@@diogeneslantern18 Pretty sure you're thinking of the assault carbine from New Vegas. The American assault rifle and Chinese assault rifle both shot 5.56
Normally the wooden furniture on salvaged Chinese Assault rifles are seen 'petrified' white by age; clearly this rifle has been dutifully maintained by Brotherhood scribes for quite a length of time!
@@Xictlii 'Anchorage Bunker' - I think you've been hitting the Jet too hard, friend - next you'll be telling me that there's a Vault-Tec Vault out there comprised solely out of numbered clones 🤨
Clearly Ian is a fan of fallout. He explained the games lore waaaay to confidently to just simply be casually reading a script. He was doing some deep dives with his explanations.
I wouldn´t be too sure of this.. Ian´s strength is getting a detailed introspective into relatively complicated matters in a rellatively short time... And he´s known to talk to people who know more about stuff than he does so yeah I think it´s entirely possible he never touched one of the games
So let me get this straight Someone built a whole ass working Type 93 from Fallout 3 in real life. But Bathesda couldn't even be bothered to finish modeling one for Fallout 4?...
@@DIEGhostfish I don't think there really is a way to make a 7.62x39 magazine and rifle work in 5.56 without having to redesign a lot of things, so it most likely is just a 7.62 AK underneath. It should be noted that 7.62(x39) is an ammo type in Fallout 4, so I would assume the Chinese used it in their standard infantry Type 93s and Type 56s not being sent to spies in the US.
@@DIEGhostfish probably but we don't know much about Russia or the USSR in Fallout other than that they existed and apparently had a fairly decent relationship with the US.
Ah, a fellow ghoul are you? The smoothskin explained it well, I've seen plenty of these during my time in service when America still existed. I actually have one on the West Coast, they're way rarer in the NCR.
See, now I want a Wasteland Codex style mod of just Ian giving the in-universe histories of the various weapons you pick up. I'd bet the FO4 Assault Rifle entry would be hilarious.
You wander the wasteland together with Ian in your Pip-boy. You have no grand objective, you just wander. And along your journey, you find two mercenaries by a campfire. One wearing a red beret and NCR jacket, the other wearing a ranger trenchcoat. Former watersmith and gunsmith respectively. Seems like the Gunsmith admires Ian on your pip-boy
I outright replaced that junk with Degenerate Daks M69 that redesigns it so it looks like the prototype M69 from Vietnam and cuts the weight down cause the default you can make HEAVIER THAN THE MINIGUN and its 30 pounds when you pick it up! Or i just replace it with the R91 & AK 2047 and the seen better days retextures or the AR-18 because that waste of steel is more of a eyesore than the pipe guns.
God help us if certain questionable left-leaning movement arm themselves with these cuz China thought yeah let's make it more difficult for America let them fight themselves they do it just the slow us down.
@@bastianmerriman3389 Lol, the image for the lifegiver perk in fallout is a picture of vault-boy dressed as Jesus, the gun-nut perk is Ian in a nutshell. Ian's internet nickname is Gun-Jesus haha.
What idiot takes Gun Nut? Lifegiver is BARELY adequate as a perk. You’re better off with Toughness, or even Adamantium Skeleton, so you can toss grenades anywhere you want, even point blank. 🤓
As a Chinese, I can CONFIRM that the Type 93 rifle is absolutely legit and definitely not some April fools joke. I remember carrying them fighting in Alaska before the thermal nuclear war, it was a long time, a long time.
Ian's ability to stay in character while talking about the different lore bits like the dates and the Chinese Invasion, puts a huge smile on my face! Especially that little BoS bit at the end! This truly made my day, thank you Ian! 😁😁
I legit felt the same. 4 minutes in I had to start the video all over again. My mind couldn't make sense of what he was saying cuz he was speaking so naturally about the lore as if it really happened. Hats off for Ian.
Yeah there was an April 1 video on a rock used as a primitive weapon a few years ago, and his dry delivery and immense amount of made up historical details had me going for a good couple of minutes into the video.
@sgfhk321 Nah, BOS has been known to work with wastelanders of particular skill in the past, and Ian is clearly one of the best weapon historians outside their own scribes (might even give them a run for their money, but I know what's good for me, so I didn't say it lol). Besides, while a fascinating pre-war design, the tech itself isn't anything special; the GRA boys out west are starting to put out gear as good or better than these things nowadays, so there's nothing the Brotherhood would really need to keep to themselves here. If Ian gets ahold of something a Wattz 2000, or, be still my heart, a P94, then I'd be worried about what he's getting into.
@sgfhk321 Surely Ian, more than anyone, could stand beside such giants as well. He's Gun Jesus, after all. Rumor is he's even immortal and has been cataloging weaponry since before the bombs; some kind of Ghoul without skin condition maybe?
@@akicauchemar7286 except in 1 and 2 they were never the genocidal pathetic maniacs Obsidian made them into in New Vegas. As much as I love this game, this one thing always bugged me.
SEE, this is the kind of April Fools stuff everyone should live up to. Not just "Oh here's a thing SURPRISE it's not a thing, fuck you lmao, I'm so cool", but genuine effort into something a silly project for a one-off sort of thing. This is the cool shit I love to see. I thought it'd be a non-firing replica, too. BUT NOPE. Ian, please. I may be British. BUT I WANT ONE.
I just love the idea of going into vault 34 (the one with the All-American) and finding an entire file cabinet full of holotapes like these, where a gun historian, with nothing left to do, attempting to document information on all of the different guns in the vault.
I'm fairly certain the Boomers would have taken copies with them in Nellis AFB after leaving. One could wonder if they'd allow access to it for people like the Gun Runners or caravans like the Crimson Caravan or Happy Trails
I can't believe i'm only seeing this now, a year after its release. this is genius. This Follower of the Apocalypse thanks you for your dedication to this history.
I'd love seeing a follow up contrasting the Wattz 2000 and the AER - 9 model laser rifles. I'm still convinced the Wattz is the superior for anti armor and long range uses, even though we only see AER's around these days.
I just love how seriously he’s talking about this thing as if it were mass produced and not just the best custom job I’ve ever seen. Props to Ian and who ever was inspired to make a real Type 93 Chinese Assault for the best April Fools video today.
It makes sense that Ian is reviewing this weapon after showing the earlier models of the current Gauss Rifle. Good thing we now use microfusion cells to power them
What I'd really like to see is his breakdown of the protoype Zhu-Rong Pistol. I'd love to see how that thing's barrel causes ammo to superheat to combustion!
I doubt he'll get one. Xuanlong Variant are more of an experimental attempt by the PLA to create an IAR (Infantry Automatic Rifle). It's essentially the same rifle but made with lighter materials, I presume bakelite nstead of wood and some kind of composite steel instead of regular steel, and have a more calibrated sights so one theoretically can use it with less amount of focus when, for example, using VaultTec Assisted Targeting Syatem implemented on a RobCo Pipboy. And thanks to the lighter material + better milled Magazine well, I hear you could fit the weapon with a special 36 rounds sized magazine without making it any heavier than a standard Type 93. Though All in all, that's just speculation. The Xuanlong Variant probably isn't real. But who knows, their Spec Ops "Hei Gui" Units are apparently real and do use special kind of Reflective Camouflage armored suit. We can only hope at least
Ian would make be the best Rogue Caravan Trader in any Fallout game. Especially if he wore a different hat every time you encountered him in the wastelands.
@@Retr0Whiskey I'll do you one better: Ian as a character in an indie post apocalyptic FPS where he acts as the all-in-one weapons merchant, being everywhere at once, wearing a different hat every time you encounter him.
Ian's dedication to making this video seem, true, factual and historically accurate is absolutely insane. If one had never played FO3 I can imagine they'd take this information at face value! Ian, you astonish me with every single joke video. Thank you for improving my quality of life in this way!! 😂😂 Edit: you astonish me with just about EVERY video I'd say, but my point remains... INSANE level of dedication lmao
Enjoying my video this morning on my pip boy with a fresh bowl of sugar bombs for breakfast 🥣. Appreciate you for making content for us vault dwellers!
