Why did the Nazis weaponize flare guns: The Sturmpistole with firearms expert Jonathan Ferguson.

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The Nazis made a number of confounding decisions in small arms development and procurement during the Second World War, re-directing vital war resources into ill-fated projects. The Sturmpistole is one such example, where an existing flare gun, the Kampfpistole was tweaked to be able to shoot an anti-armour projectile. Why they needed to do this alongside there already effective array of anti-tank weapons leaves Jonathan scratching his head.
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@DirePanda День назад

Sturmpistole at 90 degrees = most epic game of lawn darts dare ever.

@patrickrose1221 День назад

" It's no use running around with your hands on your head" 😆😅👍

@peepsbates День назад

Nah that'd be the Panzerwurfmine. Look it up. Me and my buddies used to call it playing 'Explosive Lawn Darts' when we played Heroes and Generals where it was an AT weapon in that game.

@patrickrose1221 День назад

@@peepsbates sounds mint 😆😅👍

@andreyradchenko8200 20 часов назад

@@peepsbates Mine was renamed to an expression that roughly translates into English as 'Metal Box Burial'. H3 magnetic mine was 'Turret Launcher Mk3'. So many fond memories.

@epikmanthe3rd 16 часов назад

THEY WERE WEARING PARAMILITARY CLOTHING

@CobraDBlade 23 часа назад

I don't know who decided to edit in the memes/ outlandish visuals into these videos, but I want them and the person doing the editing to know that I really appreciate the effort.

@ptonpc 9 часов назад

Same here.

@ulissedazante5748 4 часа назад

I second that.

@mats7492 День назад

Fun fact: „Züge“ in German can either mean „rifling“ or „trains“ depending on context 😂

@tommeakin1732 День назад

As far as I can see, it's from the same root as English "tug". It does seem like the word has been a little too stretched in how many things it can mean, but hey, unlike us, they like to speak their mother tongue. Fair enough. I think it'd be nice if we were allowed to speak more English rather than having unspoken social rules that ranks English as lower class dumb-speech, and anything Greek-Romance as le intelligent et sophistique

@mats7492 День назад

@@tommeakin1732 In german its indeed "Zug" which means "tug" ..

@willob763 День назад

@@mats7492 I was also gonna say "train" is "Zug".😅

@DaDudeb День назад

Ich mag Züge.

@denisrauch День назад

Züge or Zug can also mean "moves" or "the move" like in chess

@parrotraiser6541 День назад

Putting a flare into a rifled pistol would surely be less regrettable than the converse.

@Getpojke День назад

Knowing British squaddies its probably just as well we didn't have these. The amount of broken or dislocated arms after persuading new recruits that they're "...not a proper soldier..." until they can fire one, one handed & sans stock would've filled whole wings of hospitals.

@hibob841 День назад

Reminiscent of the Japanese Type 89 light mortar of WW2. Nicknamed the "knee mortar" by U.S. troops, it was decidedly NOT designed to be used that way. There are accounts (possibly apocryphal) of broken femurs, but at the very least it would have left you with a nasty bruise and difficulty walking for a few days. Whoops.

@evillabrador1 8 часов назад

Wasn’t a baton gun a converted flare pistol

@copee2960 4 часа назад

@@hibob841Everytine I hear broken femur...I think Brian Reagan...

@VekhGaming День назад

"Not using it without the stock". I'm kinda surprised I never saw some Rambo or BJ Blazkowicz-type person dual wield them stockless in any piece of media I can remember.

@pegoossens День назад

in the later versions of the wolfenstein games you actually have a version of the kampfpistole. Even though they turned it into a revolver

@billysasterd5707 14 часов назад

Thats my biggest problem with Wolfenstein, they can never get the guns right. Its so inaccurate it ruins it for me.

@jimfortnite7810 12 часов назад

@@billysasterd5707that's the point, they're fictional retro-future-looking versions of real guns. They are deliberately trying not to get them right. You can't tell me the gatling mg-42 doesn't rock.

@pegoossens 3 часа назад

@@billysasterd5707 the later games (new order and after) are based in a fantasy setting going from the 1960 s to the eighties. So the designers inspired themselves mixing classig WW2 with more modern elements (like HK rifles) if you take the kampfpistole for example. It is a different gun in the game but the lines are clearly ins pired by the weapon in this video

@tacticalmanatee День назад

some of the newer versions of the medium-velocity 40mm grenades can penetrate 85mm of armor according to Rheinmetall: "The HEDP round, even with its large shaped charge capable of penetrating 85mm of RHA, still emits more than 1000 fragments when functioned." That's quite capable of taking out most light armor out there, and even capable of taking out heavy stuff from the sides or rear.

