I can jump in to the optics question (I'm an opto-mechanical engineer). There are some polymer lens technologies worth looking at but they are still pretty young and somewhat expensive to process (though they appear to be well funded so that may change with time). Some of these may not only replace lenses but eliminate them from the stack because of some cool games you can play with polymer. However, there is a limit. Controlling color at these high magnification ratios requires flint glasses and last I looked may still require them, those are the heavy ones. Moreover the higher magnifications really should be using bigger bells on the output (past 6 your just making things larger, not clearer in most conditions. It depends on your pupil size say the time). Overall it won't change a ton though. Most of the weight is in the housing so reducing length would be the priority, but there are physics limits there. Titanium is a viable material for that (over aluminum 6061 or 7075) but it's obviously expensive and the weight savings aren't dramatic. Ultimately these are field sights, not race optics. Toughness isn't going to be something the market will want to compromise on I suspect.
For housings, I could see carbon fiber being both lighter and tougher with possibly the additional benefit of more temp stability but that is a huge increase in cost for just a few grams of weight. It just wouldn't be worth it.
@@wingracer1614 Nope. I looked into it a while ago. It's way less stable under practical situations. For binoculars I think you'd be ok but we're talking systems where lenses often have tolerances of +/-5' maybe as low as +/-1' and deformations on the scale of 10 microns are relevant. It's a great material for telescopes but not rifles. Carbon fiber is many a wonderful thing but it doesn't do well with shock unless it can flex and you absolutely can't flex these or apply too much torque. Then add the additional problem of having to individually center and bond in every optic, which is fundamentally a nightmare on it's own, and hope that the thick bond lines don't move during curing... It's sadly a non starter. A wrap might make sense from a technical standpoint. If you can control the machining of the housings at a very thin wall thickness, like .5-1 mm you'd save some weight. The thermal nonsense it would create would mean it would only make sense with titanium (easier to machine that thin anyway), and even then you could end up with a mismatch of CTEs that would risk bending the scope in the cold or the head. The bigger issue this creates is a mismatch in application versus requirements. Lighter things aren't usually used for ultra high precision shooting, but an LPVO at $5k or higher is not going anywhere (even that price would be a stretch). If things on that front were to change this could be a path to innovation but as it stands, it's good old aluminum, titanium (I've yet to see specifically but I'm sure it's out there), or steel (which I don't think anyone is using anymore anyway because it's so heavy).
@@userJohnSmith All of those are definitely problems with old school carbon fiber manufacturing. Taking a tube off the shelf would not have the kind of tolerances or stability you would want. Some of the newer techniques, the kinds of things F1 teams are doing these days, would absolutely work. If someone wants to bankroll me with 200 mil, I could start making them in a couple years. But like both of us have said, it's prohibitively expensive. No one is going to pay 50k for an optic that is only 8 grams lighter. Especially since it would also be a bit bulkier since every single part of it would be considerably thicker.
@@wingracer1614 How close a firm tolerance are we talking here? I routinely work in the $50k+ range for assemblies, and have been encountering non traditional shapes, of axis nonsense that's a nightmare no matter what you do, so I'm always looking for wonder materials. Last misadventure was SiC...Cool stuff we started making our own on the side but funding dried up despite significant interest. For the time being it's on hold.
What's the optical engineering field like right now? My younger brother and I are newly minted mechanical engineers and are under the impression that the field of optics is unfortunately small and slow growing.
Ian’s answer about teaming John Browning up with modern-day Ruger is a good one. However, I kind want to say we give him to Kel-Tec, just to see the batshit stuff they would come up with.
I too thought Kel-Tec because they are one of the only companies that will innovate I think Ruger is a little slow to try new things. Hell Mr. Ruger had to die before they made an AR variant.
I feel like browning and kel-Tec’s T.H.I.C.C.C division (Thinking Heads Inventing Crazy Cocaine Contraptions) would be at odds with each other. Kel-Tec’s boys would propose a bullpup monstrosity in 7.62x39 and browning would insist on some incredibly practical new design in 5.56 and we’d get some half-baked mess not memey enough to be a successful kel-Tec machine and not revolutionary enough to stand up to browning’s name.
Both Rugers had to leave the company before Ruger made REAL 2A focused ANYTHING 🤨 5-10 rds for thee but not for MIL/LEO/and ME! 🙄 Ruger really just got going in the early 2000's after Ruger Jr departed, then BX-25's, multiple AR types with factory p-mags, and a multitude of pistols and carbines built on standard capacity magazines 😇 I'm pretty sure they started selling 20rd mini 14 mags before the door hit his ass on the way out 🤣 Old Ruger was Clinton fudd town, New Ruger is actually market driven, no low capacity high horsing allowed 😁👍
Some Coastal Brutality ideas: Shooting from a log canoe, while wearing a pirate eye patch, while singing sea shanties, with a live parrot on your shoulder, after having your rum ration, while wresting with a giant squid, while walking the plank.
Being from Bristol helps with the correct accent as lots of people acuse us of talking like pirate's (Robert Newtons long John silver don't help the situation) !
Being from Germany I really enjoyed the view. :D And because I'm a bit of a map guy, I figured that Ian's been driving from Cliff Dwellers to Wupatki Spirit Totem (and a bit beyond that) on Highway 89(A), a total of 106 miles with average 67.66mph. ^^
With scripting: Ian's approach (taking notes but doing the whole thing extemporaneously) is really the best one, I think. As a professor, that is how I lecture, because trying to script a lecture (and what Ian is doing is lecturing just as much as what I do is lecturing) makes it come off stilted. A few notes is all you need. Also, there is a study that shows the act of taking notes will help you remember, so I am not surprised. Actually, Ian is one of the presenters on UA-cam whom I think every professor should look to as a person to learn how to give a good and interesting lecture!
I recall he mentioned this a long time ago. So glad he did this. Other youtube creators need to drop their useless intros. We know who we've clicked on. Don't waste my time! :)
I personally think it was a great idea to get rid of the intro. I hate how many UA-camrs say something like "let's get started" and then roll their intro. I think "we were already started, why stop to tell us what we already know?" While I dislike intros on UA-cam, many of my favorite UA-camrs still use them. I'd like them even more if they dropped their intros.
@@videodistro A lot are dropping them. Not to save your time, but to improve their metrics for the Holy Algorithm. People leaving or skipping ahead thirty seconds into a video is not helpful.
The issue of suppressors is a big one for me. I shot competitively while in ROTC, starting from 1969. Ear protection wasn't a thing back then, and I have permanent 24/7 tinnitus.
I actually really like the long Q&A videos. I'd always save them for a weekend mornings (not this time though). getting an hour or so of content while sipping some coffee was just the best. So I hope you'll treat us every once in a while.