This needs to be a series; Wasteland Survival Weapons. What gun is best for hunting? What gun do I need to fend off Raiders? What is the best way to deal with a Deathclaw? Coming to a terminal near you in 2289 by Moira Brown Press.
@@MiloNgoReborn What I want to see are the 2-pun match and the Nuclear Brutality match, probably after the hunger games of 2399 or the Mutant Squid Games: Noting like trying to bayonet a 5.3m, 1080kkg calamare coming at you
"Hey guys, thanks for tuning in to Forgotten Weapons, I'm Ian McCollum and this is a rather unique lever-action rifle called the 'Medicine Stick'. Despite it being called the 'Medicine Stick', and it being chambered in .45-70 Government, I don't think it's designed to do a lot of healing. So let's take this thing out to Quarry Junction for a little accuracy test..."
Ian is actually a great actor! I literally cannot tell the difference between Ian joking and being serious!! Voice tone, cadence, word choice, descriptive style: all identical!!
Ian's absolutely normal delivery of all this 'info' has started to make me question his usual reviews...if he's this good at sounding authoritative reciting fictional future-history, who's to say he's not just making up ALL the info on his channel? Are there really even AK-47's? :)
Weapons technology stopped developing past the 19th century in reality and fully automatic weapons are just a hoax propagated to make the idea of war and revolution seem impractical and suicidal
@@tamashi1094 I don't play the game but just looking at it, the receiver is canted at an angle on this one (as opposed as square and larger on the Bethesda one), and the stock has a thinner profile.
@@tamashi1094 Looking at the model on the fallout wiki it seems to me like this one has a longer receiver and a longer barrel. I suspect this rifle might originally have been a Galil that's been modified to look like a Type 93.
I wonder if it’s called the Type 93 because it entered service 93 years after 1949, putting its adoption at 2042. Definitely love this video about one of the best weapons in the Fallout series
Unless somebody finds some PLA documentation that explains it, I guess we'll never know. Of course, the Brotherhood could already know, but for some reason, Elder Alex might've decided to not tell Ian.
This is such a good video that it actually expands on the lore. It makes complete sense that this design would be scrapped in the 90s in favour of laser and plasma weapons then brought into production when those became unfeasible to produce
The marking "五六式” has nothing to do with "type 56". This was a miss understanding in America. “五六” does indeed mean "56". However, “式” means "compatible". This rifle was designed for Chinese special ops to use behind enemy line(NATO area) where 5.56 ammo is widely available
I am not sure if your picking up on the fact that this video is in fact satire. The video game Fallout references are interlaced heavily within the video. I do appreciate your insights on the markings.
Oh my god, you just made me realize that Ian left a mistranslation in this video. Probably on purpose too. He really went all out on details to make it seem as real as possible.
@@Ovokor You realise that the OP falls in line with the notion that the main supply was from pre-chased weapons for Chinese infiltration units, right? ;)
I like that Ian's explanations of Fallout's Chinese Assault Rifle would fit almost perfectly with Fallout lore down to giving real world connections to why it looks the way it does.
After having an absolutely terrible day, I can honestly say that this video was highly enjoyable and actually made me smile with how well it was done. I couldn't keep from laughing. Thanks Ian.
As a Ranger, I came across several of these during my journey through the Capital Wasteland. Great durable guns so it is no surprise they are so beloved in that region. When I brought one back west, some of the other rangers were surprised to see one as we mostly have Soviet AK-112s in 5mm on the west coast.
Steel ammo casings? Not that it would matter in real life, the primers would be dead in a short time, exposed to world wide acid rain after the nuclear exchange.
At least You guys aren't stuck with rangemaster 14 chambered in 7.62x54 rim as we are here in Florida praise be the mouse. p.s the rangemaster 14 is a m14a2 built in the range master armory in free city of gainesville FL in fallout
Its funny how We were so worried about COMMUNISM, and the Chinese had to smuggle their rifles in, we just... happily bought the USSR's old suplus, and they were happy to sell it to us.
Fallout 1 and 2 had a ton of real weapons. There was the AUG, the FAL, the SAW, and a bunch more. The M16 is in Fallut New Vegas too. It just has wooden furniture.
@@chpet1655 Several, to varying levels of quality. Personally 1, 2 & New Vegas were great, 3 is nostalgic for me, not good but has good parts, 4 plays well but is real shit, Brotherhood of Steel is shit and 76 is a travesty to a great series. At least it was last time I checked out anything Fallout after New Vegas
@@chpet1655 It's perhaps the definitive post-apocalyptic RPG, but yes it varies in quality and gameplay a lot sadly. Its influence on the games industry is hard to overstate though. The guy above me forgot about Fallout Tactics. It's a decent game with some quality of life improvements over FO2, but it is a bit unpolished and unbalanced. It's like Fallout meets X-COM.
I honestly just want a full series just like this exploring as many of the firearms of Fallout as possible. April Fool's Day aside, this is a great video and a fantastic concept for a series.
Until it is demonstrated, one rarely sees the difference between a merely competent amateur and the very expert professional. Mr. McCollum, this is brilliant in all sorts of ways - an April Fool's custom designer dessert confection amidst a sea of April Fool's cheap hard candies. And just as tasty. I want one. Hell, I want a rack of 'em.
Awesome holotape Ian, was so glad to have found this on the body of the raider I killed. Anyway, I would love to see you cover the venerable N99 10mm pistol at some point in the future. I had one for a while and found it to be a reliable (though perhaps a bit bulky) sidearm. Regardless, I'd love to see you cover that, or maybe one of those NCR service rifles one day!
Oh for the love of God please post the build list. I recognize the Galil receiver and RPD handguard, was the top cover custom fabricated? this thing is so sick.
Brandon Herrera, "The AK Guy" is getting his inbox molested by his more rabid followers, about making Type 93's for them ASAP, as soon as Ian's upload was live. Change my mind.
Ian Mccollum The Gun Runner S: 5-Handles most firearms. P: 7-Pretty accurate. E: 3-Has a sparse upload schedule. C: 5-Average looking but puts points into Speech. I: 8 - Knows all about guns and world history. A: 2 - Shoots at one target each, never fires st multiple L: 10 - Gets the rarest of guns.
Props to an incredibly well researched video, I loved hearing the lore from the different locations in FO3, took me back to when I was playing that nonstop. Hearing it all come alive even if it's just an April Fools video, this is amazing stuff. Great work Ian, much love from a UK vault dweller
Ian has always been the gold standard of gun tubers... the exact opposite of Demo Matt and his myriad personalities, created to express his suppressed urges. Ask Mere.
I'd wager one of the reason for the extra steel thickness was because the lack of materials need to make alloys and high quality steel. So instead they just added more of the steel they could produce in significant quantities.
I'm surprised I didn't find any of these on the submarine "Yangtze" during my travels through the Commonwealth. I did find large numbers of "assault rifles" that were more like a lighter version of the standard Maxim-Browning system used during the Tropical Fruit Wars of 1915-1995, if my historical research is correct. I may have also found Benjamin Franklin's original .44 revolver while ducking Institute androids, or "synths" as they call them here. I'm still amazed how many Hessian Protectrons Franklin destroyed during the Revolution. Who knew that RobCo was using such an old design?
I never trusted RobCo. Their older models used to be adequate for home defense but they just cheaped out with the newer stuff. The securotrons were unreasonably heavy, buggy pieces of crap.
You know Ian for a ghoul I must say you have aged gracefully. Glad to see your still kicking after all these years. I loved watching your holotapes back before the war and I’m so happy you are continuing the series again. You’ve no idea how happy you’ve made this old wastelander
I was thinking I heard wrong when Ian said "mid 2020's" and then "2050-2070". Great one! Also nice thematic setup and visuals! What I'm thinking is how this was put together, all the mods.
