The Yugoslav M56 Submachine Gun: Perhaps Too Simple?
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- The M-56 is a Yugoslav take on the MP-40 design, produced starting in 1956 to replace its previously issued M49 submachine gun (which was a copy of the Soviet PPSh-41). The M56 is simpler than the MP40, however, and chambered for the 7.62x25mm Tokarev cartridge. It is a simple gun to make, but quite awkward to use, and has a remarkable potential to disassemble itself while firing if not assembled correctly.
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" has a remarkable potential to disassemble itself while firing if not assembled correctly"
just like yugoslavia itself. it's almost poetic.
ahahah true :D
With very very big help of cia...They destroyed half of world...(i mean of dissaemble of jugoslavija)
Fact is, Yugoslavia was assembled correctly.
@@krstohrvat6981 It is a valid statement
@@krstohrvat6981 Well, there was a way of uniting those ethnic groups into one ethnic group. Just like Germany
I have a Zastava car and it has just about the same ammount of parts as this gun.
@Grinderman You can still see people driving them in streets (Fica) and they are cheap to repair and maintain and have 100% working. It is 40-50 years old car that runs well. Not the best car but people still use it.
@Grinderman Its a shit car anyway made by italians or yugoslavs
2 years ago I got a summer in tourism. Guess what my official company car was...a fucking Yugo. With pictures (decals) of naked women on the side.
I had to drive it for 2 months. It broke down on me about 9 times (in the middle of fucking nowhere of course) until it finally caught fire in september 2017.
RIP
Stojadin brate
@@johndelorean7353 its not a shit car
When the MP-40 starts hanging out with slavs
To the gulag with you kruat lover
The magazine even got circumsized
When the MP-40 gets stolen from the soviets and traded to the yugoslavs and it is loved so everyone uses it
SOVIET bad influences I guess
it bends
Makes note to self: A proper gun doesn't present the opportunity to spontaneously disassemble when fired.
I learn so much from this channel!
a proper gun may not, but a fun gun sure does
And the mechanism for disassembly seems to be a bit overly complicated as well.
Its not idiot proof. Never intended to be sold to "You know what country" lol
@@tonnymalero6316 👍
here are some translations of the markings
rafal.=rafalno=full auto
jed.=jedinačno=single
ukoč.=ukočeno=safe
otkoč.=otkočeno=fire
Leo Magerl you mean locked and unlocked? :D
+Sevenus I was translating to English expressions, that's also correct
It is more like brake on, and brake off.
haha good one
Leo Magerl kako ste
"oh no I left my mp40 with the Soviet guns! ah I'll get it tomorrow what's the worst that could happen"
SmilingMoos3 *L O N G. B O I*
As a guy who had few o these (and actually used them as intended), I can say that I never had a single problem with these SMGs. They are reliable and reasonably accurate. And never, I repeat, never heard of that accidental disassembly thing. So, it's all in proper training. Also, that safety is probably the most safest one ever made.
@@baseddepartment8167 u vukovaru
@@baseddepartment8167 Pođoh isto da ga pitam.
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If you need special training for a single submachine gun, I think most people would rather just use ones where the skills are interchangeable.
@@balkanicsense1952 Jok. Tada sam još bio premlad.
Looks likes it's designed for ease of manufacture first and foremost. They needed their own weapons industry as both Soviet and western blocks were leery of Yugoslavia, the best gun is one you can make quickly and cheaply.
That's not entirely true, we had stockpiles of weapons and ammo after WW2. There was always more small arms than army needed. It was produced out of simple reason, our commie government wanted to "open up factories and workplaces for people" so they invested in crap like small arms factories, artillery factories, car factories... Everything was shit but it was sold to eastern "friends" who were even more behind
It doesn't help that Tito did not want to rely on the USSR, partly because Stalin had sent assassins after him.
And Tito sent his, some say he had fingers in the Kennedy drama. I should recommend "huston, we have a problem" a slovenian documentary about Tito and how he fucked the west so hard that they are fucking us from birth
Yes that is true. Stalin send three assins to kill Tito but all failed and Tito get upset and send a message to Stalin Ok you send three guys and I got them I will send one guy and will succseed. :)
About Kennedy: I stopped paying attention to the conspiracy theories a long time ago.
