Which as mentioned is the XM29). There's just something about 20mm air-burst grenades that seems appealing. I got to handle the XM8 and it felt like a cheap airsoft gun, almost all polymer composites. Shame the US passed on it, but I guess it still lives on in the Malaysian Armed Forces.
Wasn't the XM8 just a dressed up G36? Ultimately we DID buy the platform once it had been redeveloped into the HK416 instead lol, the Marines love that thing
@@TheOriginalFaxon Apparently Hk pretty much made their version of the M4, then had to call it the 416 when Colt threatened to sue (even though as it turns out they had no copyright to a military designation). So the Marines want the Hk416 but the higher-ups handling the budget deem it too expensive for our crayon-eating madlads who are actually the one branch in the US military who needed an upgrade the most. So a genius comes up with the idea of pitching the need for an Infantry Automatic Rifle, leading to a number of heckin CHONKY AR/SCAR/Ultimax prototypes with the Marines finally getting the HK416 they wanted in the first place. Thank goodness the M27 was the 'lightest' of the trial guns. I got a brother in the Marines who's issued a 20" M27 with a VCOG, PEQ-15, AAC suppressor, and he's gotta carry a 13lb mortar tube on top of all the standard equipment.
In March 2002 the Marine Corps released the brand new MTVR 7 ton to the fleet. They began training the first class of mechanics later that same month. I was in the 3rd class trained to maintain and repair 7 tons, which started in April. We graduated July 30th, which means the first mechanics graduated earlier in July 2002. I went to 1 TSB, the largest motor pool in the Marine Corps, at Pendleton in early December 2002 for my 2 week AT. I was the only marine there (out of about 400) to actually attend the course at Camp Johnson, and was made senior mechanic for the 12 dead in the water 7tons sitting there, and had a corporal who was OJT'ed on them as my 2nd. We had no parts and no tools, and had to cannibalize parts from trucks we couldn't fix to get the others out (if one had busted shocks and another had a bad alternator -which we weren't allowed to replace because of the warranty- we took the shocks from the busted alternator one and got the other out), and broke a lot of tools in the process because they weren't designed to work on these trucks, which also had locktite all over them from the factory. In 2 weeks we got 7 out. At the end of December, they released the tools. In March of 03 they released the parts. Most backwards thinking towards logistics I've ever seen. Most of the trucks and mechanics were sent to 3rd Marine Division in Okinawa in the first year. I can't imagine what their backlog looked like in March 03.
@@hardasnails11b OK, here me out here, I've never served in the military so you might have to explain some stuff to me. How is the over 15 year old info on the frequency of breakdowns and/or the availability of tools and spare parts for a logistics truck of all things.... part of operational security? If it was last week's info on that, you might have a point. If it was about the F35 that many years ago, you might have a point. And if it was both, you'd certainly have a point. But it's a logistics truck, and the info is over 15y old. If they really were that concerned about it, it would have been ordered to be classified. Not to mention that half the time it's the contractor making the stuff that wants that kinda info classified because that lets them hide the fact that they made a shiny turd for the US Government instead of something useful (go look at the LCS for evidence of that).
So basically the point of the story is that they really should have trained mechanics from the units that were getting them, and coordinated the delivery of the tools and initial stock of spare parts to all hit the motor pools within a couple weeks of the trucks arriving. Optimally the mechanics would be trained and they received the trucks, tools, and parts all on the same day. I know, nice fairytale.
I'd like it to be noted, there are in fact some weedwackers that you can remove the head that takes their specific adapters for the strands, and it's usually a bolt that you can in fact put a saw blade on.... it doesn't work well but it took down buck thorn pretty good
Exploring what was possible was a good idea, even if it didn’t produce a new weapon. It showed that the AR was still the best platform at that time. As for the G11, the FRG was planning on adopting it, but the reunification of Germany cost so much that expensive projects like that were cancelled.
Sure what a few $100 mil it's not like we need that money to fix roads or pay teachers. Now go to your TEA party meeting and complain about paying taxes.
Exploring what was possible was a good idea, but giving a blank check to ANY manufacturers is not. Thank God this was just rifles and not planes or tanks (Though I'm sure some projects in those areas are just as bad or worse)
Idk bro I've built about half a dozen AR-15's and 2 AR-10's from the stripped lower on up... I firmly believe anything that John Garand invented was a better platform than the AR platform will EVER be...don't get me wrong...I love my "Commie Killers" but I'll take a solid piston driven action, American Walnut and Forged steel over a poly-aluminum Lego gun ANYDAY
This is easily my favorite channel! I am so glad Brandon introduced me to this channel. I have now watched nearly all of the videos on this channel. Just have a free old ones all to watch.
Loved it whenever you mentioned about a saw blade on a weed wacker. Many people might say no... But I guarantee you that you can tack weld a washer that'll fit the end of the shaft into the middle of a circular saw blade and it works great. Just make sure the weed wacker has enough power to go through those small trees!
Oh, I am so with you. I have been beating this issue since the 1990's when I was in the military and there still doing it, what insanity. Great video, your great, you stated it better than I could.
Yeah, the circular saw doesn't just snap on there like a LEGO piece, you gotta do a bit of "engineering" to mount it, just make sure that the blade is perfectly center and cannot move around. But then you run into the problem of not having enough torque to compensate for all the weight you've added. And yes, I did purchase a weed whacker with more torque, I did mount a ridiculous circular saw blade on it, and it is everything I hoped it would be and more...
I must ask: what blade cover can you use to protect your femoral artery when it inevitably detonates? Did you take a circular saw cover and bolt it where the normal weed wacker one goes?
Would also love to see your take on the MK series. SOCOM has equipped most units with the mark 17 battle rifle and the mark 48 saw. There is a new MK special purpose rifle, but these are usually selected by the user as to what special purpose rifle works best for them. Finally getting back to the .308/7.62 and increased penetrating capability.
How is it possible you have less than 1 million subs? This channel is so hilarious and so knowledgeable at the same time you are by far I think the funniest guy in the UA-cam gun community it’s mine baffling you’re not in the 3 million sub tier.
Was he a Medic?? ...as a vet myself I knew he had to have served...and I assumed he was a "backpacker" lol but I wasn't positive on the branch or MOS...is that all youve gathered? or do you know more??
Im still waiting for you to do a video on the 83rd Infantry Division of WW2 (aka the Rag-tag circus). They literally took every German vehicle they could find (and get working) repainted them in Army OD, and used them to continue the advance into Germany. Go check these guys out; it’s right up your alley.
so i pressume it didnt work "well" enough even if they brought the design up to the testing phase ? is the problem miniaturisation ? i mean at its core it works or was intended to work like a sabot no ? shame . my guess is that unlike gyrojets there might be more ways to approach the problem with "simpler" solutions . alas
@@mfgrobin9657 From what i've read the main problem seemed to be quality control for the sabots which at the time they did not have the capacity for. So it's more that they're hard to get working rather than impossible.
