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Some of these weapons are certainly the epitome of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" especially the M2 and the B-52. They just work, and they work well. Its not to say there isnt _any_ way to improve on them, we definitely have upgraded things over the last 50-100 years but the platform stays the same because there's almost no reason to change it.
No it's more of "it ain't broke and we can't improve it". They've tried to replace the M2 3 times that I know of.
@@m2hmghb lmao true, true
@@whatbroicanhave50character35 Did you see the 338 norma magnum they're talking about using to supplement the M2? That's going to be an interesting thing.
@@m2hmghb no but I'll be taking a look for sure, thanks for the info bud
@@whatbroicanhave50character35 Special forces wanted something lighter then the M2 with more range then 308 for their patrol vehicles - so they could dismount it if needed. MG338 is the name. Have a good one man.
The 50 caliber machine gun was carried on foot by 3 Marines back in the 90's when I was a mud rolling pfc. The the receiver is 80ish pounds and the barrels are 49 Inches long. Can hit targets well past 1 mile. A masterpiece of weaponry
Yep, they keep trying to replace it and have only wasted millions in their effort.
@@tommywalker3746 it's been fitted to aircraft, ships, more vehicles than I can count, and land based AAA mounts.
Really? We carried ours full assembled…on our tank.
@@gawainethefirst I went from 82nd to 3AD in the 80s. Did not want to go, but man, you guys pulled your load and then some and I was so lucky 5th Mech saved my ass in Panama. I was young and dumb, just dumb now LOL, humping that 80lb receiver to the motor pool. Salute to you Treadhead (meant with respect and you can joke o n me too)
@@gawainethefirst tanker's got jokes
When I joined the Army Nation Guard in 1984 we still had the M1911. From the serial numbers we figured out some had been in inventory since WW1.
And for some dumb reason the US decided to use foreign guns like the Glock
I was in the Navy 90/93, and we were still using M1911s.
My fathers M1911 in WWII was a civilian issue prior to WWI. The gun was drafted.
And they still work exactly as designed.
I carried a 1911 in the Army, when you picked it up it rattled, but it never missed. Been packing 1911s ever since, for work, and now for personal protection. It's just a marvel of American magical missile fire
Moral of the story…John Browning was an absolute genius. The firearms industry is still feeling his contribution to the field almost 100 years after his death. Talk about a legacy
he went on to design the browning hi-power 9mm. 1911 45 acp is obsolete
Although John Browning began the design of the Browning high power, He died in 1926 and the design of the gun was finished several years later by someone else at FN Herstal.
Over 128 gun patents to his name
@@Robertsmith-un5cu you do realize there’s multiple different calibers that you can make the 1911 in fact they sell the 1911 and multiple different calibers
he was also a medical doctor
Most of the firearms in this video were all designed by John Browning. His designs in military and civilian firearms have stood the test of time and in some cases are still the best option.
John Browning, the BEST firearm designer in my opinion, bar none!
The cost on those weapons for civilian use is why I’m so happy to have a career. I can finally save to afford it 😅
@@erictownsend4236I say its more of a fact than a opinion. Some of his designs are timeless and he is considered the Father of Modern Firearms.
John Browning: The patron saint of wireless hole punching.
If it has Browning in the name it's golden. They've made some improvements over time but the original base designs are to solid to change.
1911 pistols are very readily available in the US, even at civilian facilities.
The 1903 Springfield is also available - if a little less common.
The M1919 ad M2 machine guns - require a special license, but there
are indeed places in the US where you might be allowed to fire them.
As always, love your videos, and look forward to your next.
> Regarding the Department of Civilian Marksmanship Weapons program., or DCM program. The U.S. government has a lot of various weapons in the strategic war reserves , and some have been labeled surplus, reworked or rebuilt as needed in the armories then placed for direct sale to American citizens if they are qualified. That means join and shoot in a few matches , fill out a special form, pay fees, get Finger pried and photographed and after that is all done as required you are eligible to apply and pay for one weapon or another if available. There used to be 1911 .45 pistols and other stuff available, very cheap., but sold out here now.. These days its pretty expensive, like 700. dollars for a Garand m1 semiautomatic rifle chambered in 30-06, holds 8 rounds and was standard issue during ww11. And it was probably used during ww11, and has been refurbished. They work great. I have used and fired all the different models and believe it or not, it is shipped directly to your doorstep by U.S.Mail, no additional ffl deal needed they also have m1 carbine simi automatic, 1903 bolt action 30_06 rifles and a few other things as available, all this sponsored by the united states government to help train civilians how to shoot... In the united states in most states there is no firearms qualification permits for rifle, pistol, shotgun, no home inspection or mandatory storage vaults inside your home or inspection Suprise at any time by firearms police , and the " Firearms Police " do not exist in America . We do have laws, and they vary from state to state.. In the U.S. we even have " Constitutional concealed carry in about 1/3 of our states. If you are a qualified American citizen in a carry State, conceal the gun , knife, automatic pistol, revolver , sap , monkey fist, impact Baton, pepper spray, and electroshock tasers, etc around your body, concealed , and go grocery shopping. There are special rules and regulations required. That DCM program has been running since the early 1900s. They can be found on google.
