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German reacts to the Oldest American Weapons
I do America Reaction, some call it Reaction US, Reaction USA. I love to get to know the USA, My videos arent British Reaction or Brit reacts videos. I am also very interested in the usa military reaction as well as us military reaction. I have a passion for us sports reaction, like nfl reaction or nba reaction. I am not brit reacts to america. I do European reacts videos. I also do reaction to america and reaction to us and reaction to usa videos. In this video we cover
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@drac116 3 дня назад

Germans: "I want to save ammunition" Americans: "It's cheaper to use it all and ship more over than it is to store it here. Send it brother."

@iamaloafofbread8926 2 дня назад

Also, American: "It's a machine gun"

@ScottLovenberg 3 дня назад

50 or 60 years? Our model 1911 is coming up on 115 years without a major revision. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ;)

@georgemartin1436 3 дня назад

The 1911 is a FAVORITE in the US; people still love it!

@DarkKatzy013 3 дня назад

Muh two world wars!!!! Gotta love the 1911 . As op said if it ain't broken don't fix it.

@MichaelScheele 3 дня назад

It was only in the 1980s that 1911s produced during WW II reached the end of their useful lives. Heavy steel construction coupled with a low pressure cartridge translated into a very long service life. John Moses Browning's masterpiece.

@WobblieSkellie 3 дня назад

The M1911 left standard service almost 40 years ago though. It's only still used by a few special forces guys who get to pick whatever personal gear they want. Also they suck.

@PrimetimeBJJ 3 дня назад

I want I high capacity pistol that feels like a 1911

@ActionMan-Grant 3 дня назад

The underbarrel attachment on the pistol is a tac light or tactical flashlight. Used obviously at night, clearing a dark indoor area, and can have a strobe function to disorient people.

@theghostofthomasjenkins9643 3 дня назад

or impromptu dance party.

@YedolfWesler 18 часов назад

I can't believe he didn't know. But we aren't living under occupation like Germany.

@kingjellybean9795 15 часов назад

Lol I told him it was a gernade launcher😂

@From-North-Jersey 3 дня назад

3 people crew the M-60 because of the weight of the pieces. One man carries the weapon and ammo, one man carries the tripod base and ammo and the third man carries replacement barrels and ammo. It is most efficient when one man fires , one man loads and feeds ammo belts into the weapon and the third man is waiting to swap a white or red hot barrel with a fresh room temperature barrel.

@davidcopple8071 3 дня назад

I was a 60 Gunner on a three man Humvee combat Military police unit. I often carried the M-60 it's spare barrels and the belts of ammo as well. Yes it was quite heavy and cumbersome only mine had a two leg folding bipod attached to the gun at all times. This allowed me to quickly remove the weapon from the turret of the Humvee and deploy it from a ground fighting position. With it's tracer rounds every third round on the belt it was quick to adjust where your rounds were going. I really enjoyed using this machine gun. It was very effective.

@StoneE4 3 дня назад

@@davidcopple8071 *It's a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle - HMMWV.

@eclipsegst9419 2 дня назад

@@StoneE4 "erm aKchUalLy"

@oldtop4682 2 дня назад

@@davidcopple8071 Good luck getting a 3 man team. I normally had an AG and that was it. He wondered what it weighs though, and I believe it is 23 pounds +/-. But that doesn't included the extra barrels ammo and tripod/bipod.

@terrystinnett1190 День назад

@@davidcopple8071 As 50 Cal machine gunner on a 113 track P.C ( 1st inf 16th , 72/75 )Bobligen Ger. . Also the radio man for the driver because I was directly center " above " driver ... And yes my Platoon leader assign me 2 others to get setup once we arrived at destination to set a perimeter / sand bags !

@mikehammond4323 3 дня назад

M61 Vulcan (rotary canon) on a ship is defensive (primarily) like for anti missile, drone, plane, or even small boat attack. Would not typically see use against another naval ship.

@Monty_BeGoodToEachOther День назад

Correct, this ship defense platform is named Phalanx. It's name was mentioned in the video, but was muffled and difficult to understand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS

@theminister1154 День назад

There's a truly excellent scifi show called the Expanse where PDP is a big part of combat. I highly recommend it. It's a bit of a combo between firefly & game of thrones & babylon 5/deep space 9. Very hard sci fi. Amazon Prime & novels.

@reaperthemad8731 12 часов назад

Yep. The CIWS in "Phalanx CIWS" stands for Close In Weapon System

@luiscuellar685 3 дня назад

John Moses Browning, the man whose designs were so good, they're still being used to this day

@timmooney7528 3 дня назад

John Browning was a time traveler. He took all the greatest designs of the first half of the 20th century and went back in time to profit from them.

@theminister1154 День назад

Didn't he invent the browning hi-power too? SO many pistols based on that.

@timmooney7528 День назад

@@theminister1154 Indeed. He was a jack of all trades. He revolutionized handguns, rifles, shotguns, and machine guns. Browning died in 1926 and the Hi-power came out in 1935, however it's clear he laid the foundation for it's design.

@SonOfBaraki359 5 часов назад

@@theminister1154 +/- It was involved but it was Dieudonné Saive who finished the work.

@ExUSSailor 3 дня назад

The M1903 Springfield rifle was an almost direct copy of the Mauser Gewehr 98. It was so close, in fact, that Mauser tried to sue Springfield Armory for copyright infringement.

@MichaelScheele 3 дня назад

Mauser won eventually. Springfield Armory paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties in compensation.

