M45 Quadmount .50 Caliber "Meat Chopper"
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- The Maxson M45 Quadmount .50 caliber "Meat Chopper" was one of the most effective weapons against low flying aircraft during World War II. It went on to serve extensively in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, providing ground fire against enemy troops. Today, if you're lucky, you might see one at a gun shoot absolutely annihilating a target.
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In 1968 after running out of ammo for my M16, I jumped on a two and a half ton truck with a quad 50 in the bed. They were already tired before myself and a few others showed up help load and change barrels. They had a 10 ton dump truck next to the quad 50 with an entire bed load of ammo. An exhausting 12 hours later we had expended all of the ammo available and another 10 ton dump pulled up. The estimates were that over 1.55 millon rounds were fired that night and morning. Most amazing sound I have ever heard and that was 50 years ago. I still get a rush when I hear one or more 50s open up
Wow. Great story. Thanks for sharing Andrew.
@@Gunscom The next morning we had to go out and try to figure out how many dead there were. Nothing but meat and boots.
Andrew, WELCOME BACK & THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THE CALL.
You can still hear. What was that? I didn’t hear you. LOL
Yes great story.
Love to hear more.
Gotta learn for the waves of chinese.🙂
This was great to hear the quad-50's, again. When I was in Vietnam (1969-1970) we did a lot of convoy travel along Highways 19 and 14. One trip as we approached Mang Yang Pass the convoy came to a halt (never got the full dope but rumor had it there was an ambush set in the zig zags). We started paying attention, especially when our Quad 50 escort gun truck sped past us and pulled in a couple of trucks in front of us. They opened up into the gully and it was like an invisible roto-tiller chewing up the ground. Glad somebody spotted the other team! Two "lurker" F-4's from Phu Cat were near and finished off whoever was out there with WP and napalm. After about 15-20 minutes, we were on our way again. Don't know if they smoked the ambush rear closing squad or the front tripping squad. Thanks for the memories!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing Donald.
A friend of mine who just recently passed was a gunner on the gun truck "BIRTH CONTROL" in Vietnam. Have a couple of pics of him and his his crew on the truck and doing convoy duty. Totally awesome weapons system.
REST IN PEACE ALEX.
Yeah thanks for sharing! And thank you for your service!
Glad you came home sir. Always like hearing stories from past conflicts from living eyewitnesses as they are firsthand accounts of history that you may not hear anywhere else. Thank you.
I thank you for your sevice...All you lads were hero's.....
"We don't like to run the generator, 'cause it's noisy and it smells."
Lol!
The lead acid batteries used in Vietnam on the Gun mount were Bakelite case asphalt top batteries. No where near as powerful or durable as the present iterations for storing electricity.
Often the generator would have to be hand started.
Of course. Us soldiers need a few comforts
😂😂
next to 4x .50Cal`
s xD
😂😂😂the irony is strong with this one 😂😂😂
My dad drove a halftrack with a quad fifty in the Korean war. He was in the Army and part of a light armored anti aircraft battalion. He said they used them against mass wave assaults. He also went through basic at Fort Ord the same time Clint Eastwood was there. He remembered Eastwood being a life guard or swimming instructor at the pool, he said. My dad passed at 80
My pop was in Korea also. He wanted to be a pilot but ended up as a radio operator talking to the pilots. He passed 2018 at 89.
@@hookeaires6637 My dad passes in 2008 at almost 81
I went through BCT at Ft Ord in Fall 1961 before ending up in 2-28th Inf (mech) in Germany. All peacetime but lots of war stories passed on by Korean War vets.
That is really gnarly. Imagine beeing a 18 year young chinese conscript storming with hundreds of your comrades in a mass wave assault forward and suddenly everyone one around you get's ripped apart from 50 cal hits. War is horrible.
He was- was a safety job for him
My Dad was an armorer, in an automatic weapons unit, of the 28th Infantry, during Korea.
This was his his favorite piece of equipment.
Thanks for sharing this.
I want an emotional support Quad 50.
My safe space is gunna need one as well! ;)
I need to supplement my medicinal M1 Abrams with a healthy dose of Quad 50
@Dave Cockayne I might need a loan, but so long as it has a 6 year term I should be fine.
@@mordinvan Just get the loan, get the quad 50, go back to the loaners with it and “persuade” them to change the loan to a generous donation.
