Romanian & Greek Weapons of World War 1 feat. C&Rsenal I THE GREAT WAR Live Stream
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Othais' channel: / candrsenal
In our series about the rifles and pistols of the waring nations, we usually cover the major players. But today, Othais got his hands on some really rare Romanian and Greek rifles and pistols and we will talk about those.
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The Great War and C&Rsenal are the two best things on UA-cam. Putting the two together is a fantastic idea.
5:41 For a rousing speech by Supreme Leader Indy Neidell at his latest rally.
Tomartyr lol
"Today is the death of the Republic!!!"
--Indy Neidell, 2017
+Indy Neidell, about 41:00 and the funding of Greek Armed Forces: After the 1897 defeat in the Greco-Turkish war, the need to a general reform of the armed forces became apparent. So, a considerable part of the budget was especially focused for rearment. _But a large part of the funds came from donations_: The King and the subsequent Greek governments asked every Greek businessman, trader, entrepreneur etc, mostly those of the Greek diaspora, to give whatever they could. And they did. The pinnacle of those donations was _George Averoff_, a businessman of Alexandria, who donated in his will 8 million golden drachmas specifically for bying a cruiser. With those funds the Greek government bought, in 1909, a modified _Pisa-class armored cruiser_ built in Italy, which was named _"Cruiser Georgios Averof"_, The cruiser gave the Greek Navy naval superiority in Aegean during the Balkan Wars, and remained, until WW2, the Greek flagship.
Numbers for the Greek Mannlicher-Schönauer:
-The first contract was signed with "Österrechishe Waffenfabrik Gessellschaft, Steyr" on 11/11/1905 (10/29/1905 O.S.) for 79 gold Francs each (~$1,800 current value), and the first batch of 60,000 rifles arrived in 1907.
-In 1912 shortly before the First Balkan War the Hellenic Army had received 137,454 rifles and carbines and 100 mil rounds.
-In 1914 shortly before the First World War, Greece receives further 52,615 rifles and carbines.
-In 1925 Greece signs a contract with the Italian Company "Societa Industria Ernesto Breda" for 100,000 rifles, that arrive in 1927 with the new designation M1903/14/27.
-In 1930 Greece signs a contract with "Steyr Werke AG" for 30,000 Μ1903/14/30 carbines.
So, in 1940 just before Mussolini's Italy invaded, Greece fielded (according to some sources) 320,000 Mannlicher-Schönauer M1903, M1903/14, M1903/14/27, M1903/14/30 (others lower the number to ~230,000).
Also to add, by 1916 Greece was self-reliant in small calibre production. "The Greek Powder and Cartridge Company-PYR.KAL" had been active since 1900 when the three Maltsiniotes bros obtained the machinery and equipment to produce smokeless powder and manufacture brass rifle cartridges & projectiles from Germany and Belgium, and founded the company. In 1908 PYR.KAL was bought by the Greek state who left the management to the three brothers, and by the end of 1918 Greece was self-reliant in heavy artillery ammunition as well.
Αποστόλης Μ. That research was a valuable extra to be added to what they talked about. Well done.
Αποστόλης Μ. e
Αποστόλης Μ. Good info there, thanks. I just wish they were more available here in the US.
The best part of watching this is Othais looks like a Teddy Bear teaching about guns.
HUGGABLY SOFT
Exactly.
Just a quick note here. The most iconic weapon in greek military history is the Mannlicher-Schoenauer, not the Fusil Gras. People consider this weapon the "guide" that brought the greek soldier to battle. Especially since the victories in the balkan wars. People ended up calling it " Ένδοξο Μάνλιχερ" which literally translates to "Glorious Mannlicher".
We all know greeks are the man lickers so no surprise there
Good stream , can't wait to see the Greek uniform episode :)
anastasios alexandropoulos Should be amazing. My great grandfather fought in Smyrna so this is great for me.
Βουλγαροκτόνος1014 I see you in a lot of comment sections
Βουλγαροκτόνος1014 Greek power 😂
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Congrats Othias, Indy, and everyone else involved, these live collaborations have improved beyond all recognition.
Congrats Othias on the diet too.
Yeah, it took us a while too figure out all the details about the live streaming technology.
