Italy's Sleeper Submachine Gun: The Beretta 38A 

Wonder if they'll do anything for their 500th?

+SWITS Feral Probably some fancy smoothbore muzzeleloader in limited edition.

@_jeff _ Yeah, but REALLY primitive. Some were just muzzle-loaded barrels on the end of poles, so depends on if you consider it a proper gun or not.

@_jeff _ archibus

Uno dei fucili mitragliatori.mai costruiti ,la parte in acciaio fatta a mano ne tornio e il manicotto in nove tirato a mano ,molto preciso a colpo singolo e altrettanto arafgiche da tre

Just to give you an idea how long this is past... in the same year they founded, the Mughal Empire was founded too... yeah. that Mughal Empire.

Beretta was founded just 7 years after the death of Leonardo Da Vinci. That's mindblowing

Wow, thanks a lot for the information!

_Beretta was founded just 7 years after the death of Leonardo Da Vinci_ Definitely puts time into perspective. I do hope they have something grand prepared for their 500th anniversary.

That's incredibly old, I wonder what their first product was.

Lol

Skygrasper_550 Lol

In italy we dont know what recoils means xD

Fired one years ago with a custom made stock (the original needed an overhaul) with just a pistol grip. No recoil, no muzzle climb, awesome!

@@davinci9718 beh per la verità usiamo versioni della mg3 con molto rinculo ma l'arx' data la sua cadenza di fuoco, è stabile e leggero

Type 11.

mod 30 was very bad only with desert climate (sand), otherwise was decent, just too slow for recharge...

@@Tonyx.yt. Well, I have heard lots of italian soldiers who used it in albania and russia. They all said that it kept jamming and blocking, in fact there were around a lot of military jokes about it in the italian army.

@@pietrotettamanti7239 they call It the giuda. The Judas.

@@massimilianomencacci2510 dato che siete tutti e due italiani parlate in italiano ahahahaha

It's interesting how in the slo-mo footage the parts barely wobble - most of the other SMGs on this channel wobble like crazy when they fire.

You say that like the Breda 30 doesn't exist...

@@Kesslerification the breda is criminally underrated and its bad reputation its mostly, infunded

Hey Breda 30

@S&W M&P15 AKA Riley the Onni fan ...😮😮.....Carcano M18/91....??.....What are you writing?

Lack of armour, Artillery, Transport and Planes killed them. Nothing wrong with the tactics.

Mancò la fortuna, non il valore

The were individual units and individual troops who distinguished themselves. They also had some excellent pilots and some very good aircraft (particularly fighters). On top of that the Italian Navy led the world in special naval operations, their frogmen and miniature submarine forces were THE best. ...Also, they were nice people (even my dad said that of the prisoners). Many of the Italian POWs were held in my native Scotland through the war and were liked - many settled in Scotland after the war, which is where Scotland got many of it's ice-cream parlours and fish and chip shops.

Stephen Beat So true. The Scottish-Italian community has made an enormous contribution to Scottish society and is still highly respected.

Rommel said that the Italian trooper was a good, brave fighter, but their officers were beyond useless.

Italian stuff (ww2 stuff especially) gets a bad reputation, some deserved, others not so much

Mongo63a This SMG is one of the few Italian WW2 weapons that are actually good imo.

Yes. Good enough. All they needed.

Mongo63a its still very much a 1st generation smg, heavy, made of wood and machined metal, and expensive

but it's pretty huge. that's a disadvantage for an smg

Fallschirmjaegers used them a lot, youre right!

Along with mp-41 too

And to field strip is two parts!

LMAOOOO “gun jesus”

I subbed to read this comment

yes, because if Jesus came back he would be pissed off

The stability from the shooting is impressive. You can tell right off the bat.

True but what I like about it is that the rate of fire is actually higher than some of the other sub guns from the time like the grease gun for instance yet is still rock solid steady.

I have only fired the suomi but that beretta sure does seem stable when firing.

Lefties of the world untie!

I'm also a leftie but I hold two handed weapons the rightie way.

