OSS Flying Dragon: A Silent Poisoned Dart Gun

The OSS experimented with a lot of…unorthodox weapons during World War Two, and one of their overarching goals was a weapon with a 100 yard lethal range but without flash or noise. To this end they experimented with a number of suppressed firearms as well as weird stuff like various crossbow designs, silenced dart gun pistol conversions, and in this case a CO2 powered dart gun. It was code aimed the Flying Dragon, and first mentioned in documents in 1943. In the summer of 1945, 15 were manufactured, and 12 of these remained in OSS stocks at the end of the war.
In July 1945 testing, the Flying Dragon was found the be the second-quietest option (the William Tell crossbow was quieter, at 66 decibels to the Dragon’s 69 decibels). However, the testing board noted that a simple suppressed .22 pistol was pretty much just as good, and quite a lot cheaper (and more reliable, I would expect). The problem with a dart gun like this one is that if it is not reliably lethal, the whole point of its silenced is lost. Anyone shot by that big dart and not killed by it (which would require a pretty significant muzzle velocity) will immediately start making a heck of a lot of noise. OSS investigated options for poison on the darts to give the weapon the necessary lethality, but was unable to find a suitable solution. This led to discussion of using a small hypodermic syringe as a projectile, an even less practical idea - but this was the freewheeling OSS, where such things were not uncommon to consider.
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  • @Aaron_Jensen
    @Aaron_Jensen6 жыл бұрын

    Awesome, we finally get to see the F in ForgottenWeapons.

  • @Finwolven

    @Finwolven

    6 жыл бұрын

    What's the 'orgotten' for, then? :D

  • @Ccrasus

    @Ccrasus

    6 жыл бұрын

    Look at the channel's logo

  • @merbst

    @merbst

    5 жыл бұрын

    F yeah!

  • @TomJacobW

    @TomJacobW

    5 жыл бұрын

    Finwolven wait, that's supposed to read an F? I always thought it's just the logo of the channel called "orgotten Weapons". Silly me.

  • @avanconia

    @avanconia

    4 жыл бұрын

    Woah dude nice eye

  • @demure4398
    @demure43984 жыл бұрын

    Silent mortar: Whispers “splash out” *sentry explodes* *Sneak 100*

  • @halipatsui9418

    @halipatsui9418

    4 жыл бұрын

    No-one sees you if there is no-one to see you.

  • @krell.1415

    @krell.1415

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's silent if no one live to notice

  • @Averageguitarists

    @Averageguitarists

    3 жыл бұрын

    “Must have been the wind” *Laying back and missing legs*

  • @videobruj

    @videobruj

    2 жыл бұрын

    I believe the purpose behind making it silent is that it could be used behind enemy lines by partisan forces without alerting enemy forces to where the shot came from

  • @malusignatius
    @malusignatius6 жыл бұрын

    The 'loading tool' might have been a safety feature to prevent accidentally stabbing yourself with a poison dart.

  • @williamsager805

    @williamsager805

    6 жыл бұрын

    My exact thoughts as well. I can imagine them developing the gun and poking themselves a few times and think(before we ad poison we really need to get a cap to prevent us getting stuck)Plus it might help the darts tip poison last longer.

  • @malusignatius

    @malusignatius

    6 жыл бұрын

    That too. That's the problem with toxins. There are some with incredibly rapid takedowns (Conotoxin for example) but as a rule the best ones are all big-ass proteins that denature if you look at them funny. Not to mention, when I say 'rapid' we're still talking minutes here, not instant takedown.

  • @larsgadell5016

    @larsgadell5016

    6 жыл бұрын

    ReverendTed I'm curious if you might have actually inserted the dart into the breech end of the barrel and then latched the barrel on. The tool would make a lot more sense as a ramrod that way. My thought as well, that however would presume the inventor made sense.

  • @wolliveryoutube

    @wolliveryoutube

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey, that’s a real concern! There was a Byzantine Emperor who once killed himself by accidentally stabbing himself with a poison arrow on a hunting trip. It can happen to anyone.

  • @Joepopa12
    @Joepopa126 жыл бұрын

    "Let me show you it's features"

  • @Sakuxxx1x

    @Sakuxxx1x

    6 жыл бұрын

    hehe i also thought of Joerg when i saw that gun.

  • @Joepopa12

    @Joepopa12

    6 жыл бұрын

    Three went missing somewheres near Germany, coincidence?

  • @Borderline5440

    @Borderline5440

    5 жыл бұрын

    Quirks and features?

  • @tony_5156

    @tony_5156

    5 жыл бұрын

    When does he say this?

  • @hopefilledsinner3911

    @hopefilledsinner3911

    5 жыл бұрын

    For those whom dont get it. Look for the Slingshot channel.

  • @fien111
    @fien1116 жыл бұрын

    "Silent Mortar" I see a slight flaw in that plan....

  • @mys721tx

    @mys721tx

    4 жыл бұрын

    Other than the whole exploding business, I could not possibly think of what it could be.

