German Sten Copy: MP 3008, aka Gerät Neumünster

[@fdsdh1]

the German MP28 was copied by the British to make the Lanchester the Lanchester was simplified to make a Sten the Sten was simplified by the Germans to make the MP3008 it went full circle!

[@mattorama]

+fdsdh1 Any more simple and you'd just be throwing the cartridges at the enemy with your hand.

[@MERLK2]

+JagerLange Oh well ... at least its no Liberator Pistol ;)

[@hairyneil]

+mattorama England, late 1944, a well dressed gent in uniform with an impeccable moustache stands up, "Chaps, Jerry has come out with this, they call it the MP3008. It's damnedably simple, but it's ok, I've had the engineer chappies working overtime to come up with [unveils] the new Lanchester-Enfield-Sterling-Slingshot. The LESS. Chambered in 9x19mm of course."

[@mattorama]

+hairyneil Slingshot? A piece of yew wood and elastic? I do protest good lad, we can simply this further!

[@TheRomanRuler]

Slingshot? Are you mad? What is wrong with throwing good old rocks? Too advanced for ya lads?

[@HellYeahCorp]

The curious case of WW2 Germany actually *simplifying* something.

[@ForgottenWeapons]

+Aramiro Weird, huh?

[@davidreynolds8865]

+Aramiro managing simplify something the British had already made as simple as they could. i didn't eve know that could be done.

[@commonconservative7551]

the barrel shroud probably kept the barrel more accurate....less harmonical movement

[@Hyperus]

They overengineered simplicity lmao

[@survivalinthecity44]

They had programs to simplify a number of things in late 44 in to 45

[@rageagainstthehygiene2357]

"A simplified version of the Sten gun..." Did a double take at that. What is it, throwing a 9x19 cartridge at the enemy and yelling "Bang"?

[@raptorcell6633]

Not even bullets just rocks shaped vaguely like cartridges.

[@joeblow9657]

that will suffice. Also, I think it would jam less and have more reliable mags

[@colinmcgrath2392]

I believe it's called a stick

[@aslamnurfikri7640]

Not simple enough. Just throwing brass dust and gunpowder mix and spelling "B-A-N-G!"

[@thief1779]

@@raptorcell6633 but not over 20mm, cuz youll need to register them :D

[@TheInflicted]

Calling the gun the MP 3008 was a desperate German attempt to convince the allies that they had invented a time machine.

[@tehgreatvak]

+TheInflicted -"Here Hans, this is a MP3008, a superior weapon brought back from the glorious future of the Reich" -"Uh Gunther, if the 1000 years Reich can only make very ugly Sten copies even a millenium in the future, is this all really worth fighting for?" -"Shut up before we're shot for defeatism, Hans"

[@triasn5039]

+tehgreatvak this comment is pure gold.great job,sir.

[@habernack2932]

+TheInflicted They actually inventet a time machine.

[@amperzand9162]

+Schnitzelschale It moved you into the future at the dazzling rate of one second per second.

[@darthjadodge]

Dei Glocke

[@Juel92]

Haha a gun designed to be as cheap as humanly possible and constructed in a single man hour sold for over $12k. Man that gun really appreciated in value.

[@535tony]

The Sten MkII I bought in 1990 for $600 is worth about $6000 today. Not bad for an SMG that cost less then $10 to make.

[@535tony]

It is very rare gun.

[@535tony]

A dewat can be reactivated so it is the same as a transferable. That is what makes it worth so much along with the rarity.

[@Mikhail-Tkachenko]

@@535tony "No one needs a machine gun, that's why I'm against repealing the NFA, but I'm sure glad I bought my Sten when they were cheap!"

[@creepyendy]

it has a fun switch thats the money worth

[@jasondoe2596]

Probably as "last-ditch" as you can get - what a contrast to the serialized screws (!) of the German gun in the recent video!

[@leonardotavaresdardenne9955]

Did you know the steel that made up the last german gun had serialized atoms?

[@crobulari2328]

+Jason “cyberspace entity” Doe Almost. Check the Expedient Luty design.

[@TheSuburban15]

Well, I feel better about my welding skills now than I did about 10 minutes ago.

[@arnekrug939]

Can you weld a gun in a single hour?

[@grahamlopez6202]

I built a sten, and it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, but i bet i could do it in an hour if I had a team of guys making all the other parts and all I had to do was weld.

