It's astounding to me how ahead of the curve Black Ops 2 was, chest mounted digital assistants, quad drones reinventing warfare, high focus on thermals and PDWs
That's because the military gear that's public knowledge and standard issue takes basically 20 to 10 years to be declassified. CIA agents have worked at Activision and on nearly every cod game. Everything in black ops 2 existed in an experimental form in 2010 basically.
I recall reading an article that members of the government were actually talking with the developers of Black Ops 2 on near future threats posed by drones.
Lol especially the hunter killer drones. Forget the army's stupid NGSW. Squad issued handheld loitering munitions in lieu of conventional grenades are the future.
@@7ElevenTrutherYes! Essentially, doing for ground combat what happened with air combat in the 50s and 60s: replacing bullets as the primary kill mechanism with guided standoff munitions
H&K: "The G11 is complicated, yes. But the average soldier won't take it apart." Average soldier: "I took apart the space brick cause Jenkins said there was a MRE brownie in it."
I think small arms for the most part has been figured out, with only ergonomics and variants being made. Likely the biggest leaps in technology will be ammunition and optics.
Fat Electrician has a video about how the 20mm smart grenade launcher did really well but could technically be considered a war crime, so we had to stop using it because Geneva got mad.
XM-25 isn't a warcrime because it fell into the same weight category as soviet and russian 30mm grenades used by russian for decades in millions against civilians. Nobody, who called XM-25 a warcrime, cried about those. So those people are either extremely hypocritic or were outright russian stooges.
District 9 isn't futuristic though. It's set in contemporary times where humanity gets ahold of advanced alien tech because of some ship that landed on earth in the 1980s. Otherwise the rest of the tech is just typical mid/late 2000s
@@GameprojordanI mean, it would make alot sense if that were the case but I wasn't under the impression that the two settings were actually connected?
@@Gameprojordan seriously... So what if that civilization isn't actually thousands of years more advanced than us? After all they had interstellar travel. Therefore our time line wouldn't be irrelevant and it would technically still be futuristic.... GTFO nerd.
I predict the near future will be "Oops! All drones" with squads revolving around drone operators, like squads revolve around machinegunners nowadays. The drone operators will be armed with something light, like PDWs, and regular soldiers will have whatever standart rifle of the time, shotguns against enemy drones, and occasional LMGs, rocket/grenade launchers for firepower, and every squad member will have to carry drones and ordnance for the drone operators. And of course all those guns will have better ammunition and smart optics with thermals and whatever. Like other people said, small arms are pretty much figured out in most parts, with only major improvements being in ammo and optics. I also think that the most effective striking force is explosion, explosions are too effective to not lean into, expect more and more explosive ordnance on hands of soldiers
My Stoeger X20S Synthetic 22 simulator came with a 4x32 1x optic that has red/green illuminated cross hairs and a dual stage Noise Reduction System on a 12" Walther Lokar barrel. Just a little bit more gun than what you get at Wal-Mart. Enough about James Reeves already!
I think the MA5B has since been kind of retconned as it feels like the MA5C in Halo 3 feels like balancing and correction for it. It even seems smaller with a more realistic magazine size. It’s arguably been done the most dirty because it was retconned in lore so that you can remove that entire front shroud and is supposed to have rails both over and under the barrel. It’s supposed to have backup irons, and is even supposed to be as modular as an AR15.
Hear me out. Here me out. What if case telescope the 7.62 x 51 round and use polymer casings. And we make the magazine out of an see through polymer, like an P90 mag. Then we can reduce the weight of the ammo. By making the casings lighter and the mags lighter. There will still be the weight of the bullets and the gun powder. But I feel like we'd be moving in the right direction.
Plus, with caseless ammunition, there are major heat/thermal issues due to the case containing a high amount of the from the firing of the round and then being ejected and hence removing that heat from the firearm.
The evolution of weaponry invovles is range, velocity, penetration, targeting, ease of use. Until we see a "hit-scan" style weapon, like a laser beam of some kind, then the advancements for the foreseeable future will be 1) scopes that calculate lead and drop, 2) more affordable thermal scopes, 3) improved ballistics so shots can be taken farther away, 4) and perhaps some type of locking and auto-aiming system.
1 of 2 ways 1: short barreled rifle with a cartridge capable of long-distance accurate fire with a high ballistic coeffecient from said short barrel. preferably caseless 2: coilgun launching ferroalloy bullets at enormous velocities getting the power from a solid state battery. and a optic that ranges the target and adjusts zero, including elevation and wind, on it's own, so as long as you can see it, you can hit it
3rd way. Soft launch from large smooth bore fin stabilized and guided with a small shape charge. Think "Runaway" only more of a shoulder "launched" as opposed to shoulder "fired". Basically a micro drone designed to seek and destroy an individual.
Bullpup firing caseless ammunition. Use an APDS or APFSDS loading as standard to get good BC, higher velocities without driving up chamber pressures beyond acceptable limits, and to get decent AP effect. If possible, have the ability to fire full bore, or mostly full bore, projectiles for close range use against targets that may not be wearing body armour. Preferably with some sort of high rate limited burst mode like the G11 because why not. Once you get the muzzle velocity up around 5000 feet per second/ 1.5 km/s, any target inside, say, 300 meters or so is basically put the dot on the target and pull the trigger, most of the time.
@@I_Automatehow effective would a mini APFSDS be against a soft target though? Against a vehicle it punches through and takes out components. Damage to the crew is from shrapnel and spalling from the armour. So against a ceramic plate it would shatter the plate and punch a pretty small needle sized hole through the target without doing a lot of actual damage.
@@poprocket2342 Imagine what defence capabilities would be in the future tho, and rifle can shoot full bore rounds so its capable for both type of targets
Just got home from a 12 hr shift huckin and chuckin steel all day, and first video to sit down and watch with a ice cold beer and bbq chicken thighs cooking.
Chuckin' steel over here, chuckin' steel over there, this dude was chuckin' steel everywhere! I've never chucked steel but I worked in an aluminum foundry when I was younger. I once got to see a 40 pound ingot hit a 30 foot high ceiling because the ingot had an air pocket with some moisture in it............not as much fun as you would think 😂
Hop and Brass Facts brought up a good point about the HAND guard around the pistol grip around the Tavor (similar gun to the Halo -BR- DMR): without the mag in front of the trigger group you're going to press the gun into something for support, without that pistol grip handguard you're probably going slam your hand into that rock or window sill or whatever.
@@PavewayJDAM Sorry, the DMR, NOT the BR, I've been out of the Halo loop for a long while now. But you mean the same solution the Tavor and the Halo DMR used?
This might sound like a crazy cut...but you know those 3d printed spiral puzzle cones? Where you can slide each part through the other in multiple directions? I think that sort of CAD work for projectiles could potentially yield something like a post ignition/barrel interface stage telescoping round. Probably caseless. But regardless it would act functionally like a reverse sabot round. A smaller caliber munition to allow for greater vapacity in smaller space, that then expands aftet it's shot in order to impart more of its force onto the target. Think a 7mm rifle round that expands into a 10mm SLAP round after it's fired.
My head cannon for how the pulse rifle fits 99 10mm rounds in that short magazine is the bullets are like the Volcanic rocket balls: small hollow at the back of the bullet contains a very high explosive that doesn't take any extra room. Then, the magazine could be a quad stack in a couple directions, with bullets in front of and beside other bullets in the magazine. The mechanism to feed them into the gun might get complicated, but science fiction could make it work.
