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If he's immortal and the old adage of "Even a broken clock tells the time right twice a day", then he's gonna end up designing the AK killer... _hopefully not in this century, tho._
Russian comment here, The G in German is a hard G like in "Gear". Fun fact, his last name Korobov translates to "of Boxes/Chests" which may be why he loved putting bakelite boxes on guns.
The way you pronounce German (the name and the nationality) in russian Is with a hard G sound because the long G sound as in George doesn't exist in Russian as a letter
That "charging handle maze" is due to, basically, Korobov inventing the KRISS Vector system before Vector was even a thing. Check out TKB-09, he did the same thing except the bolt went into the grip.
Given the universality of polymer parts in modern rifles later on (G36?) Korborov seems to have been at a few points in his career a scant stone’s throw away from being a hugely-influential weapon designer.
@@xscorpx its a really cool design cuz it uses the bolt carrier to to manage vertical recoil also, so it can fire .45 ACP in full auto with very little movement.
Mikhail is your actual grandfather, Korobov is your Great Uncle who's a little bit out there but totally a rad guy to hang with, always trying to outdo your actual grandpa.
@@tdog708 wait hang on 37 cent to the bullet damn boi i'm in france and permits etc aside 7.62x39 is 15€/per round that said the only legally ownable weapons that fire it are hunting rifles so yeah those mostly fire about 1round every 5 years(of their own ammo ranges provide rounds for permit continuation visits)
The Russian government was like " Hey, were going to be paying Korobov's salary either way, let's just have him keep making these ridiculous rifles, they're Fing hilarious"
@@dantemacdonald7672 Might also been a Korobov can´t design a issue ready gun but he sure can bring ides to the table. And that was a Problem I think for the russian I think durring a time as they only had one weapon design school so all the weapon designers had the sameish ide. Korobov did not go to said school apparently or something else, and showed up whit the really wierd ides. I think or was it someone else that made a Small arms weapon that did not get adopted but the thing that was made/designed was more or less copied(heavy inspired) for a big gun solution.
pablo wentscobar- Brandon isn't quite right about Korobov's account. He didn’t always make funny weapons and almost defeated Kalashnikov twice with standard assault rifles, but he was unlucky. For the first time, he simply did not have enough strength to finalize his rifle, while a whole design bureau worked for Kalashikov. And the Kalashnikov rifle was mastered in production. After that, Korobov conducted research work and found out that an uncomfortable shooter needs an optimal rate of fire - 2000 rounds per minute. And in the supine position, 500 rounds per minute are enough. And he did two rates of fire on his new rifle. But the military did not like it and they asked to remove one rate of fire. This led to a loss, although initially the Korobov rifle was better than the Kalashnikov rifle in many respects - price, accuracy of fire, ease of manufacture. In addition, Korobov experimented a lot and his mistakes, this is also a great experience for gunsmiths. And those of his successful, bold experiments, which gave a positive result, are only now beginning to be realized in the arms business.
Hey! I'm you're sub from Russia Korobov did all this because he was angry with the government of the USSR, after his competitor AK was rejected due to the fact that there was already an order for AKM. He decided to make such a stoned weapon in order to anger those who did not accept his design. Seriously, korobov was a genius in his field, in his TKB 454 he implemented a gas braking system for a free shutter with a cartridge of 7.62 * 39. in his other TKB4545 machine gun, he was able to make a return half as much as that of the AK, with a weight of 500 grams less, but also had drawbacks. In TKB 517, he corrected all the shortcomings while retaining all the advantages. After this machine was not accepted, he decided to prank his state sponsors, Sorry for my English:)
Man can you imagine what Korobov could do if he lived today as an engineer in Keltec? Or if he just lived in a market economy where at least some scifi maniacs would buy his stuff so he could keep making more.
@@milanstepanek4185 that gun with the flint-lock stock looked like something from early sci-fi with how the top of the frame around the barrel curved down.
Dinner-fork tongue crystal meth is bad enough, but I think we can all agree that injecting gas with a little bit of codeine mixed in until you get necrosis and your body just...literally fucking *ROTS* from the inside out is worse by an order of magnitude.
TKB-059 has a solid concept. Instead of a three round burst, just put three bullets out at the same time. Although not practical, it’s probably designs like these that serve as stepping stones for newer, better ideas.
I still think the AN-94 concept should be worked on more. Not the gun itself, but what it was trying to do. Shoot a burst so fast that by the time you feel the recoil it's already out the muzzle. Basically trying to make it shoot a burst fast enough that the recoil won't affect your accuracy.
My senior year we had this Ukrainian kid in my class. First day of first period the teacher is like "....and, uh.....Se....uh.....Se....." and this kid goes "Simon, just call me Simon. Please."
@@coldwaterhunter8176 yeah, It's a bid hard when your name in English is "Semen". Though, it's actually Semyon (like "semjon"), but who of you gives a damn
@@sergeyalaev9393 I gave up trying to understand Russian/Ukrainian naming conventions and patronyms and such. Again, I was this many years old before I found out that Russian women usually have an "A" added to their last name. Like Big Vlad's daughters last name is "Putina". A Russian person tried to walk me through it once but lost me early on.
I know this is "Cursed Gun Images" and all, but you could've mentioned the one normal looking rifle Korobov made called the TKB-517, just to show he had at least one moment of lucidity in his life.
@@wulfricofwessex147 well that's where you are confused or mistaken. In 1982 Gaston Glock put out the original Glock... Glock is only 39 years old now.
@@wulfricofwessex147 what iterates how solid they are is how every company now makes a polymer wonder or p80 too. Then let's talk about companies making guns to fit a clock mag...