Despite the external semblance to MP-40 it actually owed more design solutions to Beretta Model 38 (as previous M49 and M51 did too) and PPSh-41 (trigger group). Only real MP-40 features were folding stock and pistol grip shape.
It was appreciated for greater accuracy, obtained by a relatively low rate of fire due to the rate reducing buffer and shorter bolt travel than competing sub-machine guns. Clumsy as it is, it still rated better in trials than Sten, M40, Thomson and PPSh.
01:35 'synthetic plastic' - instead of naturally grown plastic that is harvested from plastic trees.
He means eco grown plastic, which has grazed on swiss sunny fields
If you had stayed in school you'd realize "synthetic" is not an adjective to noun "plastic" in this case, but instead they're both adjectives in sequence describing a certain thing. If his sentence was written there would be a comma after "synthetic".
@@floatingchimney oh shut up boomer
He said "synthetic,(coma) plastic..."
oh wow, you're so smart dude, pointing the mistakes of others.
It's not even a mistake
For the non Yugo audience:
Ukoč- short from 'ukočeno' means locked
Otkoč- short from 'otkočeno' means unlocked
Rafal- means full auto
Jed - short from 'jedinično' means single action
I like that Yugo emblem engraved on the top side of the barre, real old school. Don't share the same ideology though
A little bit of history on that gun, which in truth served Yugoslav army supriseingly good despite it's... let me be kind to the piece of my history and call it simple. It was one of the ways to suck-up to the Soviets, because at that point it was obvious that we will not be part of eastern block and that we were ready to fight Soviets as hard as we fought Germans if they tried to force us. Stalin actually wanted to use the force, but Russian soldiers, including many generals, who knew that there were less German soldiers on the Eastern front because of our continuous guerilla war against Germans, were unwilling, to put it mildly, to do it. So, our president at the time decided to adopt weapons compatible with Red Army standards as a gesture of assurance to USSR that we would be on their side in the case of future conflicts. This came with the added benefit of getting Soviet armor, T-34-85, and T-55 tanks later on. So, since we confiscated a lot of German WWII tooling we proceeded to produce USSR compatible guns on it, and one of the products have been this gun, M56. One of the weapons we were not ready to adopt have been Mosin rifle, 7.62X54R is still looked down upon today, so we continued the production of our Mouser, M48 rifle.
There is one piece of that M56 that you are missing, that was, and still is, highly regarded, "bayonet"-knife that came with it. It's a nearly perfect battle knife, thin enough to be used as a knife yet stiff enough to be used as a dagger, springy enough not to break and hard enough to have good edge retention, not too long and not too short, in one word almost perfect. Of course it had to have some drawback, and that is the material, it wasn't stainless, it was made out of high carbon steel that was extremely prone to rusting, despite bluing, and needed a bit of maintenance. So, it's not a knife for average soldier but it is worn and used, even today, by professionals who are ready to put a little bit more effort into maintenance of their equipment in order to gain better performance out of it. encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwY02kzJ33Tvb3nhaNJkB6UiSpQTVni3inux7eXdvMQGKqGUdH
Interesting that they wouldn’t adopt the MN. Should have realized that as I have two Yugoslav rifles, 48 and 48a IIRC. Will use that info against Moist Nugget fanboys... 😺
the most informative comment on this video
Not to mention chambering your weapons in soviet calibers means easier resupply should you have to fight a guerilla war against them ; )
Seeing you cover all these yugoslav guns really warms my heart as a Croat.
A gun that doesn't get much coverage is the yugoslav MGV 176 which was produced by Gorenje, a company most well known for kitchen appliences like stoves. After ex-yu fell apart, the production continued in Slovenia.
I would love to see it covered!
A gun that makes You go Slav?
That cringe there :D
Yuo of win 1 gulag.
seems like they designed it to be used while slav squatting, resting the middle of the gun on your adidas clad knee, and the magazine on the other side of the knee
Wow! Are all you idiots just a bunch of despicable fucking racists?
Anon Nymous lol
The gun looks like it was made specifically for tall people.
As a tall person, I appreciate that.
Psh just squat dude
Well serbs are tall
@42 true that, in american movies 1st year high schoolers look so short, im always like wtf?
