It's a real shame, because this contains a lot of ideas that were well ahead of its' time. I bet the concerns about fragility could have been addressed with a little more development. And the special ammo, I have to ask why not just put a slight curve in the magazine? It would curve into the stock so I doubt that would actually require a major mechanical change.
I thought so too,I kind of thought that was a stow position for airborne use or something initially....seems to be a well designed firearm and ahead of its time
Interesting thing about this UA-cam channel is that there are now more Americans that know how to disassemble the ZB47 than there are Czech’s that know this weapon exists.
That's Actually Really Sad, I feel for the Czech people that care about this portion of their history. Their Weapons design has vastly effected the designs of many of the most popular weapon designs for the last 100 years.
@@refusefntk Why feel for them? Nothing bad has happened. It is just the reality that, like many other niche areas of history, not many people are that interested in these things. It is just a matter of proportions, there is only 10 or 11 million czechs, so even if 1% was interested in this that is just 100k people.
Imagine trying to design this gun back in the late 40's. Running around trying to do everything without Computer aided design. Just Czech gunsmiths living in the moment.
@@no1DdC i imagine thats probably where it failed, in a big troop movement and individual solder haveing to reload every 32 rounds is not really much a difference over 72, but the number of mags that can be carried might be
The Czechs have the best metalworking skills. Integrating milled and stamped pieces so seamlessly into such unique designs is truly a hallmark of Czech designers, IMHO. Great video!-John in Texas
As an American metal worker I would like to differentiate the skills necessary to achieve the design from the willingness to actually make such a fantastical but derpy design. I personally have all the necessary skills to fabricate this whole gun (assuming I’ve been given the dimensions), I just never would.
That magazine feed system is beautifully simple engineering. Where yes it is a semi-complex shape but once the tooling is in place it's easy to replicate and the entire operation itself is very straight forward! Also the fact that all it really is doing is converting the horizontal motion of the bolt into a rotational motion for feeding cartridges via a single ratchet paw is wonderful engineering! Hats off to the fellers who designed and built this, this is something to be proud of.
It honestly annoys me that a multibillion $ studio like Bethesda can't just consult a gunsmith and ask 'hey we made these designs, do they look like they'd function?'. It really reeks of the lack of attention to detail that happens when a studio gets that big and unfocused.
They instead give money to the woke studios for consulting.they careless what we think, they care only for the blue hairs and nose ringer crowd that check mental illness boxes that vote (D)em-Witt..it’s a fact!!
Jako Moravák (oblast v České Republice) Jsem o jeho existenci věděl- foto, výkresy, atd. Ale rozebraný jsem nikde neviděl. Moc vám děkuji za toto video.
The ZB47 is truly one of the most magnificent experimental guns of all time. Despite not having made it into mass production it still left a great impression to the Czeck troops despite its flaws. It is undoubtedly a splendid example of Czeckhnology. You're absolutely right about the fact this gun especially the magazine design predate the P90 not to mention the capacity to carry 72 rounds is slightly higher than the PPSH-41 that has a mag capacity of 71 rounds.
First impression from the thumbnail: "Okay, weird developmental SMG, I'm guessing they hadn't figured out double-stack magazines yet, so they put in a really long single-stack and a rotating mag well to make it more transportable" Nope, apparently the Czechs made a P90-style rotating feed system 50 years earlier🤣
I seriously want to see an alternative reality where this model would have been accepted in the post war years and developed to excelence over more than half a century. Streamlined manufacturing, adopted 9mm AUTO, enhanced ergonomics, materials... It beat the P90 by 50 years and the Halo universe SMG by 575. There's no mag to prohibit prone fire, nothing sticking out the side and it still has the capacity to house 72 round. Amazing. BTW. Zbrojovka is pronounced like Zbroyovka. Zbro-yov-ka. Thanks for reminding me this thing exists by a well crafted video!
@@CofIQ I can not agree. Z is Z, no matter what. No S at all. The first letter is tonal - your larynx vibrates. I do agree somewhat on the F. Czechs do tend to pronounce some of their V's attonally - without your larynx vibrating. Though correctly it is pronounced with a tonal V. The only attonal letter here is K. One just needs to be wary, that OV is not read as OU. Also the first four letters might be hard to pronounce in one syllable. If it's your case, try [Zeh-bro-yov-ka] and then ditch the [-eh] like [Z-bro-yov-ka]. The accent is on the first syllable only.
Plot twist: Zbrojovka Brno produced (apart from MANY other things like the LMG ZB26, later modified with Enfield Armory into a BREN) the Consul typewriters, which Jack Tramiel imported to the USA under the brand Commodore. Yes, THAT Commodore that later gave birth to the C64 computer.
Not sure, I mean the Japanese Type 11 LMG with its 30 round hopper utilizing stripper clips like 5 round Hotchkiss feed strips is pretty fucking cool to see as well.
That "Krink" he showed off not too long ago, where the magazine was under the chamber, so the bolt had to pull a cartridge backwards first, was also pretty dope. It looked like a mini AK, with one chromosome too many, until he opened it and everything made sense.
I was in military museum in Prague with my family last month, amongst other things the collection concerning Czech small arms manufacturing is fascinating there. There is plenty more Ian can choose from, there was also prototype of rotary anti tank rocket launcher... Anyway, if you happen to be in Prague, definitely make sure to visit the museum, it is free as well and even if it weren't it would be well worth the visit.
I adore these unorthodox designs. I design firearms as a hobby and these weird-but-functional designs give me so many ideas to play with. Thank you for making these videos.
Even more P90 esque than I thought, a simple blowback firing mechanism with a complex but elegant rotary feeding mechanism and an extremely high capacity magazine. Very glad to finally get a good look at one of these.
Also sporting a wildly high fire rate. This would've been a menace on the battlefield, spitting an entire 72 round magazine your way in less than 4 seconds
Czechs before the renaissance - make a lot of hand-held firearms for Hussites. Some of the first guns of this type ever and definitely first use in such numbers. One of them (píšťala, literally "flute") probably gives the name to "pistola/pistolet/pistol"
@@wojciechbieniek4029 There vere more like mobile fortifications and troop carriers than armoured troop carriers, but nearly there... Probably the most important (but kinda overlooked) thing was that they were first to establish common-folk troops able to fight with noble heavy cavalry on any type of battlefield. And this knowledge was spread throughout Europe after Hussite wars. End of era.
And the Houfnice and Tarasnice parked inbetween the wagons, shooting the charging enemy. Houfnice, the cannons meant to shoot into a crowd, become the Howitzer
@@PavelNygryn and also very importantly, standardized weaponry and equipment, he'd train a couple most capable members of the group, let them train the rest, and he'd move on to the next group, so he always had people trained on the equipment being used
This gun is one cross-bolt safety away from being lefty-friendly. Majorly cool design; I absolutely love the combo of matte stampings for the frame and blued stampings for the upper. Artistry.
