"It's not gonna get mud into it." Let's put it this way: If it gets mud into it. Then you have bigger problems.
@davidbrennan6603 жыл бұрын
Ramming mud into it several hundred miles an hour does get grit into the system I guess.... dust covers or not. Choosing .303 rather than your own service cartridge is very French, given their odd weapon procurement practice history and character.
@Stevarooni3 жыл бұрын
I do have this image, though, of a wing of aircraft lining up on a muddy runway, each blowing some mud back at the next plane in line....
@spacetexan86953 жыл бұрын
In the spirit of the chieftain If you get mud into it, you just had a significant emotional event!
@thatguybrody48193 жыл бұрын
WHY IS THAT MACHINEGUN NOT FIRING?! it's got mud in it. How is that possible we are flying?! uh...not anymore sir...
@88porpoise3 жыл бұрын
@@davidbrennan660 The .303 made sense. That was the cartridge of effective and available aircraft machineguns during the war when France needed them. And after the war, why not stick with what you have? Especially since you know the plan is to replace the 8mm Lebel as soon as practical anyway. Moving to the 8mm Lebel post-war would have just meant changing things again when moving to the 7.5mm French in the 1930s.
@shatbad29603 жыл бұрын
Ian 'This is a darn machine gun from the darn company' Me 'Shit, Ian's having a tough day'
@Atzy3 жыл бұрын
I think Ian can say "damn" if he wants to, no need to bowlerize
@Bloodreign1373 жыл бұрын
@@Atzy excuse me sir, I think you dropped your sense of humor back there.
@benji36253 жыл бұрын
forvo.com/word/darne/ I looked up the proper way to say the name lol
@sixstringedthing3 жыл бұрын
@@Atzy *bowdlerise And it seemed like such an easy gun to disassemble... :)
@deadendfriends19753 жыл бұрын
Take all the darn pictures you want
@GCho7333 жыл бұрын
“One of the weirder French machine gun.” Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
@51WCDodge3 жыл бұрын
American design, coupled to Belgium manufactuer and Brtish refinment , Inspires a French Armourer to ....... !?
@josephenders18933 жыл бұрын
👀Looks at St. Ètiene 1907
@charlesphillips45753 жыл бұрын
It depends on you base line. If you take the world as a baseline then “weird MG” and “French MG” are almost the same. Conversely, if you take French MG as your base line then “weirder French MG” is truly bizarre.
@lairdcummings90923 жыл бұрын
Ian's a notorious Francophile, when it comes to weapons. I'm sure he knows.
@nickm91233 жыл бұрын
do you dare question the gun jeebus? this man is a francophile. the be all end all on guns. lel
@NewbombedTurk3 жыл бұрын
“This Darne gun here was made in 1926, and it’s pretty Darne versatile.” Great where’s the Darne trigger?
@oldesertguy96163 жыл бұрын
Every time he said "Darne" I heard "darn."
@NewbombedTurk3 жыл бұрын
@@oldesertguy9616 I applied Ian for not going crazy with the Darne puns, I’m not sure I would have the Darne ability to not drop a few.
@jimwegerer59883 жыл бұрын
Where can I get some Darne ammunition?
@bensmith45633 жыл бұрын
@@jimwegerer5988 lewiston Idaho
@christopherreed47233 жыл бұрын
Visiting Yankee: What kind of a darn gun is that, anyway. French ordnance officer: Oui! Hon hon hon hon...
@lairdcummings90923 жыл бұрын
I'm impressed by the discipline involved in avoiding all the name-based puns.
@patrikhjorth32913 жыл бұрын
He did a Darne fine job of it.
@MisterTingles3 жыл бұрын
"Aircraft gun" *does* sound pretty funny, but Ian is more mature than that...
@redbyrd643 жыл бұрын
Darn it, I was expecting at least one
@AshleyPomeroy3 жыл бұрын
When disassembled it looks like a pile of nineteen, twenty sticks.
@wormyboot3 жыл бұрын
I'm constantly impressed by the level of Ian's professionalism.
@j.nilsson53623 жыл бұрын
The feeding mechanism is a perfect example of “the French copies no one and no one copies the French”
@dariuszrutkowski4203 жыл бұрын
For good reason.
@Poopooslinger3 жыл бұрын
@@dariuszrutkowski420 Too bad it happened plenty. Things like smokeless powder or FT-17 etc.