All their weapons are. The m70 is an all built for a full sized adult, since even the kids there are much taller than in most Asian and African countries. Hence the longer weapon.
Good morning Yugoslavia.
Nemoj da te Crnogorci čuju ! :)
zlatko vujevic hehe
Kosove je Srpska!
haha, you clearly dont even speak the language
Анатолий Шпалин You are welcome if you have a visa mam...
More yugoslav guns please gun jesus
Gun Jesus?? ahahahah made my day
@Grinder Man is that right, than you don't know much about guns outside the Call of Duty...
@Blacked /\ da brate. Mozda je to neko malo dete od 13 god, nema zivot pa ide da vredja.
@Grinder Man good point
@Grinder Man NEOBRAZOVANA BUDALA...
It looks like the ugly step child of the German MP-40 and the Soviet PPSH-43
NoOneEpic my thoughts exactly
*pps43
You right
Yugoslavias(all 3 of them) were ugly step children of East and West.
*Bastard child? .... a step child does not need to have any resemblance
Can it squat?
Unfortunately the retaining knob on this gun only has 2 stripes as opposed to the mandatory Adidas 3 stripes. The standard model also has a full auto setting with the markings 'cyka blyat'...
*'jebena kuja'
TrinearLiangle *majku
Iv damke
virgin slavaboo shut the fuck up
South Slavs have pretty long arms.
Dinaric people are the tallest in the world. I'm 188cm and considered (slightly above) average in my class.
@Ivan Ivan Dubrovnik
Thats true im 195cm and 14 and half year old
@@kalj0x379 *1 epizoda attack on titan*
Yugo people are tallest in Europe, together with the Dutch, which might be the reason why the gun seems long to you.
@Grinderman im average height 1.86 cm i hanged out a lot with Bosnian Serbs and i felt like a midget.
But there are short people not common but there are.
@eiss berg Where are you from? Also you play with the cards God dealt you. Like me balding at 23 in short nobody is perfect nor will someone ever be.
@eiss berg Move to italy i heard they are your height there.
Just dont go to Bosna
@Grinderman
They may be Albanians?
I’m a Macedonian (teenager) and I am 1.80 cm tall.
"What you doing?"
"Drawing an MP40"
"Oh cool"
*_"YOU F*CKIN NUDGED ME!"_*
5:16 I'm Czech and I know that says Jed. > Jedno > One > Semi-Auto :D
It's not JEO. it's JED. which is short JEDINAČNO meaning SINGLE (SHOT).
Eto velike Yugoslovenske indrustrije i inzinjeringa, diy tube gun
Dino Beganovic Hehe pa baš je čudno što nismo dobro prolazili na svetskom tržištu kad su se firme zvale "Žikica Jovanović Španac" , "Rade konačar" , "Prva petoletka"... Kako Nemac ili Englez to da kupi kad ne zna da izgovori. I još na glavnom dugmetu piše UPAL- UGAS hehehe
Baš to! Kad glupi Amer nemože da pročita JED pravilno kako će da skonta Gorenje bog ga jebo :)
Dino Beganovic makar smo nešto u jugi imali a sad skoro nemamo ništa
Dino Beganovic zato su napravili najbolji derivat M70AB2 koji je čak bolji od AK47
4:10 My question is about the L shaped lever of the bolt handle, how it works when shot, how it separates from the barrel protrusion and why it is needed after the bolt handle can be locked
Good video! A question, of there's a catch on the charging handle, what's preventing it from engaging when the next round is chambered? Wouldn't the bolt be stuck by the handle catch and not able to recoil back?
Another great firearm term learned through this video. When being taught about squib rounds in the military an instructor put it best that if you should chamber and fire another round behind one that will lead to a "rapid disassembly of parts." Ian's "spontaneous disassembly" line is another great one.
I imagine if it did suddenly disassemble itself it would also proceed to empty the entire magazine in full automatic with absolutely no way to stop it.
With no trigger sear?
Me: Mom can we get an MP-40?
Mom: No, we have an MP-40 at home
MP-40 at home:
Spontaneous Disassembly... Might be cool, but only as a band name.
When the MP40 and the Pps-43 have a child... lol. But it looks not even bad.