Dude your videos crack me up. I laughed my ass off at 9:15. Thanks brother, i needed that. Always a good day when The Fat Electrician drops a new video.
All this and The Biffa Sparky, as we call him over 'ere in Bongolia, is a quick change artist too. Bangstick makers: "What's the budget?" Uncle Sam: [hands over a slip of paper with $TEXAS written on it]
After your videos on badass soldiers from ww2, you should really do one on Leo Major, the one eyed Quebecois Rambo. Literally lost his eye to a grenade, and said "I only need one eye to be a sniper" and rejoined the war. Not to mention he single-handedly liberated the city of Zwolle, a provincial capital in the netherlands
Fun thing? The new SIG 6.8 SPC rounds? Polymer. However it DOES absorb more heat than brass casing. AKA - we finally have perfected polymer cases. In fact my .45 is loaded with modern polymer. The weight difference is very noticeable.
This man is God's gift to Earth. Why does he not have over 10 million subs yet?! Every video on this channel is funnier and more informative than everything that Hollywood has projectile shot out of its ass in the last decade and a half. Someone give this man a fucking Grammy.
This reminds me of a story about a toothpaste company. Their machines kept sealing empty boxes with no tube inside and they couldn't or wouldn't fix that. So instead they payed some obscene amount of money to design and install a scale that would detect if the box did indeed have an 11oz tube of toothpaste in it, set off an alarm and stop the line so the box could be removed. Handshakes and back pats all around for the genius engineers and the managment who hired them. Cut to days later when the alarm isn't going off and the line isn't stopping every 5 minutes anymore. So the engineers stop congratulating eachother on being so smart and go to see what the problem is. QA has no empty boxes coming in, the line is running smoothly, computer returns no errors so the scale is working. So they actually go out on the floor to inspect the line and find that some little Hispanic lady had gotten tired of having to leave her station to go remove the box, clear the machine and restart the entire production line every time there was an empty. So she turned a 130$ floor fan to aim at the line 10' before the scale, blowing the much lighter empty boxes off and into one of three trash cans she'd placed on the other side.
I remember all the caseless ammo from the early eighties. I also have a 50cal tround round in my bullet collection. The Army has spent billions over the years, trying to get rid of brass cases 😅
@@JasonScroggins-c4i less weight and less cost. A lot less expensive to not have to buy, process and reload brass. And a soldier could carry more ammo if the brass was removed, or just the head of the brass was used. A lot of innovation happened, but died away, due to reliability of the ammo, the caseless stuff broke apart in field conditions and the non brass trounds or other non brass cases had issues like failure to extract or heat related problems. We have never found anything that beats brass for weight or cost, yet.
@@JasonScroggins-c4iTheoretically, weight reduction (no brass casing, so just the projectile and propellant), simpler action (no longer have to deal with extracting and ejecting a casing), and less costs (I don't know if that's actually been achieved yet).
@@kutter_ttl6786 I'm sorry, obviously you can't have brass piling up on the firing line...what I meant was, why not just re-load the brass?...but either way, your point towards financial & logistical waste still stands... not to mention, since each piece of brass must be made to NATO spec. Then re-loaded brass wouldn't be capable of being held to that standard, due to the degradation of the casing's structural integrity each time it's fired...hopefully, they return it to Missouri & smelt it down, but knowing how the Gov. Does things, I wouldn't be surprised if it all doesn't go to local landfills...and to an avid reloader such as myself, that's just a cardinal sin 😭
And they have got rid of them. There's now polymer cases ammo and I have no idea why the AAI didn't work, the polymer acts as an insulator keeping the chamber cool. Advancements in barrel lining I guess. And there's polymer cased telescoped 40mm autocannons in the UK now too.
Hey, I'm not sure if this is the best way to toss this idea at you but you should do a story on John Lewis Barkley. He's a WW1 army soldier/fwd observer/sniper. His book is called "Scarlet Fields". He won the MOH and single handedly held off 2 German assaults (with a German machine gun) killing over 100 Germans just that day. He also did a bunch of other wild stuff too and his book is the only WW1 memoir I've read where the author really liked the war.
while i do like the ACOG, the ATOG setup from later on is just a thing of art. 6x48 and a nice peep site, it does both close quarters and pseudo-sniper all in one package
A circular saw won't fit on a weed-wacker, but you can modify a bike chain to fit with the spool, so you got twin spinning chain-blades. Bonus, you see sparks when you find a rock.
"So, the HK G11 was designed by Heckler does Coke, who built a caseless ammo firing grandfather's clock that requires a degree in modern art to service and repair." -The Fat Electrician
7.25 inch carbide tipped circular saw blades fit just fine on 1980s Homelite brush-cutter attachment. I'm looking at one right now. 5/8" arbor on both. New brush-cutter attachments use 1" arbor. Grind your saw blade's arbor hole out to 1" and go cut some saplings!
A video about Bob Hope and his USO Shows might have some electrifying details for you to work with. He was made an Honorary Marine which has intrigued me.
My guy! It's like Christmas everytime you drop a video! I usually don't click off of videos after I started watching them, but as soon as I see that you drop the new one I was like click! I'll go back to the other video when I've watched this one. Twice... 😂 Keep up the great work on the videos my brother and thank you for your service!
I applaud you, sir. Throughout the entire “If it shouldn’t go there, don’t let it fit” portion you avoided the blatantly obvious X-rated joke, but still delivered a very entertaining monologue.
One reason that the caseless ammunition idea is not around the civilian market comes from gun banners deciding in 1994 that police need the evidence of a spent cartridge to match to a gun to close a criminal case. You have SAVED us,Chuck Schumer!
Man, I just gotta say, metal weed eater heads are a blessing. But even if you don't need to replace wire, you gotta replace anything that blade damages.
Please do another video like this, I like how its not really about anything but there's still a story behind it. The rambling and comedic timing worked so well with the content that aas being given. Please do the XM29!!
Should i cover the xm29 and then the army’s new xm7 service rifle? Or move on to something else?
Yea pls
You should cover simo hayha in detail
Yes please cover those
yooo
Do the xm7
Never underestimate the ability of unsupervised Germans to take something with 3 moving parts and make it more complex than the space shuttle.
I have worked with a German company several times over the years. I walk into their Pittsburgh office and I see a (what is now called a meme) that says Nietzsche was right. I ask about this as it caught my attention. I was told, though I cannot confirm that he said that if you want something designed in an overly complicated manor have a German design it.
I went from fixing Toyota's to a BMW dealership. The over engineering is joke.
The Germans decided on caseless fir the G11, because that was the only way they could see to make the 'hyperburst' work, as it cut out the step on having to eject the round, plus other side benefits.
