U.S. Military Rifles Timeline
This video presents the evolution of U.S Military rifles from the early 18th century rifles, to the latest Rifles being used today. Enjoy
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It's really impressive, if you look at it on the historical side. We went from using a flintlock to an AR-15 in one century and a half.
@dataillusion
9 ай бұрын
Imagine what we, we will be using in another 150 years
@ArthurMorgan.....
8 ай бұрын
@@dataillusion lgbtq+ m4a1
@most_red
7 ай бұрын
@@ArthurMorgan.....M4 already replaced by M5, so instead you'll be getting the LGBTQ M5A1
@ryanfitzsimmons2426
7 ай бұрын
@@dataillusionDC15 in real life
@ryanfitzsimmons2426
7 ай бұрын
@@most_redLGBTA1
Would bet my life on a gun that shoots one bullet and takes 3 years to reload
@theprancingprussian
9 ай бұрын
info, the rifles before the 1850/60s minie rifles toom around 2 minutes or less to load if you were a professional, the lead ball had to be rammed until the rifling cut into it, smoothbore weapons with smooth barrels were making up at least 92% of weapons, possibly more, full length ones had an effective range of 55 metres and took around 20 seconds or a bit less if you were skilled, early rifles did have the advantage of being able to hit quite consistently to 100 metres with light experience and could hit a few hundred past that if you were extremely talented, rifles almost completely replaced muskets after the minie system as if you couldnt compete with the minie system your army would either have to use older rifles with 1/6th the firate or muskets with less than 1/4 the effective range so fast loading rifles had pretty much completely replaced smoothbores aftern then
@philosotree5876
6 ай бұрын
Not even a bullet.
You did NOT just forget about the Spencer Repeating Carbine/Rifle like that
@babycarrotz32
7 ай бұрын
I was waiting for it too and was surprised when they didn't show it.
@jeffreygao3956
7 ай бұрын
Those aren't military weapons.
@lifelesstutorialbuilder1
3 ай бұрын
@@jeffreygao3956yes the fuck they are
@Nsodnoajdjksl
3 ай бұрын
@@lifelesstutorialbuilder1not realleeeh
@lifelesstutorialbuilder1
3 ай бұрын
@@Nsodnoajdjkslin the 1860s/1870s it sure as hell was
No mention of the M-21. That was an M-14 based, semi-auto, sniper rifle effective out to 800m. It was used primarily in the mid 1970s until late 1980s. It had 20 round magazines and could be used full auto if one needed to. One heck of a weapon. If I had to defend a position today, that is the weapon I would want.
@user-dn8vw7hi8r
7 ай бұрын
This isn't a very good list, but it also didn't mention the sniper variants of any weapons other than the mdoern ones. Older guns like the Sharps rifle, Springfield 1903, Enfield 1917, M1 Garand, or M14 didn't mention the sniper versions
What about the M110A1? It’s essentially an HK G28 / HK417 design to replace the M110 SASS as the US new 7.62 DMR. It was accepted into the US Army and US Marine Corp in 2016.
@HWG-wm8ld
7 ай бұрын
It’s in the video m110sass
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
@@HWG-wm8ldthat was the M110, not the M110A1, which replaced the M110
something to note, until the springfield 1860s minie rifle, rifles were quite rare to see as they took about 1-2 minuites to load if you were very skilled and the accuracy deteriouarted after firing a few times, most men before 1850 used smoothbore flintlock weapons, the us got one of the first caplocks adopted, a smoothbore, smoothbore weapons have no grooves so when you are ramming a bullet down the front one that is small into a wide barrel is easier to load than a ball you have to ram until the rifling cuts into it and it can be violently shoved down, the minie bullet was longer with a hollow base, it was smaller than the rifled barrel so was lubed to slide down at similar rate to smoothbores before it, when fired the explosion would push the hollow rear of the bullet into the rifling, after the minie raifles of france britain and a few others anything that wasnt alright 200 metres away was considered a downside ps smoothbore weapons used a smooth tube as a barrel so at full length were only mostly effective to around 55 metres and took around 20 secs to load
@dataillusion
9 ай бұрын
Thank you for giving more information
@aaronjanderson1942
4 ай бұрын
a soldier could load a flintlock in under 30 seconds, 10-15 seconds if they real good.
@theprancingprussian
4 ай бұрын
@@aaronjanderson1942 that is true for muskets, in the field and after a few shots the rpm dropped from 4-5 to 1-2 Rifled cut into the lead ball so needed quite a bit more time to load
@Fyrdman
4 ай бұрын
@@theprancingprussian 2 shots per minute was reasonable for a veteran rifleman.