Heard of some outfit(near Las Vegas?) where you can shoot a quad M2. Of course you might as well be using $20 bills as ammo lol
What gun isn't available in this dog poop country?
They make semi auto M242's as well. So eventhough its not the same as an M2, you can get them without a license. They are still like $10-15,000 though.
I carry a 1911 everyday.
The genius of John Moses Browning ....
My wife and I just went to the Columbus Ohio air show. Took a huey ride...Doors open. A roller coaster with no tracks. It was my 2nd, her first...
If you guys can swing it, you absolutely have to go to an airshow on one of your trips. The 50 calibers were used on several models of the B52s as tail guns. No B52 was ever shot down by an enemy fighter, but two B52 tailgunners shot down enemy fighters using 50 caliber gun turrets. The B52 may be the first US military aircraft to see service for over 100 years.
Is it true that .50 calibers have enough speed and force that they can kill you if they hit you in the arm?
@@throughthoroughthought8064 Death from a bullet in a limb happens through blood loss. Any bullet could potentially kill you if you get hit in the arm, but, yes, if an .50 caliber round from an M2 hits you square in the arm, you will likely die unless you get medical attention quickly to stop the blood loss.
Sort of….. there is enough kinetic force in a .50 round (and certainly in multiple rounds that it can complete destroy the main artery in the arm which could bleed out very quickly
@@throughthoroughthought8064 I suppose. The ones we were loaded with were armor piercing, incendiary rounds. A single round in the right spot could take out an enemy fighter jet, so I can imagine one round could take off a limb and you might bleed out.
Machine guns date back far longer then most people realize. The machines existed but the black powder ammunition put out so much soot that it would jam them up relatively fast. There were repeating muskets/rifles dating back to the 1500s - forgotten weapons has videos on them.
The last B52 was built around 1968. Figuring 24 years per generation that's 3 generations of pilots with the 4th being 8 years in. The same plane could have had the grandfather the father and the son flying it. My dad was on them during Nam, flew on missions out of Thailand as the crew chief. Pilots would be leery of flying after damage was repaired unless the crew chief was willing to fly on them so my dad flew on quite a few missions.
I think there was a story with an Airman working on the exact same B52 his father served on recently.
There was one Browning M2 (the big .50 cal) that was turned in at the Marine armory for routine maintenance. Armorer pulled the maintenance record and found it had never been serviced despite having been built just after WW1. It deployed to WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and other conflicts, plus constant training use before finally requiring maintenance.
103 years of heavy use before needing worked on. Wild.
It's the GAU 8/A Avenger that's built into the nose of the A10 Warthog
Came down here to say the same thing. Easy to confuse if you're not familiar. That one is a 20mm gun and sees use in the f15 eagle and others. The one in the warthog is 30mm
@@whatbroicanhave50character35 🤣 TFE talked about it on his channel! 😊
WRONG! The THUNDERBOLT 2 was built around the gun...
Actually was built around the end of the aircraft lol
Nothing John browning built will feel that’s why it’s still here today
Browsing guns have no feelings
@@VIDSTORAGE They also have no spellcheck built in.
Both the M14 rifle and the M2 machinegun can be rented at some ranges in the US so depending on who hooks you up it should be doable. Stuff like the 3 Springfield or 1911 pistol are fairly common so should not be hard to find someone who will let you try one of those.
Even though the B-52 did not start operations till after the mid 50s, it was on the conceptional drawing board just before WWII ended.
John Browning designed many firearms both for military and sporting purposes. There’s a museum dedicated to him in Ogden, Utah. If you are a fan of Browning it is a must-visit. My grandfather carried the Browning BAR in WWII during the liberation of France. I own a civilian version I use for deer hunting. 🦌
Firearms instructor here. A lot of the weapons around nowadays had their designs perfected decades ago. Instead, they have only been incrementally built upon with modern day technology, such as optics getting better, adding silencers to the gun, improvements in the ammunition, etc. For example: The M1919 machine gun they show in the initial picture is seen with a cloth belt connecting the ammunition. Nowadays, it's been modified with disintegrating belt links to hold the rounds together.