@@tierneymarshall5960 oh shit, they must've been great for a guy like Brandon to look up to them and go as them for Halloween! I bet ur proud. All jokes aside though, I hope you're doing better now
Brandon talking about the dual forward assist makes me wonder if he's ever seen the very original Counter-Strike's reload animation, where the player yanks the foward assist like a Bop-It to chamber a round. Someone link it if he hasn't pls, think our lad Jon Ferguson over at the Gamespot/Royal Armouries collab covered it
That one's up there in the greatest hits, along with the "stripper clip inserted into the bottom like a magazine" on the (I think) Farcry 2 Springfield
The second forward assist is a bolt release on the Cobalt Kinetic ARs. It's so you can drop the bolt with your thumb instead of using your off hand before returning it to the handguard.
@@CeizoBro and if it is reliable it could be a real improvement over a lot of bullpups with some of its more "minor" bits of adjustability. I'm not saying bullpups are inherently unreliable, just that if this rifle is also reliable it will have a leg up due to things like an adjustable length of pull, swappable ejection, and from what I've seen "mostly" Ambi controls.
13:40 To answer the confusion on the second forward assist it's actually not a forward assist. That's a Cobalt Kinetic competition AR and the left forward assist is actually a bolt release so you can drop the bolt with your thumb instead of having to take the fraction of a second to hit it with your off hand. It serves the same purpose as the Magpul BAD lever. Another weird feature is that since it's solely a competition rifle, the magazine automatically drops when the bolt is held open after running out of ammo for even faster competition reloads.
It makes it even better when you realize that you can hit the bolt release with the hand you're putting the mag in with even faster than hitting this button.
@@MalcolmIIofCaledoniaMaybe if you had a linkage in the magazine that would force the lock free as soon as it was triggered by the bottom of the mag making contact as it loaded the last round? Might be possible, just very overengineered and clearly specialized for competition shooting
Korobov really got so salty his design didn't win the Assault Rifle trials he continuously designed guns to compete with the AK until he died, that's some dedication-
Honestly, mad respect to Korobov. They may look weird, but he went out there and made a bunch of creative guns with pretty unique concepts. We'd never know if these ideas would work if no one ever made them. Even if they work horribly in practice if at all, at least now we know.
The greatest tool of progress is mistake. Don't afraid to make mistakes. Some of them can bring you genius inventions of all times. Others can teach you where you were wrong and what you should never do again.
Quite a few of his guns were actually said to be surprisingly functional, and even bested the AK in certain things like accuracy and controllability trials. They had no chance of being adopted as a standard infantry rifle because of things like the radical ergonomics, and more importantly, how costly they would have been to mass produce, not to mention being a nightmare to to field-strip and maintain in general. The TKB-022PM and quite a few others had a lot of complex intricate little parts inside of them like a Swiss clock, they almost rivaled the complexity of the AN-94 and the H&K G11. Too expensive to manufacture in large quantities during a wartime scenario. And the complexity would make it the worst thing for a basic grunt to use. Weapons like these would only ever find their niche with specialized forces, kinda like how the AN-94 did to a degree.
The TKB-022PM is a masterpiece. Best barrel to overall length ratio ever, frontal expulsion, and a mix of hammer and striker-fired system that prevents trigger mushyness, fixing the most annoying bullpup issues. Here's how it works on the inside ruclips.net/video/J5x_clmnUjo/видео.html Really, it's been 60 years since he designed it, and still looks futuristic.
It's a shame this stuff is relegated to meme status and "nightmare fuel". Seriously, nobody has ever explained what's wrong with them. It's only "lol, look at it". Yeah, it's forward thinking and a different approach. What's wrong?
As much as I love cursed gun images and the hilarity they provoke, I am concerned that the cumulative effect of these videos is going to drive Brandon batshit crazy.
A lot of those bakelite AK competitors have a certain Neo-Baroque look to them. Like something a precursor race from the Aliens franchise would have built, or the level design from ECHO.
The “dual forward assist” on this gun is actually there for to drop the bolt from either side of the gun if you’re left or right handed. Built by Cobalt Kinetics
It's still stupid, especially since it makes you pull your hand all the way back to where you could just use the charging handle at that point. Not to mention so many things like the B.A.D.-Lever from Magpul or the EBRv from Phase 5 already make the bolt release ambi control, and many companies have full-ambi lowers with literally all controls on both sides of the lower where you can easily hit them with your index finger or offhand thumb. No reason to add a second button on the upper so far away from your natural contact points on the rifle
The “forward assist” for making shit go where it doesn’t want to go, only thing worse, is a dual forward assist. To really ram shit where it doesn’t want to go!
And second letter (e) has completely different pronunciation from english one. There is no such a sound in english, but a in "cat" would be closest, i guess
Shooting a 50BMG in a regular pump action or double barrel is actually not a problem but it does severely reduce down range BC & accuracy. But it is fun to see what you can hit at 30 yards.
So, apparently there is a version of the Luty SMG you can make that is semi-auto only. So a person could theoretically make it (aside from a couple of states like the one we don't name here), and not have to register it, and the ATF won't go giving you a dog that they can shoot. Also, I'm pretty sure the Luty doesn't require welding. I think it was designed so it could be built with a pretty basic tool set... It's not like I have a PDF of it sitting around that I could easily check.... yup! No welding. Just some silver solder.
Yo! Seeing a gun MEME that not only has GeneralSam in it but also has Brandon recognize and asking to play EFT with Sam for some reason kinda blows my mind! I just think it would be badass to see the king of the RATS getting dorky on dorms alongside the AK50 guy!
Russian language police here! (Not Russian, but it’s a WIP second language). German/Герман is usually pronounced with a “hard G/Г”, like the G in “Give us the AK50”. The Е makes a YE sound, such as “YEs Brandon we know it takes a lot of R&D, but we are impatient!” So German/Герман is pronounced “Gyer-mahn” But since German is a borrowed name from Spanish, in some cases it is pronounced identical, “Her-man”, despite being spelt with a G/Г. It just depends on the individual. Sometimes (not always) the spelling is altered to reflect the pronunciation, replacing the G/Г with a H/Х, «Херман». In the case of Korobov, his name is the former “Russified” version of the name (with the hard G), not the foreign one (with an H). At least according to Russian documentaries about Korobov.
