The MP-40: History’s Most Infamous SMG
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2022
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Today we go over one of the most easily recognizable submachine guns ever designed: The MP-40.
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When you spot a commie..
Wow
Fucking love this gun! #akgnotificationsquad
Would love to see admin. on the channel more, especially for meme review
Brandon where Galil video
It’s like me and all my friends are playing a heated game of “Who Gets Cancelled First”
This group is IMPOSSIBLE to cancel!
Let's cancel Dave first
lol
LOL
One of you needs to dye your hair blond and reach for something with your right hand
The "Erika" in the song actually has a double meaning, it is a girl's name but it is also the German name for the heather plant. So the song is about sweethearts and the fields and meadows back home. The old accordion player at my favorite German restaurant used to play it every time I went there. Brandon has truly excellent taste in music!
Literally when I heard it I thought of the game hell let loose
@Edohiguma I'm glad that it is! I really like how songs have a way of transcending times and places, like the British writing Yankee Doodle and the American Colonists appropriating it, or that the Union Army loved Dixieland, and it is still in the US Army songbook today.
@Edohiguma is it really?
Erika is the fortunate son of ww2 everyone has heard its the base song to play when showcasing anything ww2 german hes doesn’t have a good taste in music when the song is very common
@@carved6749 Brandon does have excellent taste in music, the fact that he understands the meaning of the song and that it is not "just" a "Nazi song" shows that. Also Brandon plays many other excellent song on this channel besides this one.
So happy this video "resurfaced" Congressman Herrera!
Don’t tell the rhinos
Lol
Absolutely love seeing the comedy between you and Administrative Results, it’s absolutely hilarious. Hope to see more of you two!!
Yup. But I think "Original ghetto blaster" went right over most peoples heads, which may be for the best....
and that Erika timing was perfect.
Yup, great duo
@@ianmedford4855 sadly the irony wasn't lost on me either, Dark humour XD , don't ya love it lol
@@ianmedford4855 I just about broke my rib laughing at that. 😅
@@ianmedford4855 that joke was so fuck up that I felt bad laughing at it. lol
Can we just appreciate the first joke dropped within 20 seconds, “the original ghetto blaster”. Holy shit I laughed for 30 seconds straight afterwards 😂
oooooooohhhh that one flew right past me for some reason, holy moly i love brandons humor
That flew be me, too. But now my left corner of the mouth is meeting the right one some where on the backside of my head. xD
It's funny, I'm pretty sure the Thompson is about 2 decades older than the mp40 though
@@dontreallyknowwhatmynamesh5538 Oh, it is. But the Thompson was meant as a "trench broom" for CQB work to clear out enemy trenches after you've managed to go over the top, cross No Man's Land and reach the enemy trench without getting gunned down by machine gun fire. And it didn't see combat service until WW2, when Lend-Lease ones got used by the Brits.
It’s certainly “edgy” to make Holocaust jokes (“original ghetto blaster” and “concentrate” comments). It’s also interesting that he’s making these comments while LARPing as a fascist (not commenting on the song FYI) and simultaneously claiming to hate fascists.
I get the edgy nature of his jokes generally, and find many of them funny/harmless, but this fell flat for me.
Will he change because I commented? No, and I don’t expect him to. I’m not the content police. Will I still watch his videos? Yes. Many of them are funny. I just want the channel to stick around and grow on merit instead of self destructing because of preventable injury (potential social media TOS violations).
A classmate of mine back in the 80s had his granddad's WW2 bringback MP-40 with a couple full mags in a gym bag in our geology class one morning. His family was dead-assed broke and he'd poach deer on the expanse of forested land across from the school and have his brother come get the deer later in the day. He was an odd duck, but I never felt uncomfortable with him having it in the school.
@@EarlOSandwichThe 80s were a different fuckin time man. Kids bringing their rifles to school just cause.
I remember a story about a shooting threat on a high school in the 80s, and the teachers and students just went and grabbed their rifles from their trucks, sat by the doors, and just waited.
The shooting didn't happen, by the way.
That’s nuts
Damn the 80's were crazy.
When my dad was a kid, one day he brought a .32 revolver loaded with blanks to school. During an assembly that day he popped off a couple of rounds. The principal just told him to knock it off.
Bro took an mp-40 to school?!
The "constant recoil" mechanism used in the MPs 38, 40 and 41 allowed the mainspring to totally overcome bolt momentum before it struck the back of the receiver, which made the weapon very stable when it was fired. Jerry Baber used the same principle in the AA12 full-auto 12 gauge, resulting in a shoulder-fired 12-bore machine gun with a cyclic rate of about 350-400 rpm, which had so little recoil that even complete beginners could easily control it with full-power buckshot and slugs!
