Machine Guns - WW1 Uncut: Dan Snow
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer... www.bbc.co.uk/ww1 Dan takes a deep breath as he prepares to have an extremely close encounter with some of the deadliest weapons of the war in an attempt to understand how they were able to wreak such havoc.
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The Lewis gun was so reliable that a variant of it was used by Imperial Stormtroopers long ago, in a galaxy far far away....
Nice one!
yes it was very well spotted on Tatooine
@Duncan Cole nice bot
Lol ye
A shame about its accuracy though…
0:34 we watched this in school with the CC on...Class nearly had a laughing fit 😂
SAME it was hilarious
important weapons - bruh
Ricarda SHAW HI RICARDA
I don't get it? I put CC and it matched what he said.
@Ricarda SHAW what did it originally say?
ahh, you hear that? no Skrillex for once...
the glorious sound of machinegun - Portishead
Troll'd Cuber XD
BAANG WEEEOOB WAAAAB
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My grandfather was a Lewis gunner in WW1, aged 19 at Ypres and later, on the Somme. He only mentioned it a couple of times.
The Vickers was an improved Maxim and had a solid legacy until it's final retirement. The Lewis was an awesome piece. It's utter reliability and versatility kept it in service until the Korean War. In WW2, it was still used even after being replaced by the Bren and the Vickers K.
Still being used in ukraine today
As a cool and hip youngstar of da strreets you have reely coneected wit me with dat music. well done bbc you is reeem.
Dylan Milne shot me
4:28 armorer is still feeding the rounds like why did u stop u still got a whole belt
It's funny to look at the difference between American and British shows about weapons. In America, they whoop it up going, "YEEEAAH! Look at the rate of fire on this bad boy! Man that can do some damage! Awesome!" whereas in the BBC, the presenters are much more like, "This is a truly terrifying piece of equipment and it's horrific to think of just how much pain and death it was responsible for, in such miserable conditions." Really shows the different culture and national experiences with war and weapons.
Equipment being responsible for death? Trust me, there's plenty of Americans who believe that too.
At least concerning WW1 the US didn't lose as close as many troops that France and Britain did.So they may think of the war in a more 'fun' way.
You seem upset. Did I touch a nerve?
few people here think of war as fun.
Well they were in it for 1 year of actual fighting. I know they joined in 1917 but they started fighting after the German offensive of 1918 so of course they lost fewer people.
All of these WW1 Uncut videos have really bizarre and annoying music and editing choices. The last one I saw featured dub step, even in the video editing.
Jim Novak also they have miss information,
Everything brittish is somehow the best.
Well it is on BBC.. but if you listen to their WW2 stuff, they give a lot of tech superiority to the Germans, Tanks, Machine Guns, ect..
Jeffrey Rose well,it's because it's quite known that German tech was superior in that era,not a lot was known if it was like that in ww1 so BBC could have used that to spread miss-information.
shutup you pig
@@hoxhabunker8407 shutup you pig
- Lewis was not the first LMG, only for the British.
- Lewis was not the only LMG, the French had the Chuchat.
- How can the British heavy machine gun be better if it!s identical to the German? Because it's British?
+Péter Baán Actually the Vickers had an accuracy of a rifle.
So as the MG 08. Because they were identical. Except the cartridge.
+Péter Baán Go cry to someone who cares.
The Toasted Hawk - If you don't want to give a fuck, then do so and go away... But don't come to me without any argument and say no one cares...
Péter Baán Why do i have to go away just because you're telling me to ? And heres a fucking argument for ya. Do you really think that BBC is gonna listen to you, reply to you, and apoligize to you just because you have to be an smartass on the internet ? Get out of here you trash.
Saw this in my sub box. Thought it was a Great War episode so was surprised to see no Indy Neidell lol
All of these videos in a nutshell: “The german thing is alright but look heres the same thing but british, that means its better.“
It says in it that the vickers was lighter and it didn't brake down as often
No the vickers didnt brake down at all
Can’t help that we were better prepared…
That music is beautiful...also incredible Lewis gun!
unbelievable music choices
I remember reading that soldiers would catch the water falling from the barrel and use it to make tea, that way nothing went to waste
Bri'ish
Was the camera work and editing on this show done that horribly to make us experience some of the brutal terror of trench warfare? Because it worked. I now experience shell shock at the mention of ''WW1 Uncut: Dan Snow''
Oh God, not again! *Psychotic rage* ''Why was it done so shitty?!!'' ''WHHHYYYYYYY''
Illiminatie overlord Gurglekoks ha
In 3 years 20 men have read this comment was it worth it
Midwar MG08 were attached to a board with nails on the bottom that could be mounted anywhere. Late war versions had bipods with pistol grips, and shoulder stocks.