@robertsmith4681 3 дня назад

Yup, the US ended up p[aying much of Germany's post ww1 "reparations" because of it.

@barryfletcher7136 3 дня назад

"Despite Springfield Armory's use of a two-piece firing pin and other slight design alterations, the M1903 was, in fact, a Mauser design, and after that company brought suit, the U.S. government was judged to pay $250,000 in royalties to Mauser Werke.[9]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903_Springfield

@eclipsegst9419 2 дня назад

That is not quite correct. It was an evolution of the Spanish Mauser M1893 which we had captured in the Spanish American War, which itself was a licensed upgraded model of the Mauser Gewher 91. They did scale the design up to a similar size as the "large ring" Gewher 98, but didn't directly copy it. The patent infringement was on the Gewher 91.

@BillB23 День назад

Interestingly, America was paying royalties to Mauser in WWI while using the M1903 to kill Germans. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.

@greggwilliamson 3 дня назад

Dad's friend was a tail gunner from a B-17. He said that in training, the "Fifty Cal" (.5 inch/12.7 mm) would shoot so fast you could melt the barrel. But when he got to Europe and a BF-109 was lining up his shot, he said that fifty caliber sounded like "an old one cylinder outboard, putt, putt, putt, putt". (yes, Dad's friend, I'm old)

@marcthomas6459 3 дня назад

I've seen a runaway with an M-60 in a training exercise with blanks at night that had the barrel red,orange like a steel mill,a runaway is when it won't stop firing until it's out of ammo.The 60 and 50 are belt fed,lot's of rounds in a belt!!!

@aegisprotection4969 3 дня назад

M60: One man carries the weapon and ammo. One man carries spare barrel, tripod, etc. One man carries ammunition. The other reason: If the person carrying the weapon is hurt, one of the other two takes over.

@PhycoKrusk День назад

Indeed. In modern battlefield tactics, the machine gun is one of the most important pieces of equipment because it allows the rest of the unit to more easily maneuver, whether to attack or to defend. I think the only piece of equipment more important than the machine gun is the artillery.

@donaldcarey114 21 час назад

I've fired a M60, standing up from the hip - no assist needed.

@aegisprotection4969 19 часов назад

So have I. It's still nice to have an AG to carry stuff and act as a spotter.

@donaldcarey114 12 часов назад

@@aegisprotection4969 True that.

@TheHangarHobbit 3 дня назад

It still blows my mind that my grandfather in WWII stationed with the USAAC he was on bases guarded by Ma Deuce and when my oldest who is USAF was deployed overseas last year he said yup, still using good old Ma Deuce on bases for security.

@DarkShadowCustoms День назад

During the Global War On Terror there were M2 .50 cal machine guns still in service from WW2 that were with troops deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

@jordancarmack584 3 дня назад

The Vulcan is anti-aircraft/anti-missile weaponry with an effective range of 3000m. The M-60 requires a team because one man can't carry the weapon, the tripod and the ridiculous amount of ammo it requires. The B-52 "Big Ugly Fat Fuck" or BUFF, is forever. The Ma Deuce is also forever. The little black thing you asked about is a laser sight.

@marcthomas6459 3 дня назад

You forgot about the extra barrel and oven mitt too change them out,I was 11-B

@TheLastGarou 11 часов назад

Grandpa Buff and the Second Mother will be with us even when we ascend to the stars!

@DarkKatzy013 3 дня назад

If you notice Chris there are 3 guns 4 if you count the 2 machine guns talked about in the 30 cal machine gun bit . All those weapons are made by the same man . One John Moses Browning. One of America's most famous weapons designers.

@Dallows65 2 дня назад

Not asking to challenge, but if Browning is ‘one of’, who would be more famous than him?

@jaylinnell5251 2 дня назад

@@Dallows65 Presumably Samuel Colt, Horace Smith, and Daniel Wesson. Although, most people would only really know their last names.

@Sinful_morality 2 дня назад

America's patron Saint of hole punching

@mccaine1 2 дня назад

@@Dallows65 Sam Colt, who made all men equal...

@DarkKatzy013 2 дня назад

@@Dallows65 many honestly and most named in the comments here too you .

@augl2702 3 дня назад

That weird thing at 1:04 is uhh.. basically a war crime. The fat electrician has a video about it. "Basically a warm crime, the XM-29"

@shalakabooyaka1480 3 дня назад

or as we called it when we saw it in the late 90's, "that giant hunk of shit I hope we don't have to actually use"

@frankpurvis9189 2 дня назад

@@shalakabooyaka1480 i mean the yall loved it for the short time yall had it(the one in the pic is the xm25 not the original xm29 grenade launcher/rifle hybrid that got scrapped).

@Gr3nadgr3gory День назад

Ahh, war crimes, or as I like to call them, effective strategies.

@augl2702 День назад

@@Gr3nadgr3gory Geneva checklist 😂😂😂

@brucenorman8904 3 дня назад

There was a recent discovery at the Anniston Army Depot, where various small arms for the US Army are refurbished and upgraded before returning to unit armorers. An M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun bearing the serial number 324 arrived from an active duty unit for maintenance and an upgrade to the M2A1 configuration. That low of a production number would have it in the original 1933 run by Colt Serial number 324 was discovered at Anniston Army Depot in 2011 after the US Army called for its older inventory of M2s to be upgraded into the A1 configuration. The most notable change from M2 to M2A1 being fixed headspace and timing. It’s important for a tight and consistent headspace to prevent unsafe chambering or support of a live cartridge. Timing refers to the proper alignment of parts after going through the recoil process. If either is not within accepted specifications the firearm may not run reliably, may not fire or even could even blow up under the worst conditions and injure the soldier. The Army has currently upgraded over 14,000 M2s so far. Now another surprise was that upon stripping down the receiver for inspection it was found that its tolerances were not just within acceptable values. They were actually in the best set of values for functionality. Meaning No. 324 was in better shape than many of newer examples made recently. Even more amazing is it was the first time this particular unit had been overhauled. So when one thinks that items made over a century ago can't complete with modern manufacturing processes guess again. Old school machinists on simple equipment can indeed churn out impressively made equipment. Although not American the Komuna deserves and honorable mention.