The halo dmr fencing actually makes a lot of sense to me. Hop and brass facts did a bit with bullpups, and they kept running into the problem of banging their fingers on cover they were trying to brace on. The additional trigger guard makes sense because something like the aug still has a rather large opening around the trigger. i think the halo dmr is honestly the best way to do it.
I knew Paul Harrell from the White Castle School. Watching all the vets pass while you're still in training is rough. You don't have to jump out of a helo to be a midwife. Trust me, there's enough Marky Marks to build a house!
Future gun for me: mix of classic propellant gun with electromagnetic assist plus smart ammo. Different barrels with fast replacement option and ability fo connet it to my googles. I read about new materials and its abilities for resist or reflect laser and temperatures. So we still need kinetic projectiles. Ammo from Elysium seems very good option.
I wanna see a serious look into combining traditional chemical propellant firearms with magnetic accelerators, along with rocket propelled ammunition Basically, I want Bolters and Railguns to have a baby IRL
@@viperbuzzard01h84 That's part of why I'm eager. The tech for both rocket ammo and the railguns are available, it's just not really good yet. Combine the acceleration of the traditional bullet with the acceleration of the magnetic rails, then have the projectile be rocket propelled? You could have 3000 m/s velocities out of a mere pistol. And that sounds real juicy to me.
Legal suppressors FA and DD's at Walmart anyone? On the real, though. Cheaper bi-metal cartridge cases for faster rounds and wear/heat resistant barrel linings for longer life are things I hope for
Im still sad we have not seen more about the RM277. It seemed to be a very good and innovative rifle + ammo combo. They just have to remove the pointless open bolt feature and improve the trigger.
Think outside the box, a handheld system that launches mini-drones (size of a 40mm grenade, with 3mins of flight, AI, and 5g of RDX) they acquire a human enemy target and fly to it. boom.
There's a guy I've seen on UA-cam who is experimenting with a toroidal plasmacaster. It's blowing smoke rings out of plasma, doesn't have much range yet
Drone ammo delivery could be a way around carrying less. Soldier pushes a button and a drone navigates to his position or somewhere nearby if they don't want to compromise their position. Could carry medical gear, food or water as well.
@matthiuskoenig3378 Sweet, wheeled would be queiter and potentially a larger payload. Also, without all the electronics for flight, potentially cheaper to manufacture.
Not too over-bearing and no need for a spoiler-alert for our favorite sci-fi's... I tip my hat to you, sir. You hit all the right vibes here, no doubt.
I think due to the threat of drones on the battlefield, shotguns are gonna be making a big comeback. Maybe in a few years we will have some sort of high-bore flechette combat shotgun like the AA-12 on steroids...
Admin if you are supporting your bullpup rifle with something in front like a wall etc, with no large guard ur gonna mess up your dominant hand if u push in or foward too much. Its why guns like the aug have the guard that works so well
I think the US Military should move to a mid-range caliber, up from the 556 NATO, to the 6 mm MAX. It has slightly more recoil, a lot more reach, and can fit into the AR-15 chassis size with only a barrel change.
@@smartfella7914Ummm, no. The 6 mm MAX is a derivative of the .350 Legend which almost perfectly matches the 556 NATO dimensions, except for length and shoulder angle. If it was used, everything except the barrel can be reused of the AR-15 platform. It's more speed, flatter trajectory, and can push the pill from 55 gr all the way to 110 gr and remain accurate.
For me, the most likely future tech for firearms is augmented reality so we can have video game style HUDs in real life. Attach some aiming module on the barrel and you can project a crosshair on your AR goggles/glasses to aim without sights. Project a reticle on the gun rather than physically mounting, so you don’t have to worry about mounting solutions and would even allow designs like top folding stocks or charging handles to return. If the aiming module the AR goggles is aiming from can account for it, it could even make less accurate guns more accurate by automatically adjusting the aiming point depending on where the next shot will land. Stuff like that. Whether that’ll happen anytime soon is anyone’s guess, but I don’t expect how firearms to work to change all that much without a major new, disrupting invention.
It’s too easy to overload the user with visual information. Latency is also a challenge. Milliseconds matter in terms of human reaction time and shooting first. Try paintball or VR milsim and you’ll immediately feel the difference between having a gun at low ready and having it up and sighted. AR goggles or HUDs make that problem harder, generally speaking, in my own experience.
@@astebbin Agreed, which is why those things need to be ironed out with new technology to make things like latency (as well as accuracy) viable. Can be done (after all, shooting games require very low latency and that can be achieved with high framerates), but it’ll be a while before that can be practical in the real world. Still, I think that’s the most likely major paradigm shift in small arms. At the very least, optics and lasers would be replaced with AR goggles.
The single greatest future advancement in firearms will be railguns / coilguns. Cheap as dirt ammo, no theretical upper limit on velocity and accordingly low recoil compared to penetration/terminal effect. For man-portable systems the caliber will most likely be in the 3 mm range, but long and slim. Probably flechette, as you don't need to seal gass and that's the best way to overcome the length/diameter-limit of spin-stabilized projectiles.
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The XM25 used radio signals between the shell and the gun to determine when to explode, not the spin. They had one case where the shell exploded inside the barrel. No one was hurt because of the layers of safety involved in the design, but with the rise of more and more hackers in various opposing forces, it would be a matter of time for someone to be able to "hack" into the signal, rendering it questionable. Old fashioned 40mm grenades use the spin to arm the shell since Vietnam and other fuses used spin counters since WW2, at least.
This makes me wonder how effective the XM25 would be in an environment where electronic warfare and jamming are ubiquitous and pervasive. Think Ukraine on steroids. Personally I think that before long tactical drones (FPV drones) there will be constrolled through a fiber optic wire spooling out behind them for that reason. If the drone runs out of wire, it goes boom.
Hell, just think about using one in a metropolitan environment. Forget about electronic warfare and jamming, imagine the amount of latent frequencies in a city that could fuck with that.
The problem with a lot of cool infantry/cavalry based mechs and exoskeletons is that the tide of war is always pushing for more disconnect from having your squishy human body on the ground. Why would you willingly go fight in a gundam when you can just cause the same amount of damage with a big ass cruise missile that costs less and poses less risk to your life. US air doctrine reflects this, as it is mostly just long range missile attacks at this point. Even in the case of infantry, there is a heavy reliance on air support in order to destroy the enemy before they can pose a risk to the squishy humans that have to go occupy that objective. While cool as fuck mechs would be terribly situational and probably not as effective as long range options. And ridiculously expensive of course.
Isaac Arthur had a video on those concluding that there's basically no good reason to ever use them over other vehicles (IIRC) By the way, what ever happened to half-tracks? Why are they no longer used on the battlefield?
@@smorrow especially bipedal mechs, like seriously that's just asking to topple over. Humans can manage to walk on two legs but we're fucking weird compared to most of the animal kingdom. Too damn big a target profile too. Also I love to see more Isaac Arthur fans in the comments. Shout out to my fellow SFIA nerds.
Can go high or low. High quality in low quantity or low quality in high volume. I just want weapons to be even more simple than they already are, then focus on accuracy or durability. If you can do both, congrats, you have a business plan!
