Obviously, it didn't amount to much but this is why it's generally a good idea to give some parameters of what exactly you're looking for, rather than letting people knock themselves out with the taxpayers' money.

@m2hmghb

9 ай бұрын

It's also how we can have so much more advanced gear then other nations.

@codyraugh6599

9 ай бұрын

​@@m2hmghbthere's still the issue that besides the weapon system in the next video aka the accidental war crime stick, we don't use any of these. You need to implement the improvements otherwise it's a waste of time and resources. Like I hope they recreate a non-warcrime version of the war crime stick because that was awesome.

@m2hmghb

9 ай бұрын

Some of the tech has been iterated on. The polymer case ammunition has been in development since then. Not every project has something that pays off - but you don't know until you do it. It's just like sometimes you design a building then you build it only to find there's a flaw and it has to come down. I don't like open development contracts - but sometimes that's how you get the cool gear.@@codyraugh6599

@ardantop132na6

9 ай бұрын

​@@codyraugh6599aka make the XM-25 use 40mm.

@69nites

9 ай бұрын

​@@codyraugh6599"accidental"

I was shocked at how universal the weed-whacker saw-blade thing is. I've done it, and it seems like almost every other guy who watches these videos has done it too. I asked my dad and my cousin after seeing the original video for the first time, and they'd both tried it too. I guess it's just one of those things that just about every guy does, like that whole "thinking about the Roman Empire" thing that's trending right now.

@m2hmghb

9 ай бұрын

I bought one that is made to be used on a brush cutter. I didn't feel like trying to figure out what adapter to use and for 10 bucks for 2 it was worth it.

@l.d-b3465

9 ай бұрын

I haven't, but that's more because I've never really owned a weed-whacker.

@raymurray3401

9 ай бұрын

I haven’t either tho it could probably just be because I haven’t been in a situation where my weed-whacker needed more cutting power.

@Plastikdoom

9 ай бұрын

Oh you can I fact do it, just need washers, especially if you mock it up and stitch them down with a welder…so everything lines up…but don’t do that, it is hideously effective, also very terrifying to use. Especially when the blade catches and “kickbacks” like a chainsaw, but now you are grim reapering to the side. With a literal death/dismemberment scythe and your on the wrong end of lever, so you really can’t stop it, not effectively anyways.

"No! Don't pause there! He has end credits scenes, you fool!" - Me to my computer screen of Past Man Reacts

3 days ago he put out the sequel to this video and its just as wild.

@GhostBear3067

9 ай бұрын

Gun makers: "Oops did I accidentally a war crime?"

@Sanktstefan

9 ай бұрын

The closest thing we ever came to having real-life bolters

@ardantop132na6

9 ай бұрын

​@@SanktstefanBolters with under-barreled lasgun.

@raikbarczynski6582

9 ай бұрын

Exactly

@gravewalker7411

9 ай бұрын

Yes! Old man please watch part 2 !

5:53 Since they don't explode and aren't self-guided I'd say it's closer to the Spiker than the Needler.

0:55- so they were trying to make a ship like an Omnimech from Battletech. Even in that franchise those are stated to be very expensive and logistically complicated.

@Kalebfenoir

Ай бұрын

Expensive, yes. Logistically complicated in Battletech? Clanner Omnipod tech was supposed to be so easy to swap that a single engie with a lift crane was supposed to be able to change a mech's loadout in a few hours. It was basically all plugnplay universal connectors and tactical rails. Lol.

@GhostBear3067

Ай бұрын

@@Kalebfenoir the logistical issues stem from transporting/storing the pods.

Well the Zumwalts are still pretty impressive for the time. But a bunch of things that the design was originally supposed to do was cut for budget restrictions and so it became a stealth destroyer that was supposed to field a rail gun which never happened and because they only made two of the ships, everything about them became more expensive. The ammo for the guns and also maintenance costs.

@alexisrivera200xable

9 ай бұрын

Let's not forget that the costs overruns kept going even with the cuts so it was fair for the government to pull the plug on the less feasible stuff.

@nachtderuntoten3682

9 ай бұрын

@@alexisrivera200xable True, the project probably could have been done but it would have costed way to much R&D money and then the money to make 12 other ships so it was probably a good thing that the project got limited.

@anzaca1

9 ай бұрын

Ultimately, the Zumwalts were at least a valuable learning experience. Warships will eventually be like them, just not yet.

@nachtderuntoten3682

9 ай бұрын

@@anzaca1 They are certainly the future it’s just that it is still to early for them to be used.