  • @markyes2041

    @markyes2041

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Baron Von Grijffenbourg It looks like it came straight out of Maxwell Smarts smoking left trouser leg

  • @murmor6890

    @murmor6890

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not to hide the explosion but the position of the shooter(s) probably. If you have some partisan troops hiding and shooting that with a high ballistic curve the surprised soldiers would probably have a hard time knowing from where it came.

  • @jabloko992

    @jabloko992

    4 жыл бұрын

    I guess if the mortar shell silently started discharging mustard gas or something similar upon impact instead of exploding it might even work! Make the discharge silent, shoot a lethal gas shell and voila! Silent mortar!

  • @oerlikon20mm29

    @oerlikon20mm29

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you take out your targets with one mortar round, it works... kind of

  • @gruttepier2165
    @gruttepier21656 жыл бұрын

    "You've got a dart in your neck..." "What?"

  • @matthewpalmer7184
    @matthewpalmer71846 жыл бұрын

    No joke, while working with OSS documents at NARA, I found one article simply entitled "German Use of Weaponized Fog."

  • @Jixijenga

    @Jixijenga

    6 жыл бұрын

    Straight up Dwarf Fortress style insanity.

  • @sairassiili

    @sairassiili

    6 жыл бұрын

    I believe its the same stuff the germans used to hide the Battleship Tripiz in the Norway. Historians recently found out that in the area the ship was hidden, the trees had miserable growth during the war years as the fog was somewhat poisonous.

  • @FloodExterminator

    @FloodExterminator

    6 жыл бұрын

    Maybe a reference to the Nebelwerfer rocket launchers? Nebel in german meams fog.

  • @matthewpalmer7184

    @matthewpalmer7184

    6 жыл бұрын

    So this got a bunch of replies. To expand a bit- I pulled the file out of curiosity (had nothing to do with my research) and it was literally an OSS report on the possibility that the Germans would try to chemically alter/poison fog in England. Like, literally turn London’s fog into a chemical weapon. The OSS was not always amazing at its job.....

  • @matthewpalmer7184

    @matthewpalmer7184

    6 жыл бұрын

    keith moore, see my comment above- it wasn't that at all ;)

  • @legionitalia309
    @legionitalia3096 жыл бұрын

    No mention of the early injection molding?! The dart itself shows the use of innovative materials and processing long before it was commercially common. ....silent mortar? Now that’s a big ‘ol suppressor.

  • @Immopimmo

    @Immopimmo

    4 жыл бұрын

    True, injection molding was invented in the late 19th century but this injection molded dart seems very modern with its translucent red plastic. It shows that injection molding had come pretty far by the 1940's, and that before the screw injection machine was invented.

  • @Attaxalotl

    @Attaxalotl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Smaller than a silenced tank.

  • @jasonmccord1287

    @jasonmccord1287

    2 жыл бұрын

    Easier to carry too!

  • @superduper5571
    @superduper55714 жыл бұрын

    If anyone is interested, typical "Dart Guns" in use today (for immobilizing large animals) actually do use a "dart" which consists of a syringe and spring which injects a narcotic/sedative upon hitting the animal.

  • @vikkimcdonough6153

    @vikkimcdonough6153

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which actually has me wondering why the OSS _wasn't_ able to come up with a suitable poison for the Flying Dragon. Immobilizing large temperamental animals takes some extremely powerful sedatives, enough to knock out a human in _seconds_ if they accidentally stick themself with a large-animal dart and to kill them within a few minutes from respiratory failure if the antidote isn't immediately administered; those lethally-powerful sedatives would seem to be the perfect poison for something like the Flying Dragon.

  • @richardmillhousenixon

    @richardmillhousenixon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vikkimcdonough6153 Because even then the poison wouldn't act fast enough. 5-10 seconds is plenty of time for a sentry to scream out that they've been shot. If they are extremely well trained it's even enough time to alert nearby forces to the rough location of where they were shot from.

  • @PavarottiAardvark
    @PavarottiAardvark6 жыл бұрын

    OSS: Darts! Poison! Syringes! CO2 Rockets! Meanwhile in Britain: Silenced .45 carbine. Done.

  • @vipr1142

    @vipr1142

    4 жыл бұрын

    Difference is that silenced .45 carbine still makes a loud sound even tho it's labelled as "silenced".

  • @snipeefox

    @snipeefox

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vipr1142 They fired it from a rooftop in london in broad daylight... Nobody stirred. Anyone with experience with suppressed weapons would know that's an incredible feat. De Lisle carbine was probably the most effective sentry remover developed in the last 100 years it was used well beyond the war up til the 60's one of the most quiet firearms ever made. So no... It does not make a "loud sound" It makes a dainty click which nobody will recognize as a report from a muzzle.

  • @boxcarz

    @boxcarz

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vipr1142 Looks at Ian's video on the 'Welrod'.

  • @0Raik

    @0Raik

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vipr1142 Not only the gun but the ammo plays mayor role. Subsonic ammo.