Generally speaking, the phrase "military grade" means "made by the lowest bidder". They aren't going to be the nicest guns, but they are the most cost effective to maintain. The military tends to look for 3 qualities: Durability, modularity, and simplicity. For example, the US Army switched over to Glock from the M9 (military designation for the Beretta 92). Glocks all have less than 35 total parts in them and you can work on them without tools. The Army's field repair kit for the Glock pistol is 2 extra barrels, 2 extra slides, and 2 extra frames. If something goes wrong, you take the pistol apart without tools and swap out the entire part with one of the extras provided. While you can use tools to disassemble a Glock further, but that's typically relegated to armorers and repairmen. I constantly tell people that the Glock pistol is essentially the Honda Civic of the gun world- it's simple, reliable, easy to work on, and if you trick it out you're missing the point.
If you are interested in shooting a lot of these guns in their full capabilities, your best bets of doing so in the US will likely be in 1 of 3 areas: Arizona, Texas, or in Las Vegas (Nevada). There are plenty of military bases but also privately owned civilian gun ranges with the proper permits to allow you to shoot all of these weapons. Don't be afraid to ask questions, either. A good RSO (Range Safety Officer) should be more than willing to explain things to you.
What would you guys say are the most iconic American firearms? Imo its gotta be:
--M16/AR15
--Thompson SMG (Tommy gun)
--M1 Garand
--Colt M1911
--Colt Model 1873 revolver (Colt .45)
M14, M60, Springfield 1903, Henry Repeating rifle, BAR, Winchester 1897 aka the trench gun
Remington 870 (nothing like the sound of racking that action), and the Remington 700
Kentucky Long Rifle
Winchester 1873, Colt Peacemaker (SAA), M1 Garand, Thompson SMG, M2, M1911, M16, Double Barrel Shotgun (SxS Coach Gun)
And I love you guys! What I love about your channel is how much I learn about my own country by watching your channel! I think the right saying for this older arsenal is "Tried and True!" Thank you once again for the research you put into your channel. It really shows.
Trivia piece for you. The first Gatling Gun style "machine gun" was the Puckle Gun built and patented in 1718, which is 73 years before the 2nd Amendment was written. That makes peoples arguments that the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to semi and full automatic guns because they "only had muskets back then" and couldn't imagine or build more modern or rapid firing guns null and void. The Puckle Gun also shot both round and square bullets! The round ones were used for firing at Christians and the square ones were for firing at marauding Turks because he believed the square ones would do more damage!
Another trivia piece for you. Developed in 1779, the Girandoni rifle was a .46 caliber rifle with a 20 round magazine. It had an effective range of 150 yards. This helps to make moot the argument that 'they only had muskets back then.'
@@tattooedman42 I forgot about that one. Learned about it at a Lewis and Clark exhibition where they told of Lewis demonstrating his air powered rifle to the Indians. It took a LOT of hand pumping (like 1000-1500 pumps with the hand pump) to charge the tank reservoir and they eventually made a wagon mounted pump to do it quickly! Shows that way back then they were resourceful and could not only imagine but build many styles of guns, repeating revolvers, Gatlings, high capacity mags/tubes and belt fed systems. Thanks for reminding me of that one!
@@kevinfleming9919 Interesting. Thank you for that info. Always glad to learn something new.
I was in the US Navy in the 70s. We used the M-14 to send lines from ship to ship or for docking, ship to shore. Small diameter rope was shot tied to the shot weight (projectile) and then the smaller line was used to pull in larger ropes.
We came into port after being on a WestPac (West Pacific Cruise) and the shot lines were fired to the dock. One skipped off the pavement and went into the crowd waiting for us to dock. Wives, family and hit one woman in the head. She was ok but it knocked her out on impact.
The M60 was my lady of choice while in the U.S. Marines . We covered many miles together . It was also called SAW , Squad Automatic Weapon . It fired the 7.62 - 51mm round , also called a 308 . She was a little on the heavy side to carry around . She was around 30 lbs , not including ammo . We usually had 2 extra barrels , 1000 rounds of ammo and a by-pod . I can only remember 2 of us ever doing the transporting . She was very reliable and she spit fire . Me being 6.6 and 215 lbs made me a good choice to be the SAW's Grunt !!! My U.S. Marine period was cut short by the truck bomb that blew up our barracks on Oct. 23, 1983. 220 Marines plus sailors that totaled 241 Brothers ! Also the French barracks were bombed the same day and 58 French Paratroopers lost their lives , plus 5 or 6 civilians were lost . It happened 2 days before my 20th birthday . It was a mess and it brings back bad memories when my birthday rolls around . I don't know of any videos of that time , but I do know there are books and info if you are interested !!
I remember...sorry you got caught up in that.....Beirut '83 was such a goat rodeo. I'm not an expert by any means but leaving you guys vulnerable there seems such a failure of leadership. I mean what did they think was going to happen when we started lobbing in 2,000 pound shells into the middle of a civil war?
Never heard the M60 referred to as a SAW. In the Army we called it the 60 or, more affectionately, the Hog.
The saw is the M-249 sorry bud
@@tattooedman42We called it “The Pig”.
