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Hydra got a real good project, but a crazy yank with a shield ruined it.
And then he froze
That sounds incredible. I hope they make a movie out of it. It will be awesome.😋
@@hamzahharis2238 maybe you can tell that to marvel,they gonna make superhero out of it
Sleepy Rowdy yeah definitely cast Chris Evans for the role
Do you mean the focke wulf triebflugel?
he seems a lot more fun than my teachers are
Yes but he dosent have a class of children
@@mk-bat3171 he has a class
Mk- bat Bruh. Why do you think the title says “a history teacher reacts”? Do you think he’s a teacher without a class?
@@goldenwarrior1186 he meant that he isnt some kind of elementary teacher? or?
-TOH- Maybe. Not sure, but maybe
Expectation: Amazing wonder weapons supposed to change the outcome of the war
Reality: No time, no resources. Do whatever you can to make enough basic equipment for soldiers.
Yeah, Simple History should have named it "Last Ditch Axis Firearms" instead
6:21 The Tommy gun is the Thompson, while the MP 3008 is a copy of the Sten, which was the successor to the Thompson
I think he knows that but just mixed up his words
The video clearly stated that it was a replacement and not a successor.
The side mounted magazine was one thing that made the sten awkward to use, I would like to see a side by side test and see which one would be easier to shoot.
tenofprime the magazine was designed that way on purpose iirc, and that style of magazine placement continued to be used on british SMG’s up until the Sterling.
@@tenofprime The Thompson was the first SMG with a bottom-loading magazine. Most European SMGs have side loaded magazines namely the MP18, MP28 (which the Sten is essentially a crude version of) and the E-MP35. German troops complained that the MP38/40 didn't allow them to shoot prone once it was in wide issue, despite the praise of Panzertruppen and Fallschirmjägers
Dear Mr Terry if your interested in the history and designs of some of these firearms you can watch forgotten weapons here on youtube in your spare time. Ian not only tells you the history of the firearms but shows you how they work as well
Or C&Arsenal
Forgotten Weapns is a excellent source of information. I highly reccomend.
Praised be Gun Jesus, may he bless us again today with an interesting video.
I'm going to wonder how Italy could possibly get any worse weapons if it was in here
Face Italy just shows up with a sharp stick or some shit
@@Dell-ol6hb If its Italy the stick is probaly not even sharp
A pizza ball
Last ditch Italian weapons:
1. *THE PIZZA CUTTER*
(It's a bayonet attachment)
An army of pizza chefs 😂🤣😂
The helmet must be the source of his power.
Shawn Crabtree With it he will fight many battles and win honor and glory for his people.
James Manto
If it's a war video, gotta fit in right?
*Puts on M1 helmet*
Speaking of the War of resources, even the Allies had to replace their more expensive/resource hungry weapons with cheaper weapons. As an example, the Tommy Gun was replaced with the Grease Gun or the M1 Carbine, but unlike the Axis weapons, the Allied replacement weapons generally improved since they had the liberty of having proper resources.
Cykey sten
@@kolamoose8717 Honestly, I'd argue that by the end of WW2, everyone pretty much mastered how to make cheap, mass produced submachine guns made primarily from stamped steel.
@@Cykeys the US was still fielding M3 grease guns in the 1990s. They made perfect weapons in places where the operator needed a small but effective submachine gun.
Cykey I wouldn’t consider the M1 Carbine as a replacement for the Thompson, as it was intended for rear echelon use by truck drivers and artillery crews in place of their 1911s. Later there was a paratrooper variant (the M1A1) that was also used by tank crewmen and featured a very unstable folding stock. The M1 carbine continued to be used up until Korea as the M2 and M3 carbines (as well as Vietnam in limited US use and use with ARVN forces).
@@Sturmischer I'm still confused as to why they chambered the carbine in a new cartridge. I understand that it's ballistically better than a .45, but wouldn't it've been easier to champer it in .45?
Lovin' the helmet Mr. Terry.
It's technically half a helmet lol
STAHLHELM TURTLE A helmet is a helmet, you can’t say it’s only a half
James Manto well
it's only the M1 helmet liner,
the metal shell is probably holding a ton of toilet paper
teodorogerald Lol. Also, is it technically half a helmet?
James Manto
Sure, if u put it that way....or so I guess...
I actually have a "last ditch" arisaka. Front sight is pretty much a metal cube with a notch/blade welded to the top on the barrel. Story goes my great grandfather mailed it back to the states from where he fought on Iwo Jima.