This is just inspiring me to make...more than just fully functional cursed guns. Now I want to make functional cursed attachments like side vents that will properly vent the back-blast of an underbarrel RPG, or a side mounted Zip .22 because I just hate myself and wish to torment the very fabric of reality.
Step 1: get a zip22 Step 2: get a long barrel, pistol grip and trigger group, and make it a bullpup. (Bonus cursed 1: make the new frame out of fake wood like Korobov.) (Bonus cursed 2: use a full auto trigger group.) Step 3: give it a drum mag. (Remember to keep it chambered on 22LR tho!) Good job, you just made a gun that is practically guaranteed to malfunction every single time you pull the trigger.
Russian here. Russian language doesn't have an H sound, so Russians naturally replace Hs in foreign borrowings with hard Gs, so Herrmann > German; Herbert > Gerbert (pronounced more like Gyerman, Gyerbirt) etc
@@daniilrocks Russian Х represents en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative , not en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative But yes, Х is used to transliterate H in more recent borrowings
Ok, Brandon, hear me out - fully automatic wood-furnitured AK shotgun (with rifled barrel) in .410. The hilarity of going to a gun range on a busy day and running 30 fully automatic .410 sabot slugs out of what is by every visible metric, an AK-47, then switching to a magazine of birdshot would be absolutely priceless to watch. Pick a stranger, tell them “hey watch this”, you put 30 singular holes in a target. Then you put more like 3,000 in the paper with the next mag. The beauty of .410 is that the recoil with slugs would definitely be manageable and not look or feel “off” from how a normal AK feels, so ostensibly it could be a rifle if it was handed to you and you were told to just aim at a target and fire away and didn’t look into what the gun really was. A really inaccurate rifle…. But it’s a rifle. …Right? Or maybe the better prank with this idea would be to keep a few of your crew out of the loop on what it is, take them to the range and feed them 1 mag of slugs followed by 1 mag of birdshot and watch their reaction
"I'm going as an alcoholic" dies laughing and then goes straight to some guy on meth, that's definitely Brandon for you, that is for the great content my guy
It’s interesting to see the TKB-408 in a video game at all. Apparently Crossfire had this 6 years before, but I’m not surprised since that game is also filled to the brim with obscure guns.
13:56 Brandon, this is totally real, and when I was in my gunsmithing job I worked on one. You can take off the top and look at he internals, and its like a clock in there. My first response was "Oh cool, a dual-jam-enhancer."
I can just imagine how pissed he must have been that the AK became the standard for assault rifle and known by almost everyone when it could have been his, his weapon instead. God that would suck
Or because airplane and tank designs don’t even look like guns and these absolutely insane guns may have occasionally worked in some sort of insane way. He had the mind of a madman, and probably did more for design then we ever will. (Although honestly he’s like some sort of insect studying weirdo, or other useless scientist who “accidentally” discovered a tiny thing that changed everything.
I have a sneaking suspicion that he was doing it on purpose. Creating revolutionary, but complex and unreliable guns that wouldn't be adopted. This way he gets the money for competition and doesn't get annoyed by people forcing to adopt the design for production, oversee production quality, plan modernization, iron out new quirks when they are found. In soviet design bureau work philosophy second place was the best place for some people. All the privileges, but no risk.
I like how the “dual failure button” AR has a Cobalt Kinetics logo on it, beings as they have completely abandoned the forward assist, and have actually repurposed the few guns that do have it to make it a bolt release. Or is that part of the joke. Rip.
ah, my favorite time of the year. nothing like drinking irresponsibly and dressing like an idiot and NOT being looked at weirdly! #akgnotificationsquad
Could his use of bakelite be the equivalent of what we use 3D printed prototyping for these days? Not for actual production, but a cheap way to put a prototype together? I'm not familiar with how bakelite is made, so that was the thought going through my head looking at these.
Not really, Bakelite is an early form of plastic and requires a significant amount of tooling and dies to form. making it far more expensive to get one piece than carving wood
not going to lie, that TKB-059 is kinda cool. its got a cool "phantasm" with a russian accent vibe. the guy was definitely living up to his 1st name with the overengineering and solutions to problems he created with his design choices. 10:25 but what about the 900lb russian bear in the room? look at the path of travel for any rounds fired. the backblast is the least of your worries.
2:37 That's Darra Polytechnic DS1 Pulsar from Cyberpunk 2077. Looks like Korobow found a fan in a not so distant future I'm actually supprised that their researchers pulled THIS out from history. Like damn, that's a deep pull
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Fairly certain Korobov isn't actually dead. He just changed his identity and is designing firearms for Kel-Tec.
Korobov/Kellgren... seems legit.
@@fireman305 I believe it
If he's immortal and the old adage of "Even a broken clock tells the time right twice a day", then he's gonna end up designing the AK killer... _hopefully not in this century, tho._
Mason the numbers are real.
@@glidershower Got to admit, I could see a true AK killer coming from KelTec. It would be entirely by accident, but I could see it.
Russian comment here, The G in German is a hard G like in "Gear". Fun fact, his last name Korobov translates to "of Boxes/Chests" which may be why he loved putting bakelite boxes on guns.
the g german is like the g in engineer
I believe he means German Korobov’s name is pronounced with a G like in gear, not the general word itself
Gearman the Box Man.
The way you pronounce German (the name and the nationality) in russian Is with a hard G sound because the long G sound as in George doesn't exist in Russian as a letter
@@madcat789 GearBox!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
F@ck yeah, mate! F@ck yeah...