"A sentry kit is available near your location"
Technically the Danish Madsen was the first man portable machine gun.
Yes but the Lewis was the first Portable MG used by the UK.
I am aware.
@@nathanielrincon7907 No, the Madsen was designed to be portable and it had a bipod -> LMG.
As a gunner you never stop to consider the carnage at the other end of your burst.
Imagine how horrible and terrifying it must've been to be on the receiving end of those monsters.
One time while I was in Officer Training we were carrying out a simulated combat exercise and were told to follow a track to a target. We were told not, under any circumstances, to depart from the track. Walking along the track we discovered the reason; to our left was a live firing range and it was in use. An army unit was shooting machine guns (probably GPMGs) and hearing those rounds swishing past, even though they were about 100 meters away and not coming anywhere near us, scared the shit out of me! I remember thinking about the boys in WW1 and marvelling at the courage it took to stand up and walk forward into that. God bless 'em all.
Can the BBC for once stop being biased towards British equipment? I'm not saying German gear or weapons are better, i just want to watch one of these "documentaries" that actually sit down and say this weapon was better in this situation because it has XXX properties but on the flip side this was better in this regard because of XXX not this one is clearly better because it was "lighter" but turn around in the next documentary and call another weapon inferior for being lighter and less accurate just because it wasn't produced in Britain. Don't do this to us BBC, we need you, our history channel thinks hillbilly's living in a swamp, and guys selling 40 year old memorabilia for a profit are qualified to replace real documentaries. :( Also is dubstep the best choice for a WW1 documentary? Just some thoughts.
Oh I hate the bbc, don't think thats what most Britsh TV is like
Jon DeFrees I agree this series is a bit shit but most BBC programming is actually pretty good.
Well there were some mobile mgs before, like say the Madsen, that were used in offensive combat
"Well there were some mobile mgs before, like say the Madsen, that were used in offensive combat"
The 1895 Potato-Digger was used in the Spanish-American War by the US Marines for such things. Though not as portable as the Lewis, it was portable enough to move with the troops and be quickly setup to provide close supporting fire. It was too heavy to be reliably carried across muddy no-mans-land in Europe though. An incredibly advanced design for its day.
The Vickers and Maxim are comparable weapons, and it's true the Vickers fired continuously for 7 days during a test. The Lewis allowed for "Fire & Movement", something the Medium Machine guns lacked.
Today's machine guns can be mounted in the SF (Sustained Fire) role like the Maxim or Vickers, or in the LMG role, like the Lewis. That's why we call it the GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) or Gimpy.
he forgot to mention how the german mg 08 would bust knuckles with the charge handle when firing, which is why it was important for the gunner to pay attention to where his fingers were when firing
Check the british weapon...had the same external hammer connecting rod...
One thing that the MG08 and the Vickers have in common is that they’re both water cooled and belt fed machine guns, MG08 fires at 600 rpm while the Vickers fires at 500 rpm.
first song is Portishead - Undenied.
In order to fire machine gun in England you need to go to a secret underground bunker in America you can keep one of these in your living room :D
But to fire it costs many many dollars...
Dude the subtitles are cursed
Like a Trip-Hop Massive Attack/Portishead promo: Undenied, Angel, Machine Gun.
This video was uploaded on my birthday and the day I joined RUclips
Good video.. but this bothered me:
@ 6:55 "Its scary.. Just how many deaths these guns were responsible for.."
Ok BBC -
Last i checked a firearm has to be operated and it is just an animate object. I am curious to why the British population doesn't feel the same why in regards to the precious spitfire..
Also how many British civilians feel this same way in regards to Long bows with their arrows. These weapons were responsible for killing the flower of French nobility at the Battle of Agincourt 1415.
You can't have it both ways: Don't try to humanize the object; humanize the person using the object.
Well the Brits have been a part of social programming / state manipulation for many years. Guns are bad and scary to many folk in the UK and Europe these days. His statement shows how this sort of regime works. I find that scary.
Inanimate. Just saying so you know :D
That's very true and something I've always said myself concerning classic military aircraft like the Spitfire. Everyone is proud of that aircraft, which was also designed to kill things just like these guns, but people view it differently due to the way the manipulative media portrays firearms, it's really sad.
"responsible" is probably the wrong word, but these machine guns did facilitate the deaths of an awful lot of men. Their power and ability to kill is jaw-dropping.