Nice job remembering the MP41. I’d do unspeakable actions to get my hands on a 41.
@@ratgobblerMe too! Rare as hen's teeth: the things must be worth a fortune.
@@MSM4U2POM I saw one on Rock Island Auction a couple months ago, for about $40,000. That’s about as much as four Barretts, or one (1) round of 7mm Remington Magnum.
@@ratgobblerBloody Hell! Just as I thought: a second mortgage job!
I love how Brandon's collection is now basically a typical East Germany military armory
I love how accurate this is.
But less communist.
a KK-MPi 69 would be nice
Damn that’s so true! I hadn’t even thought of it.
Needs RPD
As a German, I can confirm the historical accuracy of the montage
Also as a German, I second your comment.
Als Deutscher stimme ich zu
Ah ein weiterer sauerkraut virtuose
Zuspruch!
@@Blubbstockkann das nicht anfassen!
Ernest Anthony "Eats corn the long way" Gonzalez trying to use this video as fodder is hilarious. Everyone knows Brandon has Katyusha and Korobeiniki on repeat in his shop.
The fact that the beat in Erika and the MP40 slow mo match up is fucking glorious
Even when Brandon is goofing around, his level of muzzle discipline is always super high. Thank you for setting a good example for your viewers!
Nerd
@@gitmochimkins nerd
@@7thhokage87 no u
@@7thhokage87 nurd.
@@panzerabwerkanone terd
Here now that this has "Resurfaced" 🤣
For the barrel threads, MP40s also had a simpler cone shaped flash hider, to keep the repeated flashes from blinding the shooter. In low light and night fighting in particular this would be invaluable to keeping the weapon from blinding their own soldiers with it's flash every time it let off a burst.
yea, for that part I'm surprised they didn't know the exact history behind the threading or other features considering Gun Jesus over at FW has a video on this exact subject from 2017 ( because of course he does lol), i watched it the other day, he explains both the mp38 and mp40's reasons for having certain features (and how the mp38 is a much nicer version of this gun in every way) and that a lot of these features are there because they're carry-overs from the mp-18 and mp-36 designs.
@@thekamotodragonNerd.
@@phoenixrider4622 ok.
@@phoenixrider4622 no u
@@phoenixrider4622 hes amazing and explaining smth to someone and being a nice and kind human being if u dont like the fact hes smarter than u than maybe u should just get a book and read it or watch videos about stuff to learn smth so maybe one day u could actually be useful instead of living in ur moms basement crying to stranger on the internet that have probably achieved more in life than u would ever be capable of
Just saw your video with Langley Outdoors Academy talking about this video. Saw it once, and since it "resurfaced" LMAFO. decided to watch it again.
If you're hear because this video "resurfaced" than boy do I have a historical landmark to sell you
Brandon: "So can I use the code 'LETSGOBRANDON' in a video where I fire full-auto MP-40s while mocking the Germans while 'Erica' plays in the background?"
Cannadips: "Uh, sure."
*_BASED._*
My buddy works for them. Great people, they get all their stuff from locally owned mom and pop farms.
Cannadips dislikes the feds..I’m shocked lol
"Your winnings, sir."
Brandon out here literally finishing ANYTHING before getting around to the PPSH-41! A man has needs, you know...
If you're talking about the Commie Tommy, he did a video on that a few months ago.
@@kurokaze511 A video on one yes, but he has a parts kit for one kicking around and hasn't had one on the channel yet.
@@VexChoccyMilk yeah he did. A month ago he did a video about the one he made. Go to his channel it's the 12th video down in his uploads.
theres a pps 41 on the wall
@@kurokaze511 that was an AK not a PPSH-41, Brandon actually has a parts kit for a PPSH-41which he still hasn't put together in two years
This generation needs more humor like this, this is just perfection
1:02 LMAO I LOST MY SHIT AT THE INSPECTING ANIMATION
POV: you have bit into the forbidden larp fruit
My sides are in a geosynchronous orbit.
I enjoyed it
We need a Forbidden Eagle patch
BUM BUM BUM. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . ERRRRRIIIKA
Forbidden flecktarn.
Watching you guys with both an MP40 and MG34, in the Waffen SS fall camo, Erika in the background , and Admin almost getting you guys completely cancelled is a masterpiece
Edit: and a 42. That’s on me I didn’t see the 42
Does it look like 34 to you?!
@@AlmostSickBoy i would have said too but i am unsure because of the barrel.....
@@custom13. as for me, firing rate speaks quite loud about that is MG 42
Both MG34 and MG42
@@AlmostSickBoy like i said i am unsure about it but now that you mentioned that yeah i think you are onto something
As a German, seeing you prevent the hitler salute and then just waving was absolutely hilarious lmao
Hätte nur noch ein Heil-Kreuter dazu gefehlt 😂😂😂
As someone with an anime pfp, you should be exiled to Antarctica.