That "charging handle maze" is due to, basically, Korobov inventing the KRISS Vector system before Vector was even a thing. Check out TKB-09, he did the same thing except the bolt went into the grip.
Yeahhh...not so sure id fire anything that has the bolt going into my hand
@@xscorpx Eh, it was safe-ish. It didn't pass the trials because the grip was angled forward and was really awkward to handle.
Given the universality of polymer parts in modern rifles later on (G36?) Korborov seems to have been at a few points in his career a scant stone’s throw away from being a hugely-influential weapon designer.
@@xscorpx its a really cool design cuz it uses the bolt carrier to to manage vertical recoil also, so it can fire .45 ACP in full auto with very little movement.
@@asxpot "safe-ish"
The way Brandon talks about Korobov is like a grandson who talks about cooky but beloved grandpa. It makes my heart warm.
Mikhail is your actual grandfather, Korobov is your Great Uncle who's a little bit out there but totally a rad guy to hang with, always trying to outdo your actual grandpa.
I agree, I love hearing him talk about gun designers in general, so much respect
*Kooky.
Cause I'm going to guess you don't mean Brandon thinks Korobov is an edible baked good.
obligatory "only thing scarier than spooky cursed guns are ammo prices"
Hopefully we get bullets during trick or treating instead of candy
Yeah, just paid $0.37/rd for 7.62x39. I just told myself its a good deal in the "Lets Go Brandon" era
I don't know, Alec Baldwin is pretty scary.
@@polak007 Yes please that be worth it just to see the libs lose their shit!
@@tdog708 wait hang on 37 cent to the bullet damn boi i'm in france and permits etc aside 7.62x39 is 15€/per round that said the only legally ownable weapons that fire it are hunting rifles so yeah those mostly fire about 1round every 5 years(of their own ammo ranges provide rounds for permit continuation visits)
If Brandon and Sam played Tarkov together, that’d be legendary.
no doubt someone needs to tell general sam that a collab need to happen.
I would watch
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The Russian government was like " Hey, were going to be paying Korobov's salary either way, let's just have him keep making these ridiculous rifles, they're Fing hilarious"
Lmao the sad part is its probably true
@@dantemacdonald7672 Might also been a Korobov can´t design a issue ready gun but he sure can bring ides to the table.
And that was a Problem I think for the russian I think durring a time as they only had one weapon design school so all the weapon designers had the sameish ide.
Korobov did not go to said school apparently or something else, and showed up whit the really wierd ides.
I think or was it someone else that made a Small arms weapon that did not get adopted but the thing that was made/designed was more or less copied(heavy inspired) for a big gun solution.
You seriously said “fInG”? Like dude, grow up weirdo
@@luisbill1394 Nothing wrong with not wanting to swear. Only an immature person would be angry enough to insult someone else over it though. Ironic
pablo wentscobar- Brandon isn't quite right about Korobov's account. He didn’t always make funny weapons and almost defeated Kalashnikov twice with standard assault rifles, but he was unlucky. For the first time, he simply did not have enough strength to finalize his rifle, while a whole design bureau worked for Kalashikov. And the Kalashnikov rifle was mastered in production.
After that, Korobov conducted research work and found out that an uncomfortable shooter needs an optimal rate of fire - 2000 rounds per minute. And in the supine position, 500 rounds per minute are enough. And he did two rates of fire on his new rifle. But the military did not like it and they asked to remove one rate of fire. This led to a loss, although initially the Korobov rifle was better than the Kalashnikov rifle in many respects - price, accuracy of fire, ease of manufacture.
In addition, Korobov experimented a lot and his mistakes, this is also a great experience for gunsmiths. And those of his successful, bold experiments, which gave a positive result, are only now beginning to be realized in the arms business.
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I'm you're sub from Russia
Korobov did all this because he was angry with the government of the USSR, after his competitor AK was rejected due to the fact that there was already an order for AKM. He decided to make such a stoned weapon in order to anger those who did not accept his design. Seriously, korobov was a genius in his field, in his TKB 454 he implemented a gas braking system for a free shutter with a cartridge of 7.62 * 39. in his other TKB4545 machine gun, he was able to make a return half as much as that of the AK, with a weight of 500 grams less, but also had drawbacks. In TKB 517, he corrected all the shortcomings while retaining all the advantages. After this machine was not accepted, he decided to prank his state sponsors,
Sorry for my English:)
Everyone "Oooh cursed gun images"
Keltech and Hi-point staff: "Oooh, design ideas"
Man can you imagine what Korobov could do if he lived today as an engineer in Keltec? Or if he just lived in a market economy where at least some scifi maniacs would buy his stuff so he could keep making more.
@@milanstepanek4185 I can imagine that but I don't want to.
@@milanstepanek4185 that gun with the flint-lock stock looked like something from early sci-fi with how the top of the frame around the barrel curved down.
"write that down write that down"
I want to see the triple barrel built and expanded on
In USSR we didn't have meth. We had really good paint.
Didn't they give their soldiers meth during WW2 to keep their soldiers awake?
"A taste for making cursed prototype weapons and meth!"
So, Kel-Tec pretty much?
Kel Tec is classier than that, they do pure Columbian blow, fresh snow from across the Caribbean
@@redrider7730 Most don't also have a gun factory the size of a supermarket, so that helps Kel-Tec as well.
Nailed it!
Herman is prav.
Kev-Tek
Tkb 408 actually looks really cool despite the front barrel area looking kinda weird
Gonna second this. I want one.
“Uses a belt-fed to keep you well-fed”
That shit went hard tf
Brandon, my boy, don't be silly. Everyone knows that Russian meth is Krokodil.
Let's not joke about that, krokodil does horrible things to poor people who can't afford better recreational drugs.