Exactly my reaction as well. I thought they made the photos for thumbnail without the magazines. When Ian showed the fire selector I read the 72 and thought "Wait a minute".
Wow. That is one the cleanest, Slickest zero tool designs I've Ever seen. Looks Fantastic. Feature rich and well rounded. And older than most I can think of. Redesigned for modern needs and plastics... PDW?
In another universe, this is the wildly prolific Czech scifi spacegat that the AUG was in this universe. Incredibly cool design with features way ahead of its time.
Simple and smart in some of the best ways possible... Václav Holek was a genius. Ian - thank You for making another lost treasure very much un-forgotten! I would so much love to see a mechanism like this perfected to its full potential in a full-scale production. The result could have been a legend in its category...
Love it. When you first explained how it works; you think, that's going to be a cludge of a horror show of moving parts inside. But the economy of parts & the symphony of how they interact is simple & beautiful. Just imagining in my head if you reworked it in modern materials, you could get away with slightly curved mags running the length of the gun, so you could use standard 9ᵐᵐ ammo. 🤔
Ta zbran byla moralne zastarala uz v dobe vyvoje " slaba munice pro armadni ukoly " , pro armadu prilis slozita a draha konstrukce , i na vyrobu " tehdy zde jeste nevladli komuniste ", a hlavne bylo po valce a vsichni verili ze uz nikdy zadna valka nebude , o 10 let pozdeji bylo vse jinak , proto vznikla i nase SA-58 , ale to uz je jiny pribeh .
@@justindunlap1235 Honestly just a two more parts.
Місяць тому+18
A chest rig for those torso-length mags still beats a sack of drums beating your ass. Who else wants to see a slo-mo, high-rez mag dump. set to The Blue Danube Waltz?
You might wanna check out manual, book, website too. For more stuff, tactic, equipment,… As one gun can’t exist without a doctrine, and if there is a difference in doctrine then one gun might not be obsolete as it looks.
Yeah, I thought I had seen everything, I was so confident clicking on that thumbnail. I was not ready, this one really knocked me on my ass, this designer had access to some odd sacred knowledge.
Was waiting for this one. Of all the experimental guns where you need 200 IQ just to figure out how you’re even supposed to hold it, the ZB’s been top of my list forever.
Ditto. I've searched for it multiple times over the years while thinking 'well he *_did_* visit the Czech arms factories (CZ-UB and Brno) so he's got to have filmed one on this, right?'
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper that’s called a hyperbole, but I know some autistic people struggle with speech that isn’t thuddingly literal so I won’t hold it against you.
The outside the box thinking, represented in this gun is amazing. Many firearms have 1 or 2 unusual features but this gun is comprised entirely of different approaches to design. A fascinating collection could be comprised solely of Czech prototype weapon designs & engineering cut-aways.
Really unfortuate it had issues with durability cause this is one of the most impressive well thought out, incredibly cool yet also kind of simple looking guns I have seen on the channel.
@@sir0herrbatka I am not sure if the durability part is specifically a point referenced in the trials or not, but just looking at it I can for sure understand that being a concern. Probably something that could to some extent be addressed if getting a big contract, but the core design does look susceptible to damage.
The thought process in the heads of gun designers at full display. The Czechs have always made very capable and often unique firearms. This is another fine example. Thanks again, Ian.
The mechanism is much simpler than I thought it was going to be, pretty good design really. Thanks for sort of teaching me how feed mechanisms work! (sort of because I'm a poor student) I love the paratrooper version and the blued finish, beautiful thing.
They are two of the coolest, weirdest, prettiest, most interestingly different firearms I've seen in a long while. I had adult feelings as soon as I saw the thumbnail, but it got better once you broke them down. I love it when designers think outside of the box. Thanks for the video, Ian!
The magazine counter is really quite clever. I'm a bit surprised that hasn't popped up in other places. I could see it being vulnerable to dirt ingress and jamming up, though, and if you can protect it with clear plastic then you can just show the bullets themselves with clear plastic, like the P90...
Good point with the magazine counter. IIRC, clear plastic only became available in the 1960s. This design is old enough to still incorporate a wooden stock, after all.
Magpul’s windowed PMAGs and their new transparent TMAG have a single painted coil of the mag spring that moves along a calibrated scale on each side of the mag to display capacity.
This might legitimately be one of my new favorite weapon designs. The aesthetic? Futuristic. The high-capacity mag with a round counter in the 40s? Amazing. The design? Ingenious. That ROF? That piqued my interest.
Thank you Ian, our weapon industry was top of the world between WW. I thank you for your work, it is really pleasure to watch your channell, especially regarding Czech weapons. Actually "we" bought Colt and Vista and I hope our small arms will be again top of the tops ;-) I can't hold myself to admit my youngsters' shooting when I compared Glock, Sig and CZ75 . For 25 m I made 92 pts - and I wasn't able to get even close with other two guns. MCGA! Thank you for your work, keep up, its really interesting even four us, Czechs.
Im speechless with awe at this firearm. Absolutely mind blowing the level of craftsmanship, ingenuity and brilliance in those components! The Inventor was an utter genius!!!
@@JS-ti8ny An ingenious design but for combat use I think the long thin magazines could easily be damaged. No use for the British infantry, there is no way to attach a bayonet.
In a science fiction novel I wrote, I came up with a firearm with a similar mechanism. It is a system that feeds and ejects bullets while reducing the range of bolt movement with a mechanism called rotary gas impingement. I created it as a high-speed service machine gun for 12.7mm ammunition used by powered suits. This is a Japanese amateur novel site. I love these kinds of "firearms with strange structures" 😁 from Japan🇯🇵
@ Ian's videos are also very popular among gun enthusiasts here in Japan! What's strange is that even though there is automatic translation, there are very few Japanese people who leave praise comments like me. It's very sad 😔
That is the coolest gun ever designed. I love the swiz clock that is the G11. I love the rollers and wires of the AN94. I love the P90 magazines. But this THIS GUN is the most mezmerizing thing i,ve ever seen its simply outstading everything on it is so beautiful and well thought every detail is perfection. I think i am in love with a gun oh well
this is probably one of my favorite weird guns of my country. great video as always! small note on the pronunciation of "zbrojovka". from the way i hear you say it, it sounds almost like "zbrozhka", instead its pronounced like "zbro-yo-vka". the last sillable is weird, because of the v at the start, but its not that hard, also it ends with short schwa A, as in sofa.