Two points:
-Greek riflemen carried between 120 and 150 cartridges for their Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifles (based on different sources from different eras).
-The Greek Army received a substantial amount of Lebel and Berthier rifles from France, as well as Chauchats, VB rifle-grenade launchers etc, that were still in use in WW2. The Venizelist army of 1916-1917 (of corps' strength: three divisions) was entirely French-equipped.
The Lebel and the Gras (in smaller numbers) were the standard rifles of the Greek base regiments (more like reinforced battalions) in the Battle of Crete
Still, the Lebel actually soldiered on into WW2 as the grenade-launching (VB grenades) rifle. The rest like the Gras or the numerous captured Turkish Mausers were passed into second-line service.
If you get a chance, email me your preferred sources, I like digging through everything I can! CandRsenal@gmail.com
I said this during the live stream, but I have to say it again. Thank you so much for giving us this amazing and incredible opportunity for us all. And thank you for chatting with us live Flo!
My pleasure. Even though with so many people it gets a bit uncontrollable.
Great video guys! Good job, I really enjoyed it and I'd like to thank you for talking about Romania and her participation in the Great War, and I say this as a Romanian historian.
Yes sir... I have a Gras, and yes I'm Greek. Got it from my grandfather, and It have seen some action!!
I even grew up thinging that Gras was the word for "riffle".
Every Greek should have his own Gras
Τι είναι αυτό ρε παιδιά;
@@niktech8129 παλιο γαλλικο τυφεκιο. μονοβολο και αργο στο να οπλιζεις, ετσι παλια οι αργοστροφοι λεγονταν γκρααδες χαρις αυτο το οπλο.
@@ncrvako Τελικά απέκτησα και εγώ του παππού. Ευχαριστώ για την εξήγηση πάντως φίλε
@@niktech8129 τιποτε, αν και ο παππους μπορει να ηθελε ευγενικα να σου πει οτι εισαι αργοστροφος😆. καλες βολες.
Interesting to note that Greece continued procuring military equipment from Austria and Steyr particularly after WW2. Most visible are the nearly 500 Leonidas armored personnel carriers, originally built under license by Steyr Hellas in Thessaloniki, later renamed ELVO and further developed locally. The Greek army currently also uses hundreds of Steyr 12M18 trucks, also built under license by ELVO. This is actually the base truck for the US Army "Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles" (FMTV), of which tens of thousands have been built.
To answer the question about shipping weapons to Romania during the war, there were four Romanian ships caught outside Romania by the onset of hostilities - one belonging to the state owned company "Serviciul Maritim Roman" (Romanian Maritime Service - SMR) and three belonging to a private firm, "Societatea Nationala de Navigarie Maritima "Romania" (The "Romania" National Maritime Navigation Society - SR). These ships were used to carry weaponry and essential supplies from Britain and France via the Arctic Route to the Russian port of Arkhangelsk, from where they would be taken to Romania by train.
Of these ships, the 6500t "Bistrita" belonging to SR would be intercepted by S.M. U-43 on 19.10.1916 and sunk near Syltefjord, Norway, without loss of life.
Nice presentation, congrats to everyone!!
για σου ρε ηρωα
Thanks!
Hey Othais, me and my buddy's in Texas love your stuff, i personally love your T-gewehr vid and to Niedell, your stuff is so informative, this channel is so intresting, i enjoy the casualness of it
Thanks!
Thanks Indy. Thanks Othais. Great show, love both channels. This was great.
Loved it. Tons of info and lots of teasers regarding future episodes. Keep up the good work.
ONE! ONE Battle of the Isonzo, Ah haha, TWO! Two Battle of the !sonzo!
Ah haha. Twelve, TWELVE Battle of the Isonzo
Don't get me wrong-I am subscribed to, and regularly watch, The Great War, C&Rsenal, and Forgotten Weapons, anyway . . . . but, when you guys use each other as resources it makes my day!
All through my childhood I wished to have more in-depth descriptions of those topics and presentations which best caught my interest. Here it is, at last!
Old guy (and his inner child) made very happy here.
And a caveat:
Hi Flo! Hi Mae!
Hi!
We enjoy doing these collaborations too. Nice change of pace.