@@openthinker6562 I think that could have legal complications, but I will look into it.
A friend of mine served in Korea. He said this weapon would, "suck the life out of a mountain side."
That’s a frightening thing to imagine.
@Robert Dill
One of my many uncles by marriage, was Scots, whom served in a Scottish Regiment in Korea. He never spoke a single word about his experiences, although his his drinking and smoking habits meant he must have seen enough shit that he tried to blot them from memory.
As for this ... I don't know which would be worse ... shooting this into a mass charge against your position, and see, at all too close range, the utter carnage being wrought; or be flung against this meatgrinder, at the pain of being shot by your superior officers, in an, essentially, suicidal attack ...
@The Xenomorphian
I had an assignment in High School, for English Literature, where the idea was to write a number of letters to, and from, the Home Front. You could pick any war you liked. Most chose WWII. A few adventurous ones picked Vietnam. But I must have been the only kid to pick WWI. Before I even started, I realised the only way to it justice was to do a lot of background reading. The names of Ypres, Verdun, and the Somme are still etched into my memory, not least Ypres, where almost as many men drowned in the mud, as were killed by enemy action, especially as so many trees were simply reduced to stumps by artillery. And then there was the 1st July 1916. Granted, technology way out paced tactics, and its easy to critique in hindsight ...
... but bloody hell (literally ...) ... no wonder the old adage of 'Lions led by Donkeys' came into being, not just for Senior Enlisted, but equally Officers including Captains, weren't spared.
So, yeah ... it doesn't take much, after reading even more since, to imagine a hillside in Korea turning into something out of the Battle of Verdun, with equipment like this around ...
@@nigelft I think this is one situation in which it is truly better to give than to receive.
@@derfunkhaus my friend said after one battle one 50 cal gun pit was so full of spent brass they had to dig the guy out.
Is this suitable for home defense? Asking for a friend
Only if you don't like your neighbours. Anybody within a thousand feet, regardless of walls, vehicles or trees, is going to die. If the intruder started to drive away though, unless he's driving a tank, he's toast.
I got a hunch some overzealous DA would try to call this "overkill"
Before I got one, I had a Kaiju problem.... Not anymore.
@@hadrianbuiltawall9531 or you can take it on the street. perhaps of a major metropolitan city?
@@rinoz47 Depends on the city. Maybe somewhere dark with a lot of walmart ninja.
My great uncle was a quad .50 cal gunner in WWII. He shot down three Nazi planes (confirmed). In addition, he told me that one time he was in a column moving through a town in Belgium, and they took fire from a sniper. His sergeant had him turn the quad .50 cal on the building where the sniper fire was coming from. I asked him if he got the sniper; he told me that there wasn’t much left of the building when he was done with it. (I took that as a yes.)
My grand father was a quad 50 AA gunner in WWII and I remember a similar story as well. Also, he had one confitmed downed plane. He said it was hard to confirm because most of the time multiple half tracks were firing at the same time. Pattons 3rd army, 4th armored division.. PS my grandfather is still alive, 98
What how can a plane be a NAZI?
Your grandpa saved europe from speaking German.
@@Edfiki86 Yes, instead we get to speak Arabic. Thanks a lot, gramps.
German planes
When I served in the Norwegian air defence, we had these. This was back in 1994.
I do believe they are still in service.
At each post around the airfield, there was one manual/automatic radar (RS2000), two 40mm cannons and two of these babies. The 40mm cannons was fun tho. They shot 300 rounds a minute.
My job was being a tracker operator, sitting on top of the radar spotting incoming planes. Then I had to get the plane in sight before taking a lock on, and then the radar did the rest.
The radar then took control of the cannons that was in synch, and all hell could break loose. 😅
I don't think the quad 50s are still in service. My dad used them back in the 60s though - that and the Bofors gun.
The 40mm cannon we had was Bofors.
And as I wrote, I served back in 1994 at Andøya Flystasjon. They were still in use back then. Don't know if they use them still today. 😊
Still, it was awesome seeing them in action. 🤗
I worked with a guy who ran a quad mount like this on the back of a truck in Viet Nam. It was used for convoy protection. It was effective at deterring and terminating an ambush. It was a terrifying weapon.