For the Brutality question, I have two suggestions: 1) Practice weapon handling and safety drills under stress. I DQ-ed my very first match because of a safety violation, aka. flagging the RO with my pistol while running from one station to the next. 2) Practice shooting from awkward positions. Same match, I timed-out in an earlier stage cause I can't get the sight picture while shooting from under a barricade.
GODS green, or not so green in this video, is magnificent to behold. Standing on a clifftop or something similar and taking it all into your perception is an overwhelming experience that really knocks you on to your feet, in a literal manner.
I would add a little something to Ian's answer regarding preparation for a Brutality match: Learn the environment. I live in Western Australia, so were I to ever go to Desert Brutality, the temperature probably wouldn't bother me. But if I were to go to Winter Brutality, I'd do some research on extreme cold environments, staying safe in such, dangers. And even with Desert Brutality I'd look up the potentially dangerous or annoying fauna and flora of the region.
For the western USA, that would be rattlesnakes and cactus. Unlike in Australia, where all the crocodiles, snakes and insects are trying to kill humans! 🐊🐍🕷 😟
@@pmgn8444 in my part of Australia it we don’t have crocs, but we do have several major venomous snakes and spiders, some of which are extremely aggressive. Our extreme weather coupled with our flora would probably be worse.
@@charlescann531 Doing cardio *in the environment you'll be competing in* would be useful, but probably not practical. It's *hard* to stay cool and hydrated in a desert, and especially so when you aren't acclimated to the environment. It may not seem that hard to run a 5k, but if your running is largely on a treadmill in a gym, you're going to have a very, very bad time. (BTW, I don't know what it is, but running on a treadmill just feels easy compared to running outside.)
The Marine Corp looked into the issue and solved the issue of engaging the enemy at distance in Afghanistan by swapping out the m4 with issuing the A4. Love your work. Semper Fi. Keep up the good work.
I thought its great that you did this Q&A on US-89/89A; I have driven this same route more times than I can count. Should have started in Fredonia to get the LOTTO AMMO GUNS BEER in the background!
The fact he said "starts with V and ends with X" and Ian instantly knew it was Vercingetorix 😂 Ian is probably Frencher than half of actual France And FYI Ian, it's pronounced like ver-san-jay-toe-reeks
@@sebastiend.5335 the Classical Latin pronunciation would be: where-kin-ge(h)t-Tor-Eex the E is an Eh sound, Hence the H in pronunciation. The way Caesar would have said it.
The AK may have had a bigger influence to the adoption of the M16 than any of the 308s had or could have had. It proved the viability of a full auto, intermediate cartridge main service rifle.
Didn't the MP43 (and derivatives) prove this in WW2? Seems that after WW2, there were still an awful lot of of people with their minds stuck in WW1 mode (or mid-war at least) when it came to cartridge selection and the need for a big calibre, high power bullet in battle rifles.
The AK is effectively just a continuation of the StG anyway, so it's quibbling a bit to say which was the real culprit. Either way the reluctance on the American side was the same. Some high ups were sold on the long range rifleman, but more of them are worried about being the first to do something radical. In truth, the real deciding factor is just the history of military arms in the US and Russia. Russia has the Mosin in WW2, a rifle which was not great to start with and which is only in service because they lost WW1 then had a revolution and civil war and no-one has bothered to make a better rifle. So as they get their act together they see they need a real proper rifle that is designed around what troops really need, something like their PPSh-41 but with more range and power, something rather like this StG44 they've captured. The US though have been doing all kinds of fun military developments since WW1. They learned all the lessons from France and Britain and didn't have to spend all the money to learn them. A semi-auto 30.06 makes sense to them, because while that's not perfect for trenches its way better than a bolt action. No-one is deploying mass amounts of assault rifles anyway, and so the next Garand makes some kind of sense. The AK-47 had to come at some point, because the Russians couldn't possibly prolong their Mosins after the war, and since they had a fresh start they took the jump to do something new and exciting. When the US sees the Soviets jump then they feel much more willing to join in.
My opinion only! The factors considered for the M-16 (vs other caliber/styles of rifles) Weight (rifle AND ammo combined), Simplicity (Very green shooters) cost and terminal effects. With the realization, ONLY snipers could hit a target beyond 500 (meters or yards). The M-16 "wins" on weight and simplicity (assuming the CORRECT ammo was used), and is impressive in terminal effects and cost to produce. NOT sure I agree with the importance of these criteria.
Also to add onto the FAL to M16 question, the Borneo conflict saw FAL adopted Commonwealth forces supplemented with Colt 602's at around the same time as the US began issuing the M16, tho not with the impact of the M16. So really no matter which way you look at, the adoption of the AR-15 was inevitable
Ans I would expect fewer production problems with the T48, as it would have been very close to the Commonwealth "inch" patterns, and much of the tooling drawings could have been purchased from Canada if necessary. (Remember that there is a high degree of interchangeability between "inch" and "metric" guns, provided you swap entire subassemblies, not necessarily individual parts). Heck, we may have ended up just adopting a "Commonwealth compatible" FAL for logistical and ease of developing TDPs anyway. But, yeah, the M16 would have been coming along at basically the same time, and probably under much the same set of presumptions of being a "regional, temporary stand in for the soon to be delivered SPIW".
As an interesting data point - Britain adopted the inch pattern FAL in 1954. They also kept the Bren gun in service until 1971; the Bren got adapted to accept SLR mags too. Why did they do that? The whole point of the battle rifle was to phase out the mag fed LMGs. But the FAL was utterly unshootable in full auto, and while it is certainly better than an SMLE it's just not what a squaddie needs.
I agree completely that digital optics, at least somewhat affordable options, rarely work well. Unfortunately, I have some experience with this. I was working for a private security contractor. Depending on the post, we were equipped with an M4 wearing either an EoTech and PVS-14, or an M4 with a thermal optic. I don't remember the brand of thermal we had (this was about 12 years ago) but they were total crap. They were basically video cameras with a square as an aiming point. Accuracy and consistency were major issues but the delay was the worst problem we had. Hitting a stationary target was difficult, but a moving target was close to impossible. While training, we were using MILES gear and I was engaging a member of the OPFOR team who was running right to left and wasn't hitting him at a distance of approx 80 yards, which was pretty much unheard of. When the next target appeared I fired with both eyes open and saw that the image in the optic was delayed so much that I was shooting approx 10 feet behind the runner! It wasn't long before the optics were replaced with a better quality thermal and I would hope someone lost their job over that mess. The company, who will remain nameless, purchased over 100 of them at $13,000 each!
