State of the Channel: 2024 

State of the channel hasn’t changed. It is still my favorite youtube channel.

Might get lost in the comments here, but Ian, I want to thank you for being one of, if not THE, leading historian cataloging as much as you possibly can across a wide array of firearms and engineering. I'd like to imagine one day an entire bookshelf of my home dedicated to your published works, as well as those books being used as reference material for other students of history and engineering, firearms designers, and hobbyists for centuries to come. It isn't recognized very often, but you have devoted a very substantial chunk of your life to doing work that most people don't even think about. Thank you for doing what you do, I sincerely hope your name is high up in the history books, have yourself a happy new year!

Ian's voice and appearance have remained the same over the years just like any of his subjects, and because of consistent presentation a brand new video and one from 7 years ago play back to back seamlessly. Great channel

Side note. As a french guy watching avidly both for your channel, and for the History Underground's one, i have made a letter to the Ministère des Armées, asking for them to give you some sort of reward, for your relentless work at celebrating as well as the french weaponry history, than the french battles sites. Last week, they gave me a reply, saying that they will look after my request. Hope they'll give a favourable ending to that.

Thank you Ian, I have been subscribed for over a decade now, and your ability to hunt out really interesting firearms to bring to us is what make this my favourite firearms channel on youtube

I support on Floatplane, it's frustrating how difficult RU-vid makes things for an incredibly educational channel like yours .

You are going to be very busy indeed producing five videos per week. Thank you! May 2024 be a very good year for you and your family.

Looking forward to "more of the same, just better" as it looks to be. Always appreciate the work it must take to bring these videos to the general public.

Wow it felt like the state of the channel 2023 was yesterday.

Hey Ian, do you reckon you'd ever dive deeper into the history of the manufacturing side of weapons? Imagine a miniseries, something like Forgotten Manufacturing? I (and many others in this space) are at the very least interested, if not enthusiastic about manufacturing, and the workflows and methods of the past are often getting forgotten, especially now that everything is going CNC. Just an idea!

Having one more video a week is definitely nice. Hope it won't negatively impact you though. Thanks for another amazing year, Ian!

My favorite content on the net. Adding another video sounds great, just be careful not to burn yourself out. We know you already work your ass off.

Happy New Year to Ian and everyone behind Forgotten Weapons I hope this years goes well. Perhaps at some point this year you get the opportunity to do a few more collaborations with The Chieftain and if possible C&Rsenal. That "Project Lighning" series was great. Keep it up and I hope this years goes well for everyone.

1:40 I’m quite a fan of Floatplane’s setup, with an independent CDN and no VC to appease, but I’d also quite like to get 4K video It’s a shame we have to pick one or the other, but it also makes sense to promote your platform

Forgotten Weapons is one of the most timeless and consistent RU-vid channels out there. Thank you for being the leading voice in educating the world about weapons and their history. It's a shame that the platform seems unable to differentiate between educational channels and low-effort gun porn.

Happy New Year, Ian! Thanks for all your hard work cataloguing all these different weapons. Looking forward to another year of steadily weirder guns and things.

Thank You for being so productive - I really love your channel. What I particularly appreciated were your interviews regarding the Ukraine war - giving imho valuable insights in the "not-so-nice" realities of current weapons history. I would be very happy, if you could provide us such videos as well in future!

Happy New Year !!! Love the channel and all the delivery of your work to viewers. :D

Happy new year! Thank you for the valued and consistent videos. On a side note; one firearm I would love to see make an appearance on the channel is the Czech ZK-423. And I am led to believe that "Military History Institute Prague" owns one if it is in your interest.

Happy New Year! I'm looking forward to a new year of content--and shenanigans. 😄--Especially whatever you come up with for April Fools!

Ian, i have been watching you for most of my life. Please, if you feel 5 videos a week is too much, drop back down to 4. You're one of my favorite educational youtubers, and i dont want you to burn out.

Awesome to hear that the channel is still going strong. Thank you Ian for all the hard work you put into making these videos!

Happy New Year bro! Love your work and I have learned so much from you. Thanks for your hard work basically cataloging the history of firearms.

Hi Ian! Happy New Year and All the Best for you, your relatives and your channel ! Quite interesting videos/reports you're making and sharing! Thanks for that ! Greetings from DZ!

The state appears to be interesting, educational, and very well presented! Success and health to you in yours in 2024.

I only discovered this channel within the last year or 2 and I'm happy to be along for the ride, and to see the channel grow and evolve. I love history in general, so this is definitely a channel I enjoy.

I really like the in person/museum tour videos, like the Malta one and the Guadacanal videos. Obviously you can’t make those weekly, but would love to see more of them.