@@toytacambery9427 k bro
A German weeb. Dangerous combination.
@@toytacambery9427 Stay mad for no reason
2:12 im dead💀
what a lovely fire arm, I'm sure it has an absolutely stellar track record, being used by only the most moral of nations
Absolutely! No nation would ever make such a nice gun and use it for nefarious purposes!
This but unironically
It's cute when the allies think they're moral.
No one who speaks German could be an evil man
69th like, nice
I always thought the MP40 was way more complicated then it actually is, that's pretty wild
the MP40 was truly a SMG of its generation, when people realized having a mastercrafted artisanal SMG didn't grant enough firepower, so they went with the concept of "if it's stupid but works then it ain't stupid"
For further implements of the generation, please see the STEN, M3, PPS43, Vigneron, MAT49 and basically any SMG made until the creation of the Uzi, the MP5 and the Beretta PM12
@@DonPatrono I definitely feel the Sten and M3 are the main ones, children of wartime production
@@DonPatrono Kiraly 43m crying in the corner
Tube guns are awesome i also love the grease gun
@@marcosaruca5283 And the M3 is about as tube gun as tube gun gets.
Absolutely loved this video! I am a massive WW2 history buff and the firearms of that era where defiantly the most iconic. The mp-40 has always been my favorite weapon of WW2, just the design of the gun and the sound, the sound is very unique.
German Engineering has always been above and beyond, and they always thought about the little things that mattered when it came to the weapons.
I can't believe that the one you have is original, that in itself is incredible. I would cherish that submachine gun, I would clean it every day, I would almost feel bad shooting it. Such an iconic piece of history!
Thank you for the videos, Brandon, and thank you for spreading the crucial importance of gun safety to everyone. Taking apart the weapon and showing us how it functions.
Education is vital in any setting regarding to safety and wellbeing.
All the way from Australia, God Bless my Friend. And keep up the quality work you produce. (And that sense of humor, its rockin' 🤟)
MP40 - hands down the most iconic submachine gun of WW2. And the reason is.. it is very controllable and accurate. The lower rate of fire combined with a long slide and barrel mean that your bullets go where you want them to. This is 9mm pistol caliber so I wouldn't use it past 100 yards and pen power isn't something you can bank on. Fires from an open bolt.
My Dad carried an MP40 during the fall of 1944. His unit had captured a German supply dump and besides the ton of champagne they snagged, they also captured a bunch of German arms. He saw a crate of MP40's and a bunch of preloaded magazines and said why not? He was a scout for the 66th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army. He said it was lighter the the Thompson submachine gun and just as reliable as well. He ended up tossing it after he ran out of magazines for it.
Thanks for his service these mp40s are for sure reliable
Shame he didn’t keep it as war spoils. An original captured MP-40 would be worth bank today, or even just be one of the most awesome legacy guns a person could ask for.
Great men, thanks to your father for his help! General Patton is resting here in Luxembourg where I live now and my people, Serbs, suffered a lot from the nazi germany as we allied with the US & Allies, same as in the 1st world war. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Halyard).
I know why not. There was a case of friendly fire when an a in American unit got shelled because a guy used an MP40. The guys next to them, if memory serves correct, part of the big red 1,called in the fire mission because they knew the sound of an MP40 and assumed they must be Germans.
I’ve heard of stories that are like that (cuckoo the US Panther tank) but I only thought is was with vehicles, I wouldn’t have expected it with firearms due to ammo and mag incompatibility but your mad lad of a father clearly didn’t care, he gave them a taste of their own medicine
As a non-German I can confirm that this video is 100% historically accurate.
As a German I can confirm this is 100% historically correct
As a German i say yes
As a German i say ab Morgen wird zurück geschossen
ze germanz approve
And your last name is Müller🙄
The simplicity, the symmetry, the sublimeness of the MP-40 submachine gun is superb.
i love how when they did the LARP the mp40 was perfectly in sync
As a German I can appreciate the intro very much I especially liked the part where he said jawohl it actually was pretty good and not as butchered as expected
Good day fellow german
Then as a German, what the hell did he shout at 1:40?
Sounded fukin legit and clean.
Davorne kammeraden oder so musik war zu laut
@@peterpan41 cant understand it music is too loud or he says only non sense
@@peterpan41 something with Kameraden idk but I think it's not even him saying it I think a line from a movie maybe
Such a beautiful piece of history and machinery.
Danke, Kamerade. Sehr gut
It's "Kamerad", male singular, "Kameradin", female singular. Kein Problem, gern geschehen (no problem, you're welcome).