[@adrianfirewalker4183]

Me too, and i don't even consider myself an Amateur

[@painmagnet1]

The welds on this actually look VERY good. Not so pretty, but the operators made them strong and solid. Good penetration and little excess.

[@subconscious.com_usa6691]

_Suburban_ Most of those sketchy looking welds are from the deactivation process, Someone has cut slits into the side of the gun and welded it to stop the bolt from moving, there's other deactivation welds on there too at the front and at the back. A decent one of those that has not been deactivate, would most probably have o.k workmanship

[@Corristo89]

The irony would've come full circle if the British had captured the MP 3008 and used it to improve on their own Sten ;-)

[@raptorcell6633]

How'd you simplify this fucking thing? Remove the damn stock?

[@calanon534]

@@raptorcell6633 No sights, no trigger, slam-fire only.

[@bamboozlednoodle6513]

Throw a 9x19mm bullet at the enemy and yell “BANG”

[@kellerplayz1570]

@@bamboozlednoodle6513 just the boolet not even the cartridge

[@Momo_Kawashima]

@@raptorcell6633 shorter barrel, no stock, no charging bolt, no sights, no trigger guard. The quintessential angry tube

[@535tony]

The British actually made a simplified version of the Sten. They called it the Sten MKIII. It turned out to be not as good as the MKII and production ceased. As the War progressed the British actually made the Sten more complicated with the Sten MKV. But they were winning the War by then.

[@keithad6485]

Mk III eliminated one of the chronic problems of the Mk II. Magazine housing sag caused by the rotating facility of the Mk II which eventually wore and caused the mag housing sag, which caused feed problems. MkIII housing was welded into place - hence no sagging. According to Laidlers excellent book STEN Machine Carbine (publ - Collector Grade), Line Brothers still made several hundred thousand Mk IIIs.

[@ronaldcolman6211]

It's nice to see that someone actually made a Sten with the magazine pointed in the right direction.

[@EASY7356]

For Brits it was the right direction back then, because Shooting from the prone Position is easier Aussies even had SMGs with the Magazin on top (like the Villar Perosa or Bren MG) which makes even less sense

[@alecblunden8615]

@@EASY7356 The top mount mags make perfect sense. They aid the feed with gravity and allow prone firing- both weaknesses in the bottom feed guns. The only advantage of the latter is that you can see what you are shooting at, but that was never a disadvantage with the Bren or the Owen, both highly effective and, particularly in the case of the Bren, probably the most accurate and reliable LMG ever used.

[@onionsoup6813]

@Lars Isaac: Australia is in the southern hemisphere, so they HAVE to put the magazines on top in order for the guns to work properly.

[@allangibson8494]

@@EASY7356 The Owen was far more reliable than the Sten - gravity helps but not jamming when stuffed with mud was good too... The Owen was still in use by Australian forces in Vietnam in the 1960's.

[@xaquko9718]

@@alecblunden8615 lindybeige?

[@thesturm8686]

"A masterpiece of insane optimism" sums up the entire german efforts in 1945

[@Mcfunface]

It was just a stalling effort at that point lol

[@simone.Lmo.639-2]

1 hour of 1 man work... that's the simpliest magazine fed select fire weapon I ever heard of

[@tSp289]

I hear the later models were just a steel pipe and a pin hammer. The deluxe version included a leaflet with some choice swear words to shout at the enemy.

[@iamAwesomo1994]

this is one of my favorite german guns actually. i like the vertical mag well and the single man-hour of production time. never seen one shot on the internet though.

[@benclifford9414]

It's funny. Just as we the British were beginning to make improved better stens like the mk5. The Germans make this thing

[@millwaterpublishing1387]

The gun is ugly as a mud fence. I love it! Kinda' surprised they bothered with a single shot (semiauto?) feature though.

[@vguyver2]

+Millwater Publishing possible ammo conservation, which considering the way the war was going, and the dogmatic resistance to the last city they had planned,

[@thesturm8686]

If they left it out it'll be too simple to be german

[@davidbeattie4294]

Thank Ian. The MP 3008 is a fascinating bit of history I truly needed to understand.

[@dylanwight5764]

Worth mentioning, and this is also true of the original Mk.II, the sight picture is pretty decent on this type of subgun. The front post is usable, the sight radius is a decent length, and the rear sight is close enough to the eye to provide a wide field of view without being so close as to eliminate any hope of precise aiming.