Yes, used extensively for convoy protection. I witnessed the ambush of a convoy that was between the Rockpile and FB Stud (Vandergriff). The quad 50 was on the bed of a 6x truck, like you said. The convoy stopped and the quad just mowed the vegetation along the side of the road down. The attack broke off immediately. No other fire support was needed. Quads seemed to accompany most convoys that I saw.
@@albarry4333 You described an event that was similar to one he described.
I was there in ‘69 - based at Dong Ha - as a SeaBee we surfaced the road from there up to the Rockpile turned left past Firebase Elliot towards Vandergriff - the convoy’s would come barreling past - they only had one speed - go like hell - they had a Duster & a quad .50 front & rear - saw them in action a couple of times - they definitely get your attention- a sight & sound you never forget- was glad to have them around.
In the event of an ambush, there won't be many bushes around for long
Now that’s a stress reliever. Had a hard day at the office? Just squeeze off 800 rounds.
$ $ $
LOL If I can make $4,000 per day IDC how stressfull it is.... 50 cal ammo $5.00 per round X 800 rds = $4,000.
@@mrschwifty5564 more like $3.75
@@mrschwifty5564 just depends on we're your at down we're I'm at there a shop that sells it for $3.75
And so goes the paycheck too ,Cha ching$$$$$
In Vietnam, I was stationed near a ROK outpost where they had a deuce and a half with a quad 50 in the bed under a canvas cover. They would go out at dusk with that truck, alone, to attempt to get ambushed along a roadway. Claymore's mounted along the sides of the trucks bed. The Korean's plan was to get ambushed, set off the claymore's on both sides of the truck and then open up with the quad 50. Those ROC's were terrific soldiers, the best of the war, IMO.
Initially ROC's were trained by marines and with far less rules and compunction, they came to do it. I concur with you assessment.
“It’s highly effective against ground attack aircraft”.
“It’s extremely effective against massed Chinese troops”.
Is there anything it’s not “Very effective” against?
...MBTs?
@@TheBuster0926 Somewhat effective against MBTs, that amount of .50 bmg rounds going down range would annihilate equipment such as the commander's, gunner's and aux gunner's sights.
Anything that the gunner can't see, apparently
Leaving survivors
My ex-wife
My Dad was trained on one of these before going to France in 1944-45. I have pictures of his unit doing field exercises with one of these. However, by the time he got to the war, he was put into a infantry unit, the 70th Div., The Trailblazers. Myself, I was on a .50 Cal team in Korea in 1967-68. What a joy to be able to fire a Ma Deuce.
Can you expand on why the USA decided to mutilate the genitals of South Korean men?
"Highly effective against amassed Chinese infantry."
Oh well you dont f***ing say?
God that's a beastly weapon.
Coincidentally both are communist.
how about blm, antifa, etc? effective those terrorists?
How about murderous cops and proud boys?
@@luisllanito1865 found the libtard.
Better dead than red 😝
"Hey man! The housekeeping money?"
"Sorry honey! I was at the range!"
So the woman firing the quad 50 really could be called “Ma Deuce”
“Mama Deuce” :-)
Ma double deuce maybe
Twice o.o
🤣. Good one!
When she's behind the sight and finger on the trigger, you'd damned sure better call her "Ma'am!"
If you know what is good for you that is. LOL
That’s a smooth well kept quad . That sound when all going as well how clean he kept the .50s. I can listen to that all day.
In the 50s and early 60s i was a member of the 50th Armored Division of the New Jersey National Guard.
I was in the ordnance battalion and small arms repair.
Small arms included all weapons up to and including the 50 caliber machine gun.
We did our summer field training at Camp Drum in upstate New York.
It is now called Fort Drum.
We would go out to the ranges and service the weapons, traveling in a large fully equipped shop van.
Back then there was lots of WW2 equipment still in use, including the multiple mount quad 50 caliber setups mounted on the back of trucks, mostly Dodges, and some were half tracks.
They would line up quite a few of them in a row, and shoot at radio controlled aircraft called R Cats.
They were controlled by a man on the ground using a control box, and he could maneuver them any way he chose.
The range was near the town of Oswego NY, and they were firing out onto Lake Ontario.
If the gunners happened to hit a plane, a parachute would open and carry the plane down to the water where it would be rescued.
We replaced lots of burned out barrels on those 50s during those sessions.