Das nenne ich doch mal deutsche Ingenieurskunst…
That is what I call German engineering…
Das deutsche Volk dankt
@@olafbuddenberg4787 Tut mir Leid. Ich sprech schon seit einiger Zeit kein Deutsch mehr und Grammatik war nie wirklich mein Ding
@@sirascaron for not speaking German, that sentence was pretty much perfect. Don't listen to the grammar... germans... though. Writing a youtube comment without 100% perfection is still a thing lol
2:16 "If you're one of the few people out there that realize that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the song we just use, hit the like button."
Me: click on the button and it is precisely 88k likes.
Me on the inside: "hold up, bro..."
Erica has the spirit of Nazism, she was popular among the Wehrmacht soldiers
Me at 105k thinking the same
Resurfaced awesome video Brandon!
These administrative results collabs are priceless! Feel like you guys should always make videos together
Couldn’t agree more lol
I agree! They really just build off each other with their goofiness, nerdiness, etc.
BIG AGREE
Eh
Best kind of collab
On the 'controversial' take, Lemmy from motorhead had a massive collection of German ww2 stuff from uniforms to tanks and his answer to people that had something negative to say was always "if the Russians had the nicest looking stuff I'd collect that, or if the Italians did, or the British"
all of them had cool stuff too
except the Italians
ew
Only thing I’d like from them are probably uniforms, webbing and pistols
I miss Lemmy
Lemmy is an absolute legend
Yeah you don’t have to like the ideology or their beliefs to like their weaponry. I like com block weaponry because of how sexy they can look and how simple and highly effective they are but that doesn’t mean I support communism or any similar ideology
@@tlshortyshorty5810 true, however I think anyone can agree that the german Uniform's and Camo patterns were by far the most awesome/beautiful.
Loved the reference at the end, great video! 🤍
Loved the video Brandon. Best MP-40 video. I liked the part where you and Admin acted during the song "Erika"
"The original ghetto blaster." Holy shit Brandon! That's dark, even for you.
I loved it tho, or the are you hiding any whiteclaws underneath the floorboards?
you must *concentrate* better...
They had camps for that.
please mind your german audience and don't make them laugh about that stuff next time
@@michaelschlesener282 its funny dont be a negative nancy
Thanks Brandon, My Dad carried one of those. He went all through North Africa, Sicily and all the way to Northern Italy. He loved his M1, but he was a Engineer and it was to long and heavy to carry around during his normal work.
I asked him where he got it, he said he “found it”, along with magazines, ammo etc.
I asked what happened to it, In 1945 he was going home at wars end, and he said he sold it along with 2 Lugers for $100 each. He had been at war for 4 years and was done with all of it. He said later he wished he had kept it all.
Biiiiiiiigggg ooof
@V3lthan I don’t believe so, I know he was in the 19th Engineers in 2 corps under Patton
He did tell me one of the Lugers had a date of 1918 on it. I cant even imagine how much that might be worth today.
They were told there would be an inspection and to get rid of “whatever”, the next day he got on the troop ship home. They never looked at anything.
$100 may not seem like much, but a privates pay was $21 a month.
This might be his Mp40
@@familyaccount3501 I don't know what they would have checked for either. It is well known that troops were allowed to take or send guns home, especially if they had capture papers. I have a crate in my garage that I found set out with a neighbors trash the says in giant white lettering: "Contents: One Jap Rifle". It was from a Marine mailing a rifle and bayonet home to Arkansas. (sadly, the items were no longer in the crate)
You make taking guns apart look effortless. You do super quick takedowns. Your knowledge of firearms is vast. It's always great seeing your vids.
Right, the infamous resurfaced video. The video that's been live on UA-cam since 2022 has resurfaced recently. That video.
Finally the phrase “Lets go Brandon” actually talking about supporting a guy named Brandon
@@stacheoperator Shut up trumper.
@@stacheoperator i wonder what that stands for 😏
I will eventually get one of those shirts.
@@stacheoperator fucking seriously lmao
And arch as a McDonalds sign.
The energy these two have is just plain awesome 😂
Erika has been a daily listen from me science the video came out, really great tune. It really helps me concentrate on my work.
Fantastic shooter. I tired to buy one, but it didn't work out. I did get to use it at a re-enactment and it was not hard at all to shoot single rounds.
I loved that Clint Eastwood used it in "Where Eagles Dare" which incidentally is one of the best, most accurate WW2 movies ever made.
Due to the silly ninnies in Washington, I think I might get one of the airgun replicas that shoot BB's just to fulfill my craving for one of these.
You're very lucky to shoot some of the firearms you feature. And I appreciate that you realize it.