What I always find interesting is how absolutely beautifully machined many of the parts are on some of these Czech pieces are. The stainless colored parts are gorgeous
That thing is super intriguing. It's Swiss-esque machining weirdness just oozes all kinds of quasi steampunk cool factor. It looks like it could've easily been a Browning offering. A 3d-printed version would be right at home on a Star Wars set...really awesome video.
Did the paint for the magazine round counter glow in the dark? Looks like radium paint imo, considering it flakes (and possibly a flake stuck to your finger at 18:28) i feel its worth to Czech.
O’Neill hols up a Jaffa Staff: “This, is a weapon of intimidation! It is designed to frighten your enemies!” Holds up ZB-47: “This, is a weapon of WAR! It is designed to KILL your enemies!” Lets Carter demonstrate since she’s the best shot on the team. 😂
With some simplification and a rework of the ergonomics/layout, the basic concept is quite interesting. 72 rounds in a sleek and fairly compact package even when ready to fire? It took until the P90 to come close! And I bet her design team took a very good look at the ZB47.
@@martinpojer5375 No doubt about the grip concept working well, especially given its age! But smooth, cold metal for a grip surface und not being ambidextrous are not exactly great in terms of ergonomics. A different routing of the mag might make everything more compact and give the operator rounder grip surfaces.
to get around the tapered ammunition problem they could just use a giant curved mag and incorporate it into the design. Or alternate the direction of each round and have the magic bullet repositioner point them the right way.
@@irsever Neat idea, a nicely curved mag could follow the "bend" down to the shoulder pad But it does not really have to be curved, even with high capacity, a straight mag with a tapered cross section will also work. I can´t really describe it, but I´ll try: In a double-stack mag you got two columns of cartridges touching at the base vertically, not horizontally, there they alternate in the "troughs" of the other column. Now in a rectangular mag the thinner cartridge mouths float around, which they will stop doing if the mag´s walls come little closer there.
Weird but innovative. Very interesting feed concept. Must have taken a lot of fiddling to get that just right. I can just imagine the bizarre looking magazine pouch for three 72 round magazines.
This may be silly, but as a former TM, I do always love it when Ian goes out of his way to announce that he is using dummy rounds. Safety isn't first, it is always.
Really cool design. It's a bit weird that they went with custom cases and didn't try to do a slightly curved magazine, especially considering that it would have been totally out of the way in the stock
I guess that depends on how much curvature is really necessary. For example, let's assume what H&K decided to give the new MP5 magazines - imagine that curve maintained for a full 72 rounds. The magazine would grow quite a lot sideways. That would make both the loaded submachine gun and the web gear for carrying the magazines balloon out by what must have been deemed an unacceptable amount. Also, with that long of a curved path, I suspect a simple spring-loaded follower might struggle to reliably make the journey from one end to the other.
I think the mag being part of the stock was one of its intentional benefits. Since it could run the whole length it's easier to a whopping 72 bullets instead of some like 72 or less running out of the weapon. The structure of the gun worsening would probably be another issue if the mag came out. Whether the whole assembly or just the mag. The spring probably would be more fickle with a giant curve.
I see a bit of art deco design in it. Especially in places where there is a trigger and a circular hole for the thumb in the version with a wooden stock.
It's such remarkable engineering, even the fact CNC and GD&T didn't exist yet make it so impressive. It's like the Evans Repeater of SMGs-impractical but really cool, with a gigantic magazine.
What an absolute galaxy of fascinating manufacture processes, design tricks, and features half a century before their time (Numeric ammo display window? Field-strip/full-takedown DIAL!?) Thanks for going above and beyond your usual high standards in documenting this beast.
I live in Brno where this contraption (among others) used to be produced and whenever I drive past the Zbrojovka factory on my way to work I imagine Ian's face looking down on me like a Telletubby sun and my day immediatelly becomes 25% better every time.
Like the design of this one! Excellent content as always 👌 Having only 30 rounds for the para version would be a bit low, but I think it would make sence if you only had a 30 round mag in the gun during the drop with the stock folded, and then switching to 72 round mags once in action on the ground with stock extended.
Seems like a very clever design while keeping it super simple. I would expect something like this earlier in the century but with 100 moving parts. I wonder if they had some more development time to work out the issues if this would have become the basis for more pdw designs in the future.
Having worked on presses for forty years, I really appreciate the engineers 'stampings' (as some people refer) In all these modern guns and other products. Most people are not aware of time & material savings that these methods produce. Always enjoy your very knowledgeable descriptions of weapons. Peace and goodwill
2:45 funnily enough, in russian "samopal" no longer means anything closely related to small arms (though it literally means "self-shooting"). These days it means the counterfeit product, "self-made" in a bad sense.
Yeah, but Czechs also understand this russian-related "samopal" - as something suspicious self distilled. As "samo" i still "self", but "pal" can be "shoot/fire" or "distilled using fire".
Actually, our Czechs brothers got it right. Avtomat - isn't a Slavic word. Russia should have to officially switch to Slavic "samopal" also. I say it as a Russian.
Ne ne. Tak to sem nikdy neviděl. Mega hustý. (Don't believe my eyes, I am Czech and I never saw this magnificent piece of obscure history, thanks for that)
The Czech Rep is mostly the old Kingdom/Duchy of Bohemia. You can search for the fascinating older arms they made and see that they have a long history of doing things their way. It is also where Larger Beer, as in Budweiser, comes from.
@Zoroff74 Well, you guys are the ones to talk, english is three languages in a trench coat with no consistent pronunciation rules 😅. Love from Czechia.
@@meatybrambela1006 -Blame the French, it's all their fault. Although we Scandinavians were trying to fix English earlier, with the student exchange program in the Viking age. We were making progress integrating Old Norse into the old English when those pesky Normands came and took over, pretty much led by an other group of Vikings who had invaded bits of Normandy and then got ambitious. The Normand group would later also invade the Irish islands, where they would also beset the earlier Viking invaders to those shores. Yep, Vikings pretty much invaded so much that they were invading each other several layers deep. It was complicated. But still, the French were obviously the problem in the region, with that complicated language of theirs. Oh, if only everyone spoke my native Finnish, so logical and simple. 😃
This gotta be one of the best designs of submachineguns ever, not only is clever but is also simple to understand how it works, HK should had see this before they started their G11 project.
Thank you for showing us these strange and VERY cool designs. I love the brilliance of this attempt at a submachine gun. I probably wouldn't like to be issued this thing, but love the different design. Thank you for bringing these to us. If not for this channel, I would never have heard of many of these and certainly wouldn't know the way they function. I'm surprised the platform allows these videos, very thankful they are allowed
One of the coolest magazine round counters I’ve seen. Stamping holes to look inside the 72-round stick magazine? Žádný! You have cool moving numbered tab and window quicker than any other system!