These always were a game changer when employed. In the Battle of the Bulge, a US half-track with one of these wiped out a company of Germans crossing a open snow covered field. At Dien Bien Phu, before it fell in the final assault, several of these held off the Viet Minth forces near the airfield and command post. In Korea, these protected Task Forth Faith at the Chosin Reservoir until they ran out of ammunition.
@Chris Oly What are you going to do to a Tiger with 50 cals? Let it know you're there?
@Chris Oly to be fair, so did the shermans.
@Chris Oly unfair comparison. The Tiger was like Mike Tyson vs the rest of us.
Task Force Faith's Dusters ammo resupply was not air dropped to the embattled Force. Instead it was staged at a depot miles away down the road.
Consequently the Chinese forces were able to close and disable the halftrack quad mounts, there being no covering fire from the 40mm Bofors of the Dusters to keep the Chinese crew served weapons at distance. The then stationary Quads exhausted their ammo in place, not on the road covering the column's movement.
Luckily the Marines were under a different command structure.
Not only is the destruction of Task Force Faith heartrending so was the destruction of reputation and valor of the men. they kept fighting despite loss of unit cohesion, most of them becoming casualties, most of their officers and nco's killed, the wounded and frostbitten survivors who made it to Marine lines were accused of abandoning their comrades, of bugging out.
This smear campaign continued for decades when in fact they fought beyond what anyone could expect of a military force against overwhelming force. They kept reforming and fighting after their units were overwhelmed and destroyed.
Credit is slowly being restored but their fight was almost 70 years ago.
@Chris Oly You know, It is a weapon, a tool to be used, part of a system, not an end all be all
Everybody gangsta until the .50s show up
🤣🤣🤣
Yeah well. ..
Pulls out flak 88. Say what?
@@joshlower1 the good Flak
Especially if it comes in quadruple :-)
"Amassed Chinese Infantry" a target rich environment by any other name......
My father's oldest brother, C. P., was Gen. Ridgeway's aide in Korea. In one Chinese attack they were coming down a Mt pass about 60 yard wide and over a mile long. Us had quad 50s from WW2 ships mounted on old Sherman tanks with gun turrets removed sitting about 15 ft apart across valley. They fired until gun barrels were glowing red. When battle was over dead Chinese were 5 to 6 feet deep from one end to the other in that valley. The Chinese " death registrations" crew was 2 big bulldozers. They dug big trench shoved dead and wounded into them, covered them up and ran dozens over spots a few times and left. The General said the Chinese were just getting rid of excess population doing this as only every tenth man had a weapon.
@@johnchandler1687 this is just like stalingrad again!
Not even in the Korean War, way back during WWII. Americans forced many Germans to surrender by rolling up with the Meat Grinder and shooting into German barracks.
@@johnchandler1687 holy shit........
On perimeter security at firebases I was at in Nam these quads were awesome. When they opened up I will never forget that sound.
"How pro gun are you?"
Me - "this much"
I was in Turkey in early mid 80's they had a few of these hard wired in around airfields truly AWESOME
100 year old weapon that's untouched, STILL IN SERVICE. Now that's heavy metal!
Not a 100 years yet
@@joshlower1 but damn near!
@@losronin3875 Close enough...Probably be using it for another 100...
@@Jreb1865 Cant fix what's not broken right?
@@Jreb1865 The only other option is to put more m2s on top of each other!
That dude is a living legend for preserving history. Thank you Sir.
Joshua, the Weapon is the Legend, not the man!
This is the coolest thing ever
Nope, a quadruple Mg 42 is. Could you imagine the sound?BŔRRRRRRRRTRTRTTTTRRRRRRTTRTTTRTT
@@steffenrosmus9177 no lol m2 or nothing
@@norcal9168 have you ever heard such a quadruple Mg 42?
@@steffenrosmus9177 yeah but its not cool compared to 50s
@@norcal9168 ok typical American size matters😉😂
Yeah, I can imagine that the neighbors will start complaining if you run the generator, so noisy.
When you absolutely, positively, have to get your point across 🤨
When you positively, absolutely want to make Swiss cheese out of anything that moves with light armor than a tank
my father was a gunner on one of those in the Norwegian AIrforce in the later 60's. He said they trained it on a flock of seagulls, instantly turned it in to a flock of feathers. Was one of the last years it was in active use as well, was mainly replaced with the Bofors 40mm by that point.