When the Russians looked at the same idea, they made it work using standard ammo, by deciding 2 round bursts were good enough, and a sh¡t ton of cables and pullies.
Thus the AN94, a gun that is both gas and recoil operated, at the same time.
Having spent the last month trying to get my wife's BMW running right, I wholeheartedly agree with you!
@@unsafe_at_any_speed Funnily enough, Toyota’s are technically more “over-engineered” than BMWs. The difference being that they geared everything towards mechanical simplicity
That being said, I personally never had much trouble with BMWs and German cars in general. The only problems I had were wiring related, but wiring sucks regardless of the chassis’ origin
Female fan here. I was playing this video while my husband was driving us home from town. As soon as you said the "saw in the weed whacker" bit, before you could even finish the thought, he said, "Nope, won't fit."
He'd actually tried it. Dear God in Heaven. You're right.
I bought a bigger weed wacker! it takes fine tooth blades, coarse tooth blades and throwing stars!
TBH, I don't know why people don't just buy the the weedwhacker that comes with the sawblade attachment. Sure, it costs a little more - but it's an investment.
Lost me at husband lol
Uh, I don't live in the US....
Circular saw blades *are the default* weed whacker here.
That option died by the roadside long ago. We're in "can I put a tiny circular saw blade on my angle grinder and harvest bamboo with it," "can I fit a bamboo hatchet into a silky saw handle," and "look, here's the tiny-ass pick-up, there's the snowplow, grab a welder and let's make some magic" territory.
@@oldgus01 "can I put a tiny circular saw blade on my angle grinder and harvest bamboo with it"
Yes. I mean I used a 5' woodcutting blade and I was just trimming the bamboo, but it worked brilliantly. The biggest issue was figuring out if I should just run an extension cord to run the grinder, or can I mount the blade to my cordless drill?
So I asked my husband about the circular saw blade thing. His response: "yeah that's like putting a chainsaw chain on an angle grinder. Works well, until it flips off and decides to climb up your clothes and eat your face."
There's a reason we call him " Mr. Safety".
That's true but I'm not that safe. Had grinding disc brake 3 days ago and cut into my pants and burned 3in gash into my leg and it didn't even bleed
@@ceciljones7967 yikes! 😳
😂
I have a special circular saw blade that has chain saw teeth on it for my weed eater
Soooo, you're telling me that I can, in fact, put a chainsaw chain on my angle grinder??
Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!
I love it when the government finds another way to spend an insane amount of money on research and then don’t do anything with it.
They saved money spending money. They'd make an excellent wife.
This was the 3rd advanced weapons program and the other 2 didn't produce squat. My favorite was the SPIW (special purpose infantry weapon).
@smileydag if I could have gave you a million thumbs up I would have. That statement was so on point.
Right I understand weapon technology advanment but if anything to be taken away from ukraine war is that a determined volunteer with a 100 year old Moisan nagant is more deadly than a russian conscript with an an94
Yeah like that nifty land warrior system
Never underestimate the DOD's ability to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and decades to pick the worst possible option. Case in point UCP camo.
300 million later "The accuracy problem was human error"
Or their ability to piss away hundreds or millions of dollars with no perceptible benefits, and come down like the wrath of God on a soldier for losing/breaking a $3 piece of equipment in the field.
No shit.
bUt iT's MiLiTaRy gRaDe /s
Ugh UCP was so terrible... only good for blending into really ugly couches. What was so bad about Woodland? Or Tigerstripe for that matter?
When the G11 was presented.
Germans: “It fires 3 round bursts, has caseless amo, a futuristic look, and a scope.”
USA: “It’s perfect.”
Germans: “And here is how it works.” *opens up the gun revealing a grandfather clock of machinery* “Truly a marvel of engineering, wouldn’t you say?”
USA: *complete incomprehension* “Why are you like this?”
Lul samw reason with the L/44 cannon
US didn't like the complexity, so they remade it to be simpler
Bro made an entire book
Me, as US Army General: *Looks at it* , *Reveal an grandfather clock* and *Immediately looks away*
Yeah, pretty sure that anything other than replacing that whole unit was a manufacturer level repair.
@@angeloest94*looks away in horror*
The most amazing part of this is that the pencil pushers at the DOD didn’t understand that rifles don’t hit things on their own and the person shooting them has to be able to see the target
I support slashing our defense budget for this reason...useless employees.
Now, you stop that! We can't have that "common sense" talk around here... You might raise moral.
@Jeff.78 no, keep the budget, just layoff the useless employees, and use the extra funds ti actually develop good shit
@@Furiousmodels seriously I fully support giving everyone in the military full authority to fire literally anyone under them combined with a culture of rigorous meritocracy. The check on the power is if you abuse it anyone above you can fire you
Or do they???
(Need to see the target)
As a veteran myself, I can honestly say that the US treats the military just like every other "problem" it encounters..... Flush a shit ton of money down the toilet and see which bill clogs the bowl, then use that dollar bill until it falls apart!
If I hadn't been scrolling the comments this was the exact sentiment I was going to add haha
You are a poet sir.
And yet, every military weapon or tool is still built by the lowest bidder. Lol
The great DoD Paradoxical demands with 'insert-project-here': GOOD, FAST and CHEAP ... yet somehow they land the exact opposites 95% of the time 😆
~Always seek your end-users (military rank-&-file) unfiltered feedback throughout development; whilst having strong 3rd party audit oversight/transparency throughout...
LMFAO it’s true😂😂😂😂😂
The grandfather clock bit got me 😂.
As a colleague of mine at the independent Porsche-centric shop where I used to work once told me, paraphrasing, "once you remember that German automotive engineers are the latest descendants of a long line of mechanical clock and watch makers that goes back centuries... you start to be less surprised by some of their design decisions."
German anvil. Beautifully crafted 70 moving parts🇬🇧☺
@@mickkelly6389Nein, ist the improved anvil, we managed to simplify the design, it only has 56 parts. It is ze pinnacle of craftsmanship und design.
My dad was at AAI at the tail end of this and worked on the propellant for their round. According to him everyone there knew this project was a dead end and they were just having fun.
hey so long as they got paid by the US government to mess about? sounds pretty based to me
You know, this should upset me as a taxpayer.....but oddly enough are government drops the dough on way dumber shit (digi camo has entered the chat) at least with this there was a somewhat effective outcome 😂
This whole thing is basically failing? Sideways? Up? Up doesn't feel right but we did get useful stuff out of it so failing isn't true either.
