The STG 44 didnt inspire the AK47. The M1 Garand did, the Big K said it himself.

@EtherFox

5 ай бұрын

It's pretty obvious when you put both piles of parts from an AKM and an M1 next to each other. The bolt and long stroke piston operation are just rotated and covered differently, but the shape and action of the bolt especially are clearly copied.

@thediner8929

5 ай бұрын

Really? I thought otherwise.

@fortunejsohua

5 ай бұрын

I'd say that too..

@bravowhiskey4684

5 ай бұрын

There are more intermediate steps than that, including the G/K43 and FG42. You can primarily see the lineage of the German guns in the various Soviet products that followed the war, because the Russians were able to capture so much materiel on the way to Berlin. BOTH of these nations were following in America's footsteps though, trying to develop their own version of the Garand. It has its own lineage that survives to this day, in the BM-59, m14, m1a, and even the Ruger mini-14.

@ericsalazar2337

5 ай бұрын

The action may be different but they obviously copied the footprint of the weapon

Chroming the barrel does little for the accuracy of the rifle. It is one of the least expensive methods of reducing fouling and wear as well as it does not oxidize or corrode and it also is excellent for the efficient movement of heat and is almost completely resistant to chemical and environmental corrosion. Accuracy is so much more intricate and has many many factors that influence each flick of the giggle switch

@brianv1988

5 ай бұрын

I was typing out a lot of what you said until I seen your comment

@drock7552

5 ай бұрын

Yep bad design chromium has shown no difference in the long run. Still have to give props the guys that tried and thought it could work. Always keep in mind the technology available at the of development. Without the past...no body would be able to shoot straight 😅

@northerninfidelable

5 ай бұрын

@@brianv1988 you know what they say great minds think alike

@gorethegreat

5 ай бұрын

It does support accuracy as the barrel wears less.

@northerninfidelable

5 ай бұрын

@@gorethegreat yes you are correct in technicality but it's not the reason for the chrome and chrome is not a lining on long range rigs... Like I said it's there for corrosion protection and..... Many other reasons in addition to those I've mentioned but I would be surprised if you could find a well regarded gun smith who would agree with you

"Chrome line barrels insured accuracy" 😂 chrome line barrels hurt accuracy by magnifying the imperfections that was in the steel barrel before the chrome was added. Go to any precision rifle match where they are shooting at targets at 1k yards or more. You won't see any chrome line barrels there. lol

@stewarttomkinson3356

5 ай бұрын

No I’m back in the early 70s we used to shoot out to 500 yards with 22 M1 Carbe in competition for distance and then out farther would always be a 30-0-6

@ciphergalm1174

5 ай бұрын

Lots of little facts are wrong like the new 5.56 being special because of cavitation when all 5.56 will do that and what actually made it special was more armor penatration

I stopped the video halfway through to start reading the comments. I'm reaching for popcorn now. 🍿

The vast majority of jams the M16 experienced were due to the ammunition. Instead of the specific ammo the manufaturer required, the Army decided to cut corners and used a cheaper grade.

Personally I prefer the OG AR15 over the M16, But I like the m16 over the M4. The M4 is better at urban warfare though due to the shorter length you can move it faster. I prefer longer ranges personally.

Jesus and Eugene got together and made a perfect Riffle.

Insane lethality? Compared to what? Who wrote this title?

@HubertofLiege

5 ай бұрын

Warranty, you can return it with malice

@swampdonkey3278

5 ай бұрын

He was comparing it to a red rider bb gun 😂😂

@brahtrumpwonbigly7309

5 ай бұрын

Insane compared to a 22lr

Today what the first time in my life I've ever heard anyone call 5.56 "five fifty-six" 😂

@Fuck_Snowflakes

5 ай бұрын

The people running all these “Dark” channels are a bunch of amateurs who are research-phobic

@DEATH-THE-GOAT

5 ай бұрын

We say five fifty-six in Sweden. Also seven sixty-two but sex and an half and twelve and an half.

@meditationsoundscapes5203

5 ай бұрын

say "chassis" 5 times in penance

@stevem3605

5 ай бұрын

@@meditationsoundscapes5203good one if you’re listening.😜

I dig your videos, man. Thanks for making them.

6:58 - How many things can you get wrong while pulling the T handle back?

It's interesting cuz it was originally designed for armored people to carry in tanks and the mlrs because using it is easier in an armored vehicle than it is with the M16 which is very long, worth its weight in gold

@stewarttomkinson3356

5 ай бұрын

Yes, in the MPs all. Then when I was in the military in the 80s and 90s and we went to the golf where we had them.

FFS! I havent seen any picatiny rail mounted suppressor!