Nice. Thanks for sharing.
Evilreddog The Bofurs 40 mm is not as effective on a Flock of Seagulls as the Quad .50 . Your Dad knew that and his service to your Country is appreciated . Too many Seagulls Today !
My Father manned a “Quad-50” as a 19 year old Marine. He described it as the deadliest machine on Earth.
I worked with a man who had been a small (?) arms instructor in the Army and this was his favorite toy. That is his word for it, not mine.
Met this guy, and watched this piece of kit run. He is cool as hell to talk to and the quad fifty is a monster !
Blowing your entire paycheck in 30 SECONDS 😆
Worth it 💥
One big ass paycheck
Reminded of the Heavy from TF2: It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds!
Well a 50 cal round cheapest I could see online was $2.60 us per round.
Can go all the way up to $10 per round depending on what kind of shell how many grains Etc
back in the day we had three qaud mounts on our costal patrol boats along with two Boffers quad mounted fore and aft. Those things were made in Italy and essentially were two huge engine wrapped up in a small hull with as many guns as we could mount. For drug interdiction we could do a decent 70 knots and we could push 80 if we were pissed off but rarely was that needed. Drug runners ten to develop a sudden need to swim when two quad 50s open up on them.
old school gut effective. These days we use three Canadian made 762 CWIS . A single squirt tend to get a lot of hands in the air.
Edit: forgot to mention its the Jamaica Defense Force Coast Guard.
Wow. Thanks for sharing.
70 knph... with a gunboat? blazing quad 50s? ashtoneshing. hard to beat a rush like that!
and yet the drug business is bigger than ever and continues to grow.
@@MrChiangching depends on a lot of factors, interdiction being just one. There are many other avenues that allows the drug business to flourish.
@@jussayinmipeece1069 and i'm saying interdiction has totally failed.
Seen it in action mounted on a patrol boat, the footage was captured and released in a documentary called waterworld
Yeah I remember the look on the face of the guy running it!
Charles... or Chuck.... he really enjoyed that. 😂
@@charliebuckley6572
I think he was called Chuck 😁
@@charliebuckley6572 czcams.com/video/0zJpr-bB1sg/video.html
😂
Our "slick" company did about a 2 week deployment into southern I Corp near Quang Nhai(sp?) in early 67, temporarily taking over an AO that the Marines had had. It was close to the coast and except for one hill, that was about 50-100m tall, it was all rice paddies for 3-5 miles around. The Marines left a quad 50 in place on top of that hill and its field of fire gave us great comfort while we conducted helicopter operations in the area. It was like having a gunship permanently on station.
Now with this it is easy to imagine what the converted North American B-25 Commerce Destroyer was like in the SW Pacific during WWll with what the 5th Air Force came up with. The famous Pappy Gunn worked with the 5th commander General George Kennedy to install extra .50 cals in the nose of the B-25 so they could come in at wave level against Japanese shipping during their skip bombing runs and basically eliminate all AAA on the ships before the did their skip bombing. The result was the converted B-25s had a total of 10 forward firing .50 caliber machine guns...I’d hate to be on the deck of a ship on the receiving end of that business. Incidentally A-20’s and a few B-26s were converted also.
They upped the rate of fire in these and aircraft 50s. "Give them the whole 9 yards" was coined from aircraft 50s as they had 9 yard belts of ammo.
I never knew where that saying originated. Thanks.
According to Forgotten Weapons, that saying came from WW1 machine guns (the Lewis gun IIRC), not in the 50's.
So now I have looked this up in Wiki, which says the origin is unknown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_nine_yards
It's an expression used by Spitfire pilots. References the length of a.303 belt to every gun in the Mk1's
Didn't go 20
IF I could give this 4 thumbs up, I would. Talk about "Get Some..."
You definitely don't need to lead them at all with this thing.
3:28 “hey I think I saw a mosquito behind that car”
Murcia: “this should do the trick”
With the increased use of drones/UVA’s I can see the rebirth of this piece of kit, still very impressive in the 21st century
I can imagine RWS version of it.