The FN M249 SAW is 5.56 not 7.62. That is the M60.
Maybe you guys don't notice, but Denzel's expressions are priceless!!!
The M2 (Ma Deuce) .50 BMG (12.7x99mm NATO) gun was the one used by the US Army Air Forces during WWII. It was mounted in the wings of US fighter planes , generally 3 per wing. The P-47 had 4 in each wing.. They were also mounted in bombers as defensive weapons. It had, and still does, have various ammo that can be fired, Ball (solid), Tracer, Armor Piercing, Incendiary, and saboted sub-caliber. I have fired one, and it is a beast.
When you do get to shoot, it’s okay to be scared. In fact you should be scared. I’ve been shooting all my life and I still get scared. As soon as you don’t, people get hurt. When it come to firearms fear and respect are essential.
No fear just respect...
Starts as fear.
I have a carrot peeler I got from my mother that has seen near daily use for about 70 years and has never dulled. I have a fridge in my basement almost as old. I don’t think there’s been a manufactured good made in the last 30 years that can hold a candle to what was produced in the 50s and 60s.
Computers and electronics, but otherwise I agree.
Well, for the civilian side of things, it's a little idea that big corporations came up with... it's called "programmed obsolescence", because why would you need to buy a second of anything if the first one never breaks down?... big corporation literally invented the disposable culture of the current generations (from millennial to alpha), so we can thank big corporations for wasting the planets resources for a quick buck
I was in an Air Defense Artillery unit In the mid 80's and primary weapon was M61 Vulcan mounted on an Armored Personnel Carrier. We used it to bring down enemy planes. Those things are wickedly awesome. Freaking Outstanding weapon system.
I'm a Infantrymen American Veteran. OPFOR. Ive been a door gunner on a Huey. It's like being on a roller coaster for two hours.
A HUGE part of the sudden jump in weapons development was the man whose name you kept hearing in the video. John Browning was a design genius and completely changed gun design and operation and did in both handguns and rifles/ machine guns. The M-60 as they mentioned borrowed from a couple of different German machine guns. Aside from that and the M-16 and the 20MM Vulcan Machine Cannon the others were all John Browning designs.
The Springfield is a direct copy of the German Mauser. We were caught in WW1 and had to pay royalty till WW2 , when people stopped caring about German intellectual rights. It is a Mauser in an American caliber..
The rifle itself as a whole is not a direct copy, the Germans argued that the action was tho and while heavily based on the Mauser design (which was observed to be extremely good during the Spanish-American war when the Mauser Model 1893 was in service with Spain) it is not a 1:1 copy of it either, but close enough that Mauser was able to argue intellectual property right claims and win in court, hence the royalty payments.
Edit: It should also be worth noting that the US did license many of the German patents, but assumed there would be enough variation on other parts where patent infringement wouldn't come into play, which was not a good assumption.
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I believe that is "The changing of the Guard" at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Va.
I'm surprised the M1 Garand rifle wasn't on the list. It was the main battle rifle for the US during WWII.
These lists are always weird in what they do and don't include. The B52? Sure, it was designed to level small cities. The Stratotanker? It's a flying gas station not a weapon.
@@md_vandenberg and yet, without the tanker, a lot of more "weapony" planes would never get where they need to go... 🤔
But is it still in use...? That was the qualification for the list... (Although they stretched it a lot in my opinion by saying a couple were "still in use in honor guards and drill teams")
Because it isn’t in use anymore. This video is about the ones still in use.
@@md_vandenberg no gas, no go, as my tanker friends say
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Hey New Zealand Family, another fantastic video. Just a couple quick points of distinction for you. You saw the M61 20mm Vulcan Rotary Cannon that is used on most of our fighter jets, as well as the CWIS or phalanx anti-aircraft systems, firing about 6000 rounds a minute...that weapon fires a round that is 20mm wide...that's the bullet part of it. The shell casing is between 30-40mm wide which sounds like a ridiculously big "bullet" to fire, until you talk about the GAU A/8 Avenger 30mm cannon on the nose of the A-10 Warthog. That will fire 4000 rnds/minute. but the rounds are much, much bigger and more devastating than even the 20mm ones.
Nadine was talking about the buzzing noise or the almost roaring sound. A big reason for that is the rate of fire. The human ear cannot distinguish hundreds of separate gunshot noises from each other when they are fired so quickly. So even though we are hearing several hundred BANG BANG BANGs in a 1-2 second burst of fire, our brain just tells us it's a loud Buzz. The 30mm cannon on the "Hawg", even though it's cycling rounds at a slightly slower rate, had a louder "bark" to its bite, simply because the rounds are 50% larger than they are in the 20mm vulcan cannons on fighter jets. I hope that makes sense and helps explain the reason behind the noises we hear.