@bendalton5221
4 ай бұрын
not true, soldiers could load the Springfield 1842, Mississippi 1841, palmetto 1842, enfield 1853, Lorenz 1855, Springfield 1855, Harper's Ferry 1855 rifles in 15 to 20 seconds. All of these were cap and ball systems (the successor to flintlocks). The 1840's guns were muskets (smoothbores) but most were converted to rifled barrels as the war progressed. The 1850's guns were rifled barrels, all could fire the Minie ball
nice to see the comments mentioning important guns not included in the video. pretty informative
lol the AR10 did not see its first prototype until 1955 and the patent was not even made until 1952, we certainly were not using the AR10 in Korea
Thank your for your services (guns) :salute:
The Harper's Ferry m1803, was the first mass produced factory long gun for standard military issue to troops.
Love the Colt M16A3(Picatinny-Rail Removable Handguard)
Hello bro ❤uS rifle's are very good thanks
@dataillusion
10 ай бұрын
Thanks bro
@AliAbbas_2009
10 ай бұрын
@@dataillusion Bro which city are you from?
I would love to see a video on Police Sidearms of the largest cities across the 50 United States
:Doesn't see 1903a1 - a4: I'm okay with that though. Love the vid !
@dataillusion
8 ай бұрын
That is a pistol, gonna make pistols too
AR-15 shouldnt even be on that list. Ima say that right now... (Edit: Im going off of years actively used in service)
@thegruntgoober2507
10 ай бұрын
why?
@C_lamity
10 ай бұрын
@@thegruntgoober2507 The US never adopted the AR-15 into service, meaning it’s not a rifle of the US military.
@senzanome5768
10 ай бұрын
@@thegruntgoober2507because ar 15 it's civilian version of m16/m4
@thegruntgoober2507
10 ай бұрын
Oh, ok.
@thegruntgoober2507
10 ай бұрын
Wait, AR's were used in Vietnam. Right?
Its intresting to know back in 1898 we used a norweigen gun which I feel like needs more light shed on it
Should have mentioned the XM177/CAR-15 and MK18
I attended U.S. Army BCT at Fort Leonard Wood in 1980. We trained with the M16, M60 and M203 (among others). The M16 issued to us had three firing modes. Those being 1. semi-automatic, 2. three round burst and 3. fully automatic. Again, this was in 1980, not 1983. Just about all of the equipment used was Vietnam War era surplus. Including field C-rations packaged in 1972 (yuk!), no MREs back then.
I love the sig mcx
wow, you actually included the M1941!
@dataillusion
8 ай бұрын
Yeah, hope you enjoyed the video
@Akar42718
7 ай бұрын
@@dataillusionbut not the Spencer Repeating Rifle/Carbine
❤ 👍
The XM8 is so terrible that not even JSOC wants to touch it.
You got the m16 and m16a1 mixed up. The m16 jammed a lot not the m16a1. It gets that name because of the xm16e1
Pretty cool. So many experts in the comments…surprised they didn’t ask where the plasma rifle with 40 watt range was.
@stivo2663
6 ай бұрын
"Only what you see buddy."
Some missed, some overlooked and some very odd specialized service rifles u picked
M16A3 was issued to me in boot camp jul 1985
You forgot a bunch of rifles from the 1860's through the 1890's...
do pistols that look like luger p08 pls ive been waiting for months days and week but you kept replacing pls make it pls
@schkann1384
10 ай бұрын
not really a viable toppic for a video. but yes luger's are cool as heck
@theprancingprussian
9 ай бұрын
the only pistols that look like the p08 would possibly be the c93 or finnish lahti l35
@dataillusion
8 ай бұрын
Only the c93,lahti, and nambu pistol look like the luger
@theprancingprussian
8 ай бұрын
@@dataillusion you could try different militaries primary weapon Like Germany (starting with Prussia) Or Britain
You forgot the Matchlock Musket.
@kathypinedo9811
4 ай бұрын
Bro, do you think America became a country in the 1400s? It was the seventeen hundreds
What about the T20E1 rifle
Being technical, the XM7 is a carbine, not a rifle. That's why it's designation number is not above 16.
M16A2 only had 2 firing mode options: Single & 3 Round Burst By the 90s, most Vietnam vets had aged out of the military and the new recruits were not really disciplined when it came to ammo conservation with the full-auto M16A1
@aaronjanderson1942
4 ай бұрын
The army was all about more bullets shot, more people killed. That's why they changed to the M16. Lighter ammo so more could be carried.