Don"t wanna be too serious, but was not the conflict about oil reserves on the sea in the first place, since both China and USA have depleted their reserves elsewhere? ;)
@@PosranaRegistrace I checked the wiki and the official game guide states that the oil under the sea had a lot to do with the start the war, and that the oil in Alaska was a major strategic objective during the war as well.
When you mentioned that the rifle was made during a period of resource scarcity and that the rifle had been enhanced for hand-to-hand fighting, I thought you would be discussing the venerable practice of using an empty rifle as a club.
@@debbiestimac5175 Well, in truth the Austrian STG-58 didn't have a bayonet lug, nor a bayonet, because the pronged flash suppressor acted as the bayonet, so next time.....
Can't wait for a video on the U.S counterpart, the R91. Infact if Ian manages to get a hold of all the major arms of the resource wars that'd be awesome.
Might be redundant considering the R91 would literally be represented by an unmodified CETME C (visually), and the Service Rifle an AR15 with wooden furniture and maybe a side charger for good measure. Still would like to see it just for the meme.
Also the dart gun. I was never scared of Deathclaws after I got a dart gun. They're worth their weight in caps. More than their weight in caps, because they don't weight much.
@DIEGhostfish no, but neither is the one in this video, it's 7.62. The CETME is in 308, but if you wanted to be a real stickler you could hack a Frankenstein job with an HK53/93/C93 receiver and install a longer barrel, modify the handguard mountings to fit a G3 or CETME wooden one, and make custom 556 mags out of the CETME mags.
Yeah well I mean, actually reviewed as an in universe gun like this was xD just for the memes I actually thought of that G3 pattern rifle chambered in 5,56, I keep forgetting the name of, could be the R91.
Barely two minutes into this video and i already utterly love it. Great work for this particular day, Ian. The vault overseer should reward you handsomely.
I’m amazed how well you summarized the lore, especially for a joke April fools video, the gun itself looks beautiful, like someone ripped it out of fallout 3.
As much as this was just for laughs, I'd love to see you do more rationalizations of firearms from alternate history settings. I like when a fictional weapon can feel real, like it wasn't just cooked up to look neat and given shortcomings just for in game balance; there's really something neat of having a short history on why a weapon is what it is, and why it has its foibles and features. Especially so with very oddball or kitbashed looking guns. Your channel is honestly great for inspiration on writing fictional guns; especially more oddball stuff that might only get adopted because the stars aligned and all the shortfalls of something weird ending up as a service weapon. I honestly doubt there's anyone else who digs up as many failed or forgotten firearms and gives their history and engineering; let alone shares it for free.
He has a couple more videos where he does something similar talking about the fictional nation of Elbonia to try and rationalize some horribly bubba-ed weapons.
Man.. Ian is so accurate in his presentation, that I feel like I'm a person actually living in the Fallout universe who's learning about the Fallout firearms history in the future. Good on you Ian!!
Cool thing Ian, i actually found a type 93 myself not long ago, in some Diner near a Metro station. Mine had a personal marking on the receiver though: 玄龍 which translates to "black dragon". Thanks to your vid.. ehm holotapes, i learned how important gun preservation is, so i donated my type 93 to the Capitol Preservation Society.
I saw the image of the thumbnail and was like "hey wait, that's not a real thing... but why does it look so familiar??" Super, super, cool custom mod!!!
@@extragoogleaccount6061 You weren't asking me, but seeing as I share an opinion with the original comment; It's more so just, I hate the mind games of "is this an April Fool's gag or not?" I just wanna chill on UA-cam, and I honestly don't care for April Fools, really in general, it's one of the only Holiday's I genuinely just don't csre for at best, and actually despise at worst. I'd rather not have to stress myself out trying to find a genuine video to watch that isn't an April Fools day gag.
@@ultimatepunster5850 Basically the same sentiment, just couldn’t be arsed replying to old mate because it seemed like he was just out to be vindictive. “oH, yOu HaTe FuN?” Of course not you bloody pleb haha
(cue heavy breathing from Brandon Herrera's fan base) "Look at that stamped Chinese Communist Star, the white paint stencil... the sheen on the custom fore-end furniture. Take my money Brandon! Do it! Doooooooooo! iiiiiiiiiitttt!" (Starsky and Hutch movie reference)
I love that you're bringing awareness to lesser known conflicts and military history as well I never knew that the Chinese invaded Alaska as well as their covert operations in and around DC and the larger US truly interesting stuff
Ian you forgot to go into the reason for hand fighting becoming so important. At the time of it's development the American army began fielding power armor. The Chinese response was the begin using emp weapons on these armored soldiers who would then be mobed, it was found that the most effective way to destroy these units after they were disabled was to use a bayonet to jam up components and cut through the ballistic weave on the stomach.
Me: Looks at Video, “this looks like the Chinese assault rifle From fallout.” Also Me: watches video… this is the Chinese Assault Rifle from fallout. Keep up the amazing content.
mine was more like "hey that kinda looks like the chinese assault rifle from fallout" "...and it has a similar name too" "...wait a minute... *wait a minute* "
This is so cool. I can’t believe I’m just now seeing this. I was literally playing the simulated mission for the outcasts today too lol. Love this channel so much
The BoS are the real heroes here. Without Elder Alex and his men out there collecting and preserving artifacts like this, we would hardly be able to enjoy such great content.
@@uzivatel56 So? Their collection of pre war artifacts is preserved and cared for and curated allowing for content like this. The only other place you can get material like this is the ChAES exclusion zone in Europe and the quality isn't nearly as good.
I know this is an April Fool’s video but this was fantastic. I’d love to see more of these lore friendly breakdowns of Fallout weaponry. Do a video on the Fatman next!
I forgot what day it was, I thought I was having a fever dream. This was amazing! I loved using the Xiaolong variant in F3. I think everyone did, considering it did the most damage for the small guns class in automatic fire till dlc came out. Would love to see more videos like this with that twist of lore. Thank you Ian!
It's not every day that I wake up and find one of my favorite content creators makes an April Fool's joke video about my favorite game series of all time. But that wasn't enough, no, he had to actually build a functioning fictional firearm from fallout, which has been a dream of mine for years. Well played Ian, well played. Just cementing himself as a true legend, and really cool guy. I would love to know the story behind putting this rifle together, there's clearly some beautiful custom work that went into it.
I knew Ian was gonna Pull a Halo-Garand Thumb move eventually. Edit: I just remembered he’s been doing that with his Elbonia videos…still, nice Fallout reference. Hopefully we can get the AER9 family of laser weapons next year.
What I find particularly interesting is that they seemed to be decades ahead of us when it comes to shooting technique and firearm design based around it. The front handguard has a cutout on top for a thumb, clearly meant for the c clamp grip.
Early PLA leadership are pretty much all guerrilla fighters who specialized in infantry raiding and infiltration, small firefights with grenades, dynamite, molotov cocktails, bayonets, sabers etc. were something extremely common for their mid-to-high ranks, so this makes sense
C clamp grip is great in movies and movies alone.. the fact is that they are decades behind the rest of the world and trying to play catch up as fast as possible
It's actually a neat coincidence. I think the fallout designers were modifying the aesthetic of Soviet LMG handguards. It looks like it's made to make a bayonet form more comfortable
did you guys even watch the vid? the grip was for ease of use when bayoneting someone. almost every aspect of this gun was designed with scarcity in mind. it looking "meant" for the c clamp grip is just coincidence.
This was an amazing video. He did a good job making it convincing in design, and the person building that rifle was really good at constructing a convincing replica.
Imagine knowing nothing about Fallout and watching Ian casually explain all *this*
Congratulations now you do know some stuff about fallout. :)
Causally explaining a war between the US and China that led to a thermonuclear war
non fallout player: 👁👄👁
I hear you...
I know nothing about fallout (except fallout 4) and I watched the whole thing. I did know enough that that’s a gun from the game though.