I love the rate of fire on this bad boy, slow and low recoil. Its a dream to shoot, plus german stamped metal guns always look sexy as fuck.
"Original Ghetto Blaster"
You god-damned right brother, you god-damned right!
The Sten and Grease Gun also have as slow or slower rates of fire but the MP40 is smoother than both.
@@ExpatriotSilencers never shot either of those but having shot the mp40 the ergos are pretty good for a subgun of the era, personally i think the sten guns are god awful ugly but the brits did churn out alot of them so they had to of been a decent gun in a pinch. Grease guns grew on me, that simple collapsible wire stock is iconic, its next on my list of ww2 subguns after the ppsh.
"The original ghetto blaster". I'm German and I feel incredibly guilty for laughing at this fantastic joke.
lel why are you feeling guilty you weren't even born back then. Just a joke you laughed at.
Tbf I've only just got the 'joke' 😂
And yes I chuckled.
I didn't even think twice until I realized "ghetto" meant more than today's modern nomenclature...
Sometimes... I am not smart...
You should be proud of your history.
The Defenders of Europa will never be forgotten.
My colleague about 25y.ago show me pictures from May 45 made by his father,this subs were by hundreds along side the roads were the Shörners last troops rushed to get into captivity of US army. Those days was scrap , today if my say sort of sporting tool. But still very effective .I have seen some year ago in Italy the Carabiniers use similar design as their main tools during road check. Regards from Czech Republic
Oh my god was that the "GREETINGSSSS!!" halo 2 elite meme???
I love this channel even more
bro, the forbidden montage was glorious. also, couldnt stop laughing when i saw brandon stop the "eastern front salute" and just hear the most surprised "oh" in the history of man
Its not the eastern front salute its the basic hitlergruß which was a salute often used to greet higher ranked officers than urself
300 like
@@patronv8344 r/whoosh
@@paulfrancistorres7144 not really
Roman Salute
The fact that these were designed almost 100 years ago is sooooo amazing. And comedy was 110% on point with this video.
y'all clearly had to much fun in making this.
at the beginning when the slowed shots matched the marching was legendary
"The original ghettoblaster"
I'm pretty sure I just literally died.
Yeah I figured that was coming, I just wasn't expecting it right off the bat. Made me choke on my food
Unlike Anne Frank…?
Polish remover....
It took way too long for the weight of that joke to hit me. Man that is dark. I love it lol
Damn I missed that, but that's hilarious lmao
As a german I can confirm that "Erika" is a song about a girl that is named after a flower and it is NOT a Nazi song, it is still sung today at some occasions by soldiers.
Let me know if you need a complete translation of the lyrics, so I'll provide that. Beautiful montage, I have to say! It looked absolutely fun to shoot (pun intended) ^^
So a bit like katyusha
Es
My classmates sing it
This was a German army song long before the Nazis.
@@patrickb1303 Yep. They even sang it, during The Great War too.
This is fantastic. I’m happy for you Brandon. You put a lot of effort into doing what you love and it’s good to see it working for you.
9:07 I do believe certain elite stormtrooper units and handpicked SS units were given suppressors to use on their MP-40’s back then but it was very few and far between. Stealth and suppressors weren’t much understood at the time.
I was talking to a dude online who had an eastern-bloc accent, he told me to guess where he was from. I told him he sounded like eastern German, he told me he was Austrian. I said 'ah, just like Germany's most successful leader'. Then we both laughed.
So successful he multiplied the number of Germanies by two!
Wtf is an eastern bloc accent?
@@thekraken1173 it’s usually what Americans call Eastern European’s
@@connorohoare7470 Eastern European accent doesn’t make any sense though. Albanian accent has nothing in common with Lithuanian accent for example.
@@thekraken1173 I didn’t say anything about accents for a start but Eastern European is what Western European people use. Which is a generalisation for usually former members of the ussr. So as a general rule of thumb anything east of Germany.
I don't think there's a single firearm from either side of WW2 I dislike. They all are amazing pieces of history
Piat and nambo pistol bothered trash .
I find the Sten a bit...challenging.
The Erma EMP the tube machine gun
@@Dover78 I think the sten is cool but it sucks that it isn’t really good and has some problems
@@commissarlugh1040 nambu for sure was garbage
Not come across this channel before but I love the use of expletives. I have subscribed now. Thanks
7:26 we all know where this is going so let’s just skip to the end
(Concentration camps)
The way brandon had to hold back admin results after "Erika" as done playing really made me glad I subscribed.
Same here, such a little lovely detail.
I laughed way more than I should have at “the first ghetto blaster”. That’s technically 100% accurate lol
Caught me off guard. Damn that's a good one 😂
Haha my mind went straight the same way lol
So dark, so funny.