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Actually the gatling gun (repeating gun) was first made in the mid 1800's. That is where the idea came from for the machine guns. It was used in the Civil War along with other wars like the Indian wars. It is amazing to think that it was invented while men were still using muskets.
How many of these weapons were designed by John Moses Browning? The greatest gun designer in American history.
They didn't mention the browning automatic combat shotgun! Love you guys and I see the Unsubscribe Podcast mentioned you! So, when you going to Demolition Ranch? 😊
I tell you from personal experience, the M-60 machine gun was a real pain in the butt to carry. That's about 9 kilos, I think, and very awkward not to mention the weight of all the ammunition you have to carry. The rest of the machinegun team has to carry ammo, tripod and spare barrel. Yes, a spare barrel because it gets hot and if it's a prolonged gunfight your barrel will start to get hot enough to droop or melt.
The Vulcan was also on the AC130 and they were amazing to watch on the range.
The 50 cal round itself is now used in a shoulder fired rifle used by snipers.
I love my 1911! M60 gunner carried the 1911 for self protection because you couldn't carry an M60 and an M16.
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My father was in the National Guard in the 1970's through the 1980's. He worked on the photographic equipment on the old F4 Phantom Jet aircraft that took aerial reconnaissance photography. They had a bumper sticker back then that read "JET NOISE: The Sound of Freedom".
Our hometown Air National Guard now has the KC-135 Stratotankers seen in the video.
I was a Heavy Machine Gun Section Leader in Operation Desert Storm and during Operation Restore Hope in Africa....the M2 Browning 50 caliber is the most awesome gun ever built. When the Big Dog barks, it gets attention, some good, some bad....but im here because that gun saved lives....
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My favorite helicopter is the Chinook
Same, because it can be used to take other helicopters, lol
It’s two palm trees f***ing a dumpster
@d.i.m.eproductions6925 my husband, who recently died of cancer, piloted Chinooks for years. Jerk
@@happyretireeshc apparently he never told you the joke then
@@happyretireeshc and why are you trying to trauma dump to a complete stranger on the internet? That’s kind of weird
Just a few points of note, the M61 Vulcan is not the gun used in the A-10 as was alluded to a 3:35 the gun in the A-10 is the GAU-8/A Avenger a 30mm gun unlike the M61 which is a 20mm however, both share the same design principles of being a rotary cannon.
The 1911 is no longer in use with the USMC the sidearm currently in service is the M18.
The M14 isn't in service anymore really either, with the exceptions of the USN when firing a shot line as per example at 3:37 and some SOF implementations (M25), while technically not the military per say USCG also uses it as well for interdiction missions, as well a ceremonial parade rifles which technically are not field serviceable.
The M1919 has long since been phased out of US service, but is still in service internationally.
Something not mentioned is the Stratofortress is a nuclear capable aircraft and since the latest engine retrofit where they are getting fitted with Rolls Royce F130's it is alleged that the aircraft will stay in service into the 2050's until fully replaced by the Raiders, which would make it the longest serving aircraft in US history at a full century of service.
I would have also added the C-130 Hercules to this list, it has been in service since 1956 and has been used in every conflict since as a transport aircraft in its C-130 role and as a combat aircraft in its AC-130 role, not to mention its SAR role is USCG service.
Also technically speaking the USMC Model 1859 NCO Sword is technically the longest serving piece of US equipment in totality, being introduced in 1895 with unbroken service since.
The last pilot to fly the B-52 hasn't been born yet.
Big fan here from Canada, I watched your Thanksgiving video and how you cooked your turkey. I'm a French Canadian and my grandmother used cooked the turkey with 250g of bacon over the breast of the turkey. This used to base the turkey and prevented it from drying out. So, she used to base the skin with melted butter, this prevented the skin to stick to the bacon. Cooked the turkey for one hour at 325f then take the bacon off and repeat. One more layer of butter and the other 250g of bacon, cook it for another hour. After the hour, she take the turkey out, remove the bacon and put another layer of butter on the skin with salt and pepper. Place the turkey back into the oven for about another hour and a half or until it reach 170 degrees fully cooked. This last hour and a half crisp up the skin and brown it also. The cooked bacon, she'd crumbled it and put it in the mashed potatoes. Just an idea how French Canadian cooked their turkey for Thanksgiving. Keep up the good work. Peace.
I was a Medic in the North Carolina Army National Guard from 1981 to 1987. There were still a lot of old weapons still in service. My Medical Platoon flew in a Huey to train for medical evacuations.
My uncle was with the 211th in clyde north carolina from returning from vietnam untill after desert storm.
The oldest standard issue machine gun is the M2 Browning and it was developed by the legendary gun designer and manufacturer John Moses Browning
Interesting side note: The UH-1 (aka "Huey") is also called "Chopper" because of the "copping" sound it makes when in flight.
Kinda disappointing that the program they were watching didn't use the actual _name_ of the UH-1 : Iroquois.