...."of course, when the PLA invaded Alaska in, I believe 2074,..." wait what??
"Chambered for 5.56, I believe it was the NATO cartridge"
I love that Ian pretended to not be sure about it. It's so accurate to the setting.
I think he was trying to remember if NATO existed in fallout
@@AnarchyMeansIHateYou it did for a good while. Then dissolved in 2030 I believe.
It shot 5mm rounds in the game iirc.
@@diogeneslantern18 Pretty sure you're thinking of the assault carbine from New Vegas. The American assault rifle and Chinese assault rifle both shot 5.56
@@UselessFox I swear I don't remember 5.56 ammo at all in FO3 lol but I see it indeed is there!
I don't know what's worse: the fact that this video is lore accurate, or the fact that I knew that this is lore accurate.
Right? I kept waiting for a slip up that would ruin my immersion, but nah, he nailed it. 10/10
@@Simriel a true professional. I am now replaying Fallout 3 because of this video
@@DTOStudios You shouldn't, it's pretty bad xD
@@Simriel now this is truly a bad take
@@Simriel let people have fun
Normally the wooden furniture on salvaged Chinese Assault rifles are seen 'petrified' white by age; clearly this rifle has been dutifully maintained by Brotherhood scribes for quite a length of time!
Actually this might be one from the anchorage bunker in Washington DC.
That's a great detail!
@@Xictlii 'Anchorage Bunker' - I think you've been hitting the Jet too hard, friend - next you'll be telling me that there's a Vault-Tec Vault out there comprised solely out of numbered clones 🤨
I'm surprised nobody has tried to make bleached wood furniture for guns. Gotta get that battle worn look
@@minhducnguyen9276 Like buying jeans that are pre-'acid-washed' 😁
This is the most in depth April fools joke ever. I am gobsmacked at the effort that went into this one.
Garand Thumb did a pretty similar and equally high effort video in 2020!
There's a few channels I follow that are quite good at this, making me look forward to this day to see what they've come up with this year
What’s funny though is polytech and norinco name their firearms like this, I own a type 81 which is pretty much an Ak clone
Idk man look up the French rock video Ian did 😂
For a split second I thought it was a real rifle
Ian has maxed out his Charisma and Speech perks.
and has 100 in guns
Probably a fairly high repair too
I know he has all these perks:
Gun Nut
Jury Rigging
Cowboy
Commando
Grunt
Gunslinger
Rapid Reload
Vigilant Recycler
Gun Jesus mfw
@@rps215 in new vegas he'd have "messiah" under reputation everywhere he goes
This might be the best Fallout lore content on youtube
Nah, look for "The Storyteller" or "Radking".
Clearly Ian is a fan of fallout. He explained the games lore waaaay to confidently to just simply be casually reading a script. He was doing some deep dives with his explanations.
I wouldn´t be too sure of this.. Ian´s strength is getting a detailed introspective into relatively complicated matters in a rellatively short time... And he´s known to talk to people who know more about stuff than he does so yeah I think it´s entirely possible he never touched one of the games
@@CobAAOff I mean you can be into Fallout lore without playing the games. But this isn’t the first fallout video he’s done, though.
@@HomeboyMcGoo he’s done others?
@@J0J0ReferenceYee with 9 hole reviews, pretty cool video.
@@J0J0Reference InRange has done a few too
I prefer the warm glow of a plasma rifle myself but the type 93 is good in a pinch, just don’t let Liberty Prime catch you holding it.
Liberty Prime need to undestand that every weapon we use against comunism is a weapon of freedom, using the enemy Guns against then
In the 40 watt range?
ALL CHINESE COMMUNISTS WILL BE ELIMINATED!!
Democracy is non negotiable
@@Daniel-Weaver I don’t know it’s exact power output but I think the Winchester P94 is a bit spicer than that
This can't even be classified as bullshit. This is art. Beautiful art. Well done, Ian and crew!
What year is it
A better tribute than Bethesda deserves; this was for the lore.
@@jansenart0 This was not for Bethesda (Which is actually located in Rockville MD) but for the fans.
So let me get this straight
Someone built a whole ass working Type 93 from Fallout 3 in real life.
But Bathesda couldn't even be bothered to finish modeling one for Fallout 4?...
Thanks to wastelandmelody and wardaddy for making it a dream come true
I think it's still actually chambered in 7.62 other than that.
@@DIEGhostfish I don't think there really is a way to make a 7.62x39 magazine and rifle work in 5.56 without having to redesign a lot of things, so it most likely is just a 7.62 AK underneath.
It should be noted that 7.62(x39) is an ammo type in Fallout 4, so I would assume the Chinese used it in their standard infantry Type 93s and Type 56s not being sent to spies in the US.
@@trainknut 74's 5.45 is probaably a thing too.
@@DIEGhostfish probably but we don't know much about Russia or the USSR in Fallout other than that they existed and apparently had a fairly decent relationship with the US.
I remember the second battle of Anchorage. By the end, Type '93s just littered the ground. We used the handguards for firewood.
Ah, a fellow ghoul are you? The smoothskin explained it well, I've seen plenty of these during my time in service when America still existed. I actually have one on the West Coast, they're way rarer in the NCR.
See, now I want a Wasteland Codex style mod of just Ian giving the in-universe histories of the various weapons you pick up. I'd bet the FO4 Assault Rifle entry would be hilarious.
I would love a breakdown of the fallout 3 combat shotgun.
It would just be "This is...uh...yep, I've got noth-"
All of you want fallout content, while I'm waiting for Ian to review the GEP gun from Deus Ex
You wander the wasteland together with Ian in your Pip-boy. You have no grand objective, you just wander.
And along your journey, you find two mercenaries by a campfire. One wearing a red beret and NCR jacket, the other wearing a ranger trenchcoat. Former watersmith and gunsmith respectively. Seems like the Gunsmith admires Ian on your pip-boy
I outright replaced that junk with Degenerate Daks M69 that redesigns it so it looks like the prototype M69 from Vietnam and cuts the weight down cause the default you can make HEAVIER THAN THE MINIGUN and its 30 pounds when you pick it up!
Or i just replace it with the R91 & AK 2047 and the seen better days retextures or the AR-18 because that waste of steel is more of a eyesore than the pipe guns.
The Fallout theme and the dedication to the bit is perfect
He even changed his contact info in the description!
God help us if certain questionable left-leaning movement arm themselves with these cuz China thought yeah let's make it more difficult for America let them fight themselves they do it just the slow us down.
@@mikecampos1193 what the fuck are you talking about
Just imagine a historian 2000 years from now, has to make sense of this.
It’s says type 56
I was thinking that too 😂
When you take the Life Giver and Gun Nut perks.
I understood that reference. Have a like.
When u don't understand the reference
thanks, 5.11. very cool!
@@bastianmerriman3389 Lol, the image for the lifegiver perk in fallout is a picture of vault-boy dressed as Jesus, the gun-nut perk is Ian in a nutshell. Ian's internet nickname is Gun-Jesus haha.
What idiot takes Gun Nut? Lifegiver is BARELY adequate as a perk. You’re better off with Toughness, or even Adamantium Skeleton, so you can toss grenades anywhere you want, even point blank. 🤓
As a Chinese, I can CONFIRM that the Type 93 rifle is absolutely legit and definitely not some April fools joke. I remember carrying them fighting in Alaska before the thermal nuclear war, it was a long time, a long time.
That was a close-run thing. Imagine if you'd fielded those stealth suits earlier. We're all friends now of course.
How did you ghoulified? What happened right after the bombs?
Howdy fellow ghoul.
@@AshleyPomeroy speak for your self they are still commies in my book
What was it like fighting against T51-b power armour units?
Ian's ability to stay in character while talking about the different lore bits like the dates and the Chinese Invasion, puts a huge smile on my face! Especially that little BoS bit at the end! This truly made my day, thank you Ian! 😁😁
I legit felt the same. 4 minutes in I had to start the video all over again. My mind couldn't make sense of what he was saying cuz he was speaking so naturally about the lore as if it really happened. Hats off for Ian.