This QA was simply amazing. Wholesome driving format, amazing scenery, especially from someone who is not familiar with desert/mountain regions. It is worth to prep beforehand to give fullest answers, but I think this QA was super cozy. I love it. Thank you Ian and Jordan and everybody who are supporting the project. 1:10:44 - Andrew - Totally silent firearms I can recommend checking out the information of PSS Vul. There are some shooting clips and a some info in Russian. I hope I live long enough to see Ian dig out Russian gun design treasures and document it for everyone around the globe... but with current situation trip to Russia set back like 5-10 years :(
As someone who has spent the vast majority of his life in the Southeastern US, I'm always shocked at just how pretty the landscape is out there, barren as it is.
29:00 As I understand the British doctrine was basically "shoot five, load five" with the remaining five rounds providing some flexibility as needed. The trench magazines make some sense in WWI trenches as they can provide increased volume of fire in the critical period as an attack comes in. Somewhat reminiscent of the idea ofagaOne cutoffs prior to clip loading.
Recall that the USAF was very interested in the AR15 to replace their full-auto M2 Carbines. The USAF was not interested in a rifle with a full power cartridge (M14 or FAL). The Air force was an early driver for AR15/M16 adoption.
The landscape flying by reminds me of the road trips we did in the West back in the seventies and eighties. It was awsome for a young "tourist" from Germany 😁
I would love to see more with you and Othias! Even just a Q&A with you guys and Mae would be nice. Putting you in the same place is always a fun time for us viewers c:
In the NATO trials to evaluate the P90 and MP7 it was noted that the MP7 fared much better in the chemical submersion tests than the P90 and probably for the exact reason you mentioned. Some of those chemicals probably damaged or removed that case lubricant. For reference those tests include things like water, salt water, motor oil, and more besides but I don't know which particular ones the P90 had trouble with.
@1:01.15I love the dig at Othias. This was a great format and I really enjoyed the off-the-cuff responses. Don't get me wrong, the globe hidden bar and smoking jacket are awesome. But I think the answers and responses to the questions were very interesting and the scenery a nice touch. Maybe this would be a good addition in the future if the opportunity arises but it will be a rare opportunity.
Greetings from across the medicine line where we have a lot more snow. Thanks for the video, it's a good format with the background scenery and content combined, thanks! The huge rocks in the opening couple of seconds are something we don't see up here in our section of the BC mountains ever. Thanks again and stay well.
The fact that most of the content is at least primed by the viewers means it should be fast and essentially free to make. It would be cool to see him do them more often.
@@jacobstaten2366 he is no longer doing q&a in this form. He mentioned that before. For me the best ones was him and karl doing q&a and i really miss that
Utah IS AWESOME, what a landscape, it reminds of where I live, Argentinian Patagonia. And also, what an awesome interstate, here, if you drive casually answering to a video you would die, the interstates are in a bad shape, holes and whatnot.
As an outdoorsman who went to college in Utah, bruh. You’re in the the outdoor recreation promised land. It’s all beautiful of course but I’m pretty sure Patagonia makes Zion look like Detroit.
Bring back the intro!!! I love the song and get a pleasant surprise when I watch an old video. Maybe just a quick snippet of the song while the current black screen with text is on. I think everyone enjoyed that music very much!
Australian and New Zealand soldiers carried the L1A1 SLR in Vietnam and swore by them. Yes they were not able to carry as much ammo but the argument was that when you hit an enemy with a 7.62mm they stayed hit. M16s were carried by first Scouts (because of their full auto capacity) and by commanders and signallers because of the reduced weight but otherwise the SLR did the job very well.
Yes, writing is a wonderful mnemonic tool, even if you never read it afterwards. I used to hand write out any/all lyrics I was expected to sing when I was acting as a vocalist in a local band. Just the act of thinking each word out per letter and commitment it to paper gives you a lot more memory to draw from than reading/typing them ever could hope to match.
When you visit the Springfield Armory Museum make sure you feature the pattern plate (?) that shows the steps in manufacturing the rear peep site for an M1 Garand. It's hidden away in a display case in the wing where the collection of machines is located. Additionally, if you haven't done a piece on the American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont you should consider a visit there. Other "weapons" museums in New England worth a visit are: USS Massachusetts (16 inch guns), The USS Nautilus, and New England Air Museum.
2 things: Maritime/Coastal Brutality would kick ass, and it would be a nightmare to insure because you've got unknown elements trying to swim in their kit. I should wear my kit into the pool and record it for the entertainment/concern of others to demonstrate
RE: Sub 2000: If you look at the feed ramp you will find it is plastic and prone to issues/melting/cracking. If you have or get one replace it with the Mcarbo stainless one. To replace it you have to open the grip module and have all of the other stuff laid out in front of you. If you get to that point, you might as well replace all of the other janky stuff in there so you end up using the Mcarbo internals kit and the only things that you don't end up replacing are the sear and the hammer. Once you do that, its a much better gun and will be more reliable than the original design.
17:20 - SPOT ON!!!! UA-cam video intro's are a horrible wastes of time to start with and 99% are let down as soon as you get the body of work. I pretty much know if I have a slick intro and then badly recorded taking head right afterwards to skip the video.
For the barrel length question. It partially depends on ammo. M193 was designed with a 20 inch barrel in mind, but M855 was designed for a 14.5. And a lot of our issues with ranged combat in Afghanistan were more to do with actually spotting the singular dude sitting in the hills with an MG, Sniper etc. While you are getting shot at. Add in that most SUPPORT MOS' are issued a CCO instead of an ACOG and then those difficulties increase. Then you add in that some of those engagements are taking place at 5-600+ meters. Which is even at the upper limit of the full length M16.
I don't care if you have a super accurate rifle in .338 Lapua, you are not hitting a guy laying prone behind a ridge line with only the top of his head visible at 600 yards with iron sights or 1x optic while under fire. Even an ACOG is what 4x? That at least makes it somewhat possible under ideal conditions but still highly unlikely.
to add to this 5.56 (and every modern intermediate round) is very velocity dependent for its terminal ballistics (what happens when you hit the target) if a lot of your wounding ability is coming from temporary cavity tearing (expanding the temporary cavity so much that it overcomes the elasticity of flesh) then you have to stay above ~2200 ft/s, so if you're starting 600 ft/s above that sure you might not go transonic for a long way, but you might drop below the elasticity threshold much sooner and then you're basically firing a .22 mag, which can still be lethal, but it's much less so
Another thing about using bolt actions for snipers: there's a lot going on with a semi-auto in terms of the recoil cycle that makes spotting your shot harder than with a bolt action. It's just easier on the shooter to use a bolt gun.
The little laugh Ian does before he says he'd give the resurrected John Browning to Ruger had me thinking he was going to say KelTech, just so we could see what JMB + plastic + copious amounts of Bolivian bingo dust would produce.