@user-vk1lp5ss6b 2 дня назад

I was in the Navy and actually fired one of these Gatling guns. It is known as CIWS. CLOSE IN WEAPON SYSTEM. We pronounce it sea wizz. It is for shooting down missiles, drones and airplanes.. it's not for shooting at other ships.

@MrRich2u День назад

and if a ship actually got within 2000 yards, man I wouldn't want to see what this thing would do to a modern warship.

@user-vk1lp5ss6b День назад

@@MrRich2u well it actually happened when I was serving, the sea wizz tracked the target it was shooting at as it fell and a few rounds wound up hitting one of our ships and killing I believe it was the officer of the deck. We had a safety stand down after that. Apparently that depleted uranium round went through the steel and through the officer of the deck and landed in an angle iron undamaged.

@mccaine1 2 дня назад

As for old weapons, my grandfather had a pair of flintlock rifles from his parents. They were used by our family from the mid-1700s until the late 1800s. By the 1980s they had developed too many mechanical problems to be safe to use, but my mother found a gunsmith about 15 years ago that was able to restore them.

@CGOCPFTF 3 дня назад

11:20 That is a SureFire X300 underbarrel weapon light, the staple of all conceal carry pistol lights. Underbarrel pistol lights are primarily used as a secondary flashlight so when you've identified a target you can aim and see what you are aiming at, as well as blind the target.

@From-North-Jersey 3 дня назад

The M61 vulcan gatling gun is placed on ships to shoot down enemy fighters and incoming missiles not to fire upon other ships . The automated "Phalanx" system is activated by radar and the goal is to destroy missiles before they reach the ship. After firing 2k bullets into the missiles path hopefully there won't be anything left to explode.

@TheRangerBob 3 дня назад

The M60 machine gun is a crew-served weapon that typically has three soldiers in its crew: a gunner, an assistant gunner (AG), and an ammunition bearer: Gunner-Carries the weapon and 200-1,000 rounds of ammunition, depending on their strength and stamina. The gunner is also responsible for cleaning the M60 immediately after firing it. Assistant gunner-Carries a spare barrel, extra ammunition, and reloads and spots targets for the gunner. Ammunition bearer-Carries additional ammunition and the tripod, if issued. They also fetch more ammunition as needed during firing.

@richardmartin9565 3 дня назад

I worked on DoD contracts for 20 years. We engineer, design, build, and inspect, according to thousands specifications and standards to ensure reliability, maintainability, and safety. We didnt screw around. Dont know about these days though.

@theminister1154 День назад

My guess is it varies a lot by company. colt probably fine. Boeing a fffking pile of shit. Raytheon somewhere in between. Seems to me the air force wastes the most money.

@projectiledysfunction2217 День назад

@@theminister1154 Completely off base. Colt was once an exemplary company, but has been bought and sold many times due to financial issues, and is now considered mediocre and stagnant. They're struggling to make sales and stay relevant on the military, law enforcement, and civilian markets. Civilian gun owners and police mostly shrug at Colt these days, with companies like Bravo Company or Daniel Defense being considered a far superior rifle for the same money. Fabrique Nationale of Belgium, and their subsidiary FN USA, have been making the majority of US military service rifles for a while now and are considered a higher caliber manufacturer than Colt. Boeing's reputation as "fukkin shit" has emerged only in the past few years as a result of the 737 Max, and is a mixture of genuinely concerning issues and media hysteria feeding off those legitimate problems. Issues like MCAS having a single point of failure, or the more recent door plug failure, are genuine issues which Boeing is responsible for. At the same time many of the other things I've seen Boeing breathlessly blamed for are pretty clearly operator maintenance issues on older aircraft that Boeing haven't touched in a very long time, with the FAA and NTSB reports clearly reflecting as such. As an analogy for these various issues blaming Honda because they installed those faulty airbags that turn into claymores is one thing, but blaming Honda because the wheel bearing failed on a 200,000 mile car after the owner neglected maintenance is another, and it's obvious that the fault lies in different places in those scenarios. Boeing's military aircraft production is overseen by a completely different subsidiary and management- BDS vs BCS- and are built in completely different facilities than their commercial products as well. Government oversight is provided by military entities such as DCMA rather than the FAA, and Boeing's current lineup of military aircraft are actually considered among the most successful and reliable. The F-18E/F and F-15 are both built by Boeing's St Louis facility, and are still the workhorse backbone of the US Navy and Air Force respectively. They have some of the lowest operating costs per flight hour and highest uptime of not just US fighters, but NATO fighters overall. They've stayed in production far longer than originally intended, because the 5th gen replacements from other companies like Northrop and Lockheed are what have truly proven to be plagued with technical and reliability issues. I'm far less personally knowledgeable about raytheon's quality or reliability, but having worked in defense aerospace my entire adult life I've never seen widespread complaints about it either. Some of Raytheon's older products like the sparrow and early sidewinders did suffer from reliability issues, but that was decades ago when similar problems were widespread amongst both NATO and Warsaw pact missiles, and their modern avionics systems or air to air missiles seem to be a benchmark against which others are judged

@MichaelScheele 3 дня назад

From what I understand, the German Heer used the MG3 general purpose machine gun until fairly recently. It was a more or less a slightly modernized MG42 (from WW II). Many militaries have some weapon systems that persist for decades. In Ukraine, they had been using Maxim water cooled machine guns from the 19th century early on in the war. From a defensive position, it is difficult to beat a water cooled machine gun for laying down continuous fire.