Yeah there was an April 1 video on a rock used as a primitive weapon a few years ago, and his dry delivery and immense amount of made up historical details had me going for a good couple of minutes into the video.
@sgfhk321 Nah, BOS has been known to work with wastelanders of particular skill in the past, and Ian is clearly one of the best weapon historians outside their own scribes (might even give them a run for their money, but I know what's good for me, so I didn't say it lol). Besides, while a fascinating pre-war design, the tech itself isn't anything special; the GRA boys out west are starting to put out gear as good or better than these things nowadays, so there's nothing the Brotherhood would really need to keep to themselves here. If Ian gets ahold of something a Wattz 2000, or, be still my heart, a P94, then I'd be worried about what he's getting into.
@sgfhk321 Surely Ian, more than anyone, could stand beside such giants as well. He's Gun Jesus, after all. Rumor is he's even immortal and has been cataloging weaponry since before the bombs; some kind of Ghoul without skin condition maybe?
@@dlarsh He could stand among giants, yes.
And don't call me Shirley.
I love that, even in an April Fools video, Ian understands Fallout and the Brotherhood of Steel more then the writers of Fallout 4 seem to.
"Seem to"
No.. do, like actually they did not and do not know a single thing about Fallout
@@zombiefinatic7033 How?
@@CoolAndrew89 play fallout 1/2/nv and you'll see why. Bethesda's vision of the brotherhood is completely wrong and childish.
@@akicauchemar7286 except in 1 and 2 they were never the genocidal pathetic maniacs Obsidian made them into in New Vegas. As much as I love this game, this one thing always bugged me.
@@akicauchemar7286 their canonical ending in 1 makes them into a "major research and development house." and in 2 they are generally pretty nice guys.
SEE, this is the kind of April Fools stuff everyone should live up to. Not just "Oh here's a thing SURPRISE it's not a thing, fuck you lmao, I'm so cool", but genuine effort into something a silly project for a one-off sort of thing. This is the cool shit I love to see. I thought it'd be a non-firing replica, too. BUT NOPE. Ian, please. I may be British. BUT I WANT ONE.
yea me too, it's a beautiful weapon
renounce your tea and join us under the eagle.
Me too 😊🏴
Yeah, Guntubers make the best April Fools content, like Garand Thumb reviewing the various MA5 series rifles from Halo in full.
@@stevenbobbybills Wait seriously? That sounds fun.
I just love the idea of going into vault 34 (the one with the All-American) and finding an entire file cabinet full of holotapes like these, where a gun historian, with nothing left to do, attempting to document information on all of the different guns in the vault.
Dont forget your rad-x, though
I'm fairly certain the Boomers would have taken copies with them in Nellis AFB after leaving.
One could wonder if they'd allow access to it for people like the Gun Runners or caravans like the Crimson Caravan or Happy Trails
@@Brandelwyn And RadAway.
@@Kingsquad2011 I could see the gun runners taking interest into using the holo tapes for their sales bots.
This has to be a mod. Or creation club
In all seriousness, whoever built that rifle is a man among men.
Seriously, I wanna know who tf made it.
Like I said I would sacrifice my Hunter for this mod
@@LcGrande You don't need it. Your dance moves alone could destroy the world in seconds.
@@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon I don't want to set the world on fire.
@@LcGrande the 1 true God: Gunbuildus Maximus
well or RNGesus
I can't believe i'm only seeing this now, a year after its release. this is genius. This Follower of the Apocalypse thanks you for your dedication to this history.
I'd love seeing a follow up contrasting the Wattz 2000 and the AER - 9 model laser rifles. I'm still convinced the Wattz is the superior for anti armor and long range uses, even though we only see AER's around these days.
Even after the fallout, Forgotten Weapons must go on! Bless Ian.
His hats provide a +99 Rad Resist buff.
Well he is Jesus after all..
Gun Jesus is needed more than ever in the wastelands
Imagine gun jesus but with a ghoul voice "ok smoothskins, today on forgotten weapons"
I just love how seriously he’s talking about this thing as if it were mass produced and not just the best custom job I’ve ever seen. Props to Ian and who ever was inspired to make a real Type 93 Chinese Assault for the best April Fools video today.
Not sure what "April Fools" is supposed to mean stranger. Are you one of those jet fiends?
@@sneedchuckington Watch out, there. He looks dangerous, buddy. Could have some psycho and a switchblade in his pocket
I doubt that whoever made it made it FOR the April Fools joke. But regardless of why they made that rifle it is a beautiful piece of gunsmithing.
It makes sense that Ian is reviewing this weapon after showing the earlier models of the current Gauss Rifle. Good thing we now use microfusion cells to power them
Hopefully one day Ian will get his hand on the ultra rare Xuanlong variant.
What I'd really like to see is his breakdown of the protoype Zhu-Rong Pistol.
I'd love to see how that thing's barrel causes ammo to superheat to combustion!
I doubt he'll get one. Xuanlong Variant are more of an experimental attempt by the PLA to create an IAR (Infantry Automatic Rifle).
It's essentially the same rifle but made with lighter materials, I presume bakelite nstead of wood and some kind of composite steel instead of regular steel, and have a more calibrated sights so one theoretically can use it with less amount of focus when, for example, using VaultTec Assisted Targeting Syatem implemented on a RobCo Pipboy.
And thanks to the lighter material + better milled Magazine well, I hear you could fit the weapon with a special 36 rounds sized magazine without making it any heavier than a standard Type 93.
Though All in all, that's just speculation. The Xuanlong Variant probably isn't real. But who knows, their Spec Ops "Hei Gui" Units are apparently real and do use special kind of Reflective Camouflage armored suit. We can only hope at least
Ian would make be the best Rogue Caravan Trader in any Fallout game.
Especially if he wore a different hat every time you encountered him in the wastelands.
Someone has to make this idea into a mod... :)
@@Retr0Whiskey I'll do you one better: Ian as a character in an indie post apocalyptic FPS where he acts as the all-in-one weapons merchant, being everywhere at once, wearing a different hat every time you encounter him.
Ian is the gun runners
😲 😮 😲 😮
He’d be a gun runner in legion territory
I could see him working with Blue Ridge Caravan. He would absolutely want to get information on those prototype weapons, like that Gauss Minigun
Ian's dedication to making this video seem, true, factual and historically accurate is absolutely insane. If one had never played FO3 I can imagine they'd take this information at face value! Ian, you astonish me with every single joke video. Thank you for improving my quality of life in this way!! 😂😂
Edit: you astonish me with just about EVERY video I'd say, but my point remains... INSANE level of dedication lmao
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@ForgottenWeapons It's Canada's AK
Enjoying my video this morning on my pip boy with a fresh bowl of sugar bombs for breakfast 🥣.
Appreciate you for making content for us vault dwellers!
Wash it down with some Nuka-Cola Quantum and embrace the glow.
One of your settlements needs attention, Henry
You got sugar bombs, I had iguana bits. Such a strange meat those hunters had! Wonder why they were chasing that person...
mmmm, that sweet sweet Jet with Mentats
I appreciate nuclear winter
This needs to be a series; Wasteland Survival Weapons.
What gun is best for hunting? What gun do I need to fend off Raiders? What is the best way to deal with a Deathclaw?
Coming to a terminal near you in 2289 by Moira Brown Press.
Answer to all of them: a Never Ending Double-Barrel Shotgun
@@MiloNgoReborn What I want to see are the 2-pun match and the Nuclear Brutality match, probably after the hunger games of 2399 or the Mutant Squid Games: Noting like trying to bayonet a 5.3m, 1080kkg calamare coming at you
I'm throwing my bottle caps at the terminal right now, please make it happen.
Answer to all of the above -> Fat Man.