When I was in the Army, the Huey I was on crashed, fortunately we weren't very high up yet. It hit on it's skids, bounced once, and landed on it's side. We all got out, bumps, and bruises, and the Huey was flying a week later.
During a firepower demonstration, I watched a truck mounted, Vulcan 20mm cannon, turn an armored personal carrier (APC) into a pile of aluminum scrap in just a few minutes, that armor is two, to three inches thick.
Hey, don't know if y'all noticed, but @ 09:09 you can see the tracer rounds. The tracer is every 5th round and is red tipped. Also, check out "Dragons Breath". I have some in .410 shotgun for my Taurus Judge. It is like fireworks coming out of the barrel. !!
The M2 Browning has outlasted several purported replacements.
I was an Aviation Ordinanceman in the Navy ive worked with or shot most of these weapons some are over 90 years old if it aint broke it doesnt need to be replaced plain and simple
The reason the Navy 20 mm cannon/gatlin gun sounds like a lawn mower, is that sometimes they use Depleted Uranium rounds/bullets. those are 3 times harder than Steel, and twice as heavy as Lead, so their penetration power is extremely high. Nashville is my home, and usually we have 12 C-130-H planes here, but they are out on Deployment right now. I would suggest seeing the Patterson/Wright Air Force Museum as it's free to the Public. The 1903 Springfield was used by Sergeant York during WW 1. Love your channel!!! BTW, have you seen a Bald Eagle in flight yet ???
Ma Deuce; bringing fear to the enemy to this day. Newer weapons may have a more rapid rate of fire, but having 1/2 inch diameter projectiles chewing up the landscape is nothing less than awe inspiring. Starting in WW II it's been mounted on just about any fixed or mobile platform imaginable. If the name Browning is part of a weapons system, it's golden.
You should check out some of the silent drill teams from the armed services! Marines, Air Force, Army, Navy each one has a silent drill team, also you should check out the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds, they fly in formation and also do other tricks in the air with their jets! Awesome reaction. Those are all child friendly so you can let the kids watch as well!
I live in the hometown of John M. Browning, the designer of many of the firearms on the list. There is a local museum with many of his creations.
For your next trip, I would recommend visiting some of the military museums if you enjoy military history. I would also suggest looking for museum ships. Most of them are very well preserved and really suck you into the history behind them. USS Iowa for instance is in Los Angeles.
1:00 "That's the superfortress"
No. B29 was MUCH smaller than B52... BUFF to start with, and later BUFF-y the forehead slayer
3:38 "Like in the A10 Warthog"
The Vulcan is the same concept, just smaller. That's the baby brother of the GAU-8 (the A10s cannon).
When you are in the US the Airforce museum in Dayton Ohio is a place where you can see much more than any military base. It is a free museum, they do take donations of any size if you are able to give one. More than you can see in one day !!
The GAU 8/A Avenger Gatling Canon (30 mm rounds) is the eldest brother where as the M61 Vulcan Gatling Canon is the 1st middle child of the family and the M134 Minigun is the 2nd middle child. The XM556 Microgun is currently the youngest sibling.
M1903 is technically the oldest in use. However the 1911 (known modernly as the M45) and M2 are still in ACTIVE use. M2's are fun.
The concept of being "the right tool for the job" applies to a lot of these, like the 1911 pistol or the B-52 (or some of those machine guns). Especially for inventory that's being produced in large numbers, there's a point where you don't mess with what works ... although upgrades do happen, like the latest version of the B-52, the "J" model, which has brand new engines which should help it cross the 100-year service line.
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Come to oklahoma, fort sill, which is the worlds biggest artillery base in the world, and its right next to the town i live in. Every day you can hear them training for shooting powerful gun, the windows vibrate from them training shooting tanks, you can see them train in military helicopters and hear explostions from them doing gernade training, its grown to give me comfort hearing it bc ik of all places, our town would be the most protected with fort sill being right next to us. They also still have the weapon that shot off the last every nuclear bomb test.
0:32 You would have to go to a gun range that offers rentals to shoot. No military base that I know of would allow non-military personnel to fire a weapon.
11:14 The Puckle Gun is widely considered to be the first machine gun and is was developed around 1718. putting it almost 200 years before Browning's 1903.
The 50 cal round is 6 inches long and the bullet weighs almost 40 grams. It has been used as a heavy machinegun round and a long distance heavy sniper rifle. The world record shot of 2 and a half miles was set in Texas with a Barrette Rifle using the 50 BMG
The building my plant is in built Browning M2's during WW2. Our accounting office used to be a machine gun nest to protect the building, and there are still remnants of the firing range up on the roof.
11:17 The Gatling gun was invented in 1861 by a Dentist. It was a hand cranked machine gun that was used in the American Civil War. The inventor thought it would decrease the amount of deaths on the battlefield.