I truly appreciate all the work you put into all these different projects and plans! My only worry (as it always is), is that you're going to burn yourself out. Rush or struggle with providing the amount of content you provide if life decides to happen in a less forgiving way. I hope you have a wonderful new years, though. Thanks for over a decade of entertainment and information.

Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2024, and thanks for being one of the coolest channels on the internet. 🙂

Happy New Year to you Ian and congratulations on the top 5 in the Gundies

RU-vid has been messing with my channel as well , it pisses me off . I put so much effort into my videos

Happy and good new year,all sounds good can't wait for watching new format

Hey Ian. Happy new year from South Africa. Really enjoy your channel. Much appreciated. Regards, Gert.

My god, you work so ridiculously hard xD . Best wishes for 2024, looking forward to your content!

Congrats on your new platform, what an endeavor! Heading over there now.

Great work Ian. Love your commitment to a relatively unembellished channel as an encyclopedia of firearms and history, with the occasionally fun stuff like a competition shoot or funny gag. Will happily be subscribing to W&W once I'm no longer a poor student wrapping up university. Cheers! (And please consider a remake of your old video on the Type 26 revolver!)

Ian I hope you and all have a great new year and for you to not over extend yourself. I will enjoy extra videos too.

Happy New Year Ian, love the 4K addition!

You are the Jedi Master...I just started watching some of your video's on my firestick....I think I found them on the Tubi channel. Incredible the amount of detail you go into. Hopefully I can get to your new channel on the firestick....Cheers and happy new year!

Happy New Year!

Excellent work on the weapons and war streaming service! Happy to see some feasible options for the future of firearms related content. All the best in the new year!

Happy New year Ian. Glad the future looks healthy for Forgotten weapons/History of weapons & war. Keep up the good work.

Glad to hear such good news (except for the RU-vid issues). Happy New Year!

A Happy and Prosperous 2024 to you and your family Ian and to everyone who follows this GREAT channel. 😁✌🏻👍🏻💯

Really like your museum tours, looking forward to them!

Happy New Year! Ian Than You for all of the Great content,

Loving the channel for awhile now keep doing what your doing and have a good 2024!

Happy New year Ian. Thank you for being the cool gun guy I wanted to be in high school and sharing.

Happy new year!!!!

1st off. Hope you had a Banging new year. Get it umm with the guns and all. 😊 Thank you and anyone involved for all the great videos. I will definitely be checking out History of Weapons and War. You know with you showing us 4 weapons a week. The 5th one with the shooting part would be cool if it was the weapon you found most interesting of the 4 you showed. If the weapon was available to shoot. I know many are rare and in valuable collections. But those you could would be an interesting part of the video.Even if it were just a short part of the video. Anyhow I'm looking forward to another year of awesome Forgotten Weapons and I'm sure what will be a new favorite place to go see weapons that helped change our world.

No need to thank me, I thank you. I am sitting drinking Scotch (with a wee bit of water) and very grateful for the most objective and fun and friendly and informative firearms channel on YT. BOTR, C&R, Cap'n'Ball are all up with you in my top 5, so on pay day I am off to your Weapons and War channel ; I did the trial, and it's great. No adverts no filler.

I miss the auction videos with the sale prices but I understand that you are only one person doing the work of so many and doing a great job. Thanks and I look forward to the coming year.

I just got your newest book in the mail two days ago. Cannot wait to read it. Keep up the great work.

One issue that I had when I subscribed to History of Weapons & War was videos lagging or occasionally stopping entirely and then having to restart them. Once that issue is fixed then I will consider resubscribing to that channel, so I don't have to watch the edited or non-existent videos that RU-vid randomly censors.

You do You and I will watch. Rock on and Happy New Year!!!!!

The problem with your separate channel is not just cost, but that every new channel adds similar "small" costs. Add them all up, and pretty soon you're talking real money. RU-vid is sure not my friend, but I'm not going to start down the road of proliferating low-cost channel subscriptions.

Longtime sub; I love your coverage of the Brutality matches. Your bromance with Ziga (Polenar Tectical) is too wholesome for words.

HAPPY NEW YEAR IAN. I WILL DO MY BEST TO FIND YOU ON THE ALTERNITIVE CHANNEL

love the weird guns in backup gun matches. all your content is fantastic.

