"We don't like to run the generator, 'cause it's noisy and it smells." Lol!

@lynnwood7205

3 жыл бұрын

The lead acid batteries used in Vietnam on the Gun mount were Bakelite case asphalt top batteries. No where near as powerful or durable as the present iterations for storing electricity. Often the generator would have to be hand started.

@peetsnort

3 жыл бұрын

Of course. Us soldiers need a few comforts

@Skittizh1

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@okid6330

3 жыл бұрын

next to 4x .50Cal` s xD

@soopahjj11

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂the irony is strong with this one 😂😂😂

I want an emotional support Quad 50.

@THEfamouspolka

3 жыл бұрын

My safe space is gunna need one as well! ;)

@adrianmartinez1587

3 жыл бұрын

I need to supplement my medicinal M1 Abrams with a healthy dose of Quad 50

@mordinvan

3 жыл бұрын

@Dave Cockayne I might need a loan, but so long as it has a 6 year term I should be fine.

@openthinker6562

3 жыл бұрын

@@mordinvan Just get the loan, get the quad 50, go back to the loaners with it and “persuade” them to change the loan to a generous donation.

@mordinvan

3 жыл бұрын

@@openthinker6562 I think that could have legal complications, but I will look into it.

My dad drove a halftrack with a quad fifty in the Korean war. He was in the Army and part of a light armored anti aircraft battalion. He said they used them against mass wave assaults. He also went through basic at Fort Ord the same time Clint Eastwood was there. He remembered Eastwood being a life guard or swimming instructor at the pool, he said. My dad passed at 80

@hookeaires6637

3 жыл бұрын

My pop was in Korea also. He wanted to be a pilot but ended up as a radio operator talking to the pilots. He passed 2018 at 89.

@captjim007

3 жыл бұрын

@@hookeaires6637 My dad passes in 2008 at almost 81

@Zulutime44

Жыл бұрын

I went through BCT at Ft Ord in Fall 1961 before ending up in 2-28th Inf (mech) in Germany. All peacetime but lots of war stories passed on by Korean War vets.

@elektronischemusik1903

Жыл бұрын

That is really gnarly. Imagine beeing a 18 year young chinese conscript storming with hundreds of your comrades in a mass wave assault forward and suddenly everyone one around you get's ripped apart from 50 cal hits. War is horrible.

@bartschwartz9233

Жыл бұрын

He was- was a safety job for him

My great uncle was a quad .50 cal gunner in WWII. He shot down three Nazi planes (confirmed). In addition, he told me that one time he was in a column moving through a town in Belgium, and they took fire from a sniper. His sergeant had him turn the quad .50 cal on the building where the sniper fire was coming from. I asked him if he got the sniper; he told me that there wasn’t much left of the building when he was done with it. (I took that as a yes.)

@jeffreydyanzio5709

Жыл бұрын

My grand father was a quad 50 AA gunner in WWII and I remember a similar story as well. Also, he had one confitmed downed plane. He said it was hard to confirm because most of the time multiple half tracks were firing at the same time. Pattons 3rd army, 4th armored division.. PS my grandfather is still alive, 98

@michaeld.uchiha9084

11 ай бұрын

What how can a plane be a NAZI?

@Edfiki86

11 ай бұрын

Your grandpa saved europe from speaking German.

@SoWhat1221

10 ай бұрын

@@Edfiki86 Yes, instead we get to speak Arabic. Thanks a lot, gramps.

@mevenyo

10 ай бұрын

German planes

This was great to hear the quad-50's, again. When I was in Vietnam (1969-1970) we did a lot of convoy travel along Highways 19 and 14. One trip as we approached Mang Yang Pass the convoy came to a halt (never got the full dope but rumor had it there was an ambush set in the zig zags). We started paying attention, especially when our Quad 50 escort gun truck sped past us and pulled in a couple of trucks in front of us. They opened up into the gully and it was like an invisible roto-tiller chewing up the ground. Glad somebody spotted the other team! Two "lurker" F-4's from Phu Cat were near and finished off whoever was out there with WP and napalm. After about 15-20 minutes, we were on our way again. Don't know if they smoked the ambush rear closing squad or the front tripping squad. Thanks for the memories!

@Gunscom

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing Donald.

@jefferymoran286

3 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine who just recently passed was a gunner on the gun truck "BIRTH CONTROL" in Vietnam. Have a couple of pics of him and his his crew on the truck and doing convoy duty. Totally awesome weapons system. REST IN PEACE ALEX.

@ZuluBlackout

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah thanks for sharing! And thank you for your service!

@soopahjj11

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you came home sir. Always like hearing stories from past conflicts from living eyewitnesses as they are firsthand accounts of history that you may not hear anywhere else. Thank you.

@korky7775

3 жыл бұрын

I thank you for your sevice...All you lads were hero's.....