Unironcally peak and iconic forgotten weapons material.
It's a real shame, because this contains a lot of ideas that were well ahead of its' time. I bet the concerns about fragility could have been addressed with a little more development.
And the special ammo, I have to ask why not just put a slight curve in the magazine? It would curve into the stock so I doubt that would actually require a major mechanical change.
You know it's a good one if Ian puts "truly weird" or "bizarre" in the video title.
@@thadaHawk Se very COOL only Frogs?
This is truly a christmas gift
Reminds me of the early days of fw
ok, but 70+ round magazine for that low a profile is genuinely impressive.
And that 'capacity plate' with 10 rounds step is incredibly cool!
I thought so too,I kind of thought that was a stow position for airborne use or something initially....seems to be a well designed firearm and ahead of its time
It would look like magic seeing someone mag dump with this, it would look like the mag isn't attached so bullets just appearing out of nowhere
p90 could do 70+ easily and way less complicated and way better ergonomics. not particularly impressive imo.
@@krebgurfson5732 the p90 has been designed 43 years after this lil bro
Czech engineers are a different breed of mad genius...
The good kind of crazy.
Gunsmithing black magic. And those responsible seem to come in pairs!
"Always two, there are. A master, and an apprentice."
Yes we are 🇨🇿🇨🇿
Imagine if they hadn't been occupied by the Nazis and then the commies, they'd probably be one of the industrial economic centres of Europe.
Amazing indeed. 20 years ahead of the curve.
Interesting thing about this UA-cam channel is that there are now more Americans that know how to disassemble the ZB47 than there are Czech’s that know this weapon exists.
Damn it, Brno hid it away from most czech too well
That's Actually Really Sad, I feel for the Czech people that care about this portion of their history. Their Weapons design has vastly effected the designs of many of the most popular weapon designs for the last 100 years.
@@refusefntk Why feel for them? Nothing bad has happened. It is just the reality that, like many other niche areas of history, not many people are that interested in these things. It is just a matter of proportions, there is only 10 or 11 million czechs, so even if 1% was interested in this that is just 100k people.
Proto to musíme sledovat!! :D
@@refusefntk It wasn't adopted, so it never became part of Czech history. It's just a neat invention that ultimately proved unsuccessful.
The mechanism in that round rotator isn’t nearly as complicated as I thought it was going to be, it’s actually quite elegantly simple.
Pretty much the story on the whole weapon.
Same with the P90, people assume there's some wild mechanism to rotate rounds but it's just plastic ramps
Kinda brings a certain symbol to mind too lol.
Imagine trying to design this gun back in the late 40's. Running around trying to do everything without Computer aided design. Just Czech gunsmiths living in the moment.
Never underestimate the power of a gun nut with some power tools and a crazy idea
A draft table is a powerful tool. You can design machines of arbitrary complexity on these - it'll just take a long time.
Don't forget the classic engineer's companion, the trusty slide rule.
Imagine the size of the "not quite right" scrap pile!
@@justinjohnson4950 A shed.
A shed or a garage is somehow the origin story of so many great inventors.
"Will our gun be milled or stamped?"
"Yes. Oh- some welding as well!"
Modern polymers would do justice to design like this, and they did.
Let's see if we can work some casting and forging into it while we are at it.
@@KR-hg8be I was going to ask the same thing
@kevinrossi3557 maybe 3d metal sintering too for good measure. Oh you know what, it needs caseless 9mm too.
@@KR-hg8belet’s also throw in vacuum forming, for good measure
You didnt have me until 72 round low profile magazine
he had me at 72 round low profile magazine
i am gona make it for talian ban now
So low profile it's part of your handle. It's an amazing design, I really am amazed that this is from the 30's in design.
I wonder how one would carry these magazines though. They are a bit unwieldy.
@@no1DdC i imagine thats probably where it failed, in a big troop movement and individual solder haveing to reload every 32 rounds is not really much a difference over 72, but the number of mags that can be carried might be
He had me the moment that weird shape filled the screen :)
The Czechs have the best metalworking skills. Integrating milled and stamped pieces so seamlessly into such unique designs is truly a hallmark of Czech designers, IMHO. Great video!-John in Texas
As an American metal worker I would like to differentiate the skills necessary to achieve the design from the willingness to actually make such a fantastical but derpy design.
I personally have all the necessary skills to fabricate this whole gun (assuming I’ve been given the dimensions), I just never would.
I like the surface finish on all the machining too
The czechs and the best skills 🙉😂
Yup, in building up a Skorpion kit I just had to stop and admire some of the parts and design a few times.
That magazine feed system is beautifully simple engineering. Where yes it is a semi-complex shape but once the tooling is in place it's easy to replicate and the entire operation itself is very straight forward! Also the fact that all it really is doing is converting the horizontal motion of the bolt into a rotational motion for feeding cartridges via a single ratchet paw is wonderful engineering! Hats off to the fellers who designed and built this, this is something to be proud of.
I gotta love a gun that looks like it came from Bethesda but functionally works.
They do us dirty by not looking for irl weird guns to use as inspiration for their ridiculous designs
With the name "recoil compensated heavy scoped crude smg"😂😂
It honestly annoys me that a multibillion $ studio like Bethesda can't just consult a gunsmith and ask 'hey we made these designs, do they look like they'd function?'. It really reeks of the lack of attention to detail that happens when a studio gets that big and unfocused.
They instead give money to the woke studios for consulting.they careless what we think, they care only for the blue hairs and nose ringer crowd that check mental illness boxes that vote (D)em-Witt..it’s a fact!!
Bethesda doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same topic as interesting retro weapon designs
Y'all can't possibly know how long I've waited and hoped for *_THIS_* exact episode.
SAME~~~~
Me too; just took some time to get my hands on one (or two...).
@ForgottenWeapons please tell me they let you shoot it.
@@imadequate3376 SECONDED
@ForgottenWeapons Why is your wrist watch on your left arm?
Ah yes the zoidberg 47. Claw compatible.
Why not Zoidberg?
*(\/)(;,,;)(\/)*
Also Çyclopian compatible.
Also Lego man
Ah yes the early RCP-47
❤😂👍
Jako Moravák (oblast v České Republice) Jsem o jeho existenci věděl- foto, výkresy, atd. Ale rozebraný jsem nikde neviděl. Moc vám děkuji za toto video.
Respect to Czech engineering from Poland, brat!
The ZB47 is truly one of the most magnificent experimental guns of all time. Despite not having made it into mass production it still left a great impression to the Czeck troops despite its flaws. It is undoubtedly a splendid example of Czeckhnology. You're absolutely right about the fact this gun especially the magazine design predate the P90 not to mention the capacity to carry 72 rounds is slightly higher than the PPSH-41 that has a mag capacity of 71 rounds.