@Cyber_kumo 3 дня назад

The Maxim the Ukrainians use is the Russian variant that is modified to allow the use of snow to cool the barrel.

@stg4478 3 дня назад

the Bundeswehr replaced the MG3 with the H&K MG4

@theblackbear211 3 дня назад

The 20mm Rotary Cannon on ships (Phalanx/CIWS) is primarily and anti- aircraft/ missile/ small boat weapon, tot a ship to ship weapon.

@SgtAwesome97 2 дня назад

I love that they added the machine gun bit for the M2 lol "Hey hold it down, it's a machine gun!" "Hehe, okey :D" And the smiles afterwards lol Ah what I wouldn't give to fire an M2 hehe

@barryfletcher7136 3 дня назад

With regard to the aircraft in the video, the ones flying today have mostly the same shape as their original versions, but have been so modernized and updated they are effectively new aircraft.

@exstock 2 дня назад

I have older weapons than this, but my favorite of my old weapons are my Swiss K31 rifles. They were designed in 1931, not surprisingly, and were the Swiss standard issue rifle from 1933-1958. I like to refer to them as the rifles Switzerland DIDN’T use during WW2. They’re plain old boring bolt action carbines, but weirdly fun and satisfying to shoot. Part of it is that their sound is much more like a THUNK than most rifles! 😂

@dennisquigley8800 2 дня назад

The video missed one: The U.S. Coast Guard developed and still uses a bored out Rifle Model 1903 ‘Springfield’ as a shoulder-fired line throwing gun [‘gun’ because the rifling is bored out to safely fire the line carrying projectiles (think steel arrow weighing either 13 or 15 ounces powered by WW2 era grenade cartridges). Many decades ago when I was in the CG, the Navy was using a break action single shot .45-70 as their line throwing gun; I would just note that our 1903 out ranged their gun handily. That may be why the Navy finally got around to adopting the M14 as their current line throwing gun [better late than never]😊.

@marcthomas6459 3 дня назад

The Browning 1919 machine gun with the pistol grip was recoilless and that's why 2 hands aren't necessary.

@mawkishdave День назад

With the B-52 fortress, you have cases of 3 generations working on them, not at the same time but the grandfather, father, and son all were part of a flight team on one of them. The latest upgrade has it in operation until 2050.

@wittsullivan8130 17 часов назад

The M-2 Browning is a scaled up M-1919. The M-1 was also watercooled, but to reduce weight, they made the barrel thicker and slowed down the firing rate. The .50 Browning machine gun was meant to be an anti-tank machinegun for WW1, but the war ended before it was issued. There are a few of the original .50 Brownings still in service, well over 100 years old and still going with various parts replaced. The "little black thing" under the M1911 pistol is a flashlight. A lot of pistols and rifles have "rails" under the barrel so you can mount flashlights, laser sights, and other accessories. The 1903 Springfield borrowed heavily from the German Mauser bolt action rifles. A lot of companies still make bolt action rifles based on the Mauser action for hunting and police and military snipers. Pretty much everything has been done with firearms technology except for caseless ammunition and electrical ignition, but both of those technologies saw limited service in the past.

@mfree80286 3 дня назад

John Moses Browning was an absolute master of his craft. They mention the M1917/1919 and M2 here, but believe it or not those weren't his first machine guns by far. The man had a gas operated machine gun adopted by the army in *1895*. The smaller blowback pistols he designed for Browning and Colt in the 1900's could almost pass for modern pistols, where the rest of the semiauto handgun market was littered with strange looking mechanical oddities that often barely functioned as intended. And then, of course, there's 1911. I'm not even covered the great array of rifles and shotguns Browning designed and manufactured. The pump shotgun he made in 1897 served as the general benchmark for just about every pump shotgun made since. Semiauto shotguns, lever action rifles, single shot target plinkers, just on and on and on.

@TahiriVeila13ABY 3 дня назад

And contributed to the deaths of probably, what, 10's of thousands of people, 100's of thousands of people? What a legend...

@mfree80286 3 дня назад

@@TahiriVeila13ABY The world is more complicated than that, so sell your virtue elsewhere.

@bwilliams463 День назад

The U.S. gov operates on a strange dichotomy: seems like half the time their mantra is 'It it ain't broke, don't fix it,' while at other times they throw the baby out with the bathwater. I don't know about modern times, but U.S. machine gunners used to be trained to fire in short bursts, ideally five rounds per.

@YonatanZunger 3 дня назад

The Vulcan gun's use on ships is part of the CIWS, "close-in weapons system." It's for things like aircraft and small boats that have somehow gotten close to the ship. Because of the way the integrated CIWS works, they tend to stop being too close to the ship very soon afterwards.

@William-yz8eq 2 дня назад

It takes three people to carry the m60 machine gun. One for the weapon itself, one for the tri-pod and cleaning kit, and one for the ammo.