Don't know if you still pull questions from the comments, but here's an attempt: Inspired by the uniform throwbacks of certain sports teams, Elbonia decides to replace all of their service firearms with guns that try to capture the spirit of past decades. After careful consideration, the newly founded Elbonian Arms Committee for Looking Cool decided upon two different aesthetics: Space Age (i.e. Whitney Wolverine) and Steampunk (i.e. Hotchkiss).
I bet Browning would design some fantastic 5.7mm and .30 Super Carry firearms in ways people haven't really thought about. Guessing he'd also develop a WWSD version of the Mini for Ruger. The Mini-15.
In regards to coastal brutality.you have to have a beach assualt,come off a landing boat,Wade ashore,fight up the beach ,through a trench system ending at throwing a satchel charge into a pillbox/bunker.
I'd be happy with Ian and Othias essentially doing an occasional "podcast" where they bullshit for an hour or two. They wouldn't have to be in the same place and it would have minimal overhead so that would relieve most of the collab issues.
I watched last collab and extras were great. More collabs, and videos like this of "off" time, prep, cleaning, i would assume they werent working near eachother in silence but instead just long run randomness
Regarding mags, Canada limited mags to 10 rounds (for pistols) or 5 rounds (semi rifles) and made all larger mags prohibited devices. No notion of having it bought before or not. Only option is to get them permanently pinned to the limit. Now if you can find a pistol mag that fits in a rifle, you can get the 10 rounds in rifles. Ex AR mags.
Per the WWI time travel question, I think for the rifle I would take an HCAR in 30-06. Accurate rifle with 30 round magazine and fast rate of fire for a semi that you could mount an optic on. Question didn’t specify whether a suppressor could be brought back but the HCAR could handle that as well with its adjustable gas system. Great ask Ian episode!
19:23 - I worked in VR for a while, and while I'm not a material science chap, I talked with a bunch of them a lot. We used polymer lenses, and they have a bunch of manufacturing advantages (but also problems), but they're all fairly small advantages. They're really not significantly lighter than glass because although low-density plastics are lighter per volume, they also have low refractive indices, so you need much thicker lenses to get the same optical power. Or you can use high-density plastics to get the refractive index up to be comparable with glass, but now they have about the same density. So while polymer lenses can be better than glass in certain ways, it's all small incremental stuff. You're not going to get some massive weight savings just by switching to polymer unfortunately.
Ian; thank you for giving in and taking a stab at answering my question, and that's a perfectly reasonable answer. FWIW I think Motherland: Fort Salem is well worth chaecking out if you enjoy alternate history, miltary fantasy, espionage thrillers, lesbian romance and/or political thrillers. (YMMV of course.)
I have heard informed opinions (they served there) regarding 5.56 effectiveness in the Middle East and the consensus was that much beyond 500 yards you couldn't hit effectively with an m4 or an m16 and so would be dependent on someone with a Scar Heavy or other 7.62 rifle. When patrolling non-urban areas some reported that having an enemy attempt to engage them from beyond 700 yards was as common as closer in.
Great video. The short format "Ask Ian" presentations are good, but I MUCH prefer these hour≤ Q&A videos. I drive a lot for work and they fill the time great. Maybe you could do a quarterly 1.5-2 hour Q&A in addition to the periodical Ask Ian videos.
I can jump in to the optics question (I'm an opto-mechanical engineer). There are some polymer lens technologies worth looking at but they are still pretty young and somewhat expensive to process (though they appear to be well funded so that may change with time). Some of these may not only replace lenses but eliminate them from the stack because of some cool games you can play with polymer. However, there is a limit. Controlling color at these high magnification ratios requires flint glasses and last I looked may still require them, those are the heavy ones. Moreover the higher magnifications really should be using bigger bells on the output (past 6 your just making things larger, not clearer in most conditions. It depends on your pupil size say the time). Overall it won't change a ton though. Most of the weight is in the housing so reducing length would be the priority, but there are physics limits there. Titanium is a viable material for that (over aluminum 6061 or 7075) but it's obviously expensive and the weight savings aren't dramatic. Ultimately these are field sights, not race optics. Toughness isn't going to be something the market will want to compromise on I suspect.
For housings, I could see carbon fiber being both lighter and tougher with possibly the additional benefit of more temp stability but that is a huge increase in cost for just a few grams of weight. It just wouldn't be worth it.
@@wingracer1614 Nope. I looked into it a while ago. It's way less stable under practical situations. For binoculars I think you'd be ok but we're talking systems where lenses often have tolerances of +/-5' maybe as low as +/-1' and deformations on the scale of 10 microns are relevant. It's a great material for telescopes but not rifles.
Carbon fiber is many a wonderful thing but it doesn't do well with shock unless it can flex and you absolutely can't flex these or apply too much torque. Then add the additional problem of having to individually center and bond in every optic, which is fundamentally a nightmare on it's own, and hope that the thick bond lines don't move during curing... It's sadly a non starter.
A wrap might make sense from a technical standpoint. If you can control the machining of the housings at a very thin wall thickness, like .5-1 mm you'd save some weight. The thermal nonsense it would create would mean it would only make sense with titanium (easier to machine that thin anyway), and even then you could end up with a mismatch of CTEs that would risk bending the scope in the cold or the head. The bigger issue this creates is a mismatch in application versus requirements. Lighter things aren't usually used for ultra high precision shooting, but an LPVO at $5k or higher is not going anywhere (even that price would be a stretch). If things on that front were to change this could be a path to innovation but as it stands, it's good old aluminum, titanium (I've yet to see specifically but I'm sure it's out there), or steel (which I don't think anyone is using anymore anyway because it's so heavy).
@@userJohnSmith All of those are definitely problems with old school carbon fiber manufacturing. Taking a tube off the shelf would not have the kind of tolerances or stability you would want. Some of the newer techniques, the kinds of things F1 teams are doing these days, would absolutely work. If someone wants to bankroll me with 200 mil, I could start making them in a couple years. But like both of us have said, it's prohibitively expensive. No one is going to pay 50k for an optic that is only 8 grams lighter. Especially since it would also be a bit bulkier since every single part of it would be considerably thicker.
@@wingracer1614 How close a firm tolerance are we talking here? I routinely work in the $50k+ range for assemblies, and have been encountering non traditional shapes, of axis nonsense that's a nightmare no matter what you do, so I'm always looking for wonder materials. Last misadventure was SiC...Cool stuff we started making our own on the side but funding dried up despite significant interest. For the time being it's on hold.
What's the optical engineering field like right now? My younger brother and I are newly minted mechanical engineers and are under the impression that the field of optics is unfortunately small and slow growing.