First impression from the thumbnail: "Okay, weird developmental SMG, I'm guessing they hadn't figured out double-stack magazines yet, so they put in a really long single-stack and a rotating mag well to make it more transportable"
Nope, apparently the Czechs made a P90-style rotating feed system 50 years earlier🤣
This is Czechnology, not French weirdness (I see you MAT-49)
Yeah, pretty much.
Not only earlier, but with 72 rounds, it looks awesome and has some considerably high firepower for such a compact weapon with some great ergonomics.
@@PavelNygryn MAC 1947 or EROP 1954 ?
I seriously want to see an alternative reality where this model would have been accepted in the post war years and developed to excelence over more than half a century. Streamlined manufacturing, adopted 9mm AUTO, enhanced ergonomics, materials... It beat the P90 by 50 years and the Halo universe SMG by 575.
There's no mag to prohibit prone fire, nothing sticking out the side and it still has the capacity to house 72 round. Amazing.
BTW. Zbrojovka is pronounced like Zbroyovka. Zbro-yov-ka.
Thanks for reminding me this thing exists by a well crafted video!
I'm thinking it could also work with a curved magazine since it'll curve upward in the stock!
Kyberpunk 2020.
[sbro-yof-ka]
@@CofIQ I can not agree. Z is Z, no matter what. No S at all. The first letter is tonal - your larynx vibrates. I do agree somewhat on the F. Czechs do tend to pronounce some of their V's attonally - without your larynx vibrating. Though correctly it is pronounced with a tonal V.
The only attonal letter here is K.
One just needs to be wary, that OV is not read as OU.
Also the first four letters might be hard to pronounce in one syllable. If it's your case, try [Zeh-bro-yov-ka] and then ditch the [-eh] like [Z-bro-yov-ka].
The accent is on the first syllable only.
Plot twist: Zbrojovka Brno produced (apart from MANY other things like the LMG ZB26, later modified with Enfield Armory into a BREN) the Consul typewriters, which Jack Tramiel imported to the USA under the brand Commodore. Yes, THAT Commodore that later gave birth to the C64 computer.
That is probably the coolest feed mechanism ever
Not sure, I mean the Japanese Type 11 LMG with its 30 round hopper utilizing stripper clips like 5 round Hotchkiss feed strips is pretty fucking cool to see as well.
@@dposcuro does it have dick shaped hole in it?
That "Krink" he showed off not too long ago, where the magazine was under the chamber, so the bolt had to pull a cartridge backwards first, was also pretty dope. It looked like a mini AK, with one chromosome too many, until he opened it and everything made sense.
Actually, pretty simple for what it does too
Its kindof reminiscent in my mind of how the g11 worked in a way.
I was in military museum in Prague with my family last month, amongst other things the collection concerning Czech small arms manufacturing is fascinating there. There is plenty more Ian can choose from, there was also prototype of rotary anti tank rocket launcher...
Anyway, if you happen to be in Prague, definitely make sure to visit the museum, it is free as well and even if it weren't it would be well worth the visit.
I adore these unorthodox designs. I design firearms as a hobby and these weird-but-functional designs give me so many ideas to play with. Thank you for making these videos.
I wanna do this concept in 12 gauge. Elegantly simple feed concept here, tho mechanically complex to fabricate.
@@timbessler9315Maybe this same model of SMG but that shoots 12 gauge cartridges and that is 10 to 5 shots, it would be great to see it in action 😊
Even more P90 esque than I thought, a simple blowback firing mechanism with a complex but elegant rotary feeding mechanism and an extremely high capacity magazine. Very glad to finally get a good look at one of these.
And what's funny is the p90 magazine is literally plastic two rollers.
I would say the hill h15 would be the real p90 predecessor ;)
That's not even that complex. It's genius is what it is.
Also sporting a wildly high fire rate. This would've been a menace on the battlefield, spitting an entire 72 round magazine your way in less than 4 seconds
I wouldn't call that feeding mechanism complex at all.
Weird!?
That's just Czechnology
the only russian germans
really comitted to the 72 round capacity. he could have fit like 30 rounds without needing to do cylindrical ammo
@@AsbestosMuffins But that's 42 less rounds...
This version manages without the proprietary ammo.
@@radwiniscoolSlavic Germans. Not all Slavs are Russian moreover, not all Russians are Slavs.
Czechs in renaissance period: make striped glass beads
Czechs in modern period: make every possible permutation of a firearm
Czechs before the renaissance - make a lot of hand-held firearms for Hussites. Some of the first guns of this type ever and definitely first use in such numbers. One of them (píšťala, literally "flute") probably gives the name to "pistola/pistolet/pistol"
@@PavelNygryn and (i believe) the first use of armoured troop carrier vehicles (Husite wagons)
@@wojciechbieniek4029 There vere more like mobile fortifications and troop carriers than armoured troop carriers, but nearly there... Probably the most important (but kinda overlooked) thing was that they were first to establish common-folk troops able to fight with noble heavy cavalry on any type of battlefield. And this knowledge was spread throughout Europe after Hussite wars. End of era.
And the Houfnice and Tarasnice parked inbetween the wagons, shooting the charging enemy.
Houfnice, the cannons meant to shoot into a crowd, become the Howitzer
@@PavelNygryn and also very importantly, standardized weaponry and equipment, he'd train a couple most capable members of the group, let them train the rest, and he'd move on to the next group, so he always had people trained on the equipment being used
This gun is one cross-bolt safety away from being lefty-friendly. Majorly cool design; I absolutely love the combo of matte stampings for the frame and blued stampings for the upper. Artistry.
This is an example of peak Star Wars gun design and I'd love to see it there somewhere
You read my mind.
Exactly what I was thinking. Just minor greeblies on that infantry pattern.
Where’s the magazine? … Where’s the magazine? … No way. That can’t be it.
Exactly my reaction as well. I thought they made the photos for thumbnail without the magazines. When Ian showed the fire selector I read the 72 and thought "Wait a minute".
My first thought were folding mag, like opposite MAT-49
It was it.
I thought it was part of the structure for the extending shoulder stock!
I love the spring ammo counter, i love the quirky almost futuristic profile, i love the unique mechanism.
Wow. That is one the cleanest, Slickest zero tool designs I've Ever seen. Looks Fantastic. Feature rich and well rounded.
And older than most I can think of.
Redesigned for modern needs and plastics... PDW?
It would work
He mentioned at the beginning that it's basically an older version of the P90 generally so a modern version would basically just be the P90 I think
Like the modern version of this is basically the p90
@@AutismusPrime360 P90 doesn't have a 72 round mag though
In another universe, this is the wildly prolific Czech scifi spacegat that the AUG was in this universe. Incredibly cool design with features way ahead of its time.