Indy as the Count is spot on. We need more Out of the Trenches with Count Indy.
I like Othais
We like him too.
57:12 Best Indy moment. So Sesame, very Transylvania, much Count, wow!
Dear Indiana Neidell, Ernie Mug and other less notable members of team.
It has come to my attention that Matt Easton of Scholagladiatoria is a viewer of your channel. How cool would it be if you got him to do a collaboration on bladed weapons of The Great War?
Please consider, it would be awesome. Thanks for all your work
Is he now? That would be a really great idea actually.
I asked him once if he watches The Great War, and he said something to the effect of "Yes I'm a big fan" or something like that. So I'm sure that Matt would at least be interested in doing something if he got a communication from you.
Hey Indy what was the German reaction to the Winchester Model 1897 Pump-Action? I have heard that the Germans wanted it banned. Thank you keep up the good work
You will find out in late 2017.
Hi Indy, I'd like to thank you and the crew for putting these videos out. Throughout the last year I've watched all the week by week episodes and caught up to the newest episode and plan to keep watching. They've helped me in school when we studied the Great War and I was able to learn about a topic I was never really interested about (mainly liked studying WW2) and I actually came to love the First World War and how interesting it was! Thanks, keep up the good work - Yanni
Hi Yanni, that's great to hear. Thanks a lot.
YanniYans Πρώτον , ας ξεκινήσουμε από το όνομά ΓιαννηΓιαννς . Δεύτερον, διαβάζεις ιστορία από τα σχολικά βιβλία και όχι από ιστορικές πηγές, αρα ακυρώνεσαι . Τρίτον , έχεις το θράσος σκουπιδαριό πιτσιρικά να κατακρίνεις το ποστ μου . Άντε πιτσιρικά να απογαλακτιστείς και να πας στρατό και μετά γράψε στο yt σχόλια που να αφορούν το στρατό .
ΥΓ : Ρούφα και την αναφορά σου σκουπίδι .
lol i was the exact same
a great chance for Othais to practice German
Hi Indy!!
Great show looking forward to more episodes.
That was a long video but I truly did enjoy it ! I'm well educated !
thank you so much for these episodes!
Thanks for watching!
Indy looks a little purple in the face. is that normal?
Yeah, since the quality is 720P.
It's a live-stream, people change colors ;)
magicalcupcake nutz My guess is that he had a cold, and blew his nose too much.
"I have no idea what's agitating him," said OT-1000hais ;)
I just want you to know I'd totally watch a southern food special hosted by these guys. As a Texan I love eating our food and also hearing other people's opinions on how good it is!
Yes I love all this knowledge two of my favorite things come together history and guns.
Thanks for working so late Berlin time. Get your rest still got two years to go. Keep up the strong work.
Guys i m greek and i know that the army always gets equipped with the most expensive weapons of the time for the worst reasons.Somehow though we are most of the times over equipped for the ''defensive'' doctrine of our armed forces
legit
the cold army special 38 is still in reserve in the greek navy i used it together with 1911 and a five seven during my service in it.
the one he got vi turkey might be an army one that left there during the asia minor campaign post war or from the units that took refuge there during ww2
bolt actions and fried food for the win!
4real
Iv been waiting 2 years for the British weapon special 😂😂😂
Keep waiting. It seems they are saving them for last except perhaps for the US. Othais and Mae did do a vid on the Pattern 14 Enfield.
British weapons have already get more attention than the other various guns of other countries for years. One of the biggest problems about people learning ww1 they tend to be stuck in the cultural sphere they are in and don't try to move out of it much (the Anglo-sphere). What makes C&Rsenal different from the other gun informers is that they don't follow the mindset of typical educational programming on TV or documentaries have now a days. Their organization or group is more focused on education than it does ratings or trying to find something most people would like. Sure if they would like getting a bunch of money or seeing their ratings blow up but their organization isn't created in a way that I think would allow them to profit like the History Channel or NatGeo does. Because of this they will conduct research, test, and etc. with items most people would not even have interest in, just so that this devise at least has one educator speaking about it so that one day another person who needs to know this info gets the information he needs. This is extremely beneficial because it sometimes shows and put into the question of the various old stereotypes, rumors, and myths people had with guns for a long time (including other nations' guns)had for centuries, or perhaps just shatters them all together. You ultimately get exposed to strange unheard of guns that either make you cringe at the thought of it existing or fall in love with the with their appearance and history. To me that's a lot better than watching another American's gun or Britain's gun special which we already have. I think it is better them to just conduct the thing they already have right now. This is coming from American that enjoys watching stuff about guns.
sharkfinbite what was the point in that? 😂
Post your comment as a message to Othais and Mae at C&Rsenal's UA-cam channel. They would love to read it.