@@dangarrett8676failing diagonally, I guess
I mean, even after rejecting all the guns, all the companies got paid - who says there is no free lunch 😂(the taxpayers😐)
I've shown your channel to my girlfriend and she didn't find it amusing but she's a hs history teacher and shown a few videos of yours to her class, then came home pissed because her students not only took in every word but managed to do so while pissing themselves with laughter. The cheese cave being their favorite
I discovered this channel maybe only a few weeks after he created it and from the first video to now, they are ALL funny
Why is she pissed about the students having fun learning lmao
@@RagnarLoudpakbecause she obviously isn’t funny… which in of itself is funny.
Sounds like a keeper 🙄
This is the influence the next generation needs. All cheese conspiracy’s and kraut space magic
I can confirm the US Army still has examples of all of these weapons stored away and I was lucky enough to get my hands on all of them. Very cool stuff!
In another universe, we bought the G11 and are the coolest looking military. Effective? Maybe. Definitely the coolest
I was in when we (Marines) went from open sights to ACOGs. Let me put it this way. I shot rifle expert 7 times in my 7 years in. When the ACOGs were added we freaking loved em. We all felt like "Snipers" and this was mad unfair to the poor bastards that were gonna go against us. You should have seen the faces of guys who shot "Marksmen". Suddenly after instruction they were shooting "EXPERT".. Optics are a GAME CHANGER
Didn't the Marines get investigated after Fallujah because they were getting way more headshots than expected?
Reminds me of the story of Iraq claiming the US was executing soldiers due to the amount of headshots, then a investigation took place and it turns out that ACOGs were the reason😂
@@elchjol2777 Yeah.... If I remember it correctly, they were investigating them for war crimes (aka, execution of prisoners) due to the high number of headshots made. Turns out, when you give troops used to using iron sights to score 'marksman' or better a magnified optic, they tend to go for headshots if they can.
@@elchjol2777 that happened! And it's a warning to the rest of the world what will happen when they fuck around and find out
Most of the Marines in Fallujah got the acogs right before or during deployment. It wasnt even the whole unit, I remember being amazed when one of fellow Marines let me look down one
Uncle Sam: "I like the German entry."
DOD: "I know right?! We decided to let them experiment completely unimpeded!" Uncle Sam: "YOU WHAT?!?!"
Der Deutsche Michel: Here you go, Yankee. A wunderbar combination of flawless Deutschland engendering and design!"
Uncle Sam looking over G11: I can't tell if its a gun...or a piece modern art.
DOD: Is it ticking?
Uncle: Yes.
DOD: Then its a gun.
Germans: HANZ GET ZE OVERKOMPICATEN PLANS
Fun fact: They make metal blades for weed whackers that are very much like circular saw blades, but in some cases, they are far more aggressive. Some of them are "universal." Others are brand specific. With the right blade, you can cut down small trees with your weed whacker.
Now this right here is why I read the comments section.
MA I GOTTA RUN TO THE HOME DEPOT, DONT ASK WHY
Now, who here modified the saw blade to fit their weed Wacker?
@@DON4419 I'm lazy. I just bought a conversion kit from Echo.
Got a set of nuts ground to fit in the blade!@@DON4419
@@DON4419 I'm Stihl thinking about that day of glory!
I want to live in the alternate universe where America adopted the G11. Can you imagine magpul, tacticooled out, picatinny mounted G11s. God what a vibe.
Itd be insane
Fallout 2 had the G11 and G11e1 with the Vindicator Minigun all shooting 4.7mm caseless. That was my first experience with these guns and God I wish the G11e1 was real...and the Jackhammer
@@BarelyTabletopthe jackhammer is real. If I remember correctly, the blueprints that had been up for sale for YEARS was bought in recent years (1-2 years ago) and ig they've just been sitting of them or fixing the shit the jackhammer had wrong with it
I'd watch that movie
@@BarelyTabletopin the words of Zach Hazard, Lord of the Gun Rants
"THE PANCOR JACKHAMMER IS NOT A REAL GUN!!!"
And I agree with him. The Jackhammer can _stay_ not a real gun.
I work commercial lawncare. Can confirm, with the right adapter stack a redmax bcz260ts can accept 10" table saw blades. Disclaimer: Do not try at home. Much experimentation was done and the exact right stack and order of bushings and washers is required to prevent it from unscrewing itself and going SOMEWHERE at 10k rpm.
Fun fact: the HK G11 is banned specifically by name in Canada despite never being commercially produced. This almost certainly means that a Canadian politician watched Demolition Man and thought the coil gun was real...
Fun fact: This is because the Canadian government knows that it's population will commit acts of aggression that will be addressed at the next Geneva Convention!
Or it'll all go horribly right, and they'll be stuck supplying hideously expensive ammo to their military forces.
The lever action rifle was considered for military contracts during the American Civil War, but was turned down since the government thought that the troops were going to use an excessive amount of bullets, thereby blowing the budget off the charts.
At least, that's what one of my history books stated
The Serbu Buttmaster is also banned by name in Canada, despite having a total production of one(as a joke). They seem to have just gotten a list of guns and walked through it.
Second answer, same as the first!
@@CptJistucemy VZ58 is banned as well now, too bad I bought it like 5 years ago so it's "Grandfathered" and I'm never giving it to anyone but family😂
@@Castor586 to be fair, there are a BUNCH of things that are considered war crimes now because of us. Grenades instead of food? Oops...
I’d like to humbly request a video on “Jumping Mad” Jack Churchill. He is the only person in recorded history to get a confirmed kill with a bow & arrow in all of WW2 (or at least the European Theater). Plus, his deeds during the 1930’s are insane and he did them all because he was bored.
I think he already did actually
@@buddermonger2000 I just rechecked. So far he hasn’t made one about Jack Churchill.
This video is super cool for me...as a young PFC at Ft. Benning Ga in 1988, I was put on a range detail for about month, we were testing possible M-16 replacements...I distinctly remember firing the flachette rounds because you could hear the THA-WACK! as the round hit the big fancy piece of plywood we were shooting at. Also fired the weapon with the caseless rounds which we called the Hershey bar gun because, well it looked like loading a f*ing Hershey bar. There was also a long barrel colt with the M-16 lower receiver but the upper weighed six million pounds so it was super awkward to shoot unless you were prone. Another amazing thing: one of the civilian contractors (who fed us Burger King every day) had a phone in his truck. Blew my mind back then!
Great memories!
-M.Faul, 1-18 INF
You are getting me through my boring classes. Thank you Nick. Your videos are hilarious and informative, one of the best channels on youtube
Glad to hear it!
To be clear, YOU CAN MOUNT A CIRCULAR SAW BLADE ON A STRING TRIMMER. They make an adapter for that that fits most modern string trimmers.
I looked, and I almost bought one but my kids Mother said NO, we already have a Shtil trimmer with a saw blade attachment on it! (It takes two hands to operate and is gas powered, and IT IS AWESOME!)
Because you can doesn't mean you...oh screw it, we all did it.
Oh my god, I need one and I don't even have a garden!
Your videos should be in every school library!