@@Pyreleaf
So does crystal.
Dinner-fork tongue crystal meth is bad enough, but I think we can all agree that injecting gas with a little bit of codeine mixed in until you get necrosis and your body just...literally fucking *ROTS* from the inside out is worse by an order of magnitude.
@@Pyreleaf
We can, for sure. I don't understand junkies in the least.
Dinner-fork tongue can, but shouldn't. Whether or not you understand addiction is irrelevant - it's ghoulish.
TKB-059 has a solid concept. Instead of a three round burst, just put three bullets out at the same time. Although not practical, it’s probably designs like these that serve as stepping stones for newer, better ideas.
It looks like a Titan gun from Titanfall
@@anthonyromanelli1392 the triple take from apex
@@demgainz2216 I can’t hit shit with that damn thing
@@demgainz2216 Double take from Titanfall 2, remember your roots
I still think the AN-94 concept should be worked on more. Not the gun itself, but what it was trying to do. Shoot a burst so fast that by the time you feel the recoil it's already out the muzzle. Basically trying to make it shoot a burst fast enough that the recoil won't affect your accuracy.
It's like "Gearman" Korobov.
For what it's worth, the guy never gave up with his ideas, and the ideas were very brave
I figured as much, reminds me of the German name Gehrmann.
My senior year we had this Ukrainian kid in my class. First day of first period the teacher is like "....and, uh.....Se....uh.....Se....." and this kid goes "Simon, just call me Simon. Please."
@@coldwaterhunter8176 yeah, It's a bid hard when your name in English is "Semen". Though, it's actually Semyon (like "semjon"), but who of you gives a damn
@@coldwaterhunter8176 oh wait...I just realised that in Ukrainian, the Russian "Semyon" IS actually "Semen" (like Seh-men). NOW IT IS FUNNY
@@sergeyalaev9393 I gave up trying to understand Russian/Ukrainian naming conventions and patronyms and such. Again, I was this many years old before I found out that Russian women usually have an "A" added to their last name. Like Big Vlad's daughters last name is "Putina". A Russian person tried to walk me through it once but lost me early on.
Brandon: “this gun was the revolutionary because it ejects from the front”
Maxim machinegun : “Hold my beer”
And here shooting AR15s with the boys makes me feel like a cheap abused hooker getting pelted by hot ash
@@LegendStormcrow oh god 😳😂
@Qrazy Gile I love how the p90 ejects from the bottom
@@joak5623 as does a DP28
I know this is "Cursed Gun Images" and all, but you could've mentioned the one normal looking rifle Korobov made called the TKB-517, just to show he had at least one moment of lucidity in his life.
I unironically really enjoyed all of these designs they looked like they came out of a sci fi movie
"Gun's fucked, Industry's fucked, Innovation's dead."
Damn, Brandon rocking that Doomer mentality. Love it
Glock is the most innovative gun manufacturer of the last 40 years.
@@armorers_wrench I don't know if it's innovative to make another Glock pistol in another caliber. More like iterative.
Doomer coomer
@@wulfricofwessex147 well that's where you are confused or mistaken. In 1982 Gaston Glock put out the original Glock... Glock is only 39 years old now.
@@wulfricofwessex147 what iterates how solid they are is how every company now makes a polymer wonder or p80 too. Then let's talk about companies making guns to fit a clock mag...
An alcoholic? U don't even need a costume! This guy's a genius
He is going as my Ex
@@tierneymarshall5960 oh shit, they must've been great for a guy like Brandon to look up to them and go as them for Halloween! I bet ur proud. All jokes aside though, I hope you're doing better now
Yeah I’m gonna have to steal that for tonight
So just like my costume from last year?! Genius!🤣🤣👍🇺🇸🎃
@@Irish381 yeah it's like my "out with friends" costume lmao
Brandon talking about the dual forward assist makes me wonder if he's ever seen the very original Counter-Strike's reload animation, where the player yanks the foward assist like a Bop-It to chamber a round. Someone link it if he hasn't pls, think our lad Jon Ferguson over at the Gamespot/Royal Armouries collab covered it
That one's up there in the greatest hits, along with the "stripper clip inserted into the bottom like a magazine" on the (I think) Farcry 2 Springfield
I like your funny words GDI soldier
Fallout New Vegas has something very similar with it’s Service Rifle, Assault Carbine, and Matksman Carbine, all of which are AR-15 variants.
Foolish developers, that's the oil dispenser plunger.
The second forward assist is a bolt release on the Cobalt Kinetic ARs. It's so you can drop the bolt with your thumb instead of using your off hand before returning it to the handguard.
"This is a Vepr twelve-gauge dressed up to look like a VSS." I want. Give.
Also even Brandon "Fuck bullpups" Herrera can't deny the AUG is dope.
I'm not a bullpup fan, but I really hope we get imports of the HS-Produkt VHS-2, I think it actually looks pretty rad
@@Kross8761 That's exactly why I want a VHS-2. I have no desire to actually use it, but it looks sick. Same reason I bought an SL8.
@@Kross8761 bro the VHS-2 is one of the coolest looking newer guns i've seen in a while
@@CeizoBro and if it is reliable it could be a real improvement over a lot of bullpups with some of its more "minor" bits of adjustability.
I'm not saying bullpups are inherently unreliable, just that if this rifle is also reliable it will have a leg up due to things like an adjustable length of pull, swappable ejection, and from what I've seen "mostly" Ambi controls.
13:40 To answer the confusion on the second forward assist it's actually not a forward assist. That's a Cobalt Kinetic competition AR and the left forward assist is actually a bolt release so you can drop the bolt with your thumb instead of having to take the fraction of a second to hit it with your off hand. It serves the same purpose as the Magpul BAD lever. Another weird feature is that since it's solely a competition rifle, the magazine automatically drops when the bolt is held open after running out of ammo for even faster competition reloads.