I appreciate all your hard work but I can't imagine ever needing or wanting to know this much about obscure weapons from WWI - you're really getting in the weeds guys!
awesome live stream! thank you !!!
Indy, another awesome episode (and NOT just because of the Ernie mug). also so glad to hear you FINALLY pronounce their "nomme de web" correctly (see and are senal, lol). Othias, as always, first class effort, even with a shanghaied camera crew, and iron framed spanish revolvers waiting to shatter into fatal shrapnel from exposure to sunlight, lol! i actually did notice there was a bit less "big O", volumetrically speaking, congrats. aside from the technical glitches live streaming from opposite sides of the ocean can produce, you both do a great job of blending respective minutiae to give a very thorough overview. i couldn't ask for a better combo to do the job at hand!
Indy & Othais, thank you for a great presentation!
On the selection of the weapons by the Greek army: While I am not denying the reasons that you are hinting for the selection (and being far from an expert on the issue) please also note that the Greek Army Staff at the time was excellent, with a lot of officers who had studied in the military academy of Berlin in key positions.
14:10 the war was against Hungary, not Bulgaria
Yeah we caught it later in the video. I just slipped my country names while sorting regional powers.
I wonder if the infamous greek arms dealer Zaharoff had anything to do with the good quality of arms for the Greek army. Some of the arms at least.
+Nickos1b Patience...
Best UA-cam Bromance.
Sorry Flo... you are still my #1...
Hi I'm Indy Neidell and I'm awesome, and he's Flo and he's awesome too.
...'Yes I am awesome too'
True.
Thanks guys for your cover on Romania!
56:24: Did Indy just say "chicken-fried chicken"??
Yes. Yes he did.
great episode Great War and CandRsenal, really great work you guys/gals do, keep it up, i never miss an episode, NEVER!!! my favorite youtube past time is watching these videos and i try my hardest to get my friends and family to tune in. A good episode would be to detail the use of Man's best friend in the Great War, perhaps even a "Chair of Wisdom" episode :), Cand Rsenal, please put your dog on video in the next one, he/she does a wonderful job of protecting yur store, he/she needs to be famous too :)
I would like a special episode on trench knifes spades bayonets and trench clubs
I know most of these comments are years old but don't you think it would've been cool if Indy actually took a trip to C&Rsenal and got the chance to fire some of these amazing rifles,i keep watching both shows over and over and now I'm getting into world war two and the franco-prussian war , great job Indy and Othias 💯🙂
nice live stream i enjoyed it but it did have cancer comment section
Well, it was impossible to moderate. Might disable it next time.
well coment sections will be comment sections my friend
The Great War can you please make a reminder when you are doing livestream next time?
Yes, this was quite short notice. Sorry about that.
please tell me that when you do the southern food special you bring angel and snake.
oh, I hope someday for Bulgarian weapons to since you did Romanian.
Bulgarian and Turk will probably be next
Sir Adrian hopefuly
joey8062 The second Balcanic war was pretty interesting. :)
Darius Gherle whats that?
joey8062 I don't know if I am right but, since you were asking for an episode with Bulgaria, you are indeed, probably bulgarian and I think it's a litl bit funny how Romanian army got into Bulgaria and you just surr right away but we (I mean the romanian army, because we were a total disaster at "defence") still lost 3000 men because of the armi's poor healthcare.
epic! was so much fun! thank you!
Glad to hear!
Great Video guys with very interesting information!! Congrats
we're is othasis channel in the description
ua-cam.com/users/candrsenal
From my looks at Mountain troops during WW2, one could say that Rifles and Pistols were of equal utility. You either were shooting from behind rocks or among open thick-trunked trees within 25 meters or shooting at 400+ meters. Finding angles to hit someone between 25 and 400 meters was much trickier than normal.