*pps43
yep right. thanks
Gun Grammer nazi is always here for you.
Thanks grammar nazi
@@taijituofdeath2210 ппш-43 for you uneducated folk ;)
It's interesting that safety latch only works in the fire position. Plus, wouldn't the latch get in the way while the gun is cycling, or at least cause significant wear in the long run?
3:10 Ian McCollum is describing the mp40's stock, 2017.
3:51 how does that latch not lock the bolt closed every time the charging handle comes forward during firing?
The YPA 63rd paratroop battalion also used the Sturmgewehr (named M44 I believe)right up until 1980, and the the YPA in general used the local version of the MG42 (M53)
I think most of those guns ended up in Libya
What everybody in this discussion seems to have missed about the M56 is that, while pretty basic, it still had a significant advantage over almost all other submachine guns. It was chambered for the deadly fast 7.62×25mm Tokarev cartridge, whose greater muzzle velocity provided significantly more penetration at ranges of 200 meters than the standard 9 mm or .45 ACP pistol rounds used by other submachine guns. It'll literally go through anything. Just check out the sizzling performance of the standard Yugo pistols, the Zastava M57, when compared to pistols using larger caliber rounds. You can find them here on UA-cam.
"deadly fast 7.62×25mm"+"more penetration at ranges of 200 meters "=false, smaller=more resistance from air for every gram of projectile(+ two times as fast =4 times more ressistance from air with the same projectile)=most likely at 200m 9mm will be superior and somewhere betwen 100-150m they will gonna have similar penetration but 9mm will be able to do more damage to the target.
Isn it a rifle cartridge? Wouldn t it make it a LMG?
I love all the people making the exact same "if the PPS43/PPSH41 and MP40 had a child" jokes. It wasn't funny when the first 5 dudes said it.
True, but rarely M56. Not because they didn't want to but because in 1990's it was hard to come by. It was phased out, it was only a Yugoslav weapon (unlike Thompson and MP40 and other that were brought from abroad) so there were hardly any left in the military stockpile.
Carried one for 4 years. You do get used to it then you cant live without it. But treat it like a pistol. Keep a rifle with you and this as your reserve. Works well. Im still alive regardless of hiw stupid i am, so it works.
Nice man :) i think its a really awesome gun!
I love how it has combines features of of both the MP-40 and the Stg-44.
Ian sounded remarkably different when he actually got to fire this one :)
Ian, if You are commenting on gun, bare in mind when and how it got constructed/produced.
FYI, Yugoslavia susteined horrible losses in WW2, both in manpower and industrial capacity, which was mediokre before the war itself. Also note that after end of WW2, skilled labour was nowhere to be found, not to mention engineers and designers, yet the state of Yugoslavia was able to start manufacturing their own small arms (at the same time it started production of its own field howitzers and other hardware), not to be dependent of any sort of foreign production, altho during early 50's it received abundant US military aid.
So, instead of doing basic rant on design flaws, do a bit more research, and put some more things into perspective when doing Your next video on any similar subject... ;)
P.S : I love Your channel and Your work, keep up the GREAT work You are doing !
Greetings from Belgrade, former capital of former Yugoslavia... ;)
Yugoslavia did, what no other country "in the east" at least done - freed themselves from Hitler without the "help" of Stalin. Czech almost did it (Patton freed Plzen, they even have - or at least had monument to thank Americans - which also annoyed Stalin), and we (Poland) tried it, but no-one was either able to bring us supplies, or didn't want to (Stalin again). So while you've had some help from Allies, and then went Communist (Allies did drop lots of supplies, you annoyed Stalin, and kept annoying USSR - which loved to see itself as the only force that stopped Hitler), but at least you didn't went Stalinist. That's why Yugoslavia wasn't considered an ally to USSR. Perhaps friendly (sometimes), but never an ally. But all those countries wanted independence, and after the only thing that kept them together (Tito) died, it all went downhill.
@@jannegrey593 Soviets came in 1944. to help the "liberation" from Germans. Allies also played their part in the air. Also Yugoslavia went communist right after the end of ww2, but Tito denied to be in Warsaw pact, that's why America sent their stuff to Yugoslavia.