Can you do germany to pls?
@dataillusion
10 ай бұрын
Am working on it
@chilldude3602
10 ай бұрын
@@dataillusion thanks bro
What about the Springfield 1842
So like did we forget BAR on purpose or accident?
Y el Winchester de palanca?
during medieval times america has already a gun
@Susemo1337
7 ай бұрын
fire lance and matchlocks:
@Dannymart_88445
7 ай бұрын
During medieval times America wasn't a thing
@babycarrotz32
7 ай бұрын
America wasn't around during medieval times.
@ryanfitzsimmons2426
7 ай бұрын
@@Dannymart_88445yep is was Big hair land
What the hell happened to the M1 Garands and the Winchester mod 1896 trench gun?
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
“US military RIFLES timeline”. The 1897 is a Shotgun
@billsanders5067
6 ай бұрын
@CharlieFoxtrot128 I am well aware that the trench gun a 12 gage pump action shotgun.
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
@@billsanders5067 so why are you asking what happened to it? As if it belongs here? In a list of rifles? And the Garand was there, pay attention
1.3 mil likes and 92k views yeah makes sense
Mk14 n M39 are simply modernised versions of the M14
The barret sniper was used in gta5
No Springfield 1842?
Guns are getting smaller and more powerful
@dataillusion
6 ай бұрын
Thats the real evolution, everything is getting smaller
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
Not more powerful. A .30-06 is still significantly more powerful than a 5.56, it’s just they realized they don’t need to give that to everyone.
Wrong about the m16a2 I think. Video claims it to have 3 firing modes. I presume safety does not classify as a firing mode, since it isn’t firing anything in safety. It has semi or 3 round burst, which is what I think it was trying to claim.
@Nsodnoajdjksl
7 ай бұрын
At least it's an iconic weapon
@HWG-wm8ld
7 ай бұрын
Yes, semi and burst…hopefully it doesn’t fire on safe.
@aaronjanderson1942
4 ай бұрын
Going by automaker standards? where as a 4 speed with reverse is called a 5 speed.😆
MX7 is so far pretty good
Where is the plasma cutter from dead space???
I swear if they don’t bring back the M4A1 Carbine to military standard firearm, I will make them
@Susemo1337
7 ай бұрын
They still use m4a1s in limited service, they also got a semi auto sig XM7 called the MCX spear. Its probaboy not gonna be as popular as the ar15 tho. And d*m*c*a*ts already hate it
@Nsodnoajdjksl
7 ай бұрын
@@Susemo1337 why did you censor the word?
What about XM8? Is it just an experimental rifle?
@dataillusion
10 ай бұрын
It is not yet in service
@Always_Shidness
10 ай бұрын
@@dataillusion And im sure that it wont be ever, XM8 was ALMOST accepted and almost entered service
@MrMolotokru
9 ай бұрын
@@dataillusion so much time have passed since its experiments
@TheSixteen60
8 ай бұрын
It alot of flaws and was never adopted.
@ryanfitzsimmons2426
7 ай бұрын
Wrong timeline
And the thompson?
man you are missing a bunch of rifles in there
How stupid am I to only realize now that MK14 EBR is the descendant of M1 Garand
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
They changed the gas system from long stroke to short stroke, so they are pretty different. Fun fact, the main inspiration to the AK was the M1 Garand
What happened to my baby HK M110A1. The new DMR rifle for army :(
Wait doesn’t the M14 come before even the Armalite rifle 10.
@dataillusion
8 ай бұрын
It came into service later
@robbydelzell9492
6 ай бұрын
No cause while im almost certain the military looked at the AR10 the military being conservative at the time and considering the Direct gas impingement system was new and not battle proven, it's no surprise the military overlook it in favor of the m14
😩if only the ACR had made it to the US military Arsenal.
@bcmmike
7 ай бұрын
If only Remington hadn't ruined it.
@one-metallica4156
7 ай бұрын
@@bcmmike how did Remington ruin it?
The XM7 was designed to replace the M4 but whenever it gets fielded and used in actual warfare I don't think it will succeed.
@babycarrotz32
7 ай бұрын
Why not? It's a modernized design of the AR with a larger cartridge.
@Im_N3gan
7 ай бұрын
@@babycarrotz32 if you actually look at the specs of the xm7 it’s basically going back to the dmr style of weapons and we all know how that ended in vietnam
@HWG-wm8ld
7 ай бұрын
Not to mention the insane cost of the weapon, ammo and barrels that will burn out a lot faster. Bad idea, like the M14. Some O-7 trying to make a page in history and or get a seat on the board at sig.