Ian’s answer about teaming John Browning up with modern-day Ruger is a good one. However, I kind want to say we give him to Kel-Tec, just to see the batshit stuff they would come up with.
I actually thought about kel-tech myself. Unfortunately they seem to often squander unique ideas with mediocre quality.
I too thought Kel-Tec because they are one of the only companies that will innovate I think Ruger is a little slow to try new things. Hell Mr. Ruger had to die before they made an AR variant.
I feel like browning and kel-Tec’s T.H.I.C.C.C division (Thinking Heads Inventing Crazy Cocaine Contraptions) would be at odds with each other. Kel-Tec’s boys would propose a bullpup monstrosity in 7.62x39 and browning would insist on some incredibly practical new design in 5.56 and we’d get some half-baked mess not memey enough to be a successful kel-Tec machine and not revolutionary enough to stand up to browning’s name.
Both Rugers had to leave the company before Ruger made REAL 2A focused ANYTHING 🤨 5-10 rds for thee but not for MIL/LEO/and ME! 🙄 Ruger really just got going in the early 2000's after Ruger Jr departed, then BX-25's, multiple AR types with factory p-mags, and a multitude of pistols and carbines built on standard capacity magazines 😇 I'm pretty sure they started selling 20rd mini 14 mags before the door hit his ass on the way out 🤣 Old Ruger was Clinton fudd town, New Ruger is actually market driven, no low capacity high horsing allowed 😁👍
@@berryreading4809 I know I should not hold a grudge but sometimes I do.
Some Coastal Brutality ideas: Shooting from a log canoe, while wearing a pirate eye patch, while singing sea shanties, with a live parrot on your shoulder, after having your rum ration, while wresting with a giant squid, while walking the plank.
Need an abandoned ship, whether merchant or warship, whether modern container ship or ancient break bulk ship, whether powered or sailing ship.
Being from Bristol helps with the correct accent as lots of people acuse us of talking like pirate's (Robert Newtons long John silver don't help the situation) !
Farewell and adieu- to you Spanish Ladies...Farewell and adieu- to you ladies of Spain! For we have received orders to sail for Old England....
Come on, you can't "walk the plank" on a canoe...
Only if paintballing the Jimmy Buffett
John Petterson flaps his wings and saves Sudyev’s life. Classic paradox.
Being from Germany I really enjoyed the view. :D And because I'm a bit of a map guy, I figured that Ian's been driving from Cliff Dwellers to Wupatki Spirit Totem (and a bit beyond that) on Highway 89(A), a total of 106 miles with average 67.66mph. ^^
Yep, Ian was blazing down the rebel path 😉
I took that route the other direction to go see the Great Eclipse. Returned via Pike's Peak because of the Great Traffic Jam.
Wupatli, Lomaki, Citadel... are wonderful places to visit.
geile sache, schön gesehen ♥
Ian: Drops 1.5 hour video
Me: "Ooooo, an early birthday present!"
Happy birthday random internet person!
Happy birthday from me too!
Happy birthday, i love these long form q&a's
Do you get a tiny birthday present and lots of Christmas presents, or is the gap just large enough for them to be completely separate?
@@AshleyPomeroy It's a big enough gap, but I do often get offers to get a bigger combined gift.
Hell yes. I prefer these long format q and a. I listen to it like a podcast
Yes 100% agree!!!
Same
@@57HEMIviken same
Same
It's been what I listened to after my daily digest of tech/video game videos on my drives to work
With scripting: Ian's approach (taking notes but doing the whole thing extemporaneously) is really the best one, I think. As a professor, that is how I lecture, because trying to script a lecture (and what Ian is doing is lecturing just as much as what I do is lecturing) makes it come off stilted. A few notes is all you need. Also, there is a study that shows the act of taking notes will help you remember, so I am not surprised.
Actually, Ian is one of the presenters on UA-cam whom I think every professor should look to as a person to learn how to give a good and interesting lecture!
Ian’s answer to Jordan’s question about intro song was great. I always wonder why it went away.
I recall he mentioned this a long time ago. So glad he did this. Other youtube creators need to drop their useless intros. We know who we've clicked on. Don't waste my time! :)
I personally think it was a great idea to get rid of the intro. I hate how many UA-camrs say something like "let's get started" and then roll their intro. I think "we were already started, why stop to tell us what we already know?"
While I dislike intros on UA-cam, many of my favorite UA-camrs still use them. I'd like them even more if they dropped their intros.
@@videodistro A lot are dropping them. Not to save your time, but to improve their metrics for the Holy Algorithm. People leaving or skipping ahead thirty seconds into a video is not helpful.
The issue of suppressors is a big one for me. I shot competitively while in ROTC, starting from 1969. Ear protection wasn't a thing back then, and I have permanent 24/7 tinnitus.
have you tried qtips to get the tin out
I don’t understand your point, you’ve already lost your hearing. And we have better PPE standards these days…
It’s not as if you cannot own one….
@@TachyonJon My point is that I'm trying to raise awareness to change the law so it doesn't happen to others.
Really appreciate anyone who doesn't do a long into on their videos. If I'm subscribed, I know who you are and would rather jump directy to content.
My favorite channel does a ten second intro, so I've got the double-tap skip set to that length
I actually really like the long Q&A videos. I'd always save them for a weekend mornings (not this time though). getting an hour or so of content while sipping some coffee was just the best. So I hope you'll treat us every once in a while.
Came for the Q&A stayed for the scenery.
The southwestern scenery is really beautiful.
yup marble canyon to flagstaff is a nice drive and the scenery can take a lot off your shoulders
Not gonna lie. I’m stoked to have another full length normal Q&A from Ian
Love this format. More road trip Q&As please. I love the AK answer.
For the Brutality question, I have two suggestions:
1) Practice weapon handling and safety drills under stress. I DQ-ed my very first match because of a safety violation, aka. flagging the RO with my pistol while running from one station to the next.
2) Practice shooting from awkward positions. Same match, I timed-out in an earlier stage cause I can't get the sight picture while shooting from under a barricade.
I dig the candid format. Also, very time efficient.
YES!!! ANOTHER LONG FORM Q&A, MAN HAVE I MISSED THESE!!!
I'm glad you changed your mind about car Q&As. I know previously you and Karl had said you weren't interested in them.
GODS green, or not so green in this video, is magnificent to behold. Standing on a clifftop or something similar and taking it all into your perception is an overwhelming experience that really knocks you on to your feet, in a literal manner.
I would add a little something to Ian's answer regarding preparation for a Brutality match: Learn the environment. I live in Western Australia, so were I to ever go to Desert Brutality, the temperature probably wouldn't bother me. But if I were to go to Winter Brutality, I'd do some research on extreme cold environments, staying safe in such, dangers. And even with Desert Brutality I'd look up the potentially dangerous or annoying fauna and flora of the region.