  • @vipr1142

    @vipr1142

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@0Raik yea, I love you man. So friggin much :(

  • @LionofCaliban
    @LionofCaliban6 жыл бұрын

    If you want weird, wonderful and hilarious, get your hands on the OSS Simple Sabotage Manual. It recommends that should more physical forms of sabotage be impossible, that you consider other options. Namely, a committee should be formed to discuss the legality of your orders and to make sure it follows the correct chain of command, process. You should then, as your first action of the committee, is to debate whether you had the authority in the first place to form the committee. Yes, you read that right. Administrum to beat the fascists.

  • @snipeefox

    @snipeefox

    4 жыл бұрын

    meanwhile in germany, competing companies work together and bring all their patents together to develop a machinegun that revolutionized all worthy machineguns after the war.

  • @Abdega

    @Abdega

    4 жыл бұрын

    Trying to beat the Germans in bureaucracy is like getting into a land war in Asia… or betting against a Sicilian when death is on the line

  • @theyedmeister6981

    @theyedmeister6981

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Abdega Inconceivable

  • @tlshortyshorty5810

    @tlshortyshorty5810

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think that book might either be an elaborate prank or the only success by the Abwehr.

  • @rustyshackle8000

    @rustyshackle8000

    Жыл бұрын

    "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is it's own inefficiency." -Eugene J. McCarthy

  • @cameronjordan1516
    @cameronjordan15165 жыл бұрын

    Covert mortars... Yes because when i think silent and covert I think long range high explosives... Oss must have been on some good shit.

  • @theyedmeister6981

    @theyedmeister6981

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, coke was the one n' done medicine they had.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios

    @HappyBeezerStudios

    3 жыл бұрын

    You hear the boom but have no idea where it came from.

  • @w4SwD
    @w4SwD6 жыл бұрын

    I always wondered what gun is in the the Forgotten Weapons logo. Now we know I guess.

  • @PissShiversss

    @PissShiversss

    6 жыл бұрын

    He's cia

  • @therideneverends1697

    @therideneverends1697

    6 жыл бұрын

    +John Doe If he does you are supposed to follow the hit him with a car procedure

  • @Nexfero

    @Nexfero

    6 жыл бұрын

    its a Dardick magazine fed revolver i believe

  • @michaelsanders6920

    @michaelsanders6920

    5 жыл бұрын

    I read somewhere that its actually the puckle gun

  • @Tunkkis

    @Tunkkis

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@therideneverends1697 How about the ones that glow in the dark?

  • @KhaiJbach
    @KhaiJbach6 жыл бұрын

    Later used in the office with a dart board.....

  • @Timbobjr

    @Timbobjr

    6 жыл бұрын

    Khai J Bach That would be a lot of fun. Just sitting in the office dicking around with a dart gun

  • @loganrash6764

    @loganrash6764

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure the lunchroom fridge stopped having things go missing too.

  • @jaredf.6532

    @jaredf.6532

    5 жыл бұрын

    So that was the dart gun that Dwight used on Stanley

  • @rickh3714

    @rickh3714

    5 жыл бұрын

    Everyone works real hard knowing 'The Boss' has this FW mascot and an aquarium filled with cute little yellow frogs* on his/her desk! *(Phylobates terribilis)

  • @Attaxalotl

    @Attaxalotl

    3 жыл бұрын

    You could stand across the room and it would still be point blank range with this

  • @ascaloncrusader
    @ascaloncrusader6 жыл бұрын

    God, I enjoy this guy’s channel. So interesting.

  • @vic771

    @vic771

    6 жыл бұрын

    "When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty."

  • @ascaloncrusader

    @ascaloncrusader

    6 жыл бұрын

    Vic “none of us know our end really”

  • @skygrasper_47

    @skygrasper_47

    6 жыл бұрын

    All hail Gun Jesus

  • @warhawk3719
    @warhawk37196 жыл бұрын

    Ok, I grew up playing the Medal of Honor series of games on Playstation and Playstation 2. For those who don't know, in those games you usually play as an OSS operative in WW2. Now, I am seeing all of these funky, cool, unique OSS weapons and getting a little bit annoyed/angry that the devs of the games NEVER USED ANY OF THEM IN THE GAMES. In MoH Underground, you got to use an OSS Big Joe crossbow and that was the extent of the cool OSS weapons you were able to use. So many missed opportunities...

  • @Saldytuwas

    @Saldytuwas

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm guessing because this stuff was CIA weapons info on most of them would have been hard to dig up.

  • @ZGryphon

    @ZGryphon

    6 жыл бұрын

    A lot of that stuff was probably still classified when the original MOH games were made.

  • @TheCoffeehound

    @TheCoffeehound

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nah, I knew about most of those weapons back in the 80's - a lot of them were shown in the Time Life WWII series of books my parents had when I was a teen. I also had a book on OSS weapons back in the early 90's that showed even more of them. I think it was called OSS Secret Weapons of WWII, or something like that.

  • @154Kilroy

    @154Kilroy

    6 жыл бұрын

    They had the Welrod too in Rising Sun. Although it was was single load, single kill, and an SOE weapon. But, at least they tried, right? Lol

  • @Zretgul_timerunner

    @Zretgul_timerunner

    6 жыл бұрын

    Cause half the stuff we know of WW2 have unconvered in the last decade little to early to late mate.