This is the military's ultra expensive version of when you company has to interview everyone who applies for a new job listing, when they created that listing for a specific person who's already got the job. It wastes their time, your time, and everyone elses time, but they have to do it because of some dumb law.
Some dumb law they never see the sense in repealing 🙄
@@Jeff.78repealing laws is actually kind of hard to do and outside the purview of the DoD. Not saying it is or isn't because of a law, but it's a lot easier to make a new law than to remove an old one because that's how bureaucracy works. So instead of repealing things we get new rules about the old rules and then rules about those rules and et cetera. Bunch of bullshit and no one just decides to do it, the government's left hand doesn't know what its own fingers are doing.
I love that they went through all that just to finally conclude "... or we could just, you know... put a scope on it."
If you like then you should'a put a scope on it!
How you got through the 'if it won't fit we'll still try bit' without a single snigger or innuendo is masterful!
Fun fact about the Duplex ammo, the Army was trying it out with the Garand and even testing Triplex loads as well. The more you know.
The M198 Duplex 7.62x54 round was used in both the Garand and the M14 for testing the M855 duplex 5.56x45 was something they tried after Colt got ahold of the Springfield Armory, the Government facility not the current and unrelated commercial enterprise, tests for Project Salvo.
@@JosephDawson1986 Yes, a little more background on the duplex cartridge for the M14 rifle follows. The US Army Infantry Board tested a duplex cartridge in 1961 and found it 14% to 22% more effective at hitting "personnel sized" targets. Winchester-Western developed the M198 duplex cartridge which was standardized by the US Army in May 1964. The Army tested M198 ammunition at Fort Ord in 1965 and 1966. The result was more hits per target out to 545 meters. M198 duplex cartridge ammunition was used by 4th Infantry Division LRRP Company snipers in 1967 in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
Back in the late '70s I found a supplier making a 4-stack of .38 wadcutters. I handloaded a bunch of them to take to range qualification at the Sheriff's Dept. 50-round course. I shredded the target, it was not countable. The Rangemaster pretty much lost his mind. 8)
I've never heard something so true and so infuriating as "if it's not supposed to go there, make sure it doesn't fit". That statement perfectly describes why our world is filling up with garbage BUT there's a parts shortage
Its all about context. There is usually no reason an alternator from one car shouldn't fit on another similar car. For example. Can be the same with other products. Unfortunately, many companies do that not because of any valid issue like destroying something, but to make sure you HAVE to buy from them, which means that have complete control over if and when their products can be repaired, with many choosing for it to not be possible forcing you to buy another one from them.
Louis Rossman talks alot about this with apple and right to repair.
5:40 I've had a fascination with this gun for many years. First came across it in a series of Playstation 1 games, Syphon Filter, where it was available in every game but the first in the series and performed basically as described here.
You should totally do a video on the Sherman tank. Lots of people shit on it but it was one of the most survivable tank in WW2 and it saw action on every single front.
Also the modifications for it are ridiculous
Yeah, and the Israelis took them because that was all they could get and they worked on them, better tracks diesel engine, upgraded the gun to a 100mm tube, and took on the latest and greatest the Soviets had given the Egyptians and well you know the story of those 6 Days in June 1967. The Sherman was a fine machine, it was durable and repairable. And that generation had a lot of good shade tree wrenches driving them in War Number Two. You could build them and more importantly you could ship them with the existing infrastructure and they were light enough to use the bridges in Europe without much issue. Reliable and easy to fix, you didn't have to send it back to the factory when it broke like the Tiger I and II's!
@@GeorgeSemel BIG toob
@@GeorgeSemeland the last sherman in active service was with Chile till 1999 to 2000ish upgraded with 60mm HVMS gun
@@GeorgeSemel I believe it was a 105mm not 100mm
American manufacturers: What's the budget?
US Army: Yes.
You sunofabeesh, I'm in!
@@Castor586 You had me at y.
Styer = Austrian
H&K = German
AAI (Textron) and Colt = American.
@@240pixel Let the joke live you Bastard!
Regardless of where the manufacturers originated, they all participated in the American government research and development, and all followed the science and philosophy of bigger bullets/more bullets = bigger holes/more holes, and bigger holes/more holes = less bad guys
This has been among the most heavily studied group science project since the 1940's where the team that sent the most bullets down the range have an exponentially greater chance of surviving than getting unalived by the opponent
Somehow during all this testing, I get this sense of certainty that if they just asked the grunts about making their rifles more accurate, the grunts would have mentioned getting scopes enough times they could have saved some if not all that 300 million. Then again, military procurement being what it is, grunt feedback/ suggestions tend to be one the last things that happens, if it happens at all.
They really blew $300 million to learn that it’s not the gun that is the biggest accuracy issue, but the sights. Hell, any halfway decent hunter would tell you that!
Your right but you have to think like thr government they spend 1500 dollars on a damn toilet seat that you can get at most store for 30 dollars. So it makes Sinton me lol stupid government
You guys are no fun.
If you recall the Sergeant Fearless video, the military has a proud and longstanding policy of not actually talking to the people who should be talked to about anything. Generals will talk to other senior officers about issues and never even consider asking for input from those who know what they're talking about.
Of course they did. This is the federal government we’re talking about! When’s the last time you can remember the United States federal government demonstrating the use of a single thread of common sense?
To be fair, the idea had been out there since the 50s. It's just people underestimate just how crappy optics were until like the 80s.
From the 30s through to the 70s, the highest end top if the line scope of those days was worse than any random airsoft $30 Amazon special.
And the mounts were usually either way to complicated and expensive, or just as crap.
The ACOG was developed for the ACR program, and it was really the first 'grunt proof' optic. No batteries to forget or die, and it's actually acceptable practice to hit it with a rock while zeroing.
The Marines have spent 20 years trying to kill those things, and you have examples where the half-life of the tritium has expired before the rest of the optic. That takes 10+ years. For something made of aluminum and glass to survive in active service.
There are ACOGs out there that are older than the soldiers they are issued too.
When you talked about the AAI rifle being able to have a normal 5.56 round loaded but unable to withstand the forces, I immediately thought of the joke of being able to fit a 50 BMG round into the barrel of a 12 gauge shotgun in order to make a “makeshift” 50 cal
Except the difference is a regular ball .50BMG can be fired as the barrel is larger than the ammo. 12ga is actually 18.53mm and .50bmg projectile is 12.7mm. So the excess pressure just goes out the barrel along with unburnt powder and the projectile.
In fact ignoring the BS videos by Sarkissian, Gsrand Thumb put .50bmg in a break breech double barrel shotgun and it was fine and Brandon Herrera fired .50bmg from a Saiga 12 and neither did any modification to said fire arms and neither blew up.
I wish you hadn't put that where idiots can read it.
