European Reacts: BAZOOKA TANK - M50 Ontos

European Reacts: BAZOOKA TANK - M50 Ontos - "The Thing"

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@european-reacts 9 ай бұрын

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@mcm0324 9 ай бұрын

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@ripvanwinkle2002 8 ай бұрын

there are many things the USA does wrong to be sure.. but if you give us any reason to be violent with you.. THAT, we will be VERY good at.. Cheers from a new sub

@patrickhumphreys5851 9 ай бұрын

As a former active duty Marine we are known taking things that other branches of the military don't want and use it for our advantage. Great reaction man

@vagabondwastrel2361 9 ай бұрын

Just btw. The half suede boots are the marines fault. They were tested by marines and not a single one said they didn't like the boot when given the survey.

@gmac9987 9 ай бұрын

If you truly served you know that's not the case. Each service gets a piece of the budget and the leadership decides what their going to spend it on. I served in the navy marines and army. What you said is bullshit

@vagabondwastrel2361 9 ай бұрын

@@gmac9987 You seem to have delusions of underwhelming grandeur. You do understand that the acquisitions process and how things get fast tracked at the end of a year or when the military is building up for a conflict spends it's money are a few different things, right? There are programs, joint programs and adopted programs. To fast track an orphaned program they can have the original branch create the thing then simply reimburse the original branch. The marines have a habit of getting hand me downs from other branches. That doesn't just mean second hand gear but templates of gear from other branches as well as surplus.

@charlesbryson7443 9 ай бұрын

We’re the Rednecks of the military, and I’m fine with that.

@ninjabearpress2574 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, the Army rejected the 1928 Thompson because it was also known as the Chicago typewriter, until they saw how much damage the Marines were doing with it.

@camdenharper7244 9 ай бұрын

Mk.19 is the most Marine Corps weapon of all time in fifth grade. By ninth grade, it's this. Marines don't make it past ninth grade. So this is the pinnacle

@patrioticz2858 9 ай бұрын

😂

@robertsmith4681 9 ай бұрын

There is a man who lives in this building who got to see some of those while serving in Vietnam, apparently these things were second only to "puff the magic dragon" when it came to get the enemy to cease fire and go away, quickly .....

@CantTakeTheSkysFromME 9 ай бұрын

The saying is "AMERICAA F.... YA" or "MERICA" also some would say equal to "Hold my beer" moments. Ya, about sums it up. Loud and proud.

@richardmartin9565 9 ай бұрын

Never heard of this Thing, but it doesn't surprise me. That's the kind of things we do ...improvise and innovate.

@fist-of-doom487 9 ай бұрын

This isn’t the only time it’s happened this is just one of the most effective. Thanks to MASSIVE Weapon stockpiles sometimes the Military needs to recycle to make room, so they make what is known as Frankenguns. Weapons made by stitching together two or more guns like a Frankenstein Arts and Crafts Project. A few of them have been made and used recently.

@revgurley 9 ай бұрын

As someone once said, "It's not whether you can, but whether you should." As American a phrase as you'll hear anywhere.

@Good20win11 9 ай бұрын

Pretty sure I made this idea as Lego tank by accident as a kid,

@lawrencenull 8 ай бұрын

US Army: it isn't safe. US Marines: Go ahead and mount a bayonet on the 50 calibers.

@domination1985 9 ай бұрын

It looks like what they would have used right before gundams and mechs

@colinjames7569 9 ай бұрын

Another love machine. Sending 60000 personal messages per one warhead round. Times six. At once

@christopherhanton6611 9 ай бұрын

yeah the m50 Ontos was probably craziest project Usa military ever did lol

@davidgrover8805 8 ай бұрын

They need to bring this back... PERIOD

@tbmike23 9 ай бұрын

The ontos was the best tank of the Vietnam War, because it was small and light, and could go anywhere in the rough terrain. The 105mm recoilless rifles that it mounted could fire tank style rounds, to destroy bunkers, but it's best round was the grape shot. The 6 giant shotguns could clear the jungle so well that enemy forces would retreat as soon as they saw one of these tiny tanks rolling in.

@derrickduncanson9253 9 ай бұрын

React to the war horse, sergeant reckless. She carried the ammo

@robertsmith4681 9 ай бұрын

Not quite Sgt Reckless carried ammo for a previous model of recoilless rifle, the type used on the Ontos came into service after the Korean war was over. But yeah, do check out fat electricians video about Sgt Reckless

@Dfourteens 9 ай бұрын

I agree. Sgt Reckless story is fantastic.

@riphopfer5816 9 ай бұрын

Also, Wojtek the bear. Similarly, he befriended a group of soldiers during WW2, iirc, and he, too, would help carry ammo boxes to the men.

