Allied Weapons Weren't That Bad
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- It's common knowledge that German weapons of WW2 were far superior to anything Allied. That's what I'd tell myself if I were caught in this situation. We hope you enjoy this sketch and thanks to Cloaked for sponsoring this one!
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Do WW2 movies really show German weapons being superior to Allied weapons? Or Allied tanks being inferior to German tanks? Is that narrative really pushed so that the Allied characters have to rely on out-of-the-box strategies to win? I mean with all due respect, isn’t a gun just a gun?
I’m scared if I do this I will be swatted
squire, why should we be entrusting you with a panzerfaust?
Squire's MG-42 is so advanced, he even has magazine pouches for it.
My man 👋
They also bought that heavy bomber just to crash it - the dedication is real
Must’ve had it customized a la COD Vanguard.
The lazar worm d rider returns
A Smith & Wesson upgrade no doubt.
We've come a long way from those carboard cut out weapons
Yhea from the m1 carbine to the m4
You mean they highered their graphics settings right?
@@Kettleman1.0 of course
Yes
Must be those fancy Ray tracing stuff them nerds talking about
"Our weapons are so good we're waiting for metal to catch up" is an incredible line.
8:43 at that point I knew he wasn't armed with an MG 42, he was using an SCP.
Metal AF
Pun not intended.
*Cries in H&K G11*
Okay but unironically this is what happened with the stg 44. Metallurgy wasn't good enough yet so most of them wouldn't work even new. The early AKs had the same problem. It was surprising how important the metal you use for a firearm is and how far metallurgy has come since even just the 1940s
so is Ping!
i'm suprised they didn't make the joke"it costs 400000 reischmark to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds"
Twelve seconds? that's a lot for a MG-42...
yes, I was expecting it too
So about 10p and a pack of quavers?
HA!
Reichsmark*
Oh mein Gott who touched Hannah?
Alright……WHO TOUCHED MEIN GEWHER
I love how they just have every Allied gun on every front at their fingertips. WW2 was a lot more easier when you could materialize any gun into your hands..
They were issued bags of holding by the Wehrmacht.
Worm's Ms. Militia would be handy.
I mean, clearly they got all those Allied weapons as trophies by killing Allied soldiers. XD
a lot more easier says the illiterate icon of a generation of morons.
It was the best time to seek a hobby as a collector...🤣
Ironic fact: when many of the Americans supply depots were being overrun during the Battle of the Bulge, one of the popular Americans guns they actually captured was the M1 Carbine.
A lot lighter than a 98K and generally a lot more usable when on the offensive and fighting in close. I would grab one too.
I absolutely love (and own) the M1 Carbine. Quite possibly the best rifle of WWII with its only competition being the StG-44. Light, handy, and good for 300 yards, which was about the max engagement range in the ETO...
I've shot all the major rifles from WWII, and own (or have owned) most of them, and the Carbine is my favorite WWII rifle by a long way.
The M2 Carbine added select fire, and it's damn good. Very controllable with a high rate of fire. It's like an American PPSh but with better accuracy and range.
@@immikeurnot
Being lethal at 300+ metres isn't really the job of everyone in a squad either. Having an assortment of weapons that specialise in various roles was the go to strategy of time.
Sure the dude with the carbine can't kill anything at 400 metres, but a tank sure as hell can.
Audie Murphy was fond of the carbine
@@immikeurnot M2 Carbines aren’t all that controllable, unless you had the muzzle break on the end of it the Japanese used post-WWII. Then, it turn the thing into a laser beam.
M2 Carbines have a decent amount of stock drop, fast RPM, are lightweight, and fires a glorified heavy pistol cartridge. All of those things make for a fairly jumpy gun.
"Barely Rapid, Empty Now" was such a great delivery.
i had to scroll way too far to find this. It had me laughing
I remember being at supply once. I asked, "why is everything an M2?"
I was immediately kicked out of the supply room
Funnily there isn't that much M2 compared to M1 and M3 at the time.
so why
@@arya31ful by the way can american stop calling everything M1 from helmet to the tank
@@user-mq7uh8dd5c They already did. Now we have M420A6E9 Joint Indirect Low Cost Medium Capacity Guided OmniPurpose Thing. Also known as Rocks by the footsloggers.
@@irirjhrhr4645 Because the US went from giving everything a model designation based on year of adoption to simply what model of that particular kind of thing that it was. Helmet? Howitzer? Rifle? Socks? Toothbrush? That all got started at 1 and progressed from there.
Which opens up more interesting questions... Like what rifles are there between M-1 and M-14 (which are, ironically, largely the same rifle), and what the hell is a M-15 rifle?