@maximeadam16212 жыл бұрын
C'est impossible de copier du matériel français c'est unique
@sir0herrbatka Жыл бұрын
Well, rimmed cartrige.
@PapaSchultz743 жыл бұрын
Germans : over engineering Darne: hold my Pinot Noir
@sixstringedthing3 жыл бұрын
Wine Wanker engaged: Aksually, the St. Etienne region seems to tend more towards the Côtes-du-Rhône and Beaujolais varietals. ;)
@PapaSchultz743 жыл бұрын
@@sixstringedthing maybe but i prefer Bourgogne 😍
@fredbloggs59023 жыл бұрын
Seems to me that a museum having Ian on-hand to dismantle/reassemble one of their more obscure guns is a unique opportunity.
@51WCDodge3 жыл бұрын
Someone to blame if bits go flying :-) AKA The Curator's Revenge!
@fredbloggs59023 жыл бұрын
@@51WCDodge Yes, that as well 🤣
@worldtraveler9303 жыл бұрын
I believe you'll find that Othis is no slouch in the weapons disassembly / reassembly field either.
@kw98493 жыл бұрын
I think most museum management boards are loathe to let anyone handle their artifacts, regardless of qualification.
@ScottKenny19783 жыл бұрын
@@kw9849 sure, but this gets filed under the "educate the public" commandment. Also, you need to disassemble and oil a firearm about once a year or so.
@schwaulen3 жыл бұрын
That's straight out of a cartoon, with the little hand taking the round from the belt and put it into the chamber.
@amicaze95703 жыл бұрын
Reality is weirder than fiction, this design would never be believed to really work in a fiction yet it was approved for service 2 times haha
@Vagabond6713 жыл бұрын
Yes Ian. That is a Darne aircraft machine gun, and a darne fine looking one too!
@lamehick75113 жыл бұрын
Darne 😂
@MStryker403 жыл бұрын
Darne it
@davidreeding91763 жыл бұрын
Have a thumbs up
@roberthopwood37583 жыл бұрын
Darne it, I was gonna make that joke.
@a.h.s.30063 жыл бұрын
I was looking for this comment. I was not disappointed.
@kopperhed44723 жыл бұрын
French aviation of the inter-war years is fascinating, with their aircraft designs ranging from sleek Cadillacs of the sky to flying barn doors meant to "torture the air instead of flying through it." The quirkiness also extended to their arms, as this video shows. One of my favorite traits is arming some of their aircraft with a huge Hispano-Suiza cannon in the back, like the LeO 45 series.
@AshleyPomeroy3 жыл бұрын
That is a good, compact description of 1930s French military aircraft, especially the bombers. And yet they tended to have decent armament - they got the 20mm Hispano working in fighters before anybody else.
@liger72753 жыл бұрын
War Thunder player, eh? Yes indeed most inter-war military stuff, not just French, is whacky af because it's built in a period of peace with plenty of resources and not a lot of efficiency in mind + tactics that weren't even tested yet. A large scale war set anywhere between 1925 - 1935 would have been extremely interesting to say the least as we would get to learn about bizarre vehicles and armaments in action.
@mattsgrungy3 жыл бұрын
"It's a Darne aircraft gun" "Yes, but what's it's name" "Darne" "No need to be like that about it!" (and so on in a 1910s vaudeville style)
@Slyd_Fox3 жыл бұрын
Cues up Abbot and Costello's "Who's on First"...
@ScottKenny19783 жыл бұрын
@@Slyd_Fox have you seen the baseball diamond with all the players named on it? Usually as a shirt.
@sixstringedthing3 жыл бұрын
There's a 3 Stooges bit, probably many, but they're all out of my mental reach right now.
@Slyd_Fox3 жыл бұрын
@@ScottKenny1978 Can't say that I have.
@ScottKenny19783 жыл бұрын
@@Slyd_Fox saw it on FB a bit ago, I don't have a link handy now.
@drdoom-skull22443 жыл бұрын
I am French and never heard of it until today, so that gun is definitely on the very obscure end of the spectrum. This is why FW is the best gun channel from an international audience perspective.
@davidreeding91763 жыл бұрын
I guess you can say this is a forgotten weapon
@dirtyd23163 жыл бұрын
Yeah it’s a darne weird weapon
@florentleider2223 жыл бұрын
Cet exemplaire était vraisemblablement destiné à être fixé à poste sur avion. La version "manuelle" pour avion avait un énoooormmme pontet en tole d'acier plié (en fait pour y mettre la main entière) rendait l'arme encore nettement plus laide. Le plus étonnant est sa cadence de tir en mode air. 1200 coups minute avec une mécanique aussi baroque...chapeau!