I've seen it mentioned here that we call them Our New Zealand / American Family, but before that, we need to make sure they meet the basic, new normal Citizenship test, which consists of hauling a mere little 300 lb quality wagon (total weight w/ supplies & doggo) along the length of the Oregon Trail, (stopping every couple-hundred miles to repair the poor old wagon wheels.)
Know the difference between Bob Denver, John Denver, and Denver Pyle.
Find a lost "quarter-inch" socket.
Run a sub-eight minute mile in the rain; then shoot 10 skeet, and a squirrel - which you then make into dinner for the less-fortunate.
Wear a coonskin cap for a year.
Learn CPR.
Using a map of Kansas, locate Indianapolis, Indiana.
and Write-out the Constitution and sign it, including any two memorized Amendments of their choice. 🗽
My Uncle flew B-52 during the Vietnam war. I remember I was proud of him . If you get close to one take a look inside if they will let you . Much love ❤
John Moses Browning was a very prolific gunsmith who ended up revolutionizing the USA with a few of his creations. I really don't think he intended or knew his M2 or 1911 pistol designs were going to still be kicking around over 100 years after he had released them.
The M14 is a bit of an odd duck in the US arsenal. It's like the FN FAL, larger round, great single fire range and marksman rifle, danger to anyone when flipped onto full auto and it hardly can carry enough ammo to justify that feature. By strict definition it was "better" than the M1 Garand. The problem was that they tried to implement smaller carbine and sub machine gun ideologies into it. More rounds, automatic fire. It's all fine and dandy until you realize that it's a 30.06/.308/7.62mm (they're all about the same size and are nearly equivocal) round you're trying to control at 750 rpm, but you only have 10-20 rounds max to expend in your magazine (depending on the mag size you've got.) That's anywhere from 0.8 to 1.6 seconds of ammo in the M14 with a hard kick back recoil. So you could be with a broken wrist after that 0.8 seconds, you could be aiming at your fellow soldiers at 0.9 seconds into your 1.6 second mag dump. It just wasn't a good feature to have on that gun.
Also do note that when it comes to the US using "old weapon systems" it's usually a case of despite billions of dollars of bids going out to several companies, all that they can come up with is just what already exists. The US Military would LOVE to update everything if they could. One thing they'd like to get rid of, besides the A-10, is the C-130 in terms of replacing it, namely finding something that can AC-130. The problem is that they don't have anything quite like the C-130 that they can shove big guns into and have loiter around an air space for a long time to give ground support. No one's building propeller driven cargo planes anymore. They've all gone to jets and that's just too fast for what the AC-130 specializes in. So there's just this gap of a specialized niche they require and there just not being anything capable of filling it. And before anyone tries it, no the F-35 cannot provide the same ground support the AC-130 can. Helicopters don't have quite the duality nor can carry the firepower that the AC-130 does currently and current VTOLs like the Osprey don't have the fuel or cargo capacity to fulfill the same niche. So in some cases it's both that there isn't a better option out there AND there isn't a better option being worked on.
There are gun ranges all over America and you will be able to fire many different firearms --including machine guns. My friend from college used to fire machine guns in New Hampshire whenever he got the chance. Spending the day at the range is so much fun.
They totally missed that the M1903 was also used extensively in WW2 and was used until 1975 as a marksman rifle. That's 72 years of combat service.
10:10 "what are they doing that for...?"
Me: "switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading"
Vietnam was my predecessor to where I ended up as I started my life as a US Army soldier. My lineage started in Vietnam with the 227 Aviation Regiment. The movie We Were Soldiers is my family in aviation.
Guns that use cartridges have been around since the late 1850's (if not longer) and there's not that many "big" new ideas, just taking advantage of modern manufacturing techniques and materials to make some of the designs that used to be impossible a reality.
J.M. Browning's dad was a well known gunsmith making blackpowder hunting rifles in the mid-1800's. J.M. Browning designed guns for Winchester, Colt, Remington, and FN ranging from the world's first lever action shotgun, the worlds first pump action shotgun (used during WW1 to Vietnam), lever action military rifles (the 1897 Winchester used by the Russian Army through WW1), the first machine gun used by the US military (the Colt "potato digger"), and the longest produced shotgun, the Browning Auto-5 which was made from 1900 to 2000. Most of his designs will work with modern smokeless gun powder and old fashioned black powder.
I heard that the Fat Electrician has invited you to go shooting at Demolition Ranch, possibly with a few other US guntubers. If he gets Brandon Herrera to bring some stuff, you will definitely get to shoot all but one of the guns on the list at Demolition Ranch. If you go to Las Vegas, you can pay to shoot a 25mm Vulcan aircraft gun that Black Rifle Coffee and Battlefield Vegas mounted on top of a Prius. Battlefield Vegas also has 7.62 Gatling miniguns available to rent. A friend paid for himself, his wife, and hie 70 something year old mother-in-law to shoot a few hundred rounds each a few years ago.