  • @Turb0tek
    @Turb0tek6 жыл бұрын

    I can hear it now... "HELLLLP! I"VE JUST BEEN SHOT WITH A GIANT DART BY A MAN IN THE BUSHES AND IT'S STUCK IN MY BACK! GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!"

  • @markyes2041

    @markyes2041

    4 жыл бұрын

    monty python could have improved on that

  • @ferrisbueller9991

    @ferrisbueller9991

    3 жыл бұрын

    life alert

  • @StewyAdamRules
    @StewyAdamRules3 жыл бұрын

    I always really appreciate the history lesson along with the gun itself. Great work as always.

  • @cam_machi
    @cam_machi6 жыл бұрын

    This gun looks like the channels logo

  • @anchorbait6662

    @anchorbait6662

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes, yes it does

  • @lucky7even622

    @lucky7even622

    6 жыл бұрын

    Cameron H garbage?

  • @harrickvharrick3957
    @harrickvharrick39575 жыл бұрын

    The strangest part about this whole story must be the fact that they could just as easily have used an existing air rifle, they had been around for at least a hundred years by then, including very powerful ones with pump action. In fact, one stars in one of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories!

  • @daktari
    @daktari6 жыл бұрын

    THIS IS OSS FLYING DRAGON! SIMPLE JACK IS WITH US NOW!

  • @trevillyan5515

    @trevillyan5515

    6 жыл бұрын

    daktari This is Less Grossman who is this?

  • @IMN602

    @IMN602

    5 жыл бұрын

    THIS IS FWAMING DWAGON!!!!

  • @flyboymike111357
    @flyboymike1113576 жыл бұрын

    You mean to tell me Lewis and Clark had managed to find an obscure Austrian air rifle, but half the college grads on the Eastern seaboard couldn't come to the conclusion to use an air rifle?

  • @CThyran

    @CThyran

    4 жыл бұрын

    Air rifles still make a loud crack when fired. Since it's pretty obvious that pressurized air being released quickly isn't a quiet action.

  • @sebastianriz4703

    @sebastianriz4703

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CThyran no but you can still put an suppressor on an air rifle and make it silent.

  • @elmerjfapp5730

    @elmerjfapp5730

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sebastianriz4703 they didnt know that 80 years ago

  • @sengelhard2982

    @sengelhard2982

    Жыл бұрын

    @@elmerjfapp5730 They had silencers on other weapons, why would you think they didn't even consider silencing an air rifle?

  • @Poisonjam7
    @Poisonjam73 жыл бұрын

    “One shot, silent, undetectable and can be reloaded in less than 30 seconds.” I guess they’ve never heard of a bow and arrow.

  • @Alimentasable
    @Alimentasable6 жыл бұрын

    This gun actually looks a lot like your logo, huh.

  • @logankincade661
    @logankincade6616 жыл бұрын

    Ian , you never cease to amaze me. I respect all of your hard work that you put into these for our enjoyment, education, and entertainment. Thank you

  • @walterdavis4808
    @walterdavis48086 жыл бұрын

    I think I saw one in a flea market. The guy thought it was some kind of grease gun because he found it with some old tools. I guess I should have bought it

  • @walterdavis4808

    @walterdavis4808

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@justforever96 you may be right

  • @thelonewanderer6762
    @thelonewanderer67626 жыл бұрын

    If they want a silent and deadly weapon they should have used the world's funniest joke

  • @DerDoctor69

    @DerDoctor69

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Lone Wanderer i see you’re a man of culture as well

  • @fuzzydunlop7928

    @fuzzydunlop7928

    6 жыл бұрын

    I believe that was a Top Secret project at the time. You see, they were using a duel development strategy. The US was to develop the Manhattan Project and the Brits were to handle the WFJ, whomever got there first or whichever seemed to most promising was to be the weapon used against Japan. They were able to finish the WFJ before the A-bomb but they were eventually edged out when the program bogged down due to trouble converting the joke into a 'haiku' format for use in the PTO.

  • @blueband8114

    @blueband8114

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Lone Wanderer but would you not need to talk?

  • @ProthoPectore

    @ProthoPectore

    6 жыл бұрын

    "we're from the government and we're here to help!" ?????

  • @thelonewanderer6762

    @thelonewanderer6762

    6 жыл бұрын

    MJY you got it!

  • @sqTake2
    @sqTake26 жыл бұрын

    Your best video yet, Ian! Such an awesome channel.

  • @EmpPeng2k7
    @EmpPeng2k76 жыл бұрын

    World War 2 did produce some weird and wonderful contraptions

  • @DGARedRaven

    @DGARedRaven

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'll type one word, and one word only. M A U S

  • @EmpPeng2k7

    @EmpPeng2k7

    6 жыл бұрын

    Maus is nothing its a slightly scaled up conventional tank, when I say weird and wonderful I am talking stuff like Goliath Tracked Mine, Hafner Rotabuggy, Anti-tank Dogs and that kind of stuff

  • @mikesully110
    @mikesully1104 жыл бұрын

    It reminds me of the crossbow from Deus Ex 1, it fired silent darts with a toxin that knocked enemies out cold. Problem is the toxin took 10 seconds or so to take effect, so you'd hit a guard with it and he would run off shouting and setting off all the alarms

  • @darthpanzer
    @darthpanzer6 жыл бұрын

    Perfect against Deathclaws.