“If .50 BMG wasn’t meant to be shot out of a 12 gauge, then why would god make it fit so perfectly?”
So, I just heard about the USS Biloxi because I went to the maritime museum in Biloxi and it was nicknamed the “busy bee” because it just went from battle to battle in WWII and was not seriously damaged even by Kamikazi. Thought you might make a great video on it.
This weapon series is freakin awesome keep up the good work
Will do!
Hey I am just here as a proud Canadian to mention that we have an amazing First Nations soldier who would make a amazing video, Tommy George Prince, an amazing soldier during the second world war who was aboriginal (indian) and used his tracking skills to sneak into enemy occupied land in Italy to repair a field telephone line disguised as an Italian farmer and then directed accurate indirect fire support onto Germans positions but was was also rumored to sneak into German positions wearing moccasins and slitting the throats of Germans soldiers at random intervals and stealing the boots of others to conduct phycological warfare, at the very least i believe this deserves some research into this badass career, unfortunately he passed away as a homeless alcoholic due to racial prejudice and lack of addictions support in the Canadian system, RIP. Id appreciate it if everyone who has seen this comment would like it so we can shoot it to the top and bring it the the Fat Electricians attention to give this man the attention he deserves.
American here. I'm so sorry for Mr. Prince's sad end. Prejudice is an awful affliction, along with rampant greed. I too would like to hear more about this man's service.
That is unfortunate. Many men had difficulty finding a place after the wars; some never do.
4:50 is hands down the best part because it hits too close to home in a good way!
Weird thing is, the army had already tried Duplex rounds as far back as the mid 50s with M1 Garands converted to 22-06 duplex cartridges. Testing proved lackluster and the project was eventually abandoned. Also Winchester would take a crack at Flechette rounds with their entry into the SPIW project in the early 1960s which (in a common theme of the us military) would cost millions of dollars and end up going absolutely nowhere.
You should check out the H&R SPIW. It fed a revolver cylinder from a magazine and fired polymer cased *triplex flechette* rounds. Also had a revolving 3 round grenade launcher. Cold war was a wild time
spew. someone had a sense of humour
What the fuck am I looking at
It only weighed 24 lbs....
"AND A FUCKING GRANDFATHER CLOCK SLIDES OUT OF IT" this line is absolute gold 🤣
I remember being voluntold for a detail at Benning in 89 to the known distance range where we were marking the targets for the shooters. This was for the ACR program (we didn't know it at the time). So I'm on my seat with the target raised and I can hear things whizzing over my head sounding like lasers. Dropped the target and couldn't see anything resembling bullet holes. Then they said they were using flechettes...nobody knew what they were. They explained it as a nail with fins. The holes were tiny. And scattered all over the paper with nothing inside the silhouette. I said "no hits". A little pencil neck engineer with a heavy French accent comes over and says the misses counted as hits. I said, "well, that explains a lot."
The weed whacker metaphor is extremely accurate. Not only have i tried with a circular saw blade, i also tried a grinder wheel (for science) long story short, trimmer line works just fine😂
Sthil weedeater fit circular saw blades there made for it
And here I am the crazy mf that will completely reverse engineer something simply for the sake making something work. I will weld on or grind off metal, drill new holes, or add parts entirely to force something to work. Even if it boils down to electrical tape, a few zip ties, and a dremmel
The APFSDS darts are a thing of beauty. I know there isn't gonna be terribly much stopping power there given it has the energy of a handgun round, but the trajectory and AP on those things must be like... amazing.
This wife of a combat vet and mom of 2 active duty Army sons loves your channel. Always entertaining and informative. Keep up the good work! #armystrong
When i discovered the G-11 in Black Ops 1 and went down that rabbit hole, it awakened my autism in ways that only the YF-23, Legos, and the P90 have. That is a degree of space-magic that pushed me to becoming an engineer, and words cannot describe how fundamentally baller that machine is.
5:20 I have a circular saw blade welded to a socket, bloated down to the cable of my weed wacker. Yes, you can do it 🤣
I was a huge fan of HK's XM8 platform and the OICW (Which as mentioned is the XM29). There's just something about 20mm air-burst grenades that seems appealing. I got to handle the XM8 and it felt like a cheap airsoft gun, almost all polymer composites. Shame the US passed on it, but I guess it still lives on in the Malaysian Armed Forces.
Wasn't the XM8 just a dressed up G36? Ultimately we DID buy the platform once it had been redeveloped into the HK416 instead lol, the Marines love that thing
Wait it does?
@@TheOriginalFaxon Apparently Hk pretty much made their version of the M4, then had to call it the 416 when Colt threatened to sue (even though as it turns out they had no copyright to a military designation). So the Marines want the Hk416 but the higher-ups handling the budget deem it too expensive for our crayon-eating madlads who are actually the one branch in the US military who needed an upgrade the most. So a genius comes up with the idea of pitching the need for an Infantry Automatic Rifle, leading to a number of heckin CHONKY AR/SCAR/Ultimax prototypes with the Marines finally getting the HK416 they wanted in the first place. Thank goodness the M27 was the 'lightest' of the trial guns. I got a brother in the Marines who's issued a 20" M27 with a VCOG, PEQ-15, AAC suppressor, and he's gotta carry a 13lb mortar tube on top of all the standard equipment.
In March 2002 the Marine Corps released the brand new MTVR 7 ton to the fleet. They began training the first class of mechanics later that same month. I was in the 3rd class trained to maintain and repair 7 tons, which started in April. We graduated July 30th, which means the first mechanics graduated earlier in July 2002. I went to 1 TSB, the largest motor pool in the Marine Corps, at Pendleton in early December 2002 for my 2 week AT. I was the only marine there (out of about 400) to actually attend the course at Camp Johnson, and was made senior mechanic for the 12 dead in the water 7tons sitting there, and had a corporal who was OJT'ed on them as my 2nd. We had no parts and no tools, and had to cannibalize parts from trucks we couldn't fix to get the others out (if one had busted shocks and another had a bad alternator -which we weren't allowed to replace because of the warranty- we took the shocks from the busted alternator one and got the other out), and broke a lot of tools in the process because they weren't designed to work on these trucks, which also had locktite all over them from the factory. In 2 weeks we got 7 out. At the end of December, they released the tools. In March of 03 they released the parts. Most backwards thinking towards logistics I've ever seen.
Most of the trucks and mechanics were sent to 3rd Marine Division in Okinawa in the first year. I can't imagine what their backlog looked like in March 03.
I’m assuming you have little regard for opsec.
@@hardasnails11b OK, here me out here, I've never served in the military so you might have to explain some stuff to me.
How is the over 15 year old info on the frequency of breakdowns and/or the availability of tools and spare parts for a logistics truck of all things.... part of operational security?