@normdeplume61333 жыл бұрын
@@florentleider222 Google translate = This copy was probably intended to be fixed station on aircraft. The "manual" version for airplanes had a huge bent sheet steel trigger guard (actually to fit the whole hand in) made the weapon much uglier. The most amazing is its rate of fire in air mode. 1200 strokes per minute with such baroque mechanics ... hat!
@kafeh33003 жыл бұрын
@@normdeplume6133 Btw, just so someone who reads doesn't get confused, "chapeau" is a way of saying "impressive" Rest got translated fine
@Nasfelia3 жыл бұрын
In French service, you found the Darne mostly on the navy side (Loire 210, Latécoère 298, Laté 631, Loire 130, most pre-war French flying boats and floatplanes in fact, including the Vindicators which flew under French colors), and it equiped all the French motor torpedo boats prototypes (VTB 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 23 and 24), which were created shortly before WW2, in which case they were installed as dual mount turrets.
@fernandoruiz77133 жыл бұрын
It’s been too long since we’ve seen Ian review a French gun
@wildward933 жыл бұрын
Le Francophile always strikes when you least expect it
@AYoutubeAccountName3 жыл бұрын
Too darne long
@TheStraycat743 жыл бұрын
and it's a Darne french machine gun at that!
@MrFreddyFartface3 жыл бұрын
The feeding system reminds me of a mechanical equivalent of software code in so-called "enterprise applications", start with a slightly faulty design and keep adding bits until every potential error is prevented
@OttzelTV3 жыл бұрын
"Refactoring? Ain't nobody got time for that."
@kevintang54733 жыл бұрын
"Every time there's a problem, the solution is well we'll add another little thing to fix it up" Sounds like what we robotics students do all the time.
@philipprint95103 жыл бұрын
The French like to do things in their own way! The Darne shotguns had a sliding breech arrangement rather than the conventional break barrel. Worth a look in the future Ian.
@theangriestbaguetteonthein47793 жыл бұрын
He already did. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6TcYqibirljpZo
@captainawesome35443 жыл бұрын
@@theangriestbaguetteonthein4779 I just watched it thanks for the link
@whitelegion6663 жыл бұрын
@@theangriestbaguetteonthein4779 i think he was talking about this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZqzqmONZ5h0oKM&ab_channel=PhoenixPhart
@zominor3 жыл бұрын
I ve got one, it's so Light and finely handgraved for a 12 gauge it worth the price if you wanna bring it on a shoulder to go hunting but the main issue is the kick caused by his Light weight when you shot it ,it can cause injuries so take a good vest to prevent the shock.
@vincentkermorgant3 жыл бұрын
Ian, you forgot to mention that the G letter on the markings means that it is the left side feed model (gauche). As with nearly all aircraft guns there also was a right feed model (letter D)
@Stevarooni3 жыл бұрын
D being short for Droite (right).
@ZGryphon3 жыл бұрын
When you get right down to it, all machine guns are pretty gauche.
@jonmurphy94243 жыл бұрын
Ian: “I keep myself sane and don’t upload videos on Sundays, unless I have a Darne good reason.”
@jackusmc25423 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an old Disney Movie from the 60's, That Darne Machine Gun! Starring Kurt Russell and Jerry Lewis!
@kennethlittlefield36543 жыл бұрын
That gun really helps me to appreciate the designs of John Browning.
@worldtraveler9303 жыл бұрын
I Definitely second that motion!
@dbaider94673 жыл бұрын
When the gloves go on, it is a seriously forgotten weapon.
@lukavmineav34893 жыл бұрын
Just looking at the feed ramp, lever, lifter lever etc, and thinking to myself: "What the hell would that look like at 1250rpm?"
@ScottKenny19783 жыл бұрын
Sewing machine.
@liger72753 жыл бұрын
Pure sex
@verysilentmouse3 жыл бұрын
This why I love this channel helping me write my novels.
@theemissary13133 жыл бұрын
Okay, my curiosity is piqued.
@Koozomec3 жыл бұрын
Definitively.
@bennyboyyonkers46493 жыл бұрын
If you use this channel as source information, you have a customer.
@adamwest87113 жыл бұрын
Placeholder comment in case the mystery is solved.