My dream pistol: - All metal (polymer handguns were a mistake) - 1911 trigger - Minimum 100 round capacity per magazine - Integrated thermal fusion reflex sight w/ 1-10x magnification - Integrated WML with all the lumens - Rechargeable/solar-powered RDS/WML cause changing batteries is annoying - Recoil of a BB gun - External ballistics of a photon - Terminal ballistics of a .50 BMG Raufoss *Dreamy sigh*…But, until someone makes that, I’ll have to compromise
If you're willing to compromise on the last two points, you could achieve the 100 round count easy with the 2mm Kolibri rounds. You could fit 100 rounds in a comfortable magazine quite easily.
The innovations would have to come from the Ammo and the optic. Something like the Smart gun from CP2077 that can "Self Correct" it's projectiles around corners, That way you can fire from cover directly, That and combine it with the Elysium Air Burst cartridges so it can just be retrofitted into existing Magazines and or AR type lower for parts commonality.
So as a gun nerd and technophile here’s my 2 cents: 1) The next major breakthrough in weapons technology you have to look for is elimination of gunpowder from the equation. By removing the powder and shell casing this solves a lot of logistical and manufacturing hurdles and allows for more compact weapons with a much higher ammo capacity. This requires a propulsion solution. Electromagnetic propulsion is the obvious answer. With increasing battery capacity and efficiency we can get to a point where you can store enough energy to propel a metal projectile as sufficient speeds. This will go hand in hand with soldier mounted power generation systems, the most elegant solution being nanomaterials built into the fabric of a soldiers uniform that generate electricity via movement or body heat. Energy generation, storage and transport are the limiting factors here. Time will tell if battery technology is capable of progressing this far. 2) Projectiles: metal projectiles give the greatest density (and thus target effect) whilst being easy and cheap to manufacture. The only alternative is directed energy which if energy production is adequate could potentially be attained within 50 years or so. Microwave weapons might potentially be more effective than lasers against fleshy human targets. 3) targeting: AI assisted multi-spectral target acquisition and fire control will become more and more normal. Add this to built in range finding and ballistic trajectory calculation with the potential for programmeable munitions (like the DARPA self guiding rifle round) and the hit efficiency will skyrocket dramatically. A single shot from a future rifle could be as effective as a full 100 round belt from a modern LMG. TLDR: man portable rail rifles or thermal/microwave directed energy weapons seem the most likely candidates for a legit firearms revolution. Both of these require energy. In future wars electrical energy will become the dominant and most important resource.
Greetings, what would you think of a caseless cartridge in the style of the HK G-11 but with a solid metallic hydrogen propellant and detonated by micro waves or a plasma beam?
Stopped reading at the prospect of eliminating gunpowder as a propellant. If you have enough energy for a railgun, you have enough energy for directed energy. A gun that shoots itself apart is ridiculous.
@@arbelico2how is it that people can't understand that chemical propellants ignited by percussion is the safest most effective energy storage system in a handheld platform? The conversation of chemical energy into electricity is inefficient and cumbersome. It just doesn't work.
@@mattmarzula maybe if ETC technology gets far enough along they could miniaturize it for small arms. maybe a bullet that uses a plasma arc to ignite the gunpowder instead of percussion caps.
@@mattmarzuladirected energy isn't great for penetrating. You'd need an enormous amount of energy to penetrate very far, but at that point you'd have an almost impossible energy density in your "magazine"
The guns from the movie Prospect are probably my favorite and I always go basic to it. On the cheap side you can have a little hand crank rail gun that’s basically a piece of wood, tube, capacitor, and A LOT of little rounds to throw. Just charge that baby for a couple hours before hand and off you go. But if you got money I’m assuming way better charge, velocity and ammo capacity, they look more sexy and ergonomic too. But the idea is you’re only carrying the slugs so you can have ammo all day for probably cheap. Easier to make a projectile than a casing too
We have the tech for airburst 20mm, airburst of any larger caliber would be pretty much be the exact same, the only issue to solve would be electronics hardening against acceleration, they have already trialed them with 50mm, 30mm, 120mm and several other calibers that I don’t remember off the top of my head.
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Random sci-fi weapon: the Sternsacht Heavy Pistol from BattleTech makes the Desert Eagle look like a compact carry gun. Damn thing's like 50% recoil compensation. The devs didn't even bother to guess at at caliber, but its magazine capacity is exactly 3. Punches a damn fine hole, though. Myself, I'll take an Intek laser rifle any ol' day. Though if one of those Gauss SMGs the Clanners make ever gets out on the market they be some good shooting. A buddy of mine in the 20th Arcturan Guards saw them in action in the fight for Tharkad City and said they work a treat.
Idk, for me the answer was always "miniaturisation" of artillery tech. So probably muzzle reference devices in near future, electrothermochemical ammo with gas generator bullets in the end of the century, maybe even beam riding ammo with simultaneous impact in far future.
On further reflection, i feel like the advancement of material sciences has also opened up the possibility of transitioning into high explosives for propellant re: caseless rounds. And i think the only reason we haven't seen it yet is because the industry looked at that in the 60s when doing the initial research for caseless ammunition and basically found that the pressure curves wouldn't work in breach/bolt interfaces of the time using materials that they had access to in production quantities. But now, with things like staggered/delayed toggle bolts, 3D additive/reductive printing and milling and much more advanced CAD and physics modeling, i think that something like and HMX/RDX/BCHMX explosive as a propellant ina delayed breach block system could allow for much greater pressure in a much smaller projectile package. Especially if you combine that with other methodologies like integral gass bleed barrels, gas piston counterweights, squeeze bore barrels and cupped ammunition. Honestly at that point your biggest concern would be heat dispersion. Which would be solved with something like HMX because it expands so quickly it doesn't generate as much heat as other deflagration low-ex propellants. Need to see how much heat the brass extraction proccess actually bleeds out of the system. Oh and if you transition to a platic explosive propellant it also opens the door for electronic triggers. Imagine a dialable trigger system that doesnt have any mechanical moving parts to clean or break. And heck you could even include a backup for all the people who worry about trusting something like that to a battery (even though all optics other than fiber optic use batteries). Something like peizoelectric sparker like from a grill. If the electronic trigger malfs, have that as a back up. 16lb new york style trigger pull, but it functions when you need it to sort of thing. But yeah, electronic ignition means you can lower the bore axis considerably. Heck little things like play the trigger hinge on the bottom of the trigger gurad instead of the top because that is more ergonomically suitable for most fingers. ...man i need to do some cad work haha
You are filling the background silence while I am doing calculus homework. Fun video, it gave me some creative ideas which distracted from the homework a little, haha.
There are 2 things preventing a 30-cal airburst round: 1. Thirty-cal bullets just plain don't carry enough payload to be effective. 2. That whole "Geneva Convention" thing about rounds under a certain explosive payload being a "war crime".
Keep in mind the G11 wasn't complicated because it was caseless. It was complicated because they wanted a a 3 round burst to leave the barrel before the recoil was felt by the shooter. The CL LSAT program guns use the exact same caseless technology (but in 5.56 and round instead of 4.7 and square) and are about as simple as a lot of traditional guns already out there
Most likely in the near future… A hybrid railgun/conventional setup that still uses gunpowder to propel the bullet, but the bullet itself is magnetic and further accelerated by the railgun barrel, which produces more velocity while saving on battery weight on the railgun end, and saving on barrel length and propellant on the conventional end.