The funniest part about the supposed “garand ping was a give away” thing is implying any German could hear the ping of an M1 over the constant storm of 30-6 and 7.92 Mauser they were flinging at each other.
7.92 mauser*
@@gaurohtar895 thank you. I have fixed my error
@@connorinacar9008 o>
So for non gun nuts it's basically the 1 loud ping of the AMerican M1 vs the constantly loud shooting of the 2 German guns? If so that's a great joke.
Not to mention the mass hearing damage caused by a complete lack of ear protection and an excess of extremely loud bangs in close proximity
Not only are they funny they seem like they'd be an absolute pleasure to be around in real life too, By far my favourite channel
We're actually both completely insufferable 😉
🤣😂@@SquireComedy
@@SquireComedy I was talking about the actors for the soldiers not the two morons sat in their garden (Seriously though love you guys)
I’d share a pint of bitters.
same!
The Marine Raiders field report of the M1 carbine's performance is pretty succinct: "will penetrate Japanese helmets at 100 yards."
Keyboard warriors don't seem to understand that a 30 carbine round performs just as well as a 357 magnum.
.30 caliber doesn't mean nerf dart.
Not to mention that Germany had an official designation for the M1 Carbine. They liked the weapon enough to adopt it into service late war. Some would argue it's a last ditch thing, but the Garand didn't get the same treatment.
My understanding is that there was a lot of Fuddlore spread about how the .30 Carbine was super weak, kinda like how 5.56 was treated when it debuted.
@@fleebogazeezig6642 Exactly this. The M1 Carbine was a great bit of kit.
The M1 Carbine was really ahead of it's time. It's short, lightweight, fires an intermediate round, and was the first mass produced military rifle that had detachable mags. It's very underrated and never gets the credit it deserves. People compare it to main battle rifles like the Garand, which is unfair. When you compare it to other rear line rifles like the M38 Mosin and Type 44 Arisaka, it is head and shoulders better than its piers.
Never disappoints Should be an entire
film from this man
Who knows... maybe one day
@@SquireComedygive us
@@SquireComedyyesss
They didn't know about the allied superweapon. The 1911 which won 3 wars. Jokes aside, lovely sketch as usual, I hope one day we'll have one about ww1 weapons as well. Plenty of fun stuff to pick there too!
American standard issue for over 100 years.
I was waiting for them to mention and then actually fear the 1911
Wait
Three?
@@matthewjones39 the rebellion in the Philippines that the 1911 was literally invented for, and then the two World Wars
@@TheAchilles26 I misunderstood the comment, I thought they said three *world* wars. My bad.
"barely rapid empty now" That joke about the bren gun is funny and accurate in the same time
Actually I own a bren. If you've got a good assistant you can keep up sustained fire for quite a while since the top magazine makes it easy to reload for the assistant and the automatic hold open means you don't need to rack it every time.
The administrative results reference hit me like a truck
Yup.
Same here
I was like " did I hear the correctly?". Very nice.
@@tomsmith2209That wasn’t a reference to the RUclipsr.
It wasn't well known that many B-17s were taken down by MG-42's, and it's thought the number must be simply staggering. I like the website idea, I'll be there. I remember your first WT vids, still funny, and look at you now. Brilliant!
Thanks for the kind words, mate. And for sticking with us!
@@SquireComedyAmazing that you’ve get this far with 2-5 People only. Great stuff! 👍
@@SquireComedyThat depends, is his comment on website as sincere as his comment on mg42's air defense capacity Vs. B17's?
They weren’t lol
I read somewhere that Germans hated the MG-42, as it hemraged ammunition at such a high rate that each soldier was made a pack mule for extra machine gun ammo in addition to the rest of their kit. They would have much prefered a Vickers gun or a .30 calaber machine gun instead.
Id wager it was a bit of both tbf. Any weapon that slings lead reliably is a good weapon. But there's always pros and cons.
Allied propaganda
@@joehadenough1642 Its not, its why they infamously preferred the mg34 which had a slower rate of fire.
they called it gonorrhea syringe
At reenactments I've carried the ammo boxes and extra barrels and its heavy stuff. Then again the soldiers had no choice but to carry the gear some bureaucrat decreed they be given.
This video is 100% accurate (unlike Allied weapons)
Accuracy by volume of fire.
*spends over 1 billion on the defense budget on ammunition*
@@thesomewhatfantasticmrfox Invents grenade machinegun that can accurately hit targets miles away.
Except the Bren Gun...