@widehotep92573 жыл бұрын
"As I nervously unfastened the final button of her sweat-stained blouse, I could feel her plump, eager bosom gently stroking the firm, excited shaft of my pulsating bolt release mechanism."
@panoshanos13 жыл бұрын
This Darne machinegun is like the code i write , using tricks to get the results that are needed and looking weird.
@matthayward78893 жыл бұрын
Definitely an obscure/ forgotten weapon. Interesting that they tried to make a ‘universal’ gun, but even with a box feed, an infantry version must had reliability issues!
@Fairfieldfencer3 жыл бұрын
This entire episode makes it sound like Ian's New Year's resolution was to swear less. XD
@KrizpyKilla3 жыл бұрын
The match he did with the Wilkinson Arms "Linda" he was cussing about his mask messing with his ear protection, it's few and far between but every time I hear him cuss it catches me off guard haha
@B1rd0fpr3y3 жыл бұрын
That feed system seems terrible for an aircraft gun, with all the weird g-forces that have to be expected.
@anzaca13 жыл бұрын
Probably why it's not more well known.
@williamstuart98123 жыл бұрын
Imagine it in infantry conditions
@herrerasauro74293 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but at the same time the feed is controlled all the way into the chamber I imagine there will be situations it won't jam where others would,
@churchilstakes12333 жыл бұрын
probably not such a problem for interwar planes as they were relatively slow and fragile compared to ww2 planes thus experiencing less g forces
@sixstringedthing3 жыл бұрын
My headcanon is that the designers built it as a heavy infantry support weapon with a nice solid mount, laughed amongst themselves when asked to convert it to aerial use but did it anyway, then had to pretend that they fully expected it to work just fine. One fellow in the workshop was the "I told you so" guy, he ended up drinking his lunchtime wine all on his lonesome for a good week and a half.
@lamia1973 жыл бұрын
"Most of the darn guns that were sold and used... darn company...." me: why is it so bad? *sees title* oh...
@ludovicv.49293 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that you clicked on the video before reading the title
@davydovua3 жыл бұрын
The fact that he's able to tell those lines with a straight face really speaks of his professionalism... Or francophilia, or both.
@exploatores3 жыл бұрын
you gave me a good laugh.
@lamia1973 жыл бұрын
@@ludovicv.4929 I did not notice I did that before you mentioned it.
@justindunlap12353 жыл бұрын
@@davydovua Ian is definitely a professional francophile.
@c1ph3rpunk3 жыл бұрын
When Browning first evaluated this gun he was heads saying “why do the Swiss make everything like a watch? Oh, it’s French? Darne”. Seems a lot more complicated than it needs to be, or, when your aircraft gun has more parts than the aircraft engine.
@FartInhalerSlamPoetry3 жыл бұрын
I would love, a "video museum" website in an encyclopedia format where experts like Ian make videos on hyper specific topics or objects.
@downeyd883 жыл бұрын
When the videos start i always say "hey Ian" just before he says his own name
@downeyd883 жыл бұрын
@@slaughterround643 yeah i guess it is isnt it
@zestylem0n Жыл бұрын
Waiting for the T shirt design : "I went to France and all I got was this Darne gun!"
@Youcannotfalter3 жыл бұрын
That kind little arm and hand helping the bullets into the chamber is wild.
@SQSNSQ3 жыл бұрын
This seem to be a turret-mounted version. As far, as I understood, it does not have any synchronization gear, so it is not a cowl mounted gun, it also does not have provision for remote recharging (either pneumatic, or wire operated) - it has a normal charging handle instead. So, this is not a wing mounted version either. Quite possible, it was installed in a 2-gun turret mount, so the trigger was operated remotely on both guns by wire, or set of levers, connected to a common finger trigger. The thing with nuts, attached on top to the remote trigger assembly is, most probably, a "spider-net" sight mount, typical for 1930-s and early 1940-s aircraft turret guns.
@WafflePlaneRC3 жыл бұрын
Oh, that Darne feed mechanism. How delightfully overcomplicated. I love it.
@oriontaylor3 жыл бұрын
“One of the least well-known French machine guns.” So you might say, a Forgotten Weapon®?
