I'm loving these kind of videos where they actually let the expert speak. So many times you see interviews and the expert can't get a word in edgeways because the news anchor or reporter thinks its all about them and keeps interrupting. This video was a breath of fresh air.
Heard much about Tony Neophytou in South Africa - who has a legendary reputation in weapons design, but this is the first interview where I hear him giving his take on a specific weapon. What a knowledgeable expert - very obviously a master in his field.
@@Upsideround AR-15 is a military grade offensive assault rifle that fires fully-automatic "cop killer" bullets accurately AND it has a pistol grip. Absolutely horrifying.
@@SirBilliam96 Key phrase "Slightly versed", I think this is like that best guns channel, that has people who do cursory research on topics that they don't know a huge amount about, but know enough to sound "knowledgeable" to those who don't know better. They write a script, and have someone else read said script, who never sees the videl.
Same round as the PTRD-41 and PTRS-41 used in WW2 as an anti-tank rifle. I have a PTRD, it’s close to six feet tall and it is still in use by both sides in the Ukraine war.
It's crazy that "interview with Tony Neophytu" isn't somehow part of the video title, or even the description, because that fact alone would draw a lot of views from people interested in firearms history and development.
shooting treads off tracked vehicles, shooting engine blocks on light armored vehicles, counter sniper too, imagine you only need to get close for personnel
I think the tracks would be a hard thing to damage. They are big hunks of iron. Engines generally need some venting etc so there will be weak spots on them. Also: The weak points on something with armor are generally towards the back because they expect the enemy to be in front and not off to one side.
4:34 Uuhh the. 50 cal sniper rifle was "invented" during Vietnam, and a sniper called "White Feather," if I am not mistaken. And he modified a Browning .50 cal machine gun, and fitted it with a scope.
@03:21 As a triple combat veteran I'll say this for the layman. Under the Geneva Convention - A Uniform or A Firearm IS considered a 'Material Target'. Not that Russia, China, and all Arab countries care about what are civilian or combatants!
The Barrett light 50 is an important weapon, especially for US forces, BUT anti-material rifles were very much around and in use before it came on the market, precisely because there are plenty of things less heavily armoured than an MBT that are very much worth shooting. Compared to either a mortar or an ATGM, you can carry many more rounds, and are much less likely to be located when you fire an anti-material rifle.
..... in action.... in ukraine.... dude makes such a long pause between words that you cant really tell if he is saying longest rifle in ukraine, or that the longest rifle is being used in ukraine... But yeah, i agree with you, but can we really call The Anzio a sniper or Anti Material Rifle? its more like a cannon... you dont kill people with that, you remove them from existence.
Snipers don't use the coriolis equation for shooting nor does artillery units firing at much longer ranges, distance, wind speed and direction are the only factors required.
Beside this nonsense, he boasted about three longest kills, at the same time rifle was described as "against material". He has no clue about war&weapons&Ukraine.
Got a 30mm shoulder fire rifle weights 250+ rounds but it’s really fun to use ! The length is around 14 feet . The trick to absorb the recoil was the springs added to absorb recoil .
@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 This, and to keep friendly troops from shooting them. The Ukrainian military has a lot of mismatching uniforms being given to them, so to identify each other, they use different colored tape. There's yellow, blue, and green. I think the color of the tape also has something to do with either department of the military or region of operation.
@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 idk about drones specifically, but FF is one of the most common causes of death on the battlefield, not only in ukraine, but also e.g. for Allied troops in Afghanistan FF was not a rare problem. So it might be worth to lose some camo ability in exchange for some less likely FF incidents.
Longer barrel is hard to maintain accuracy. Because the barrel is flexible and if you shoot more than a few shots, it way out of accuracy due to heat affect .
My understanding of wind from my experience of an M1, which is famous for it's accuracy, is that it is most effected the closer it is to the barrel. Modern tanks have crosswind detectors, but of course those only measure the crosswind where the tank is.
@@WillyKling Makes sense. As I said I was a tanker and that was what we were told. Either way, we never missed. Also as I said crosswind detectors on tanks only measure the crosswind of where the tank is. If local topology creates different wind patterns where the target is then ya, have a spotter, reload fast, adjust as necessary, service the target, and GTFO.
I think you may be under estimating the effect of the weapon on the war. It has enough range that the enemy may not be sure where the round came from. Instead of taking out the lead vehicle, the shooter has the option to disable one part way down the column. In Ukraine this gives the Russians a very bad problem because the path they are following is the only one they know doesn't have mines on it. Thus taking out the middle truck, effectively spits the convoy into two groups.
Tony is a little out of date. Optics and ballistic computers have been so far advanced today that 1 to 2 MOA at a thousand meters is common place. Further more, the science of designing munitions for consistent, critical match performance is also much more developed as well.
In the Korean war, I heard that a few machine gunners can hit a man over a mile away on the next mountain using a 50 caliber. Also German Mauser rifles had a 1000 meter iron sight.
Mausers had sight out to 2500 meters and they were for volly fire. This was typical of all military rifles of that era. You can't expect to hit anything at that range.
10:12 the lack of basic soldiering here is shocking. Trying to shoulder fire a rifle like that. Zero chance of a hit past 10m and dragging his ak muzzle in the dirt too. Basically a dead man walking.
6:18 - 6:30 to use a rifle for a "distance" need "Chosen Shoter's" (Sniper's), otherwise a Javelin or something like that, cane be handover by a simple soldier..
its just similar to the British boy's anti-tank rifle that was built in 1938 and served in the opening days of WW2 - the Russians had a similar one also in WW2 but a single shot no box magazine so after 80 years there is nothing new with the exception that this has a silencer at the end of it
@12:04 This guy makes guns. He doesn't have hundreds and thousands of hours looking through the scope and shooting. Hitting a plane is not that different from bird hunting. The algebra is very similar. Not everyone can do it of course. Shoot ahead of the bird and timing.
A bolt action has nothing to do with accuracy, only with how fast you can fire. I personally prefer a semi-auto rifle. Do some research before you open your mouth
Let's be clear about what happens when a round like that hits a human being? Here is a human: >----|o This is that same human after being hit: > ???? o All you find are the feet and the head. Everything else gets *KA-SPLOOSHERED* into a fine, brown mist. Why brown, instead of pink or red? Because that bullet has so much energy, it *KA-SPLOOSHERS* you, _and_ cooks the pink mist to a lovely medium-well.
The Rifle Is Not Bagger Than Human, It Is Longer Than Some Humans Are Tall, If It Was Bigger Than A Person, Being That Long It Would Be To Heavy To Carry, Even With Two Guys, It Would Have To Be On A Buggy, Think About It,👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
why is person calibrating anything ....should be automated ...should be computer with sensors that plugs into the gun ...then that adjusts all the settings automatic based on what on the target scope