It makes it even better when you realize that you can hit the bolt release with the hand you're putting the mag in with even faster than hitting this button.
Just make it so the bolt drops when the mag is ready to go
@@pieman12345678987654 I don’t think that’s possible, chief.
@@MalcolmIIofCaledonia let him try. Sometimes ya gotta do stupid shit to learn why it’s stupid.
@@MalcolmIIofCaledoniaMaybe if you had a linkage in the magazine that would force the lock free as soon as it was triggered by the bottom of the mag making contact as it loaded the last round?
Might be possible, just very overengineered and clearly specialized for competition shooting
Korobov really got so salty his design didn't win the Assault Rifle trials he continuously designed guns to compete with the AK until he died, that's some dedication-
Honestly, mad respect to Korobov. They may look weird, but he went out there and made a bunch of creative guns with pretty unique concepts. We'd never know if these ideas would work if no one ever made them. Even if they work horribly in practice if at all, at least now we know.
The greatest tool of progress is mistake. Don't afraid to make mistakes. Some of them can bring you genius inventions of all times. Others can teach you where you were wrong and what you should never do again.
I’d honestly like to see what the -022pm would look like IRL, as it’s operating system is really interesting.
And technically he was making art
Quite a few of his guns were actually said to be surprisingly functional, and even bested the AK in certain things like accuracy and controllability trials. They had no chance of being adopted as a standard infantry rifle because of things like the radical ergonomics, and more importantly, how costly they would have been to mass produce, not to mention being a nightmare to to field-strip and maintain in general. The TKB-022PM and quite a few others had a lot of complex intricate little parts inside of them like a Swiss clock, they almost rivaled the complexity of the AN-94 and the H&K G11. Too expensive to manufacture in large quantities during a wartime scenario. And the complexity would make it the worst thing for a basic grunt to use. Weapons like these would only ever find their niche with specialized forces, kinda like how the AN-94 did to a degree.
It’s not an RPG launcher mounted to the AK, it’s an RPG bayonet, much more effective.
Must have to dremel the PG7 warhead to make a path for the rifle round, eh?
See Ivan, if you stab enemy with RPG, he has no time to run away!
@Popup Target
Looked like the barrel went through the sight just above the explosive
@@uzivatel56 it's an anti-tank bayonet my friend!
Multikill
A collab with the Rat King would be the best thing I’ll ever witness.
Would it be in the sewer or in shop
The funny thing is that the TKB-09/010 were not only his earliest rifle designs, but also the most "traditional" type rifle
Playing Tarkov with General Sam, eh? When being friendly-fired sounds like a good passtime..
Talk about cursed guns 🤣
Getting ratted on
The TKB-022PM is a masterpiece. Best barrel to overall length ratio ever, frontal expulsion, and a mix of hammer and striker-fired system that prevents trigger mushyness, fixing the most annoying bullpup issues. Here's how it works on the inside ruclips.net/video/J5x_clmnUjo/видео.html
Really, it's been 60 years since he designed it, and still looks futuristic.
It's a shame this stuff is relegated to meme status and "nightmare fuel". Seriously, nobody has ever explained what's wrong with them. It's only "lol, look at it". Yeah, it's forward thinking and a different approach. What's wrong?
@@zendell37 nobody likes bullpups thats the easiest explanation
Fact
Your links broken
... Damn it, now I want one. ...
10:13
True happiness is when you put this meme up on GunMemes a few months ago and Brandon features it
As much as I love cursed gun images and the hilarity they provoke, I am concerned that the cumulative effect of these videos is going to drive Brandon batshit crazy.
Implying that he isn't already.
Going to? How do you think he came up with the AK-50 and drinking White Claw in the first place?
Let's be honest us 2nd amendment enthusiasts are a special kind of fun crazy 🤪
Lets go BRANDON?
"is going to" ?
A lot of those bakelite AK competitors have a certain Neo-Baroque look to them. Like something a precursor race from the Aliens franchise would have built, or the level design from ECHO.
The “dual forward assist” on this gun is actually there for to drop the bolt from either side of the gun if you’re left or right handed. Built by Cobalt Kinetics
It's still stupid, especially since it makes you pull your hand all the way back to where you could just use the charging handle at that point. Not to mention so many things like the B.A.D.-Lever from Magpul or the EBRv from Phase 5 already make the bolt release ambi control, and many companies have full-ambi lowers with literally all controls on both sides of the lower where you can easily hit them with your index finger or offhand thumb. No reason to add a second button on the upper so far away from your natural contact points on the rifle
@@TheFishE77Official one arm is broken, ruined or missing, and you need that bolt to be a good boy, cuz your good arms is tweaked but usable?
@@akimbofurry2179 What the fuck are you talking about?
double jam enhancers
Why are AR guys like this
The “forward assist” for making shit go where it doesn’t want to go, only thing worse, is a dual forward assist. To really ram shit where it doesn’t want to go!
I think that's the one cobalt kinetics makes that is a replacement for the bolt release
Korobov is such an underrated designer
Korobov: Designing Fallout guns long before Fallout ever existed
To be fair the "childrens maze charging handle" is a bolt open delay mechanism.
"G" in German is pronounced like the "G" when you read the word "Gulag"
And second letter (e) has completely different pronunciation from english one. There is no such a sound in english, but a in "cat" would be closest, i guess
@@skynliner3434 e like in gay
I believe it is the Russian version of "Hermann". They tend to write and pronounce the soft h's as G's.
@@Puistokemisti there's alot of names that sound different in Russian like Michel is some thing like Mikhail
Or Galil, i guess he knows that better
0:24 That joke hit me right in the ticker. My dingy apt is so dingy that it shakes when I walk around.