Simple and smart in some of the best ways possible... Václav Holek was a genius.
Ian - thank You for making another lost treasure very much un-forgotten!
I would so much love to see a mechanism like this perfected to its full potential in a full-scale production. The result could have been a legend in its category...
Love it. When you first explained how it works; you think, that's going to be a cludge of a horror show of moving parts inside. But the economy of parts & the symphony of how they interact is simple & beautiful. Just imagining in my head if you reworked it in modern materials, you could get away with slightly curved mags running the length of the gun, so you could use standard 9ᵐᵐ ammo. 🤔
Yes I was expecting a watchmakers nightmare similar to the hk g11, but its actually very sensible.
But for a blowback SMG that thing is ridiculously complex.
Ta zbran byla moralne zastarala uz v dobe vyvoje " slaba munice pro armadni ukoly " , pro armadu prilis slozita a draha konstrukce , i na vyrobu " tehdy zde jeste nevladli komuniste ", a hlavne bylo po valce a vsichni verili ze uz nikdy zadna valka nebude , o 10 let pozdeji bylo vse jinak , proto vznikla i nase SA-58 , ale to uz je jiny pribeh .
@@justindunlap1235 Honestly just a two more parts.
A chest rig for those torso-length mags still beats a sack of drums beating your ass.
Who else wants to see a slo-mo, high-rez mag dump. set to The Blue Danube Waltz?
I was proud of myself. Thinking I knew something about firearms. And almost each time I learn something new from the channel. Merci Ian.
You might wanna check out manual, book, website too. For more stuff, tactic, equipment,…
As one gun can’t exist without a doctrine, and if there is a difference in doctrine then one gun might not be obsolete as it looks.
Yeah, I thought I had seen everything, I was so confident clicking on that thumbnail. I was not ready, this one really knocked me on my ass, this designer had access to some odd sacred knowledge.
Was waiting for this one. Of all the experimental guns where you need 200 IQ just to figure out how you’re even supposed to hold it, the ZB’s been top of my list forever.
Ditto. I've searched for it multiple times over the years while thinking 'well he *_did_* visit the Czech arms factories (CZ-UB and Brno) so he's got to have filmed one on this, right?'
Tests must be pretty watered down these days if holding this gun properly nets you a 200 IQ
There's really only one way you can hold it ffs
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper that’s called a hyperbole, but I know some autistic people struggle with speech that isn’t thuddingly literal so I won’t hold it against you.
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapperoh my bad, I didn’t realize people only have a thumb and a very long index finger.
@@nihluxler1890 Are those the only fingers your brain can control at any given time?
This is one of those obscure firearms, that we've maybe seen in a random video game, but I've never seen one in a presentation before - thanks Ian
That gun looks super well made. Sturdy, easy to take apart and simple strong looking mechanisms.
The outside the box thinking, represented in this gun is amazing. Many firearms have 1 or 2 unusual features but this gun is comprised entirely of different approaches to design. A fascinating collection could be comprised solely of Czech prototype weapon designs & engineering cut-aways.
that is exactly what we have at VHU depository, not necessarily cut aways but most of the weird military designs are housed here
Really unfortuate it had issues with durability cause this is one of the most impressive well thought out, incredibly cool yet also kind of simple looking guns I have seen on the channel.
This sounds like a speculation about durability and not materially manifested issue.
@@sir0herrbatka I am not sure if the durability part is specifically a point referenced in the trials or not, but just looking at it I can for sure understand that being a concern. Probably something that could to some extent be addressed if getting a big contract, but the core design does look susceptible to damage.
The thought process in the heads of gun designers at full display. The Czechs have always made very capable and often unique firearms. This is another fine example. Thanks again, Ian.
The mechanism is much simpler than I thought it was going to be, pretty good design really. Thanks for sort of teaching me how feed mechanisms work!
(sort of because I'm a poor student)
I love the paratrooper version and the blued finish, beautiful thing.
I love that Zbrojovka managed to include their logo on the gun like something out of a movie or comic, that's so great.
They are two of the coolest, weirdest, prettiest, most interestingly different firearms I've seen in a long while. I had adult feelings as soon as I saw the thumbnail, but it got better once you broke them down. I love it when designers think outside of the box.
Thanks for the video, Ian!
The magazine counter is really quite clever. I'm a bit surprised that hasn't popped up in other places. I could see it being vulnerable to dirt ingress and jamming up, though, and if you can protect it with clear plastic then you can just show the bullets themselves with clear plastic, like the P90...
Good point with the magazine counter. IIRC, clear plastic only became available in the 1960s. This design is old enough to still incorporate a wooden stock, after all.
Had a clear plastic
Not to durable
Magpul’s windowed PMAGs and their new transparent TMAG have a single painted coil of the mag spring that moves along a calibrated scale on each side of the mag to display capacity.
Very dieselpunky SMG. Hope to see them in range because that's no foootage of them even fired.
Proprietary ammo
@@liamanthonyalanpearson3419some of them are chambered in normal 9x19 parabellum
@@liamanthonyalanpearson3419
...of course it does.
@@liamanthonyalanpearson3419 not for the versions showcased here.
there most likely wont be ever any footage, VHU has most of them, and the rest is dispersed and demilled
This might legitimately be one of my new favorite weapon designs. The aesthetic? Futuristic. The high-capacity mag with a round counter in the 40s? Amazing. The design? Ingenious. That ROF? That piqued my interest.
The Czech firehouse of the past’s future
Thank you Ian, our weapon industry was top of the world between WW. I thank you for your work, it is really pleasure to watch your channell, especially regarding Czech weapons. Actually "we" bought Colt and Vista and I hope our small arms will be again top of the tops ;-)
I can't hold myself to admit my youngsters' shooting when I compared Glock, Sig and CZ75 . For 25 m I made 92 pts - and I wasn't able to get even close with other two guns. MCGA!
Thank you for your work, keep up, its really interesting even four us, Czechs.
I love funky experimental designs like this. What a beautiful firearm.
Im speechless with awe at this firearm.
Absolutely mind blowing the level of craftsmanship, ingenuity and brilliance in those components!
The Inventor was an utter genius!!!
@@JS-ti8ny An ingenious design but for combat use I think the long thin magazines could easily be damaged.
No use for the British infantry, there is no way to attach a bayonet.
In a science fiction novel I wrote, I came up with a firearm with a similar mechanism. It is a system that feeds and ejects bullets while reducing the range of bolt movement with a mechanism called rotary gas impingement. I created it as a high-speed service machine gun for 12.7mm ammunition used by powered suits. This is a Japanese amateur novel site. I love these kinds of "firearms with strange structures" 😁
from Japan🇯🇵
A 12,7 mm submachine gun developed to be used with power armor? That kinda sounds like the 12,7 mm sub gun from Fallout New Vegas.