The best part is my grandfather has a weed wacker with a 10 inch circular saw blade on it. My dad and i used it to cut are ditch multiple times

His next one is even better

11:19 Not quite. The 3 bullets have all left the barrel before the gun moves. As a result, the G11 was actually very accurate.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

9 ай бұрын

I think OldMan's point is that now if the shooter's aim sucks, he wastes 3 bullets on every miss instead of getting to try again for each one... or something like that.

@Ariquetz

9 ай бұрын

@@RipOffProductionsLLCExactly this. The gun would be TOO accurate. It’s the same reason why it’s better for things like the Saw or any other MG to still shoot relatively accurately, while still having a bit of variation for where the bullet goes. For starters you might suppress the target which is always nice. But if your first shot misses, then the second to however many you fire might actually hit the target. It’s a waste for the final two bullets if the first misses and they all hit the same spot. Now that’s not to say accuracy is bad. It just has to be applied in the right situation in order for it to be effective. The inverse of this problem actually happened with the M16 and was a big reason why it became a 3 round burst for example.

@anzaca1

9 ай бұрын

@@RipOffProductionsLLC True, but the same would happen with ANY gun firing a 3-round burst.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

9 ай бұрын

@anzaca1 technically not, the G11's whole complex system involving its recoil is to try to keep all 3 bullets hitting the sane spot, while other burst fire rifles have extreme spread due to the recoil of each shot effecting the gun and the shooter. Some would argue that in battlefield conditions, such spread is a feature, not a bug.

@anzaca1

6 ай бұрын

@@RipOffProductionsLLC No, the spread absolutely does not help. Unless the target is very close, a spread just means less rounds hitting the target. The idea behind the G11 is that for every correctly-aimed shot, you now have 3 rounds on target instead of just 1.

Remember, NEVER give the Germans a goal and an unlimited budget or no budget constraints, they WILL overengineer everything.

You go from laughing to shock so fast 🤣

This is what happens when you build a gun to "Hunt aliens with" things always gets out of hand.

And now you know why the German government has 300 page requirement documents for everything they green light for development. Because if you don't HK brings you a G11 or the SMG2(look that one up if you want to have a laugh at stereotypical german overengineering). Not that their procurement process isn't complete dogshit in other aspects.

y'see, the Zumwalt's were actually a great idea, a dedicated land attack vessel to replace the recently retired Iowa-class BB's, and the AGS *would* have been a more cost effective option for shore bombardment, compared to launching multimillion dollar cruise missiles. The problems started when the Navy cancelled all but three of the ships. When that happened, the company manufacturing the rounds for the AGS had to increase the price-per-unit, in order to cover R&D costs, which in turn caused the Navy to cancel the LRLAP program, and not buy any more of the shells, depriving the Zummies of their primary armament, rendering them useless.

They make blades for weed eaters. I have 2 and they are the best thing ever for clearing out small trees and heavy bushes. They are called Renegade Razors.

The only reason they didn't end up with a new better gun was because John Moses Browning wasn't alive to compete.

Our Country is run by 5 year olds.

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

First, this is news to you? Second, I think you’re giving them too much credit, 5 year olds would be much more competent. Third, I feel for you Americans.

@supersaiyandiclonius3056

9 ай бұрын

@@Azorees-oj5zr I've known it for awhile. I just gotta remind myself when I hear about something dumber.

Just an fyi he had a small snippet of a rant after the point you paused it at

At our local full serve gas station they have a gas and diesel pump, as anyone who's tried knows, the diesel pump nosle does not fit into a gas vehicle, for obvious reasons. Well the new guy at the station still managed to fill my grandpa's brand new truck, and as he started to pull away. The truck just died. Ended up costing that gas station a pretty penny.

I work Grounds-keeping at a College, we special order Circular blades for clearing brush around the creeks on campus, the worst ones are like a standard Saw blades the best ones only have 4 blades and actually DO work.

The saw blade fit on my weedeater after some quick modifications

Pod... you mean like a compartment module. Like taking out the compartment holding some sleeping racks and putting in something like mechanical fire control computer, because might need it during a war games. Sounds like the guy who came up with it played to many video games.

My dad did 10 & 10 in the military, 10 in the Army & 10 in the Navy. Don't remember to much of his army stuff, but his navy career I know he was on a sub, USS Alaska.

