What Actually IS a “Recoilless” Rifle? 

6 days ago???

6 days ago... Time travelling wrench

No

I googled my name and found that all information about me and my arrest has been scrubbed from the internet...

Yeah except u failed to say it was US only

Real life gauss warthog

@@wyattr7982 and on a budget! :D

Toyota + Mounted Weapons = Death bringer

x250

(according to the CIA circa 2003)

but the best of all is plot armor, nothing can beat it.

Specifically main character and friends

Thats cuz they’re not shooting actual rounds in movies. They either shoot blanks (which obviously have no recoil because there is nothing leaving the barrel) or they don’t shoot anything at all.

To add on, faked recoil looks really bad, and it’s just better to have none at all.

​@@ImRadarr Blank rounds do have recoil as the gas still has to expand and more importantly because they do shoot a projectile (Albeit a slow, not awrodynamic one), even in some cases people have died from.the projectile.

Vivian... you're a genius.

Make the tractor a gun

Nice try. Still not paying my taxes

Yeah nice try fed

nice try, will never work

Did the designation came before someone tried it or after?

Did you accidentally swap those numbers? As written, that doesn't make sense.

It reminds me of how the UK classified the revised 17 Pounder as firing 77mm to not cause confusion

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It's Somali not Somalian

Africa is a continent. You'd not be using the example of Mexican cartels to say "America is crazy" would you.

@@CountingStars333 the whole continent is roughly the same economically in comparison to the western nations, it's not hard to comprehend why people would say it one way and not the other. stop being pedantic.

​@@CountingStars333Some folk would. More than you think.

@@CountingStars333 I mean.. why not? Mexican cartels and a lot of the South American Cartels and dictators were thanks to the US. And on an ''asckhsually'' note South America and North America as both still America, USA however..

Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve gone around the block once again.

There are countries that can afford to equip their frontline troops with expensive but much more effective weaponry, and then there is everyone else. I mean the M136 does the same job as a heavy tripod mounted Recoilless Rifle but it is man portable and you c an have several in a squad. SMAW if you are a Marine squad. Better yet you can just call upon air support to annihilate whatever you are dealing with of course there are only five or so militaries that can reliably get air superiority in any conflict.

Gustav AA with Proxy Fuze would go hard

This'll be a great vid for him to make

@@dannyzero692 would be awesome

@dannyzero692 YUP

Any halfway competent mechanic should be able to keep a toyota running with some pretty basic tools. An apache needs something like 30-40 man hours of maintenance per hour of flight time. A toyota needs what? Normally a few hours per month and a couple of days per year? Now don't get me wrong. If you can afford apaches, you get apaches. But a fleet of highly mobile reliable technicals definitely isn't the worst possible option. And... You know... The US military does both. I have seen *plenty* of jeeps and humvees with various support weapons mounted on them over the years.

1? sure. 10? I'd probably still take the Apache but price is the right way to compare them.

Pretty sure they don't carry Pratt and Whitney parts at autozone either

@@midship_nc Sooo..... O'Reilly then?

@@ColonelSandersLite probably have better luck on temu, just don't ever fly the aircraft again nbd.

Artillery is a blanket term for large caliber fire outside of visual range. Howitzers and mortars are both artillery pieces

Originally, idea of mortar came up when people were still doing fortress siege and realize instead of throwing explosive at the stone wall, it would be nice to be able to lob shells over it, so they need something that could fire at extreme high angle (45 degree and above) while the range is not a concern. They realize this can be achieve simply by making a shorter barrel howitzer and putting less gun powder in. And when they point it upward to shoot, they realize it looks a lot like... well, a 'mortar' (the tool you pound stuffs in it), and they named it after that to separate it from the long howitzers. With the advance of technology and warfare, people don't really need to lay siege too often anymore but realize it's still pretty neat to have a light arty unit that's highly maneuverable to cover the close combat range (in which normal howitzer would be inefficient, because it's too close), which the mortar fits perfectly. And you have the mortar today. So the idea behind mortar is a lighter, simpler cannon that only need to fire HE at short distances (compare to normal howitzer). Because of that, you don't need a lot of chamber pressure and that reflects in the design: most of them have shorter barrel, simpler breech and loading/firing mechanism, lighter chassis (because less recoil), easier/faster to deploy, need smaller crews to operate

​@@miliket4tomBecause of the exlusively high angles of fire intended for (most) mortars it is relatively simple to have them mounted on a plate on the ground to absorb the recoil. The mechanism obviously doesn't need many moving parts or many heavy components other than the plate and the barrel, which is obviously advantageous even for footmobile use. I don't mean to nitpick but I would like to add that mortars are not technically cannon, which is yet another taxanomic category of artillery guns, separate from howitzers and mortars. Cannon are meant for low angles and usually have high muzzle velocities.

would be good

that is a good idea, ngl...

Davy Crockett

They also built a artillery howitzer that fired nukes

@@HbEthan. and they adapted that warhead into 16 inch shells to be fired by battle ships.

Thanks a lot :)

… have you finished the video.. ?

Probably they had to blame someone for the money spent on a failure

Lol, for a gun design underperforming it does sound weird, but in a way design flaws can get you arrested in more serious cases and depending on each country's laws. In mine there's a legal figure called "mala praxis" ("bad practice" in Latin) by which a registered professional can be taken to trial if a blatant negligence was commited exercising the profession; I'm sure the same term is used in many other countries or at least the same concept has its own legal definition. Imagine Boeing chief engineers, the designers of the Italian bridge that collapsed, Fukujima plant builders failing to make the plant resist a tsunami, etc. They all will be or have been taken to trial due to design flaws. But again these were extreme and fatal design flaws, not a mere "we thought it would be better" like the example in this video.

Sounds to me like one of those USSR myths State Department wants you to believe

That is correct. In reality the guy worked for almost a decade on his cannon, siphoned a ton of government funding thanks to Tukhachevsky taking interest in his project and covering up for him, forced others to develop an entirely new plane for him and in the end achieved nothing, beside destroying many prototypes (his cannon tore the plane apart after just couple of shots) and giving pilots testing them serious concussions. And if you're interested, no, DRC didn't find it's footing in ground and sea forces either due to numerous flaws and steep competition (he also had no one to cover him here and handwave poor test results with "he'll fix it later"). He probably just would've got a jail time (again) if he hadn't been caught up in the Communist Party's internal struggles.

@@kindlingking Ok, I guess being Tukhachevsky's protegee did draw unwanted attention from authorities

Carl Gustaf 84 mm being in business since 1948, your welcome from the Swedes.

the "Vespazooka" was made by the French. Sadly the gun had to be removed from the moped before firing.

@@wertugavw Thanks! I'm sure it was effective LOL

Carl Gustaf 84 mm being in business since 1948, your welcome from the Swedes.

me too

He used this bit for HardThrashers video on heavily armed airships

This one was French - the 150 TAP.

I’m sad I forgot to mention it :(

The 150 TAP was French!

I think "Armbrust" is the German word for "crossbow".

@@seneca983 You are right, it is a German weapon system, designed by Messersmit actually. Although, "Armborst" is the Swedish word for crossbow, so you can see where the confusion comes from.