"Hey guys, thanks for tuning in to Forgotten Weapons, I'm Ian McCollum and this is a rather unique lever-action rifle called the 'Medicine Stick'. Despite it being called the 'Medicine Stick', and it being chambered in .45-70 Government, I don't think it's designed to do a lot of healing. So let's take this thing out to Quarry Junction for a little accuracy test..."
Crazy how practical this rifle is and then in fallout 4 we get a 35 pound abomination with a water cooling jacket for some reason
Fallout 4 Assault Rifle is an mix between an Lewis Machine Gun and the M249
@@christinesulyvahn6043 that doesn't make it any less stupid
@@christinesulyvahn6043 you are correct. But it's still a dumb design
@@colewyatt5298It have it's charm to me
@@TheSemajshadowI know how to fix it
Ian, you're a madlad. Whomever made this gun is a legend though. The Chinese Assault Rifle was always my favourite Fallout gun.
Ian is actually a great actor! I literally cannot tell the difference between Ian joking and being serious!! Voice tone, cadence, word choice, descriptive style: all identical!!
“What if we made the kalashnikov sexier?”
“Impossible, it cannot be done!”
Absolutely perfect
The maddest of all the lads!
@@tulipalll He raises his eyebrows when he lies.
Ian's absolutely normal delivery of all this 'info' has started to make me question his usual reviews...if he's this good at sounding authoritative reciting fictional future-history, who's to say he's not just making up ALL the info on his channel? Are there really even AK-47's? :)
Is the Soviet union even a thing that existed? I am questioning EVERYTHING about my life nowwww
Weapons technology stopped developing past the 19th century in reality and fully automatic weapons are just a hoax propagated to make the idea of war and revolution seem impractical and suicidal
@@trentn1127 I knew those javelin missiles were figments of my imagination!
I had proof that AK’s existed, but I lost it in a boating accident 😞
@@dereksmith2929 I had proof that boats existed, but I lost it in the AK accident ;)
Whoever recreated this rifle put more thought into it than Bethesda did designing it
Is it not a model of the one Bethesda designed? As far as I can tell there aren’t many differences between them.
@@tamashi1094 I don't play the game but just looking at it, the receiver is canted at an angle on this one (as opposed as square and larger on the Bethesda one), and the stock has a thinner profile.
@@tamashi1094 The overall shape is the same, but there are a number of differences, small and large, to make this rifle actually functional.
@@tamashi1094 Looking at the model on the fallout wiki it seems to me like this one has a longer receiver and a longer barrel.
I suspect this rifle might originally have been a Galil that's been modified to look like a Type 93.
@@tamashi1094 the point went over ur head
He looks like he didn't age a day in those 250 years! Not all ghouls are so lucky...
he might have been put on ice, like the lone survivor of V-111? no idea, guy is looking pretty smooth to be a ghoul.
Man the way he stays serious through the entire thing...pricless.
And the attention to the lore has also not gone unnoticed
Of course hes serious he's always serious about reviewing guns and what do you mean lore this is a real gun maybe you're delirious from too much rads.
Excellent holovid Scibe McCollum, very informative and entertaining, I'll personally be sharing this will all of my new recruits.
Ad Victorium
Let’s be honest, Ian would definitely fit in with the brotherhood quite well
I wonder if it’s called the Type 93 because it entered service 93 years after 1949, putting its adoption at 2042. Definitely love this video about one of the best weapons in the Fallout series
Or it could be 93 years after 1927 would match when Ian stated theses entered production of 2020
@@lucassnyder3957 Yes, I indeed watched the video as well. Good work👍
@@lucassnyder3957 no lol
Unless somebody finds some PLA documentation that explains it, I guess we'll never know. Of course, the Brotherhood could already know, but for some reason, Elder Alex might've decided to not tell Ian.
This is such a good video that it actually expands on the lore. It makes complete sense that this design would be scrapped in the 90s in favour of laser and plasma weapons then brought into production when those became unfeasible to produce
Telling all this with a straight face... that's an achievement in itself
The marking "五六式” has nothing to do with "type 56". This was a miss understanding in America. “五六” does indeed mean "56". However, “式” means "compatible". This rifle was designed for Chinese special ops to use behind enemy line(NATO area) where 5.56 ammo is widely available
I am not sure if your picking up on the fact that this video is in fact satire. The video game Fallout references are interlaced heavily within the video. I do appreciate your insights on the markings.
@@Ovokor I don't want to be the one to say it but... Woosh
Oh my god, you just made me realize that Ian left a mistranslation in this video. Probably on purpose too. He really went all out on details to make it seem as real as possible.
it’s A joke did you not hear him talking about dates in the far future lol
@@Ovokor You realise that the OP falls in line with the notion that the main supply was from pre-chased weapons for Chinese infiltration units, right? ;)
The amount of custom machining work that went into that… god that’s cool.
When he said the resource wars of 2050 I legit got scared and looked at my phones to see what year it was.
I like that Ian's explanations of Fallout's Chinese Assault Rifle would fit almost perfectly with Fallout lore down to giving real world connections to why it looks the way it does.
He’s better at preserving canon than Bethesda
@@tristanbrightenburg2477 not to mention that rifle. Jesus his repair must be at least 75 to keep it up to date and clean like that
wdym this is real world
After having an absolutely terrible day, I can honestly say that this video was highly enjoyable and actually made me smile with how well it was done. I couldn't keep from laughing. Thanks Ian.
Why was your day absolutely terrible?
Hope stuff gets better bro. Been having shit days in general aswell. Hang in there.
@@BRAgamer I appreciate that man, thank you. I hope life smiles on you as well.
As a Ranger, I came across several of these during my journey through the Capital Wasteland. Great durable guns so it is no surprise they are so beloved in that region. When I brought one back west, some of the other rangers were surprised to see one as we mostly have Soviet AK-112s in 5mm on the west coast.
Steel ammo casings? Not that it would matter in real life, the primers would be dead in a short time, exposed to world wide acid rain after the nuclear exchange.
not gonna lie, the 112 is great. but i like the 113.
At least You guys aren't stuck with rangemaster 14 chambered in 7.62x54 rim as we are here in Florida praise be the mouse. p.s the rangemaster 14 is a m14a2 built in the range master armory in free city of gainesville FL in fallout
Its funny how We were so worried about COMMUNISM, and the Chinese had to smuggle their rifles in, we just... happily bought the USSR's old suplus, and they were happy to sell it to us.
>that moment when you remember the G11 is in Fallout 2 and Ian made a video for it, making this the 2nd Fallout "Forgotten Weapon"
Fallout 1 and 2 had a ton of real weapons. There was the AUG, the FAL, the SAW, and a bunch more. The M16 is in Fallut New Vegas too. It just has wooden furniture.
Ian put more effort into explaining the (missing) background of this rifle than Bethesda put into the lore of their Fallout games.
Or Bethesda put into some of their recent games at all.
Such a great series, poorly poorly handled
Fallout is a game ?
@@chpet1655 Several, to varying levels of quality. Personally 1, 2 & New Vegas were great, 3 is nostalgic for me, not good but has good parts, 4 plays well but is real shit, Brotherhood of Steel is shit and 76 is a travesty to a great series. At least it was last time I checked out anything Fallout after New Vegas
@@chpet1655 It's perhaps the definitive post-apocalyptic RPG, but yes it varies in quality and gameplay a lot sadly. Its influence on the games industry is hard to overstate though.
The guy above me forgot about Fallout Tactics. It's a decent game with some quality of life improvements over FO2, but it is a bit unpolished and unbalanced. It's like Fallout meets X-COM.
I honestly just want a full series just like this exploring as many of the firearms of Fallout as possible. April Fool's Day aside, this is a great video and a fantastic concept for a series.
That probably already exists
Talking about the Colt N99 and the LAPD Revolver would be cool.
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It was after midday when I saw it.
There’s more than enough of that content already.
Hell, an AK-112 video would be great, or better yet, an Assault Carbine or NCR Service Rifle video.