Shooting a 50BMG in a regular pump action or double barrel is actually not a problem but it does severely reduce down range BC & accuracy. But it is fun to see what you can hit at 30 yards.
are you sure its safe?
@@Unstable69HaidenDeegs pressure in theory is less because the bullet doesn’t fully seal the barrel when fired. So you lose a lot of energy
Eh, just 3D print a sabot for the front of the casing. 😇
@@Claymore790 That would increase pressures.
So, apparently there is a version of the Luty SMG you can make that is semi-auto only. So a person could theoretically make it (aside from a couple of states like the one we don't name here), and not have to register it, and the ATF won't go giving you a dog that they can shoot.
Also, I'm pretty sure the Luty doesn't require welding. I think it was designed so it could be built with a pretty basic tool set... It's not like I have a PDF of it sitting around that I could easily check.... yup! No welding. Just some silver solder.
Brazing, my favorite bolt construction method
@@nibs7252 Also surprisingly useful for space flight manufacturing. To make it more... high tech?
Brandon: "This is a SPOOKY Cursed Gun Images video!"
Me: "So it's a regular CGI video that HAPPENS to be near Halloween?"
Funny you say that as there were not really any CGI guns in this time...
Nah man, look at all that orange! I’m feeling festive
Brandon's laugh at the beginning made me so happy. It was such a genuine laugh 😂
You don't have to limit being an alcoholic to just Halloween Brandon lmao
Korobov has my respect. He was not afraid to experiment with new ideas. It's people like him that move gun design forward.
At the Abakan trials:
"Ah blyat, it's Korobov again. Don't even look at his gun, he's probably made another bakelite abomination."
Nothing can change my love for that TKB022PM. I love how bizarre it is, and yes, all Bakelite everything is awesome.
I wonder where it is. It seems like very few were made, and I want to get one into the states, but can't find anything on it
the extensive use of bakelite is also kinda ahead of its time, considering that now theres quite a bunch of guns that use polymer frames
Yo! Seeing a gun MEME that not only has GeneralSam in it but also has Brandon recognize and asking to play EFT with Sam for some reason kinda blows my mind! I just think it would be badass to see the king of the RATS getting dorky on dorms alongside the AK50 guy!
I'd like to see Brandon in a green screen intro
@@Lucas_Jeffrey That would he kinda epic.
Every single one of this man's weapon designs are likely something my DND Gunslinger Druggie Kenku character would build. I feel honored.
Russian language police here!
(Not Russian, but it’s a WIP second language).
German/Герман is usually pronounced with a “hard G/Г”, like the G in “Give us the AK50”. The Е makes a YE sound, such as “YEs Brandon we know it takes a lot of R&D, but we are impatient!” So German/Герман is pronounced “Gyer-mahn”
But since German is a borrowed name from Spanish, in some cases it is pronounced identical, “Her-man”, despite being spelt with a G/Г. It just depends on the individual. Sometimes (not always) the spelling is altered to reflect the pronunciation, replacing the G/Г with a H/Х, «Херман».
In the case of Korobov, his name is the former “Russified” version of the name (with the hard G), not the foreign one (with an H). At least according to Russian documentaries about Korobov.
Хер ман :D
Jesus the pain in Brandon's voice when he realized what the three barrels were for is just great.
What?
I caught that one too
When he rubs his eyeballs and asks himself if he should edit his own reaction out.
This is just inspiring me to make...more than just fully functional cursed guns. Now I want to make functional cursed attachments like side vents that will properly vent the back-blast of an underbarrel RPG, or a side mounted Zip .22 because I just hate myself and wish to torment the very fabric of reality.
Step 1: get a zip22
Step 2: get a long barrel, pistol grip and trigger group, and make it a bullpup.
(Bonus cursed 1: make the new frame out of fake wood like Korobov.)
(Bonus cursed 2: use a full auto trigger group.)
Step 3: give it a drum mag. (Remember to keep it chambered on 22LR tho!)
Good job, you just made a gun that is practically guaranteed to malfunction every single time you pull the trigger.
@@thespanishinquisition4078 I thought all you needed to have a gun that's guaranteed to malfunction every shot is to buy a Zip22?
A lot of these designs could EASILY be made into star wars blasters and nobody would notice a difference.
"The shorter the barrel the lower the velocity" Huh......guess that explains why Im a dribbler.
I like how brandon stopped himself from looking for AUGs to look at this man who gave Kel Tec inspiration
Now imagine that AK rpg combo with a trumpet on the ass end to “vent” that back blast and you have a portable musical instrument
"A taste for making cursed prototype weapons and meth!"
Yeah I think Korobov here was smoking crushed Bakelite instead of meth....
Russian here. Russian language doesn't have an H sound, so Russians naturally replace Hs in foreign borrowings with hard Gs, so Herrmann > German; Herbert > Gerbert (pronounced more like Gyerman, Gyerbirt) etc
I would like to politely ask you to look up the Russian alphabet and kindly read the 23rd letter.
Опередил меня
@@daniilrocks Russian Х represents en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative , not en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative
But yes, Х is used to transliterate H in more recent borrowings
Then pleas read this word - "ХУЙ!"
@@V0LKODAV Не буду матюкаться
Ok, Brandon, hear me out - fully automatic wood-furnitured AK shotgun (with rifled barrel) in .410. The hilarity of going to a gun range on a busy day and running 30 fully automatic .410 sabot slugs out of what is by every visible metric, an AK-47, then switching to a magazine of birdshot would be absolutely priceless to watch. Pick a stranger, tell them “hey watch this”, you put 30 singular holes in a target. Then you put more like 3,000 in the paper with the next mag. The beauty of .410 is that the recoil with slugs would definitely be manageable and not look or feel “off” from how a normal AK feels, so ostensibly it could be a rifle if it was handed to you and you were told to just aim at a target and fire away and didn’t look into what the gun really was. A really inaccurate rifle…. But it’s a rifle. …Right?