Funny how I was in Kosovo 1999 and I had the M16 A2…..not the M4 until Fallujah, Iraq deployment in 2004. Also, no chrome lined barrels as they are inaccurate

Well if this is your level of accuracy. I am calling all your videos in question.

It is a great platform. Why did the title of the video change?

@viawilderness

5 ай бұрын

What was the original title?

@rogergoodman8665

5 ай бұрын

​@viawilderness : "My titles are pure bull crap and totally misleading, but nobody will notice...will they???????

is that admin in the thumbnail lol

you make the lamest shit sound cool hahahaha

M-16 jamming had little to do with the weapon itself. It was the idiot Pentagon that said it was a "self cleaning" weapon. Added to that level of stupidity is a humid swamp environent and even a well maintained platform can have issues. And as a bonus stupid...they changed the powder in the 5.56 cartrige that burned a lot, and i mean a LOT dirtier. The simple distribution of cleaning kits and putting a cleaner burning powder in the round resolved almost all issues with the M-16 weapon system. Stoner had protested to every stupid thing the military did. When they finally began to implement Stoner's specifications the system was excellent.

@ItsMrAssholeToYou

5 ай бұрын

The sad part is, it's a widely-known story and he still got it wrong.

@armynurseboy

5 ай бұрын

The primary issue with the change to ball powder wasn't necessarily that it burned dirtier (which did cause some problems), but that it burned at a different rate (faster) than the stick powder originally called for. This caused increased gas pressure within the gas system, increased gas port erosion and made the bolt cycle at a rate faster and more violently than the initial design specs. Essentially it threw the feed cycle timing out of whack. Couple that with the rusted and pitted chambers, which tended to cause brass cases to stick in the chamber, you get the issue of a rifle that is ripping off case rims and having feed issues. They fixed this by tuning the gas port size, increasing the weight of the buffer and spring and chrome lining the chamber and barrel. This corrected most of the issues. The last deficiency was cheaply made magazines. But as long as you used good magazines with strong springs, you'd be ok.

M4 Carbines

I certainly hope the uneducated don't take this video as fact! there are more mistakes in 3 minutes than I can stand!

Come on, a rifles, even fully automatic, are NOT a weapon of mass destruction. Bombs, missiles, artillery, gas cannisters, etc are weapons of mass destruction. Please, please, do better.

@galvinstanley3235

5 ай бұрын

I think he means how good the rifle is as a weapon in combat,and how many countries use them.

The only thing less accurate than this video would be some of the dumbass comments 😂 Chrome lined barrels are a close third.

Turn the background music down FFS

You might as well take this one down, bro

Nevermind the ak is the gold standard for assault weapons. 😂

small gun does not have space for grenade launcher

M16 bulky? 😂

It makes you think how accurate are his other videos the m4 and its round is anemic in most states you cant even hunt deer in the states. with a shorter barrel it loses velocity im just saying there is a lot better and harder hitting round out there

@dralord1307

5 ай бұрын

I am no fan of the m4, refused to carry it multiple times. But in very close range, like in urban warfare it is better overall than the M16 due to the higher mobility you can get on target much faster. But at anything over 100 meters I want a M16. "That said I would prefer a 308 or 7.62 chambered weapon more than the M16"

@swampdonkey3278

5 ай бұрын

The m16/m4 is a piece of shit that the US military has had to use for so many years now for spray and pray is good because you can carry a lot of rounds, but when you step back and look at what you are using its a varmint round.

@galvinstanley3235

5 ай бұрын

​@@dralord1307The new Sig Spear rifle our military is going to be using shoots 6.68.

@ryateo1

5 ай бұрын

5.56 is intended to wound. A wounded soldier takes three to five men away from the fight.

@swampdonkey3278

5 ай бұрын

And that is if they get it, all it is is a smaller diameter 308 but now they are coming out with the spear light and guess what caliber its in for the military the deal is done the military is not changing

LOL, the M16A1 did not solve the jamming problem. They jam because of the tight tolerances of the rifle. In the field the only part of us that was clean were our rifles because keeping them clean was the only way to keep them feeding rounds properly. The M16A2 was better, but you still needed to keep them cleaner than an AK. Good practice regardless but keep it clean like your life depends on it. It does.

@armynurseboy

5 ай бұрын

The original M16 rifles jammed because of cheap magazines, a change in the powder formulation that increased the gas pressure and thus the bolt velocity (which messed up the rifle's timing) and non-chromed chambers that caused cases to stick when they were extracted. The A1 addressed 2 of the 3 issues. The issue with modern AR style rifles jamming today is totally on using crappy magazines. Use good magazines, you wont' have any issues.