[@M04R92]

Hi Ian, The "eu" in Neumünster is pronounced like "oy" in boy Greetings from Germany

[@M04R92]

+M04R92 In Dauerfeuer as well

[@keithad6485]

Spot on. Noy Moonster

[@Jesses001]

With welds like that, it looks like something I would make on a Sunday afternoon while bored in the shop, ha.

[@kanth66]

"Copying is the sincerest form of flattery".

[@kanth66]

"Imitation".

[@thewiezman]

This is what I would make if I was a post apocalyptic arms manufacturer

[@Bialy_1]

nah, most likely you would end up with stick in one hand and rock in other. :P

[@lucasward9506]

real gamers use luty smg's

[@jack_copperz]

It's basically a metal pipe with a spring, a plate, a needle, a bullet, a lever and a few holes in it. If you simplified it enough, you could make one at home.

[@30cal23]

more likely you'd be making sten guns, uzis, bolt action rifles, semi auto rifles because thats about all you can do with simplified tooling

[@wurzel9671]

@@30cal23 Semi auto rifles would already be pretty difficult I think because of the higher chamber pressure of rifle cartridges

[@donaldasayers]

one has to ask why the STEN had the magazine on the side. The answer is that the sear is actually on the bolt, so in the british version the sear machining (ie almost none at all.) was on the bottom of the bolt and all the machining to clear the magazine lips was on the side. Move the magazine to the bottom and the the trigger group has to work on a bolt that has been cut away to clear the magazine and machined to strip fresh rounds. So not quite a trivial piece of redesign. The main fault with the STEN was the use of mp-38 magazine. A two position feed double stack would have reduced the tendency of the magazine to jam.

[@grahamlopez6202]

Makes it easy to shoot prone too

[@klausbrinck2137]

"Move the magazine to the bottom and the the trigger group has to work on a bolt that has been cut away to clear the magazine and machined to strip fresh rounds" I don´t quite grasp the difference. Is that better, because in the 3008 the shear-interface drags along a *shorter* part of the bolt (cause a big bolt-piece on this side is machined away to clear the magazine), and so, wears down *slower* ?

[@rcbif101]

How was the barrel held in? Pinned? And does the front sight come off, or is it welded to the trunnion?

[@herrfriedrich6563]

greetings from germany ! first of all i want to say that i absolutly love your videos keep up the great work they are very informativ and interesting :) but i have one question ... could you take a look on other totaly minimalistic and simple guns ? i m absolutly fascinated about the fact how simple and improvised a gun can be :D have a nice day and thank you for your answer (if you give one ^^)

[@dsxz]

germans making mechanicals less complicated?? is this the twilight zone?

[@waswolltihr1526]

+LARGEFARVA It's from the mirror universe. ;-)

[@alexm566]

I always heard about German engineering, but this channel is how I truly saw examples and learned how legit great they were.

[@Regolith86]

3:29 so they removed the shoulder thing that goes up? But I'm informed that makes the gun 10x deadlier!

[@jyjaxon]

It also seems this gun doesn't take those deadly large capacity clips... or any kind of clip for that matter.

[@sergeantbigmac]

+Regolith It does have one of those high capacity 30 clip thingy, so its just as deadly

[@drmachinewerke1]

Back in my class 3 days. I had a post sample . I cut the bolt and rotated it while at the same time removing some mass . I then machined a t/stock to accept a AR grip. It sure was fun to shoot. I will say as fast as a mini uzi. Damn I hate the nfa

[@drmaudio]

I always loved the Sten. It looks like they understood the real value of the design. An expedient firearm that any machine shop can manufacture.

[@dshrecksBW]

The stock actually looks relatively comfortable for its cost. Did it shoulder well? Better than a wire stock?

[@AGermanFencer]

"Given up the ghost" ? This saying exists in english ? :D How funny. It exists in german aswell.

[@AGermanFencer]

Jason Ross The one i know is pretty much the same. "Den Geist aufgeben" = "Giving up the ghost" for stuff which breaks. In german "Geist" is not only "ghost" but also "spirit" like the "soul" of something. Thats why i feel, the german one makes a bit more sense ^^ anyhow. I like it in both languages.