In 1968 after running out of ammo for my M16, I jumped on a two and a half ton truck with a quad 50 in the bed. They were already tired before myself and a few others showed up help load and change barrels. They had a 10 ton dump truck next to the quad 50 with an entire bed load of ammo. An exhausting 12 hours later we had expended all of the ammo available and another 10 ton dump pulled up. The estimates were that over 1.55 millon rounds were fired that night and morning. Most amazing sound I have ever heard and that was 50 years ago. I still get a rush when I hear one or more 50s open up

@Gunscom

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Great story. Thanks for sharing Andrew.

@andrewkeene6429

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gunscom The next morning we had to go out and try to figure out how many dead there were. Nothing but meat and boots.

@donalddodson7365

3 жыл бұрын

Andrew, WELCOME BACK & THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THE CALL.

@laniejuanitawhitehurst1624

3 жыл бұрын

You can still hear. What was that? I didn’t hear you. LOL

@terrym1979

3 жыл бұрын

Yes great story. Love to hear more. Gotta learn for the waves of chinese.🙂

My Dad was an armorer, in an automatic weapons unit, of the 28th Infantry, during Korea. This was his his favorite piece of equipment. Thanks for sharing this.

When I served in the Norwegian air defence, we had these. This was back in 1994. I do believe they are still in service. At each post around the airfield, there was one manual/automatic radar (RS2000), two 40mm cannons and two of these babies. The 40mm cannons was fun tho. They shot 300 rounds a minute. My job was being a tracker operator, sitting on top of the radar spotting incoming planes. Then I had to get the plane in sight before taking a lock on, and then the radar did the rest. The radar then took control of the cannons that was in synch, and all hell could break loose. 😅

A friend of mine served in Korea. He said this weapon would, "suck the life out of a mountain side."

@southernlonghorn4507

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a frightening thing to imagine.

@nigelft

3 жыл бұрын

@Robert Dill One of my many uncles by marriage, was Scots, whom served in a Scottish Regiment in Korea. He never spoke a single word about his experiences, although his his drinking and smoking habits meant he must have seen enough shit that he tried to blot them from memory. As for this ... I don't know which would be worse ... shooting this into a mass charge against your position, and see, at all too close range, the utter carnage being wrought; or be flung against this meatgrinder, at the pain of being shot by your superior officers, in an, essentially, suicidal attack ...

@nigelft

3 жыл бұрын

@The Xenomorphian I had an assignment in High School, for English Literature, where the idea was to write a number of letters to, and from, the Home Front. You could pick any war you liked. Most chose WWII. A few adventurous ones picked Vietnam. But I must have been the only kid to pick WWI. Before I even started, I realised the only way to it justice was to do a lot of background reading. The names of Ypres, Verdun, and the Somme are still etched into my memory, not least Ypres, where almost as many men drowned in the mud, as were killed by enemy action, especially as so many trees were simply reduced to stumps by artillery. And then there was the 1st July 1916. Granted, technology way out paced tactics, and its easy to critique in hindsight ... ... but bloody hell (literally ...) ... no wonder the old adage of 'Lions led by Donkeys' came into being, not just for Senior Enlisted, but equally Officers including Captains, weren't spared. So, yeah ... it doesn't take much, after reading even more since, to imagine a hillside in Korea turning into something out of the Battle of Verdun, with equipment like this around ...

@derfunkhaus

3 жыл бұрын

@@nigelft I think this is one situation in which it is truly better to give than to receive.

@jkoeberlein1

3 жыл бұрын

@@derfunkhaus my friend said after one battle one 50 cal gun pit was so full of spent brass they had to dig the guy out.

Is this suitable for home defense? Asking for a friend

@hadrianbuiltawall9531

3 жыл бұрын

Only if you don't like your neighbours. Anybody within a thousand feet, regardless of walls, vehicles or trees, is going to die. If the intruder started to drive away though, unless he's driving a tank, he's toast.

@oldman4803

3 жыл бұрын

I got a hunch some overzealous DA would try to call this "overkill"

@L0stEngineer

3 жыл бұрын

Before I got one, I had a Kaiju problem.... Not anymore.

@rinoz47

3 жыл бұрын

@@hadrianbuiltawall9531 or you can take it on the street. perhaps of a major metropolitan city?

@hadrianbuiltawall9531

3 жыл бұрын

@@rinoz47 Depends on the city. Maybe somewhere dark with a lot of walmart ninja.

My Dad served in the Korean war on a half track armed w/ a "quad fifty". From the stories he told us when we got older it must have been a devastating weapon, he had nightmares up to the day he died. RIP Pop.

In Vietnam, I was stationed near a ROK outpost where they had a deuce and a half with a quad 50 in the bed under a canvas cover. They would go out at dusk with that truck, alone, to attempt to get ambushed along a roadway. Claymore's mounted along the sides of the trucks bed. The Korean's plan was to get ambushed, set off the claymore's on both sides of the truck and then open up with the quad 50. Those ROC's were terrific soldiers, the best of the war, IMO.