Hunter Jordan
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't recognise their power to kill. A deodorant is just a metal container with chemicals inside it. A bomb is also just a metal container with chemical inside it. Let's not pretend that they are the same in terms of hazard. Let's not pretend that one doesn't have the potential to do a lot more damage than the other.
+BBC the most mobile machinegun of WW1 was mostcertainly not the Lewis. Although it was a great piece of kit, the Madsen LMG employed by the Germans were more mobile and flexible in its application. The Lewis can theoretically be shouldered, but it is not practical, whereas a Madsen can.
No mention of the fact that the MG08, and, the Vickers were mechanically almost identical, and, were both license built copies of a gun designed by an American. Hiram Maxim's friend nailed it when he said to him, "You want to make a pile of money? Design something these Europeans can cut each other's throats with."
The difference between the two is that the vickers action is turned upside down that's why its lighter, a much improved design by the British
Gatling gun any one first tried on indians in the US.
lol "few locations in Britain where you can fire heavy weapons" meanwhile in Texas I can just go to a buddy's house out in the middle of nowhere and we can fire whatever we want into the side of a hill on his property, well as long as it isn't any type of RPG, and for machineguns you need a very expensive permit
RichyN25 do you want a medal or something?
Until he shoots up a school :///
Blah b itd be hard to shoot up a school without a gun
demo ranch
God Bless America
Gotta learn what i can meet in BF1
Same.
+Bukken so these are what makes a sub machine gun back in WW1. Not impressed. I can't seem to find true sub machine gun that you can run and gun. However the Thomson was developed the same year the war ended and it was not used in the war so not sure it will be available in the game.
+ThunderWolf yeah i was hoping that it would be moe like boltrifle against boltrifle.
+Anonymous don't forget the Italian beretta (forgot the full name)
+Bukken Tifus and trench foot
"600 rounds/min" that barely felt like 400 rpm...
Search up a 600 bpm metronome and compare it to the rpm of the Vickers
What is it with shooting fruit ? are people in training for the invasion of the Melons or something ?
+woofalot13
so you want them shooting at real people for a documentary?
+sgf 001 yes
+sgf 001 yes
They provide a decent approximation of human heads I think
Melons are fucking evil, man..
ਬੜਾ ਘੈਂਟ ਚੈਨਲ ਆ ਥੋਡਾ ਯਾਰ ਇੰਨੇ ਚਿਰ ਦੇ ਕਿਥੇ ਸੀ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਬਹੁਤ ਵਧੀਆ ਲੱਗੀਆਂ ਨੇ ਥੋਡੀਆਂ ਵੀਡੀਓ
The 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle was another machine gun of World War I. However, the conflict ended before it could accomplish a sizable combat role. Nevertheless, the BAR was capable laying down serious firepower while on the move.
might i just remond everybody, this is a WW1 Machine Gun, Its very old, very slow and very heavy, but it can still put a hole in your freaking body
This absolutely did not need music of any kind.
Angel soundtrack in the background just makes this Baddass
Portishead-undenied
Portishead-machine gun
Massive attack- angel
You’re welcome
Imagine being ordered to charge forward with bayonets while these things mowed you and your buddies down. Yikes.
As an American I was nervous that these Europeans were going to hurt themselves around firearms, I'm pleasantly surprised.
Hiram Maxim was an American that invented and sold the rights to manufacture these guns first to the British,then the Germans,and the Russians.The Lewis Gun was an American design by Colonel Isaac Lewis of the US Army.The American government was stupid for not adopting it when they went to war in 1917 and had a few hundred guns in its arsenal.The Americans became victims of a bad joke from the French by arming them with the Chauchat Gun.FN Belgium made them by the thousands for the Belgian Army until the country was overunned by the Germans and took the drawings to England and had them made at Birmingham Small Arms Company which the British Army was intelligent enough to arm their Infantry with during the war.The Lewis Gun was first encountered by the Germans in use by Belgian troops called it the "Belgian Rattlesnake".It was even more hated by the German Infantry when the British used it in defense repelling an attack or flanking fire.Because it was so mobile the Germans made their Maxim Guns to be more mobile and they had nothing close to the Lewis Gun.The rest was history.
He means first successful and reliable LMG
One problem mate. "These guns" aren't responsible for a single death. They're tools.
for what?
Suppression, and delivery a lead and metal round acurately at high velocity
"Only one to be used as an assault weapon" Maschinenpistole?!