If it was last week's info on that, you might have a point. If it was about the F35 that many years ago, you might have a point. And if it was both, you'd certainly have a point.
But it's a logistics truck, and the info is over 15y old. If they really were that concerned about it, it would have been ordered to be classified.
Not to mention that half the time it's the contractor making the stuff that wants that kinda info classified because that lets them hide the fact that they made a shiny turd for the US Government instead of something useful (go look at the LCS for evidence of that).
FIRE! Ready! aim.
@@TheJackOfAllTrades777 over 20 is still more than 15, I didn't want to do the math out in my head to figure out exactly how old that info was.
So basically the point of the story is that they really should have trained mechanics from the units that were getting them, and coordinated the delivery of the tools and initial stock of spare parts to all hit the motor pools within a couple weeks of the trucks arriving. Optimally the mechanics would be trained and they received the trucks, tools, and parts all on the same day.
I know, nice fairytale.
I found your channel today, and have been binging ever since. Every single video has been fantastic. Thank you.
I'd like it to be noted, there are in fact some weedwackers that you can remove the head that takes their specific adapters for the strands, and it's usually a bolt that you can in fact put a saw blade on.... it doesn't work well but it took down buck thorn pretty good
I would like to have a trimmer that the line doesn't break every three minutes!
There is in fact a Stihl weedwacker that has a specialized circular saw blade attachment. I have it and it is glorious
They also make plastic and metal hinged blade assemblies for them. Used one for 3 yrs before it broke
@@patricktennant1585 I would like to get something like that assembly for next summer. We won't be mowing our lawns in Missouri in about 4 weeks.
@@Tadwacwe use that and the Stihl blade that looks like a giant throwing star at work...we refer to them as "The Weedeaters Of DEATH!!!!"
Exploring what was possible was a good idea, even if it didn’t produce a new weapon. It showed that the AR was still the best platform at that time.
As for the G11, the FRG was planning on adopting it, but the reunification of Germany cost so much that expensive projects like that were cancelled.
Sure what a few $100 mil it's not like we need that money to fix roads or pay teachers. Now go to your TEA party meeting and complain about paying taxes.
Exploring what was possible was a good idea, but giving a blank check to ANY manufacturers is not. Thank God this was just rifles and not planes or tanks (Though I'm sure some projects in those areas are just as bad or worse)
Idk bro
I've built about half a dozen AR-15's and 2 AR-10's from the stripped lower on up... I firmly believe anything that John Garand invented was a better platform than the AR platform will EVER be...don't get me wrong...I love my "Commie Killers" but I'll take a solid piston driven action, American Walnut and Forged steel over a poly-aluminum Lego gun ANYDAY
"They made the outside of the gun look like it’s made out of 4 pixels" ☠️
This has rapidly become one of my favorite channels. Military knowledge is always interesting, and I love the lessons of history.
You have every reason to do a video on those last two, because we can't get enough of this great content. Great channel man.
Probably the most binge-worthy channel on UA-cam right now. You rule, keep making awesome content please
This is easily my favorite channel! I am so glad Brandon introduced me to this channel. I have now watched nearly all of the videos on this channel. Just have a free old ones all to watch.
Loved it whenever you mentioned about a saw blade on a weed wacker. Many people might say no... But I guarantee you that you can tack weld a washer that'll fit the end of the shaft into the middle of a circular saw blade and it works great. Just make sure the weed wacker has enough power to go through those small trees!
@@Banthisyoutube That's too expensive. You're thinking too practical when a little bit of spot weld and engineering will do the job just fine.
Oh, I am so with you. I have been beating this issue since the 1990's when I was in the military and there still doing it, what insanity. Great video, your great, you stated it better than I could.
Nick is the only guy that's makes me try to mail order beef jerky from scheels from the uk
Haha
I'm going to see if I can get it shipped to Canada.
After the video, of course.
This channel has one of the best funny jokes and puns to great story ratios I have ever seen. There hasn’t been a bad video yet. Bravo.
Yeah, the circular saw doesn't just snap on there like a LEGO piece, you gotta do a bit of "engineering" to mount it, just make sure that the blade is perfectly center and cannot move around. But then you run into the problem of not having enough torque to compensate for all the weight you've added. And yes, I did purchase a weed whacker with more torque, I did mount a ridiculous circular saw blade on it, and it is everything I hoped it would be and more...
I have a question: what DOESN'T the circular saw weed whacker clear?
I must ask: what blade cover can you use to protect your femoral artery when it inevitably detonates? Did you take a circular saw cover and bolt it where the normal weed wacker one goes?
Would also love to see your take on the MK series. SOCOM has equipped most units with the mark 17 battle rifle and the mark 48 saw. There is a new MK special purpose rifle, but these are usually selected by the user as to what special purpose rifle works best for them. Finally getting back to the .308/7.62 and increased penetrating capability.
I love your content bro, I love military history more because of you. And it's always a blessing to see you on Unsubscribe with Eli and Baddie.
How is it possible you have less than 1 million subs? This channel is so hilarious and so knowledgeable at the same time you are by far I think the funniest guy in the UA-cam gun community it’s mine baffling you’re not in the 3 million sub tier.
You're the man for this series, and the heroes hero for your service. Nothing but respect for combat medics.
Was he a Medic??
...as a vet myself I knew he had to have served...and I assumed he was a "backpacker" lol but I wasn't positive on the branch or MOS...is that all youve gathered? or do you know more??
Im still waiting for you to do a video on the 83rd Infantry Division of WW2 (aka the Rag-tag circus).
They literally took every German vehicle they could find (and get working) repainted them in Army OD, and used them to continue the advance into Germany.
Go check these guys out; it’s right up your alley.
Hilarious, yet well-explained. Good job!
Flechettes were a pretty cool idea. Too bad they're impossible to get working. Also you should've seen the stuff that didn't make it to the trials.
so i pressume it didnt work "well" enough even if they brought the design up to the testing phase ? is the problem miniaturisation ? i mean at its core it works or was intended to work like a sabot no ? shame . my guess is that unlike gyrojets there might be more ways to approach the problem with "simpler" solutions . alas
@@mfgrobin9657 From what i've read the main problem seemed to be quality control for the sabots which at the time they did not have the capacity for. So it's more that they're hard to get working rather than impossible.
These videos genuinely make my week better and I'm sure others feel the same, thank you for being you
Dude your videos crack me up. I laughed my ass off at 9:15. Thanks brother, i needed that. Always a good day when The Fat Electrician drops a new video.
All this and The Biffa Sparky, as we call him over 'ere in Bongolia, is a quick change artist too.
Bangstick makers: "What's the budget?"
Uncle Sam: [hands over a slip of paper with $TEXAS written on it]
After your videos on badass soldiers from ww2, you should really do one on Leo Major, the one eyed Quebecois Rambo. Literally lost his eye to a grenade, and said "I only need one eye to be a sniper" and rejoined the war. Not to mention he single-handedly liberated the city of Zwolle, a provincial capital in the netherlands
What is it with military bad asses and eye injuries? So many stories of that very specific thing.