I have an arisaka that wasn't a last ditch effort
If you wanted a really in depth look at the desperation throughout the war i suggest checking out Forgotten weapons video on the evolution of the Kar98k
It was basically just milled parts and solid stocks pre/early war and laminate stocks and stamped parts mid/late war. And smaller stuff like sight latters marked on both sides early on, cleaning rods being omitted, welded barrel bands, and different qualities of bluing in the early war and phosphate later on. They also pulled old Gewehr98 rifles out of storage and retrofitted those to be slightly more user friendly later on in the war.
*kolibri intensifies*
Note, I know the kolibri wasn’t a German weapon
It was actually extremely complicated and very expensive
The kolobri was the best and most effective gun invented. Change my mind.
It cost $50 to $72 to make each one in 1914. The craziest one was the Austrian mode sets.
Imagine paying $300 in 1916 to put 12 different modes on a gun smaller that your hand. In the WW1 in Washington DC you can see this set. Imagine seeing a Kolobri with a mini scope, extended magazine, and a longer barrel by two inches.
That's the one in men in black right?
I think it was and Austrian gun but had a German name
Fun fact: Denmark lasted only 2-6 hours against the Germans in World War 2.
Edit: ok I might have been wrong about the numbers but still it was very short
I heard it was around 4. Regardless, it was a ridiculously short time
@@chippyho1232 yea
It was six It is sometimes called the six hour war
Danish resistance was also basically non-existent, which combined with them being on the short-list of people considered people by the Nazi's, resulted in a peaceful and soft (as such words can apply to Nazi Germany) occupation compared to other countries.
If I remember correctly, Danish men were walking in Copenhagen as German troops entered the city and the response was along the lines of "Oh, someone is making a movie about Germany invading."
Pretty sure it was six, yeah
The MP 3008 was a copy of the British STEN (itself a simplified version of the Lanchester, a direct copy of the MP-28) in the same 9mm calibre. It cost about 1/20th of the price of the Thompson, and armed resistance movements across half of Europe.
Terry thought it was about wonder weapons when in reality it was the crude weapons lol
A local gun store has a few Volksturm weapons like Volkskarabiner 98s and a Vg1-5, listed for like $10K each in "probably unsafe to fire" condition. The VG1-5 is considered that way since it was produced in the Dachau Camp system, so the prisoners were sabotaging everything they built. The Volksturm was under the control of the Nazi Party, so it was up to the region Gauleiter to procure weapons leading to the variety of last-ditch weapons, such as the Mauser Kreigsmodell, Steyr Vk98, and the Spreewerke VG2 being all based on the K98k, but different due to different specifications from each Gau Volksturm unit
Could you do the Simple History on B17 Bomber crew? With Tom Hanks and Spielberg making a mini series on the bomber crews it might be cool to get your insight or thought on one of the most dangerous jobs of WWII
Axis powers: Makes single use weapons.
Also Axis powers: We're running out of resources.
Single use weapons (and single use items in general) are usually made with a quantity mentality in mind. And usually items that are made with single use in mind can be made much cheaper and use less resources when compared to items that are made to be used over and over again.
Interesting supply fact regarding Imperial Japan: Even the early war Type 99 had a nod to resource shortages. The rifle stock of that style is carved from a single plank of wood and there is a lot of wastage. They 'shortened' the butt stock's height by leaving the bottom part flat, then attaching a piece carved to finish the curve made out of what would have been wastage. Any genuine war stock Type 99 has that attached piece, it always looks like a damage replacement or crack but it is, indeed, as manufactured to save on wood.
A great many German late war weapons are quire unfinished; tool marks, crooked stamps, unmachined edges. Sometimes that extends to the internals. I know of a Beretta 1934 pistol produced during the occupation of Italy which has a trigger pull of about 12 lbs with the hammer cocked, which is very heavy for a cocked pistol, akin to firing a revolver in full double action.
Having seen WWI-era Type 38s and even Type 30s up close, that's all the Japanese could do since their wood blanks( for whatever reason) were too narrow for a proper stock shape
1:24 me getting ready to go to the kitchen rn
When faced with annihilation and nothing left to lose, a nation will do whatever it must to ensure survival.
When the guns are gone, the people fight with clubs and rocks.
When the trucks are destroyed, the people use horses.
When the able-bodied are dead, the young and old take their place.