Or maybe the better prank with this idea would be to keep a few of your crew out of the loop on what it is, take them to the range and feed them 1 mag of slugs followed by 1 mag of birdshot and watch their reaction
"You see Dimitri...enemy not shoot due to fear of RPG attached to rifle killing everyone in room...
- Russia's version of Carl
It's a real thing, in Iran
The only pumpkin spice-esq thing I shall be enjoying today.
Bakelite?
Yes
"I'm going as an alcoholic" dies laughing and then goes straight to some guy on meth, that's definitely Brandon for you, that is for the great content my guy
That was a creative modification of the Vepr-12.
It’s interesting to see the TKB-408 in a video game at all. Apparently Crossfire had this 6 years before, but I’m not surprised since that game is also filled to the brim with obscure guns.
Korobov's name is pronounced like "Gehrman" with a "g" instead of a "gee".
Like Guermann, same way as Herrera, but with G
Every time Matt fires a round, Scott destroys a table, donut gets a Florida man story and u get a cursed gun image
13:56 Brandon, this is totally real, and when I was in my gunsmithing job I worked on one. You can take off the top and look at he internals, and its like a clock in there.
My first response was "Oh cool, a dual-jam-enhancer."
Russia: "How many of your guns are bullpups?"
Korobov: "Yes."
Brandon, when you gonna give us the most expected Cursed gun episode? The Vanguard one, i really want to see you puke foam in fury, bro
"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed." -Thomas Jefferson
I can just imagine how pissed he must have been that the AK became the standard for assault rifle and known by almost everyone when it could have been his, his weapon instead. God that would suck
Damn. Brandon living the salt life in this one. "Cosplaying an alcoholic"? Lol. Poor Donut! You'd drink too if you were homeless!
The Russian generals probably kept him around because they could make whatever they want look good by comparing it to his designs.
Or because airplane and tank designs don’t even look like guns and these absolutely insane guns may have occasionally worked in some sort of insane way. He had the mind of a madman, and probably did more for design then we ever will. (Although honestly he’s like some sort of insect studying weirdo, or other useless scientist who “accidentally” discovered a tiny thing that changed everything.
"This year I'm going as an alcoholic"
Cheers comrade
I wanna see Brandon build a luty, even if just a video of him shooting it
I have a sneaking suspicion that he was doing it on purpose. Creating revolutionary, but complex and unreliable guns that wouldn't be adopted.
This way he gets the money for competition and doesn't get annoyed by people forcing to adopt the design for production, oversee production quality, plan modernization, iron out new quirks when they are found. In soviet design bureau work philosophy second place was the best place for some people. All the privileges, but no risk.
The idea that someone born prior to WW1 could've had access to an Xbox and played a modern warfare game is absolutely wild to me
I like how the “dual failure button” AR has a Cobalt Kinetics logo on it, beings as they have completely abandoned the forward assist, and have actually repurposed the few guns that do have it to make it a bolt release.
Or is that part of the joke. Rip.
Коробов:
"Да, любил я проектировать прототипы оружия, но больше я любил сладко дунуть"
Просто советский бакелит был весьма токсичный вот его и штырило
Dude, have you seen Russian cars? Soviet-era architecture? We have a lot of people who liked to blow sweetly
"Хороший у вас план, товарищ Коробов!" (с) Сталин
@@please1933 Only after a good joint all these concrete monstrosities could be ever viewed as livable...
4:30 it's so weird how much I love this thing
I wanna see Brandon Herrera react to CoD Vanguard guns. More specifically the attachments for the guns. Feel like that would be interesting.
Huh.
The "spookiest" cursed gun isn't even cursed, its just the "GhOsT gUn"
Was not expecting that General Sam reference. Very nice
ah, my favorite time of the year. nothing like drinking irresponsibly and dressing like an idiot and NOT being looked at weirdly!
#akgnotificationsquad
Could his use of bakelite be the equivalent of what we use 3D printed prototyping for these days? Not for actual production, but a cheap way to put a prototype together? I'm not familiar with how bakelite is made, so that was the thought going through my head looking at these.
Not really, Bakelite is an early form of plastic and requires a significant amount of tooling and dies to form. making it far more expensive to get one piece than carving wood
As soon as I saw the ak type 1 i literally spat water out of my mouth. That is a literal war crime. Thank god it's not permanent.
10:12-10:30:
Are we all going to just ignore the fact that the AK-74 is firing INTO the RPG warhead? Is that a thing we're doing?
Yes comrade that is what stalin and lenin intended
AK suck good weapon it bullet bend around curves.
“ snap caps you know the things Alec baldwin should have had” lol you just couldn’t help your self could you 😂
It didn't get the 250,000 likes but you still built the lootie and that's why we subscribe
not going to lie, that TKB-059 is kinda cool. its got a cool "phantasm" with a russian accent vibe.
the guy was definitely living up to his 1st name with the overengineering and solutions to problems he created with his design choices.
10:25 but what about the 900lb russian bear in the room? look at the path of travel for any rounds fired. the backblast is the least of your worries.
I was literally talking to my brother about the TKB-022's Commie space magic
ruclips.net/video/J5x_clmnUjo/видео.html
2:37 That's Darra Polytechnic DS1 Pulsar from Cyberpunk 2077. Looks like Korobow found a fan in a not so distant future
I'm actually supprised that their researchers pulled THIS out from history. Like damn, that's a deep pull
God i hope Ian gets a chance to travel to Russia and dive into some of the archives and reference collections one day.
This gun designer is like Vice, asking the questions NO ONE asked. He builds the guns NO ONE wants.
I think it's important to remember that gun making is an art form, rather than science, and with all artists, not every experiment works out
Surprised his last name was not Kel-Tec