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
@@HWG-wm8ldthat cost is civilian pricing, military prices will undoubtedly be significantly lower
Ar 15 and m16
1795 musket?
The M14 A1 came before the armalight M16 or M16 A1
@dataillusion
3 ай бұрын
Thats the m14 rifle
None of the Stoner weapons were mentioned
This list is all over the place lol
What about the scar mk16 and mk17, which was tested, and i think still used by the seals?
@sikderqais6151
7 ай бұрын
Also forgot the HK416 made for SEALs and Delta Force.
@maxwell6881
7 ай бұрын
@@sikderqais6151Thats the m27 iar
@HWG-wm8ld
7 ай бұрын
Not all seals and it’s just a piston AR.
As far as I know, the AR-15 was brought into service by the USAF in the early 1960's as a replacement for the M-2 carbine.
@insurgentleman
7 ай бұрын
No it wasn't. The Air Force only used them for testing, since the CJCS opposed having a new caliber for them to worry about. However, some AR-15s were sent by DARPA to Vietnam and used
Ich vermisse die^^Thompson^^.
@dataillusion
Ай бұрын
The thompson is a submachine gun
Why is the Sig 516 on there???
@dataillusion
5 ай бұрын
SIG is currently a US firearm company, from 2017
Was it rifles or musket smoothbore?
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
Standard issue was smoothbore, the rifles ones were privately owned (if you’re talking about revolutionary war era)
In thai we have HK33 too
Why are you putting armalite in front of AR? AR stands for armalite if you didn’t know.
@Beans_gt22
3 ай бұрын
I thought it was “assault” rifle
@CrimsonWinters
3 ай бұрын
@@Beans_gt22 nah, it’s a common misconception. Armalite is the company that made the gun. Unless the creator was trying to put armalite assault rifle. If they did mean that then they should’ve just put armalite assault rifle instead of armalite ar.
What about the Henry 1860 ?
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
Wasn’t an officially adopted rifle. It was normally either captured from confederate soldiers or personally bought
@queensapphire7717
6 ай бұрын
@@CharlieFoxtrot128 Confederate? I don’t think so, they were manufactured in New Haven, CT. The Henry was adopted in small quantities by the Union in the American Civil War, favored for its greater firepower than the standard-issue carbine. Just 1,731 of the standard rifles were purchased by the government during the war, 6,000 to 7,000 saw use by the Union on the field through private purchases by soldiers who could afford it, 50 were bought by the commonwealth of Kentucky.
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
@@queensapphire7717 either way, that’s not a government issued weapon, so it doesn’t make sense to include it in the list.
yuove put on a military list, the ar15, then gone, "iconic rifle although it was not used in the military" WTF is this
The military does NOT use an ar15
@Hogwild2024
3 ай бұрын
Same weapon, different selector
Fusil, rifle is for accuracy
The Ar 15. Looks like it is the m16
@Jaslath
4 ай бұрын
It's not. Not even sure why they included the AR-15 since it was never a military rifle.
AR-15 wasn used by the military? Firs one's issued in 59 said AR-15....
@Bladeworkssystems
3 ай бұрын
@CaseyC-ms5rs no they were in 5.56
Uhhhh M4A1 ?
2:07 “mulfunctions” (M16A1) 🙄
Why dod you put ar adter armalite when ar stands for armalite?
Hey where is the fn scar l / scar h aaaannnddd mk20 ssr (scar h pre 20) ?
why there's "M" everywhere?
@dataillusion
8 ай бұрын
'M' means 'Model'
and AR-15 platform is here to stay.
M1 GARAND
The Enfield is British and u forgot the bar
@dataillusion
7 ай бұрын
There are 2 types of enfield, the british and american made
@Redkodiak1994
7 ай бұрын
@@dataillusion oh ok
@robbydelzell9492
6 ай бұрын
@@fudgepacker2858 wtf do u think BAR stands for BAR = Browning automatic RIFLE
Notice how guns and their caliber gets smaller overtime, soon we will be using BB guns in war
m1 garand is a game changer....it kills 100+thousand people in ww2
@BlossomField91
4 ай бұрын
No it didn't kill that many enemy soldiers. Even in heavy combat, riflemen don't kill that many people, if they kill anyone at all. Their role in combat is fire and maneuver. True in WW2 and true today. At the infantry level, it's the machine gunners, mortarmen, and other heavy weapons who stack 70% of the bodies. That's before you get into the even more substantial body stacking done by artillery, air support, etc. It's true in reverse. That's the main reason why, in the GWOT wars, US casualties were so low. If the Taliban were being backed and supplied to the hilt by China/Russia, providing them with a never ending supply of heavy infantry weapons (including systems that can mitigate against American air power), artillery, etc, US casualties could've been 10x higher. It'd have looked more like the Soviet Afghan war in the 1980s, or to an extent, Vietnam.