These weapons were featured on Forgotten Weapons, check that out to see Gun Jesus show the real thing
The last ditch flamethrower makes sense since they were intended to clear out troop implacements and bunkers. Use it, throw it away, and storm the position. Makes sense
9:10 unlike what video games and Hollywood portray people with Flamethrowers being shot as, hitting the tank will actually not explode of using a normal or AP round as the fuel requires a spark or open flame to erupt into fire (however Incendiary, API, and Tracers can cause them to erupt). But being a Flamethrower Trooper that is caught alive by the enemy is not a very good thing. In Japan, due to how destructive and dangerous Flamethrowers were in the Pacific Islands, captured Flamethrower Troopers were always executed just like Tankers. In the Pacific War, if you had a Flamethrower, operated a tank, or were part of the Japanese Military, it was literally Victory or Death
About not wanting to be a flame-thrower guy, very true, but you also don't want to be the guys around him neither.
The screams of the dying is known to have traumatized many people & some even grew to dislike their friendly flame-thrower users because of what they did.
Not only that, the enemy also knew what was coming their way, so they concentrated fire on the flame-throwers. This was such a big issue that the USSR created the ROKS-2 flame-thrower, which was disguised to look like a rifle & backpack.
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It’s said that some of the Japanese home-guard were issued Muskets some dating back to when the Dutch first made contact with the samurai but this is up for debate since there’s allegedly no evidence to support this claim
Any soldier wearing a flamethrower was the biggest target.
you should react to one of Military History Visualized's videos
It wasn't a copy of the "Tommy gun" - It was a copy of the Sten. The Tommy gun was a more expensive model they bought in USA, Sten was a cheaper option they made them self.
Thanks for the info!
You got it wrong about the MP3008. It was a simplified version of the sten gun adapted to the german logistics system. The Sten was a simplified version of the Lanchester Mk1 (a stopgap emergency smg from 1939 produced by britain to fight a possible german invasion). The Lanchester was a simplified version of the german MP28 (german development, mostly commercial, also police use, some exports (e.g . Ethiopia under Hailie Selassie)). The MP28 was an improved version of the famous german MP18, the first smg which was produced and used as a smg.
tldr,
the germans build a improved version of a simplified version of a simplified version of an improved version of thier ww1 smg.
What goes around comes around i guess.
edit. stopped to soon, copy of the american tompson lol. Not even the germans were stupid enough to try produce this waste of tool time masqueading as a smg.
To be honest. As a Finn I wouldn't put much gravitas on the Arisaka sight downgrade. We had one of the most effective snipers in history using somewhat outdated iron sights. The metal downdgrade is where things get bad. I would take crappy sights all day over crappy metal. That will make your aming capability useless
I really appreciate the pausing of the video and like telling us like background information to help us understand more what the video is about, keep up the good work 👍.
For anyone wondering what the weird wings were for on the early War arisaka type 99, those were for helping you lead shots on aircraft. Yes, anti air sights on a bolt action rifle, a questionable choice...
Being the guy with the flamethrower would definitely suck. You’re slowed down by the massive tank, and any time you use it you create a giant bright arrow pointing directly to you. If you were told to use it in direct combat, you were as good as dead. I’ve heard several people say that the life expectancy of a flamethrower in combat was about 12 seconds.
The Germans and Japanese did have some late war advanced designs like the Me-262 jet fighter, the StG-44 assault rifle, and the A7M Reppu fighter. They simply didn't have the manufacturing capacity to make enough to make a difference, nor did they have the highly trained soldiers left to use them to their full potential.
The Thomson was expensive on lease lend and also took. 45acp a American round so the British designed a cheap submachine gun. The origanal sub machine gun for the British was the Lanchester but was only used by the R.N. And was still expensive but used 9mm a more available round. The sten was made as a cheap alternative over 6 million made during the war. And cost under £3 to make 1 compared to the Thomson price of around £180
That's probably why the British didn't deploy the Thompson at large numbers
@@NONO-oy1cu that is correct instead they made their own submachine gun called a sten which was only a fraction of the price and used the more common 9mm round found in Europe as the .45 round was also American.
Flame thrower. Once Upon a time in Hollywood. "Would you like some fried Sauerkraut !?"
Ahh yes, the catling gun, my favorite last ditch axis weapon
The One shot flamethrower is dangerous to the user because it sometimes explodes in the users hand which kills or severely injure’s said person
Flamethrowers are good to "clean" an ennemy position like a blockhaus, if you manage to get close enough.
My man just picked a bowl from his kitchen and put it on his head
call of duty? nah I’m playing world war doh
big man doh (duh)
6:20 No, not clip, _magazine._ A clip is used to fill a magazine, often a fixed one.