@Robert Sears at least you’ll be in good company when we get there haha
I feel like that joke is going to go over a lot of people's heads. For those of us who understood it I'll see you in that special place we're gonna wind up.
Liked your open bolt description. I actually understood everything you were saying.
I love the camera blur when he fired at the pack of White Claw. Its like the camera was trying to hide the gore of cans bleeding everywhere
I feel kind of like this is a parody, albeit a serious one, of "Forgotten Weapons."
Disassembly and explanation, but not with over-the-top details (ignored the proof marks)...on a very NOT forgotten weapon.
And silly sketches for shits and giggles.
I love it and want more of it!
He didn't ignore the proof marks, he bitched about 'em. 😁
Imagine a world where Brandon was Forgotten Weapons but the whole thing was comedy and Adult Jokes, and Ian was a super serious AK enthusiast and owned his own AK shop
@@Stevarooni he saw the marks and was like "proofmarks....ughhh, cuz Germany!"
I prefer it.
Germany, Russia and the UK did a great job using the 9x19 mm round, or the same round you denigrated when reviewing the Kel Tec Sub 2K. I loved the MP40 and wish I had one today. God bless us all and stay safe and healthy. De Oppresso Liber!👍✊
When my late father served with the Long Range Desert Group of the British Army in North Africa during WW2, a captured Mp-40 or MP-38 was very much the weapon of choice with him and his mates. With ready supplies of 9mm ammunition always easy to find, a MP40 or MP38 had the advantage of being way better built than a British Sten and way lighter than an American Thompson. And as my old Dad said, the 9mm round certainly got the job done.
The MP-40 has such an Art Deco vibe. It'd be difficult to be disappointed to see a repro or digital version of the gun done up in the red gold and black of the style. But damned be any who would do it to a real original.
Art Deco? Actually that’s a pretty good description. It’s design does resemble that style rather well. Yeah I’m gonna use that description for it.
The Luty one might be Bauhaus then. Anything keltec makes surrealisme and the Mac 10 kubisme. Art and firearms design would make a great video. PS: Read the colors you mentioned, look at the german flag. (The modern one)
The forward safety notch was added later, as an interim solution to the issue of being dropped the Germans issued a leather bolt handle keeper that attached to the front of the barrel.
nerd
actually its not realy a dropping safety - more like an unintentionally discharge safety by klimbing in and out of Tanks. This gun was designed for vehicle crews espacially for tank. Sometimes it happened that the charging handle got caught on the vehicle and pulled back the bold far enough to loosen a round. The leather band was the first try to keep it safe and improove it later like they did with the notch - but you can still find MP40s without notch.
@@Gurkenpudding I thought the ones without the notches were MP38s, I've also seen it written as "MP38/40"
@@CrizzyEyes Kind of - MP40s are just updated MP38s. The forward notch should be standard by the times of MP41s/43s. You can easily spot an MP38 by the ripped ejection/Magweld part (MP40s are flat). If you are interested in these guns i suggest you a start at Forgotten Weappons video on this topic.
The Bolt closed safety is refered to as a transportsafety on the M45 Carl-Gustav (Swedish K). When the gun is unloaded, the safety is supposed to stop the bolt from bouncing around. Never to be used with a loaded magazine, it does also stop gunk/debris from getting in through the ejection port. Makes you wonder if the Swedes got the idea from the MP40. The M45 is just a mix of Sten, MP40, Suomi and PPS/PPSh.
Bulky Sten doesn’t exist it can’t hurt you: bulky Sten
Good video, as always. As a German, I have to say, with "Erika" I had the first fit of laughter. Otherwise, the videos are always very savvy and detailed. The MP 40 is very well known to all of us as mentioned in the video at the beginning. Thank you for this video. Keep it up! Greetings from Germany 😇🇩🇪
2:12 I had a sneaking suspicion that was gonna happen
Hell yeah, been wanting to see you cover more funny mustache man Germany guns
Ikr
Great guy und stylish beard
"Original Ghetto Blaster"
I'm loving the editing skills of how the firing to the beat of the song lmao
"How do you say montage in german?" *erika starts playing in the backround as they run around and shoot german ww2 guns*
You will like my mp 40 video as well , ua-cam.com/video/mnf0vWruaO0/v-deo.html
The slow-motion cycling of the action was in perfect rhythm with, "Erick!"
I love all the "Inglorious Basterds" references... I did, "Natzee" that coming either!
Great vid!
“And I want my scalps”
The song is called Erika not Erick
@@entengrutze1717 Erick was a song especially made for the gay guy in the unit... Hops on Kettenrad and drives away
Garbage movie
It was actually a hair off tempo, unfortunately.