@m2hmghb 3 дня назад

The rifle looking thing you thought was cool was the XM 25 "Punisher" programmable grenade launcher that violated a rule of war against having exploding bullets under 400 grams in weight.

@user-hi8hn9fn3m День назад

I am 58. My grandfather's US Army Pistol was The 1911. My Father was issued one in The Navy in The 1960's. During The 1980's, I served and The 1911 was Still The Primary Sidearm until 1985. I Carry one today as my Personal Carry/ Self Defense Weapon, because IT WORKS. 123 Years After it Was Invented and it is still popular and widely used.

@MongoMan693 2 дня назад

Chris: automatic machine guns require a gun, a mount, and lots and lots of ammunition. Usually a gunner and a loader to operate plus an ammo runner. That's why 2-3 are usually necessary to support a gun. The German army in WWII ran a similar system with just a many men.

@timothyroush7589 3 дня назад

What's old is new, and what's new is old. For example, trench warfare and decoy tanks.

@theminister1154 День назад

The merciless autonomous machine gun dogs will be new. Already out in china (though probably still way broken because china.)

@AniwayasSong День назад

🙂 It's a common (And wrong) presumption that 'Old' means inadequate. With tools (And weapons are tools), many of them hail from hundreds of years usage, and a basic arrow fired from a horn bow is just as deadly today as it was tens of thousands of years ago. With weapons, the Saying- "If it works, don't fix it!" So we see and continue to use platforms designed back in the early 1900's this very day (The M2, Colt 1911, 'Gatling Gun,' cannon(s), etc..) The 'Vulcan' type platforms are used on ships for anti-missile/aircraft defense. They throw up a wall of 'Lead' to 'Catch' incoming threats and destroy them/destabilize them, so they can't reach the ship.

@ifrxenvoy124 2 дня назад

The Vulcan as it’s used on ships is used to intercept incoming munitions as the last line of air defense. It is completely automated and guided by a radar

@tomr1630 3 дня назад

M60 3 crew: 1 carries the gun, 1 carries the tripod, 1 carries the ammo.

@jacobmiller6588 3 дня назад

Hey U.S Marine who has been transported on U.S aircraft carriers here, the Phalanx or as most of us call it the CWIS, is not a ship to ship weapon system, it's an Anti-Aircraft weapon system, it will detect, lock on, and engage enemy aircraft on its own however I do believe they have a human operator who can take control of the weapon system in the event something goes haywire

@JCGver 8 часов назад

IIRC it will lock on but a operator as to confirm it's a target or not. It locks on so when the operator gives to OK it will instantly go, or if the operator give the no go it will return to it's rest position. That's why you can find videos of a CWIS locking on to civilian airplanes.

@cjextreme 2 дня назад

People often think of John Moses Browning as an American gun designer. This is only partially true as he is the most prolific designer in the world. The M1911 and ma deuce control the world over 100 years later.

@theminister1154 День назад

It's probably more accurate to hand it to the browning hipower pistol wise. Predecessor to the M9 & so many other guns. Of course you do have lots of 2011s, but they're kinda niche (but really good I hear.)

@CosmicTaco-yi3um 3 дня назад

The 1903 Springfield rifle was not the standard American infantry rifle in WW1. American infantry were mostly issued the M1917 Enfield rifle which fired the same ammunition as the Springfield, but was quicker to produce because the machinery for making Enfield rifles for the British Army was already in place and converting the Enfield rifle to .30-06 ammunition was time-saving and cost-effective.

@mccaine1 2 дня назад

I loved this video! The CIWS (Close-in Weapon System, pronounced See-Wiz), is a point-defense weapon system for ships. It is particularly designed to engage anti-ship missiles that are targeting the ship the system is installed on. At 5:29 you can see the refueling boom under the tail of the KC-135. This boom is extendable, and fits to a fuel receptacle on the refueling aircraft's nose. Once detached, the boom is retracted into the KC-135 to reduce any effects on the plane's aerodynamics. The M-60 is about 23 pounds (10kg), and the 3-man team generally consists of the gunner (actually using the weapon), an ammunition loader (to have the next belt of ammunition ready), and a soldier that has a replacement barrel ready. If fired continuously the M-60 barrel can get hot enough to actually bend downward under its own weight. Your reaction to the B-21 Raider design prompts me to comment that Hugo Junkers of Germany began working with the "flying-wing" design in the 1910s with an eye toward passenger and cargo transport, and was a major driver of the design until about 1936 (search: Junkers Grossflugzeug). The Horten Ho-229 (also from a German aerospace company) flew in 1944, and was the first flying wing design powered by jet engines. On the attachment in the M1911, it's probably a light or laser sight. It's also worth noting that 3 of these 10 weapons were designed by John Moses Browning, and their continued use is a testament to his engineering genius in this field.

@wittsullivan8130 18 часов назад

The reason the 25mm Vulcan has such a high rate of fire is in air to air combat when fighters are flying so fast, you have a very short opportunity to fire at the enemy, so you need to put a LOT of shots into that space in hopes that a few actually hit. They fire in short bursts during that opportunity because they can only carry so many rounds. The Phalanx systems they use on ships are designed for anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense, they can be used against smaller boats, but as a last resort. They can also be ground based or mounted onto vehicles for anti-aircraft and missile defense. Ships mainly use missiles, artillery, and aircraft for other ships. To defend against fast attacking boats (like PT boats) ships use machineguns, missiles, and aircraft.