@The_Modeling_Underdog3 жыл бұрын
I can't believe you managed to get your hands on a Darne MG. They were widely used first on Armée de l'Air machines at both fuselage and wing mounts and then on export aircraft along the french - patterned Vickers and Lewis. Problem was they were very expensive to make, thus opening the way to the well-known - and more affordable - MAC 1934 firecrackers. Last thing I've read on the Darne is about them being used as turret guns for the jugoslav Bristol Blenheims during the April War and later on on the T.O. rings of Potez and Breguet of the Croatian Air Force. What a great video.
@seanbrennan69613 жыл бұрын
Your video on the internals of the 50 BMG was tres cool, the trigger mechanism slid off the end, making it clear you could attach a remote trigger for airplanes and what not.
@matehavlik45593 жыл бұрын
That weird loading system looks like it uses that weird guiding system and spring-loaded latches so that the system doesn’t rely on the help of gravity, doesn’t it? An aircraft’s machine gun has to work in a sharp turn or upside down too..
@ditzydoo43783 жыл бұрын
With the top trigger link facing forward with a direct push rod. It's a safe bet this gun was built as a Cowl mounted type with a synchronizer on the prop hub.
@sixstringedthing3 жыл бұрын
I hate it when there's a problem with the lifter-feeder-finger-arms. Your hands are tied.
@samuelbhend25213 жыл бұрын
just use the other hand;)
@grubbyray343 жыл бұрын
I went to this museum when I was younger and wish I stayed longer and explored more
@williamkoppos70393 жыл бұрын
Don't forget, a machine gun in the wings (most French fighter designs were) had to be charged from inside the cockpit, by cable or rod. That's what those adjustable clevises were about. Later I believe they were changed to 7.5, the newly adopted standard cartridge. Another great vid.
@captaintoyota31713 жыл бұрын
I bet that thing sounds AMAZING running. Just yanking 303s. Amazing mechanical sound from it. Imagine a old ww1 plane engine and this thing just clanking and clacking off like crazy. Amazing sounds
@psychodiagnostik3 жыл бұрын
I went "down the rabbit hole" of your videos while I was trying to get better after testing positive for COVID-19. Thank you for the content, it really helped me.
@luisnunes20103 жыл бұрын
The .303 was an easier cartrige to work with than 8mm Lebel. The burn!
@skyflier89553 жыл бұрын
Thank you for doing aircraft machine guns, I love seeing how they’re all different for special purposes.
@CKinnerley3 жыл бұрын
I very much look forward to all the memes about to be made from 'these darn machine guns' clips.
@starlightnixie3 жыл бұрын
i uncontrollably giggled through this entire Darne video.
@The_Modeling_Underdog3 жыл бұрын
That's the fuselgae mounted, sinchronyzed version of it. The trigger for the wing and observer versions was mounted on the lower side, the first with a similar rod arrangement going through the trigger guard and then a pull wire as on the Se.5a Foster mount.
@Purpmaster3 жыл бұрын
With such a complex feeding mechanism, I’m amazed it was able to achieve such a high rate of fire.
@kaveman93 жыл бұрын
Obscure for sure. I owned one for a short time and never knew what it was. Wish this vid had been available then. Pretty sure it's 7.5x54 rather than .303 but my chamber was welded to deactivate so never knew for sure. Serial was 6647 so very close to this one.
@igordzuro43533 жыл бұрын
Finally, Ian made a video about that Darne machine gun ! Gosh... that was a Darne wait.
@plymcousa30023 жыл бұрын
Really cool to see my boy totally nerding out on this one with all its variants
@joshuasutherland66923 жыл бұрын
I love these French MGs with their messes of little milled bits.
@michaelabratzel63713 жыл бұрын
That Cody FM really got a darne extensive collection!
@dsedh233 жыл бұрын
Darn, I never thought Ian curses this many times in one video
@alderankorym3 жыл бұрын
That's because its French.
@SergeantPsycho3 жыл бұрын
@@alderankorym We'll excuse his French.
@Zorglub19663 жыл бұрын
@@SergeantPsycho nice shot.
@lawrencemartinjr68883 жыл бұрын
Another good lesson taught by a Great Teacher! Thanks,
@pixelpusher35893 жыл бұрын
I love this channel ......... not just guns but a darne history lesson too, thanks :)
@DiggingFrance3 жыл бұрын
Hi Ian. I believe I have a darne School kids rifle from 1882. It has two very intricate barrell bands and forest carving on stock. It takes a large cartridge! Its precision built. Been told its very rare! It went into posh French schools. Twelve and up! Do you know of this?