9:58 I might not have done that with a vehicle. instead, my dumbass wasn't paying attention and put the wrong fuel in my fucking lawnmower

This was like watching the Borderlands games in game Weapons manufacturing companies manifested into the real world. You had Tediore, Maliwan, DAHL, Atlas, and finally fu¢king JaKobs.

the only reason you would what to make a new gun is if we are close to making lasrifles from Warhammer or plasma rifles like in Star Wars

Im going to go out on a limb and say. Slightly couter to the vid. 16:36 The caseless ammo and polymer case ammo fleshette rounds were good experements in advancing gun tec. Was the results worth the cost to tax payers. No probably not. However was this sort of program woth trolling the Soviets with. "Possibly" the budget is kinda tame by cold war standards anyway. If one of those guns/ ammo types had actually worked out. This would be a different story. However I definitely agree with other commentors. A better defined results and restrictions would definitely have lead to better results. But caseless or polymer ammo is likely to actually be developed now. Cheaper / less heavy rounds would be better in every combat environment. Eventually the patents on the ammo will run out and a caseless round or a improved polymer ammo will actually work out. Though i suspect the polymer ammo will be the hardest to make work. The fleshette rounds, higher muzzel speeds and caseless rounds. All seem to be really interesting ideas that got a big boost of the program. Was this tec boost worth the cost. No However. Darpa and the spend thrifts over in the defense department are the ones that invented the internet, the micro chip, the long haul cargo air plane. At least in the modren era. Conflict and war drive tec development. I am willing to bet that because of attempting to solve the polymer melting / hearting issues. We have gotten a heat resistant polymer that has shown up in other things. Or things like that.

That HK is similar to that old Metal Storm project from 30 years back. Though, I'm sure the ammo is stored differently.

I had to order equipment for my marine motorT unit, $20 wrench, $115, the money we spent for everyday tools you could get from Walmart to Lowe's. Everyone head would eject and then explode

Mechanic to software developer. If it shouldn't do it, make sure it can't do it. Because if it can, someone WILL try. Hopefully not a Marine.

And oh, we could do the modular pod…aka “Omni pod” function of Omni mechs in battletech, of we wanted, and wanted to spend enough…we could do it, but a cruiser would cost as much a cord class cruiser, a destroyer would cost more than our now discontinued cruiser, and carriers would be probably be 30 billion a pop at the low end, we can do it, just not cost effective, at least yet.

So your reaction to the beef jerky alone has me convinced I should buy some ❤😂

By far my favorite politician ever. True badass for all the right reasons. But too rough around the edges as he said. Kids need to learn about him in school. My kids definitely will.

Always abide by the engineering rule known as KISS.

I've only ever worked on a towboat in the river I've restored one of the ones in the fleet so I know a little bit about ship building when I heard you mention the destroyer using interchangeable pods I immediately knew that shit got shut down at the shipyard they told the shipyard the idea they told them they were stupid

Umm actually, I have fit a circular saw blade to my weed eater. Being a licensed mechanic did help in the process though.

Thanks not only not shouting out his channel but also his sponsors.

Those of us who haven't done that have thought about it, and ultimately decided not to because we realized these companies have been selling us tools for decades, and someone else already tried it. We're pretty awesome, but we know we aren't _that_ smart because if we were, we'd be engineers.

I actually successfully put a circular saw blade on a old ass push mower. Now I got a mini brush cutter

Part 2, the XM29 is honestly a MUST SEE. As well as operation praying mantis

@JaxMerrick

9 ай бұрын

He already reacted to Operation Praying Mantis.

@-TakingSomeLs

9 ай бұрын

@@JaxMerrick wow, i even watched it before. i need to go to bed

5:39 did he say Heckler and Cocaine

Don't worry, it gets worse.

And oh, just putting a scope on something, doesn’t make it more accurate, not mechanically, what it allows, the user to be more precise, in a repeatable way. And oh yeah flechettes and duplex rounds aren’t new, the oldest tests I know of, we (US) dod them alm the way back in WWII and just after, the first time we tried to reinvent modern firearms, we got 7.62 Nato and the M16 out of that. Then shortly after the AR-10, we got 5.56mm.

This reminds me of the story of how the US spent millions of dollars trying to figure out how to get a ballpoint pen to write in outer space in the 50’s. The Russians on the other hand used a pencil.

Most of his linger videos, including this one) have another bit after the credits

Hooray for the small government guy.

You rock boss

Was he trying to remember barrel rifling?

Mateba Unica

You wanna talk about it boss?

Yes more F.E.

No bolter ripoff, now sad

Some men...Electrician atleast had a funny question to pose. That just ...lol. I love when people show their lack of ability to make jokes by just relying on tried and tired stereotypes. Do better, dude.

Our taxpayer dollars wasted…just as their wasted in Ukraine and other overseas adventures.