@bloodyspartan300

Жыл бұрын

Initially ROC's were trained by marines and with far less rules and compunction, they came to do it. I concur with you assessment.

"Highly effective against amassed Chinese infantry." Oh well you dont f***ing say? God that's a beastly weapon.

@cuntdracula1

3 жыл бұрын

Coincidentally both are communist.

@pegasus514

3 жыл бұрын

how about blm, antifa, etc? effective those terrorists?

@luisllanito1865

3 жыл бұрын

How about murderous cops and proud boys?

@lukerodgers1980

3 жыл бұрын

@@luisllanito1865 found the libtard.

@eizol568

3 жыл бұрын

Better dead than red 😝

I worked with a guy who ran a quad mount like this on the back of a truck in Viet Nam. It was used for convoy protection. It was effective at deterring and terminating an ambush. It was a terrifying weapon.

@albarry4333

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, used extensively for convoy protection. I witnessed the ambush of a convoy that was between the Rockpile and FB Stud (Vandergriff). The quad 50 was on the bed of a 6x truck, like you said. The convoy stopped and the quad just mowed the vegetation along the side of the road down. The attack broke off immediately. No other fire support was needed. Quads seemed to accompany most convoys that I saw.

@stevemiller7433

3 жыл бұрын

@@albarry4333 You described an event that was similar to one he described.

@donlarsen1374

3 жыл бұрын

I was there in ‘69 - based at Dong Ha - as a SeaBee we surfaced the road from there up to the Rockpile turned left past Firebase Elliot towards Vandergriff - the convoy’s would come barreling past - they only had one speed - go like hell - they had a Duster & a quad .50 front & rear - saw them in action a couple of times - they definitely get your attention- a sight & sound you never forget- was glad to have them around.

@TwentyOneBunSalute

Жыл бұрын

In the event of an ambush, there won't be many bushes around for long

"How pro gun are you?" Me - "this much"

My Father manned a “Quad-50” as a 19 year old Marine. He described it as the deadliest machine on Earth.

"Hey man! The housekeeping money?" "Sorry honey! I was at the range!"

Now that’s a stress reliever. Had a hard day at the office? Just squeeze off 800 rounds.

@Gunscom

3 жыл бұрын

$ $ $

@mrschwifty5564

3 жыл бұрын

LOL If I can make $4,000 per day IDC how stressfull it is.... 50 cal ammo $5.00 per round X 800 rds = $4,000.

@yetimangaming9384

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrschwifty5564 more like $3.75

@yetimangaming9384

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrschwifty5564 just depends on we're your at down we're I'm at there a shop that sells it for $3.75

@stevenmonson5149

3 жыл бұрын

And so goes the paycheck too ,Cha ching$$$$$

“It’s highly effective against ground attack aircraft”. “It’s extremely effective against massed Chinese troops”. Is there anything it’s not “Very effective” against?

@TheBuster0926

3 жыл бұрын

...MBTs?

@bobmartin9918

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBuster0926 Somewhat effective against MBTs, that amount of .50 bmg rounds going down range would annihilate equipment such as the commander's, gunner's and aux gunner's sights.

@tharionthedragon3531

3 жыл бұрын

Anything that the gunner can't see, apparently

@manowa3395

3 жыл бұрын

Leaving survivors

@PregnantWhale3000

3 жыл бұрын

My ex-wife

My Dad was trained on one of these before going to France in 1944-45. I have pictures of his unit doing field exercises with one of these. However, by the time he got to the war, he was put into a infantry unit, the 70th Div., The Trailblazers. Myself, I was on a .50 Cal team in Korea in 1967-68. What a joy to be able to fire a Ma Deuce.

So the woman firing the quad 50 really could be called “Ma Deuce”

@skorochemik

3 жыл бұрын

“Mama Deuce” :-)

@soopahjj11

3 жыл бұрын

Ma double deuce maybe

@grayeaglej

3 жыл бұрын

Twice o.o

@mrsandman914

3 жыл бұрын

🤣. Good one!

@user-td1zo3tv9p

3 жыл бұрын

When she's behind the sight and finger on the trigger, you'd damned sure better call her "Ma'am!" If you know what is good for you that is. LOL

Everybody gangsta until the .50s show up

@guitarman11000

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@sebastianwurtz5294

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah well. ..

@joshlower1

3 жыл бұрын

Pulls out flak 88. Say what?

@julianmehninger5366

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshlower1 the good Flak

@Mickey-ul1bo

3 жыл бұрын

Especially if it comes in quadruple :-)

Yeah, I can imagine that the neighbors will start complaining if you run the generator, so noisy.

