3D Animation: How the Walther P.38 Pistol worked (WWII)
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Walther P.38 was a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol that was developed by German gun manufacturer Walther at the beginning of World War II. By the end of the war, around 1.2 million of the P.38 had been produced.
The Walther P.38 was intended to replace the costly Luger P08 (the first pistol chambered in 9mm), although many Luger P08, Walther PP and Walther PPK (later made famous by James Bond) pistols remained in service among officers within the German Army during World War II.
Since the German army wanted to prevent that weapons captured by the Allies could be connected to an arms factory in Germany (to prevent them from being bombed), the pistols were given a code instead of a manufacturer name. That's why the codes "ac" (Walther Zella-Mehlis), "cyq" (Spreewerk Grottau) or "byf"/"svw" (Mauser Oberndorf) are engraved on the pistols, that were produced during WWII.
After World War II the pistol was again manufactured and again adopted by the then newly founded German Bundeswehr under the name Walther P1 from 1957 until 2004. The successor to the P1 in the Bundeswehr is the Heckler & Koch P8.
The Walther P.38 had a major influence on the development of the Beretta 92 by Italian gun manufacturer Beretta, which was adopted by the US Army under the name M9 as the successor of the Colt M1911 (used by the American troops in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and others) as official sidearm in 1985.
The P.38 features a open slide design (like the Beretta 92/M9) and was the first locked-breech pistol to use a double-action/single-action (DA/SA) trigger (the earlier double-action PPK was an unlocked blowback design, but the more powerful 9×19mm Parabellum round used in the P.38 mandated a locked breech design).
Double-action/single-action means, that pulling the trigger cocks the hammer before firing the first shot with double-action operation. The firing mechanism extracts and ejects the first spent round, cocks the hammer, and chambers a fresh round for single-action operation with each subsequent shot.
The moving-barrel mechanism is actuated by a wedge-shaped falling locking block underneath the breech. When the pistol is fired, the barrel and slide recoil together, until the locking block drives down, disengaging the slide and arresting further rearward movement of the barrel.
The slide continues its rearward movement on the frame, ejecting the spent case and cocking the hammer before reaching the end of travel. Two recoil springs on either side of the frame and below the slide, having been compressed by the slide's rearward movement, drive the slide forward, stripping a new round from the magazine, driving it into the breech and re-engaging the barrel; ending its return travel with a fresh round chambered, hammer cocked and ready to repeat the process.
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Superb animation. Really excellent.
a gun that screams "peace through tyranny"
Your videos are getting better and better
thank you
Quite a good job !
Just acquired a p38 and having jamming issues. Ordered a spring set from Wolffs Gunsprings, I think this video will help me with changing them as I’m only really familiar with the modern polymer pistols (Glock, M&P, Walther PPQ etc).
Good animation. This gun has a very little spring for the slide and it works.
5:33 Don't you think the bolt should push the cartridge into chamber, after that the extractor would hook the cartridge.
In other words the extractor is pushing the cartridge without hooking it until chambered.
Nice animation but you don’t show the double action or the safety mechanism.
Вот чего мне не хватало в прошлом,лет50 тому,если бы не сел,то стал специалистом... А так- 75 уже,электронщик,асушник,пенсия ого какая,от и до с напрягом,и все сопутствующие возрасту. Сколько было проб с припасами 5,6...
Ahh, I see! There is something in the slide that drags the whole barrel & pushes the swiveling lock breach downward.
Isn't the round indicator supposed to press against the back of the cartridge not rest on top of it?, as per you animation it won't push back and indicate that there is a round in the chamber will it?
a ha, I can see how it works now, it pushes back on the top of the barrel and without a round it goes into the gap where the round would be.
@1:23 its so sad to see the decommissioned status of this otherwise awesome artifact
The bar above firing pin, is that extractor..?
That's the "loaded chamber indicator" it protrudes at the back above the firing pin when there is a round in the chamber.
In the animation it does not show the correct position, it should show it resting on the back of the cartridge case.
Why does the barrel move? Not sure I see a necessary reason for it to be mobile.
It’s because if the internal pressure of the cartridge, there needs to be some sort of delay so that the round being fired doesn’t explode outside of the chamber, I’m short recoil systems like this that comes from the barrel traveling back with the slide for a short period of time
Sfrutta anche il rinculo per spingere indietro il carrello.Mentre nei fucili e mitra,quasi tutti hanno un asta che sfrutta i gas.Prova a vedere l'animazione della GLOCK,e vedrai un bello spostamento della canna.
I want aps Stechkin
Очень интересный пистолет.изящные решения
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basically a glock with a hammer
The P38 predates the Glock by over two Decades.
Well, the P.38 is steel frame, Double-Action/Single-Action with a open slide, while the Glock is polymer, striker-fired with a conventional slide. The P.38 has a lot in common with the Beretta 92 aka M9. Have a nice day
Not even close. Operationally, the list of differences is longer than the list of similarities.
The Glock is an half-cocked striker-fired. The Walther P.38 is a SA/DA pistol with an external hammer. The only similarity : they were the first in their respective categories.
No, this is not a Glock with a hammer. For starters, the frame isn’t made of polymer and there is no safe action trigger. Get your act together.
И анимацыя досканальная четкая,ясная