[@gyalpoirgyud4759]

+Blank- blade That's the original meaning of "ghost" in English, too. See "the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost".

[@AGermanFencer]

kmaj gpt Oh, true. Well then it works the same for both :)

[@genghiskhan6809]

You Germans SEEM to always forget that english is at heart a germanic language.

[@MultiArrie]

It exist in Dutch as well c"de geest geven"

[@curseofa5r5a]

There is one of these in JoJo rabbit being used by a German girl in a final stand against Americans, nice detail

[@HunterRodrigez]

this thing just screams desperation out of every bit

[@dat42960]

Man when i heard Mauser and Improved i expected a little better looking workmanship or just simplified but that thing looks like something out of Royal Nonesuch's workshop and they wanted a million ! Truly a monument to mans determination to kill one another.

[@fbisurveillancevan6939]

I like your videos, Ian. You present everything in a calm voice and have interesting details about the weapons. "Heer" meaning German Army spells like the english word "hair".

[@jonathanhak95]

I literally have nothing with guns but video games but your videos are so informative that every now and then i like watching and learning some stuff, keep it up man!

[@zackFanatic]

Ian, I am curious about something. You've run into a lot of rare weapons from all eras, but this video really piqued my interest. I never knew the Germans used the Sten at all! So, I would like to know, have you ever run into a MP41(r), or the MP717(r)? Other than a few pictures, and a few articles, i've yet to find much information on German-used PPsH 41s. Thank you for all of your videos, they've led me to learn a lot more about the history of firearms-and the situations that led to their development-that I may never of heard about. Greetings from Canada!

[@martyb999]

You know you’re in trouble if you have to SIMPLIFY the Sten!

[@jmantime]

there was second prettiyer version called the " MP-3008 Blohm & Voss ' - i161.photobucket.com/albums/t206/poppapolar/MP3008.jpg

[@thewiezman]

jmantime hey I'm subbed to you haha

[@rogerjohnson8707]

Today B&V builds some of the worlds largest yachts.

[@keithad6485]

A study I did some years ago of the STEN - I was surprised to learn the main tube is made from standard car exhaust tube - 1.5" dia with a 1/16th inch thick wall - mild steel. With the single difference was that an extra process was added forcing a mandrel through the tube to flatten the inside weld seem, so the bolt was not impeded in its movements.

[@TheMCD1989]

I know this is an old video, but I'm curious does anyone know what kind of welding they used for these guns back in the day? Did MIG welding exist? Or was it all done with stick welds, because if so that's impressive.

[@mark4lev]

Gas welding I think, with oxy- acetylene torch.

[@donjones4719]

MP 3008 being issued to the Wehrmacht makes sense. Germany expected more and more urban warfare in German cities at this point, and equipping more and more soldiers with SMGs made sense. MP 40s certainly couldn't be cranked out fast enough for this.

[@AnimalStomper]

Wasn't the vertical magazine on the MP40 a nightmare for shooting when prone. Seems like the horizontal one would be more practical in combat.

[@AnimalStomper]

+Edward Kiel Good point. Also I suppose, either way the mag is going to be a nuisance at some point. Being that on the horizontal model you would have issues shooting around the left hand corner of a building.

[@27dcx]

+AnimalStomper I wonder if any shops made a compromise model with the mag on a 45 degree angle

[@sergeantbigmac]

+AnimalStomper Thats the usually cited reason by historians, but I dont think its that big of a deal in practice, otherwise everyone wouldve made their SMGs with side magazines. Just compare the number of guns with vertical vs horizontal mags. In real world use its obvious.

[@farmerboy916]

+sergeantbigmac Well let's be honest, how often will a soldier be firing a subgun prone? You can just tilt the gun when you are. Whereas he'll be carrying it all the time, and I've heard side magazines make that impractical and uncomfortable as all hell. It turns a mostly flat object into something not at all so.

[@sergeantbigmac]

farmerboy916 Yes yes and yes. Thats exactly my point. Thanks ;)

[@theblackprince1346]

Been waiting for a forgotten weapons video on the sten gun for ages. My life's complete.

[@zeroxception]

" Ludwig Vorgrimmler was simplifying the Sten design even farther" Sometimes people dont know when to stop

[@99smite]

Simply the best place to cometo to get to know something about "forgotten weapons". Ian is able to give tons of facts and information about very exotic guns in an entertaining way. It's awesome, and by the way, Dauerfeuer and Einzelfeuer, Feuer is pronounced foire... I understand that it is difficult for an American to pronounce these strange sounding German words...