In the 50s and early 60s i was a member of the 50th Armored Division of the New Jersey National Guard. I was in the ordnance battalion and small arms repair. Small arms included all weapons up to and including the 50 caliber machine gun. We did our summer field training at Camp Drum in upstate New York. It is now called Fort Drum. We would go out to the ranges and service the weapons, traveling in a large fully equipped shop van. Back then there was lots of WW2 equipment still in use, including the multiple mount quad 50 caliber setups mounted on the back of trucks, mostly Dodges, and some were half tracks. They would line up quite a few of them in a row, and shoot at radio controlled aircraft called R Cats. They were controlled by a man on the ground using a control box, and he could maneuver them any way he chose. The range was near the town of Oswego NY, and they were firing out onto Lake Ontario. If the gunners happened to hit a plane, a parachute would open and carry the plane down to the water where it would be rescued. We replaced lots of burned out barrels on those 50s during those sessions.

"Amassed Chinese Infantry" a target rich environment by any other name......

@johnchandler1687

3 жыл бұрын

My father's oldest brother, C. P., was Gen. Ridgeway's aide in Korea. In one Chinese attack they were coming down a Mt pass about 60 yard wide and over a mile long. Us had quad 50s from WW2 ships mounted on old Sherman tanks with gun turrets removed sitting about 15 ft apart across valley. They fired until gun barrels were glowing red. When battle was over dead Chinese were 5 to 6 feet deep from one end to the other in that valley. The Chinese " death registrations" crew was 2 big bulldozers. They dug big trench shoved dead and wounded into them, covered them up and ran dozens over spots a few times and left. The General said the Chinese were just getting rid of excess population doing this as only every tenth man had a weapon.

@johnlop7763

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnchandler1687 this is just like stalingrad again!

@thomaszhang3101

3 жыл бұрын

Not even in the Korean War, way back during WWII. Americans forced many Germans to surrender by rolling up with the Meat Grinder and shooting into German barracks.

@freebeerfordworkers

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnchandler1687 I knew a British veteran who had a similar experience and career, he said more than half of the Chinese only had flags and trumpets. They would have to wait till they were close to the wire before opening fire, but they relieved the tension by shouting things like F--- off you stupid bastards" and worse soldiers language at the Chinese. He also said they used to literally fight to be Bren gunners because the Chinese knew the guns were on either flank and headed for the men with bolt action rifles in the middle. I knew he wasn't BS'ing because he had a wound in his leg that could only have been caused by a bullet or a bayonet.

@killman369547

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnchandler1687 holy shit........

These always were a game changer when employed. In the Battle of the Bulge, a US half-track with one of these wiped out a company of Germans crossing a open snow covered field. At Dien Bien Phu, before it fell in the final assault, several of these held off the Viet Minth forces near the airfield and command post. In Korea, these protected Task Forth Faith at the Chosin Reservoir until they ran out of ammunition.

@mordinvan

3 жыл бұрын

@Chris Oly What are you going to do to a Tiger with 50 cals? Let it know you're there?

@rpscorp9457

3 жыл бұрын

@Chris Oly to be fair, so did the shermans.

@donculp9563

3 жыл бұрын

@Chris Oly unfair comparison. The Tiger was like Mike Tyson vs the rest of us.

@lynnwood7205

3 жыл бұрын

Task Force Faith's Dusters ammo resupply was not air dropped to the embattled Force. Instead it was staged at a depot miles away down the road. Consequently the Chinese forces were able to close and disable the halftrack quad mounts, there being no covering fire from the 40mm Bofors of the Dusters to keep the Chinese crew served weapons at distance. The then stationary Quads exhausted their ammo in place, not on the road covering the column's movement. Luckily the Marines were under a different command structure. Not only is the destruction of Task Force Faith heartrending so was the destruction of reputation and valor of the men. they kept fighting despite loss of unit cohesion, most of them becoming casualties, most of their officers and nco's killed, the wounded and frostbitten survivors who made it to Marine lines were accused of abandoning their comrades, of bugging out. This smear campaign continued for decades when in fact they fought beyond what anyone could expect of a military force against overwhelming force. They kept reforming and fighting after their units were overwhelmed and destroyed. Credit is slowly being restored but their fight was almost 70 years ago.

@lynnwood7205

3 жыл бұрын

@Chris Oly You know, It is a weapon, a tool to be used, part of a system, not an end all be all

On perimeter security at firebases I was at in Nam these quads were awesome. When they opened up I will never forget that sound.

I worked with a man who had been a small (?) arms instructor in the Army and this was his favorite toy. That is his word for it, not mine.

100 year old weapon that's untouched, STILL IN SERVICE. Now that's heavy metal!

@joshlower1

3 жыл бұрын

Not a 100 years yet

@losronin3875

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshlower1 but damn near!

@Jreb1865

3 жыл бұрын

@@losronin3875 Close enough...Probably be using it for another 100...

@losronin3875

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jreb1865 Cant fix what's not broken right?

@losronin3875

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jreb1865 The only other option is to put more m2s on top of each other!

I was in Turkey in early mid 80's they had a few of these hard wired in around airfields truly AWESOME

3:28 “hey I think I saw a mosquito behind that car” Murcia: “this should do the trick”

This is the coolest thing ever

@steffenrosmus9177

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, a quadruple Mg 42 is. Could you imagine the sound?BŔRRRRRRRRTRTRTTTTRRRRRRTTRTTTRTT

@norcal9168

3 жыл бұрын

@@steffenrosmus9177 no lol m2 or nothing

@steffenrosmus9177

3 жыл бұрын

@@norcal9168 have you ever heard such a quadruple Mg 42?