For the western USA, that would be rattlesnakes and cactus. Unlike in Australia, where all the crocodiles, snakes and insects are trying to kill humans! 🐊🐍🕷 😟
@@pmgn8444 in my part of Australia it we don’t have crocs, but we do have several major venomous snakes and spiders, some of which are extremely aggressive. Our extreme weather coupled with our flora would probably be worse.
Also do cardio he and several others have mentioned this in previous videos both here and over on in range.
Spoken like a true Aussie! 👍🏻
@@charlescann531 Doing cardio *in the environment you'll be competing in* would be useful, but probably not practical. It's *hard* to stay cool and hydrated in a desert, and especially so when you aren't acclimated to the environment. It may not seem that hard to run a 5k, but if your running is largely on a treadmill in a gym, you're going to have a very, very bad time. (BTW, I don't know what it is, but running on a treadmill just feels easy compared to running outside.)
Great Q&A. And great spin to it in your car. It was cool to see you answer off the cuff.
The Marine Corp looked into the issue and solved the issue of engaging the enemy at distance in Afghanistan by swapping out the m4 with issuing the A4. Love your work. Semper Fi. Keep up the good work.
I thought its great that you did this Q&A on US-89/89A; I have driven this same route more times than I can count. Should have started in Fredonia to get the LOTTO AMMO GUNS BEER in the background!
The still have the sign, but they no longer sell guns. :(
The fact he said "starts with V and ends with X" and Ian instantly knew it was Vercingetorix 😂 Ian is probably Frencher than half of actual France
And FYI Ian, it's pronounced like ver-san-jay-toe-reeks
It's ver-san-jet-er-icks
It is actually ver-san-jay-toreex
@@sebastiend.5335 the Classical Latin pronunciation would be:
where-kin-ge(h)t-Tor-Eex
the E is an Eh sound, Hence the H in pronunciation.
The way Caesar would have said it.
@@GIITW.5OKC But that's not how we say it here in old Gaulle ;)
That person's been asking questions for years, I think I am finally researched it and learned how to pronounce it lol
The AK may have had a bigger influence to the adoption of the M16 than any of the 308s had or could have had. It proved the viability of a full auto, intermediate cartridge main service rifle.
Didn't the MP43 (and derivatives) prove this in WW2? Seems that after WW2, there were still an awful lot of of people with their minds stuck in WW1 mode (or mid-war at least) when it came to cartridge selection and the need for a big calibre, high power bullet in battle rifles.
The AK is effectively just a continuation of the StG anyway, so it's quibbling a bit to say which was the real culprit.
Either way the reluctance on the American side was the same. Some high ups were sold on the long range rifleman, but more of them are worried about being the first to do something radical.
In truth, the real deciding factor is just the history of military arms in the US and Russia.
Russia has the Mosin in WW2, a rifle which was not great to start with and which is only in service because they lost WW1 then had a revolution and civil war and no-one has bothered to make a better rifle. So as they get their act together they see they need a real proper rifle that is designed around what troops really need, something like their PPSh-41 but with more range and power, something rather like this StG44 they've captured.
The US though have been doing all kinds of fun military developments since WW1. They learned all the lessons from France and Britain and didn't have to spend all the money to learn them. A semi-auto 30.06 makes sense to them, because while that's not perfect for trenches its way better than a bolt action.
No-one is deploying mass amounts of assault rifles anyway, and so the next Garand makes some kind of sense.
The AK-47 had to come at some point, because the Russians couldn't possibly prolong their Mosins after the war, and since they had a fresh start they took the jump to do something new and exciting. When the US sees the Soviets jump then they feel much more willing to join in.
My opinion only! The factors considered for the M-16 (vs other caliber/styles of rifles)
Weight (rifle AND ammo combined), Simplicity (Very green shooters) cost and terminal effects. With the realization, ONLY snipers could hit a target beyond 500 (meters or yards). The M-16 "wins" on weight and simplicity (assuming the CORRECT ammo was used), and is impressive in terminal effects and cost to produce. NOT sure I agree with the importance of these criteria.
Hi, I asked the bolt action question. What you said really made sense, a Remington 700 is definitely less expensive than a PSG1.
Also to add onto the FAL to M16 question, the Borneo conflict saw FAL adopted Commonwealth forces supplemented with Colt 602's at around the same time as the US began issuing the M16, tho not with the impact of the M16. So really no matter which way you look at, the adoption of the AR-15 was inevitable
Ans I would expect fewer production problems with the T48, as it would have been very close to the Commonwealth "inch" patterns, and much of the tooling drawings could have been purchased from Canada if necessary. (Remember that there is a high degree of interchangeability between "inch" and "metric" guns, provided you swap entire subassemblies, not necessarily individual parts). Heck, we may have ended up just adopting a "Commonwealth compatible" FAL for logistical and ease of developing TDPs anyway.
But, yeah, the M16 would have been coming along at basically the same time, and probably under much the same set of presumptions of being a "regional, temporary stand in for the soon to be delivered SPIW".
As an interesting data point - Britain adopted the inch pattern FAL in 1954. They also kept the Bren gun in service until 1971; the Bren got adapted to accept SLR mags too.
Why did they do that? The whole point of the battle rifle was to phase out the mag fed LMGs. But the FAL was utterly unshootable in full auto, and while it is certainly better than an SMLE it's just not what a squaddie needs.
This is no slight on the Q&A, but the scenery was the most remarkable part of this video. Really great view.
Ok, when I eventually visit the US I need to take a drive on that road. Absolutely stunning.
I agree completely that digital optics, at least somewhat affordable options, rarely work well. Unfortunately, I have some experience with this.
I was working for a private security contractor. Depending on the post, we were equipped with an M4 wearing either an EoTech and PVS-14, or an M4 with a thermal optic. I don't remember the brand of thermal we had (this was about 12 years ago) but they were total crap. They were basically video cameras with a square as an aiming point. Accuracy and consistency were major issues but the delay was the worst problem we had. Hitting a stationary target was difficult, but a moving target was close to impossible.
While training, we were using MILES gear and I was engaging a member of the OPFOR team who was running right to left and wasn't hitting him at a distance of approx 80 yards, which was pretty much unheard of. When the next target appeared I fired with both eyes open and saw that the image in the optic was delayed so much that I was shooting approx 10 feet behind the runner!
It wasn't long before the optics were replaced with a better quality thermal and I would hope someone lost their job over that mess. The company, who will remain nameless, purchased over 100 of them at $13,000 each!
Yes, good morning Ian
Thanks again for providing answers to viewer questions.
Have a good day.