@ckline5486 5 часов назад

a great video Chris. Thank you for your interest in the US and for helping people learn more about us. The Germans are our close friends and we are ever in another war together, we will be fighting side by side as allies. 🙂

@JayEdelgardVT 14 часов назад

American here 🖐🏻🇺🇲 I own a 1911 :D it's still amazing. About a decade ago it got a revamp into a 2011 variant.

@futurecat 3 дня назад

Oldest firearm I have is a 1965 Enfield bolt action. Meter long 3 kilos steel & 60 year old oak. Even unloaded, it's very adequate home defense.

@johnguillemette1969 3 дня назад

Just gotta be careful with the thumb.

@ThatOneGuy-mn6dv День назад

So many people don't realize just how old stuff is currently in service right now not just in the US but everywhere. It doesn't means it's always good or bad just means it works and shouldn't be ignored or disrespected.

@wittsullivan8130 18 часов назад

The Navy guys had line throwing devices mounted to their barrels. They use blanks to fire a projectile attached to a cable so they can use that cable to drag larger ropes or chains to attach ships to each other to transfer fuel and supplies or even personnel on sling chairs in extreme situations.

@spuds416 3 дня назад

The M61A1 Vulcan cann on Navy ships AREN'T used against ships it's used as an Air Defense system against missiles and aircraft

@RyanGoosing 3 дня назад

1:12 that's the XM-25 It's a 20mm grenade launcher that has the ability to air burst at a pre programed distance. Apparently during testing they learned that using 20mm round could classified it as using exploding bullets and be considered a war crime and bin it. Otherwise a fairly like weapon by the people who field test it Fun fact the US military use the prefix "m" for all their adopted equipment from rifles to tanks. While "XM" is used for prototype/testing equipment. So for example the M4 carbine is the 4th adopted carbine while the XM8 is the 8th carbine to be tested for adoption. The naming system gets a bit complicated depending on the branch in questions but generally once you learn the naming quirk for each branch it gets easier to know what something is just by its name. With some exception.

@WalterWild-uu1td Час назад

The rotary cannon is used on ships primarily as a defense against cruise missiles which usually fly slower than most fighter aircraft. Unlike missiles, you can't jam a bullet.

@JeffreyCantelope 3 дня назад

The Gatling gun used on ships is an anti-missle defense weapon mostly

@tynancravy5589 3 дня назад

The BUFF is forever!

@adamwee382 4 часа назад

3:36 No the ship-mounted version is used as an air defense weapon. It's automated and radar guided. American ships use short range missiles as their primary air defense weapons, but they also have a CIWS or "Close-in weapon system". It's primarily used to destroy any incoming missiles that made it through the primary air defense system. Its a last ditch effort to protect the ships.

@pirobot668beta День назад

At 10:37, one can see the elevation and azimuth controls under the back end of the gun. They were 'precision instruments' of the day. Most of the time, these guns would be 'locked down' to limit the area of their fire. The shaking and vibration of recoil tends to increase dispersion a bit.

@omgtrey 2 часа назад

6:47 the extra soldiers are there to carry extra and swap hot barrels, and carry the ammo cans (the long belts of bullets). It CAN be carried by one soldier, but itll have limited uses that way. So to keep it in use and avoid downtime, they swap barrels out when they get too hot so they don't warp and it always helps to have someone assist with reloading.

@jamesbulldogmiller День назад

The M60 has a crew of three. The gunner fires the weapon. The two assistants carry extra barrels and ammunition. The spare barrels was a German idea (MG36 and MG42 German machine guns). When the barrel gets hot from firing. The hot barrel is removed and replaced with a cool barrel.

@markbrecher4914 2 дня назад

3:28 - During the Vietnam War, the Gun wasn't designed into the next F4 Phantom Fighter/Bomber because it was perceived as Unnecessary because Missiles would make them obsolete. After too many Pilot complaints & Aircraft Losses, they were reinstated, and have remained ever since. 9:45 - That's Exactly Right !

@coastiebrian2024 2 дня назад

Regarding your question on the M-60 machine gun: Three people are only needed when transporting with the tripod; one carries the gun, one carries the tripod, the last carries the majority of the ammo; although, without the tripod only two soldiers are needed, the one not firing the machine gun would not only carry spare ammo, but would be a regular rifleman when not assisting the machine gunner. I carried one for 4-years in a U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit.

@AlaskanGlitch 21 час назад

I carried one for 8 years with the USMC, and you are exactly right. The tripod was very rarely ever used. Only when you knew you were going to be shooting at distant (500+ m) targets. All other times we used the built-in bi-pod. The operator carried the firearm, while the loader carried two spare barrels, 300 rounds of ammo, and an asbestos glove and was responsible for loading the firearm. After every 100-round belt, the loader would use the asbestos glove to change the barrel.

@dragonweyr44 3 дня назад

The Vulcan machine gun used in the CIWS (Close In Weapon System) is used if a missile or plane is able to evade other defenses. Basically, is a weapon of last resort if everything else goes wrong Crew served machine guns like the M60 or Browning .50 caliber machine gun has a crew of 3, a gunner who fires the gun, a feeder who feeds ammo into it so that the ammo belt doesn't get twisted and an ammo carrier to hold extra cases of ammo The M60 also needs spare barrels since they get hot enough to melt the barrel The three men also carry the pieces of the gun like, in the case of the .50 caliber, the body of the gun, aka the receiver, the barrel and, in both guns, the tripod The weight of the .50 caliber machine gun, including the tripod is 128 pounds or 58 kg, without ammo The nickname for the M60 is The Pig, while the M2 is Ma Deuce Calling the B52 Stratofortress a fortress is odd since it has no defensive weapons The little thing under the barrel of the M1911 pistol is a mounting for a flashlight

@johnkacin1500 День назад

My dad once described an Arc-Light raid to me. He said it is the most terrifying and exhilarating thing you could go through. He passed away ..and i'm not going to put words in his mouth.