Where's the Tommy Gun ?
@dataillusion
4 ай бұрын
The Tommy gun is not a rifle, its a Submachine gun
(United States Military Armed Forces🇺🇸) (United States Navy) (United States Air Force) (United States Coast Guard) (United States Space Force) (United States Marine Corps) (United States Army)
@ryanfitzsimmons2426
7 ай бұрын
Not the Navy
@matthewskudzienski888
7 ай бұрын
Come on It’s The U.S. Navy Seal
@ryanfitzsimmons2426
7 ай бұрын
David Mason@@matthewskudzienski888
@HWG-wm8ld
7 ай бұрын
EOD, SWCCs….etc
@CharlieFoxtrot128
6 ай бұрын
@@HWG-wm8ldthose aren’t branches
SIG 516???? It is HK416!
@dataillusion
5 ай бұрын
They are different
Missed the Brown Bess and a multiple of other rifles. Wrong time line adoption on multiple entries. Poorly done. Go visit the U.S. Infantry museum and you'll a bunch of rifles not shown here.
wasnt the lee navy an unused prorotype?
@forkstealinggoblindumbass2106
9 ай бұрын
It was used in small numbers by the US navy, it was used by the American ligation in peking in 1900 to defend itself and others against the boxers
Mk13 has simular designs with : L96A1, L115A1, and AWP (AWS,AWM) i might get banned fro saying this cuz im only 10 yrs old
@dataillusion
2 ай бұрын
Young with a good sight
My choice today would still be the M16A4, maybe the M4A1. I wish the poor Army grunts today luck with that XM7, would hate to have to hump it every day with that contraption.
Stg44 ???
@dataillusion
10 ай бұрын
The STG44 is from german my guy
@benjyfour
8 ай бұрын
i think he didnt mean it series@@dataillusion
SAMA,,,LANSIR LAGI PESANAN NEGARA,,,JORDANIA,@
The scriptures are too small.
iwh340
in israeli galil you made mistake and put the picture of galili who was politician,you should look at israel galili inventor,its completely a different person
gaston glock died today
You missed the lever action repeaters during the Civil War (such as the Henry). These gave Union troops huge advantages over the Confederates towards the end of the war.
@bendalton5221
4 ай бұрын
yeah but those weren't standard issue - the maker of this video seems to be listing here what the standard army issue rifles were (for the most part). The lever action guns were mostly purchased by individual soldiers, or by wealthy entrepreneurs who then equipped certain troops on their own. That happened with many "off the beaten path" rifles. Rich industrialists would develop a new gun, and entrepreneurs would try and get the gun into use to show its worth (to try and get the army to buy them). Developers on both sides would do this. The Civil War was very much a breeding ground for better rifles, for salesmen to get their weapons into the market. The war began with smoothbore muskets, and through this quest ended up with lever action rapid fire guns using enclosed cartridge ammunition. If the war had lasted another couple of years we would have seen nothing but lever action rifles and gatling guns being used. Really crazy how fast guns technology jumped forward in only a few years....
No Mosin Nagant? How dare you :(
@dataillusion
10 ай бұрын
The mosin nagant is from Russia my guy
@maxwell6881
9 ай бұрын
No ak74, how dare he
@susamogus12345
8 ай бұрын
no mannlincher 1895 how dare he
@babycarrotz32
7 ай бұрын
America didn't field the Mosin.
Die Amerikaner hatten und haben schon gute bis sehr gute Waffen entwickelt
@babycarrotz32
7 ай бұрын
I speak a little bit of german and I think they are saying something like "America has and had beautiful good guns."
@petersandmann7076
7 ай бұрын
@@babycarrotz32 stimmt so meinte ich das
@HWG-wm8ld
7 ай бұрын
Beir
Data we are closing the millitary base go on vacation
@kevinszasz5320
10 ай бұрын
Or home
@dataillusion
10 ай бұрын
For how long will i stay home
@kevinszasz5320
10 ай бұрын
Will 2 day cuzz electircal out
@dominatewest25ytgopuffsoof24
10 ай бұрын
@@dataillusioni believe the m82 was designed in 1982
@kevinszasz5320
10 ай бұрын
Well yes