@zoiders 4 часа назад

Different grenade. The 40mm round used in a 203 or Hk type launcher uses the high/low pressure system. The grenades you describe are the 40x53mm rounds intended for the Hk GMG or the US made Mk19. They are higher velocity and they are not compatible with hand held launchers.

@tacticalmanatee 2 часа назад

@@zoiders The medium velocity 40x51mm I was referring to is compatible with the M32A1 handheld launcher and a few others. It is separate from the older high-velocity 40x53mm that is limited to the big belt-fed GMGs. It is currently being developed by Rheinmetall and in testing with the US military, so it's not well known yet. I was citing it as an example of how far handheld compact anti-armor weapons have come, since 85mm is not only more pen than the largest warhead fired by this WW2 launcher, but actually surpasses many early WW2 light and medium tank cannons.

@wackawackacount День назад

0:20 "Forgive my German" sounds like the classy, British version of "Pardon my French" ;-)

@elephaux5671 День назад

Not quite. Pardon my French is used to apologise for swearing, which is ironic as most of our cruse words in English are of Germanic derivation.

@afwalker1921 День назад

But what if I am swearing in Urdu?

@wackawackacount День назад

@@afwalker1921 That's the real question.

@tarmaque День назад

@@elephaux5671 I can swear in Spanish, although other than that I can't really speak it beyond ordering a beer.

@afwalker1921 День назад

@@wackawackacount Isn't it?

@samsonsoturian6013 День назад

Welcome to Germany. They repurposed the flair gun as a grenade launcher, but none of the parts are interchangeable anyway.

@EiKk4__ День назад

Typical Deutsche engineering... :P

@harryfaber День назад

@@EiKk4__ A 'flair gun' is only used in very expensive haut couture French fashion houses....

@EiKk4__ День назад

@@harryfaber Battlefield might have been the only game, where I have seen this bloober of a lightgun.

@rikusschulze6249 22 часа назад

why shouldn't be the parts be interchangeable?

@samsonsoturian6013 21 час назад

@@harryfaber this is pyroland, where flare and flair are the same

@VeraTR909 День назад

Love the occasional joke (also with the editing) makes these videos feel a bit more lighthearted and less stuffy. Great editing in general btw, with the relevant pics and well timed cuts.

@skyd8726 20 часов назад

Coupled with the t-shirt!😂

@SteamGeezerUK День назад

As an aside, that sticker on the side of the gun could be safely removed using WD40 and kitchen paper (or cotton buds etc) without causing any damage to the metal or the finish.

@cyberleaderandy1 День назад

Surgical adhesive remover should remove it as well.

@pommunist 20 часов назад

scraping it off with a thumb nail would work too

@DaveDexterMusic 5 часов назад

I imagine that the professional firearms conservators and experts employed there are very aware how to do such things and there's a good reason for that sticker still being there. for example: if that sticker was there when the pistol was accessioned, it's potentially part of the item's provenance and history and can't simply be removed for aesthetic reasons. ferguson almost always uses surgical gloves when handling the firearms, because skin contains oil that will print onto them and have to be cleaned; using wd40, thus adding MORE oil into the firearm's environment that would have to then be removed, seems like a poor choice in any case museum objects are handled with extreme care and cleaning/removing/restoring them is not as simple as "wd40'll get that right off, no worries"

@darthplagueis13 День назад

Pronunciation advice for Jonathan: The st in the word "Pistole" is exactly the same as in the English word pistol. No need to prounce it Pishtole instead. The Sht pronunciation for st only applies when the word starts with st (z.B. Stahl, Stern, Steuer...).

@Chromatic_Death 21 час назад

Ah, the wise indeed!