The Macchi Veltro 😎👍

@@teop7887 G55 😼

True. Especially the Fiat g 55 and the Macchi MC 202

My favorite plane from WW2 has to be the Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario, it’s a very beautifully designed plane, high performance, and looks great in black, reminds me of a Ferrari.

Well some of the stuff they made were crap... But in general you are right! What seems to have made the myth, was the poor performance of the Italian armed forces during WW2, however fair or unfair that might be. One area where they most definitely did underperform was in tanks designs... Those might even be the worst tanks build during the war, and that is saying something.

Fiat just bought half of us car production... Just saying....beretta sold guns to all us armed forces, police ecc. Just saying

@@MrBandholm Italy's industry was still underdeveloped and we were not prepared for war. We hardly had any armored cars, let alone tanks. Not to mention clothing, you have no idea of what fucking tons of money the military providers made by freezing to death hundreds of thousands of italian soldiers by giving them poor equipment and cardboard boots. Also in WWI. Those filthy bastards doomed an entire army to death by freezing or limbs amputation. The real reason why italy was destroyed in WWII was because of the small industry and the providers. If you go and see what the alpini corp were able to do at nikolajewka and in russia you'd truly be touched. That battle was hell on earth, even worse than iwo jima. People were literally building fortifications with dead bodies. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nikolayevka

purtroppo i problemi di industri li portiamo appresso ancora oggi, nei due periodi i problemi derivano da cause diverse, per il problema delle industrie alla prima e la seconda guerra diciamo che è l'unione di più problemi :arretratezza generale dell'impianto industriale, mancanza di materiali per la seconda, impreparazione generale del sistema stato alla guerra ed una situazione politica instabile nella prima .

bandholm their tanks designs were perfectly fine for their doctrine it wasn't until 1941-42 that they started falling behind the m series were even more reliable than the British tanks. Look up the m16 veloce or the p43 and p43 bis their designs were good they just lacked the industry.

Alain Charles LEROY . No wonder they lost...

@@wernesgruder1 well you shoulda seen the mish mash the viet minh had

One Italian thing that french liked??? Unbelievable 😂

@@amafirenze-vi1uh His father wouldn't have conceded anything on the matter of whose cuisine is better, but when it comes to guns, he was fine with using an Italian weapon. 😂

No it can't.

Mr. Ian maybe do not know the M38A it used a special 9mmPb cartridge 25% more energy(mkd: M38) for this reason i has a 32Cm barrel decisively important in semiautom/fire for targeting at medium distance: also for this reason it was so loved by German Paratroops in MonteCassino, having an effective double role, in some way a kind of "antelitteram" German MP44.....

The Romanian Armies used Berretta M38's,MP-40's and STG-44 ,those 3 are the best of WW2

Hahaha. That was exactly my reaction

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed!

"spinner"? As in short and petite stripper type ladyfriend??

No the dreaded MGM spinner

Eh beh, la Beretta è sempre stata simbolo di alta qualità e funzionalità.

@Lucas Kurtz vero, saluti !

L unica cosa buona volume di fuoco per il resto poca portata di tiro poca precisione e notevole spreco di munizioni

@@pieromarongiu3905 certo che ha "poca portata" è una smg ahahahahah

Fought frate

@@dyhockane7506 scusa fra

unlucky

Viva l'Italia camerato

@@emiliodp103 No il mab 38 è stato prodotto non solo durante il periodo della rsi

Bro che ci fai qui

@@lapaperadeltubo3200 dici a me?

Ma pure qui la merda fascista arriva, comunque l'arma è del 38 quindi non è RSI (per quanto come qualsiasi altra arma italiana della WW2 è stata prodotta durante il ventennio).

Goddamn right fratello

ROMA INVICTA PARA BELLUM INVICTA!

@@parabelluminvicta8380 para bellum Invicta?

Andrethekid97 beretta was making firearms 200 years before Americas were colonies

Andrethekid97 if you ever need a boost to your national pride, compare a Ducati to a Harley Davidson 😂

Andrethekid97 dbmail545 Not to mention the Roman empire...