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

By German logic this would have come out in the year 3008. Shouldn't it fire plasma or something?

[@Swampy0110]

Only after its been Pack-a-Punched

[@HRHooChicken]

Last ditch weapons are easily the most interesting war guns. Not just the Axis ones but the Allied ones. The Sten definitely falls into that category.

[@jamesduston9292]

Ian, if you were to make a gun of pure ergonomics what would it look like?

[@mikeh.753]

It's mind boggling to think that the Germans actually simplified the British Sten. Damn that's like simplifieing the M3 grease gun.

[@Sheerwater909]

I wonder what the finished cost of one of these was against the 7/6 (37.5p) ($3.00) of the Sten. Simplification aside, transportation of parts must have pushed the final price up somewhat.

[@DanielaRChamps]

First of all I love your Videos. As a German, german weapons are always of big interrest for me. Seeing some of the weaponery I read about in books on that level is just amazing. One Thing i noticed waching your Videos is that you refere to the E on the selecter switches as Einfeuer, thats unfortunatly not completly true, the right term would be Einzelfeuer. But actually thats just a minor sidenote. Thanks a lot for the great work.

[@HatcheDWheeL]

"Feuer" is pronounced "foyer"

[@HatcheDWheeL]

or just "fire"

[@gun_nerds]

+HatcheDWheeL No! Dauerführer is the perfectly fine lol.

[@HellYeahCorp]

+net split Ist Merkel nicht die Dauerführerin? EDIT: Eigentlich war Kohl der Dauerführer.

[@LWKEsq]

@@HellYeahCorp : 4 years later he/she/it is well on the way. The Tavistock made het, the Tavistock keeps her. Nothing new under the sun. Replacing trained agents tends to cost a bomb (or two, or three - installing manufactured democracy isn't cheap).

[@Kyanzes]

And everyone runs to the lobby.

[@youknowwhoelsecantthinkofagood]

Is there footage of this gun firing anywhere out there? I desperately want to know what it looked and sounded like in action. I imagine it sounds a lot like the Sten for obvious reasons, but if anyone has a video, please send me a link or title!

[@Warforce1488]

Damn what a rare gun. Thanks RIA.

[@ricklindert5649]

I remember being trained on both the MP 40 and the STEN many years ago. I was able to fire each of these as well as the Thompson, Swedish K , our own grease gun,and some others. I liked the feel of the MP 40 much more than the STEN. There seemed to be less recoil impulse, or anyway better dampened, and it seemed easier to hit with repeated shots. The MP 40 was also more reliable. The STEN gave a lot of stoppages, mostly due to poor magazine quality. Interestingly, the magazines looked a lot alike, but were not interchangeable.

[@HellbirdIV]

British Engineers: "We've done it lads! We've made the most simplified submachine gun possible! It's a bloody engineering marvel!" German Engineers: "Are you *challenging* me?"

[@elkpants1280]

Out of curiosity, that mag release spring is defunct, but any idea on the original dimensions and resistance of the original production model spring?

[@danhulson8703]

my granddad was a royal engineer and faught in Korea,he told me that Sten guns were death traps he said if they were knocked about or dropped they would discharge and often empty there full magazine,he never had a good word to say about the sten and said they were one of the worst guns in the army at the time

[@Wakey585]

fantastic weapons to disassemble though: unscrew the bottom plate and bolt and give it a good shake, everything should fall out as long as you wern't knocked out by the spring.

[@jakublulek3261]

Polish troopes in British army often discarted Sten for MP40.

[@danhulson8703]

@@jakublulek3261 who could blame them the MP 40 was superior to the sten in nearly every way,But the Sten was a product of it's time built for numbers and cheapness

[@mikeh.753]