Pretty sure the madsen m1902 or madsen 1896 was build first. The lewis gun was not the first LMG
Go to 0:34 and turn on captions
Here’s an editorial tip. When the moment comes we came to see (the gun firing) hold the fkin camera on the same shot
I like how every BBC documentary states that British have better hardware than the Germans. In that case, why did it bloody take so long for the British to "win"? And if memory serves me right, more British troops died in the war than Germans.
Some bad-ass music in this series...
Bad being the ideal word to use
Somewhat better then remixes you usually use
@6:20
"Your fruit killing skills are remarkable!"
(Gaz...call of duty modern warfare)
Underrated, have my like
We humans suddenly tend to get ever so creative when it comes to killing each other
Imagine being in the charging army forces of imperial Japan in the 1906 Russo-Japanese war as you charge the enemy position with a bayonet in the cold marshes of northern Manchuria, only to be mowed down by three of these machine guns in well fortified high grounds. It's the same lesson the western front learns in WW1 a decade later by using 19th century tactics in a 20th century war.
your a legend
I guess it's not a surprise that these guys don't know the difference between "bullets" and "ammunition", after all it is supposed to be a documentary.
Documentaries often use laymans terms for things. When the detail to the average viewer is irrelevant.
turn on cc and look at 0:35
Best job, ever
"First machinegun designed to be lightweight" well how about the danish Madsen Rekylgevaer, from 1903
I think it's amazing how they had heavy and light machine guns but hadn't quite invented assult rifles yet😂
I wish this series would have done more countries like france and america, because they both had machine guns and actually the french Chauchat and BAR were WAYYY more mobile the lewis gun...
+Can's Canucopia But the BARs did not show up until the very end, so they made no practical difference.
Even the Hotchkiss was kinda mobile but a terrible MG.
Freedom is not free. Sometimes the cost is frightfull.
We live in a world where evil exists. Good people sometimes have to use deadly means to protect themselves.
Dan Snow talking about slaughter: he should do some research on how his Canada Goose jacket is made.
The Lewis was the most mobile machine-gun in WW1? So they want to tell me that you can't just pick up a Madsen and walk around with it? This video is kind of British nationalism at it's best.
The Madsen was used by many nations back then (of course in different calibers), so I'd say it was in service and not just a small experiment.
The Lewis gun was invented by an American
if by perfected you mean ordered in a caliber that it worked properly in, then yes perfected
***** Who is meant? I'd call both of them light machine-guns (Madsen and Lewis), but I know that the BAR for example is just a automatic rifle for support. There wasn't even any automatic rifle mentioned.
***** This horrible game can't even get a Mauser Gewehr 98 reload wright. It really sucks. I'm not interested in BF1.
Does anyone know the name of the song that played at the start or the song that started around 3:28?
Portishead-undenied
Portishead-machine gun
Massive attack- angel
I do like a good machine gun I went to school with one for show and tell and every one screamed from happiness
Love the Lewis gun. Weird ass magazine and tricky loading. One man could carry it throwing lead at fritz😎
I prefer the Mg'08 then the Vikers.
Why's it impossible to imagine the slaughter in its entirety without personally firing WW1 machine guns again?
Also did the guy he's interviewing completely forget the Chauchat existed when he said the Lewis gun was the first lightweight machine gun designed to be carryable?
***** The Chauchat was developed after the Lewis. The first LMG was the Danish Madsen, appeared in 1902.
TaZ101SAGA Chauchat came into service 1908 while the Lewis gun was invented in 1911.
***** It's actually a bit mish mash. The Chauchat wasn't actually produced in numbers until 1915.
+Duskworker >implying the Chauchat wasnt a piece of shit that jammed every two rounds.
will weeks How did I do that?
Who else is only on this series for bf1?
only you it seems
most of the people here are WW1 or both WW1 and 2 fan
+Alex Gowin On some other videos its spammed with bf1
True. I see many WW1 documentary that people commented that they came there because battlefield 1. I admire BF1 making new generation know the horror and the heroic of WW1 which was shadowed by WW2. I was dissapointed that BF1 was so unrealistic because only 10 percent of the game was realistic. But still I was already ready for what bf would do with the game.
lewis gun was not the first light machine gun. sure the lewis spawned the term LMG, but the madsen seems to be the older granddad to it. the mg08 also had a "light machine gun" role, with a bi-pod. (sure as hell wasn't light)
8300 rounds per hour is impressive for that gun- especially without reported failures.
"Most mobile gun of WWI"? B.A.R. anyone?