Flo: We gonna talk with Othais about Balkans weapons
Indy talking about Transylvania: 57:13
ΣΑΣ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ ΠΟΛΥ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ...ΕΞΑΙΡΕΤΙΚΗ Η ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ ΣΑΣ....
I'm glad you're still shedding the light on this long forgotten suffrage of the human race!
If you close your eyes, you can hear Kermit the Frog being an expert in old weapons.
Really enjoyed the discussion!
so the Spanish were the Chinese of Europe in manufacturing.
Todesbringer I think the demand for weapons was so big that they managed to lower the quality a lot and still sell them.
sorta yeah
Anybody interested in black powder weapons, Please look up
Britishmuzzleloaders. He's amazing.
King Ferdinand was even called King Ferdinand of Romania, as opposed to King Ferdinand von Hohenzollern.
In the future will Othais do an episode on the light machine guns of WW1: Madsen, Lewis, BAR, MG08/15 etc? Also will the heavy machine guns be featured: Vickers, MG08, Maxim 1910, Fiat-Revelli Modello 1914, Schwarzlose, Browning etc?
I love this channel so much. #PutIndyInBF1
31:51:
Well, there are still the snipers who value that superior range.
Not to mention that, after WW1, the fighting distances were all but not limited to a certain type of range:
fights occured in cities and forests as well as in the countryside.
Seems like both countries had an interesting mix of weapons that probably didn't do one very many favors when it joined the war. And likely would have done the same with the other had it joined the war. Nice job.
A couple of audio and visual hiccups but a very enjoyable video non the less.
The edited show will be tighter
Indeed
And with special effects for The Count.
For what it is worth, I have a Belgian produced copy of the S&W DA top break .44 revolver I learned was probably part of a very late 19th century shipment to Romania''s army before WWI.
More live streams? You guys are AWESOME!
Thanks!
Nice there wasn't anything on tv and needed something fun to watch
hurray
At 2000 meters, which is more than one mile (1.6km=1 mile), the front sight would completely obstruct a target the size of a small house. An individual hit by an AIMED shot at that distance would be the unluckiest person on the planet
Excited for the Russian episode on the S&W Model 3 Russian he mentions.
When are you going to do the weapons of Great Britain and its empire.
Maybe it's cuz I'm left-handed, but I absolutely despise any bolt action. I'd love to have a Russian '95 Winchester someday.
It's because you're left handed.
Everyone loves ... the Count!
The writer, Elspeth Huxley, who grew up in East Africa, mentioned in one of her books that when she lived there in the 1930's her hunting rifle was a ".256 Mannlicher," which Wiki says is the 6.5mm.
6.5x54mm became a very popular African game cartridge
The Peabody-Martini isnt British, its US/Swiss. The action was designed by Henry Peabody of Boston Mass. All the Martini Henry was a hammerless Peabody with a barrel by some obscure Swissman.
I hope you can do a portugal special because i have some questions about the Portuguese gear during the war, for example from what I could dig up the Portuguese used British weapons during the war, due to the standard rifle of the Portuguese Army being a Mauser-Vergueiro, a shorter version of the Mauser 98. Funny story the Portuguese used to be really short 100 years ago, so they end up buying a shorter version of a gun.
I wish I could of been there to watch the stream.
I liked just for the Count Impersonation
This was better watching than the crap that on TV.
