M3 Infrared Sniper Carbine 

Don't forget the swamp crab logging fisherman who also owns a pawn store

+tonyblitz1 When I was a kid, we called it 'ANN'. The "All Nazi Network".

+tehsma Ah yes, we called it the Hitler channel.

Tv is on a decline, big time.

+tonyblitz1 To be fair, I heard a big part of that was the History channel losing access to the Smithsonian museum and their archives.

**Magnum Force begins to play**

Yeah mate, I use a infrared scope for dayloight snoipin

"Be polite."

"Be efficient."

"Kill everyone, you've met"

A tad intimidating for sure.

seriously though... there'd be no explanation as to how the hell the enemy is capable of making these shots. This must have been a serious moral killer, i'd imagine they thought the Americans possessed some sort of magical ability to see in the dark (which they did).

@@Budabaii When an infrared light shines on you, you can feel it. It's a warm feeling on the side the light is hitting.

And then the guy just goes wanker in a aussie voice while waving his hand at you

@@AmishGangsta404 you get warm before you get cold

Im late, anyways i didn't expecting the weapon to be real, not the rifle but the scope itself! I was expecting it to be some wacky Nazi wunderwaffe but nope it was allied 😭 kinda dissapointed

Righttt that’s how I felt about the hellriegel

@@commander_cody841 they took massive creative liberties with the hellriegal seeing as it never actually saw combat and was meant to be operated by two people

@@zh2266 true but still the fact that the gun still got some respect, plus it was a dope addition because no other game has is that I know of

Except there’s always that one dickhead that sprints around with it hip firing

@@SkorpzOfficial why do I randomly find your comments on every video I watch

Glad you understand, and appreciate the videos!

Agreed. This is as close as most of us will come. Even if RIA do benefit, would people rather not have had the chance to see such things? I really love this thing. Horribly impractical by today's standards, but I really love seeing the beginnings of technology. Functional works of historical art.... Beautiful! I suppose by the time I'm worm food, you'll just pop in a contact lens for night vision.

I watch every morning. Since this is as close I will probably ever get to a lot of these firearms ive only read about, I appreciate it. I had never seen a video of a .276 Pederson until yesterday. Make sure and let us know what they sold for. Out of curiosity, where would someone get a complete government kit to sell in the first place?

brenton adams A lot of US military trials rifles were sold as surplus on the civilian commercial market after the testing was done, back in the day. This is how all the Savage .45 pistols wound up in priviate hands, for example, along with all the different types of trials repeating rifles from the 1870s-1890s (Remington-Keene, Remington-Lee, Chaffee-Reese, Winchester-Hotchkiss, etc).

Ah the good old days...

was it the same bulky battery pack?!

Huh iwas thinking the same thing (i think it would have fit int the 1st or 2nd though)

This weapon was actually in return to castle wolfenstein

@@ekoeko2346 Yep, the beautiful M3 'Snooper' that we rarely got to use.

It was a zombie killer in the movie "The Omega Man."

@@FlamingRobzilla it was BAR

Challenging work, outta doors, I’ll guarantee you won’t hungry

nice stolen comment

@@yeetedbeans9378 i dont remember stealing it, and anyway, its from a famous vid so its obvious that someone will make a similiar comment

@@numbers4851 cuz at the end of the day, long as there's still two people left on the earth, someone is gonna want someone dead

Play world war heroes in mobile

I would assume it’s better than a radio at the time

However, imagine the look on that GI’s face when they looked down the scope at night for the first time.

Imagine the look on that G.I.'s face when they took it from him...

Until he capped the first enemy soldier who didn't even see him...

I'd take that over a radio or a flamethrower. Imagine if you could set up on some hill somewhere and snipe enemy moving around in the darkness... Could keep you and your buddies safe at night.

Thx for you comment :)

Yes please! I immediately had to think of it when I saw this video

Indeed ! And it would be lovely if we could somehow ( I realize this might not be entirely possible) To see what it looks like through that scope.. Somehow.. ^^

Which one is earlier

@@sargera1 the German one

+Jordan Caleb I can picture it : "This MetalStorm belonged to my granddad, and at the time it was already obsolete so he used it for varminting...".