The gas delay mechanism of the Gustloffwerke Volkssturmgewehr is also very interesting, but I sure wouldn't call it "simplified blowback" since it is delayed and not straight blowback.
Ian "Gun Jesus" McCollum over at the Forgotten Weapons channel and website has videos and articles on many of the weapons mentioned in the video.
Never knew why the Japanese didn't invest in semi-auto weapons. Would have been a cool idea to see a soldier banzai-charging you with a semi automatic rifle.
They did somewhat. Forgotten Weapons has a couple of great videos on Japanese semiautomatic rifles
Huh, wierd. I was watching the Forgotten Weapons episodes on many of these very weapons this morning.
germany: we are running dangerously low on resources, so we must engineer a solution. A rifle simple to manufacture, yet reliable and does not require much training. The British model should be taken over for this purpose, later we may design our own.
japanese: tube go boom
Love the helmet someone plz buy him a WWI German one
From what I understand... All of the german weapons that were designed and put into service after the war started were basically destined to break. They realized that the average life span of it's soldiers and average duration that a weapon stayed in army possession was only about 2000 or so rounds of ammo. So they basically started skimping on all materials so that their weapons would start producing failures and become inoperable after 2000-3000 rounds.
There are tales of flamethrower troops getting hit by a sniper in the tanks. With an already open flame and free flowing fuel, things didn't go well for the user.
Ian over at forgotten weapons has a few in depth videos with the real ones.
Another fun fact with the Volksturmgehwehr there was 5 versions of it, the semi auto only version mentioned was the nicest of the bunch, the rest were basically all bolt action rifles of varying degrees of terrible quality. Then these bolt actions were then given to the Volksturm, which they were made up of a lot people that previously wouldn't have been eligible for military service whether due to being unfit, too young/too old or what have you. Which the German command basically said that your training is enough to use this and then acquire a better weapon from the soviet troops, aka a PPS-43, PPSH or even a Mosin Nagant of any kind, which you can guess how badly this went.
I like how Hitler hoped for some enigmatic wonder/miracle weapon to save Germany when the real wonder weapon of the war was the a-bomb.
which he hoped for too. If im right the Germans tried to get a nuke going as fast as they could and in the end the Americans just captured the german researcher and combined them with their own researchers to make the Atom bomb
Good vid. Could you do a vid on the physics, or history of the wonder weapon, Die Glocke?
There was other last ditch German weapons, there was various VG 98 rifles, Kar 98s were simplifed or in some cases a completely simple and new design, for example one VG rifle used G43 magazines. Along with these simplifed weapons, captured weapons from Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, and other German conquered lands we pulled from storage to arm the Volksturm and i think even the army had to use these forgin weapons, though this would make it a logistical nightmare if an army did this, its not really a nightmare if its in the desperate defence situation. If your low on ammo just take a gun from the Soviet soldier you just shot, take a fallen ally's weapon, or get issued a new weapon.
That sturmghewier is a pretty good gun id say even in battlefield it’s good
It was not a copy of the thommy gun,
It was a copy from the british sten gun
Thommy gun was too expensive
He is only teacher I’ve seen that plays the video and doesn’t keep the cursor over the pause button
Great video
3:12 fair to say that most modern wars are wars of resources. I don't think any amount of tactical brilliance is changing how many bullets you have.
Unless that brilliance is related to getting bullets.
Mr Terry can I ask what’s your opinion on people saying we’re living in historic times right now? With the possibility of people like you (or you) doing videos about the virus of 2020 and all the events surrounding it
CZcams will demonetize for any mention of covid 19
Well, have the helmet, might use It aswell.
Nice live! Hope everyone is ok!
I knew before going in to it he was going to think it was going to be about wonder weapons. I'm only disappointed by how long it took him to figure out it was about the exact opposite.
I love the helmet Mr Tez, where can I get one?
Literally any army surplus store.
pretty sure it’s just an M1 helmet liner , eg., not the entire helmet
Can u do a video about kamakazi pilots?
Another good things to study when it comes to done when resources are low is the Finnish weapons (both improvised and purpose built ones) in the Winter War as during the Winter War Finns were low in pretty much everything but enemies and thus had to beg, borrow and steal what ever supplies they could (sometimes literally, it's joked here that our greatest supplier during the Winter War was the Soviet Union due the amount of supplies we stole from them. FYI:I'm using "we" here in a collective sense as I wasn't born until 1982 and thus didn't live during the Winter War).
The MP3008 was a copy of the British Sten gun not the Thompson Mr Terry.