I like the idea of a counter-recoil or “Balanced Automatic Recoil System” of the AK-107 or its predecessor, the AL-7. An intermediate caliber assault rifle with removed recoil, stringing projectiles, automatic 30 rounds, 600 rounds per sec, off hand, fist sized hole, 75 yards, just a little tremor through a zoomed optic as rounds are fired. 🎉
Think next step is gonna be drone weaponization, bringing the soldier behind it, soldiers become more support role oriented. Then we might see productions of weapons that feature multiple ammo types with ammo being able to carry a payload. (Lethal + different Non-lethal's in the same rifle)
I forgot where I saw it, but it was actual footage online, they made bullets that can change trajectory mid flight. It is a real thing. It's not on any kind of production, but the proof of concept has been made.
Gyrojet-style rocket bullets can do this in theory. The trouble is balancing maneuverability, cost, and terminal velocity. Sensors and control surface actuators drive price per bullet up. Turn hard enough fast enough and you’re effectively dumping all forward velocity and terminal effectiveness. Realistically you’d want an exploding payload to guarantee terminal effect, but if you’re paying $50 per round anyway for guidance systems you may as well make the explosive charge a bit larger, which makes the control systems cheaper too since miniaturization costs money, and if you’ve got an explosive charge then it needs a fusing system, aaaand now we’re just talking about 40mm grenades.
You might fit a burst charge in a .30 cal bullet if you made the projectile longer, like the OG-7V fragmentation round fired from the RPG-7. Fragmentation would be concentrated along the radial axis. If you want to get a little sci-fi about it, can imagine a rifle with dynamic (“smart”) bolt adjustment to vary headspace and chamber depth per-round to accommodate either conventional or lengthened projectiles.
Mass Effect has a cool futuristic theory of the weapon shaving a single molecule off an internal tungsten block and passing it through a mass accelerator. So effectively giving the molecule the ballistic capabilities of a truck.
did you know the full quote for "jack-of-all trades" is: A Jack of all trades, a master of none is oftentimes better than the master of one. the reason the AR platform and AK platform see so much use is how versatile they are. hell, the AK spawned the PKM and the SDV so from one base model, you've got everything from a Squad Automatic Weapon to a Designated Marksman Rifle. but i figure you already know this and what you mean in your dream gun section opener is things like how some guns (looking at you, Kel-Tec) try to have ALL the bells and whistles and end up sort of over-engineered as a result. but remember, its only over engineering IF it doesnt work or could be done better by a simpler solution. im sure if you told someone from WW2 that the future of infantry weapons was a fully automatic rifle with detachable scope, flashlight, something called a "laser", and it would function out to 700 yards while punching through the most advanced body armor known to man, he would probably say your a crazy person and there is no way one gun could EVER do all that without it weighing too much to shoulder (like the Browning Automatic Rifle).
hand and brain augmentations that connect to the tech inside of future firearms like in cyberpunk is pretty dope and interesting. i can see that happening eventually.
Some people have noticed that the 6.8 round absolutely tears up armor plating, as in, light vehicle armor, not body armor and that was the "real" purpose of the round. Giving infantry an edge over vehicles. Sig and a few other companies are trying to sell the military on an "inbetween" gun to fill the gap between a 7.62 SAW and the M-2 by putting out some machineguns that are still reasonably portable in .338 Lapua. I also saw a booth at SHOT last year (2023) promoting their new mini-gun that had fewer parts than Dillon's design along with one less barrel to reduce the weight by 50 lbs that ran on 40 volt cordless tool batteries chambered in .338 Lapua to give it 500 yard longer range than a Dillon 7.62 minigun.
I believe we could make .30 cal airburst rounds but 1) they would be crazy expensive 2) xm-25 25mm grenades were considered underpowered with a very small kill radius (you had to achieve a near miss above your target). Unless we develop a way more energy dense explosive to fill those .30 cals, they would just be airburst firecrackers
I want the auto aim from the new Alien that thing was sick af. Also 450 round capacity in a mag fed shoulder fired weapon that isn’t 20+ pounds. Give me the Colonial Marine assault rifle pleaseeee
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What does the future of body armors looks like?¿
Wait and see what I build after I graduate from SDI
Love the Nerf gun add in lol
I guess it’s to soon for that type of humor
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It's astounding to me how ahead of the curve Black Ops 2 was, chest mounted digital assistants, quad drones reinventing warfare, high focus on thermals and PDWs
That's because the military gear that's public knowledge and standard issue takes basically 20 to 10 years to be declassified. CIA agents have worked at Activision and on nearly every cod game. Everything in black ops 2 existed in an experimental form in 2010 basically.
I recall reading an article that members of the government were actually talking with the developers of Black Ops 2 on near future threats posed by drones.
Lol especially the hunter killer drones. Forget the army's stupid NGSW. Squad issued handheld loitering munitions in lieu of conventional grenades are the future.
@@alastor8091that cant be true, why would the CIA go to a video game developer for information on drone warfare?
@@7ElevenTrutherYes! Essentially, doing for ground combat what happened with air combat in the 50s and 60s: replacing bullets as the primary kill mechanism with guided standoff munitions
H&K: "The G11 is complicated, yes. But the average soldier won't take it apart."
Average soldier: "I took apart the space brick cause Jenkins said there was a MRE brownie in it."
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I think small arms for the most part has been figured out, with only ergonomics and variants being made. Likely the biggest leaps in technology will be ammunition and optics.
Ma5b mass production when?
@@Irishcream216basically israel but without ammo counter
That's how the HALO universe happened...
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Fat Electrician has a video about how the 20mm smart grenade launcher did really well but could technically be considered a war crime, so we had to stop using it because Geneva got mad.
XM-25 isn't a warcrime because it fell into the same weight category as soviet and russian 30mm grenades used by russian for decades in millions against civilians. Nobody, who called XM-25 a warcrime, cried about those. So those people are either extremely hypocritic or were outright russian stooges.
Got mad or woulda got mad, I can't remember!?
It’s The Hague convention no explosive bullets .
@@nickdavis5420 thanks! I knew it wasn't as stated.
Use rockets instead. 20mm bullet/rocket hybrid with explosives and a gunpowder kickcharge
I'd say district 9 is the best interpretation of crazy future...
District 9 isn't futuristic though. It's set in contemporary times where humanity gets ahold of advanced alien tech because of some ship that landed on earth in the 1980s. Otherwise the rest of the tech is just typical mid/late 2000s
@@GameprojordanI mean, it would make alot sense if that were the case but I wasn't under the impression that the two settings were actually connected?
@@Gameprojordan seriously... So what if that civilization isn't actually thousands of years more advanced than us? After all they had interstellar travel. Therefore our time line wouldn't be irrelevant and it would technically still be futuristic.... GTFO nerd.
I was thinking Tank Girl. But I guess that's just me.....
Elysium would be a better example
I predict the near future will be "Oops! All drones" with squads revolving around drone operators, like squads revolve around machinegunners nowadays. The drone operators will be armed with something light, like PDWs, and regular soldiers will have whatever standart rifle of the time, shotguns against enemy drones, and occasional LMGs, rocket/grenade launchers for firepower, and every squad member will have to carry drones and ordnance for the drone operators. And of course all those guns will have better ammunition and smart optics with thermals and whatever. Like other people said, small arms are pretty much figured out in most parts, with only major improvements being in ammo and optics. I also think that the most effective striking force is explosion, explosions are too effective to not lean into, expect more and more explosive ordnance on hands of soldiers
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Imagine head mounted or brain mounted AI jammer tho
Imagine having to fight Goliath with a spring air rifle. The 2-way recoil makes the optic stronger than a firearm optic. Str8 Fax
My Stoeger X20S Synthetic 22 simulator came with a 4x32 1x optic that has red/green illuminated cross hairs and a dual stage Noise Reduction System on a 12" Walther Lokar barrel. Just a little bit more gun than what you get at Wal-Mart. Enough about James Reeves already!