When you were talking about the 6 round burst fire I swear the “6 minute ab guy” from There’s Something About Mary got stuck in my head.
Fun thing? The new SIG 6.8 SPC rounds? Polymer. However it DOES absorb more heat than brass casing. AKA - we finally have perfected polymer cases. In fact my .45 is loaded with modern polymer. The weight difference is very noticeable.
This man is God's gift to Earth. Why does he not have over 10 million subs yet?! Every video on this channel is funnier and more informative than everything that Hollywood has projectile shot out of its ass in the last decade and a half. Someone give this man a fucking Grammy.
This reminds me of a story about a toothpaste company.
Their machines kept sealing empty boxes with no tube inside and they couldn't or wouldn't fix that.
So instead they payed some obscene amount of money to design and install a scale that would detect if the box did indeed have an 11oz tube of toothpaste in it, set off an alarm and stop the line so the box could be removed.
Handshakes and back pats all around for the genius engineers and the managment who hired them.
Cut to days later when the alarm isn't going off and the line isn't stopping every 5 minutes anymore. So the engineers stop congratulating eachother on being so smart and go to see what the problem is.
QA has no empty boxes coming in, the line is running smoothly, computer returns no errors so the scale is working.
So they actually go out on the floor to inspect the line and find that some little Hispanic lady had gotten tired of having to leave her station to go remove the box, clear the machine and restart the entire production line every time there was an empty.
So she turned a 130$ floor fan to aim at the line 10' before the scale, blowing the much lighter empty boxes off and into one of three trash cans she'd placed on the other side.
I remember all the caseless ammo from the early eighties. I also have a 50cal tround round in my bullet collection. The Army has spent billions over the years, trying to get rid of brass cases 😅
Why get rid of them??
@@JasonScroggins-c4i less weight and less cost. A lot less expensive to not have to buy, process and reload brass. And a soldier could carry more ammo if the brass was removed, or just the head of the brass was used. A lot of innovation happened, but died away, due to reliability of the ammo, the caseless stuff broke apart in field conditions and the non brass trounds or other non brass cases had issues like failure to extract or heat related problems. We have never found anything that beats brass for weight or cost, yet.
@@JasonScroggins-c4iTheoretically, weight reduction (no brass casing, so just the projectile and propellant), simpler action (no longer have to deal with extracting and ejecting a casing), and less costs (I don't know if that's actually been achieved yet).
@@kutter_ttl6786
I'm sorry, obviously you can't have brass piling up on the firing line...what I meant was, why not just re-load the brass?...but either way, your point towards financial & logistical waste still stands... not to mention, since each piece of brass must be made to NATO spec. Then re-loaded brass wouldn't be capable of being held to that standard, due to the degradation of the casing's structural integrity each time it's fired...hopefully, they return it to Missouri & smelt it down, but knowing how the Gov. Does things, I wouldn't be surprised if it all doesn't go to local landfills...and to an avid reloader such as myself, that's just a cardinal sin 😭
And they have got rid of them.
There's now polymer cases ammo and I have no idea why the AAI didn't work, the polymer acts as an insulator keeping the chamber cool.
Advancements in barrel lining I guess.
And there's polymer cased telescoped 40mm autocannons in the UK now too.
Hells yes! It’s always a good day when TFE posts some new content
Love your videos man. Straight to the point & funny af. Props! Keep it up
Hey, I'm not sure if this is the best way to toss this idea at you but you should do a story on John Lewis Barkley. He's a WW1 army soldier/fwd observer/sniper. His book is called "Scarlet Fields". He won the MOH and single handedly held off 2 German assaults (with a German machine gun) killing over 100 Germans just that day. He also did a bunch of other wild stuff too and his book is the only WW1 memoir I've read where the author really liked the war.
I laughed out loud like an idiot at Wile E. Coyote. Strong work.
You can 100% fit a sawblade on some weedwhackers. Generally older ones that bolt the head down. Plus they sell "sawblade" attachments now.
while i do like the ACOG, the ATOG setup from later on is just a thing of art. 6x48 and a nice peep site, it does both close quarters and pseudo-sniper all in one package
Continuing on my mission to watch every single video this man puts on his channel. Goal: to have nick reply to one of my comments.
I appreciate it!
WAIT!!! IT HAPPENED!!!!!
@@jasonbower9515 Perseverance pays off.
A circular saw won't fit on a weed-wacker, but you can modify a bike chain to fit with the spool, so you got twin spinning chain-blades.
Bonus, you see sparks when you find a rock.
"So, the HK G11 was designed by Heckler does Coke, who built a caseless ammo firing grandfather's clock that requires a degree in modern art to service and repair."
-The Fat Electrician
I love the employee that didn’t get his Christmas bonus. I think nearly any blue-collar person can relate to that.
7.25 inch carbide tipped circular saw blades fit just fine on 1980s Homelite brush-cutter attachment. I'm looking at one right now. 5/8" arbor on both. New brush-cutter attachments use 1" arbor. Grind your saw blade's arbor hole out to 1" and go cut some saplings!
As an 80s kid, I have fond memories of the ACR program. Many gun rag articles. I thought AAI was cool
Ian from Forgotten Weapons has a great breakdown of the G11.
Ian has an awesome breakdown on everything
Rube Goldberg was jelly as fuk
A video about Bob Hope and his USO Shows might have some electrifying details for you to work with. He was made an Honorary Marine which has intrigued me.
Genuinely look forward to every video, brother!!
Glad you like them!
My guy! It's like Christmas everytime you drop a video! I usually don't click off of videos after I started watching them, but as soon as I see that you drop the new one I was like click! I'll go back to the other video when I've watched this one. Twice... 😂 Keep up the great work on the videos my brother and thank you for your service!
Thank you i appreciate the support
I applaud you, sir. Throughout the entire “If it shouldn’t go there, don’t let it fit” portion you avoided the blatantly obvious X-rated joke, but still delivered a very entertaining monologue.
One reason that the caseless ammunition idea is not around the civilian market comes from gun banners deciding in 1994 that police need the evidence of a spent cartridge to match to a gun to close a criminal case.
You have SAVED us,Chuck Schumer!
10 million was for the scopes, the other 290 million was for the Stargate program.
Stop spilling government secrets or O'Neil with one L will be paying you a visit. He has no sense of humor.
Man, I just gotta say, metal weed eater heads are a blessing. But even if you don't need to replace wire, you gotta replace anything that blade damages.
Please do another video like this, I like how its not really about anything but there's still a story behind it. The rambling and comedic timing worked so well with the content that aas being given. Please do the XM29!!