I don't see why they didn't spend a couple extra pennies and a couple minutes forming a pistol grip into the stock. I couldn't have taken more than 4 or 5 bends in the stocks overall manufacturing. The Sten had to have cost less than a m3 grease gun and that was I believe less then 10 dollars per copy. I know that the Liberator 45acp single shot that America dropped into Europe for the resistance was extremely inexpensive to manufacture. Heck the m3 grease gun actually got easier and cheaper to make when they did away with the weak charging lever and just put a hole in the bolt to cock the gun. So basically the grease gun evolved on its own pretty much. And GM's guide lamp division tooled up and produced the m3 grease gun in a matter of weeks not months. And a relative of mine used a grease gun in Vietnam and he said it was extremely reliable and quite surprisingly accurate for what it was intended to be used for. A spring, a wire , and a prayer is what I've heard how the soldiers Described the m3 grease gun. Not as effectivein combat as a m1 carbine but a lot more firepower than a Colt 45acp pistol. And when the conversion parts were handed out to make the m1 carbine a select fire weapon the little m1 became the m2 and a squad could have weapons that ranged from m60 , BAR , S&W m76, m1 and m2 carbines and of course they had tim3 grease guns. Quite a variety of ammunition but that was before the military got really serious about interchangeability of ammunition like almost all modern militaries have been doing for a long time now. Oh and don't forget the m14 and I'm sure they were still using some m1 Garands also.

[@davidlambert6171]

I did not know the words "simplify" and "sten" can exist in one sentence!

[@alexm566]

you keep referring to destroyed records in your videos. were they mostly destroyed by the Germans, or accidentally by allied bombing?

[@lamonstra1464]

Ian, buddy, audio is just fine. Thanks for another cool video.

[@chedca]

Hey Ian, my grandfather said he was an ace with the Sten in training but (thankfully) was never deployed BC the war ended! Will you ever do a story on the Sten? Thanks for the channel man. Take it easy! Edit - one thing that went unmentioned in this video is the sten's wooden frame? pretty notable when contrasting this model!!

[@bradenpetty3828]

Very interesting. I think I prefer this one over the British one.

[@TheKitMurkit]

+Braden Petty, true!

[@davedavedave52]

what sort of weld prosses do you think was used to weld this gun?

[@Spearfisher1970]

Ten thumbs up! Great educational video

[@veryveryintense]

Ian what is the deal with dewats? I've heard about them before but I don't understand what legal significance this term has, why anyone would ever deactivate an NFA machine gun and why any of these remain that haven't been reactivated given the lack of newly made machine guns? Thanks for the video, very impressive how low the production value is on this gun, it honestly makes some of the modern 'khyber pass' handmade firearms look pretty good by comparison with those huge hasty welds and bizarrely awful mag release.

[@ForgottenWeapons]

+veryveryintense When they are deactivated like this, they no longer require a $200 tax to transfer (same NFA process, but no tax). That's not a significant part of the cost today, but in the 40s $200 was a big chunk of change, and the guns themselves weren't worth nearly as much. So deactivating made sense for a lot of people.

[@veryveryintense]

Ah, makes sense. Sounds like a good business opportunity for the unscrupulous, finding these guns and parting them from their owners without informing them of what they truly have. I'm sure all the papered ones will be reactivated within a few years as the ww2 generation passes away. Thanks for your reply and keep up the amazing content.

[@TheAirSofterblaster200]

+Forgotten Weapons if you wanted to make it a machine gun you would have to have a type 7 personal machine blah blah blah to do it. it would never be able to be bought by joe blow with $10,000 to blow.

[@AnimalStomper]

Such an eerie fire arm.

[@wallmixer7274]

is there any way to get copy's of the technical drawings for these guns? In case you are wondering I am definitely not going to make and sell them to Russian partisans in Crimea...

[@iKaBanana]

did the STEN’s fire selector inspire the STG44‘s one?

[@pedrotome9119]

I did not know anything about this before!!! 😮 What a "romance"!!

[@pimpmoney909]

Great video as always, thanks for uploading! Just a very minor correction: The "E" is for "Einzelfeuer", not "Einfeuer".

[@zyklon94]

Hi Ian, I read an article about the nomenclature of WW2 German weapon factories in a Hungarian weapon themed magazine. According to that, there is a German book which contains all codes of the factories which produced any kind of military products even in the collaborating counties. I'm going to put the link of the book under this comment as soon as I find the ISBN code of the book

[@ForgottenWeapons]

+Máté Tóth Yes, I have an excellent book like that. But some of the small shops like the one that made this gun are simply not documented.

[@huszardaniel4927]

Jó itt hazánk fiát látni :-D

[@ShawarmaFarmer]

Do you think it will be possible to do a video on the Claridge Hi Tec S9s of the 90s?