Glad you're here sir, learning and enjoying Ian's presentation and the Czechnology!
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Ian's videos are also very popular among gun enthusiasts here in Japan! What's strange is that even though there is automatic translation, there are very few Japanese people who leave praise comments like me. It's very sad 😔
Sounds like a very interesting system! Though i can't quite wrap my head around how it would actually look and work though...
Is the story posted anywhere? I would enjoy reading it.
Every mechanical engineer/designer should make a pilgrimage to Prague.
Raději do Brna , ne !?
I'd be too distracted by those smokin' hot Czech women!!! 😍😍
Don't know what they'd see in Prague, considering our armouries are from Brno and Uherský Brod.
@@martinusaokishiroThey'd see weaponized hangovers.
@@pb68slab18you are clearly not an engineer or history nerd then
That is the coolest gun ever designed. I love the swiz clock that is the G11. I love the rollers and wires of the AN94. I love the P90 magazines. But this THIS GUN is the most mezmerizing thing i,ve ever seen its simply outstading everything on it is so beautiful and well thought every detail is perfection. I think i am in love with a gun oh well
This is one of the most bizarre guns I've seen in ages. Great video.
Ooooh, steampunk P90!
And H&K said YES, but stick the magazine in from the front.
I'd say it's more dieselpunk.
Exactly my words!
Defiantly not steampunk!!
someone time traveled to ww2 and described a p90 but didnt have much time and this is what they came up with.
this is probably one of my favorite weird guns of my country. great video as always!
small note on the pronunciation of "zbrojovka". from the way i hear you say it, it sounds almost like "zbrozhka", instead its pronounced like "zbro-yo-vka". the last sillable is weird, because of the v at the start, but its not that hard, also it ends with short schwa A, as in sofa.
i když to před ním vyslovuješ tak mu to nejde 😅😆
What I always find interesting is how absolutely beautifully machined many of the parts are on some of these Czech pieces are. The stainless colored parts are gorgeous
I love it! Such a slick yet old-school feeling to it, like a P90 ahead of its time.
Czech weapons never ever fail. To be unique.
I read this. Like Jeff Goldblum. Talks.
My favourite videos on this channel are always the ones that look at mechanically crazy guns. Always fun to see funky WW2 engineering at work
this one is post WW2
That thing is super intriguing. It's Swiss-esque machining weirdness just oozes all kinds of quasi steampunk cool factor. It looks like it could've easily been a Browning offering. A 3d-printed version would be right at home on a Star Wars set...really awesome video.
Apparently Czech engineering is like Swiss engineering, but with an added dash of frugality. Fewer moving parts that way.
4:52 I could have sworn he said “comical ammunition”…
Comical ammunition is something abundant in Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades.
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Informative as always. Thank you for the content and Merry Christmas!
Did the paint for the magazine round counter glow in the dark? Looks like radium paint imo, considering it flakes (and possibly a flake stuck to your finger at 18:28) i feel its worth to Czech.
Whether or not it was radium, it wouldn't glow any more I don't think, but it seems very plausible and would be easy to check with a geiger counter.
Great Pun
Wasn't radium abandoned as a glowing paint by then? The side effects were well known by the 20s, right?
@atomic_wait pretty sure it was used well into WWII
No. Cos zee Germans in the UFOs will see it from zee sky when you field strip it
This might be my favorite video you guys have uploaded so far.
So this is the gun Stargate command would use if they started operations in the 1950s?
"the Tau'ri have Czech guns, run away!!!"
Indeed.
O’Neill hols up a Jaffa Staff: “This, is a weapon of intimidation! It is designed to frighten your enemies!”
Holds up ZB-47: “This, is a weapon of WAR! It is designed to KILL your enemies!”
Lets Carter demonstrate since she’s the best shot on the team. 😂
Probably. But they would also be fighting Hitler's Wehrmacht that would have allied with the Goa'uld.
It's really sad that no one has ever tried to put this masterpiece into any video games, not even the cod vanguard
These videos on history and information about these guns is always a joy to watch and learn.
With some simplification and a rework of the ergonomics/layout, the basic concept is quite interesting.
72 rounds in a sleek and fairly compact package even when ready to fire? It took until the P90 to come close!
And I bet her design team took a very good look at the ZB47.
i can confidently say that ergonomics are surprisingly really good when you handle one
@@martinpojer5375 No doubt about the grip concept working well, especially given its age!
But smooth, cold metal for a grip surface und not being ambidextrous are not exactly great in terms of ergonomics. A different routing of the mag might make everything more compact and give the operator rounder grip surfaces.
to get around the tapered ammunition problem they could just use a giant curved mag and incorporate it into the design. Or alternate the direction of each round and have the magic bullet repositioner point them the right way.
@@irsever Neat idea, a nicely curved mag could follow the "bend" down to the shoulder pad
But it does not really have to be curved, even with high capacity, a straight mag with a tapered cross section will also work. I can´t really describe it, but I´ll try: In a double-stack mag you got two columns of cartridges touching at the base vertically, not horizontally, there they alternate in the "troughs" of the other column. Now in a rectangular mag the thinner cartridge mouths float around, which they will stop doing if the mag´s walls come little closer there.
This is what I subscribe to this channel for, absolutely outstanding.
Weird but innovative. Very interesting feed concept. Must have taken a lot of fiddling to get that just right. I can just imagine the bizarre looking magazine pouch for three 72 round magazines.
Just reuse back quivers from the Hussites era!
The "samurai" rig for the Beretta MAB38?
It was a chest plate with four long 40-rounds magazines in horizontal pouches side to side.
This may be silly, but as a former TM, I do always love it when Ian goes out of his way to announce that he is using dummy rounds. Safety isn't first, it is always.
Czech mechanical design is very interesting. Often they somehow find a totally different solution that both work and are simple.
Really cool design. It's a bit weird that they went with custom cases and didn't try to do a slightly curved magazine, especially considering that it would have been totally out of the way in the stock
I guess that depends on how much curvature is really necessary. For example, let's assume what H&K decided to give the new MP5 magazines - imagine that curve maintained for a full 72 rounds. The magazine would grow quite a lot sideways. That would make both the loaded submachine gun and the web gear for carrying the magazines balloon out by what must have been deemed an unacceptable amount.
Also, with that long of a curved path, I suspect a simple spring-loaded follower might struggle to reliably make the journey from one end to the other.