I got scope eye the 1st time I shot it, expecting Zed 22LR recoil 😱
Elysium thumbnail let's goooooooo
weird cause i was just watching a bunch of Elysium clips with the weapons lately lol
he’s got in in the background as well, just hanging around on his gun wall
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Only a 'Lamb of God' can go Full IDF, SDI
In Halo CE, the assault rifle fires 7.62x51mm and hold 60 rounds in a box magazine. That would be a crazy thicc and heavy magazine.
Fancy material i guess
Casket mag, possibly?
One of Halo's co creators made a post on Twitter that the MA5B might actually use a quad stack magazine.
I think the MA5B has since been kind of retconned as it feels like the MA5C in Halo 3 feels like balancing and correction for it. It even seems smaller with a more realistic magazine size. It’s arguably been done the most dirty because it was retconned in lore so that you can remove that entire front shroud and is supposed to have rails both over and under the barrel. It’s supposed to have backup irons, and is even supposed to be as modular as an AR15.
Hear me out. Here me out.
What if case telescope the 7.62 x 51 round and use polymer casings. And we make the magazine out of an see through polymer, like an P90 mag.
Then we can reduce the weight of the ammo. By making the casings lighter and the mags lighter.
There will still be the weight of the bullets and the gun powder. But I feel like we'd be moving in the right direction.
“All that to say the future will happen at some point.”
Well said, Admin, well said!
If the guns of the future look anything like the ones in Starfield I'm gonna be PISSED
Orion is kind cool
I gonna be screaming hurray! starfield bashing is only cringe now bro.
Plus, with caseless ammunition, there are major heat/thermal issues due to the case containing a high amount of the from the firing of the round and then being ejected and hence removing that heat from the firearm.
This is the key issue very few arm chair mechanical engineers understand.
Rolling coal with carbide cannon tablets is worse than drinking from a spit cup. Your gun won't like it either 🤣
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The evolution of weaponry invovles is range, velocity, penetration, targeting, ease of use. Until we see a "hit-scan" style weapon, like a laser beam of some kind, then the advancements for the foreseeable future will be 1) scopes that calculate lead and drop, 2) more affordable thermal scopes, 3) improved ballistics so shots can be taken farther away, 4) and perhaps some type of locking and auto-aiming system.
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1 of 2 ways
1: short barreled rifle with a cartridge capable of long-distance accurate fire with a high ballistic coeffecient from said short barrel. preferably caseless
2: coilgun launching ferroalloy bullets at enormous velocities getting the power from a solid state battery.
and a optic that ranges the target and adjusts zero, including elevation and wind, on it's own, so as long as you can see it, you can hit it
3rd way. Soft launch from large smooth bore fin stabilized and guided with a small shape charge. Think "Runaway" only more of a shoulder "launched" as opposed to shoulder "fired". Basically a micro drone designed to seek and destroy an individual.
That optic is called the vortex xm157 15:20
Bullpup firing caseless ammunition. Use an APDS or APFSDS loading as standard to get good BC, higher velocities without driving up chamber pressures beyond acceptable limits, and to get decent AP effect. If possible, have the ability to fire full bore, or mostly full bore, projectiles for close range use against targets that may not be wearing body armour. Preferably with some sort of high rate limited burst mode like the G11 because why not.
Once you get the muzzle velocity up around 5000 feet per second/ 1.5 km/s, any target inside, say, 300 meters or so is basically put the dot on the target and pull the trigger, most of the time.
@@I_Automatehow effective would a mini APFSDS be against a soft target though? Against a vehicle it punches through and takes out components. Damage to the crew is from shrapnel and spalling from the armour. So against a ceramic plate it would shatter the plate and punch a pretty small needle sized hole through the target without doing a lot of actual damage.
@@poprocket2342 Imagine what defence capabilities would be in the future tho, and rifle can shoot full bore rounds so its capable for both type of targets
Just got home from a 12 hr shift huckin and chuckin steel all day, and first video to sit down and watch with a ice cold beer and bbq chicken thighs cooking.
This is a high honor Steel Chucking Man
Chuckin' steel over here, chuckin' steel over there, this dude was chuckin' steel everywhere! I've never chucked steel but I worked in an aluminum foundry when I was younger. I once got to see a 40 pound ingot hit a 30 foot high ceiling because the ingot had an air pocket with some moisture in it............not as much fun as you would think 😂
Hop and Brass Facts brought up a good point about the HAND guard around the pistol grip around the Tavor (similar gun to the Halo -BR- DMR): without the mag in front of the trigger group you're going to press the gun into something for support, without that pistol grip handguard you're probably going slam your hand into that rock or window sill or whatever.
Well the first widely adopted bullpup, the AUG, had a solution for that issue.
@@PavewayJDAM Sorry, the DMR, NOT the BR, I've been out of the Halo loop for a long while now.
But you mean the same solution the Tavor and the Halo DMR used?
This might sound like a crazy cut...but you know those 3d printed spiral puzzle cones? Where you can slide each part through the other in multiple directions? I think that sort of CAD work for projectiles could potentially yield something like a post ignition/barrel interface stage telescoping round. Probably caseless. But regardless it would act functionally like a reverse sabot round. A smaller caliber munition to allow for greater vapacity in smaller space, that then expands aftet it's shot in order to impart more of its force onto the target. Think a 7mm rifle round that expands into a 10mm SLAP round after it's fired.
Most forward thinking I’ve heard in awhile!
My favourite sci-fi gun is C-14 from Starcraft 2. The weird ergonomics kinda works because it's being used by a guy inside a massive power armour.
Definitely need a regular sci-fi gun review
I am actually at work on my second monitor watching you while I "work".
That hat really saved you from those substances 😂
Wheel guns are back BABY
My head cannon for how the pulse rifle fits 99 10mm rounds in that short magazine is the bullets are like the Volcanic rocket balls: small hollow at the back of the bullet contains a very high explosive that doesn't take any extra room. Then, the magazine could be a quad stack in a couple directions, with bullets in front of and beside other bullets in the magazine. The mechanism to feed them into the gun might get complicated, but science fiction could make it work.
We are so back
Gnarp?
The future of firearms is grim and bleak unless we constitutionalize the fully, semi and fullysemiautomatics
Where did we go?
@@HiramHankHonky banned from the market. Repeal NFA and Hughes Amendment
@@TheAnnoyingBoss hahaha
The halo dmr fencing actually makes a lot of sense to me. Hop and brass facts did a bit with bullpups, and they kept running into the problem of banging their fingers on cover they were trying to brace on. The additional trigger guard makes sense because something like the aug still has a rather large opening around the trigger. i think the halo dmr is honestly the best way to do it.
Geofencing is the digital equivalent of a proximity fuse
Lebanon anyone?
I knew Paul Harrell from the White Castle School. Watching all the vets pass while you're still in training is rough. You don't have to jump out of a helo to be a midwife. Trust me, there's enough Marky Marks to build a house!
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Think outside the box:
A weapon that looks like a box!
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Future gun for me: mix of classic propellant gun with electromagnetic assist plus smart ammo. Different barrels with fast replacement option and ability fo connet it to my googles. I read about new materials and its abilities for resist or reflect laser and temperatures. So we still need kinetic projectiles. Ammo from Elysium seems very good option.