I was told a fairly humorous story by a Vietnam vet involving a VC sniper and a quad .50 which I've no reason to doubt. The sniper may have got away because he ran across the open terrain in front of the trees and the mount could not traverse as fast as they guy was running. (he was quite close to their perimeter) - he dropped EVERYTHING while running, and according to my buddy, that was something the VC very rarely did.
This is America, “richest country on earth”… Come on, should be one of these in every driveway!
Rich but not on intelligence
@@olafblaskura1951 Your grammar nightmare of a 'sentence' displays such irony, you monumental dunce.
@@231mac His grammar is alright, what´s wrong with it? Btw, you ever consider the fact that he might not be english speaking person? If you are american and you didn´t considered that fact, then it just proves his point tho.
It should be written there aswell ´´we got money, weapons, sci fi army but no health insurance policy and future for your childrens´´.
@@urdnotwrex6969 Yeah,that's why millions of people want to come here and some literally risk death to try and get to the U.S..
“I can’t see the target,Sir!” “Never mind,lad,give ‘em a couple of bursts,anyway!”
These things wipe anything that flies.
Gaijin: I'm gona pretend I dont know this
I had an old friend that was in the Korean war and he loved these things. He said they had them on the back of trucks along with 40mm guns. Few times they pulled up to a hill with N.K.s or Chinese on it and they would just hammer the hill with the Meat Choppers and 40mm for a time and then just walk up the hill.
What I love about this video is that this is the armament loadout of the F4F-3 Wildcat Navy fighter at the beginning of the war in the Pacific.
Each plane carried 450 rounds per gun.
Its successor, the F4F-4, had six M-2s, but only 250 rounds per gun. Guys that flew the "3" hated the "4" because of the reduced firing time.
John Thatch, a pioneer of modern air-to-air tactics, said "If you can't hit a target with four guns, you'll miss him with six..."
They valued the time of fire over the amount of fire...............................
Good old thatch weave...
Oh how cute they’re blocking traffic again
We’ll see about that.
🤣
That would shut down an AntiFa rally in 5 seconds.
@@randelldarky3920 .05 seconds
I bet if someone said this about the republicunts who were blocking the roads earlier this year because they didn't want to wear their mask you'd be crying a river.
@@mpk6664 no comparison. Fact cannot be misconstrued as fiction.
Go watch videos that you can relate to.
This is not one of them.there’s no video of republicans blocking traffic because of a mask.Dummy.
"You know why I carry a 50-Caliber "meat chopper"? ... because _they don't make a 51."_
I could be wrong' but I think civilians are limited to .50 caliber(for a rile, but I don't think any regulation on how much is sending it off.My point is say .458 SOCOM vs .458 Lott. .500 AE vs .500 BMG.. Caliber is only one factor of two very important details.
@@heavymetalmadness666 Thank you. I thought I was making a parody-joke regarding the 45-ACP fan-base. However, now I realize that I am not funny in any way, and in all likelihood, the ATF will be at my house to shoot my dog due to my flagrant disregard for their maximum caliber restrictions without entering "Destructive Device" territory. _They'll probably even use a caliber greater than .5 inches to belabor the point._
@@TROOPERfarcry I said what I did because of so much anti-gun propaganda.A huge Biden lie... "an AR-15 what do you need with 100 rounds"... That was to mislead people that know nothing about guns. any gun can hold unlimited rounds if you think outside the box
Unless you buy Russian
@@heavymetalmadness666 You still buy calibers larger than .50 in the US, you might need to get an NFA tax stamp for them.
The NFA needs to be abolished so everyone can have one of these
I'm sure as global powers are forcibly shutting down our businesses and demanding we stay at home with a muzzle on our face, repealing the NFA is a top priority.
My dad was an ordinance ombudsman for the Advance Section of Command Zone attached to US First Army during WWII and he said that German POWs said they absolutely hated the M45 Quad more than any other weapon they faced besides the flamethrower.
Back in the early years of this century, when I was active in the gun business, I got a call one day from a guy in PA. He wasn’t buying what I was selling, but just wanted to ask some questions about them.
During the conversation, he mentioned he had a quad .50 mount, with guns, fully registered and transferable.
He was working in a shipyard in the ‘60’s in Philly, and a decommissioned Naval vessel came in to be scrapped. He found this complete deck mount on board, and bought it for scrap price. When the GCA of ‘68 came along, he registered the guns.
I asked him what he thought it was worth. He said to him, it was priceless.