Berettas were good, so were some other weapons. Other italian stuff not so much. WW2 italian firearms get a generally horrendous rep because some of their worst firearms were amongst the worst of the whole conflict (the Breda LMG comes to mind) and because, quite frankly, the italian military of the time was (with notable, but rather scarce, exceptions) a dunghole of incompetent officers and generals under a dictatorial regime which was incredibly corrupt and incompetent on itself. The italian soldier was brave indeed...but the officers were for the most part incompetent, the high ranking ones were even worse to the point of being even funny. Ciano mentioned in his memoires that when Rommel was made a Marshall after taking Tobruk, Mussolini wanted to promote an italian general to the same rank (nominally Rommel and the DAK were under overall italian command even while in practice it was all the other way around, so having a Marshall under the command of a General...well kinda didn't work), and they were having trouble choosing who, because depending on whom they'd promote the reaction would've been hillarity or embarrasment. That's how BAD they were. And it's natural they were bad. As in most extreme ideology dictatorships in the Italian military promotions were based on loyalty to the regime and fascist ideals, not because competence and real worth as an officer. Bootlickers were promoted while competent officers were not. By 1940 fascists had ruled over Italy for 17 years (since 1923), so you can guess that with those promotion standards most of the high ranking officers couldnt' find their own ass without both hands, a map, written instructions and a pictorial manual...and even then they needed a personal assistant to find it. when those high ranking officers had to deal with real combat duties...well, it's quite plain to see the results. Some people will say that the rep attached to WW2 italian stuff is underserved and I'd agree that generalizing isn't good, but said that and in general, the italian war effort of WW2 was an astonishing epic fail. So it's only natural that the (Rather scarce but still existing) good stuff they had gets lost in the very strong background noise of the general mess the whole italian military was during WWII.

It seems they never had a large enough market to give them a reliable feedback loop to get them to perfect many weapons. It was kind of home run or strike out!

Mp40 is a mass produced, cheap SMG after all. It's amazing for its production cost but obviously something like this, costing more to make, would be the better gun.

And in the beginning of the Bunderwehr in 1954, german's troops used the Beretta 38 near US Carbine M1

@@onii-chandaisuki5710 true.

? Everybody used 9 mm. Except for USA. As your relative was Commonwealth forces, where's the problem?

@@floydvaughn9666 Which weapons issued to the New Zealand Division used 9 mm?

@@MarsFKA oopsie. No stens? I did forget that in WW2 the Brits used .38 revolvers. Still, where there are Sten guns, there's 9mm...

@@floydvaughn9666 2NZEF were not issued with Stens. They had nothing that fired 9 mm - until they picked up captured German and Italian weapons.

Okie Dokie then. Have a nice day.

Joseph Van . Apart from Sig Sauer you mean

Some of the finest, yes.

What planes did you see the most of back then? I'm born right after the cold war and I find it crazy people being in the military back then with the thought of ww3 looming.

@@kstreet7438 , F104 Starfighter, Fiat G91, Fairchild C119, and some others....

Should have used Hollywood magazines they can fire 500 rounds

Hollywood mags also come with hypocrisy.

What's in the bottom of the magazine, more disappointment.

or (just as fictional,) use 'Ork' weapon magazines' from the Warhammer 40,000 universe - they never run out, ..t'is an quirk of Orkish dogmatic belief manifesting ammo thing.

fastmongrel pff, some hollywood mags come with a wormhole linked to an ammunition factory, 500rds ones are trash

Per i VAM fino agli anni 80.

Wasatch Squatch 😄 same

Hugo van de maat It's the shoulder thing that goes up lol.

TreeWizard648 ?

Hugo van de maat It's a long running joke coming from an ignorant anti gun politician's remarks.

TreeWizard648 oh lol, I thought Ian ment the barrel shroud whitch get's scrapped in later versions

If you want to look it up, it's part of an interview Tucker Carlson did with Carolin McArthy