@Emily-ou6lq 17 часов назад

OO Sheven begsh to differ

@williamzk9083 10 часов назад

You have to pronounce the "e". as in Porche. No silent e in German

@justanotherarmchairgeneral4240 День назад

Before I watch the video but after reading the description. I'm going to do something I dont ever thing I've done before and defend a seemingly baffling German WWII arms development choice. If my memory serves me correctly this thing was being put into service before development on the Panzerfaust or Panzerschrek was finished. And of course during this time German infantry was having massive problems not being able to deal with the unending tide of T-34's and KV-1's on the eastern front. So to me personally, I can absolutely see adopting this thing as a stopgap AT weapon to equip troops with as an emergency measure before the proper AT weapons are ready to be deployed. Considering it's a modification of a widely available well known and tested system it was likely quick and cheap to do this, and having a poor ranged man-portable AT weapon is better than none at all. I personally would take this over a Panzerknacker anyday. Here's hoping I'm not wrong on any of those points or Johnathan covers the min the vid.

@F1ghteR41 День назад

It's also compact, doesn't produce a backblast which would impede firing it indoors and has a reasonable choice of ammunition.

@harryfaber День назад

I sometimes wonder if it is simpler than that. Years ago, I went on a crazy 'sales' course where the instructor kept going on about 'added value', we see it today in things like wall mounted electric radiators with USB charging ports. The guy making the flare gun hoped to sell millions, sold a few dozen and thought 'what else can we do with this? If he had been English, he would have added a tea making round but a much more sensible German thought 'armour piercing'.

@me.ne.frego. День назад

Having a proto-M79 for dealing against enemy nests, barricades, building walls, trucks, armored cars and light tanks is awesome. The Sturmpistole only lacks an antipersonnel defense shotgun-like round.

@krauterz День назад

Thanks Jonathan and team! much appreciated, one of my favourite channels.

@andydaniels3029 14 часов назад

The cut-scenes to the comedic relief were absolutely brilliant!

@michaelshelton5488 День назад

Looking down the rifled barrel reminded me of the opening of a James Bond movie

@BLADEOFSUN1 День назад

your pronounciation of Doppelgelenk-Baumschraube was pretty spot on.

@yfelwulf День назад

Germany used flare pistols extensively for signalling attacks etc they developed an explosive round which is where Americans got the Idea for the M79 / M203 and other similar devices. As an anti tank round 😮

@tommeakin1732 День назад

Oh come on, I know we love to c*ck for the goose-steppers, but such basic grenade throwers don't need to be built off other basic grenade throwers. It's almost as basic as a gun can get. The idea itself of "lets make a breech loading grenade thrower" follows right after "I wish I could throw this grenade further". The lack of such a weapon in, say, ww1, speaks mostly to the lack of logistical willingness to invest in new things.

@zoiders 4 часа назад

The tree trunk attachment is actually something that makes perfect sense as it allows you to turn a flare pistol into a trip flare. A very common item used for fighting in defence and ambushes.

@MiguelVicoR День назад

That is some old-school Star Wars shit!!

@flyingninja1234 9 часов назад

Something a bounty hunter would use. It aids in those hard to disintegrate disintegrations.

@STRAKAZulu День назад

Love the use of Hot Shots Part Deux footage!

@juusolatva 9 часов назад

Germans did have the Nahverteidigungswaffe for shooting flares and grenades from inside the tank and it was apparently compatible with these flare guns, but Israelis took that whole idea to another level by having an internal breech-loaded 60mm mortar in their Merkava tanks, since somehow a 105mm or a 120mm tank gun, an M2 Browning and 3 FN MAGs just weren't enough.

@VyantQuijt День назад

To whomever wrote the description: "... alongside *their already effective areay..."

@fruckles День назад

The game 'Hotdogs, Horseshoes and Hand grenades' has this and it's my favorite emergency room clearing weapon. Especially when I'm trying to reload. ☕🐝🇺🇸

@patrickbo2045 День назад

You should watch the episodes that Jonathan did on that game, it's just hilarious! xD

@sortaspicey9278 День назад

It occurred to me that the reason the butt pad can articulate is so when you angle the weapon to fire you don't have to lean your whole body back and the contact with your body will be maintained regardless of the angle you point the weapon at!

@me.ne.frego. День назад

It's so evident that feature is for having most optimal shoulder rest at the angles this thing must be fired! Sometimes this guy and Ian from FW can't figure out pretty basic things for their gun-nerd levels.

