It was always popular to take enemy weapons as souvenirs, especially pistols. I don't think any American soldier would drop their own weapon, but they would certainly pick up a Luger or Walther pistol and maybe a MP-38/40 submachine gun as a close-in defence weapon.
Was gonna say this, short of battle damage / lost weapon (thinking airborne on D-day loosing their gear) or other dire circumstances that would be V rare on the whole, T he main concern with your weapon is that you can get lots of ammo for it and you can maintain it. The US had V good weapons and equipment for the most part and with decent QC, unlike much of the russian and german gear made with slave labour. Pick-up German weapons, absolutely. Drop your own.. hell nahh, you are responsible for it and might have to pay for it and rely on it for your life and it's what you are trained on, fulfilling a specific role within your militaries doctrine.. If you aren't doing your job the way you are supposed to, people can die.
The German M24 grenades had over 3 times the explosive charge of US M2 grenades. The combined charge of 7 such grenades bundled together was over 1kg(2.2lbs).
The package load of the German grenades (in German: "geballte Ladung") were not supposed to be thrown. They would be used against armoured targets or bunkers on close range (that thing would weigh multiple kilograms, you can't throw that very far anyway). As such, the grenade heads didn't have to be connected very well, they were just bound together by wire and deployed on the target. Against infantry targets, there were also shrapnel mantels that could be mounted on the grenade, in order to produce shrapnel and not just rely on the explosion alone.
US M1 Garand took US .30-06 Springfield (you'll hear this called thirty-ought-six), German Kar 98K took 8mm Mauser. They'd only take weapons like that if they had lost theirs. Some did take German weapons as souvenirs, the Luger pistol being a prized trophy. The Kar 98K was a bolt action more in line with the Springfield 1903 used by the US as a sniper rifle in WW2, the M1 Garand was semi-auto which meant the average Rifleman could lay down far superior firepower. For SMG's, the MP40 had a very controllable rate of fire compared to the Thompson and is widely considered one of the best SMG's ever made.
The P38 is a combination of weight saving and barrel lenght. The longer the barrrel the higher the precision, if the pistol were fully covered up to the tip, it would be unbalanced and top-heavy. The handle of the stick grenade allows you to throw it further and also to determine the direction of aim better. Similar principle to a fishing rod.
Recoilless: Stuff flies out on both sides (with the same impulse m*v) on the right side holds the grenade. Because of the opposite direction, the total momentum ==0
Hi big C... The picture at 16:30 shows a so-called "concentrated charge" (geballte Ladung). This increased the explosive effect by six times. The charges were also often camouflaged and built into a wire entanglement in order to blow up people who wanted to cut through the barbed wire. This special purpose was called a "pioneer's mess" by the troops. But what is absolutely unbelievable about this video is the fact that the MG 42 is not listed here. The MG 42 was the best machine gun of the entire war! It was only slightly modified and reintroduced as a weapon in the new post-war Bundeswehr as the MG 3. It is said that 1,000 GIs were killed on Omaha Beach just by using a single such weapon...
It is recoilless because the back of the tube is open. The charge firing the projectile is powerful enough to drive it forward, even if there is nothing to push against except the air. The Panzerfaust wasn't driven forward by a rocket, but by a charge in the tube. Recoilless weapons use more propellant charges than closed systems, but they don't have to be so sturdy.
10:50 If just 1 gun, I'd probably take an M1A1, especially if limited by ammo weight, if limited by ammo count: FG42 type E If a pistol and a main weapon, 1911 + FG 42 type E If bolt action rifle I'd go for a SMLE (Short magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III), if smei-auto .30cal I'd go M1 Garand, If SMG I'd probably go for a grease gun, support is FG42/STG/BrEn (BAR mag is too small)
This narration is horrible. The G43 shot 7.92x57mm rounds from a 10-round *magazine* The "shot-supressor" is BS. There was no "grenade launcher", but rather, a grenade cup was attached to the end of the rifle barrel that could launch 30mm grenades(and later larger warheads) through the use of a special grenade launching cartridge that shot a wooden bullet.
What gun would I want? I don't like guns. So I'll go with Abraham Lincoln's answer: cowpats. 14:14 Recoilless weapons work by blasting mass out of the weapon in two directions at once. The main mass is the projectile. The countermass (can be a block but also a gas) counteracts part of the force of the projectile. In the case of the Panzerfaust the countermass is a gasburst from the tailpipe.
The Browning pistols* had the recoil spring under the barrel, so you need a longer slide to keep it shrouded from the elements. *The M1911 and GP35 were both designed by John M. Browning and the Soviet TT33 was a copy of the Browning design.
A german Equipment Video without the iconic Buzzsaw aka the MG42? What a disgrace.
Or FG42 or the AT rifle(13mm?) with explosive rounds that they started using on soviets that were behind cover cos it didn't work on tanks anymore?
It was always popular to take enemy weapons as souvenirs, especially pistols. I don't think any American soldier would drop their own weapon, but they would certainly pick up a Luger or Walther pistol and maybe a MP-38/40 submachine gun as a close-in defence weapon.