The MP 3008 was a copy of the Sten. There doesn't seem to be a submachine gun with the designation "MP3."
@@JonathanRossRogers i shortened the name. I was correcting what Mr Terry said when he suggested the mp008 was a copy of the Tommy gun the narrator said it was a copy of the Sten.
@@eezZzee I know what you were attempting to correct. What good is a correction if it is incorrect itself? There is a very well-known submachine gun designated MP5, so it wouldn't be surprising if there had been an MP3 or MP4, though I was not able to find evidence of either.
The Mp3 macine gun sounds like an mp3 soundfile of a macine gun lol.
@@JonathanRossRogers ...errm what?
So Japan started crafting Fallout 4 pipe rifles????
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16:00 that looks more like a weird sword than a rifle.
That flamethrower though 😁
Should have put more resources into securing the ark of the covenant. Major game changer.
Too bad he didn't mention the "Fliegerfaust". A 8-barreled rocketlauncher with an, approximate, range of 500 meters. None were ever found. But photos of them in piles of rubble were made. So we know they existed.
Well the German "invented" the/a effective Rocket thrower to fight the russian panzer at the end of the war. So not every last ditch weapon was bad
You mean, after they captured U.S. Bazookas and then copied the principles?
53kenner he’s talking about the Panzerfaust, which is the idea the US decided to base the M1 Bazooka off of, which the Germans then copied to make their Panzerschreck
Traqqer1 the Panzerfaust wasn’t a last ditch weapon, it was the first example of a disposable Anti-Tank weapon, which is a concept still used today with the US based AT4. It has none of the hallmarks of a last ditch weapon (besides being disposable). It was also one of the first AT weapons to utilize a shaped charge warhead to defeat enemy armor.
@@Sturmischer The US M1 Bazooka was the original man-portable recoilless anti-tank weapon. The German Panzerschreck was inspired by the Bazooka.
@@Sturmischer The AT4 was designed in Sweden by Saab Bofors Dynamics, though the US military contributed some design improvements.
Yeah, I think hitler referred to things more like the V2 as a "miracle weapon"
So Flamethrowers actually are an interesting weapon, they do not compare to grenades and such.
They conduct themselves in a severely different manner, for instance the fuel shot can be bounced off of walls allowing the flamethrowers to be very efficient in clearing rooms, furthermore the fire eats up the Oxygen meaning if the fuel doesnt spread its still very likely lethal to the people exposed to it.
In this sense I actually really like the idea of a portable one use Flamethrower, especially so with CQC units and depending on the situation Paratroopers, commandos in general.
Interestingly enough Flamethrowers arent banned by the geneva convention making this an even more interesting school of thought.
(sorry for poor english no native speaker)
The voice in the ,Simple History' video allways said ,Volkstum' translated into english this means , peoples Tower' which is Nonsens. The first s behind Volk is spoken and necessary for german grammar reasons. The word Sturm means normaly storm, but in this case i would translate it AS ,levy'. In 17th, and epecially 18th century Germany the soldiers nad been usualy professional soldiers, but sometimes the oldstyle militia levies hat been mobilized. Those levies hat been offen been called Landsturm or Landwehr.
This is how I’m studying history during the quarantine
@@advikkant2447 calm the hell down
Unless we count the japanese one-shot rifles then these should be pretty effective. VG1-5 is essentially comparable to what a civilian today has but of lower quality (it's essentially semi-auto assault rifle), and that's in time when military standard was bolt-action or semi-auto rifle. The flamethrower is very useful even for one burst: you can clear rooms, machine gun posts, pillboxes, possibly even tanks and armored vehicles could be endangered by it (and consumption of fuel is not such a problem, because it can use lowest of the low when it comes to synthetic gasoline). The only bad aspect of the flamethrower is literally it's unreliability.
I swear, the MP 3008 looks also kinda familiar to the American M3 Greese Gun, no? no?
Alright.
Laci Pados All of them are 2nd gen SMGs, they look similar.
Mr terry looks like he has done nothing but teleport bread for three days
No, the m0 3008 is based on the British sten gun, not American thompson
MP 3008 NOT a copy of the Tommy gun MR. Terry , it is a copy of the British Sten gun built to replace the highly expensive Thompson SMG!
I actually have a last ditch type 99, and its not as bad of a rifle as they make it out to be, it's called practically. At no time were you sholtimg someone at 1000 yards with iron sites, nor did the rifle need the airplane sights. Just a simple 100 yard zero.