@mongosafariadventure 2 дня назад

In addition to the 3-man crew for the M-60 there were several "Ammo Bears". We carried all of our own weapons, ammo, equipment, plus extra 7.62 linked ammo for the M-60 machine gun, AKA "the pig."

@elster99 23 часа назад

The M-60 machinegun is a crew served weapon because it takes two additional riflemen to carry more ammunition, and sometimes the tripod for accurate long range firing.

@iangrayson9930 23 часа назад

Yeah weapon engineering generally goes something like, "Cheap, durable, effective. Pick two."

@jamesbulldogmiller 23 часа назад

@10:32 When John Browning designed the M-2 he did exactly as you suggested with the handle and trigger. . And made two handles , One handle on each side at the rear, one for each hand . Then he put the trigger between the two handles , to be operated by one or both thumbs.

@Commissioner62 6 часов назад

The small attachment on the 1911 pistol is just a small, LED flashlight, or what Europeans call a "torch".

@PeterOConnell-pq6io 3 дня назад

In reverse: the 1903 Springfield was a Mauser design the US built under a licence, but chambered for .30 cal/7.62mm, the M1919 air cooled .30 cal/7.62mm medium MG was either bipod, or tripod mounted, as it got too hot to carry, the short rifle you noted was a "bullpup" design, were the magazine and operating mechanism have been moved back into the weapon's shoulder stock, allowing a short weapon with adequately long barrel length, last, the 1921 M2HB air cooled .50 cal/12,7mm heavy MG comes with extra quick change barrels for sustained fire.

@showsjohn 2 дня назад

3:40 The CIWS is the last line of defense against Anti-Ship missiles, it's not used offensively.

@user-gb9dg6jn2n 3 дня назад

We called the M60 MG the Pig. It was heavy and awkward to lug around. I used a General Purpose strap attached to the front sight and the a ring on the butt plate to carry it. But once it began 'singing' it let the enemy know they had a problem. It also had the affect that the opponent was coming for you. Loved the M1911, .45 Colt. It was a slow, heavy round, but would knock whoever it hit on the ground, do serious injury. Nothing fancy, just a great, last line of defense, side arm.

@Mage_man День назад

The KC-135s in England are also equipped with the british built MPRs (multi point refueling) pods usually equipped between the first and second engines and the third and fourth engines as well as adding a drogue on the boom hanging under the tail. They are used to refuel the German Tornado aircraft.

@twylanaythias 2 дня назад

The M61 Vulcan is primarily an anti-aircraft weapon - the high rate of fire owes largely to the fact that most military aircraft are extremely robust; from an F-15 flying and landing with a single wing to WWII bombers often returning to their home base missing half their fuselage and flight surfaces. Reliably downing such aircraft quite literally requires 'cutting' through the plane with bullets. If you want a truly beautiful tale, look into Jack Northrop who designed and built the YB-35 and YB-49 "flying wing" bombers. Unfortunately, the futuristic design was too far ahead of its time - post-WWII avionics simply weren't up to the challenges it posed. Early in 1981, shortly before his death, Northrop was brought to a top-secret facility which was building and testing early prototypes of what would become the B-2 Spirit (using virtually the exact same dimensions and other specifications from the YB-49; Northrop had gotten the specs right from the outset). He sat in his wheelchair, tears streaming down his face as he said "Now I understand why God allowed me to live this long."

@BCPvideo 3 дня назад

@12:28 An elegant weapon...for a more civilized age...

@jimreilly917 3 дня назад

Well done General Kenobi😊

@randalparks9648 День назад

The thing under the front of that 1911 pistol is called a "weapon light". Its a VERY bright white beamed flashlight for illumination in dark spaces.

@jaycooper2812 22 часа назад

Almost every fighter and bomber aircraft in WW2 was armed with the Browning M2 machine gun. The P-51 Mustang carried 6 of them and the B17 bomber carried as many as 13.

@Andaius20 День назад

Usually a 3 man crew for a MG is, 1 guy carries the gun, one guy helps feed the belt and the third guy harries extra ammo for it. the little black thing under the pistol looks like a flashlight, or maybe a laser sight.

@Zankaroo 3 дня назад

The M61 Vulcan when used in the Phalanx system is meant to shoot down drones and incoming ordinance primarily but can be used against other targets in its range. As other have stated there is a decent chuck of gear that goes with the M60 to make full effect of it. But even if you ignore the extra barrels, tripod, and ammo the other two are carrying, the M60 itself is 23lb (10.5kg). Which you might think that is not heavy. A soldier can tell the difference between carrying a 6lb rifle all day vs a 8lb rifle all day. Now think about the guy carrying the 23lb gun, and then add in the 16lb tripod and several hundred to a thousand or more rounds of ammo. And ammo is not light. 500 .22LR rounds is about 4lbs, a .22LR is a tiny round used for target shooting and varmint hunting. The NATO 7.62 is about 5 times bigger, its not far off to say the 3 men might be carrying 60lbs of just ammo between them or more, plus the barrels, tripod, gun, and all their other gear.

@zer0tzer0 15 часов назад

The Ship Mounted Vulcan isn't for other ships. It's for anti-aircraft. The :Little Black Thing" under the 1911 is a Flashlight. Sometimes it also has a laser that can assist with aiming.