@eloryosnak4100 22 часа назад

So... I would agree with you guys if the butt pad was in some way spring-loaded and or articulated in both directions. It isn't. Your 'cheek weld' (as it were) can be uncomfortable or bad contact if the padding is separated from the body. At default, the design is a ')' shape. This is pretty common, as it matches the curve of the shoulder. If you wanted it to spring articulate, making it change to an 'I' shape (with top and bottom alternately hooked) would potentially be useful, but even then the recoil will ruin the contact with the spring pressure. The thing is, with no spring pressure and only two real positions, you either can have a ) that matches your shoulder, or a > that... uh... doesn't do a damn thing. *And* if it did would immediately upon recoil unfold into the aforementioned ), smashing into your shoulder. You wouldn't want to use this in the folded configuration.

@plunder1956 23 часа назад

Congratulations on the Storm-Ents sequence.

@barticle День назад

Lapel Kolibri will be the next hot trend in open carry.

@Yuzral День назад

Since nobody else has, I'm going to ask the obvious (and stupid) question: What would happen if you tried to fire the flare round out of the rifled version? Going to guess various flavours of unhealthily close kaboom depending on what bit failed first...

@jonathanbohm6489 День назад

I’m assuming your flare would start spinning around and not go as high due to rifling

@vornamenachname989 23 часа назад

The Flare in the rifled version would be a lot better for your health than doing it the other way around...

@massivepileup 20 часов назад

The rifling seemingly narrows the barrel somewhat so the flare just wouldn't fit.

@noreply-7069 8 часов назад

I would appreciate greatly you showing the camera looking down through the sights. Thanks for the content.

@AllNamesWereAlreadyTaken 22 часа назад

The LotR clipped made my day ;)

@afwalker1921 День назад

I have always thought that flare guns want BIG-A$$ shotshells. But I play computer wargames!

@wsippel 21 час назад

Totally forgot this thing existed, I found it fascinating as a young teenager. I had an old book with a pretty detailed description and technical manual of the Kampfpistole and the available ammo. Might have even been in an old issue of the Reibert I had (from the early 60's I believe), which would suggest that the Bundeswehr still had a few in its arsenal back then. Reiberts contained manuals for pretty much everything the Bundeswehr had, even if it was just collecting dust in storage somewhere and never issued.

@BallisticTech 17 часов назад

How did this not get turned into a star wars gun...

@IggyMaid 23 часа назад

I remember this gun from Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker! That game had a very large variety of weapons

@slingshotjohnny1 15 часов назад

When we looked down that rifled barrel, "dun dudda dun dun dun dun" and Sean Connery, nattily attired, turned and shot us, frame wobbled side to side, our blood drips down and stains the frame red... "Da da da DAYAH da da da..."

@brokeandtired День назад

Would be a good grenade launcher. So no surprise that they added a HE element. Plus there was still a lot of light armour around as well, so a heat charge isn’t as bad an idea as someone might think.

@j.robertsergertson4513 День назад

It might not penetrate the tanks hull ,but it could disable the tracks .

@herocommand День назад

@@j.robertsergertson4513 it absolutely would penetrate a tanks hull 80mm isn't somethign to laugh at that thing goes through the front of early shermansand the side of most medium tanks.

@j.robertsergertson4513 День назад

@@herocommand i said it " Might" not .

@harryfaber День назад

The most produced armoured vehicle was the Universal Carrier....

@me.ne.frego. День назад

Only an ignorant kid would consider the german "assault pistol" ridiculous. Urban combat with one of these and a MP40 in the age of bolt actions and hand grenades is a dream kit to have!

@pauljames1762 День назад

Remember watching an episode of Battles for Europe: Hurtgen forest where a US veteran talks about the Germans using these.

@Craig-u6j День назад

Yes, saw a veteran talk about the hell in the Hurtgen, the Germans would stay low in trenches and fire into the trees as the heads of the allies appeared from as little as 15m, causing a lot of head, neck and shoulder wounds, all of which are obviously serious if not fatal. The yanks absolutely hated the blooptubes, so they must have been effective, at least from prepared defences

@BHuang92 День назад

Having a flare gun that can kill people is optimistic. Having a flare gun that can destroy tanks........

@01Bouwhuis День назад

Shape charge hitting a track....engine deck..

@gervinschwarz575 День назад

Against a bt5, bt7, t26 and armoured cars it shure can be effective at close ranges. Also having a grenade launcher in a street fight is pretty helpful.

@allangibson8494 День назад

Being shot at close range with a fragmentation grenade would be very anti personnel.

@linkmorris8216 День назад

Pocket Panzerfaust.

@Paladin1873 День назад

Priceless!

@Andy_Ross1962 День назад

Ideal compact AT weapon for paratroopers.