@norcal9168

3 жыл бұрын

@@steffenrosmus9177 yeah but its not cool compared to 50s

@steffenrosmus9177

3 жыл бұрын

@@norcal9168 ok typical American size matters😉😂

When you absolutely, positively, have to get your point across 🤨

@charlescourtwright2229

3 жыл бұрын

When you positively, absolutely want to make Swiss cheese out of anything that moves with light armor than a tank

That dude is a living legend for preserving history. Thank you Sir.

@olderthanyoucali8512

3 жыл бұрын

Joshua, the Weapon is the Legend, not the man!

“I can’t see the target,Sir!” “Never mind,lad,give ‘em a couple of bursts,anyway!”

Met this guy, and watched this piece of kit run. He is cool as hell to talk to and the quad fifty is a monster !

Blowing your entire paycheck in 30 SECONDS 😆

@siliquaesid703

3 жыл бұрын

Worth it 💥

@michaelvigil5321

3 жыл бұрын

One big ass paycheck

@HeadHunterSix

3 жыл бұрын

Reminded of the Heavy from TF2: It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds!

@coachmen8508

3 жыл бұрын

Well a 50 cal round cheapest I could see online was $2.60 us per round. Can go all the way up to $10 per round depending on what kind of shell how many grains Etc

IF I could give this 4 thumbs up, I would. Talk about "Get Some..."

@tacticalmattfoley

3 жыл бұрын

You definitely don't need to lead them at all with this thing.

Now with this it is easy to imagine what the converted North American B-25 Commerce Destroyer was like in the SW Pacific during WWll with what the 5th Air Force came up with. The famous Pappy Gunn worked with the 5th commander General George Kennedy to install extra .50 cals in the nose of the B-25 so they could come in at wave level against Japanese shipping during their skip bombing runs and basically eliminate all AAA on the ships before the did their skip bombing. The result was the converted B-25s had a total of 10 forward firing .50 caliber machine guns...I’d hate to be on the deck of a ship on the receiving end of that business. Incidentally A-20’s and a few B-26s were converted also.

Now I know what I want for Father’s Day

These things wipe anything that flies. Gaijin: I'm gona pretend I dont know this

The NFA needs to be abolished so everyone can have one of these

@daytonasixty-eight1354

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure as global powers are forcibly shutting down our businesses and demanding we stay at home with a muzzle on our face, repealing the NFA is a top priority.

Our "slick" company did about a 2 week deployment into southern I Corp near Quang Nhai(sp?) in early 67, temporarily taking over an AO that the Marines had had. It was close to the coast and except for one hill, that was about 50-100m tall, it was all rice paddies for 3-5 miles around. The Marines left a quad 50 in place on top of that hill and its field of fire gave us great comfort while we conducted helicopter operations in the area. It was like having a gunship permanently on station.

Very cool and important historical artifact. Thank you for having it around and functional!

"You know why I carry a 50-Caliber "meat chopper"? ... because _they don't make a 51."_

@heavymetalmadness666

3 жыл бұрын

I could be wrong' but I think civilians are limited to .50 caliber(for a rile, but I don't think any regulation on how much is sending it off.My point is say .458 SOCOM vs .458 Lott. .500 AE vs .500 BMG.. Caliber is only one factor of two very important details.

@TROOPERfarcry

3 жыл бұрын

@@heavymetalmadness666 Thank you. I thought I was making a parody-joke regarding the 45-ACP fan-base. However, now I realize that I am not funny in any way, and in all likelihood, the ATF will be at my house to shoot my dog due to my flagrant disregard for their maximum caliber restrictions without entering "Destructive Device" territory. _They'll probably even use a caliber greater than .5 inches to belabor the point._

@heavymetalmadness666

3 жыл бұрын

@@TROOPERfarcry I said what I did because of so much anti-gun propaganda.A huge Biden lie... "an AR-15 what do you need with 100 rounds"... That was to mislead people that know nothing about guns. any gun can hold unlimited rounds if you think outside the box

@jaygoins1157

3 жыл бұрын

Unless you buy Russian

@laserlight2

3 жыл бұрын

@@heavymetalmadness666 You still buy calibers larger than .50 in the US, you might need to get an NFA tax stamp for them.

my father was a gunner on one of those in the Norwegian AIrforce in the later 60's. He said they trained it on a flock of seagulls, instantly turned it in to a flock of feathers. Was one of the last years it was in active use as well, was mainly replaced with the Bofors 40mm by that point.

@Gunscom

3 жыл бұрын

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

@markcantemail8018

3 жыл бұрын

Evilreddog The Bofurs 40 mm is not as effective on a Flock of Seagulls as the Quad .50 . Your Dad knew that and his service to your Country is appreciated . Too many Seagulls Today !