And here is one of the original AK47s, it is not like the modern day KC38s we see today

Ah yes. The dpms oracle. At the time when this rifle was more prevalent there were many conflicting accounts when it came to quality and reliability. Many of the old timers I have had the privilege of talking to say that it was "a piece of shit", however some others consider it to have been on of the greatest AR pattern rifles for the money at the time, which was around $400-$600. Now a days these pieces of history can't be had for less than $1000-2000

That's life with everything

“Now this right here is a hi point pistol originating in the 2000s”

looks don't matter at night since it's dark ;)

But the weight matters. To think that was a huge incandescent bulb with a thick-ass filter over it. Today you can probably get more IR out of a flashlight that can fit in your pocket and costs 20 bucks. Oh and that battery lol, probably a lead acid battery back pack. I love seeing the rugged military construction though.

***** Hence why Ian explained how it's use was almost exclusively in defensive positions. To raise the alarm when a night attack was coming and to pick off approaching enemies. Movement and weight were not a factor there.

I'm just impressed they had that tech way back to almost WW2! I thought it wouldn't have been until Korea or so! It had to be big, battery and bulb technology were quite primitive in those days.

+VonGrav if you ever are in london go to the royal war museum, not only do they have the whole scope working that you can look through, you can also go inside actual ww2 to about vietnam era fighting vehicles

@@Yourantsally is that the Imperial War Museum or is is there an actual Royal War Museum

There is one at the royal armouries in leeds as well if my memory serves me right

The Germans had basically the same setup for the Stg 44. It was called the ZG 1229 Vampir.

Roland Deschain true. i was surprised to see a few pics on google a few years ago. i couldnt believe it at the time.

Germans had them on tanks too, passive and active systems. Anyway the panthers could be seen if they turned on the infrared light so instead they mounted giant infrared searchlights on sdkfz 251 halftracks and worked in teams for search and destroy. The halftracks were illuminating the targets from long range and the panthers used the passive IR to shoot them down from another position. They saw limited use but had a VERY effective kill rate.

@@predattak That's basically all the advanced, late-war stuff Germany made. Pretty dang awesome, but too little, too late.

No it’s the Nazi space fortress

I demand reichpunk

@@Hongobogologomo i bet you do buddy i bet you do...

that's a lot a punks

no, don't call it WWII steampunk, it's very cringey dieselpunk has the vibe of WWI, WWII, and Cold War eras. far more superior

Nuclear punk> all others

me

only the scope though the rest of this rifle looks nothing like it

@@andytan2412 if the rifle was bolt action and a higher caliber then it would but I think the wood furniture is also pretty darn close.

with that big scope tho😂

"Yeah that seems about right"

No doubt.

Mick Kemp Showing our age, I was thinking the same thing.lol

Hell yeah. Love that game.

lol yeah loved that game think ill play it right now actually

What a great old game! Ive played through single player sooo many times, thousands of hours in MP in RTCW and the upgraded, free standalone MP only version Wolfenstein:ET. Now feel like playing it, no idea where my disk is though! Wonder if its on steam?

Late reply, lol. ET is free to download, I still play it daily with a group. RTCW can be found on steam.

Do they make special rifles for snoopers now? Whatever next?

Yup, lead-acid.

Yup and you could probably easily retrofit 6v modern SLA batteries and improve the wiring and it'd probably still work.

Lol they won't use a lithium ion battery, back then

@@deepankar94 They used silver-zinc on Apollo LEM

@@deepankar94 Where do you think the tech came from, pill bill

If further proof is needed, it may (not even remotely) surprise you to know that Ian was formally consulted by Dice while Battlefield 1 was in development. He is even in the credits.

Celebrate that maybe, possibly finally being done, at some point, in the next year or two, provided biden/kamala doesn’t decide to ruin the surpreme court

It ripped off, after defeat.