Great Channel and best wishes for 2024. Well, to put foward a question I have about the forgotten weapon ammo of the 6.5 mm Dutch ammo for the Hembrug guns. Everyone states that the rounded ammo was obscellesent. Too little stopping power. This is a point I don't realy get. A little hole in most soldiers who are hit will put most out of action. With those that are not taken out by that will not be taken out by rifle bullets hitting them. The 6.5 low recoile and very flat trajectory. Less problem with side wind. So, much more easy to hit what you aim for then much other weapons. For all such other weapons in mentioned cases having hit crucial parts one can stop an elephant with the 6.5 mm. For a GPMG a larger say 7.9 mm is better at stopping vehicules. The will to standardise for ease of logistics is understandeble when seeing GPMG as a more important contribution to any fight. 5:09

Great to hear! Happy new year

Still my favorite channel. My youngest son visited for Christmas. He loved the Small Arms of WWII book! I can't wait for future versions.

Happy New Year, Ian .

Happy new years Ian!

Happy new year Ian

Thank you too, and happy new year.

Happy New Year Ian, carry on the good work, always informative. Histoire at its best.

Happy New Year Pal!

I think I first found your channel during the pre Battlefield 1 hype looking into the lesser known firearms featured in that game. And since then, I’ve been regularly watching. Keep up the great videos!

Happy new year Ian!

That’s so awesome you’re gonna be making videos on new stuff, whenever I want to know something about a gun the first thing I do is see if you have a video on it, I’m looking forward to it!

So glad you as well as those other channels have continued to educate and present these historic firearms to the next generations and supplying people with this information openly. Thank you Ian, Jonathan and everyone else providing great info.

Keep up great work this year. All the best! Great content

Ambitious schedule, Ian. But hard is only in the mind of the beholder, my late uncle said. And I can afford to believe that now I have retired from his construction industry! Looking forward to another amazing year and finding out tons of things I didn't know. Btw, if you are ever topic bound, so something on the co dependence between making weapons and the development of harder metals and how gunpowder changed the equation.

Excited to hear your take on new products more often!

Love the museum and auction house episodes.

Happy New Year, Ian! 5 Videos!?!? #niiiice

Happy New Year Ian!🎇🥳🍾🥂🖖🏻

Ian, quality work as always. There is so much history in firearms that you could make videos for the next 50 years and not run out of things to talk about. Would love to see a video on the development of 3rd Gen Smith Autos or an overview on the Browning A5 style shotgun.

Ian, im excited about your upcoming book about Soviet weapons of ww2! I do have a question in regards to max. How (in light of recent world events) has he been doing? Also will he be helping with the new book? Thank you for all of your hard work. Happy new year!

Happy new year

One of the best channels on youtube. Very entertaining and educational. I've been watching since 2018 give or take and will continue. Thank you for all the hours of cool guns and history facts.

Man, idk how many of ur videos ive watched that u made, but i gotta say, they couldnt have gotten a better person for the job! Thanksya for all the vids. Keep up the good work!

Congrats on yet another year

Great news Ian. Looking forward to all of the new content. You're still one of the few channels that I hit the like button before I watch the video.

Happy New year Gun Jesus. Stay safe

I'm a bit sad to see this channel turning its focus away from youtube, but it's well understandable. The Wild West era of the internet is slowly passing us, leaving us with new business models. Let's all just consider ourselves lucky to have lived through that unique time.

I appreciate the consistency of video format, and I LOVE watching these videos!

First comment, to fill this blank page is that i want to wish you all the best. Ian i love the content you create I've been following you for years. Keep it up

You've got a great channel, very interesting content, always one of my favorites on RU-vid. If it ends up disappearing and going to a $10 per month streaming service that's where I'll part company.

FW is one of the few channels I look forward to when I receive an alert, and I'm very excited to see and extra day of content.

For one of your new additional videos, you should consider visiting the John M Browning museum in Ogden, UT. It has some very interesting prototype firearms which I think could make for some awesome videos!

Happy new year friendos!

I always look forward to these updates 🤙🏽

State of the channel: Ian is going to continue to work way too much and give us all great content!

I wish all the best success with the new streaming service and I’ll definitely be checking it out. I love the content and I LOVE the history lessons. Keep up the great work and god bless

I really appreciate that you upgraded the camera setup. A thing that ive always wanted you to add to your setup is a better microphone specifically to pick up the sounds of operating and handling of firearms. I think the sound of rare weapons is just as important as their mechanics and exterior. These cool sounds for some of them might never be properly recorded anywhere and I think it deserves to exist in the background of your videos

Good news start to finish! Thank you for all your hard work, Ian.

If I decide to only support Forgotten Weapons on Patreon will I miss out on the exclusive Forgotten Weapons content on History of Weapons and War? Or is there separate exclusive content just for Patreon members?

we're with you ian. we understand youtube is not gun friendly. if they give you any crap, we'll follow you to whatever platform you decide to go with.