@derrickduncanson9253 9 ай бұрын

@@riphopfer5816 "the devil's rock". Watch it. 😙

@crustybomb115 8 ай бұрын

@@riphopfer5816 not just ammo boxes... ENTIRE CRATES of ammo at a time... in an artillery unit...

@vagabondwastrel2361 9 ай бұрын

I'll help you out understanding America. Don't ask "Why?". We ask "Can it be done?"...."with a bit more."

@debbers 3 ай бұрын

Loved your reaction right to the very end!

@ScrawnyClownSnatch 8 ай бұрын

The thing is one of my favorite "tanks". Just the sheer amount of "F*Ck it were Marines" energy it radiates is hilarious.

@dickpilz1432 9 ай бұрын

My Marine MOS was initially 0351 - AntiTank/Assault. The Ontos MOS was 0353, since the M40 recoilless rifles were used by each specialty. You wanted at least two M40 rifles in the area, since if you missed the tank, it could shoot back faster than you could reload. That back blast told the tank where the M40 was. The 2nd (or 3rd or 4th or 5th or 6th) would shoot before the tank could react. So, I trained to shoot the M40. The quietest place to be was just to the side of the breech block in the rear where the back blast and muzzle blast cancelled each other. Fun times.

@herrzimm 9 ай бұрын

The fact that the American military would MAKE something like this shouldn't be that much of a surprise. The fact that the US Marines used it SO WELL is something completely different, as in ..... the Marines being the ONE USA MILITARY BRANCH that would make the craziest thing in the world so darn DEADLY!

@raikbarczynski6582 9 ай бұрын

wich is prettys much on brand with the Marines. take a look at what those guys did. they captured multiple ships and a city with 8 Marines. They built the, in my opinion, best LMG of world war 2: the M2 stinger. Marines never leave the house without a fucking grenade machine gun. and their tanks and helicopters are transformers, being the Osprey and the AAV

@Majorpain32677 9 ай бұрын

Never enough bazookas , i love this thing in battlefield 4 on PlayStation

@nadjasunflower1387 9 ай бұрын

LOL... " why do you need so many of these bazookas ? ... I love it " careful Andre, we might turn you into an American. 8)~

@UShallFallInTheEnd 6 ай бұрын

Fuk. I'm an old Marine. Live in and am from texas, and I can honestly say 'if you wanna blow something up, 'here, I'll do it!!!, hold my beer, watch this shit '… Love it.

@Dagobah359 3 ай бұрын

To understand why the Marines wanted them and why the Army didn't, you have to understand the culture differences between the two services, and those culture differences come from how the services funcion. The Army is about mass. A lot of regular grunts in the same area, which means you have to have a lot of standardization - you have a low tolerance for fucking around. The Army literally has a concept of grunt-proofing things. (Make it hard to screw up, because you've got so many grunts that a lot of them will screw it up.) The Marines on the other hand, even the lowest grunt isn't a regular grunt. They're individual super soldiers. They're all hyper trained to be the best at everything and not screw anything up. Instead of fool-proofing the equipment, the Marines fool-proof the grunt. They'd totally give their troops a bunch of experimental weapons and tell them to go experiment, because they're trained to be good at that.

@ripvanwinkle2002 8 ай бұрын

to put in perspective the fire power of this tiny thing its projectiles have roughly the same punch as the main guns of a ww2 DESTROYER ( naval ship) so the power of a destoyers main guns on a tank not much bigger than a tiny farm tractor

@greggwilliamson 9 ай бұрын

Great reaction!! He is funny as heck!!

@westonberenberg5577 9 ай бұрын

Great video as per usual. I would still love to see you react to the beauty of my home state. The land of enchantment New Mexico Still keep up the amazing work

@Reepicheep-1 8 ай бұрын

"Why you need _so many_ bazookas?" Clearly this man is not American at heart; more is always better, especially when it comes to dakka.

@debbyplank2189 9 ай бұрын

Necessity is definitely the mother of invention..

@Deadxman616 9 ай бұрын

"Why do you need so many Bazookas.......I love it." Is the most American thing you can say.

@asunuk1368 3 ай бұрын

European Reacts, "why do you need so many bazookas?" American Marines, "To get rid of... We mean to quickly deconstruct a building for strategic reasons."

@scavenger6268 8 ай бұрын

A portuguese man appreciating our version of the organ gun.

@mrlizardtx 8 ай бұрын

There is one at The Museum of the American G.I. in College Station, Texas.

@wesrrowlands8309 3 ай бұрын

This is the closest to a real life GI Joe vehicle we have.

@ninjabearpress2574 9 ай бұрын

This thing is a perfect example of the difference between the Army and the USMC. Soldiers are ready to fight you, Marines want you horrified at the mere thought they might show up. The Fat Electrician, USS O'Bannon, that's all I'm saying.