@@glynnspencer4517I mean… according to LindyBeige… the Bren was superior to the MG42 LOLOL!!!
@@dr.bright3081 damn right it was
the ending is just perfect. biggest issue of the allied riffle was catching your thumb in it.
Is nobody going to comment on how eerie but realistically he dropped when he got shot?
now we just need a soviet weapons version and we'll come full circle.
That ending was absolutely top tier! Great work as usual!
Cheers mate!
One interesting thing about the earlier MG-42 is how it had the tendency to fire out of battery sometimes because bolt bounces on the breech face. Good thing in the late war that Germany started using steel cased ammunition so damage from OOB discharges were minimal. Later MG-42s and modifications made post-war introduced a spring to prevent bouncing, which carried over to the MG-3, naturally.
Mind you, steel cased ammunition was terrible for the regular rifleman. If the Mauser gets heat up even a tiny bit, you will start getting stuck cases. Not that the typical German soldier was expected to shoot rapidly; they relied so much on the machine gun that the training for the rifleman involved mainly snap shooting and not quick follow up shots unlike the British.
And the British and Commonwealth still trained their soldiers rapid fire despite the infantry became Bren gun magazine carriers. One way to get around that particular limitation--make everybody carry ammo and also have a device that can quickly load Bren gun magazines with standard Lee-Enfield chargers/stripper clips.
Surprised that the BAR didn't take the mention, but the US Army did make a really bad decision with the M1918A2. It's still functioned as intended, of course, but the US military refused to modernized the BAR despite the Colt Monitor existed and FN in Europe had the D model, both the latter featured pistol grips. And oh, it should be noted that the FN MAG machine gun and thus the M240 is really a BAR on the inside turned upside down and made to be belt-fed.
The biggest mistake with the BAR was giving it to the point man in every squad, forgetting the fact that it weighs like 22lbs. That's ridiculous. Huge attrition rate for those guys. :(
The M1918A2 was also a poor attempt at converting the original to an LMG, the overcomplicated rate of fire reducer, downgraded sights, weird superfluous features like the magazine guides, and retention of the light barrel while European BARs had adopted heavy quick change barrels, meant that it was poorly suited for light machine gun roles, and troops in the field tended to use it like browning originally intended, from the shoulder, where one can’t help but wonder if the original 8 pounds lighter semiauto capable model would’ve been more practical
@@jayaang4176 Oh yeah. US Ordinance's decisions were weird. Meanwhile, FN made the D and Colt made the Monitor. They could have gone with the Monitor but no
BREN = Barely rapid, Empty Now omfg that got me so hard lmao🤣
"Barely Rapid... Empty Now" I'm dying!
The fucking American at the end getting pissed & fidgeting with his rifle cussing under his breath is fucking gold😂😂😂
The MG42 in this video reminds me of an mp40 in an old mobile game I played as a kid that killed infantry in one hit, armored vehicles in 2 hits and tanks in 3 hits, I think it may have been from an unexpected microtransaction.
@@RobertBrown-qe7pqit must have been one of those rail shooter games 😂
It's clear you're buying a much higher quality of cardboard these days. No more cut up cereal boxes for you two!
From two blokes in a shed to having your own website how far you guys have come. Love to see it.
This is the most extensive and realistic documentary ive ever seen
Out of all the squire videos out there, this is easily one of them.
These guys are like if Monty Python only did history sketches and I must say, I like it very much.
The funniest joke is more deadly then all these guns combined
“Barley rapid, empty now” had me laughing 😂😂😂
Edit: Holy baloney, that’s a lot of likes-macaroni
The ping and garand thumb at the end was the cherry on top....
I was having an absolute terrible day-&this vid actually put a smile to my face. I appreciate you guys.
Wishing you a better day tomorrow, old boy.
I was expecting the "dud" grenade was actually a smoke to call in artillery but the end was still great
"Oh!-maha beach, yeah I did that" got me rolling on the floor 😆
I thought when he said the enemy infantry had retreated and was setting position hundreds of meters away it was because they had called for artillery
laughing my ass off as always, cheers
Well you'd best super glue that thing back on, because there's more coming soon!
@@SquireComedybro 😂🤣
"The PING noise!"
The M1 Carbine is a beautiful weapon. It is balanced very well and is extremely handy rifle. The recoil is essentially not there. The Garand is an excellent rifle, and Garand thumb is avoidable with practice. You guys need to cross the pond and come to US to get your hands on the real stuff. Some places have MG42s for rent (they are legal to own due to their age after a special background check, way more thorough than normal, but they are cost prohibitive for most people). Have a Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too!