With the increased use of drones/UVA’s I can see the rebirth of this piece of kit, still very impressive in the 21st century

@lukejohnston4666

5 ай бұрын

I can imagine RWS version of it.

The « on the road today » part specifically was probably the most American thing I’ve heard this year 🤣

back in the day we had three qaud mounts on our costal patrol boats along with two Boffers quad mounted fore and aft. Those things were made in Italy and essentially were two huge engine wrapped up in a small hull with as many guns as we could mount. For drug interdiction we could do a decent 70 knots and we could push 80 if we were pissed off but rarely was that needed. Drug runners ten to develop a sudden need to swim when two quad 50s open up on them. old school gut effective. These days we use three Canadian made 762 CWIS . A single squirt tend to get a lot of hands in the air. Edit: forgot to mention its the Jamaica Defense Force Coast Guard.

@Gunscom

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

@perseusrex614

3 жыл бұрын

70 knph... with a gunboat? blazing quad 50s? ashtoneshing. hard to beat a rush like that!

@MrChiangching

3 жыл бұрын

and yet the drug business is bigger than ever and continues to grow.

@jussayinmipeece1069

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrChiangching depends on a lot of factors, interdiction being just one. There are many other avenues that allows the drug business to flourish.

@MrChiangching

3 жыл бұрын

@@jussayinmipeece1069 and i'm saying interdiction has totally failed.

Seen it in action mounted on a patrol boat, the footage was captured and released in a documentary called waterworld

@1timcat

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember the look on the face of the guy running it!

@charliebuckley6572

3 жыл бұрын

Charles... or Chuck.... he really enjoyed that. 😂

@laciihasz4734

3 жыл бұрын

@@charliebuckley6572 I think he was called Chuck 😁

@1timcat

3 жыл бұрын

@@charliebuckley6572 kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yq5-0tRmkqWXo8o.html

@soopahjj11

3 жыл бұрын

😂

I was told a fairly humorous story by a Vietnam vet involving a VC sniper and a quad .50 which I've no reason to doubt. The sniper may have got away because he ran across the open terrain in front of the trees and the mount could not traverse as fast as they guy was running. (he was quite close to their perimeter) - he dropped EVERYTHING while running, and according to my buddy, that was something the VC very rarely did.

"Quad Cannon." "I do not have a patience for this." "Don't push Me." Anyone remember this line?

@bakatzen6243

3 жыл бұрын

CnC generals.

@labohn1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes I do. C&C generals Zero Hour whenever I need AA to cover my base.

@NotWorthTheAirIBreathe

3 жыл бұрын

C&C Generals, my favorite RTS.

@hidhirmdnasir8713

3 жыл бұрын

"Four on the floor"

This is America, “richest country on earth”… Come on, should be one of these in every driveway!

@olafblaskura1951

3 жыл бұрын

Rich but not on intelligence

@231mac

3 жыл бұрын

​@@olafblaskura1951 Your grammar nightmare of a 'sentence' displays such irony, you monumental dunce.

@urdnotwrex6969

3 жыл бұрын

@@231mac His grammar is alright, what´s wrong with it? Btw, you ever consider the fact that he might not be english speaking person? If you are american and you didn´t considered that fact, then it just proves his point tho.

@urdnotwrex6969

3 жыл бұрын

It should be written there aswell ´´we got money, weapons, sci fi army but no health insurance policy and future for your childrens´´.

@rj4590

3 жыл бұрын

@@urdnotwrex6969 Yeah,that's why millions of people want to come here and some literally risk death to try and get to the U.S..

Oh how cute they’re blocking traffic again We’ll see about that.

@germaxicus6670

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@randelldarky3920

3 жыл бұрын

That would shut down an AntiFa rally in 5 seconds.

@jasonpeace8183

3 жыл бұрын

@@randelldarky3920 .05 seconds

@mpk6664

3 жыл бұрын

I bet if someone said this about the republicunts who were blocking the roads earlier this year because they didn't want to wear their mask you'd be crying a river.

3 жыл бұрын

@@mpk6664 no comparison. Fact cannot be misconstrued as fiction. Go watch videos that you can relate to. This is not one of them.there’s no video of republicans blocking traffic because of a mask.Dummy.

I had an old friend that was in the Korean war and he loved these things. He said they had them on the back of trucks along with 40mm guns. Few times they pulled up to a hill with N.K.s or Chinese on it and they would just hammer the hill with the Meat Choppers and 40mm for a time and then just walk up the hill.

My dad was an ordinance ombudsman for the Advance Section of Command Zone attached to US First Army during WWII and he said that German POWs said they absolutely hated the M45 Quad more than any other weapon they faced besides the flamethrower.

Maybe he doesn’t answer to Chuck, call him Charles. Hey Charles!

@g2hellboy

3 жыл бұрын

Fuuuuuck lol I imagined the exact same scene before I saw this comment. One of my all time favorite movies.