@jamesstepp1925

5 ай бұрын

@@donallen2819 Yeah well, clean them they fire. Don't clean them and you have a problem. Chrome may have helped, but the A2 would jam also when it was dirty just not every round like the A1. Clearing misfeeds was one of the first things taught in basic training for a reason, and is the reason why there is an assist on the side. If chrome solved the problem we wouldn't have needed the assist now would we? That is my experience after working with both weapons. Hence my comment that the only thing on us that would be clean was our weapons. Anyone going into combat with those weapon who is lax in their cleaning is likely to get a untimely nasty shock. A very short painful one.

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Keep people who don't know guns from doing docudrama's on guns.

We had them when I was in an 81 we call them M 16 shorts and we use them in the golf war. I don’t know why they keep trying to say didn’t get a invented till 92.

@mcinteer19

5 ай бұрын

The M4 wasn’t introduced until then. You may have seen the XM-177 aka CAR-15 which was a carbine version of the M16 as discussed in the video. Your recollection of having M4s in the early 1980’s is flawed.

@swampdonkey3278

5 ай бұрын

I love how someone that was not there is trying to tell someone that lived it is wrong do you not think they had a trial run of them before they spent millions on equipping the whole US Army

@mcinteer19

5 ай бұрын

@@swampdonkey3278years of hearing bullshit stories like this help me make a statement like that. His inability to spell and formulate a coherent sentence are additional keys.

With the M4 you can lay down a wall of fire it's absolutely unimaginable, when you unload on the enemy with this they think that it's 10 people shooting at them

@Theggman83

5 ай бұрын

😂 wtf?

@SkateAndReview

5 ай бұрын

Clueless comment

later on there will be ai or ai assited aim rifles

Time will tell on that Sig xm7 rifle!

Why didn't you cover the civilian variant stressing the fact that the civilian weapon is not a military weapon and is the most popular sporting and self-defense rifle in America? Considering the high Jinks our government is trying to pull at the moment seems like this would have been a good addition to the video.

The new .277 Fury cartridge is not .270 Win, ROFLMAO. These videos have gotten pretty lazy...

@ItsMrAssholeToYou

5 ай бұрын

Gotten?

Dude stick to your strong points. And obviously firearms are not that thing…

60 years on and the AR-15's replacement is bigger, bulkier and heavier, and ultimately still an AR. it's just more an evolution than a revolutionary upgrade. Many are not impressed with the new SIG Spear XM7. It may wind up being the next M-14. Gene Stoner got it right back in the mid 50s - that's why dozens of nations are still using this system today. The AR-15s and their carbines derivatives are going to stay in frontline service for decades to come.

@IzzyTheEditor

5 ай бұрын

You keep saying Ar-15. I don't think it means what you think it means. Stoner himself would agree.

6:04 Care to point-out those "ambidextrous controls"? Because I see only right-handed controls.

5.56 is obsolete against Russian and Chinese armor.

@MisfitDoc89

5 ай бұрын

Interesting seems to do fine to said armor in Ukraine

@johnbaran577

5 ай бұрын

If its not airsoft stuff, look at the Russians equipment in Ukraine, also, I’m sure the Chinese have great stuff on paper but the real thing is chineseium

@markxian4585

5 ай бұрын

You sure got that keyboard warrior spirit on you 😂

@briancooper2112

5 ай бұрын

@@markxian4585 say what?

@briancooper2112

5 ай бұрын

@@MisfitDoc89 the US switched to 6.8 for better stopping power than 5.56.

The M14 was heavy, but if you get hit with one of the rounds, anywhere on your body it's taking it off I think they banned it for that reason and it's only used now for drill

@Ungood-jl5ep

5 ай бұрын

LOL no. It was not banned. It was simply replaced with a better and more appropriate rifle. The m14 had a lot of drawbacks even compared to contemporary battle rifles.

@Theggman83

5 ай бұрын

It fired a 7.62 round... Which is definitely still used today.

@johnbethea4505

5 ай бұрын

I was trained at Counterinsurgency and SERE school for NSWS in Little Creek VA in 1966. They only had one like today's AR-10 308 Cal.. The m14 was uses mostly by the Marines. It would not deflect of of twigs. It was later replaced by the AR15 because it held more lighter rounds, but rounds didn't have the stopping power and glanced off of twigs..

@SkateAndReview

5 ай бұрын

Stop with the fudd comments, you have no business having a generic Google military picture on your account when you know Jack sh** about firearms 😂😂

@ItsMrAssholeToYou

5 ай бұрын

OMG dude. It's no sin to not know about something, but when you try to speak on such subjects, you only embarrass yourself.