When the Sgt says "It's a machine gun" , he is training German, NATO, troops. They aren't used to live fire training with a machine gun.
Keep in mind the gatling gun was used in the 1800s and some of these multi barrel weapons are based on that design.
The UH1 is named Iroquois. It was nicknamed Huey partly because of its naming, HU-1, and, after a Paramount cartoon character that was popular at the time, a chubby cartoon duck that resembled the chubby helicopter, known as, baby Huey, however the official name was Iroquois. However, the Army tends to name all of its helicopters after Native American Tribes.
Similarly, the A10 official name is Thunderbolt II, but it is nicknamed Warthog, agaon, because of its lools. Also Similarly the B1B Bomber is named Lancer, but commonly refered tp as Bone.(B1, B One, Bone) because that is how the military is.
"Warthog" also because it isn't sleek and glamorous. Actually sorta ugly, but mean. But not to the troops it's supporting.
The Soviets gave the RC135 it's nickname. Hog Nose. It actually sounds pretty cool in Russian. GorboNasnee is as close as I can come typing it. Of course the more official names related to mission. Of all possible mission names Burning Wind had to be the best.
The first ever, primative mechanically operated machine gun/ repeating rifle. Was the Puckle gun. Patented in 1718. The next repeater was the gatling gun. And finally. The first true self powered machine gun was the Maxim. Invented in 1884. Machine gun technology began more then 300 years ago.
My brother was in the Army in 2003-2006. He had some M2s that had serial numbers from 1943
The plane at the beginning was a B-52 Stratofortress. The older B-29's were the ones called Superfortress. The older still B-17's were called Flying Fortress.
The first handgun in my house growing up was a .45 ACP model 1911 made in 1918. I couldn’t believe the gun was that old at eight, when I shot it for the first time. It kicked like a mule and almost flew out of my hands. Born in ‘75 for point of reference. Hell of a handgun!
My father-in-law flew a KC-135 tanker in Vietnam as a young man. He passed away 6 years ago from old age. . . .
I love how she said the vulcan sounded like a lawn mower
Because it essentially is
It mows down our enemys an enemys of our friends
John Browning was a firearms Genius... tis why his 'machines' are still well worth using to this day by the military... no reason to replace something that works perfectly well as it is.
One weapon that is still in service that is the oldest weapon in the U.S. Armory is the U.S. Marine Corps NCO Sword. It's obviously not used in combat, but it still holds the title of the oldest weapon in the U.S. Armory
The A-10 Warthog uses the GAU-8 Gatling gun. Machine guns have been around since 1861 when the first Gatling gun was designed.
Re: B-52. There is a case of a son, father and grandfather who were all Air Force pilots… all flew the same B-52.
Machine guns are much older than the ones shown in this video. WW1 was the first war when Europeans used them against each other, but they'd been using them in colonial wars before then. The first machine gun adopted by the US Army for service was the Gatling gun, which was invented in 1862. The principles behind the Gatling gun are still used by countries around the world. The M61 Vulcan mentioned in the video is a descendant of the Gatling gun.
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What did you think about the geyser in Yellowstone that exploded?
Gatling invented the first machine gun in 1861. One of many reasons why the American civil war is considered to be the first of the modern wars, and why it is still the bloodiest war in American history.
It's fun that that you recognized some of the items from other reaction videos.
And yes, with the m1911 gun they were practicing combat response. Simulate entering an area, fire to neutralize enemy then scan area further so not to be surprised by others.
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Imagine, Denzi behind the M-2 wide open. Bet he'd never in his life forget that.
.45 ACP. ACP stands for Automatic Colt Pistol. For those that didn't know.
At 10:12 the girl asks why the shooters are looking around after shooting. That is to break potential tunnel vision. You can and probably will get so focused on your target that you don't hear or see what is going on around you, tunnel vision. As you can imagine, it can get you killed.
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If they are gonna Count/Include the 1903 Springfield rifle which is used primarily for ceremonies, then we can't overlook Swords that are still in the Inventory;
1799: US Naval Cutlass
1825: USMC Officer "Mameluke" Sword
1840: Us Army NCO Sword
1952: Naval Officer Sword
1859: USMC NCO Sword
1902: US Army Officer Sword
1915: US Coast Guard Officer (Based on the 1952 Naval Officer Sword)
The US Air Force was Created in 1947:
1947: US Air Force Officer Sword (Based on the 1902 Army Officer sword)
1947: Us Air Force NCO Sword (based on a 1840 Design)
It just goes to show how much of a gun culture we are in the United States. We invented the world's first machine gun during the Civil War, in 1863. And improved on the Rifle, Automatic, and Revolver.