[@williamcattr267]

Would like to see this thing demonstrated at the range by you guys.

[@NormanMatchem]

I think the heatshield of the STEN comes most in handy when slinging the SMG after having fired for a while. With this German copy/variant, might want to keep the SMG in hand, or leaning against something, until it cools down, THEN slinging it. Just my thought on why the heatshield, while likely not too important, did serve a genuine function. Goes to show the value of simplicity in firearms, though. Imagine if Germany had made these variants earlier, they could have given more soldiers that rather than the Kar98k, and replaced Kar98k production with G43 and/or Mkb.42(H)/MP43/MP44/STG-44 production, giving the Wehrmacht more SMGs, more semi autos, and more of those newfangled assault rifles. However, bolt actions were very much the status quo for infantry, the only 2 nations off the top of my head who even considered replacing all their bolt actions were America and the Soviet Union. In fact, the USSR even wanted to replace bolt actions as far as scoped rifles went as well, but the SVT-40 suffered some long-distance accuracy issues. Not quite as precise as the M91/30 in terms of vertical shot placement. If it wasn't for Operation Barbarossa (Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union), then the USSR would have replaced their M91/30s with SVT-40s before America could have replaced their M1903s with M1 Rifles, effectively making the Red Army the first in the world with standard issue semi auto rifles. The plan was to be producing 2,000,000 SVT-40s per year by 1942, I think it was. In comparison, by December 1941, America had about 500,000 M1 Rifles or less, but at the same time, the USSR had at least 1.2 million SVT variants. If production of the SVT hadn't had been halted for the sake of the cheaper Mosins, then they'd have had over 3,000,000 SVTs by December 1942, meanwhile I don't think the 3,000,000th M1 Rifle rolled off the assembly line until Summer 1944, around D-Day. If the 2,000,000 SVTs a year had come to fruition, then by Summer 1944, the USSR should have had over 6,000,000 SVTs. All of them lighter, with a fixed compensator to reduce felt recoil, and adjustable gas to use different types of 7.62x54r (or to just open up if the rifle got dirty/grimy to keep it running smoothly). Not to mention the 10 round mags, though under ideal circumstances, I believe only perhaps 3 or so would have been given to each soldier. Most reloading would be done with 5-rnd Mosin clips, while the spare mags would be reserved for emergencies. The Czechs also used this idea with their vZ.58 assault rifle which could be reloaded with 30-rnd mags for emergency, but also had clip feed guides to be reloaded with SKS clips. Carrying both clips and mags will lighten your loadout, cheapen your loadout, and make it less bulky, rather than carrying ONLY mags. Edit: Oh yeah, also, stop producing those bloody MP40s and stick with this. It's cheaper, lighter, quicker to produce, it's actually SELECT FIRE, and I dare say also easier to disassemble/maintain... I'm really not a fan of the MP40. If it's not one of the worst SMGs of WWII, then it's spectacularly average in just about every way.

[@Craptacular77]

@8:03 you can see the IRS-assigned serial number. Did the gun not have an appropriate serial number from the factory, or did they just decide to add an additional one?

[@ForgottenWeapons]

+Craptacular77 It had no factory serial number.

[@rejmons1]

I think, the source of some solutions in this weapon (vertical magazine of MP40) was in MP "Blyskawica" (Lightning) developed by the Home Army (resistence movement) in Poland in 1943. Conspiracy factory made 700 of those MP until the August of 1944 when this weappon were used in the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans get the specimens of this weapon in mid-1944, so it is very likely that they used this solution in their own MP 3008.

[@janwitts2688]

Landwehr units were used to having sten guns and other captured equipment which explains the markings

[@marvindebot3264]

@Forgotton Weapons, any idea what this went for?

[@PhobosTK]

they put the mag well in the right place!

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Sterlings are nice to shoot!

[@kevinoliver3083]

Oh no they didn't.

[@the-quintessenz]

That's a gun everyone looking to survive the apocalypse should acquire. Such a minimized design can be built under almost all circumstances.

[@Mildcat743]

You know you need to cut corners when you need to simplify the Sten

[@Mordock999]

I see that this gun has an "IRS" number. Does that mean that the gun was registered during the 1968 Amnesty or because it was one of the "last ditch" German guns made with no serial number? Thanks!