I wanna see a serious look into combining traditional chemical propellant firearms with magnetic accelerators, along with rocket propelled ammunition
Basically, I want Bolters and Railguns to have a baby IRL
Pretty sure the "Chemrail" from Elysium is supposed to be something like that.
@@DangerKlaus guns of Elysium are wild. Especially a handheld 4 shot MANPAD, which can reach high maneuverable target in orbit(!)
Railguns already exist, just not on mass scale yet, though there is a company making coil and rail guns, I think arc flash labs
@@viperbuzzard01h84 That's part of why I'm eager. The tech for both rocket ammo and the railguns are available, it's just not really good yet.
Combine the acceleration of the traditional bullet with the acceleration of the magnetic rails, then have the projectile be rocket propelled? You could have 3000 m/s velocities out of a mere pistol. And that sounds real juicy to me.
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Legal suppressors FA and DD's at Walmart anyone?
On the real, though. Cheaper bi-metal cartridge cases for faster rounds and wear/heat resistant barrel linings for longer life are things I hope for
Im still sad we have not seen more about the RM277. It seemed to be a very good and innovative rifle + ammo combo.
They just have to remove the pointless open bolt feature and improve the trigger.
Think outside the box,
a handheld system that launches mini-drones (size of a 40mm grenade, with 3mins of flight, AI, and 5g of RDX)
they acquire a human enemy target and fly to it. boom.
But Skynet, who will we have manufacturing these weapons?
@@Stevarooni Abdulah sweating every afternoon in the back shed with a hand drill will always be there my friend.
@@foxtrotunit1269 classic Abdulah
@@foxtrotunit1269yep. You're on the right track. So are our best men at Raytheon.
When we finally crack octanitrocubane or octaazacubane, we will never need RDX again. Seriously, google those two😁
0:12 ...phase plasma rifle in a 40 watt range...
WM-25
Also known as the "Wam".
Almost choked on my beverage at "Hi Mom." Usually the laughing is just in my head, but I snorted mid chug (cold pomegranate green tea)
Full Rogan shroom decaf
Always wondered what a a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range looked like.
There's a guy I've seen on UA-cam who is experimenting with a toroidal plasmacaster. It's blowing smoke rings out of plasma, doesn't have much range yet
"Hey, just what you see, pal."
Drone ammo delivery could be a way around carrying less. Soldier pushes a button and a drone navigates to his position or somewhere nearby if they don't want to compromise their position. Could carry medical gear, food or water as well.
Aero med lab, kind of
That is the plan already, just with wheeled drones rather than flying ones.
@matthiuskoenig3378 Sweet, wheeled would be queiter and potentially a larger payload. Also, without all the electronics for flight, potentially cheaper to manufacture.
Not too over-bearing and no need for a spoiler-alert for our favorite sci-fi's... I tip my hat to you, sir. You hit all the right vibes here, no doubt.
I think due to the threat of drones on the battlefield, shotguns are gonna be making a big comeback. Maybe in a few years we will have some sort of high-bore flechette combat shotgun like the AA-12 on steroids...
Elysium is a good movie!
Love the ak with the programmable rounds
A 22 caliber bullet with the ballistic capability of a 556. Mans just described 556
“I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out.”-Howard Stark
G36 and MoonRaker laser.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
US Space Marines when?
Calico pistols
Mac-10s with rifle scopes
Bullpups that you only ever fire from the hip in full auto
@@Gameprojordanbased
Admin if you are supporting your bullpup rifle with something in front like a wall etc, with no large guard ur gonna mess up your dominant hand if u push in or foward too much. Its why guns like the aug have the guard that works so well
Half off those augs have a front grip that would be blocking that gusrd anysays
@@UnderEuropa you can use an object like a wall as support and put the grip on the other side of wall
I think the US Military should move to a mid-range caliber, up from the 556 NATO, to the 6 mm MAX. It has slightly more recoil, a lot more reach, and can fit into the AR-15 chassis size with only a barrel change.
Basically 6.8 remington
@@smartfella7914Ummm, no. The 6 mm MAX is a derivative of the .350 Legend which almost perfectly matches the 556 NATO dimensions, except for length and shoulder angle. If it was used, everything except the barrel can be reused of the AR-15 platform.
It's more speed, flatter trajectory, and can push the pill from 55 gr all the way to 110 gr and remain accurate.
Might be one of my fav vids of yours, and thats saying something👌🏽
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For me, the most likely future tech for firearms is augmented reality so we can have video game style HUDs in real life. Attach some aiming module on the barrel and you can project a crosshair on your AR goggles/glasses to aim without sights. Project a reticle on the gun rather than physically mounting, so you don’t have to worry about mounting solutions and would even allow designs like top folding stocks or charging handles to return. If the aiming module the AR goggles is aiming from can account for it, it could even make less accurate guns more accurate by automatically adjusting the aiming point depending on where the next shot will land.
Stuff like that. Whether that’ll happen anytime soon is anyone’s guess, but I don’t expect how firearms to work to change all that much without a major new, disrupting invention.
Those ideas sound interesting, but the technology would need to be damn reliable and have a way to power all those fancy gizmos and gadgets
It’s too easy to overload the user with visual information. Latency is also a challenge. Milliseconds matter in terms of human reaction time and shooting first. Try paintball or VR milsim and you’ll immediately feel the difference between having a gun at low ready and having it up and sighted. AR goggles or HUDs make that problem harder, generally speaking, in my own experience.
@@astebbin Agreed, which is why those things need to be ironed out with new technology to make things like latency (as well as accuracy) viable. Can be done (after all, shooting games require very low latency and that can be achieved with high framerates), but it’ll be a while before that can be practical in the real world. Still, I think that’s the most likely major paradigm shift in small arms. At the very least, optics and lasers would be replaced with AR goggles.
Basically what the PoA marines use in CE
You should've seen my grandpa's face when I told him the military is finally adopting the .270 WSM.
"finally"
"Gentleman I have a brain"
A quote from a man
In some year
Are you sure? Last man I saw was just doing a lot of clucking
The 1911 syndicate just did a video from a gun store in Chicago where the guys who run it made a small arm rail gun. It’s awesome.
The single greatest future advancement in firearms will be railguns / coilguns. Cheap as dirt ammo, no theretical upper limit on velocity and accordingly low recoil compared to penetration/terminal effect. For man-portable systems the caliber will most likely be in the 3 mm range, but long and slim. Probably flechette, as you don't need to seal gass and that's the best way to overcome the length/diameter-limit of spin-stabilized projectiles.
0:37 I never thought about it, but that is true. Only the best content deserves food
Excellent episode to pass a loaf to.. Thoroughly enjoy this type of content, and you keep a good energy during presentation, especially combined with your mannerisms. I'd certainly vote to have you add this type of content in to increase production❤❤
The XM25 used radio signals between the shell and the gun to determine when to explode, not the spin. They had one case where the shell exploded inside the barrel. No one was hurt because of the layers of safety involved in the design, but with the rise of more and more hackers in various opposing forces, it would be a matter of time for someone to be able to "hack" into the signal, rendering it questionable. Old fashioned 40mm grenades use the spin to arm the shell since Vietnam and other fuses used spin counters since WW2, at least.
This makes me wonder how effective the XM25 would be in an environment where electronic warfare and jamming are ubiquitous and pervasive. Think Ukraine on steroids. Personally I think that before long tactical drones (FPV drones) there will be constrolled through a fiber optic wire spooling out behind them for that reason. If the drone runs out of wire, it goes boom.