@Ranulfdatank

3 жыл бұрын

fkn beat me to it kek

They upped the rate of fire in these and aircraft 50s. "Give them the whole 9 yards" was coined from aircraft 50s as they had 9 yard belts of ammo.

@JDSFLA

3 жыл бұрын

I never knew where that saying originated. Thanks.

@TheJZackT

3 жыл бұрын

According to Forgotten Weapons, that saying came from WW1 machine guns (the Lewis gun IIRC), not in the 50's.

@JDSFLA

3 жыл бұрын

So now I have looked this up in Wiki, which says the origin is unknown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_nine_yards

@applejack4225

3 жыл бұрын

It's an expression used by Spitfire pilots. References the length of a.303 belt to every gun in the Mk1's

@THEfamouspolka

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't go 20

Ow dude!!! I have read about the quad 50 on the comic series "The Nam" back in the end of the 80's and had never found any more info. Thanks a lot, sir!

Just like in the movie Waterwold when The Smokers attack the Atol.

Only thing that would have made the video better would be a shot of the smile on that young ladies face after her time on trigger.

@Gunscom

3 жыл бұрын

😆 😆

@mordinvan

3 жыл бұрын

I'd be grinning so wide the top of my head might fall off.

My dad is a Vietnam vet and saw those often and seen them in different variants all 50's 2 50s 2 1919s 2 50s 2 mini guns 2 50s 2 early grenade guns

@jimmieburleigh9549

3 жыл бұрын

@Bruh Fu Perfect for fire base security Spray and pray with the guns and pop out 40 Mike Mike's as needed all from one platform

@bthorn5035

3 жыл бұрын

@Bruh Fu *Some of the early huey gunships had a 40mm mounted to the nose.

@Zappina

3 жыл бұрын

@Colin Gregson Actually they needed the Soviets to win. Their invasion forced the japanese to surrender not the nukes themselves. It make sense. Most of the japanese cities were bombed to dust by the time the US decided to use the nuke anyway.

I remember my uncle talking about the quad 50. He trained on one of these, manned one in the cold war in Europe in the eary 1950's. They would fire 2 while the other two cooled.

"If you can't see it you can't shoot it" unless they are standing behind a brick wall

@pwnmeisterage

3 жыл бұрын

Meant to shred targets hidden behind soft cover. Bricks, concrete, or sandbags might stop or slow .50 ... but wood, drywall, unarmoured vehicles, jungle, and forest won't.

I arrived in Korea in 1989 for a one year tour across town there was a US air base and the Korean military had old half track quad 50’s emplaced around it. It was interesting to see that even then they still used those.

When your local backhoe hire firm goes out of business and that house just has to come down.....

What I love about this video is that this is the armament loadout of the F4F-3 Wildcat Navy fighter at the beginning of the war in the Pacific. Each plane carried 450 rounds per gun. Its successor, the F4F-4, had six M-2s, but only 250 rounds per gun. Guys that flew the "3" hated the "4" because of the reduced firing time. John Thatch, a pioneer of modern air-to-air tactics, said "If you can't hit a target with four guns, you'll miss him with six..." They valued the time of fire over the amount of fire...............................

@scottw5315

Жыл бұрын

Good old thatch weave...

Awesome, ive heard about these for many years, very nice to see and hear one in action :)

"Meat Chopper" sounds cooler than "Butcher"

What dove hunting would be without game rangers 😂

@pegasus514

3 жыл бұрын

u call that sport?

@mtower235

3 жыл бұрын

@@pegasus514 nope I call it fun

@yourfriendlyneighborhoodso1698

3 жыл бұрын

@@mtower235 haha

@billywill903

3 жыл бұрын

I have been on dove fields that sounded just like that. Not 1 bird dropped from the sky. Hahaha

I was part of quad 50 crew at ft Lewis in 78-79. They were awesome!

ATF doesn’t allow you to have one, because if you had one, there would be no ATF.

There were some rare versions in Korea called the M45/S, which had 4 suppressors on the 50cals. There were about 50 of them. They used mainly it for ambushes.

Got a little bit of a rabbit problem on my property at the moment I think this might be the perfect solution

That’s a heavy wall of lead going down range,,having 3 of these firing at 1 target had to have been murderous with the right gunner operating it ty for the share

At least he didn’t say they’re expensive to shoot, that would’ve been a real dealbreaker

just annihalted my ears at the begginning of this

@Gunscom

3 жыл бұрын

😆 😆

I didnt know I wanted this thing all my life

i don`T even know before that thing exists . one of the coolest machine gun mounting ever.

My Grandfather was the gunner on the trailer mount version. He didn't talk much about being in the war. But...one day, my Uncle and I were sitting with him shooting the breeze and we asked him a couple questions about what it did (We knew he was in air defense). He started telling stores about running these things. How they had the 4 triggers, one for each barrel, or one for each set - left, right, top, bottom...or holding them all down to unload with all 4 barrels. He also mentioned how easy it was the swap the barrels when one would burn out. The rule for his team was to only shoot two at a time, so you could let one set cool off while shooting the other set. Then, my Grandfather put on the most devilish grin I had ever seen and said "I got really good at swapping barrels."