Manuel

@@rogelio_34 yup that's my name

Jorge

Deign

Modern ones are far, far more effective though - and don't require the battery backpack!

+Forgotten Weapons do they run on a single AA? I really have no clue. But I know my security camera requires 5v atmost 2.5amps (power supply rating, so just divide that by half) to run 1. PCB-cam and 2. PCB-led and 3. infrared LEDs to infrared-light across the street to neighbor. I actuallly dont know the distance of my camera because it was angled down.

Try seeing something 75yds away clearly enough to be able to take a shot with a small infrared LED though.... Not only was that scope from a time where batteries were not small, bulbs were not efficient, but on top of that they needed very powerful projectors to be of any use (imagine the kind of lamp you'd need to see something that far away clearly enough). Makes me think those night vision rifles were sorely needed for a 30+lbs kit to be considered ready to be fielded. Also I think infrared has not been so popular with armies for decades. Original Russian PSO-1 scopes (the ones that came with the Dragunov) from the sixties already included special coating that would shine when illuminated by infrared. This did not require any batteries, as the coating "recharged" by being exposed to sunlight during the day. These scopes used batteries though (for reticle illumination). So the guy with the powerful infrared projector would be as visible as a lighthouse to most people on the opposing side (especially their designated marksmen).

+rpnct Excellent points. Some items loose their relevant perspective over time as we forget what was considered standard and acceptable. One needs only look to the last 10yrs of flashlights to see this. No one heard of Lumens or 18650 batteries and comparatively the 3D Mag w Zenon bulb of 10yrs ago is only as powerful as the little 65lm 1AAA key ring jobs of today. But if you consider night vision in 1943 it was revolutionary, most people never heard of the concept till Vietnam and it didn't really appear in movies and pop culture till the '80s. It would be the equivalent to finding out something like the Seals using a Lightsabre to kill BinLaden, yet never hearing of a Lightsabre for another 25-30yrs

rpnct cool info

Gryffin DarkBreed all it takes is some major wiring skills and a lot of patience

@@avshutsach Sure, if you want it to be functional and completely disregard its speculative value as a history piece. Why not replicate it with more modern and efficient technology if you want something like this that actually works?

@@DinnerForkTongue finding period wire and using period techniques

it did sell for more than 5K

oh shit I found myself

They add this but not the Springfield rifle.

I got this gun fully golden. It's mint 👌

when a gun is getting added to a game I search for the gun on RU-vid before it gets flooded by people making videos about this gun

@@EntZeroEsc some grind isn’t it. 🤣🤣

@@DannyBoy-jy1kq well yess because once you're done with an assignment, you are forced to go back to the menu and get another assignment. A total of 6 times for each piece of the gun...

This gun is in battlefield.

@@MakeLoveNotHate9 wooosh

Ohne Namen take a fucking joke

@@MakeLoveNotHate9 Nur weil du deutscher bist heißt es nicht, dass Amerikaner keinen Sarkasmus kennen.

@@herrboritooriginal9670 hä? Ist das irgendwie geschrieben wurden? Sarkasmus im allgemeinen ist im Internet oft schwer zu erkennen. Es bringt eigentlich überhaupt nichts, außer für denjenigen der es benutzt, der fühlt sich nämlich ganz toll.

That's the number I have seen as well, but I haven't tried to verify it.

Somebody posted a link to a compilative "NVG history" down in the comments, and the claim it contains says "30% of the casualties suffered by small arms _in the first week of the Okinawa campaign_". Wiki says the land fighting lasted 81 days. (Though I don't know that part of history and can't say how the battle's intensity progressed.)

Cool find, probably worth holding on to until a collector pops up looking for one.

No, now they just give them to the police, because if there's one thing that says community outreach, it's the police rolling in a tank.

@@sac3528 not gonna lie, if the police gave public tank rides, that would be great community outreach lol...