@44WarmocK77 7 часов назад

Ah yes, the Kampfpistole ... I was always fascinated with that chapter from my book about german close combat firearms (probably the one you mentioned if it's the one from Jülch and Fleischer). ^^ IIRC both the Wurfkörper 361 with the egg handgrenade and the 358 with the boombastic tin can had the propellant charge built into the base of the adapter, so you only needed to shove the 358 and 361 into the flare pistol's muzzle until the springs at the base of the adapter would kook into the groove for the normal ammo's cartridges and you were already good to go. My personal favorite for the rifled version definitely is the Nachrichtenpatrone Z, which was filled with a few sheets of paper for sending messages (and sometimes even a small pencil for writing a reply!). Ballistic Express Mail for the win. :D

@acomingextinction 15 часов назад

That is a friggin' sweet backdrop.

@ulissedazante5748 4 часа назад

Lot of interesting things lurking from there. And for the video the lighter background helps

@donaldunderhill3020 День назад

Thank you for making your video in a well lighted room

@georgeacethomas4145 12 часов назад

The way Jonathan pulled out that second flare gun like it’s his concealed piece

@harpomarx7777 День назад

Creative and Ingenious German thinking in WWII!

@dzonbrodi514 12 часов назад

Old bookdealer's tip, you can get off paper stickers with lighter fluid and babywipes. This doesn't harm books, so it probably shouldn't affect gun finish either, but a bit more lighter fluid should clean off any oils left by the babywipes. But just lighter fluid and fingernails would probably do it

@Idnekib 4 часа назад

Please... Give even more freedom to your editor... We deserve his nerdiness!!!

@matatron. День назад

Am I the only one who feels that the term 'Waffenamt' is being used incorrectly in most english speaking videos? An 'Amt' is a government agency, so in this case the agency for weapons. The eagle is therefore not called 'Waffenamt'. It is rather the proofmark/logo OF the Waffenamt.

@juusolatva 10 часов назад

rifle grenades reminded me of the Rifleman's Assault Weapon due to how hilarious it looks, i.e. a 140mm metal ball filled with explosives and rocket fuel hanging under the muzzle of your rifle. it's basically a HESH warhead that is powered by a small rocket motor that you launch kind of like a rifle grenade. it does have nozzles to induce spin that stabilizes it in flight, since I doubt just sticking a rocket motor on a ball would work very well and there might have been a HEAT version of it as well. also funny how the Finnish RK 62 was never designed to shoot rifle grenades, but the later model RK 95 TP was given the ability to do that, although rifle grenades were never really used in any capacity and one does wonder why that capability was even added to a weapon made in the 1990s.

@LiveDonkeyDeadLion День назад

How do you catalog a weapon like this that could fit into several different categories? Is there an equivalent to the Dewey decimal system for arms and artillery?

@dd11111 10 часов назад

Thats actually an interesting question. I hope they answer you!

@AMIRAzvar 5 часов назад

I believe this thing is a light grenade launcher.

@juusolatva 11 часов назад

the Soviet RSP 30/ROP 30 flares were not made to be weapons, but nevertheless the flare part itself is a 30mm chunk of metal powered by a rocket motor to the extent that you can seriously injure someone, if you shoot it at them, which you might not at first expect from something that looks like a short and thick roman candle. apparently the used tubes left over after shooting the flare can help you keep the barrel of your rifle clean in the field.

@kevinoliver3083 13 часов назад

The buttstock looks like it was adapted from the Pzb 39 anti-tank rifle. Which would make sense as that gun was obsolete, and out of production when the K42 was developed. So they probably had surplus parts to hand.

@mattinkel7342 День назад

Ents with rocket launchers .. who'd thunk

@Moredread25 21 час назад

I enjoyed the more daring editing of this episode.

@JO19pLuMbUm94HN 9 часов назад

I Love in the drawing of the shaped charge it clarifies previsely: "Balls"

@foolfirefly8695 6 часов назад

This gun immediately reminds me of an anime gun, named "Door Knocker". The anime's name was Pumpkin Scissors. In it the gun was a 13mm anti-tank hand cannon, to be used at point-blank range. Very impractical even in its imagined world.

@michaelscholfield5643 Час назад

It would be a great idea to do a round up video of the extra info gathered by the "If any of you know, please get in touch" suggestions. It would be interesting to find out. Not just people nitpicking or questioning your knowledge but the genuine amendments

@juliusxeno6537 22 часа назад

Editor outdone themselves

@EgaoKage День назад

I would say that, based on my own aversion to being shot with a flair, one could call a flare gun a "firearm", without receiving too much criticism.

