Yugoslav M52 Sniper: East Meets West 

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@@tvojamama7807 daj sta das!

MA DA JEBOTE!!!

Lol the moist mauser insted of the moist nugget

@@525halo Do not lewd the Mauser, pls

@@Vincent-S The world already lewded the mauser, 10 at a time, covered it in jelly, and spread it's bastard spawn all over the world. garbage rod that smells like piss and sauerkraut. A barely competent design only known because of how cheaply effective it is at breaking only 10% of the time instead of 20%. Have a cookie.

As Serbian-I approve.

Wauser, it's pronounced Wauser.

aahahahhahah

*runs to try it* I hope it comes with a few boxes of 8mm

@roland oops, i forgot to mention results are not always the same, as an example, when i did this experiment i woke up dressed in a full yugoslav marshall uniform with an m70 zatasva on my hand... Weird stuff!

@@rodrigogascagomez5190 i hope so aswell comrade

*TITO INTENSIFIES*

Ne znam Engleski

Vladimir Ralić dobro ste rekli.

I support this motion.

YES

at that time 4 place by the number of armed forces in Europe

@@vasamaric1243 yes, when looked just at standing army. That's why i write the way i do.

To be fair, he is on to something. Yugoslavia was more serious about keeping its own arsenal of arms than most countries during the Cold War. NATO half-arsed standardization while the Soviet Union just told people to use its guns or else (Czechs were just about the only outlier). Yugos actually ran the line between by arming themselves while not just towing the Soviet line. They liked German ammo, but respected Soviet guns, so we get the whole panoply.

There were WAY more active soldiers than 200,000 if i remember correctly.

@@genericpersonx333 not really, Czechoslovakia still had alot of manufacturing capability after the war becouse it didnt suffer as much devastasion as for say poland at the time and even before that they had a superior arms industry than their eastern neighbours, thats why they could afford to make their own guns the way they liked it, Meanwhile Poland, Romania, Bulgaria thought it more worwhile to just licence produce russian stuff. As they were in the warsaw pact it was a necessity to use the same caliber as the USSR but other than that they could have easily made something of their own if they really wanted to. And afterall even the licence produced stuff mainly had it's differences to the original.

@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge the fact that he didnt go full Đ with all the J in ljubljana makes it respect worthy

The pronunciation was close enough. It's a city even if just barely.

I just call it Laibach. Greets from Austria :)

Well, that was pointles;)

it is not a city, by USA standards.

It's worth noting that USSR was very close to invading Yugoslavia in late forties just like they later did Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavia was never a member of the Warsaw pact and did not have any Russian bases or soldiers stationed in it, despite the fact that the Russian Army took part in the last stages of the WW2 in Yugoslavia. BTW, Yugoslav SKS (M59/66) has a NATO-style grenade launcher built in: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_mm_grenade

@@SikterEfendi yeah russian aggression towards yugoslavia was kind of the impetus for their armament policy - it was a big political issue up until the two entities started to dissolve in the 90s. happened to albania too, which is why hoxha put a billion bunkers all over the place

@@bugeatingfreak It was much more complex than that. Stalin didn't tolerate any independence and sent many assassins after Tito over the years. It all changed pretty quickly and fairly dramatically after Stalin died. Albania was a very different case, more similar to North Korea than to Yugoslavia.

Indeed, Yugoslav military hardware is rather fascinating to look at because it's generally a similar blend of western, eastern, and occasionally local ideas, so you ended up with things like this Mauser with a Mosin scope and its successor the 8mm AK. I suppose that's both the blessing and the curse of being the neutral power of the cold war, you absolutely have to do your own thing.

@@asteroidrules Both world wars in those parts were fought with German firearms on all sides. Serbia entered the first war armed Mauser rifles, just slightly different then the ones Germans had (Austro-Hungarian arms were not bought by Serbs before the war for various reasons, technical, economic and political, and little was kept after the war). Second war was almost the same, except that the weapons partisans fought with were almost all captured German arms. After the war Yugoslavia continued with whatever was already at hand (I was issued an impeccably refurbished WWII MG42 in 1980), but soon started licensed production of SKS, AK47, Tokarev pistols, etc. As you noted, almost all of the original designs were more or less tweaked, from increasing the Tokarev magazine capacity to adding a NATO style grenade launcher to the SKS, to a better engine and aiming system for T72 tanks. Tito was pretty good at playing both sides and that's visible in Yugoslav armament. Although they were never given the latest and greatest designs from either side, Yugoslavs had a long tradition of gunsmithing and were capable of improving original designs and producing them with higher quality. Zastava Arms factory continued the tradition. www.zastava-arms.rs/

Than y talk about serbian, they're in fact serbian but beeing falsely called yugoslav

@@ankrapek12 doesn't matter who used it, what matters is who made it.

@@ankrapek12 is it also ukrainian now, African and Middle Eastern? They've been using it extensively as well

Yep

Pfft! Who gets a Mauser at 3 in the morning?

Jesse Eats Krabby Patty.

Lovely city it is too. Went three times in the eighties before everything broke up. Nicer ice cream than Italian!