The roadtrip scenery is so wonderful. I think this is the first time I didnt pay any attention on Ian talking
This QA was simply amazing. Wholesome driving format, amazing scenery, especially from someone who is not familiar with desert/mountain regions.
It is worth to prep beforehand to give fullest answers, but I think this QA was super cozy. I love it.
Thank you Ian and Jordan and everybody who are supporting the project.
1:10:44 - Andrew - Totally silent firearms
I can recommend checking out the information of PSS Vul. There are some shooting clips and a some info in Russian.
I hope I live long enough to see Ian dig out Russian gun design treasures and document it for everyone around the globe... but with current situation trip to Russia set back like 5-10 years :(
As someone who has spent the vast majority of his life in the Southeastern US, I'm always shocked at just how pretty the landscape is out there, barren as it is.
29:00 As I understand the British doctrine was basically "shoot five, load five" with the remaining five rounds providing some flexibility as needed.
The trench magazines make some sense in WWI trenches as they can provide increased volume of fire in the critical period as an attack comes in. Somewhat reminiscent of the idea ofagaOne cutoffs prior to clip loading.
This was a very enjoyable video. A format to consider for future occasions.
Recall that the USAF was very interested in the AR15 to replace their full-auto M2 Carbines. The USAF was not interested in a rifle with a full power cartridge (M14 or FAL). The Air force was an early driver for AR15/M16 adoption.
Please keep the long form q and a! I like listening at work
The background is pretty mesmerizing.
The landscape flying by reminds me of the road trips we did in the West back in the seventies and eighties. It was awsome for a young "tourist" from Germany 😁
Kudos on your decision to nix obnoxious intro music! OIM seems inversely proportional to intellectual content on any given YT channel!
I would love to see more with you and Othias! Even just a Q&A with you guys and Mae would be nice. Putting you in the same place is always a fun time for us viewers c:
Enjoyed hearing the q&a but also enjoyed seeing the scenery change.
In the NATO trials to evaluate the P90 and MP7 it was noted that the MP7 fared much better in the chemical submersion tests than the P90 and probably for the exact reason you mentioned. Some of those chemicals probably damaged or removed that case lubricant. For reference those tests include things like water, salt water, motor oil, and more besides but I don't know which particular ones the P90 had trouble with.
Thank you for your time posting this interesting presentation.
@1:01.15I love the dig at Othias. This was a great format and I really enjoyed the off-the-cuff responses. Don't get me wrong, the globe hidden bar and smoking jacket are awesome. But I think the answers and responses to the questions were very interesting and the scenery a nice touch. Maybe this would be a good addition in the future if the opportunity arises but it will be a rare opportunity.
Great Q&A. Missed the long format style 😊
Greetings from across the medicine line where we have a lot more snow. Thanks for the video, it's a good format with the background scenery and content combined, thanks! The huge rocks in the opening couple of seconds are something we don't see up here in our section of the BC mountains ever. Thanks again and stay well.
Q&A is one if my favourites videos of yours. I know its a once off,but man do i love these vids.
The fact that most of the content is at least primed by the viewers means it should be fast and essentially free to make. It would be cool to see him do them more often.
@@jacobstaten2366 he is no longer doing q&a in this form. He mentioned that before. For me the best ones was him and karl doing q&a and i really miss that
Utah IS AWESOME, what a landscape, it reminds of where I live, Argentinian Patagonia. And also, what an awesome interstate, here, if you drive casually answering to a video you would die, the interstates are in a bad shape, holes and whatnot.
As an outdoorsman who went to college in Utah, bruh. You’re in the the outdoor recreation promised land. It’s all beautiful of course but I’m pretty sure Patagonia makes Zion look like Detroit.
Utah reminds me of the LOTR movies, huge beautiful variety of terrain. Dry, though, unless you’re up at very high elevation.
@@grahamhawes7089 Exact same here.
Saludos desde Rada Tilly
i think i love this style of video. its like.. driving with my friend but smarter ;)
Bring back the intro!!! I love the song and get a pleasant surprise when I watch an old video. Maybe just a quick snippet of the song while the current black screen with text is on. I think everyone enjoyed that music very much!
You're kickass Ian....
Thanks for all the education these past years with your videos. ✌️😎
That is all...
Love the style of q and a. Really casual
I'll watch on my "commute" to my work from home job
Really enjoy the longer form videos, let me just put a headphone in at work and listen to one of my favorite YT channels!
I really liked this Q&A one of my favorites, it was fun to be in the car and really awesome scenery
Australian and New Zealand soldiers carried the L1A1 SLR in Vietnam and swore by them. Yes they were not able to carry as much ammo but the argument was that when you hit an enemy with a 7.62mm they stayed hit. M16s were carried by first Scouts (because of their full auto capacity) and by commanders and signallers because of the reduced weight but otherwise the SLR did the job very well.
I agree with Ian's take on repetitive opening sequences. Wastes everyone's time after they've seen it a couple of times.
Exactly
Yeah man I was glad when he dropped it
JMB at modern Ruger. YES! Owner of a GP-100 and Vaquero from the mid 1990's. Just work. Built like a tank.
It seems like the improvements in firearms in the near future are mostly going to be in the use of better materials and powders.
Yes, writing is a wonderful mnemonic tool, even if you never read it afterwards. I used to hand write out any/all lyrics I was expected to sing when I was acting as a vocalist in a local band. Just the act of thinking each word out per letter and commitment it to paper gives you a lot more memory to draw from than reading/typing them ever could hope to match.
what a good use for a car journey, as always thankyou.
When you visit the Springfield Armory Museum make sure you feature the pattern plate (?) that shows the steps in manufacturing the rear peep site for an M1 Garand. It's hidden away in a display case in the wing where the collection of machines is located. Additionally, if you haven't done a piece on the American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont you should consider a visit there. Other "weapons" museums in New England worth a visit are: USS Massachusetts (16 inch guns), The USS Nautilus, and New England Air Museum.
I forgot about the Jacques Littlefield Collection (Tanks, etc.) at American Heritage Museum in Hudson, MA.
2 things: Maritime/Coastal Brutality would kick ass, and it would be a nightmare to insure because you've got unknown elements trying to swim in their kit. I should wear my kit into the pool and record it for the entertainment/concern of others to demonstrate
Best Q&A, do more like this.
Though consider stopping at a drive through half way through and then going to at a rest stop with picnic tables.
RE: Sub 2000: If you look at the feed ramp you will find it is plastic and prone to issues/melting/cracking. If you have or get one replace it with the Mcarbo stainless one. To replace it you have to open the grip module and have all of the other stuff laid out in front of you. If you get to that point, you might as well replace all of the other janky stuff in there so you end up using the Mcarbo internals kit and the only things that you don't end up replacing are the sear and the hammer. Once you do that, its a much better gun and will be more reliable than the original design.