  • @mininuke

    @mininuke

    5 жыл бұрын

    Try me

  • @ridanann

    @ridanann

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mininuke aaahhhhhh

  • @couchbear6108

    @couchbear6108

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sure let me pause for stimpaks

  • @victorwaddell6530
    @victorwaddell65306 жыл бұрын

    Where's the belt pouch containing surgical gloves and colorful little frogs from South America ?

  • @koenvangeleuken2853

    @koenvangeleuken2853

    4 жыл бұрын

    yeah those frogs are supposed to kill you immediately if yo utouch them, right?

  • @harrychung433
    @harrychung4336 жыл бұрын

    Can imagine how straight those barrels would have been after trudging through the wood with that. May have been more effective just going up to that sentry and hitting him over the head with it. Glad to see others have notice the Flying Dragon and logo simularity.

  • @justarandomtechpriest1578

    @justarandomtechpriest1578

    2 жыл бұрын

    Considering they are metal Very

  • @boobunn4151
    @boobunn41516 жыл бұрын

    lols this week we are going to take a look at out own logo

  • @chanoom
    @chanoom Жыл бұрын

    How have I missed this one? Oh boy, awesome stuff as always!

  • @johnwatkins3649
    @johnwatkins36495 жыл бұрын

    This is one of those why have I been watching for hours but it feels so good channels

  • @trogdor8764
    @trogdor87646 жыл бұрын

    I mean, how else are you going to silently shoot down the Batwing?

  • @geraldtrudeau3223
    @geraldtrudeau32236 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe that you did that whole segment without mentioning that it was the gun on your logo,...while you're wearing a shirt, ...with the logo. I always wondered if that logo was a real gun or just an abstract F. Now I know.

  • @defaultusername123
    @defaultusername1235 жыл бұрын

    *THANKS IAN! VERY COOL!*

  • @daleparker4207
    @daleparker42074 жыл бұрын

    The strange and unusual can be so cool. Thanks Ian

  • @jakehall6257
    @jakehall62576 жыл бұрын

    My guess on the loading tool use it's you would load the dart into the beach end of the barrel first using the tool to press it in. Then you would slide the barrel onto the action assembly

  • @SpaghettiNachos
    @SpaghettiNachos5 жыл бұрын

    When you were talking about the sentry just getting hurt and screaming his head off, all I could think of was Tom's scream on Tom and Jerry

  • @andrewgould8924
    @andrewgould89244 жыл бұрын

    Ian should consider a comedy act. The first half had me in tears. I always enjoy his content.

  • @americanrebel413
    @americanrebel4134 жыл бұрын

    Cool! Thanks man.

  • @stevelewis7263
    @stevelewis72636 жыл бұрын

    At one time in the U.K CO2 operated pellet guns were deemed firearms and you needed a Firearm Certificate to own one as technically it was not an "airgun" due to the fact an airgun operated by compressed air, and CO2 wasn't air, and even paintball guns were at one time classed as firearms.

  • @frankberry9642

    @frankberry9642

    5 жыл бұрын

    And now in Scotland, a balloon on a stick can qualify as an 'unlicenced air weapon' and get you jailed.

  • @bleh8789
    @bleh87896 жыл бұрын

    Imagine the possibilities for using this gun outside of shooting it! Scratch your back Poke the meat youre cooking Reach those pesky hard-to-reach areas! Anthony Sullivan would lose his marbles if he were to see it

  • @HappyBeezerStudios

    @HappyBeezerStudios

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pump up your bicycle tires.

  • @cancer_stixx
    @cancer_stixx5 жыл бұрын

    Regarding shooting syringes, the dart guns used for shooting animals with tranquilizer or medicine use this exact system, I believe the dart/syringe is pressurized, and when it hits the target the syringe opens abd injects the fluid. Might be an interesting video to check out a whole modern dart gun like that one day

  • @Clay3613
    @Clay36136 жыл бұрын

    This belongs in a museum.

  • @kevinKronnack
    @kevinKronnack6 жыл бұрын

    Ring-a-ding, baby!

  • @atvanael
    @atvanael2 жыл бұрын

    The challenge of carrying poison darts around safely reminds me of a TA for the university class on museums I'm taking telling us about writing up a condition report on an old quiver from somewhere in the Amazon, and finding partway through that the inside was still covered in poison from arrows or darts (I think those might've still been in it too when they started) that they had to get analyzed to see how dangerous it still was. Could've been a nasty surprise for anyone who stuck their hand in there unawares.

  • @kenhelmers2603
    @kenhelmers26036 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing that strange little pistol ;)

  • @TheRealRomansThirteen
    @TheRealRomansThirteen2 ай бұрын

    I will come back and revisit this immediately. Considering the advancements in technology dude especially all the stuff that we've seen even from civilian engineers. Throw a bipod on and a scope this guy has potential.