Was gonna say this, short of battle damage / lost weapon (thinking airborne on D-day loosing their gear) or other dire circumstances that would be V rare on the whole, T
he main concern with your weapon is that you can get lots of ammo for it and you can maintain it. The US had V good weapons and equipment for the most part and with decent QC, unlike much of the russian and german gear made with slave labour.
Pick-up German weapons, absolutely. Drop your own.. hell nahh, you are responsible for it and might have to pay for it and rely on it for your life and it's what you are trained on, fulfilling a specific role within your militaries doctrine.. If you aren't doing your job the way you are supposed to, people can die.
The German M24 grenades had over 3 times the explosive charge of US M2 grenades. The combined charge of 7 such grenades bundled together was over 1kg(2.2lbs).
Yes Connor, the MP40, the Thompson, the British Sten gun and the Russian PPSH are all classed as Submachine guns (SMG)...
The package load of the German grenades (in German: "geballte Ladung") were not supposed to be thrown. They would be used against armoured targets or bunkers on close range (that thing would weigh multiple kilograms, you can't throw that very far anyway). As such, the grenade heads didn't have to be connected very well, they were just bound together by wire and deployed on the target. Against infantry targets, there were also shrapnel mantels that could be mounted on the grenade, in order to produce shrapnel and not just rely on the explosion alone.
US M1 Garand took US .30-06 Springfield (you'll hear this called thirty-ought-six), German Kar 98K took 8mm Mauser. They'd only take weapons like that if they had lost theirs. Some did take German weapons as souvenirs, the Luger pistol being a prized trophy. The Kar 98K was a bolt action more in line with the Springfield 1903 used by the US as a sniper rifle in WW2, the M1 Garand was semi-auto which meant the average Rifleman could lay down far superior firepower. For SMG's, the MP40 had a very controllable rate of fire compared to the Thompson and is widely considered one of the best SMG's ever made.
The P38 is a combination of weight saving and barrel lenght. The longer the barrrel the higher the precision, if the pistol were fully covered up to the tip, it would be unbalanced and top-heavy.
The handle of the stick grenade allows you to throw it further and also to determine the direction of aim better. Similar principle to a fishing rod.
Recoilless: Stuff flies out on both sides (with the same impulse m*v) on the right side holds the grenade. Because of the opposite direction, the total momentum ==0
A Ten Round Mauser Cartridge???? he means a 10 round magazine......
Hi big C... The picture at 16:30 shows a so-called "concentrated charge" (geballte Ladung). This increased the explosive effect by six times. The charges were also often camouflaged and built into a wire entanglement in order to blow up people who wanted to cut through the barbed wire. This special purpose was called a "pioneer's mess" by the troops. But what is absolutely unbelievable about this video is the fact that the MG 42 is not listed here. The MG 42 was the best machine gun of the entire war! It was only slightly modified and reintroduced as a weapon in the new post-war Bundeswehr as the MG 3. It is said that 1,000 GIs were killed on Omaha Beach just by using a single such weapon...
It is recoilless because the back of the tube is open. The charge firing the projectile is powerful enough to drive it forward, even if there is nothing to push against except the air.
The Panzerfaust wasn't driven forward by a rocket, but by a charge in the tube. Recoilless weapons use more propellant charges than closed systems, but they don't have to be so sturdy.
10:50
If just 1 gun, I'd probably take an M1A1, especially if limited by ammo weight, if limited by ammo count: FG42 type E
If a pistol and a main weapon, 1911 + FG 42 type E
If bolt action rifle I'd go for a SMLE (Short magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III), if smei-auto .30cal I'd go M1 Garand, If SMG I'd probably go for a grease gun, support is FG42/STG/BrEn (BAR mag is too small)
This narration is horrible. The G43 shot 7.92x57mm rounds from a 10-round *magazine*
The "shot-supressor" is BS. There was no "grenade launcher", but rather, a grenade cup was attached to the end of the rifle barrel that could launch 30mm grenades(and later larger warheads) through the use of a special grenade launching cartridge that shot a wooden bullet.
What gun would I want? I don't like guns. So I'll go with Abraham Lincoln's answer: cowpats.
14:14 Recoilless weapons work by blasting mass out of the weapon in two directions at once. The main mass is the projectile. The countermass (can be a block but also a gas) counteracts part of the force of the projectile. In the case of the Panzerfaust the countermass is a gasburst from the tailpipe.
The Browning pistols* had the recoil spring under the barrel, so you need a longer slide to keep it shrouded from the elements.
*The M1911 and GP35 were both designed by John M. Browning and the Soviet TT33 was a copy of the Browning design.
My personal gun in army times was a MG3 and the P1 (both invented in the WWII and known as MG42 and P38). But if I cam choose, I would get the MP5.
I own a K98k Rifle. It's a great shooting rifle.
This AI narration is terrible.....
I understood shock suppressor, must be down to how bad yanks are with accents that aren't there's
Your name is Connor Ifyornu - what language does that surname come from?
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i wonne try all of them/ thx