17:20 - SPOT ON!!!! UA-cam video intro's are a horrible wastes of time to start with and 99% are let down as soon as you get the body of work. I pretty much know if I have a slick intro and then badly recorded taking head right afterwards to skip the video.
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For the barrel length question. It partially depends on ammo. M193 was designed with a 20 inch barrel in mind, but M855 was designed for a 14.5. And a lot of our issues with ranged combat in Afghanistan were more to do with actually spotting the singular dude sitting in the hills with an MG, Sniper etc. While you are getting shot at. Add in that most SUPPORT MOS' are issued a CCO instead of an ACOG and then those difficulties increase. Then you add in that some of those engagements are taking place at 5-600+ meters. Which is even at the upper limit of the full length M16.
I don't care if you have a super accurate rifle in .338 Lapua, you are not hitting a guy laying prone behind a ridge line with only the top of his head visible at 600 yards with iron sights or 1x optic while under fire. Even an ACOG is what 4x? That at least makes it somewhat possible under ideal conditions but still highly unlikely.
to add to this 5.56 (and every modern intermediate round) is very velocity dependent for its terminal ballistics (what happens when you hit the target)
if a lot of your wounding ability is coming from temporary cavity tearing (expanding the temporary cavity so much that it overcomes the elasticity of flesh) then you have to stay above ~2200 ft/s, so if you're starting 600 ft/s above that sure you might not go transonic for a long way, but you might drop below the elasticity threshold much sooner and then you're basically firing a .22 mag, which can still be lethal, but it's much less so
M855 was *also* designed for a 20" barrel. It's *M855A1* that was designed for 14.5" barrels.
Another thing about using bolt actions for snipers: there's a lot going on with a semi-auto in terms of the recoil cycle that makes spotting your shot harder than with a bolt action. It's just easier on the shooter to use a bolt gun.
The little laugh Ian does before he says he'd give the resurrected John Browning to Ruger had me thinking he was going to say KelTech, just so we could see what JMB + plastic + copious amounts of Bolivian bingo dust would produce.
I can tell I've been up to northern AZ too many times when I recognize exactly the scenery out the window.
Don't know if you still pull questions from the comments, but here's an attempt: Inspired by the uniform throwbacks of certain sports teams, Elbonia decides to replace all of their service firearms with guns that try to capture the spirit of past decades. After careful consideration, the newly founded Elbonian Arms Committee for Looking Cool decided upon two different aesthetics: Space Age (i.e. Whitney Wolverine) and Steampunk (i.e. Hotchkiss).
I bet Browning would design some fantastic 5.7mm and .30 Super Carry firearms in ways people haven't really thought about. Guessing he'd also develop a WWSD version of the Mini for Ruger. The Mini-15.
In regards to coastal brutality.you have to have a beach assualt,come off a landing boat,Wade ashore,fight up the beach ,through a trench system ending at throwing a satchel charge into a pillbox/bunker.
It needs a flamethrower stage.
@@redcat9436 bloody oath mate!either using it or carrying it.
I’ve long believed UA-cam would be improved by others dropping their intros. Interesting explanation.
I'd be happy with Ian and Othias essentially doing an occasional "podcast" where they bullshit for an hour or two. They wouldn't have to be in the same place and it would have minimal overhead so that would relieve most of the collab issues.
I watched last collab and extras were great. More collabs, and videos like this of "off" time, prep, cleaning, i would assume they werent working near eachother in silence but instead just long run randomness
I'm enjoying this very much. That is certainly some beautfiul desert scenery.
Glad to see this format back. I've missed these long q&a videos
Regarding mags, Canada limited mags to 10 rounds (for pistols) or 5 rounds (semi rifles) and made all larger mags prohibited devices. No notion of having it bought before or not.
Only option is to get them permanently pinned to the limit.
Now if you can find a pistol mag that fits in a rifle, you can get the 10 rounds in rifles. Ex AR mags.
Would have watched the whole thing just for the scenery. Great format and idea to do a Q&A like this.
Good morning ian,, this video shall play on my drive to school 👍
Have a good day af school, do your best.
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Re: Intro sequence... I SO completely agree with you! Good call!
CROATIAN jacket at the back seat!
Per the WWI time travel question, I think for the rifle I would take an HCAR in 30-06. Accurate rifle with 30 round magazine and fast rate of fire for a semi that you could mount an optic on. Question didn’t specify whether a suppressor could be brought back but the HCAR could handle that as well with its adjustable gas system. Great ask Ian episode!
I personally loved your intro, and the hold over of them…but I like a lot of that older, branding stuff.
Good morning 🙏 love Q&A
19:23 - I worked in VR for a while, and while I'm not a material science chap, I talked with a bunch of them a lot. We used polymer lenses, and they have a bunch of manufacturing advantages (but also problems), but they're all fairly small advantages. They're really not significantly lighter than glass because although low-density plastics are lighter per volume, they also have low refractive indices, so you need much thicker lenses to get the same optical power. Or you can use high-density plastics to get the refractive index up to be comparable with glass, but now they have about the same density. So while polymer lenses can be better than glass in certain ways, it's all small incremental stuff. You're not going to get some massive weight savings just by switching to polymer unfortunately.
Ian; thank you for giving in and taking a stab at answering my question, and that's a perfectly reasonable answer. FWIW I think Motherland: Fort Salem is well worth chaecking out if you enjoy alternate history, miltary fantasy, espionage thrillers, lesbian romance and/or political thrillers. (YMMV of course.)
I have heard informed opinions (they served there) regarding 5.56 effectiveness in the Middle East and the consensus was that much beyond 500 yards you couldn't hit effectively with an m4 or an m16 and so would be dependent on someone with a Scar Heavy or other 7.62 rifle. When patrolling non-urban areas some reported that having an enemy attempt to engage them from beyond 700 yards was as common as closer in.
Go check out Modern Tactical Shooting. For a perspective on the range issue and the XM5.
And it wasn’t so much a matter of hitting someone at that range as much as being able to see the bastard that far away in the first place.
Great view
Great video. The short format "Ask Ian" presentations are good, but I MUCH prefer these hour≤ Q&A videos. I drive a lot for work and they fill the time great. Maybe you could do a quarterly 1.5-2 hour Q&A in addition to the periodical Ask Ian videos.
Agreed that Northern Arizona is beautiful.
I went through the Springfield Armory a few years ago, I need to go back with a tripod. Fantastic museum.
Love that drive from jacob lake to flagstaff AZ
1:01:11 - "Ian can't Othais" for the win! 😃
I am glad you removed the into with the music :) it is exactly as you said, a leftover from television
Teeeeeheerre!!! We love those even with just the ohone camera