He's pronunciation is a bit off. The flamethrower is s before the t
Eins-toss-flammenwefer.
Just so you guys can say it right if you talk about it.
Not meant to be an insult.
to give you an idea of how bad it was for the Japanese and how desperate they were. the last ditch anti-tank weapon was explosive on the end of a bamboo pole which when detonated would impale the user with the bamboo pole
The wonder weapons were things like the Tiger 2, or the Yamato, or the Me262. All of those had their brief time in the sun and were found lacking. Desperation weapons are less "one gun to rule them all" and more an effort to find something, anything, that can throw a bullet. And a warm body to operate it. When a government starts cannibalizing it's civilians to fight a lost cause the people they are tasked to protect should force them out of office, but years of industrialization, conformity, and xenophobia have a way of taking all the pride and self worth out of people and turning them into little more than compliant robots. And this is by design. Ultimately this is why no one who holds power can be trusted.
When I first started looking at WWII casualties for Germany, I thought the big losses were from 1943 or earlier. Kursk, Stalingrad, the loss of Axis forces surrendered to the Allies in North Africa, I was familiar that 1942-1943 was a disaster for Germany. I was surprised to find out those were a drop in the bucket compared to what the German military suffered in 1944-45. Continued campaign in Italy. The two Allied invasions of France, Operation Overlord in the North, and Dragoon in the South, and the subsequent campaign to liberate France causing heavy casualties to the German military. If that wasn't bad enough, the Red Army destroyed Army Group Center with Operation Bagration that was happening at the same time. 1944 was the Apocalypse for Germany with all these trained soldiers killed, wounded, or taken prisoner in Italy and the Western and Eastern fronts.
So then you got these children and old men called up for the newly formed Volkssturm in late 1944 to stem the tide. They need to be armed with weapons on a large scale. Cheaply. With resources that Germany can ill afford. Young kids being armed with cheap weapons, thrown into the war. Old men that stuck their necks out for Germany in WWI are being tossed a cheap weapon as they are called back into service. IIRC, most of the Volkssturm was being used to slow down the Russians.
If *that* wasn't bad enough already, Hitler calls for the Ardennes Offensive in late 1944 using basically the last strong reserves of Germany, well equipped and trained men, which fails. Irreplaceable losses.
The losses just keep piling up. These ill trained, ill equipped replacements are no match to properly trained, by now seasoned troops from the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, who are also well equipped, well supplied. The result is an insane slaughter.
It's just sad, I think. The writing was on the wall in 1943, by mid 1944 peace should have been sought. But that wasn't happening, so you got another year of slaughter and devastation.
I love videos about these weapons because late in the war, the germans got super desperate and their weapons were actually quite amazing and innovative (not showing sympathy xD) and these weapons in general on both sides were amazing. Recently i just achieved a dream of mine since i was young and saw saving private ryan and managed to purchase an M1 Garand. Keep up the amazing work!
It took all my effort to not freak out when he called the Sten a Tommy gun. I use a sten for airsoft and have had people say "Cool mp40 dude" or "Is that a grease gun!?" It's always rage inducing.
me and my step dad each own our own Mauser. and I hope to buy a mosin nagant soon.
He looks like a great history teacher, i would love history class if he was my teacher, i like history alr, and he seems like a great teacher
i believe ian of forgotten weapons has a couple videos on these guns
I think more interesting than the MP3008 is the EMP-44 (it never really made it to production). It looked like a submachine gun made out of plumbing pipes welded together. Guess it wasn't mentioned because the MP3008 actually did make it to production
The Brit Sten Gun according to my sniper Uncle who came back from Burma it was uselessly unreliable. With other info from the Front Line.
Finally! A teacher thats a Gamer and a very fun teacher to see!
My question is, how on God’s Green Earth do you simplify a goddamn Sten further? It was already pretty much a pipe gun and you could probably knock five of them out in an hour, it’s parts could literally be replaced by things you can find in your home. Infact if the gun spring broke you could just go to a screen door and take the spring or coil out of that, put it in the Sten and it’d work fine. It’s such a simple and effective weapon that you can still find them everywhere in places like Iraq or Afghanistan.
So how on earth do you simplify it further?
0:42 those were called wonder waffe and a few of them were built theyre just kindve underwhelming and came way too late to do anything
Rather be the flane trooper than the guy getting hit by it
“So it’s a copy of the tommy gun?”
NO! It’s a vertical mag sten gun!
“So last ditch axis weapons weren’t improvements?”
What do you think last ditch means? They’re not gonna pull a super weapon out of theyre ass