Until it is demonstrated, one rarely sees the difference between a merely competent amateur and the very expert professional.
Mr. McCollum, this is brilliant in all sorts of ways - an April Fool's custom designer dessert confection amidst a sea of April Fool's cheap hard candies.
And just as tasty.
I want one.
Hell, I want a rack of 'em.
Awesome holotape Ian, was so glad to have found this on the body of the raider I killed. Anyway, I would love to see you cover the venerable N99 10mm pistol at some point in the future. I had one for a while and found it to be a reliable (though perhaps a bit bulky) sidearm. Regardless, I'd love to see you cover that, or maybe one of those NCR service rifles one day!
Oh for the love of God please post the build list. I recognize the Galil receiver and RPD handguard, was the top cover custom fabricated? this thing is so sick.
Yes, it would be sweet to get one of these built! I think the lower receiver is Norinco Hunter model.
Brandon Herrera, "The AK Guy" is getting his inbox molested by his more rabid followers, about making Type 93's for them ASAP, as soon as Ian's upload was live. Change my mind.
@@00Mchenry I don't think its a Hunter receiver, those don't have the cutout in front of the magazine well on the bottom.
it probably started as an 80% Galil receiver
@@debbiestimac5175 Rip Papa Kalash's inbox.
Ian Mccollum
The Gun Runner
S: 5-Handles most firearms.
P: 7-Pretty accurate.
E: 3-Has a sparse upload schedule.
C: 5-Average looking but puts points into Speech.
I: 8 - Knows all about guns and world history.
A: 2 - Shoots at one target each, never fires st multiple
L: 10 - Gets the rarest of guns.
Props to an incredibly well researched video, I loved hearing the lore from the different locations in FO3, took me back to when I was playing that nonstop. Hearing it all come alive even if it's just an April Fools video, this is amazing stuff. Great work Ian, much love from a UK vault dweller
This is the definition of "Knowing your Audience"
This is the best type of april fools because it has actual enjoyable content in it rather than just a silly joke!
Ian has always been the gold standard of gun tubers... the exact opposite of Demo Matt and his myriad personalities, created to express his suppressed urges. Ask Mere.
I'd wager one of the reason for the extra steel thickness was because the lack of materials need to make alloys and high quality steel. So instead they just added more of the steel they could produce in significant quantities.
"Of course is heavy. Is made from recycled battleships"
- a Russian explaining a Maxim 1910.
Same idea, I suppose!
Mao's melted down pots and pans making a return.
Hey, it works for us in the 3D printed gun community. Just reinforce the heck out of any potential weak spots.
Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work you can always hit them with it.
Just like a Hangcha forklift. advertised as being SOLID STEEL. i.e its cheap steel so they have to use lots of it
Gun history? Fallout lore? April fools? It's the perfect combination!
Absolutely love this! Could you cover the NCR’s current service rifle? XD
I'm surprised I didn't find any of these on the submarine "Yangtze" during my travels through the Commonwealth. I did find large numbers of "assault rifles" that were more like a lighter version of the standard Maxim-Browning system used during the Tropical Fruit Wars of 1915-1995, if my historical research is correct.
I may have also found Benjamin Franklin's original .44 revolver while ducking Institute androids, or "synths" as they call them here. I'm still amazed how many Hessian Protectrons Franklin destroyed during the Revolution. Who knew that RobCo was using such an old design?
Please don't mention that, Zach will hear you and he'll rant your ears off.
“Ducking”
I never trusted RobCo. Their older models used to be adequate for home defense but they just cheaped out with the newer stuff. The securotrons were unreasonably heavy, buggy pieces of crap.
The b
Brownings
IIRC, the Chinese Assault Rifle was cut during development for some unknown reason.
You know Ian for a ghoul I must say you have aged gracefully. Glad to see your still kicking after all these years. I loved watching your holotapes back before the war and I’m so happy you are continuing the series again. You’ve no idea how happy you’ve made this old wastelander
Even as an April fool's video, this is a joy to watch.
Being a fallout guy is just icing on the cake for me.
I swear this video lives rent free in my head whenever I think of fallout. Just goes to show how great of a content creator Ian is
I was thinking I heard wrong when Ian said "mid 2020's" and then "2050-2070". Great one! Also nice thematic setup and visuals!
What I'm thinking is how this was put together, all the mods.
Same here
this is a vanilla playthrough, no mods.
"..5.56, I believe that was the NATO cartridge..."
Incredible commitment to the bit, salute.
He was using 100% of his brain to fight the knee jerk reaction to know what 5.56 is
Ian once again showing his dedication to research a subject as thoroughly as he can, even for a joke.
He basically nailed the lore, it's amazing.
Don"t wanna be too serious, but was not the conflict about oil reserves on the sea in the first place, since both China and USA have depleted their reserves elsewhere? ;)
@@PosranaRegistrace I checked the wiki and the official game guide states that the oil under the sea had a lot to do with the start the war, and that the oil in Alaska was a major strategic objective during the war as well.
My friend has been trying to get me to watch this channel for a while now, and this is what finally did it. Absolutely fantastic.
Great video Ian! The similarities between the Type 56 and the Type 93 is just another example of how war, war never changes.
Everyone always thinks it's gonna be like the last one but is it
When you mentioned that the rifle was made during a period of resource scarcity and that the rifle had been enhanced for hand-to-hand fighting, I thought you would be discussing the venerable practice of using an empty rifle as a club.
Throat, solar plexus and groin strike with the barrel as a spear, is what I was taught, since everything is slung these days in CQB.
@@debbiestimac5175 Well, in truth the Austrian STG-58 didn't have a bayonet lug, nor a bayonet, because the pronged flash suppressor acted as the bayonet, so next time.....
Can't wait for a video on the U.S counterpart, the R91.
Infact if Ian manages to get a hold of all the major arms of the resource wars that'd be awesome.
Might be redundant considering the R91 would literally be represented by an unmodified CETME C (visually), and the Service Rifle an AR15 with wooden furniture and maybe a side charger for good measure. Still would like to see it just for the meme.
Also the dart gun. I was never scared of Deathclaws after I got a dart gun. They're worth their weight in caps. More than their weight in caps, because they don't weight much.
@@NamelocTheBard is that a 556 though?
@DIEGhostfish no, but neither is the one in this video, it's 7.62. The CETME is in 308, but if you wanted to be a real stickler you could hack a Frankenstein job with an HK53/93/C93 receiver and install a longer barrel, modify the handguard mountings to fit a G3 or CETME wooden one, and make custom 556 mags out of the CETME mags.
Yeah well I mean, actually reviewed as an in universe gun like this was xD just for the memes
I actually thought of that G3 pattern rifle chambered in 5,56, I keep forgetting the name of, could be the R91.
Barely two minutes into this video and i already utterly love it. Great work for this particular day, Ian. The vault overseer should reward you handsomely.
I’m amazed how well you summarized the lore, especially for a joke April fools video, the gun itself looks beautiful, like someone ripped it out of fallout 3.
I mean Garand Thumb did it for Halo
Me watching this video in 2080 in a nuclear wasteland: This comment aged like milk.
As a long time fallout and forgotten weapons fan I can't express my joy enough with this video, awesome work Ian!
As much as this was just for laughs, I'd love to see you do more rationalizations of firearms from alternate history settings. I like when a fictional weapon can feel real, like it wasn't just cooked up to look neat and given shortcomings just for in game balance; there's really something neat of having a short history on why a weapon is what it is, and why it has its foibles and features. Especially so with very oddball or kitbashed looking guns.
Your channel is honestly great for inspiration on writing fictional guns; especially more oddball stuff that might only get adopted because the stars aligned and all the shortfalls of something weird ending up as a service weapon. I honestly doubt there's anyone else who digs up as many failed or forgotten firearms and gives their history and engineering; let alone shares it for free.
He has a couple more videos where he does something similar talking about the fictional nation of Elbonia to try and rationalize some horribly bubba-ed weapons.