We've paid a few visits. I've shot everything mentioned in this video, including the M2 Flamethrower. It's always a fun holiday when we travel over the pond.
I listen to your verdun and battlefield 1 videos everyday at work. Thankyou for hours of repetitive comedy gold. And this video was great guys keep up the good work
MG Brandishing, working class badass Squire is definitely a character that needs to appear more often.
I bloody agree.
No joke about shotguns?😅
Germans replied to shotguns with gas
And they say they don't have a sense of humor
Germans revenge for shotguns was the fucking mg42 and Ballistic missle
This is a nice way to explain the guns how interesting they really where
As an American I'm forced to remind you boys that we prefer our coffee black and my tea in the harbor 😮
Well here we prefer to drink our tea like civilised folk, and not waste it by throwing it into the harbour. Even Europeans put milk in coffee.
The part where they get to the Sten Gun, it probably foreshadows 1945 where they have to make their own Sten gun
General Purpose Machine Gun
"I'm the general, this is the machine gun, and I'm firing it with purpose."
The only Brits that I as an American tolerate. Keep up the good work!
Happy to be tolerated. Keeping it up, sir!
Lol same! I can’t stand that accent but it’s tolerable in these skits.
There's a handful out there. Seems like a universal rule, dun'nit? "A handful of pearls amongst the swinish hordes". Yeah.
Surprised an American actually knows what tolerate actually means, perhaps there is hope 😂
@@JHdamnihatehandlesleave it to the non-American to take a crack at Americans for literally no reason.
Hello, I am an Iranian, and you know that your channel is very, very good. I am glad that I subscribed to you
So many quality references. Especially the machine that goes Ping! Quite like that.
And the results, that admin...
You guys are legends! The only channel that makes me laugh from the first 5 seconds every time! Super cool😂
the ending was hilarious. "damnit, my thumb". 🤣
I didn't think I needed to see Squire running with an MG42 to Erika... but here we are.
Love how you never mentioned the lee Enfield rifle, because that things a beast
True.
well yes, when saying a group of things is bad the common practice is to leave out the good
I've got 4 of them !!! looking at one on my wall right now ,lol.
"What about the Bren gun?"
"You know what that stands for ya? barely rapid, empty now"
That joke floored me
It doesn’t matter how good your equipment is if you don’t have trucks to get it to the front.
Or a incompetent leader
seeing you without uniform is sooooooooo weird. you know as a civilian... Anyway once again well done!!!
The Garand thumb was a perfect ending.
Chauchat was a crazy good weapon especialy for its Time , above everything else back then , americans just didnt use the right ammo for it which gave its Bad rep, while in the French's hands it worked better than anything else back then.
30-06 was too heavy a round for it to handle. The aluminum parts of the gun would overheat, expand and choke the mechanism.
Chauchat was definitely revolutionary for it's time, but it was still a product of its time, a point where small arms were rapidly advancing.
Yeah I saw a Forgotten Weapons video about that.
@@timtheskeptic1147 I understand the French manufacturer got the dimensions of the .30-06 chamber wrong, also. A little too tight. That's a problem converting inch dimensions to metric. And the quality control overall was lacking. A well made Chauchat in 8mm Lebel worked reasonably well.
When you look into its history, it was basically the WW1 LMG version of the Sten
@carlinglin7289 if we were actually willing to field early versions of the BAR, there would be no controversy surrounding an "American" Chauchat .
Good thing those three never found out about how the Japanese adapted the BREN gun, couldn't be allies with anyone who'd do something like that
The Type 99 was based on the VZ 26, not the BREN
"Ow! My thumb!" 🤣
Sten: can be used laying down. Very easy and cheap to make
MG42:
BABABABABABABABABABABABABABABABSTSTTTSTST
@@hazev2536 So he said it fired fast, not like he didn't also compliment the sten by talking about it's good qualities
@@Alexthedragon18it’s a npc response to anything that has to do with a German weapon that’s it they break down if you try to be logical with them
@@arandomguardsmen Fair enough, have a good day. The emporor protects
@@Alexthedragon18 for the emperor should try rogue trader when it comes out
Psst, the Germans are still using the MG platform, the only difference? It's chambered in 5.56x45 or 7.62x51.
Been far too long since the last episode guys😢...awesome...luv it❤
Good thing the Allies had the M1911, blessed by our savior John Moses Browning. TWO WORLD WARS! like the Nagant revolver.
What let the MG 42 down was the frequency required of barrel changes about 250 rounds sustained or between 3500 to 4000 rounds under specified operation.
Vickers water cool. And a Jeep needed or 🫏 manouver not light Mg capability like Mg’s😊❤
W Administrative Results reference, love that man
He's a nice chap.