@JinKee 18 часов назад

They have the most beautiful milling and stamping.

@xy1468 День назад

Some native speakers please help me out here: why do some English speakers say "pishtole" when trying to pronounce Pistole in German? It's pronounced the same as in English, just with a stressed vowel 'e' at the end?

@simonwhite8474 День назад

I think because we only learn the important words...... Ein Bier bitte Une bière, s'il vous plaît Una birra, per favore I've never been thirsty in Europe (And I'm learning Czech)

@carlwheezerofsouls3273 21 час назад

we tend to just shorten words over time if we're too lazy to pronounce it fully, maybe some day it'll just be "Pisto" or "Pist"

@LWHow2 12 часов назад

Definetely gonna call my next band TANK KILLER FLARE GUN

@elinelai1891 День назад

So this is what the Zorn-KP from MGSV is based on, even KP is probably stands for "kampfpistole:

@Tiglath_Pileser День назад

Nice to see that Jonathan is a fan of the movie Shaun of the dead. As all should rightly be.

@dorkangel1076 5 часов назад

Just spotted that myself. 🙂

@alexander1112000 19 часов назад

“Why did the Nazis weaponize their flare guns?” Look, I have no idea when they started doing that (since I haven’t watched the video yet) but they weaponized damn near everything at some point to stave off the end.

@leppeppel 16 часов назад

With the stock folded at 9:20 it looks (at a quick glance) like some sort of Looney Tunes boxing glove pistol.

@DanGoodShotHD День назад

Butt pad. That part was certainly properly named.

@ashleysmith3106 22 часа назад

Wonderful waffling on by Jonathon as usual to take 20+ minutes to tell us that Germans shot grenades from flare pistols ! Love it; and look forward to the next one !

@sleeplessindefatigable6385 8 часов назад

I dare say that in a modern context for one-hand anti-tank munitions it's probably going to end up being drones. Either some kind of self-guiding drone that can identify your chosen tank and navigate to something like the tracks or the barrel to make it less of a threat, or maybe a simple sticky little dart drone that would attach itself to a tank and call for any nearby loiter munitions. In either case I imagine these would be a sort of "oh crap that's a tank" solution for the infantry in case of emergency, rather than a dedicated way to knock out a tank.

@TallDude73 4 часа назад

First time hearing of this weapon. Very interesting. It couldn't have been widely used, or we would have heard more about it. The panzerfaust was famous because it was widely used.

@andrewwatkinson1548 День назад

Appearing soon in the first person shooter of your choice. That is so cool.

@Paladin1873 День назад

This is a new one on me. Now I'm going to have to start tinkering with my flare pistol.

@kettujabamiesukkeliukko День назад

Didn't even know this was a thing, thank you for this video. Question to Jonathan; are there any weapons in the collection you haven't seen?

@SchwarzeBananen 6 часов назад

I guess that humans are so inventive in quick thinkers on the battle field is, that you have a high incentive by surviving your enemy.

@Quaker521 День назад

Darn it, I seen this on X and got it right but I don't post on X so was waiting for the question on RU-vid. Sadly you didn't post this weeks question on YT. Thanks for the video.

@hohoho13 13 часов назад

Oddly, my learning of the Sturmpistole came from the manga "Golgo 13" - it was featured in at least two volumes.

@bradywomack9751 День назад

The arrival of the panzerfaust probably completely overshadowed this weapon. Also considering the flare gun has its own purpose to launch flares and is mostly a weapon employed by officers and I’d be surprised if this weapon fire antitank rounds at any but the most desperate situations.

@milksheihk 5 часов назад

I've seen colourful anodised aluminium items like thimbles & drinkware that would be from the 1920s.

@nelson0110 День назад

This background is much better, brighter.

@justinneal4661 22 часа назад

Dude casually pulls out another flare gun from under the table like he's my dad or sum shi

@survivaloptions4999 День назад

Who else heard the James Bond music?

@Quadrenaro 19 часов назад

As far as I can tell, it uses the same stock, or atleast the same type as the MG13.

@TheArklyte День назад

Question: given that HEAT grenades for it started to be supplied to troops during initial stages of Barbarossa, does it make it chronologically the first adopted en mass and used in combat infantry HEAT "projector"?