Well if all you have is a break for folding straight lines then boxes start to look pretty nice
I think the mag being part of the stock was one of its intentional benefits. Since it could run the whole length it's easier to a whopping 72 bullets instead of some like 72 or less running out of the weapon. The structure of the gun worsening would probably be another issue if the mag came out. Whether the whole assembly or just the mag. The spring probably would be more fickle with a giant curve.
Selector settings:
1. Safe
2. Full-send
Nobody ain't time for a bullet at a time.
"72 round burst"
Europe was always plagued with ambiguous shorthand problems like Schnellfeuer for full auto so
1. Safe
2. Safe it'll shoot every last round
@@rogerborg It's from Brrrrrrno, after all.
I see a bit of art deco design in it. Especially in places where there is a trigger and a circular hole for the thumb in the version with a wooden stock.
The whole video i had sparkling eyes like a child adoring a christmas tree. Merry Christmas, and thank you for this wonderful gift, Gun Jesus!
Definitely one of the more unique weapons Ian has covered! Very much enjoyed this particular video/explanation....
It's such remarkable engineering, even the fact CNC and GD&T didn't exist yet make it so impressive. It's like the Evans Repeater of SMGs-impractical but really cool, with a gigantic magazine.
I have no idea what the czechs were smoking but it looks cool and I love it
they were doing math
It's the local shroomies...
@@MadCDeeJayyes, math and meth😂
I would be doing my inner 12 yr old self a disservice if I didn't have a public chuckle at the shape of that feed slot.
A "boy" gun for sure, thanks for pointing it out so I didn't have to... 😂
i had to scroll way too far down to see someone comment on the feed ramps
You know what I love about this channel, it is a treasure trove of bizarre and unique weapons I can use (if I ever make a video game).
This weapon was truly revolutionary!! Awesome video, thanks for sharing!
Never thought i'd hear Ian say the phrase "serious 'stendo"
insane engineering, im very impressed
So Brno invented the (straight walled) "9mm Auto" first? I wonder if that's where Dr. Brad Miller got the idea from.
What an absolute galaxy of fascinating manufacture processes, design tricks, and features half a century before their time (Numeric ammo display window? Field-strip/full-takedown DIAL!?) Thanks for going above and beyond your usual high standards in documenting this beast.
I live in Brno where this contraption (among others) used to be produced and whenever I drive past the Zbrojovka factory on my way to work I imagine Ian's face looking down on me like a Telletubby sun and my day immediatelly becomes 25% better every time.
What a delightfully Rube Goldbergian contraption. It just spits in the face of the KISS concept.
Its alot simpler than i thought it would be. Really the only difference it has from regular smgs is the spinny cog bit.
MTKB
měj to komplikované, blbečku
@@rhinovirus2225well definitely the simplest gun I've seen that has a spinny bit in it.
@@buoy9665 yep, I'd play with it
@@rhinovirus2225That's what she said
Like the design of this one! Excellent content as always 👌
Having only 30 rounds for the para version would be a bit low, but I think it would make sence if you only had a 30 round mag in the gun during the drop with the stock folded, and then switching to 72 round mags once in action on the ground with stock extended.
Seems like a very clever design while keeping it super simple. I would expect something like this earlier in the century but with 100 moving parts. I wonder if they had some more development time to work out the issues if this would have become the basis for more pdw designs in the future.
Having worked on presses for forty years, I really appreciate the engineers 'stampings' (as some people refer) In all these modern guns and other products. Most people are not aware of time & material savings that these methods produce. Always enjoy your very knowledgeable descriptions of weapons. Peace and goodwill
Bedankt
Beautiful bullet cycling mechanism that allows such a large magazine.
2:45 funnily enough, in russian "samopal" no longer means anything closely related to small arms (though it literally means "self-shooting"). These days it means the counterfeit product, "self-made" in a bad sense.
Yeah, but Czechs also understand this russian-related "samopal" - as something suspicious self distilled. As "samo" i still "self", but "pal" can be "shoot/fire" or "distilled using fire".
tbh samopal more translates as the russian avtomat
Actually, our Czechs brothers got it right. Avtomat - isn't a Slavic word.
Russia should have to officially switch to Slavic "samopal" also.
I say it as a Russian.
2:05 okay at first glance I assumed this was more like the MAT and the magazine rotated into place, but redirecting the rounds is cool as hell
Wow wow wow, one of the weirdest, coolest and most innovative guns on this channel I can think of. Very nice video showing all the funky details :)
Ne ne. Tak to sem nikdy neviděl. Mega hustý.
(Don't believe my eyes, I am Czech and I never saw this magnificent piece of obscure history, thanks for that)
The Czech Rep is mostly the old Kingdom/Duchy of Bohemia. You can search for the fascinating older arms they made and see that they have a long history of doing things their way. It is also where Larger Beer, as in Budweiser, comes from.
"ZBRO-YOFF-KAH". Not "ZBRO-ZHOFF-KAH".
Sorry for bitching, but this immediately caught my ears. :-)
Správně, jen mu to napiš! Taky mi to trhá uši a je s podivem, že s tím Ian zápasí i po návštěvě muzea. :)
Dudes, you have a made up language that has words and names without vowels. Sorry, you just can't have any linguistic rights, ok? 😉
@Zoroff74 Well, you guys are the ones to talk, english is three languages in a trench coat with no consistent pronunciation rules 😅. Love from Czechia.
@@meatybrambela1006 -Blame the French, it's all their fault.
Although we Scandinavians were trying to fix English earlier, with the student exchange program in the Viking age.
We were making progress integrating Old Norse into the old English when those pesky Normands came and took over, pretty much led by an other group of Vikings who had invaded bits of Normandy and then got ambitious.
The Normand group would later also invade the Irish islands, where they would also beset the earlier Viking invaders to those shores.
Yep, Vikings pretty much invaded so much that they were invading each other several layers deep.
It was complicated.
But still, the French were obviously the problem in the region, with that complicated language of theirs.
Oh, if only everyone spoke my native Finnish, so logical and simple. 😃
@@meatybrambela1006 Let's me guess : French , Dutch - obvious- and latin - less obvious -.
This gotta be one of the best designs of submachineguns ever, not only is clever but is also simple to understand how it works, HK should had see this before they started their G11 project.
Thank you for showing us these strange and VERY cool designs. I love the brilliance of this attempt at a submachine gun. I probably wouldn't like to be issued this thing, but love the different design. Thank you for bringing these to us. If not for this channel, I would never have heard of many of these and certainly wouldn't know the way they function. I'm surprised the platform allows these videos, very thankful they are allowed
One of the coolest magazine round counters I’ve seen. Stamping holes to look inside the 72-round stick magazine? Žádný! You have cool moving numbered tab and window quicker than any other system!
The "circular design" on the pivot is a rifled barrel in front view, James Bond style 😀