@@NikolaRakicDjesPoslaMala Yes I know. Tito was in position that he could (and almost did) say that he won the war by himself - half true, but compared to Poland, he did have a point. I wish it was the same for my country. Also Czech fell in 1948 and Austria "almost miraculously" was left by Soviets. I don't have a love for them. First they attack my country as allies of Hitler, and when they are attacked we get sold out by allies, and end up in 44 years of varying occupation. We had one or two breaks, which Polish nationalist don't like to mention (go figure), We were allowed to be communist and Warsaw pact was named after our Capital City, but we had enough power, that soviets caved in when our "leaders" said that Poland will not have "Soviet Union style of government". Also in 1970 without their knowledge and approval we signed binding treaty with West Germany, that they would not dispute our border on Odra (Oder) river. They were angry, but it comes with certain privileges to be the largest country in Eastern block (Yugoslavia doesn't count in this case, just as China doesn't). They weren't sure how the Military action in our country go. If the government decided not to fight, people would have them killed in the streets, before they could flee to Russia. And there would be significant resistance to full scale occupation.
@@jannegrey593
I think the Polish History has one common thing to the history of the Balkans- blood knee deep..Your country experienced occupations through Swedes, Germans and the Soviets and yet, here you stand stronger then ever. I deeply admire this polish spirit , that loves freedom, but is also willing to gladly die for it. Cherish and be proud of it- polska forever!
So, it's a very cheap to make gun, and it works, as long as you know how to use it. What else can you want from a gun?
I'm loving all of these subgun videos Ian! Very interesting!
There's a paratroop version with a curved barrel to shoot around corners, now that's a real collectors dream. I was a corporal issued this gun for 3 months, never had any problems - it was always to be used for close combat (up to 35 meters).
Next to "RAFAL" is "JED". "Jedan" is one. Say it like "Yedan"
Yugoslavia was associated with USSR as much as it was associated with other alliances, countries, etc.
So many times watching videos of yours, Ian, "Here's this interesting thing that's actually kind of stupid. Let's mess with it" You are the Steve Irwin of old guns, and I mean that as a compliment.
Gun disassembling while firing. The Yugo M56: a gun for your slapstick movies.
Then the MP-40 and the PPSH-41 had a son. Interesting.
When a MP40 and PPSH love each other very much...
How original 💤
I love these guns. They're all just tubes with a spring because it's quick and cheap to make. If I could make barrels in a garage with mavhine tools I'd love to make semi versions of these types.
It is almost like the designer planned on the receiver assembly going right to the shoulder and putting the pistol grip and trigger right behind the magazine and his boss said no it needs a folding stock.
what keeps the drop safety latch from engaging while firing?
gungho1345. - probably the bolt not going as far forward due to a cartridge being chambered.
non reciprocating charging handle?
+Rcbif +RIngo Wunderlich Did either of you watch the video before commenting?
Video ran in the background, so I obviously missed some information. Watched it again and noticed my mistake.
I thought the same thing. It seem to me that it's because it has to pivot before it'll release the bolt instead of coming straight back.
M56: What happens when the MP-40 and the PPSh have a baby.
This SMG is a case study in why telescoping bolts are so important in keeping SMG's a reasonable size.
Thanks for the great videos. Would enjoy seeing more details of the trigger groups. Not so much on the full auto only guns, but moreso on select fire and semi auto mechanisms which require a bit more complexity of design.
Why is it legal for licensed gun shop owners to purchase this weapon, and not the general public? What's the use of such a law?
Beurocracy. It makes little sense but its how the law is written.
Roy Kliffen The perception is to scare the useful idiots into thinking the government will protect them even though they aren't legally required to do so and Hollywood movies showing machine guns shooting infinite bullets with near laser-like accuracy scares them as well.
However the real reason is government doesn't want properly armed citizens to oppose them while on the flip side of the same coin has the effect of protectionism for the domestic gun industry who couldn't compete with the prices these and others would be going for if they were allowed to be imported unmolested.
+WEWUZANCAP
Thank you ..... that makes some sense (no, it doesn't)
In my opinion, if they wanted to ban the ownership/sale of machine-guns, they should've banned ALL sales of these machine guns. Whether one agrees with such a ban, or not, the law should have been consistent.