Alternative ending:
Brandon: "... larp aspect of this video"
Balaclava: "What do you mean larp?
Brandon: "We were larping... You know, not for real"
Balaclava: "..."
Brandon: "..."
Brandon: "You though we.. Were.. For real?"
Balaclava: "..."
Brandon: *grabs makarov*
Balaclava: Grabs Walther
1:30 Balaclava really got into character
@@remy6978 at 2:12 he got into character even more
@@patronv8344 I really laughed at this
*USSR ANTHEM STARTS*
The German MP-40 was the WW2 precursor of the modern MP5 popular now.
My uncle brought one back from the War, my cousin and I used to shoot cans out the back of his place with it. We learned to re load 9 mm to keep that thing fed. My Uncle was a genius of a mechanic, when the MP wore out, he made another in his shop, including the barrel (from a broken car axle). He wouldn’t let us play with his K98 or the MG 34 he had, we did get a few hundred shots out of one of his Lugers. Last time I fired it was the wake we held after my Mum died, we potted cans with it out the back, to show the youngsters how it’s done. Btw, my uncle lived way out on acres.
This is a great gun, I found one next to my grandparent electrician helmet!
Underrated comment 🖐🏼
did the helmet and gun come with any cool gold nuggets or jewelry too
I hope a walther p38 came with the helmet and mp40
@@tlshortyshorty5810 No but it came with a picture of a weird looking factory with railways!
Wouldn't the MP40 make a great civilian smg? Light, controllable, cheap to produce, chambered in 9mm and simple. Every citizen should have an MP40.
The MP40 is not cheap to produce, this is why the americans had the grease gun and the britains the sten. Both were junk compared to the MP40. If the magazine would not be bad on the PPSh, i would have rated it as good as the MP40. Edit forgot to mention the Thompson SMG, which sadly only saw limited use by the americans. It also was a high quality SMG.
Yes and no. The issue is that afaik it uses stampings, and stamping is really expensive to set up. Furthermore open bolt guns are scary to the government. I guess it could be used if you wanted to arm every citizen Swiss-style but your country was very urban. But yes, open bolt designs are very simple and the go-to for the illegal "home made" SMG (Luty, Stens, etc.)
The irony is that law abiding citizens, who would never misuse one of these, are forbidden from having them. Meanwhile, criminals like drug cartels, drug smugglers, drug gangs, etc, who have no problem breaking the law and using weapons to kill the innocent and each other, can afford to buy all the automatic weapons they want.
@@Blubbstock the Thompson saw fairly regular use by allied forces early on in the war. Commonwealth forces made fairly heavy use in Africa and early asia campaigns. Many Thompsons we're also sent to the USSR as lend lease it's just the Russians liked to cover up the west saved them Materially for a decent portion of the war. As far as U.S. service the Thompson saw use all the way through the war in various different variants and was even used in Korea and Vietnam by some units. To say the Thompson's use was rather limited is flat out false.
@@Krieg-ch8ot But the Thompson was rather expensive to make, hence why the M3 exists.
The MP 40 (Maschinenpistole 40) is a submachine gun chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. It was developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Axis powers during World War II.
Designed in 1938 by Heinrich Vollmer with inspiration from its predecessor the MP 38, it was heavily used by infantrymen (particularly platoon and squad leaders), and by paratroopers, on the Eastern and Western Fronts as well as armoured fighting vehicle crews Its advanced and modern features made it a favorite among soldiers and popular in countries from various parts of the world after the war. It was often called "Schmeisser" by the Allies, after Hugo Schmeisser, who designed the MP 18, although he was not involved in the design or production of the MP40. The weapon's other variants included the MP 40/I and the MP 41. From 1940 to 1945, an estimated 1.1 million were produced by Erma Werke. The Maschinenpistole 40 ("Machine pistol 40") descended from its predecessor the MP 38, which was in turn based on the MP 36, a prototype made of machined steel. The MP 36 was developed independently by Erma Werke's Berthold Geipel with funding from the German Army. It took design elements from Heinrich Vollmer's VPM 1930 and EMP. Vollmer then worked on Berthold Geipel's MP 36 and in 1938 submitted a prototype to answer a request from the Heereswaffenamt (Army Weapons Office) for a new submachine gun, which was adopted as MP 38. The MP 38 was a simplification of the MP 36, and the MP 40 was a further simplification of the MP 38, with certain cost-saving alterations, most notably in the more extensive use of stamped steel rather than machined parts.
The MP 40 was often called the "Schmeisser" by the Allies, after the weapon designer Hugo Schmeisser. Schmeisser had designed the MP 18, which was the first mass-produced submachine gun. He did not, however, have anything to do with the design or development of the MP 40, although he held a patent on the magazine.