@Emily-ou6lq День назад

People who like their own comment is like people who smell their own farts.

@TheArklyte День назад

@@Emily-ou6lq oh, it gets worse. Sometimes I even copypaste my own comments if they don't reappear to become visible after some time. How dare I, right?🤣

@johndee2990 12 часов назад

If you'd like to Review Fallout 4 Mods there's a few Sturmpistole type Mods for the Flare Gun. 1 is an Explosive Flares and Utility Mod 2 is the Kampfpistole 3 is the Wristbreaker

@thecommenter9678 22 часа назад

=D about time i saw a quality video on the sturmpistole.

@225Perfect 7 часов назад

This would make an excellent gun in a Resident Evil game. Start out as a mostly useless flare gun, but becomes capable as you follow the upgrade path, if you hold on to it long enough.

@WilhelmScreamer День назад

This is the purest expression of the good idea fairy I have seen in some time

@Mario_bland 23 часа назад

I need to know more about Jonathan’s calculator wristwatch. I didn’t know they still made those things!

@skyd8726 20 часов назад

Dive into them. There are lots of repro watches around nowadays!

@prestongarvey7745 День назад

I just got back into Enlisted, and it had me wondering about this thing. It a pain in the proverbial to use, but quite interesting to look at.

@rdjhardy 12 часов назад

Baton guns in NI were modified flare pistols before we got the H&K ones in the 90s.

@peitsasuoniemi1325 8 часов назад

Ok, that's one weird ass launcher.

@pyeitme508 День назад

YES!

@tuckerlindsey7378 Час назад

beautiful looking piece of machinery

@FrankenTiger88 3 часа назад

Brilliant stuff! How about a video on the Italian “Trombocino” launcher please 🙏

@JackWse 15 часов назад

Caleb was able to use just the base model to great effect, ending the lives of literally thousands of cultists... Didn't need no fancy schmancy attachments.. and he could wield them akimbo from time to time.. But I do believe that involved some sort of supernatural elements that go beyond the scope of the simple mechanics..

@JackWse 15 часов назад

Lol also Sam Neill in dead calm . . Won't get much more into it cuz it's kind of a spoiler lol But.. One can say it made, or rather burned a impression into my brain, one of the best kill shots in any movie!

@honzabalak3462 День назад

I've been recently thinking about the StG 44, AK and Vz.58: For some reason there's still a huge number of people spreading misinformation. "AK is totally just an StG copy. The Russians didn't come up with it!" And then there's the other group claiming that "Vz.58 is totally just an AK copy. The Czechs didn't come up with it!" Based on those claims the guns should be absolutely identical when you put them side by side and disassemble them, right? Except they are not. Despite looking quite similar from the outside, their internal mechanisms are completely different. It could potentially be an interesting video topic.

@alantheinquirer7658 День назад

Sorry, but I think it looks pretty funky! Then again, I'm a Steampunk!

@grahampalmer9337 День назад

In the same way that the Royal Marines/Paratroop Regiment(?) used ant-tank MANPADS against fortified positions on THE FALKLANDS(!) I wonder if combatants used, specifically White Phosphorus, signal/smoke rounds in an 'anti-personnel/anti-emplacement role? Yes. I am aware WP is forbidden to be used 'offensively' but can imagine that any signal/smoke flare would be rather 'off putting' for anyone on the wrong end of such use. 😕

@massivepileup 20 часов назад

They had rifle grenades for that. A flare might burn and take down the person it hits, a frag grenade clears the entire room.

@leighrate День назад

It does have a certain logic to it. If you fighting in build up areas, conventional anti-tank weapons have certain disadvantages to them. Back blast being prominent amongst them. Not to mention other considerations like minimum arming distances etc. You also really don't want to be the poor sod who gets to run out with a limpet charge. So something that has sufficient throw to deliver the charge and is manufactured from an existing tool or weapon has a certain merit. A practical charge might not be particularly effective against frontal armour, but roof and side armour a different story.

@alfazagato1455 День назад

Appreciate the Winchester Tavern shirt. Wonder if anyone from that film watches?

@johnklein233 17 часов назад

Great video. It is nice to see an original of this extremely rare weapon. All that typically show up on the market are the tan or yellow reproductions/fakes, and they have high prices too. It is too bad you didn't have examples of the grenades it fired. I have most of them in my collection, but the 326 LP is the coolest.