@@SquireComedy Can confirm IRL.
Love the admin results and garand thumb subliminals
"The allies would give it a thumbs down if they had any thumb left" that cracked me up 🤣🤣
It ends with a *ping*. Lovely.
The ending was…
Damn…
"barely rapid, empty now" sent me🤣
I have never heard of this channel! Fricking hilarious! Definitely subscribed!
Pervitin is a hell of a drug.
This skits make my day ❤
"That's what ich be saying!"
Subtle.
Will always be a good day when squire uploads
Germans: The M1 Garand is lousy.
M1 Garand: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
*PING*
These clowns clearly never played Heroes & Generals (rip). I still have nightmares of the m1/m2 carbine shredding my squad.
And of the American Legend, "John J.Johnson" who brought to bare his Johnson LMG upon us all
“We’re pin down” the panzerfaust right next to him
You guys are a riot. Love your content!
I love how it goes from Wehraboo delusions to reality very slowly.
Never disappoints
Y’all are the only people in the world that can wear a swastika and post it online without anyone complaining.
We like to think we pull it off well.
Hi Squire I watched all your videos and find them so funny really cheers me up but I can’t find the Fairey Swordfish one I watched a few years keep up the good work.
Cant believe this was done without a STG44 or that lighter version thingy the fellschirmjager carried...
The FG42? It was made specifically for the German paratroopers, it could fire semi or full auto. Only a few thousand were made.
I'm a simple man, i hear Erika, i click like
Glad to see you here, mate. Cheers for dropping in!
@@SquireComedy love your videos, always give me a laugh 😀
@PolenarTactical Likewise, enjoy your stuff. Can't say I'd perform well at a 36 hour challenge, though.
That ending was PERFECT! 👌
"Ornimental block of inert metal" is the most savage takedown of a weapon ever.
I always thought that British LMG with the clip upside-down looked odd. I wonder how accurate it was.
The Bren gun? It actually has the reputation of being "too accurate" for a machine gun
The fact that there is more than one LMG in the second world war that have a similar config, let alone smgs as well, should say somethin.
Russians are one to talk. Your WW2 Lmg has a goddamn pizza on the top!
@fleebogazeezig6642 hay i didn't say the Russian LMG looked any good but what do you expect. Lose ww1 and then have a chatotic revolution then have a revolution against that revolution. Then have an extremely paranoid Georgian tearing up the military command structure looking for so called traitors. Ofcourse the guns aren't going to looked so good. The AK-47 is just a redesign of the German STG.
Pan mags are based
These videos always bring a smile to my face
Glad to be of service, hope to keep you entertained for years to come!
I was expecting some sort of “they were captured and delirious” or something, well done
The "panzerkampf...wagen" joke is pretty Squire.
Nobody else has commented on that one yet. Thanks for giving it a moment In the spotlight
@@SquireComedy Glad to be of service 🫡 I scrolled through the comments and didn't see one about that pun, so I had to do my duty!
I've heard that the American M60 machine gun was a deliberate copy of the German MG-42 but the American MG was designed to be cheaper. We army grunts in Vietnam called it the HOG and the Marine grunts called it the PIG. We said it was self-disassembling because it tended to shake itself apart during prolonged firing.
the M60 also incorporated features from the german FG-42 automatic rifle
My understanding is that only the feed mechanism was copied from the MG-42, so calling it a “rip-off” is a bit of an overstatement. By that same logic the Ak-47 is a “rip-off” of the Garand because the piston is similar.
@@fleebogazeezig6642 Actually, I think Mikhail Kalashnikov did once say the Garand was one of the big influences for his rifle. While calling anything a rip-off might be going a tad too far, I do think there's still a lot of cross-polleniation with firearms development.
@@Soundwave3591 the FG-42 took a lot of features from the Lewis gun
On the back of hearing about the grant museum, so I traveled from Cardiff to get there with my dad and it was brilliant, thanks Joe and thanks squire for mentioning it
Glad you liked it
love you guys!
funnily enough I couldn't take your advertisement seriously cus usually you are so sarcastic :D
The Russian ppsh was pretty reliable and German soldiers even ditched kar98 rifles for a ppsh
To be fair, the Tokarev round was more or less a smaller rifle round that you could even shoot out of a pistol. Almost as much stoppung power as a .45 but really powerful penetration and range.
Allied weapons were solidly designed and well manufactured, while being reliable and easy to maintain
3:37 "Whole load of Krupp" - ow!!! 🤣
Barely Rapid, Empty Now is incredible