We also know how to use wikipedia!🤩
@@spuqe69if cut and paste was a sport, he’d be varsity.
A friend of mine found two of these still in an arm's chest and wrapped in oil paper years ago when he went probing with a metal detector in the region of Halbe a few kilometres south of Berlin where the last big Kesselschlacht of WW2 took place in spring of '45.
In the forests of this region digging and metal probing are for the most part illegal because the battle field never got cleaned up and if dead soldiers got buried then mostly at the place where they fell, so the former battlefield was given the status of a cemetery. I've visited an actual graveyard there, full of 20 year olds who could be still alive if they just hid somewhere - the war ended only two weeks later. It's absolutly tragic because the war obviously had been lost long before but Hitler still sent all the men still left, young and old into a meatgrinder.
The montage of yall laying some hatred down range set to Erika is the greatest thing I've watched on UA-cam
I loved that hahaha
Mg-HAAAATTTEEEE
For me as a German this is very funny
P.S. German word for Montage is "Zusammenstellung"
Keep up the nice vids
For those wanting the pronunciation:
"Tsu-zahmen-shtelloong"
@@DerWaidmann_ as an American who has had a German friend and never properly learned much German, I read the word as it was pronounced without knowing.
@@enclavesoldierusa high five
I wish you guys won the war
@@nopenopenopenopenotnow take it lol danke mein freund
The forward safety was introduced in 1942. With the earlier guns, the ones without the forward safety, tank crews would accidentally snag the charging handle while climbing through the tank hatch. This would pull the handle back far enough to clear the magazine, but not far enough to catch the sear. Once the handle became un-snagged, the bolt would fly forward resulting in an accidental discharge.
I love the Inglorious Basterds references
"Gestapo right there!"
"They did Nazi that coming."
"You need to concentrate better!"
These jokes are going to kill me.
Why, are you not German?
I want to like this but…
@@luwaldo22 Understandable
@@stratigangames508 that shit was funny
They won't kill you faster than a Russian Sniper, I tell you that much
These rust-colored magazines are often mistakenly identified as being made of Bakelite (a phenolic resin), where in reality, they were fabricated from a two-part glass-reinforced polyethylene plastic molding, assembled using an epoxy resin adhesive. Noted for their durability, the magazines did however compromise the rifle's camouflage
yep, true Bakelite is actually fairly brittle as well. I'v got a few items from ww2 that have it in it and they are not strong. that said I think the MP40's lower is a slightly stronger type of Bakelite and I would not be surprised if it had glass or some other reinforcement as it feels slightly different (have held a few and shot one).
@@MrSolLeks Yeah its a consistent myth that those mags are bakelite, I honestly dont know why its continiued for so long.
The rhythm of the MP-40 matches the beat of erika...I never noticed and I love it so much
Those are loads of fun to unload, I’ve had one about 20 years now and it’s the last of my class three collection. I sold my MP44 just a few years ago pre-Covid. Sweet!
The fact that Cannadips let you put “Let’s Go Brandon” as the code got my business. Also gotta love the MP40 man. What a dream.
I sadly can't buy cannadips because I'm not 21 but if I was you bet your ass I would be buying some CBD.
LETS GO!!
pure political stupidity. I sincerely hope Brandom isn't actually a mentally challenged trump supporter.
I read somewhere the "Bent barrels" (Barrels with a bend to them" Threaded on the MP-40 the same way they threaded on a MP44 but were never put into mass production.
The "Krummlauf" was meant to be a screw-on attachment, but they basically never went anywhere. A few have been made for trial purposes, some (with a reduced bend-angle of 30° instead of the extreme 90° that was also trialed) were even given out to army units in small numbers but they were rare back then and these days you need to visit museums to find one.
Didn't help that the idea itself, while understandable, was painfully dumb in practical terms - design a barrel extension with an intentional "obstruction" and pray your gun can handle it. Service life also was rather limited, as they tended to blow out after a few bursts, plus there was no simple way to aim (there was an aiming device with mirrors, but it was fragile and cumbersome) meaning you likely didn't hit jack...
Они ограниченно применялись в конце войны, а автор сказал, что комплектующие 42 года
Because the "bent barrels" were along with the other last-ditch effort of the war for both Germany and Japan, they didn't have the resources to mass produce something like that.
Gun Jesus had a good book on the Sturmgewehr, that has an entire section on experimental devices for the STG44, including the Krummlauf. Worth the price.
Video was great, the goosestepping quality, not so much. :) The number of lines you walked so finely in this video has made me a fan. Large balls indeed.
Admin chasing a cow with a mp40 made me laugh too good.