  • @JerryEricsson
    @JerryEricsson6 жыл бұрын

    Back in 1965 Dad bought me a BB Pistol for Christmas. It was one of those fake look-like a M1911. The front of the gun had a a tip up portion where you could insert your choice of a BB, a .177 Pellet or a small dart complete with feathers to aid in flight. I loved those darts, it also came with a dart board so you could play darts with the gun. I used to spend hours in our old wood lined dugout under the house shooting those darts into that board, got so I was quite good with the little things; perhaps that is why I still carry a modified M1911A1 to this very day. Oh by the way, just for shits and giggles, I bought a modern version of that gun, hoping to find the little darts in the package, but alas, there were none in the kit, in fact the new version came without any ammo of any sort, and instead of the flat blue that my Christmas Pistol had, this one came in fake Stainless, well painted silver with a mat finish.

  • @Greenscreen76
    @Greenscreen766 жыл бұрын

    Title really mislead me Ian. There were absolutely no Flying Dragons in this video.

  • @maotisjan
    @maotisjan Жыл бұрын

    We can always count on Mr. McCollum to find the crazyest stuff around

  • @Fadez77
    @Fadez77 Жыл бұрын

    The R&D for this weapon and its applications sounds frickin hilarious 😂

  • @fuzzydunlop7928
    @fuzzydunlop79286 жыл бұрын

    The OSS really was a collection of odd miscreants. Everyone from the guy at the top named "Wild Bill" to the schmucks in the field who run the gambit from "New Money" aristocratic playboys to committed Communists fresh from the Lincoln Brigades. EDIT: Reflecting on this, there's something charmingly "American" about it, specific to the country during this time-period. Dramatically different politics that'd mesh like water and oil any other time but during this time everyone regardless of the bell-curve had the same notion of "American Democracy" and the political differences were just seen as two roads to get you to the same place. I think we had a better grasp on our identity as a Nation back then, we were more naive but in that naivety we thought we knew who we were so that even the hedge-fund capitalists and the Trotskyite-Communists could agree on something. It's something of a bittersweet shame we ran out of Nazis and Japanese Militarists to fight. :/ Sometime I feel like we're Micky Rourke's character from "The Wrestler" idk.

  • @christopherlynch626

    @christopherlynch626

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fuzzy Dunlop I

  • @wierdalien1

    @wierdalien1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yup

  • @twirlipofthemists3201

    @twirlipofthemists3201

    6 жыл бұрын

    The miscreants got even odder after the US recruited the defeated Nazi intelligence agents and put them right back to work.

  • @wierdalien1

    @wierdalien1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Twirlip Of The Mists why would you throw away good brains

  • @BufusTurbo92

    @BufusTurbo92

    6 жыл бұрын

    given the results, the german secret service wasn't really well equipped in the brains department.

  • @leifvejby8023
    @leifvejby80236 жыл бұрын

    This made me remember that the British used bow and arrow during WW2 - at least one of them did!

  • @wyvernquill2796

    @wyvernquill2796

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mad Jack Churchill

  • @myview5840

    @myview5840

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget he charged while playing the bagpipes

  • @jackgood3434

    @jackgood3434

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think he also used a broadsword

  • @maxdavies5776
    @maxdavies57762 жыл бұрын

    Its nice workmanship.

  • @TheSmokingCheddar
    @TheSmokingCheddar6 жыл бұрын

    That is really cool

  • @joshtate555
    @joshtate5556 жыл бұрын

    Could the "loading tool" be used to hammer the CO2 cartridge into the cartridge holder to pierce it or something? So you place the cartridge in the tube and then give it a smack with that tool to ensure the nozzle end is seated properly against whatever seal mechanism is in there?

  • @alan-sk7ky

    @alan-sk7ky

    6 жыл бұрын

    Josh, Perhaps the loading tool is to seat the dart into the barrel first then mount the barrel onto the 'action for use. Those fins on the dart look fragile and the sealing washer is gonna be a bit of a fit in the tube. Poss lubrication needed too I think

  • @richardmillhousenixon

    @richardmillhousenixon

    Жыл бұрын

    As somebody else said it is likely there so that if the dart were poisoned you could load it in without significant risk of your hand slipping and shortening your life expectancy to zero

  • @zepferpferecto1812
    @zepferpferecto18126 жыл бұрын

    Your"s logo gun?)

  • @johnhmstr
    @johnhmstr6 жыл бұрын

    The batman and joker reference is right where i went when you showed that it had a "rifle" configuration. :-P wonky as hell, but a great forgotten weapon.

  • @M4jeff
    @M4jeff5 жыл бұрын

    Just too cool !

  • @miketenny5201
    @miketenny52016 жыл бұрын

    I believe the loading tool would be used to seat the dart into the barrel. You would not want the dart all the way back for an air gun.

  • @jeremywilliams5107

    @jeremywilliams5107

    3 жыл бұрын

    And if poisoned you wouldn't want to touch the end so much. Or maybe it was a poison applicator?

  • @justarandomtechpriest1578

    @justarandomtechpriest1578

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jeremywilliams5107 poison applicator and loading tool?