ZRAK ("lightbeam") optics factory was (and still is) in Sarajevo, IRRC. I'm not discounting the possibility that there was a ZRAK subsidiary in Ljubljana.

@@SikterEfendi maybe there was zrak in ljubljana but it was air not lightbeam :^)

@@daidabus Yes, it depends on which dialect you are using. It would be "air" in Slovenia or Croatia, but it's a tossup in Bosnia because they were using both. However, I would bet that it did mean "lightbeam" because it's an optics factory.

First batch of scopes was made in Ljubljana, the production then moved to ZRAK in Sarajevo.

@@vaultql4643 What manufacturer?

O course nothing beats a Yugo rifle, especial when it's German design. ;)

@@vaultql4643 and still costs like an average lunch...

Except 13 yugo rifles. Mine all make me happy.

Sniper rifles are not used as indirect fire. The 2000 meter sight is meant for indirect fire. As in harassing enemy regiments.

@@RealCadde The actual use of indirect action rifle fire was history by 1918. For some reason the German army persisted in specifying 2000m sights on 98k rifles even into WWII. Even more bizarrely the post WWII copies made in other countries, not just Yugoslavia, e.g. Czecheslovakia, carried on with the same range markings. I guess every country wanted to pretend their soldiers were excellent shots and needed such sights even if the rifles had no hope of hitting anything, a little like having unrealistic speeds on a car speedometer.

@@Matt_The_Hugenot I'm not so sure about that. Some countries might have abolished the idea of indirect fire but that doesn't necessarily mean you stop including that ability on rifles. It doesn't cost them that much more to make the sights that way and it leaves an option for armies.

@@RealCadde As we see in most countries' wartime production there are considerable savings to be made in switching to a simple two or three position rear sight that provides all the practical functionality soldiers can handle without an optic. For indirect fire rifles are an order of magnitude worse than than machine guns and even those had been superseded in that role by other infantry support weapons, typically mortars, and by utilising combined arms tactics.

The madlad smoked Cuban cigars right in front of Nixon!

@@darthpanzer I never understood what's wrong with the USA and the cuban cigars, I heard it's prohibited there smoke them.

@@Thrashgu The US embargoed Cuba due to the Cuban missile crisis, that means anything produced there is banned in the US of A. Tito just loved his cigars, even smoked in front of Kennedy, who imposed the embargo. It's often a good idea not to insult those who invited you on a diplomatic mission, but Tito gave no shits.

@@Thrashgu I'm not certain on the brand I think it was Cohiba but my brain almost fried when I looked at the Cigar boxes Hickock 45 used to use for his ammunition. I looked it up and there was also a non Cuban version of the brand.

@@darthpanzer Kennedy also imported a large number of Cuban cigars prior to imposing the ban himself!

The CZ99 came fairly late, in '89 just a few years before the civil war. Fun fact: Becouse of that it was suppossed to be called the cz89 but what seems to have been a typo at its premiere or whatever in an US gun show made it end up as cz99, a pretty dumb series of events.

Yeah, it's out of print and hard to find.

No M48's had Wehrmacht markings or used WWII military parts...as intermediate length acton M48 production started in 1952. There were however, full-length K98's captured and re-arsenaled alongside or just prior to M48 production.....you might be thinking of these, all done at the same Yugoslav factory.

Well obviously

Oh so the correct pronunciation is Yugoslav? Huh, learnt something new. Thanks, bratuha.

@@ArcturusOTE That's what I was taught by my English teachers, both in Yugoslavia and Great Britain. "Yugo" means "Southern" and "Slavia" would be best translated as "the land of the Slavs", so yugo-slav makes sense as southern-slav instead of southern-slavian, just like there are Slavs, but no Slavians.

@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge I hope a linguist will pitch in because I'm not one, but I was taught English in the 70s. No one was saying "Yugoslavian" back then, and if they were they would be quickly corrected.

@@SikterEfendi It would depend on usage. The -ian suffix would be an adjectival modification to the base, so Yugoslavian would be correct adjectival construction for "Yugoslav", meaning "a Yugoslav attribute of the base noun". So, I'd say that this Yugoslav manufactured rifle is indeed Yugoslavian, as relates to the features that are particular in nature to Yugoslavia.

@@Celebmacil Interesting, I see your point. Yet, all my English teachers (all of whom were university educated in linguistics) insisted on Yugoslav. Yugoslavian was never used and I only started seeing it on the Internet relatively recently.

Yes, I expect it is.

Projectile was called "tromblon" whit two kinds of charge,anti personnel and anti material. Propelled by no bullet round.

Probably just soldered with lead, to stop being lost/stolen.

Mozda, uskoro dolaze u ameriku pa ce snimiti vrv

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my m48A is built on 1943,i dont know the exact bullet grain for it and please tell me the name of the scope which is good for this rifle,many thanks, awaiting for your reply

You have a reworked k98k, if the lowest sight setting is a 2 then it will be ~1in high at 100 meters. If it is a 1 it is probably just that lot doesn't impact where military heavy ball does. Also 8mm Mauser and 7.92x57mm, 8x57mm are all the same.... Until you get into the I , JS/IS, and JRS then it gets complicated.