Hell, just think about using one in a metropolitan environment. Forget about electronic warfare and jamming, imagine the amount of latent frequencies in a city that could fuck with that.
Sitting on the couch and drinking my daily coffee while watching this. Very nice Aaron 👍
I ultimately would like to see more mech based tech developement, battle suits, and other rail gun based technologies.
The problem with a lot of cool infantry/cavalry based mechs and exoskeletons is that the tide of war is always pushing for more disconnect from having your squishy human body on the ground. Why would you willingly go fight in a gundam when you can just cause the same amount of damage with a big ass cruise missile that costs less and poses less risk to your life.
US air doctrine reflects this, as it is mostly just long range missile attacks at this point. Even in the case of infantry, there is a heavy reliance on air support in order to destroy the enemy before they can pose a risk to the squishy humans that have to go occupy that objective.
While cool as fuck mechs would be terribly situational and probably not as effective as long range options. And ridiculously expensive of course.
Isaac Arthur had a video on those concluding that there's basically no good reason to ever use them over other vehicles (IIRC)
By the way, what ever happened to half-tracks? Why are they no longer used on the battlefield?
@@cabnbeeschurgr I would fight in a mech because it's cool.
@@smorrow especially bipedal mechs, like seriously that's just asking to topple over. Humans can manage to walk on two legs but we're fucking weird compared to most of the animal kingdom. Too damn big a target profile too. Also I love to see more Isaac Arthur fans in the comments. Shout out to my fellow SFIA nerds.
I can see exoskeletal assistance for heavier armour in cqc but more than that is probably not effective/cost effective at all
Can go high or low. High quality in low quantity or low quality in high volume.
I just want weapons to be even more simple than they already are, then focus on accuracy or durability.
If you can do both, congrats, you have a business plan!
My dream pistol:
- All metal (polymer handguns were a mistake)
- 1911 trigger
- Minimum 100 round capacity per magazine
- Integrated thermal fusion reflex sight w/ 1-10x magnification
- Integrated WML with all the lumens
- Rechargeable/solar-powered RDS/WML cause changing batteries is annoying
- Recoil of a BB gun
- External ballistics of a photon
- Terminal ballistics of a .50 BMG Raufoss
*Dreamy sigh*…But, until someone makes that, I’ll have to compromise
Sounds like a bolter of sorts
If you're willing to compromise on the last two points, you could achieve the 100 round count easy with the 2mm Kolibri rounds.
You could fit 100 rounds in a comfortable magazine quite easily.
Uh, why would you want 10x magnification on a pistol?
@@CharlieConcepts-pw9ur Nah, not worth THAT much compromise
@@perrywaaz3660 Because if it has the external ballistics of a photon, there’s no drop. Suddenly a pistol has much further effective range
The innovations would have to come from the Ammo and the optic. Something like the Smart gun from CP2077 that can "Self Correct" it's projectiles around corners, That way you can fire from cover directly, That and combine it with the Elysium Air Burst cartridges so it can just be retrofitted into existing Magazines and or AR type lower for parts commonality.
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So as a gun nerd and technophile here’s my 2 cents:
1) The next major breakthrough in weapons technology you have to look for is elimination of gunpowder from the equation. By removing the powder and shell casing this solves a lot of logistical and manufacturing hurdles and allows for more compact weapons with a much higher ammo capacity. This requires a propulsion solution. Electromagnetic propulsion is the obvious answer. With increasing battery capacity and efficiency we can get to a point where you can store enough energy to propel a metal projectile as sufficient speeds. This will go hand in hand with soldier mounted power generation systems, the most elegant solution being nanomaterials built into the fabric of a soldiers uniform that generate electricity via movement or body heat. Energy generation, storage and transport are the limiting factors here. Time will tell if battery technology is capable of progressing this far.
2) Projectiles: metal projectiles give the greatest density (and thus target effect) whilst being easy and cheap to manufacture. The only alternative is directed energy which if energy production is adequate could potentially be attained within 50 years or so. Microwave weapons might potentially be more effective than lasers against fleshy human targets.
3) targeting: AI assisted multi-spectral target acquisition and fire control will become more and more normal. Add this to built in range finding and ballistic trajectory calculation with the potential for programmeable munitions (like the DARPA self guiding rifle round) and the hit efficiency will skyrocket dramatically. A single shot from a future rifle could be as effective as a full 100 round belt from a modern LMG.
TLDR: man portable rail rifles or thermal/microwave directed energy weapons seem the most likely candidates for a legit firearms revolution. Both of these require energy. In future wars electrical energy will become the dominant and most important resource.
Greetings, what would you think of a caseless cartridge in the style of the HK G-11 but with a solid metallic hydrogen propellant and detonated by micro waves or a plasma beam?
Stopped reading at the prospect of eliminating gunpowder as a propellant. If you have enough energy for a railgun, you have enough energy for directed energy. A gun that shoots itself apart is ridiculous.
@@arbelico2how is it that people can't understand that chemical propellants ignited by percussion is the safest most effective energy storage system in a handheld platform? The conversation of chemical energy into electricity is inefficient and cumbersome. It just doesn't work.
@@mattmarzula maybe if ETC technology gets far enough along they could miniaturize it for small arms. maybe a bullet that uses a plasma arc to ignite the gunpowder instead of percussion caps.
@@mattmarzuladirected energy isn't great for penetrating. You'd need an enormous amount of energy to penetrate very far, but at that point you'd have an almost impossible energy density in your "magazine"
The AKM as well as the GTR in that movie 👌🏾👌🏾
if im not mistaken the GTR just came out right before the movie lol.
What does the future of body armors looks like?¿
The guns from the movie Prospect are probably my favorite and I always go basic to it. On the cheap side you can have a little hand crank rail gun that’s basically a piece of wood, tube, capacitor, and A LOT of little rounds to throw. Just charge that baby for a couple hours before hand and off you go. But if you got money I’m assuming way better charge, velocity and ammo capacity, they look more sexy and ergonomic too.
But the idea is you’re only carrying the slugs so you can have ammo all day for probably cheap. Easier to make a projectile than a casing too
Guns are cool
I agree with this dude
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We have the tech for airburst 20mm, airburst of any larger caliber would be pretty much be the exact same, the only issue to solve would be electronics hardening against acceleration, they have already trialed them with 50mm, 30mm, 120mm and several other calibers that I don’t remember off the top of my head.
I miss the other guy.
Balaclava guy?
He had such a handsome face
0:52 on a Train in germany at 11pm
I'm on my bed with both my legs broken😂
I would like to see your thoughts on infantry wepons in the battletech setting.
I love you for adding a Mass Effect reference.. i have never felt more heard brøther
No im currently sheltering from this Hurricane in Florida but watching my favorite UA-camr❤. Keep up the Vids admin! I bought a arisaka because of your video
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I had already done my morning poo, but I was doing weights while watching and listening to this episode. Love your videos, congratulations on all your success, please keep the awesomeness coming
Guns, a GHOST ennie drink and a sit down talk with Admin? This is where the fun begins!
Blade runner hip cannons
Random sci-fi weapon: the Sternsacht Heavy Pistol from BattleTech makes the Desert Eagle look like a compact carry gun. Damn thing's like 50% recoil compensation. The devs didn't even bother to guess at at caliber, but its magazine capacity is exactly 3. Punches a damn fine hole, though.
Myself, I'll take an Intek laser rifle any ol' day. Though if one of those Gauss SMGs the Clanners make ever gets out on the market they be some good shooting. A buddy of mine in the 20th Arcturan Guards saw them in action in the fight for Tharkad City and said they work a treat.