  • @foodfoodfood8898
    @foodfoodfood88985 жыл бұрын

    Wait wait wait, the OSS had a silent mortar? I would love to see that!

  • @codyjackalope8464
    @codyjackalope84646 жыл бұрын

    I think the OSS needs to make a comeback. America needs heroes right now

  • @jimmyrustler8983
    @jimmyrustler89836 жыл бұрын

    I can just imagine a bunch of OSS Q guys sat around a table, all coked up, smoking cigars and talking designing a gun like this, like something from Wolf of wall street.

  • @CygnusGalactic
    @CygnusGalactic6 жыл бұрын

    Poisonous crossbow would be much better I guess

  • @rogerwennstrom6677

    @rogerwennstrom6677

    6 жыл бұрын

    Did you happen to see "The wild geese" recently? :)

  • @justinriley8651

    @justinriley8651

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roger Wennström great movie a true classic.

  • @JonSmith-yq1dw
    @JonSmith-yq1dw6 жыл бұрын

    OSS maybe???? Oooooo That's a bingo, that is how you say that right?

  • @1040frogger
    @1040frogger5 жыл бұрын

    I have a few OSS prototype fletched darts for their crossbow pistol. Fletching is either feather or scrap aluminum. Interesing historically, originally purchased by a collector after WW2

  • @ALegitimateYoutuber
    @ALegitimateYoutuber6 жыл бұрын

    Not going to lie the OSS sounds like a pretty fucking neat organization.

  • @pietzeekoe
    @pietzeekoe6 жыл бұрын

    The syringe idea is used in tranq guns...

  • @tz8785

    @tz8785

    6 жыл бұрын

    ... which don't exactly have an effect instantly after a hit.

  • @grafixbyjorj

    @grafixbyjorj

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's a feature of the substance used, not the delivery method, although I'm not sure that there is anything which will act fast enough to stop a sentry from at least screaming in pain when hit with something that size.

  • @tz8785

    @tz8785

    6 жыл бұрын

    "That's a feature of the substance used, not the delivery method, " AFAIK not really. For big game usually some sort of opioid is used (often Carfentanyl) which (except for prodrugs which I guess aren't used here for precisely this reason) do have an immediate effect - once they hit the receptors in sufficient dose. However, no poison or anaesthetic can act any faster than it can reach its target tissue in an effective dose and you can't be sure to hit a major blood vessel.

  • @grafixbyjorj

    @grafixbyjorj

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that was the thrust of the second half of my comment. Even if you have something which is more potent and faster than animal tranquilliser, there's a delay while the blood transfers it from the impact site to the nervous system. If you just want to drop a sentry without giving away your position it might work, but he also has to be alone and out of earshot of any comrades if you want to do it without alerting the rest of the guard. In that case, it's hard to see what the Flying Dragon brings to the table which wouldn't be done better with a Welrod.

  • @notpulverman9660

    @notpulverman9660

    6 жыл бұрын

    grafixbyjorj welrod is a gun. Guns are loud.

  • @dino.antares
    @dino.antares6 жыл бұрын

    Edward Kenway will be happy if he sees this

  • @slingerssecretlaboratory
    @slingerssecretlaboratory4 жыл бұрын

    I didn't read all comments but shape of the loading tool is the same as the expanded breach of the barrels. It would therefore facilitate the loading properly in the weapon as well as helping the rubber o-ring to transition into the barrel.

  • @johnbacon9658
    @johnbacon96585 жыл бұрын

    Looks like a vets tranc gun. Great video. Thank you.

  • @expfcwintergreenv2.02
    @expfcwintergreenv2.024 жыл бұрын

    “Silent Mortar” = water balloon slingshot

  • @chitoryu12
    @chitoryu126 жыл бұрын

    The OSS was the second-wackiest developer of World War II after the Nazis.

  • @twirlipofthemists3201

    @twirlipofthemists3201

    6 жыл бұрын

    Not arguing, but UK belongs somewhere on that list.

  • @grafixbyjorj

    @grafixbyjorj

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes, SOE use of aniseed balls and condoms has to place them near the top for sheer creativity.

  • @john-paulsilke893

    @john-paulsilke893

    6 жыл бұрын

    Also the piece of crap human garbage known as the Nazis are also responsible for the space program, incredible medical advances, (insane human experimentation) and ultimately missiles that can be fired across oceans.

  • @ZGryphon

    @ZGryphon

    6 жыл бұрын

    John-Paul Silke Items 1 and 3 on your list are the same thing, even, because that's how humanity rolls.

  • @TheCoffeehound

    @TheCoffeehound

    6 жыл бұрын

    My favorite was a little psychological weapon called "Who, Me?" Essentially, a foul smelling fluid in a spray bottle designed to embarrass enemy officers.

  • @Cannibal713
    @Cannibal7136 жыл бұрын

    Great video. I love these rare and/or crazy spy weapons.

  • @ThunderChunky101
    @ThunderChunky1016 жыл бұрын

    I live in the UK, and used to hunt with gas powered rifles/handguns, and catapults. This reminds me of those days of youth!