The purpose of the law was basically to end machine gun ownership but there is a problem with that. How would law enforcement agencies get machine guns if no one could buy or sell them? The whole dealer exemption is just to allow certain dealers to buy samples for law enforcement agencies to try out and possibly purchase.
+wingracer 16
Thank you. I overlooked private gun dealerships as legitimate sources for government agencies to use.
I from Serbia. Ti ćeš mi soliš pamet.
Маќедојпа
Gotta love that yugo ingenuity. Grab a mp-40, stick a ppsh-43 mag in it and pretend it's a new gun
I actually like the way the safety works on this one. From a distance, of course. The rest of the design seems a bit unfortunate, but still attractive for historical purposes.
5:15 If it was a german gun I think there would a nazi joke to be made here
DoddoSonic no they weren’t.
@DoddoSonic There were 4 movment in Serbia in WW2 Partisans Chetnicks Nedićevci Ljotićevci now first two were the most fameous other two were fascist movements fasicizm never had stronghold in people so most people will say Serbia wasn't fascist witch is kinda the case. It was a bloody both civil and millitary war. You can't blame people because they accepted German rule BUT fighting for the enemy is not and will never be tolerated atleast by Serbs (looking at ya Croats)
@@dejansimic1923 Croats wanted to have an independent country and with a little help of Germany they kinda had it. Looking back now, not the smartest move...
I don't think your assessment of the reassembly method is fair. You can shoot just about any gun without all of its parts together, my AK can shoot without it's top cover and spring guide rod and my AR can shoot without it's pin popped in, but I don't blame the gun for that.
You need to pay a bit more attention, neither of those firearms will _accidentally disassemble while firing_ like this one will. A pin out of an AR will be noticed immediately if the upper and lower swing open from slight movement. A dust cover on an AK is within the field of view of the user _and_ within inches of their eye.
This? The end cap slightly out of position is quite easy to overlook.
I know it's an old video, but I just want to say about markings on receiver handle and fire selector: UKOČENO means LOCKED (but more like "Fixed in place"), and OTKOČENO is opposite.
On selector: RAFAL means BURST, and opposite is not "JEU", it is "JED." - shortened from JEDINAČNO (POJEDINAČNO) - meaning ONE, or ONCE
Can you explain the functioning of the safety latch when the gun cycles?
Interestingly they also can accept a knife bayonet
Just as useful as pistol bayonets.
german kid when he gets into the slavic friend group
It's like they combined an MP38 or MP40 and a PPS-42 in a secret underground lab and it made this.
Love Yugoslavian firearms! I bought a crate of 9 M48 Mausers still wrapped for 400 bucks. Damn things are mint! I enjoy the Yugo M48s better than any of my other dozen Mouser models, the actions seem much smoother.
This gun looks like a bad sketch I made as a kid of a "machine gun" made real.
I love Yugoslavia. Tito was a hero
Tito was bastard who killed mor Serbs than Hitler
@@F.Fox714 you have "Fuhrer" in your name,perhaps you're a kraut Mr.?
@@kpsiex No i aint kraut. I am serb.
What I found the interesting thing about this M56 gun was the Yugoslav decision to make a steel cored +P+ round for it. They soon experienced detonations in various pistols which also used Tokarev size ammo and obsolted the round and warehoused it. In the 1980s when China released their C96 pistols some future capitalist in Yugoslavia also released the ammo as Tokarev ammo. Many Mauser C96 pistols were thus destroyed by folks who thought they had just purchased Warsaw Pact surplus ammunition. Tokarev ammunition and C96 pistols became a bad name in combination as an almost direct result. The ammunition in question has a distinctive headstamp with a 6 pointed star, a dash and an Eros symbol (male with an arrow) and either a 52 or a 53 date stamp. I would upload a picture of my specimens of it (shipped to me for use in a C96 by someone who should have known better, LoL), but of course YT doesn't allow that.
I loved deploying countless squads armed with Yugo M56 in Wargame Red Dragon when I use to play it. Always wanted to know more information about it after encountering it in that game. Thanks for the video Ian, been looking for content on it for a while. Check out Marstars video on this firearm if you want to see it firing.
8,500$ - 13,000$ for this XD
Relatively cheap for transferable full auto guns
But does it take drum mags?