It still saw service nonetheless, though a short service it was still the lightest rifle-cartridge machine gun. The Chauchat and Lewis were both over 20 pounds, and the MG08/15 was nearly 40 pounds.
the Bergmann MP 18 and NOT the Lewis Gun was surely the most mobile Machine Gun of WW1 and yes I know its a MachinenPistole but it is still technically classed as a Sub-Machine Gun and was the primary weapon of the Stoßtruppen or "Stormtroopers" who used it for assaulting Trenches.
The SoShat ,Oooops I mean shauchat and the Madsen light machine gun were also mobile BUT much more cumbersome and less reliable than the Lewis Gun and ALL were much heavier and less Mobile than the Bergmann MP 18
Russian madsen mg anyone
True, background music is bad but it is very educational
nice Video
I don't think that guy truly appreciates shooting those guns
Must been scary running in to a mg08
I actually saw the very first Lewis gun made at the Royal Enfield armouries in London ? A lot more brass on it with the serial number 0001 ! Beautifully but deadly ?
These guns could literally cut you in half. And to think; the Germans tried to have the shotguns that some Americans used as “inhumane”.
the british being convinced that they were better than everyone else. nothing unusual.
Billy "true". you use that word. I don't think you know what it means.
No, that is what YOU think. Not from a very balanced mindset either I'd guess..
The Lewis is a U.S.design that the British worked out some kinks on and used.
world war two machine gun technology would flip to the Germans. Germany had arguably the best field arty and machine gun available. Krup 88 / MG 42 respectfully.
So true
What's the music playing when the details of the guns pop up?
One of the artists is Portishead. Some of her 90s stuff.
Portishead - Machine Gun
5:35 that's not an assault that's a support weapon
Correct
Such a shame and completely ridiculous that you can't own guns like that as a civilian over there in the UK.
Why would any brit need a mg XD
the lard king if the government can, then the people should as well. No reason not to be allowed. The criminals do what they want. Always have and always will. The retarded laws over there only hurt good people.
I rate this video 5 stars of David
Saw the Vicker in BF1 Beta, but that time im like meh, i regretted not tryin it out now
It's not really bias to say the Vickers is better. In stationary positions they're both equal in terms of firepower and effectiveness, but where the Vickers shines is in weight. The toggle lock opens upwards instead of down like the MG08, enabling the bottom portion of the receiver to be removed. Use of alloys in its construction reduces it's weight further. The Vickers uses a tripod which is lighter than the MG08's sled mount. The entire system is lighter. Lighter is better.
Interesting presentation of such horrible machinery and yet impressive how ingenuity there was on both sides.
Does anyone know the name of the title and the artist at the end of the video?
I like how in Britain they are firing these under what looks like 80 feet of reinforced concrete in a bunker with the military while in America you just crack a beer and open your back door
Yep which is why America has highest gun crime and mass shootings
turn captions on at 00:35 🙃
Oh God, the editing on this series...
What song was that playing in the background when he was shooting the fruits
This is what killed my great great grandfather at the second battle of the Somme
wow he got killed by 3 different machine guns? Was he shot while charging but confused for deserting?
Flubbering Philistine Yes he got shot by all 3 guns at once.
He was charging for Fritz but forgot his car keys but then got hit by a friendly while falling down.
Sad times.
Amazing that there’s no recoil
I don't think that Lewis gun was the most mobile machinegun, the Germans used the Madsen LMG which I believe was lighter and could therefor also be used when attacking, though I am aware that there was not as many of them in the German army as Lewis in the British.
it is also not true that the lewis gun was the first offensive light machinegun, it was the french chauchat.
The most mobile machinegun in ww1 was the BAR
Yes, but it never saw service in great numbers. It entered the war far too late.
Hagen The BAR wasn't really a machine gun, it's an automatic rifle, it was never designed for the LMG role.
lewis gun looks like a star wars gun
Pete Puffin star wars guns are heavily inspired by ww2 guns
Pete Puffin Hans blaster is just a c96 with a RR Engine tube on the barrel.
***** Actually,the Lewis gun was made before the war and was rushed into it when conflicts started in 1914.
It was produced in 1913 but was meant to be made in 1915.
There is a star wars blaster inspired by the Lewis gun (meaning it nearly looks identical) also nearly all of the weapons were inspired by WW guns, like one of the rebel blasters is based on a Nazi mg. George Lucas probably used those as inspirations to further punctuate the comparison with Star wars to WWII. After all the galactic empire is just Nazi Germany in space.
user205 Star wars just is a combination of the 17th century combined with ww1 and ww2 but with some fancy space gadgets.