Vektor CP-1: Recalled to the Mother Ship 

A matter of fact (that very few folks know of) Nobleteq in Centurion bought all Vector's spares and last I heard, they still have spares for the CP1.

No its a bad pistol,what u described is a bad pistol

You must be smoking crack or PCP or something man. 😂 ​@@sturmgewehr4444

They were just painted

The FN F2000 is one of the weirdest guns I've ever had the pleasure to try. The recoil on full auto is so weird, it literally pushes the barrel down and that takes some getting used to. The P90 is a surprisingly reliable weapon in my experience (which is, admittedly, not vast with that particular gun), however it is way too small for me to use. I like the G3 (or rather the version I used to carry, the AK4), it's a reasonable sized gun for me.

​@michaelmay5453 That's interesting about the F2000. Did you find that once you got used to it, it was more controllable firing in full auto because of that feature?

@@kutter_ttl6786 I didn't spend enough time with it to get used to it. I probably could have though, it's a lot easier to keep it stable by just locking up your muscles than to try to pull it down (which just doesn't work at all). I'm not the guy you should ask on this though, all guns like those are awkward for me, I'm 7'1 so a 1911 or a P226 (which still is my absolute favourite hand gun) are great little firearms I can carry on my ankle. ;)

The Vector was also used prominently in the RDM version of Battlestar Galactica. The presidential security force were armed with the CP-1 to distinguish them from the Colonial military who were armed with FN Five Sevens and revolvers mocked up to look like futuristic sidearms. During the first season the military actors used FN P90s, but switched to the Beretta CX Storm for the rest of the series because of it's prominent use in Stargate SG1. They also switched the revolver mock up to the Five Seven in season 2 because they were difficult to reload due to the shell on the base gun. The production had purchased a mountain for 5.7 blank ammo for the P90s, and ended up using it all for the new sidearm. I think RDM said they had enough to last for the whole series after the switch.

Is that a Battlestar reference?

@@dakchang63 So say we all.

As an HK P7 owner, I can understand why you don’t regret that decision. Thank you for sharing.

@@brainkill7034 I get that one aspect of the Vektor pistol was copied from the P7, but speaking as a person who has owned several P7s and absolutely loved every single one of them I do have to point out that aside from the delayed blowback system and fixed barrel the CP-1 is a million miles away from the P7 in every way. From reports, the accuracy of the CP-1 was average at best when compared to other duty-type semiauto firearms. The P7, however is the only handgun I ever owned that rivals the SIG 220 in .45 for the most accurate military/police type sidearm I've personally ever run through the range. I've owned several of both and in fact ended out my career in law enforcement carrying a 220 in .45 as my duty sidearm and a P7 (the original, not the later M8/13) most of the time off duty. Why those two weapons? Because everyone knows,, don't you, that it's marksmanship that wins gunfights, not mag capacity or bullet design. Right? For my hand and abilities they were by far the most accurate handguns I'd ever fired that were suitable for law enforcement carry. When my department finally allowed us to carry personally-owned weapons (of the proper kind) as duty weapons, I simply opened my safe and started shooting my own weapons, and borrowing many others to test. I picked the weapons I could shoot the best, and here I'm not talking about bullseye shooting, but rather running the department's rather tough qualification course as well as our tactical team's grueling and more extensive regimen. With both of those weapons, and particularly with the P7 I'd be confident taking head shots on hostage takers all day long out to around thirty yards. By contrast I've handled but not fired a CP-1. This was the later surplus import of original design and not the one made specifically for export to the USA. Quality-wise it struck me as something like a cheap Stallard Arms piece with a case of Glock envy. The trigger, as noted, was atrocious. While it might have been roughly adequate for close-range work I could tell you that just from the way the thing rattled when I shook it that it wasn't even from the same planet as a P7. There's no way it's ever going to do what a P7 can do. The CP-1 shares only two features with P7, and aside from that comparison is pointless. I'm not saying the P7 was the be-all, end all either. For someone dedicated and disciplined enough to learn and heavily practice the P7's unusual manual of arms, yes it' a thoroughbred in class of its own as a carry weapon. For someone who picked one up at a gun show and treated it like it was just another Glock or SIG, and didn't put in the necessary training, that's begging for an accidental discharge at times of high stress and fast movement. But all that's beyond the scope of comments on this particular video.

Oh is the city being located in South Africa the reason why District 9 MNU personnel also seem to use very similar guns? I just looked it up and they are also from Vektor. I did not realize it was a South African thing. I thought they just chose them because they looked cool.

i think that's the best part of youtube, i get to see people just be passionate about things i'm not passionate about and therefore learn about other people. I think that's very neat.

this is the attitude of someone with no genuine interests or identity to them at all, a very grey human

​@@neo-filthyfrank1347 The term you're looking for is NPC

@@DigitalApex Many tiny interests, but none is king. No true goals to speak of, no crowning desires or ambitions. No fulfillment. Very uninspirational.

Sorry you lost him.

@@warwickben YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED

District 10, yeah buddy! TWU/TMDWU/MNU

"Christopher's revenge: This time is personal"...