I sure wish I had one...and about 50,000 rounds of ammo.
Maybe he doesn’t answer to Chuck, call him Charles. Hey Charles!
Fuuuuuck lol I imagined the exact same scene before I saw this comment. One of my all time favorite movies.
fkn beat me to it kek
My dad is a Vietnam vet and saw those often and seen them in different variants all 50's
2 50s 2 1919s
2 50s 2 mini guns
2 50s 2 early grenade guns
@Bruh Fu
Perfect for fire base security
Spray and pray with the guns and pop out 40 Mike Mike's as needed all from one platform
@Bruh Fu *Some of the early huey gunships had a 40mm mounted to the nose.
@Colin Gregson Actually they needed the Soviets to win. Their invasion forced the japanese to surrender not the nukes themselves. It make sense. Most of the japanese cities were bombed to dust by the time the US decided to use the nuke anyway.
There were some rare versions in Korea called the M45/S, which had 4 suppressors on the 50cals. There were about 50 of them. They used mainly it for ambushes.
I was part of quad 50 crew at ft Lewis in 78-79. They were awesome!
My Grandfather was the gunner on the trailer mount version. He didn't talk much about being in the war. But...one day, my Uncle and I were sitting with him shooting the breeze and we asked him a couple questions about what it did (We knew he was in air defense). He started telling stores about running these things. How they had the 4 triggers, one for each barrel, or one for each set - left, right, top, bottom...or holding them all down to unload with all 4 barrels. He also mentioned how easy it was the swap the barrels when one would burn out. The rule for his team was to only shoot two at a time, so you could let one set cool off while shooting the other set.
Then, my Grandfather put on the most devilish grin I had ever seen and said "I got really good at swapping barrels."
Yeah, don't know many vets that talk about combat very much.
Just like in the movie Waterwold when The Smokers attack the Atol.
Consider that the burst that his wife did toward the end was only the bottom two guns...a hundred rounds each....The thing can sling twice that much lead, for twice as long with the "tombstone" ammo cans.....My only complaint would be to ask for tracers....lotsa tracers!
That would look pretty epic.
@@mordinvan It truly would....And then you think about that this was a favorite weapon in Korea, for use against Chinese night time "human wave" attacks....Imagine it...Good fricking golly, man!
@@rickb1973 Also field artillery at close to horizontal elevation possible, gun tubes packed with glass, metal bits, nuts and bolts, small arms shell casings, as per my father's account, bugles and whistles screaming all night.
Such was the carnage the adjacent bluffs/ridges had to be blasted into rubble to create aggregate to use to seal the battle site into a mass grave.
He never really came to terms with that. Prayers for all.
Tracers are difficult to handle and store and EXPENSIVE !!
Now I know what I want for Father’s Day
My grandpa was on normandy on a half track and he was the gunner. They were expecting to run into a bunch of air support but it never happened. Instead there were concrete bunkers they figured the naval bombardment would crack but didn't. He said when the leveled the guns at the bunkers it was like a freight train hitting them. There's a plaque at one of them about it I hope to visit some day. What an absolute nightmare of a thing to start shooting your direction.
I remember my uncle talking about the quad 50. He trained on one of these, manned one in the cold war in Europe in the eary 1950's. They would fire 2 while the other two cooled.
"Quad Cannon."
"I do not have a patience for this."
"Don't push Me."
Anyone remember this line?
CnC generals.
Yes, yes I do. C&C generals Zero Hour whenever I need AA to cover my base.
C&C Generals, my favorite RTS.
"Four on the floor"
Only thing that would have made the video better would be a shot of the smile on that young ladies face after her time on trigger.
😆 😆
I'd be grinning so wide the top of my head might fall off.
The Germans in WWII had a similar, but more powerful self-propelled AA vehicle - the Flakpanzer IV "Wirbelwind" (Whirlwind) which mounted four 20mm cannons.
Was in Ada,Vulcan, chaparral unit ,late 70's. Had a ssg squad leader that in Vietnam, ran this on back of 2/1/2 ton. He was deaf. He said it was great for clearing lz,s and whatever else in the way! The deuce would move during firing 🔥. Great nco
Very cool and important historical artifact. Thank you for having it around and functional!
Anyone know the efficacy against squirrels? I got a problem that needs fixing.