  • @zacharydevan4107
    @zacharydevan41076 жыл бұрын

    First for the first time. I wait every morning for you to post so I can have my coffee.

  • @Hagop64

    @Hagop64

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nope, lost by 1 second lol.

  • @fuzzydunlop7928

    @fuzzydunlop7928

    6 жыл бұрын

    Two'rst. :P

  • @zacharydevan4107

    @zacharydevan4107

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dang

  • @12345NoNamesLeft
    @12345NoNamesLeft6 жыл бұрын

    I'd love more OSS content - but please stray into the knives and the weirdo hidden stuff.

  • @dawnelliott1269
    @dawnelliott12694 жыл бұрын

    The dart was put into the barrel first then both were set to the trigger block. This helped to make shore you didn't spike yourself under stressful conditions.

  • @mustafankamil1973
    @mustafankamil19736 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video, but one question please, how does the trigger work?

  • @AtomicPeacenik
    @AtomicPeacenik6 жыл бұрын

    20th Century blowgun

  • @fuzzydunlop7928

    @fuzzydunlop7928

    6 жыл бұрын

    No no, dude. You're supposed to *inhale* not blow.

  • @Zafo24pl
    @Zafo24pl6 жыл бұрын

    So basically OSS wanted a crossbow?

  • @djingkhan8980

    @djingkhan8980

    5 жыл бұрын

    Zafo24pl crossbows are super loud actually

  • @killerkarma3574
    @killerkarma35742 жыл бұрын

    This is the Flying Dragon! "Let me show you its features!"

  • @pililogan5769
    @pililogan57694 жыл бұрын

    AWESOME!

  • @codymoncrief8478
    @codymoncrief84786 жыл бұрын

    Ian, there exists a gun, so manly that words can barely describe it, yet I shall try. .458 win mag M1 Garand

  • @JerryEricsson

    @JerryEricsson

    6 жыл бұрын

    I recall many years ago when the .30 carbine was so plentiful that you could hardly sell them, one outfit re-barreled them in .45 Grizzly Magnum. Now that would make a wonderful gun, wish I had taken advantage of the offering when I still had my FFL back in those days, but my thoughts were, why get one of them when I had 2 Mini 14's?

  • @codymoncrief8478

    @codymoncrief8478

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jerry Ericsson The only reason needed to get a gun that is chambered above .44 cal is the single fact it is chambered above .44. Those carbines do sound pretty cool

  • @TroopperFoFo

    @TroopperFoFo

    6 жыл бұрын

    If you want a really weird thing done with an m1 carbine search for the Iver Johnson Pm9. Its an M1 carbine turned into an Uzi type gun. There is 1 picture of it.

  • @williamsager805

    @williamsager805

    6 жыл бұрын

    I recall a AK modified to fire 45-70s and we all know about 458 SOCOM AR's. But I suspect it might be easier to modify a FN-FAL to a .458 win mag.

  • @GlennForbes20

    @GlennForbes20

    6 жыл бұрын

    How many rounds does it hold?

  • @randywatson8347
    @randywatson83476 жыл бұрын

    I can see tribes from the amazon laughing.

  • @iberiksoderblom
    @iberiksoderblom3 жыл бұрын

    Someone in the Eastern Block: "With that long barrel, it could be disguised as an umbrella !"

  • @mattandrews8528
    @mattandrews8528 Жыл бұрын

    My Texan LSS CF Air Rifle in .457 with a 14in suppressor on the end of a shrouded barrel powered by high pressure normal air. It shoots a 340grn cnc machined aluminum tipped lead round going right under 1000fps, very lethal up to and even past 100yds. It’s a one shot weapon, but with a small extra air tank in a backpack you can get more than several shots. It’s the move today in 2023. It’s a much larger setup, but with a thermal at night in the dark has been deadly medicine on coyotes and deer 🤌

  • @jasonscott8844
    @jasonscott88444 жыл бұрын

    Came for the gun. Stayed for the history.

  • @markhark2202
    @markhark22026 жыл бұрын

    fascinating!

  • @sadwingsraging3044
    @sadwingsraging30444 жыл бұрын

    Wild Bill. Made one hell of an omelette for sure. No doubt about it and he was cooking and serving when the entire world was hungry. Whats that? Oh hell no! I'm not cleaning the kitchen after him!

  • @alanpassat6759
    @alanpassat67596 жыл бұрын

    Whenever I see things like this, I always think of the people who said " I told you it wouldn't work".

  • @SafetyProMalta
    @SafetyProMalta6 жыл бұрын

    I'm guessing it's gonna go for a crazy price! Mucho cool, just what the FSB is looking for.

  • @ArmamentAxes
    @ArmamentAxes6 жыл бұрын

    interesting stuff!

  • @shadowblack1987
    @shadowblack19874 жыл бұрын

    Supressed 22 is all you need. A hit was done in NYC, broad daylight, no one knew anything. Two pops, guy was dead.

  • @Pooknottin
    @Pooknottin3 жыл бұрын

    This should be handy when I'm looking for work as a mechanic in Enemy Zone.