@@MrSolLeks Tank Rides: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 12:00 to 4:30. Adults: $15 Kids:$7.50

@@TheWoodsmanMilling shit id do a tank ride for $15 so long as its a good ride around town and I can dress as a ww2 paratrooper who just landed in Normandy and hopped on the back of a Sherman that is advancing.

@@MrSolLeks I think most people would. We just need to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger about it, since he has a tank.

Cheers, bud! But it was still neat, wasn't it?

that's what I noticed lol!

+PKMN Trainer Elias Bullshit. Sniper's sniper rifle resembles M40 more. You can find SR from this vid in Return to Castle Wolfenstein game

get out

Think about ya head wanka

Snipers gun is also bolt action.

It was in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which was released in 2001, as the Snooper Rifle (possibly a reference to the actual weapons nickname the "Snooper").

GoredonTheDestroyer That's the one, I have heard it referred to as the Snooper rifle before in some literature.

GrOuNdZeRo7777 The germans started work on a inferred night vision device in 1936. The ZG 1229, code named Vampire. It was used by troopers called "Snippers" for night operations. Most where fitted to STG 44 rifles late in WWII. You can pickup a Russian NVG Model PPN-2 for $300 from Apex gun parts. It is a lighter weight version.

Damn that's right. I remember that now using it the game. I thought it was made up too. Didn't bother to look it up then. Lol.

redthegreendog114 There is something just so endearingly steampunk about the early night vision scopes, That Vampir is no exception!

yeah, great riffle with very rare ammo

SHUT UP & PAINT YOUR GOD DAMN HOUSE!!

Yup, it is. I recognized it instantly in RTCW because I had known about the M3 rig before. I love my USGI M1 Inland. 😉

NO!

Huh? Our TF2 community says step aside sir

True 😂👌🏻 it's on my recommended videos

Haha exactly what brought me here

@@Comrade_Collects same here!

Isn't it a copy of zg.1229?

Cool I just commented earlier that I'd expect this to show up at some point with a cool night map (Which sounds like it'll be Okinawa in the) Pacific theatre. Didn't know someone had already found hints of it.

"The difference is one is a job and the other is a mental sickness."

this is gen 0 so no passive light intensification where a PVS/2 is a gen 1 cascade tube.

What the difference be?

Cyrus Boak “ones a job and the other’s a mental sickness!”

Did you not watch the video? He said that was a infra red light bulb on top to illuminate.

I'm pretty sure it was indeed this optic but was instead mounted on an M1918 BAR

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Yes

Yes, they had the Zielgerät 1229, also known as the Vampir scope. They even have an infrared scope for their tanks.

+SpectreOZ No kidding! It's a bit of a surprise to me that the tiny cable they use doesn't break down at 20 kV, I wonder what materials it uses...

***** Well the cable for HID lights in vehicles carries 25kV from the unit to the bulb and that isn't a notably over heavy cable.

To be sure, but we're talking about modern materials vs 40s era stuff. Pretty nifty!

+Scott McKelvey True... but the resistance of wire/cables has remained fairly constant (regarding surface area etc.), that's not to say advances haven't been made :)

+Scott McKelvey Having worked as an electronics tech at a university working on kit from the 50's to present day. Voltage never really make much difference to the size of the cables as even fairly basic insulators will protect from high voltages if there is a path of lower resistance i.e. metal of the wire. Large current is what requires large cables as the resistance in the cable causes large currents to heat up the wire which causes the insulation to fail. Use a thicker wire and you reduce the resistance which stops the wire from overheating.

Yeah. I suspect that 1. It probably doesn’t work anymore. 2. I would be really hard to get it to work. 3. It’s not really in Ian’s wheelhouse.

It does use a transformer, but it also has a vibrator to generate an AC signal from the battery. Here’s a Wikipedia description of the principle. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrator_(electronic)

Here’s a link to a description of image intensifier tubes. It has a fair amount of detail on the one used in the M3. www.photonics.com/Articles/Image_Intensification_The_Technology_of_Night/a25144

no

@@astronymos9458 yes

On an M14 I think.