Man.. Ian is so accurate in his presentation, that I feel like I'm a person actually living in the Fallout universe who's learning about the Fallout firearms history in the future. Good on you Ian!!
Cool thing Ian, i actually found a type 93 myself not long ago, in some Diner near a Metro station. Mine had a personal marking on the receiver though: 玄龍 which translates to "black dragon".
Thanks to your vid.. ehm holotapes, i learned how important gun preservation is, so i donated my type 93 to the Capitol Preservation Society.
best gun in FO3 no doubt
And if you cheat just right you can get one that isn't all old looking and never breaks down...
@@wesleyjones4036 TTW makes it even better. Lower damage but rechambered in 5mm which is a miracle bullet.
I saw the image of the thumbnail and was like "hey wait, that's not a real thing... but why does it look so familiar??" Super, super, cool custom mod!!!
The flag in the thumbnail caught my attention too, wondering why it was a tattered chinese flag
As someone that generally finds April Fools gags on UA-cam loathsome, this is frigging amazing. Can't believe Ian has so much Fallout knowledge 😂
Loathsome? You generally hate people having a bit of fun?
@@extragoogleaccount6061 You weren't asking me, but seeing as I share an opinion with the original comment;
It's more so just, I hate the mind games of "is this an April Fool's gag or not?" I just wanna chill on UA-cam, and I honestly don't care for April Fools, really in general, it's one of the only Holiday's I genuinely just don't csre for at best, and actually despise at worst. I'd rather not have to stress myself out trying to find a genuine video to watch that isn't an April Fools day gag.
@@ultimatepunster5850 april fools
So glad it wasn't another "I'm quitting youtube" or equally tried idea.
@@ultimatepunster5850 Basically the same sentiment, just couldn’t be arsed replying to old mate because it seemed like he was just out to be vindictive.
“oH, yOu HaTe FuN?” Of course not you bloody pleb haha
I just finished fallout 3 and that was my favorite gun in the game, I loved how deep in the history and lore that he went into this. Great video
I love how much effort was put into both this video in fitting the lore of the series, as well as making that rifle look as accurate as possible.
The workmanship on this thing is unbelievable.
So a dust cover with usable iron sights on it is plausible
(cue heavy breathing from Brandon Herrera's fan base) "Look at that stamped Chinese Communist Star, the white paint stencil... the sheen on the custom fore-end furniture. Take my money Brandon! Do it! Doooooooooo! iiiiiiiiiitttt!" (Starsky and Hutch movie reference)
I mean China could build these in real life easily I mean they they reverse engineer Russian and American weapons all the time.
The mad lad really did it without posting a build list.
Good luck finding chinese blueprints these days!
Don't know how I missed this one, it's fecking brilliant!
Somehow the actual rifle even kinda looks like a 3d model of a real gun.
same
Boxy construction might have something to do with it.
I love that you're bringing awareness to lesser known conflicts and military history as well I never knew that the Chinese invaded Alaska as well as their covert operations in and around DC and the larger US truly interesting stuff
Satire? Sorry my brain smooth
@@forkstealinggoblindumbass2106 yes this whole video is a gag on the fallout universe
@@forkstealinggoblindumbass2106 r/woosh
Please be satire
Ian you forgot to go into the reason for hand fighting becoming so important. At the time of it's development the American army began fielding power armor. The Chinese response was the begin using emp weapons on these armored soldiers who would then be mobed, it was found that the most effective way to destroy these units after they were disabled was to use a bayonet to jam up components and cut through the ballistic weave on the stomach.
that’s genius
@@derekk2666 And horrifying. Imagine being stuck in dead power armor, then seeing a wave of bodies armed with these and bayonets charge over the hill.
@@LexYeen Then I'd smell like shit when I die.
Me: Looks at Video, “this looks like the Chinese assault rifle From fallout.”
Also Me: watches video… this is the Chinese Assault Rifle from fallout.
Keep up the amazing content.
I know. I did the same thing. I saw it and I was like "Wait, I thought that WASN'T a real gun."
I instantly reacted when I saw the video title. 😅 Such a sublime "review" this was!
mine was more like
"hey that kinda looks like the chinese assault rifle from fallout"
"...and it has a similar name too"
"...wait a minute... *wait a minute* "
This is so cool. I can’t believe I’m just now seeing this. I was literally playing the simulated mission for the outcasts today too lol. Love this channel so much
Best April 1st video I've seen
The BoS are the real heroes here. Without Elder Alex and his men out there collecting and preserving artifacts like this, we would hardly be able to enjoy such great content.
naw enclave are the actual heroes ya'll just steal technology
Ave, true to caesar
BoS are hoarders and tech-fetishists.
@@uzivatel56 So? Their collection of pre war artifacts is preserved and cared for and curated allowing for content like this. The only other place you can get material like this is the ChAES exclusion zone in Europe and the quality isn't nearly as good.
Ad Victorium!
I know this is an April Fool’s video but this was fantastic. I’d love to see more of these lore friendly breakdowns of Fallout weaponry. Do a video on the Fatman next!
Hey hey hey
We're not making a western here.
With some range footage, please.
Rocket Sledge would like a word
@@lostone1677 Wonder how many will get that Uncle Jr Sopranos reference?? Lol
I cannot express how much I love Ian's ability to explain a fictional firearm exactly as he does a real one. Beautiful, 10/10, and ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
I'm impressed someone actually built one
I forgot what day it was, I thought I was having a fever dream.
This was amazing! I loved using the Xiaolong variant in F3. I think everyone did, considering it did the most damage for the small guns class in automatic fire till dlc came out. Would love to see more videos like this with that twist of lore. Thank you Ian!
this cant even be classified as a joke since this is an actual functioning firearm
What the heck is it, actually? a type 56?
@@quentinburns8298 Norinco hunter. Chinese valmet hunter ripoff
incredible recreation, and the lore was spot on. this is a masterpiece
It's not every day that I wake up and find one of my favorite content creators makes an April Fool's joke video about my favorite game series of all time. But that wasn't enough, no, he had to actually build a functioning fictional firearm from fallout, which has been a dream of mine for years. Well played Ian, well played. Just cementing himself as a true legend, and really cool guy. I would love to know the story behind putting this rifle together, there's clearly some beautiful custom work that went into it.
I knew Ian was gonna Pull a Halo-Garand Thumb move eventually.
Edit: I just remembered he’s been doing that with his Elbonia videos…still, nice Fallout reference. Hopefully we can get the AER9 family of laser weapons next year.
Elbonia?
@@Mygg_Jeager Fictional country. I want to say it’s a reference to the Dilbert comics, but I’m not sure.
But this gun is real!!!!
April Fools is a well-respected tradition on this channel. Some years back the featured weapon was a rock.
@@janwacawik7432 To be fair, rocks and long sticks are very old, tried and tested and forgotten weapons.
What I find particularly interesting is that they seemed to be decades ahead of us when it comes to shooting technique and firearm design based around it. The front handguard has a cutout on top for a thumb, clearly meant for the c clamp grip.
Early PLA leadership are pretty much all guerrilla fighters who specialized in infantry raiding and infiltration, small firefights with grenades, dynamite, molotov cocktails, bayonets, sabers etc. were something extremely common for their mid-to-high ranks, so this makes sense
C clamp grip is great in movies and movies alone.. the fact is that they are decades behind the rest of the world and trying to play catch up as fast as possible
@@weld_dat_fakah740 but yet many professional shooters use it...
It's actually a neat coincidence.
I think the fallout designers were modifying the aesthetic of Soviet LMG handguards. It looks like it's made to make a bayonet form more comfortable
did you guys even watch the vid? the grip was for ease of use when bayoneting someone. almost every aspect of this gun was designed with scarcity in mind. it looking "meant" for the c clamp grip is just coincidence.
This was an amazing video. He did a good job making it convincing in design, and the person building that rifle was really good at constructing a convincing replica.