oh time for the sabers and clubs of the war
supporting
Actually , Greeks last in Second Balkan War because of their bayonets , they were the best in close quarters battle with their bayonets . My grand-grandfather told to my father that : "when he stabbed Bulgarians with his bayonet in Thessaloniki , he had to step on them and pull out his bayonet from their guts, stomach etc, it was very useful weapon" . Also , Greek army doesn't have that plenty of ammo and money to buy them, so they had to do something to be effective , they trained in close quarters battle with that weapon . Greeks used it against Italians in Greco-Italian war at 1940-41 and of course it was very effective . Btw , that's why we still learning bayonet charge (εφ' όπλου λόγχη/fix bayonets) or fighting with bayonets in Greek army , because no money or plenty of ammo . :)
History Guy uh no....Most soldiers preferred to use their bayonets detached from their rifles. Almost all close quarter fighting would have been done in the trenches, where a full length rifle and bayonet would be virtually useless. In WWII close quarter fighting was virtually non existing due to new tactics employed by all nations. These new tactical doctrines where based on mobility using squads based around rapid fire and fast mobile redeploying. hand to hand would occur in such rare instances that soldiers on all fronts would rarely even attach bayonets. If a country had little ammo and relied on bayonets then they would be destroyed. It's common sense in order to use a bayonet one has to get close, in WW2 that's not easy when you figure most powers fielded a automatic weapon for fire support on a squad level, be it Germany and their MP40, Britain and their Sten, USA and their BAR and Thompson, Australia and their Owen, etc. Anyway if your squad was lucky enough to get close enough to use the Bayonet you would likely find that your alone or perhaps one more to take on the other squad.
Tell it to the Italians on the Albanian Front in 1940, greeks in bayonets slaughterend their soldiers!
Hey Indy! Could you comment more about the role played by Spain in the war, please? As far as I'm concerned, it is quite interesting the special neutrality that the country played as the the king Alfonso XIII was openly pro central powers, and punctually helped Germany, and meanwhile there was a great number of voluntaries that joined France, specially from Catalonia. Furthermore, the most widely used aviation motor used by the Entente was the Hispano-Suiza 8, made by an Spanish manufacturer (a company that was really devoted to the same king). All in all, it would be great to learn more, specially from this contradictions. Congrats to the team of "The Great War" for this amazing show!
Btw, I'll bet that the way those Spanish weapons made it to Romania was thanks to Juan March. A famous trafficker, who supplied to the Germans , e.g. fuel for their submarines in Mallorca, and who had to work also for the English and French. If you investigate further in this way, I guess you will find the connection.
There will be a Spain special.
Enjoyed this joint video immensely. About ammo. With Dynimit Nobel being Swedish and therefore Neutral how does their interests in ammo production at DWM and RWS play out. German powder formula to propel 7.92 x 57 198 gr. sS. @ 2,572 fps. is something they would hold dear. How much WW1 powder technology was shared intentionally or not? Keep up the great work. Modern War......
That's something you need to ask Othais. I only understood half of the words in your question. Check out his channel: ua-cam.com/users/candrsenal /Flo
It's really hard to go a diet I agree with Othais. Nailed it. Is he from Texas? :D
C&Rsenal mention South Carolina. I am a big fan of May, Othias co-presenter.
that plus gym is working but man is it hard
The weapon was chosen instead of the Greek-designed "Philippidis gun"
('Οπλον Φιλιππίδου), itself based on an earlier model of the same
Austrian manufacturer, after intense lobbying against the Greek design
in 1905. This caused a serious political crisis, with accusations about
"national treason" heard in the Greek Parliament.[1] The Philippidis gun was officially approved for a 1925 order, but, again, the Mannlicher-Schönauer was produced (by Breda in Italy), due to (reportedly) late submission of the Greek designs to the Italian manufacturer and/or cost factors.[1][2]
An improvement of the Mannlicher-Schönauer was designed by Lieutenant Rigas Rigopoulos during World War II
(spring 1941), incorporating both modified and totally redesigned parts
to dramatically increase firing performance. Though approved by the Greek military to be produced in Volos, the improvement never went into production, due to Greece's invasion by the Germans.[2][3]
1908 there was a militairy movement in Greece and one of it goal was to reform the army
great job once again ya'll.
Thanks!
als ob ich 'ne Viertel Stunde zu früh war, um jetzt wieder zu spät zu sein...
Bei Mathe vergeht die Zeit so schnell xD
I was not lucid when I saw this
God dammit! I live us Australia so I slept through the steam!!!
will there be a shortened version of this ?
yes
"There was a shortened version designed for the cavalry, but it was made in very small numbers."
Just kidding!
Hello Indy Neidell, can you do an episode about the Indian army in World War1 if you have not done it already. Thanks.
We will, we will.
I know people say this about Othais, but he should have a Kermit the Frog mug since others say that Othais sounds like him.