[@ForgottenWeapons]

+Mordock999 That is the NFA registration number. I don't recall if it was registered during the amnesty.

[@keithad6485]

There is a chapter devoted to German copies of the STEN in Peter Laidler's book, The STEN Machine Carbine, published by Collector Grade Publications. No longer in business and the book is out of print.

[@dand8538]

This gun sounds like it was named after Gary numan. The guy that made that song called cars. " Here in my car, Iv'e got a machine gun and i do it for fun been shooting my gun, in cars"

[@spottydog4477]

Dear Krauts, it doesn't matter how fast and cheaply you can make guns when you don't have anyone left to use them

[@nothingtoseeheremovealong598]

spottydog4477 heh they still had children and old people

[@Wykletypl]

I have a suggestion for the weapon to be featured in this channel - Błyskawica. or Lightning smg, the only smg mass produced in underground factories of the resistance, used by Polish Home Army especially during the Warsaw Uprising. I saw a couple of people saying it was inferior to MP-40, but none bothered to tell what they based their opinions on. Would be nice if You talked about Błyskawica and even field tested it, to say how it actually performed.

[@ForgottenWeapons]

If/when I can put my hands on one, I will!

[@Purpmaster]

Wow this sure sold cheap for such a rare and unusual last ditch German weapon, especially being a papered mg. Even as a dewat. I’d buy that in a heartbeat!

[@basilpunton5702]

I thought then sten was based on th MP18. It certainly had the stupid double row magazine with single row feed. A cause of many a jam. Noted that the MP40 magazine was used on the copy.

[@max_archer]

Hey Ian, is there any chance you'll ever be able to look at any of Japan's post-war small arms? I'm particularly interested in the Howa Type 64 rifle, as it seems to be their only totally indigenous design and there's very little information available about it, but I have no idea if any exist outside the hands of the Japanese military at all.

[@OriginalBongoliath]

Not a chance. The Japanese are very restrictive on their military arms. They even forbid export of them. Only WWII captures are all you are going to get out of the Japanese.

[@max_archer]

Normally I'd agree, but Ian seems to have a real habit of getting his hands on "impossible" guns. Maybe we need to just make Forgotten Weapons famous in Japan, so that they invite him over and the JSDF lets him play with their toys...

[@OriginalBongoliath]

+Max Archer No one, I mean no civilian has nor will have access to Japanese military firearms that were not captured in wartime. Does not matter how savvy one is the Japanese are not going to let some random KZbinr touch their guns.

[@petesampson4273]

Two points. 1. I recall reading a story that the Germans captured a truckload of Stens, the first they got their hands on, and after sending them back to Germany the powers that be took one look at them and melted them down for scrap. The story may be apocryphal but, if true, it would show how the Germans abandoned their penchant for quality over quantity as they became more desperate. 2. I get gun collecting. I have a very small collection myself and, for example, paid a premium for a 1970's Colt-Sauer .30-06, bolt action that had been "shot out" and, rather than hanging it on a wall, I had a gunsmith friend of mine convert it to "8mmX06" which merely uses 8mm Mauser bullets in a .30X06 case. Since I haven't bought any factory ammo other than .22 rimfire in about 40 years; the need to load my own wildcat cartridges is actually a plus and that rifle is far, far, more accurate than I ever was. I also have a 1951 Winchester 94 that I wouldn't trade for love or money. In fact; I was only half joking when I told the person I have bequeathed it to that he should load my ashes into 30-30 rounds and fire them out of the old Winchester in some of my favorite places! All that being said; It is a bit shocking to see that someone probably paid more than it cost to build all the "3008's" for a single, deactivated, example.

[@luigiaqua2263]

Also came a suppressor with it, very rare.

[@_Wiseguy7]

huh, always wondered how a STEN gun would look like with a vertical mag well.

[@jacekzielinski5164]

Check on "błyskawica", gun done by Polish Home Army..

[@John-f5c]

My friend owns one like this with no knowledge of what it is. His father took it as a cash trade situation for a Carmen ghia. Now he has a gem and it fires

[@Ebolson1019]

Since when are Germans known for simplifying things?

[@nfsfanAndrew]

germans making something simple? impossible!

[@IchBinJager]

But uh, if I think the Magwell is what I think it is wasn't the Magwell on the Sten Mark III welded into the receiver too?

[@gewamser]

That was really interesting. Thanks!