What dove hunting would be without game rangers 😂
u call that sport?
@@pegasus514 nope I call it fun
@@mtower235 haha
I have been on dove fields that sounded just like that. Not 1 bird dropped from the sky. Hahaha
When your local backhoe hire firm goes out of business and that house just has to come down.....
The soviets were also big fans when we lend leased some to them, I guess a quad .50 is a reasonable response to try and counter battery and suppress an MG-42 nest
The « on the road today » part specifically was probably the most American thing I’ve heard this year 🤣
Just keep in mind, in the P-47 Thunderbolt had this in each wing. A total of 8 50 cal guns.
Yeah but this setup could be cleared and reloaded much faster than the P-47. The Thunderbolt would have to return to the airfield. ON a note of the P-47, it was capable of taking off carrying twice as much ordinance than the He-111 Medium Bomber.
@@Zekumas maybe so. This setup also didn't fly through the air at almost 400 miles an hour. This setup could not follow a train for miles. This setup couldn't tear up a installation from the sky. And this setup was far more susceptible to enemy fire than one flying through the air. Do you know what's amazing about payload? The Douglas Skyraider could carry more Ordnance than a B-17 heavy bomber.
Was this rig used in the movie "Waterworld"? They had a system like this in one of the battle scenes of that movie and if this is the only one in the U.S.A. it must be it right?
Yes! ^^
Yeah, I watched it😊👍
Not the only one in the USA.
That’s the big machine gun, that the bad guys were using in the movie Waterworld
Love these old AA peices. Really wish someone would restore an 8 mount pom-pom gun.
i don`T even know before that thing exists . one of the coolest machine gun mounting ever.
"Meat Chopper" sounds cooler than "Butcher"
I didnt know I wanted this thing all my life
"If you can't see it you can't shoot it" unless they are standing behind a brick wall
Meant to shred targets hidden behind soft cover.
Bricks, concrete, or sandbags might stop or slow .50 ... but wood, drywall, unarmoured vehicles, jungle, and forest won't.
Sign of power! Show of force! 🇺🇲💪
Yes Sir.
I met a WWII veteran who fired one of these in the Pacific and it damaged his hearing. I met him when I used to volunteer at the Veterans home where he lived.
There are a few quad 50s actively shooting in the US. Battlefield Vegas just got theirs together and firing. I see them for sale on g503 occasionally too
Yes, I saw Battlefield Vegas got theirs going. Very cool.
Yes sir.
Had to carry just one ma deuce barrel, when I was in-- 35 lbs. at least...
I shudder to think about having to *clean* four at once... 😓
just annihalted my ears at the begginning of this
😆 😆
nothing more beautiful than hearing four .50 cal machine guns firing at the same time
My sister and her husband ( he's a quasi gun enthusiast ) have a ranch in the California Sierra mountains. It has a large year round pond very near their home and it always " infested" with Geese. The ground is always covered in the byproduct Geese are known to leave behind . He will go out on his deck and fire a shot gun up into the air scaring them off to go else where. I bet this Quad would be more fun.
when one m2 is not enough . that is a would of hurt.
Got a little bit of a rabbit problem on my property at the moment I think this might be the perfect solution
If I had the opportunity to shoot this, I would be going all “Waterworld” Smoker Crazy Laugh with this!!
Exactly what I thought when I saw it. Am too young to have seen it in war but I sure did see it in Waterworld.
The cousin operate it,Chuck or Charles is his name.
When my commander in the 2ACR realized that was a lot like a Chapparal he wanted me to strip the missle rails and /50BMG 's top replace them. I like never talked him out of it. Tread Heads...gotta luv 'em/
한국에선 90년대에도 현역 대공포였던 M45D..
군인시절 직접 다룬 무기를 영상으로 보게되어 반갑네요.
이제는 없어졌을 865방공중대를 추억해 봅니다😊
My dad took a couple photos of one of these while he was in Korea with the marines.
Wow, now that is a turret.
Most likely it’s a freedom Dispenser
That’s a heavy wall of lead going down range,,having 3 of these firing at 1 target had to have been murderous with the right gunner operating it ty for the share
"Whispering Death" is what we called them in 1966-67 in Chu Chi... I was in the 5/2 Duster/Quad 50 unit attached to the 25th Inf. Div.