That Tall Creepy Guy I really mean drum mags -_-
+That Tall Creepy Guy L
No
Thanks for the review Ian.....it was a good and reliable smg....My father used it when he was in the military....
I really like these 10min submachinegjn vids
I like the Yugoslav term that you used!
One spark, million idiots, bang...one great country dead forever.
I'm just asking those millions of people who migrate out of ex Yugoslavia's separated small countries "it was worth it? "
Such a great country, pearl of the eastern "comunist" countries, better life than most of the western European countries...
Don't ask the people that migrated if it was worth it, ask the blood thirsty war criminal's that done the killings during the wars if it was worth it.
Better living conditions than most western countries? Lol not really
It was surely the best commie countrie to live in but still a lor worse than most european countries
Ahaha it looks like a cartoon mp40 😂
Its just a more simplistic version of a German MP40 compatible with Russian ammunition
It performs about the same but is more durable
4:22 "OTKOČ." short for "otkočeno" (literal meaning "unlocked", or fire position)
"UKOČ." short for "ukočeno) (literal meaning "locked", or safe position)
5:14 "RAFAL" means "full-auto"
"JED." short for "jedan/jedinačno" means single
Ah rapid spontaneous unplanned disassembly. Or RSUD. Usually seen in KSP with poorly planed staging but common in several Soviet era armaments.
Man, everytime I see you presenting a bad gun, I just can't wait the end to see how you manage to sell it.
"It's crap, but it's genuine crap".
That works.
5:19 Jew. It's definetly a copy of a german gun 100%
He didn't read it well. It said JED. Which is shirt of JEDINAČNO - which literally translates to one shot but it means Semi-Auto
I almost bought a parts kit for one of these when I had my NPAP, because I also have the Zastava M57, but I didn't, I always thought it looks like a mix of an MG42, MP40, and PPS43
How does the bounce safety unlock when firing
The SH in PPSH-41 is pronounced as in word SHelf
Pe-Pe-Sha
no homo, but it's really long x)
OwO
I would still love to own one. A piece of history, and any good weapons man can make it work well.
Actually as a Yugoslavian I am surprised how cool we were back then. BTW, its rarely seen a Yugo gun on latin letters.
So it's a mp40 that looks like it was made very crudely that also shoots a smaller caliber
Smaller caliber, higher velocity.
Magni56 it’s not a higher caliber but it has a much higher velocity.
Some bakelite consumer grade products of era (tv sets, etc.) also used wood reinforcement under the bakelite.
I like the comparative subgun anatomy week you have going, it's really interesting.
Love the understatement, " the gun could spontaneously disassenble while firing, that is a BAD thing!" I think you may be right!!!
The piece of wood inside the plastic receiver was a modification, in cold weather the plastic would shrink and crack in that area, the wood block sorted the issue.
I can’t think of another Post WW2 SMG that was designed to have its own bayonet. Anyone?
At least this SMG has a double stack, double feed magazine system. Many simplistic, low cost SMGs use single feed magazines. That's like the only positive thing I can say about this gun.
"Spontaneous disassembly" sounds fun :)
Forgive my ignorance, I'm don't have much knowledge on firearms. With that safety catch on the front of the rifle that interfaces with the charging handle, when firing what stops it the charging handle engaging with the catch when the bolt moves forward?
Possibly the bolt can't go so far when the chamber is not empty.
It rotates 90 degrees. It only latches on that catch in the safe position. Twist it to fire and the latch is now pointed down and won't catch.
Seems like the one great improvement over the MP40.
It's like the opposite of a bullpup. Karl would love it!
simplicity is the key to a great weapon
Comes apart while firing, it shares that trait with Ruger's Mini-14, I have seen it happen a dozen times on a firing line during Agency Qualifications. Once it even happened to me, and they had all been assembled by professional armorers.
I've seen a factory handguard come off as a Mini-14 was fired before. But most of the problems I've seen with those guns comes from aftermarket parts that have been added to the weapon. I'm not saying it's a great gun. It's to inaccurate compared to an AR which can be had for less money, but the majority of the problems with it in my xp have come from attempts to customize it.
Hey Ian, have you got any info on the strange French Ribeyrolles 1918 automatic carbine? I really wonder how many of them were made