@@randomwarehouse4702 Um ok then lol

We want a "Whitney Wolverine" for the millennium😊 We'll put an 03 Colt hammer system on it. Cause nobody alive today will know, it's a copy! Ian says wait a minute...I being an owner of the Colt .32 recognized it right away also. Prone to broken firing pin's? My .32's was broken when I bought it for $50. It still has the one I made for it, from a drill bit!😂

They all have that SEGA console aesthetic about them.

@@jimmyrustler8983 They're a great example of CAD bein' a thing all of a sudden in 90s. (Any great example is any number of graphic design items with text - magazine covers and layouts and print ads - that use like six different typefaces...because change typefaces now simply involve clicking a button with your mouse.)

CR-21, not the "CR1".

@@paleoph6168 Aye. Whoops.

Dean! Hank! Let’s go your fathers in renal failure again. 😅

I want one, you lucky duck!

Sweet man. Looks well built and robust internally.

Where from exactly?

@@rudifokkens4889check your local shops. I've seen quite a few available brand new.

Dysfunctional governments apparently love their guards being equipped with malfunction prone weaponry

Probably unpopular opinion I think it looks like a toy.

@@Simp_Zone You can carry it in plain sight then, and nobody is going to be alarmed. On the other hand, you cannot threaten someone with it.

Ugh. I think the CP-1 looks more like a prop for a Batman movie. Or a Nerf toy gun. But then I think the original Glock is a work of sublime beauty. I've used handguns in genuine combat. Pretty is as pretty does.

It's no accident that S&W's first attempt at a polymer duty weapon, the Smegma -- um 'scuse me, I meant the Sigma -- was a blatant, shameless ripoff of the Glock in almost every way except in reliability. And accuracy. And durability. Even then S&W could see their decades-long stranglehold on the USA police market starting to crumble. I still don't think they've made a truly original polymer-framed ANYTHING that didn't "borrow" heavily from other successful designs. If you can't beat 'em, steal 'em.

Self-driving is definitely going to put this option on the books.

@@andrewsuryali8540 The lawyers have long headed that one off at the pass, my dude...

@@TheCrusher72 Yes, but only for the time being. When the financial benefits of suing the automakers start exceeding what the automakers can pay to defend themselves, the lawyers will make a rapid u-turn and smash into the automakers at dragracer speeds.

@@andrewsuryali8540 that hasn’t really happened in the 150 years that cars have been made, though …

Hey Ian

This gun kind looks like VP70

Ian, can you make a video of South Africa's ADP MKII pistol?

My mag housed 14 instead of 13 😅. Awesome firearm but extremely fussy with regards to ammunition even fmj, youd have failure to feed, cycling issues where the slide would jam and needed a solid smack with the web of your hand to rack the slide. Reloads were a total NO GO in them, PMP and black talon ammunition worked without a glitch, unfortunately I had to donate my CP1 to van A.A shopper. My younger brother managed to purchase a brand new CP1 10 years ago, which has now been given 'safe queen' status till my son decides that he wants to take it as his first firearm in keeping with tradition.

As cool as the idea of supporting service members and first responders I don't think a centralized ID system should be able to br willy nilly accessed by entities. It sounds like a big data breach waiting to happen which is almost a precedent

Sheeesh. Lol. Astra is decent manufacturer. Heavy as heck.

The multiplication of the sidearms miracle - circa 2023

Yes, I owned one too and always thought the rifling was odd.

It's interesting how the design world moved from angular plastic in the 1980s to flowing, curvy plastic in the 1990s. I often wonder if there was some advance in moulding technology or computer design in the late 1980s that made it practical. But the same thing happened with cars - the Sierra and Taurus etc. I remember there was a Raleigh BMX bike in the mid-eighties called the Vektar that had a plastic shell, but it was angular in a typical 80s style.

Vektor is the Afrikaans spelling of Vector, nothing fancy there.

Any more 90s and it would be called the "Vektor X-TREEM"

I’m just imagining the designers back then snorting coke and listening to Def Leppard while making this.

Yes exactly.

Well it is kind of a silly thing to get upset about when you consider that the USA issued MILLIONS of M1 Garands and M14s with a safety that worked exactly the same way, and it neither ever developed a reputation as prone to accidental discharge. It is as you've said an extremely sensible and practical way to make a safety.

Approved book at the island? Never heard of that

As noted in an earlier comment the spelling of Vektor is just the Afrikaans way of spelling it and not an advertising gimmick.

That is whet I thought as well.

Well, he already did a railgun. Edit: sorry, coilgun!

Further discussion: Is the T-800 a Fudd for wielding a Winchester 1887 and a 1911 in Judgement Day?

SA turned out sci-fi but without the sci.

It does have a sci-fi look to it, but what is dystopian about it?

​@@actionjksn Because its from SA?

Ever see a Whitney Wolverine? Most futuristic looking pistol ever. I want one bad

@@rdrrr I know. The chrome plated version is the baddest looking pistol ever produced. Apparently someone reintroduced a version with a polymer frame in 2017…. just not the same

I think the 92 series (1976) had been the first CAD designed gun at Beretta.

@@neutronalchemist3241 Would not surprise me one bit. Today, everything is designed on computers, and then handed off to the CAM systems. Which is good and bad, IMHO. I think that machines are great for dealing with the minutia, but for real innovation, you need a human in the loop. I mean, computers are the very definition of "thinking inside of the box." And that is good, if you want repeatable calculations, but bad for innovation.