День назад

Phalanx is a CWIS, a Close-In Weapon-System. it is made for taking out near targets with a torrent of 20 mm cannon fire. Cruise missiles would have fly upstream in this when approaching a US navy ship. Effective range is something around 600 meters, but air defense loads will continue to 1,800 meters before activating a self-destruct detonation.

@panzerdeal8727 3 дня назад

M-60. 23 pounds, Tripod and spare barrel, additional 15-20 pounds, ammo cans, about 5 pounds each. spread over a 3 man crew, weight is managable. Weights vaguly remembered from my service days in the 1980's,so take them with a grain of salt.

@davidcopple8071 3 дня назад

The M-16 A-1 that was issued to me in basic training, had M-16 A-1 Experimental stamped into it's barrel. I still was able to score an Expert Ranking. And I kept that ranking throughout my military career.

@timmooney7528 3 дня назад

I have in my collection a Modelo 1912 Chilean Mauser. It was made by Steyr, in Austria in 1912. The barrel was replaced in 1962 to covert it from 7x57 Mauser to 7.62x51 NATO.

@franklysharp3977 День назад

The gatling gun firing on the ship is a computer controlled anti-missile defense weapon. And probably does a fantastic job against drones.

@waterandsteel4713 2 дня назад

That black thing is for aiming. It's called a "flashlight" lol. But you can call it a torch if you like. 🤣🤣😊

@waterandsteel4713 2 дня назад

Okay, seriously, many over here prefer to call that a "tactical flashlight." 'Cause nerds gotta nerd.

@Ira88881 День назад

I shot an M-16 at an outdoor firing range in around 1978. Never shot a gun before. Look… I don’t know if it was 25, 50 or 100 yards, but damn! I put those bullets in the kill zone of the target almost every time. Perfectly scoped for me, and real easy and comfortable to fire. And no, I’m no dead-eye, as my subsequent guns and shooting success at the range over the past 45 years clearly proves. 😂😂😂😂

@checkityhold День назад

As far as the Browning 1919, a double grip would be more comfortable, but I think they were going for reducing weight. The 1919 was one of the first machine guns you could fire while carrying. They made over 400,000 of them. They have some disadvantages compared to modern machine guns, but they are still quite functional and will do the job.

@theminister1154 День назад

*Gatling Guns are used for defense on the ships:* incoming aircraft, little boats, missiles (GL!), incoming cruise, drones, etc. If you've seen The Expanse (and you should!) you'll see the principle in action. PDP they call it.

@Chocoscooter 2 дня назад

6:55 that would be because the extra ammo and extra barrels for the gun are too heavy for one soldier to carry alone, that is also why you have assistant gunners who help load and change the barrel of the machine gun to keep it firing for longer

@checkityhold День назад

I think weapons last a long time partially because they're durable but also because they're versatile and can be used in many situations.

@TheCasualDeathworlder День назад

On the 1911, the object slung below the barrel is a tactical flashlight for night fighting. Also, the original video made 2 mistakes in the last section. the 1903 Springfield. The M1903 was not ONE of the first rifles to use the 30.06 cartridge, it was THE first to use it. The 30.06 cartridge was created specifically FOR that rifle. Additionally, contrary to popular belief, it was NOT the primary rifle of American troops in WW1. That honor goes to the P14 Enfield, also known as the 1917 Eddystone and the M1917 Enfield.

@Crowbars357 12 часов назад

I have my great grandfather’s early model m1903 Springfield rifle that he used for hunting. It still fires.

@aldever4968 День назад

3 man crew for m-60 1 carries the gun, 1 for ammo, and the 3rd carries the tripod.

@jumpinjehoshaphat1951 9 часов назад

The Bundeswehr's MG 3 machinegun is an evolution of the Wehrmacht's MG 42.

@MrShwaggins 21 час назад

Browning was on the level of Tesla but his specialty was weaponry vs Tesla's electricity research. Those MA-DEUCE vehicle weapons just show how well they still work. Also it took 3 guys for the Machinegunners because 1 to use, 1 to feed it and 3 to carry the tripod, weapon and ammo

@wittsullivan8130 18 часов назад

The German's current MG-3 is almost the same thing as WW2's MG-42, just in the current NATO 7.62 caliber. The M-60 is still in inventory, but not commonly used. The M-240 and M-249 are more commonly used on vehicles and on the ground as a SAW gunner (Squad Automatic Weapon). General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG) like the M-60 were heavier and required a crew to carry the extra barrels and ammo. SAW gunners are more independent, but a lot of soldiers will carry extra belts of ammo for them.

@wittsullivan8130 17 часов назад

I have a bunch of black powder guns that are replicas from the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War, but I do have an old Belgian pinfire revolver made in 1874. I also have my great grandfather's shotgun and my grandfather's shotgun, both were made in the 1920's and are able to shoot modern ammunition.

@johnguillemette1969 3 дня назад

The 20mm on a ship is for use against missiles and drones if they get missed by the SAMs, CIWS (Close In Weapons System). The bit under the 1911 is a light/laser.

@promontorium 23 часа назад

I was on a M240G team (which is a modification of the M60) on my last ship when I was in the Navy. We went out in groups of 2 because everything together was a bit heavy but mostly because a second person could reload faster than the gunner. The gunner would have to get out of position to grab and move ammunition (or swap barrels). But with a second person to the side they could reload or swap barrels without the gunner moving, reducing downtime.