@Alexi7666

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, don't know many vets that talk about combat very much.

Consider that the burst that his wife did toward the end was only the bottom two guns...a hundred rounds each....The thing can sling twice that much lead, for twice as long with the "tombstone" ammo cans.....My only complaint would be to ask for tracers....lotsa tracers!

@mordinvan

3 жыл бұрын

That would look pretty epic.

@rickb1973

3 жыл бұрын

@@mordinvan It truly would....And then you think about that this was a favorite weapon in Korea, for use against Chinese night time "human wave" attacks....Imagine it...Good fricking golly, man!

@lynnwood7205

3 жыл бұрын

@@rickb1973 Also field artillery at close to horizontal elevation possible, gun tubes packed with glass, metal bits, nuts and bolts, small arms shell casings, as per my father's account, bugles and whistles screaming all night. Such was the carnage the adjacent bluffs/ridges had to be blasted into rubble to create aggregate to use to seal the battle site into a mass grave. He never really came to terms with that. Prayers for all.

@goobfilmcast4239

3 жыл бұрын

Tracers are difficult to handle and store and EXPENSIVE !!

The Germans in WWII had a similar, but more powerful self-propelled AA vehicle - the Flakpanzer IV "Wirbelwind" (Whirlwind) which mounted four 20mm cannons.

Back in the early years of this century, when I was active in the gun business, I got a call one day from a guy in PA. He wasn’t buying what I was selling, but just wanted to ask some questions about them. During the conversation, he mentioned he had a quad .50 mount, with guns, fully registered and transferable. He was working in a shipyard in the ‘60’s in Philly, and a decommissioned Naval vessel came in to be scrapped. He found this complete deck mount on board, and bought it for scrap price. When the GCA of ‘68 came along, he registered the guns. I asked him what he thought it was worth. He said to him, it was priceless. I sure wish I had one...and about 50,000 rounds of ammo.

My grandpa was on normandy on a half track and he was the gunner. They were expecting to run into a bunch of air support but it never happened. Instead there were concrete bunkers they figured the naval bombardment would crack but didn't. He said when the leveled the guns at the bunkers it was like a freight train hitting them. There's a plaque at one of them about it I hope to visit some day. What an absolute nightmare of a thing to start shooting your direction.

That’s the big machine gun, that the bad guys were using in the movie Waterworld

If I had the opportunity to shoot this, I would be going all “Waterworld” Smoker Crazy Laugh with this!!

@captainotto

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought when I saw it. Am too young to have seen it in war but I sure did see it in Waterworld.

@anasrahim2061

Жыл бұрын

The cousin operate it,Chuck or Charles is his name.

I got it from a Korean War vet that quad fifties on half-tracks were used later in the war on the main line of resistance at night to hose down Chinese muzzle flashes. Probably with 4and1 tracer ammo. Very effective.

My sister and her husband ( he's a quasi gun enthusiast ) have a ranch in the California Sierra mountains. It has a large year round pond very near their home and it always " infested" with Geese. The ground is always covered in the byproduct Geese are known to leave behind . He will go out on his deck and fire a shot gun up into the air scaring them off to go else where. I bet this Quad would be more fun.

Wow, now that is a turret.

It was so cool seeing one of these in the film Waterworld.

한국에선 90년대에도 현역 대공포였던 M45D.. 군인시절 직접 다룬 무기를 영상으로 보게되어 반갑네요. 이제는 없어졌을 865방공중대를 추억해 봅니다😊

Dang! I want one! That thing is awesome! Thanks for sharing

The sheer firepower of this unit is awe inspiring. The next thing that comes to mind is the chin of the A-10.

@Gunscom

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. This is pretty cool too: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fWd40ph_kdbZYrw.html

@matthiasschmitt2311

10 ай бұрын

No, it is the german "Wirbelwind". ;)

Anyone know the efficacy against squirrels? I got a problem that needs fixing.

nothing more beautiful than hearing four .50 cal machine guns firing at the same time

Everyone should be required to own one of these, to deter govt overreach

when one m2 is not enough . that is a would of hurt.

Was this rig used in the movie "Waterworld"? They had a system like this in one of the battle scenes of that movie and if this is the only one in the U.S.A. it must be it right?

@dittfeld1972

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! ^^

@haldyordan2316

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I watched it😊👍

@jcarne1015

3 жыл бұрын

Not the only one in the USA.

Was in Ada,Vulcan, chaparral unit ,late 70's. Had a ssg squad leader that in Vietnam, ran this on back of 2/1/2 ton. He was deaf. He said it was great for clearing lz,s and whatever else in the way! The deuce would move during firing 🔥. Great nco

Love these old AA peices. Really wish someone would restore an 8 mount pom-pom gun.