@whatbroicanhave50character35 20 күн бұрын

American farmers are fuckin wild bro. Theyll find the fastest and cheapest but also most dangerous way to do something humanly possible. Theyll get it done in a hurry, and if someone gets hurt maybe they shouldnt have been a dumbass. Just send it

@fireman3437 9 ай бұрын

you might want to look up the M65 Recoiless Nuclear Rifle

@whatbroicanhave50character35 20 күн бұрын

"Everything is scary if you are the enemy against America" made me wheeze I laughed so hard. Its so true. People like to talk shit, America isnt perfect by any definition of the term, but holy goddamn you better watch out if you give us a reason to fight for real. Yeah, we had some blunders in vietnam and the middle east, but its pretty hard when the enemy wont wear a uniform and sends women and children out to fight you, and we're there to try to help, not eradicate.

@michaellee4694 9 ай бұрын

As a fyi US military only retires things for 2 reasons 1 it doesn’t work and 2 something better that does what it does was made I’ll let you decide which was the case here.

@whippygecko1963 9 ай бұрын

48 seconds in and this man already knows he's in for it

@Shalltear773 9 ай бұрын

imagine if we'd kept the Ontos and simply refined the model over time, just to make it an even more horrifying nightmare on the battlefield.

@LaSenioraKittehz 9 ай бұрын

I’d love to see a modern take of this design with a Abrams hull and autoloader 😂 it would gloriously cursed lol

@brett9675 8 ай бұрын

Cursed tanks, are the best tanks.

@mfree80286 9 ай бұрын

I might have missed it, so sorry if I'm repeating what was already covered... The "Thing" was always the Thing... because the official name, Ontos, is actually Greek for "to be". Consider 'ontology', the study of being. So the M50... was. By name, it existed. It "be". What was it? A thing. No... THE Thing. I guess they could have called it the M50 Prama but that's a little too on the nose.

@Majorpain32677 9 ай бұрын

The thing is in battlefield 4 everyone fights to use ot lol

@troyshilanski380 Ай бұрын

Love you my brother

@jaycooper2812 9 ай бұрын

ARMY = "Ain't ready for Marines Yet" USMC = "Uncle Sam's Misguided Children".

@darkamora5123 8 ай бұрын

You forgot, MARINE=My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment.

@hazardousroo 5 ай бұрын

@@darkamora5123 One I heard was Muscles Are Required Intelligence Not Expected. M.A.R.I.N.E.

@johnokland1652 9 ай бұрын

Mostly cause better shit popped up you gotta think this is a like a ww2-korea era battle tank design modified to serve a new purpose that served as a tank killer and then as an anti personel/anti material vehicle into the 70s by that time we're getting to some of the more modern tanks still in use and we have better vehicles and or infantry level anti material and anti personel equipment basically it was outdated for it's original purposes reused for a secondary purpose and eventually got out classed or out specialized in its new issue and got retired

@danij5055 9 ай бұрын

America: we like our booms 🇺🇸😉

@serimus 9 ай бұрын

You should react to a video about the Killdozer.

@raspycellist 2 ай бұрын

Ontos means "the thing, or creature"in Greek.

@scp2539 9 ай бұрын

why does it have 6? because 7 was deemed unsafe and 5 was unbalanced XD

@flamesnipr1213 9 ай бұрын

dude is i could join the military i could, unfortunately i cant due to medical reasons, but if i could i'd be a real honor to thank my country for what its done for me... plus i'd be able to witness the dumb shit that grunts would be able to do

@cheryla7480 9 ай бұрын

Still, even with those weapons the U.S. lost the Vietnam war against an enemy with extremely inferior weaponry!

@dickpilz1432 9 ай бұрын

The US left in 1973. South Vietnam surrendered 2 years later

@Stevarooni 9 ай бұрын

America didn't lose militarily, the bad press of casualties and civilian deaths caused public backlash.

@mrjackpots1326 9 ай бұрын

I was quite impressed with this vehicle when I was a kid, but later I wondered what they were thinking. Not a bazooka and the recoilless rifle is nothing like it. It was meant to be used by infantry as a man portable artillery piece. The worst thing about it is that the crew have to exit the vehicle to reload. Live span on modern battlefield? About 10 seconds. The Marine Corp usually end up with Army cast offs because they are always at the bottom of the funding list. The smaller version of the rifle (57mm) was a favorite of the mujahideen in Afghanistan where it was used as intended to ambush Russian armored columns, and later by the Taliban against American forces. I like the guy who makes these videos, but he has a mental age of about 8. Pro tip: Never stand behind a recoilless rifle of any caliber, which was why the whole recoilless rifle family was abandoned by the US military and sold off around the world. You get one shot and then everyone on the battlefield knows exactly where you are. Many of them found their way into the hands of various rebel/terrorist groups, and were used as the artillery they didn't have.