This is definitely my favorite thumbnail of the year🤣
Idk, for me the answer was always "miniaturisation" of artillery tech. So probably muzzle reference devices in near future, electrothermochemical ammo with gas generator bullets in the end of the century, maybe even beam riding ammo with simultaneous impact in far future.
On further reflection, i feel like the advancement of material sciences has also opened up the possibility of transitioning into high explosives for propellant re: caseless rounds. And i think the only reason we haven't seen it yet is because the industry looked at that in the 60s when doing the initial research for caseless ammunition and basically found that the pressure curves wouldn't work in breach/bolt interfaces of the time using materials that they had access to in production quantities. But now, with things like staggered/delayed toggle bolts, 3D additive/reductive printing and milling and much more advanced CAD and physics modeling, i think that something like and HMX/RDX/BCHMX explosive as a propellant ina delayed breach block system could allow for much greater pressure in a much smaller projectile package. Especially if you combine that with other methodologies like integral gass bleed barrels, gas piston counterweights, squeeze bore barrels and cupped ammunition. Honestly at that point your biggest concern would be heat dispersion. Which would be solved with something like HMX because it expands so quickly it doesn't generate as much heat as other deflagration low-ex propellants. Need to see how much heat the brass extraction proccess actually bleeds out of the system.
Oh and if you transition to a platic explosive propellant it also opens the door for electronic triggers. Imagine a dialable trigger system that doesnt have any mechanical moving parts to clean or break. And heck you could even include a backup for all the people who worry about trusting something like that to a battery (even though all optics other than fiber optic use batteries). Something like peizoelectric sparker like from a grill. If the electronic trigger malfs, have that as a back up. 16lb new york style trigger pull, but it functions when you need it to sort of thing. But yeah, electronic ignition means you can lower the bore axis considerably. Heck little things like play the trigger hinge on the bottom of the trigger gurad instead of the top because that is more ergonomically suitable for most fingers.
...man i need to do some cad work haha
We could all evolve to the Dune route and have personal shields that makes firearms obsolete and resort to melee weapons.
You are filling the background silence while I am doing calculus homework. Fun video, it gave me some creative ideas which distracted from the homework a little, haha.
I read an Aliens universe novel, that included the design history of the M41a and it was awesome
There are 2 things preventing a 30-cal airburst round:
1. Thirty-cal bullets just plain don't carry enough payload to be effective.
2. That whole "Geneva Convention" thing about rounds under a certain explosive payload being a "war crime".
Keep in mind the G11 wasn't complicated because it was caseless. It was complicated because they wanted a a 3 round burst to leave the barrel before the recoil was felt by the shooter. The CL LSAT program guns use the exact same caseless technology (but in 5.56 and round instead of 4.7 and square) and are about as simple as a lot of traditional guns already out there
Most likely in the near future…
A hybrid railgun/conventional setup that still uses gunpowder to propel the bullet, but the bullet itself is magnetic and further accelerated by the railgun barrel, which produces more velocity while saving on battery weight on the railgun end, and saving on barrel length and propellant on the conventional end.
The fact that there wasn’t an SDI ad plug in a video about the development of firearms and weapons technology is kinda crazy
I like the idea of a counter-recoil or “Balanced Automatic Recoil System” of the AK-107 or its predecessor, the AL-7. An intermediate caliber assault rifle with removed recoil, stringing projectiles, automatic 30 rounds, 600 rounds per sec, off hand, fist sized hole, 75 yards, just a little tremor through a zoomed optic as rounds are fired. 🎉
Think next step is gonna be drone weaponization, bringing the soldier behind it, soldiers become more support role oriented. Then we might see productions of weapons that feature multiple ammo types with ammo being able to carry a payload. (Lethal + different Non-lethal's in the same rifle)
"The future will happen at some point" that's all I learned today
I forgot where I saw it, but it was actual footage online, they made bullets that can change trajectory mid flight. It is a real thing. It's not on any kind of production, but the proof of concept has been made.
Gyrojet-style rocket bullets can do this in theory. The trouble is balancing maneuverability, cost, and terminal velocity. Sensors and control surface actuators drive price per bullet up. Turn hard enough fast enough and you’re effectively dumping all forward velocity and terminal effectiveness. Realistically you’d want an exploding payload to guarantee terminal effect, but if you’re paying $50 per round anyway for guidance systems you may as well make the explosive charge a bit larger, which makes the control systems cheaper too since miniaturization costs money, and if you’ve got an explosive charge then it needs a fusing system, aaaand now we’re just talking about 40mm grenades.
You might fit a burst charge in a .30 cal bullet if you made the projectile longer, like the OG-7V fragmentation round fired from the RPG-7. Fragmentation would be concentrated along the radial axis. If you want to get a little sci-fi about it, can imagine a rifle with dynamic (“smart”) bolt adjustment to vary headspace and chamber depth per-round to accommodate either conventional or lengthened projectiles.
0:23 looks like your average Kel-tec gunsmith 😂😂😂😂😂
Mass Effect has a cool futuristic theory of the weapon shaving a single molecule off an internal tungsten block and passing it through a mass accelerator. So effectively giving the molecule the ballistic capabilities of a truck.
did you know the full quote for "jack-of-all trades" is: A Jack of all trades, a master of none is oftentimes better than the master of one.
the reason the AR platform and AK platform see so much use is how versatile they are. hell, the AK spawned the PKM and the SDV so from one base model, you've got everything from a Squad Automatic Weapon to a Designated Marksman Rifle.
but i figure you already know this and what you mean in your dream gun section opener is things like how some guns (looking at you, Kel-Tec) try to have ALL the bells and whistles and end up sort of over-engineered as a result. but remember, its only over engineering IF it doesnt work or could be done better by a simpler solution. im sure if you told someone from WW2 that the future of infantry weapons was a fully automatic rifle with detachable scope, flashlight, something called a "laser", and it would function out to 700 yards while punching through the most advanced body armor known to man, he would probably say your a crazy person and there is no way one gun could EVER do all that without it weighing too much to shoulder (like the Browning Automatic Rifle).
AARON, my man i love your videos keep up the good work!
hand and brain augmentations that connect to the tech inside of future firearms like in cyberpunk is pretty dope and interesting. i can see that happening eventually.
Some people have noticed that the 6.8 round absolutely tears up armor plating, as in, light vehicle armor, not body armor and that was the "real" purpose of the round. Giving infantry an edge over vehicles. Sig and a few other companies are trying to sell the military on an "inbetween" gun to fill the gap between a 7.62 SAW and the M-2 by putting out some machineguns that are still reasonably portable in .338 Lapua. I also saw a booth at SHOT last year (2023) promoting their new mini-gun that had fewer parts than Dillon's design along with one less barrel to reduce the weight by 50 lbs that ran on 40 volt cordless tool batteries chambered in .338 Lapua to give it 500 yard longer range than a Dillon 7.62 minigun.
I believe we could make .30 cal airburst rounds but
1) they would be crazy expensive
2) xm-25 25mm grenades were considered underpowered with a very small kill radius (you had to achieve a near miss above your target). Unless we develop a way more energy dense explosive to fill those .30 cals, they would just be airburst firecrackers
So glad for all the content bro
I want the auto aim from the new Alien that thing was sick af. Also 450 round capacity in a mag fed shoulder fired weapon that isn’t 20+ pounds. Give me the Colonial Marine assault rifle pleaseeee