@Tetrarque3 жыл бұрын
Many new vids recently ! I had a Forgotten Weapons craving, so glad to see this much fresh content, this one out few minutes ago.... Nice ♪
@madcarew.32563 жыл бұрын
Had a Darne 16bore with sliding breach...couldn't hit a thing with it but fascinating action!
@lando8913 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the Darne video.
@lastwymsi3 жыл бұрын
*Darne* I really want to see this gun fire. That would be a cool demo
@DevinMoorhead3 жыл бұрын
A rare Sunday upload. We are truly blessed
@adonoghuea023 жыл бұрын
I love the machining marks on the internals, really brings it into reality for me. There's a British term that I think the feed system exemplifies, bodging, where you don't fix any underlying problem, you just do the minimum to stop it from breaking.
@rautavaara91943 жыл бұрын
Just here to appreciate another aircraft machine gun, especially one of the more obscure ones.
@johnkelinske14493 жыл бұрын
As I recall, the comment at the time was that since the service life of an aircraft was short anyway, it wasn't worth spending a lot of money on weapons to arm them with.
@brucewilliams62923 жыл бұрын
I worried about your thumb getting caught at several time. What an interesting weapon; interesting weapons usually are the most reliable unfortunately. Thank you for the video. Kudos to Cody Firearms Museum for allowing some disassembly.
@wahttehfuk3 жыл бұрын
What an astoundingly strange loading system. Another great video, as usual Ian. Thank you for sharing this.
@sabeda16473 жыл бұрын
aircraft weapons are so cool, i hope you do more
@Matt_The_Hugenot3 жыл бұрын
The over engineered feed system is clever and ideal for use in aircraft. They recognised the problems that infantry machine guns had in WW1 in aerial contexts were largely to do with feed systems causing jams. In an aircraft you can sacrifice compactness for reliability so an elaborate system to present the cartridge to the chamber is sustainable. Unfortunately fir Darne guns like the Browning aircraft machine gun in .303 do everything so much better, I guess they were just five years too late.
@keithweiss78993 жыл бұрын
The French excelled in making automaton’s. Looks like this was made by some of those same designers! Nice gun, great video!
@filipborin5553 жыл бұрын
That is one of the machineguns if i remember well with high rate of fire as Mg42 over 1000 rounds per minute.
@rudolfkorinek98293 жыл бұрын
The darn’ gun won’t shoot, it doesn’t have a trigger
@keithallardice61393 жыл бұрын
The Cody Firearms Museum has some incredible stuff in it .... man I'd love to visit it one day Thanks for the content as always Ian - take care and stay safe!
@loupiscanis94493 жыл бұрын
Thank you , Ian .
@FeintMotion3 жыл бұрын
I was certain this was gonna be another Elbonia bit
@davidbrennan6603 жыл бұрын
Likely Its lack of complexity disinterested the Elbonian weapon procurement bureau. It still ended up on Ian’s wall.
@billshepherd43313 жыл бұрын
That museum is one of my favorite places in the world. Hopefully I'll be able to go back someday!
@Mzerron3 жыл бұрын
I read about the 1926 Darne somewhere ages ago, and now Ian goes and reminds me that I was wondering why the French used the .303 British in it. Once again, thanks to Ian for bringing light to another forgotten weapon!
@nickferries27773 жыл бұрын
That’s a darne good aircraft gun right there
@jkfozul23163 жыл бұрын
The first 40 seconds of this video are fantastic! I wonder how many takes it took for him too do it with a straight face?
@Momomaster253 жыл бұрын
I always love these aircraft guns. There is so little media on them like this, it's really refreshing to see them get a bit of time in the spotlight. Hopefully you can check out a shkas machine gun or shvak cannon one day.
@glmm20013 жыл бұрын
The gun is probably in a fixed, syncronized gun setup; the strange trigger mechanism on top is for the syncronizer equipment
@stoicshield3 жыл бұрын
so many missed opportunities to use darn :D "disassembly of the Darne is darn easy.."
@JeansWithPockets5413 жыл бұрын
... barely an inconvenience!
@peteranderson0373 жыл бұрын
Today, Ian will show us a Darne machine gun. First, he will start with a little history of the Darne gun and the Darne company that made it. Next, he will give a closer look at the Darne gun and disassemble it. After a look at the Darne markings he will describe how the Darne Complicated™ feed system works. Disassembly of the Darne machine gun is started by pressing a tab which compresses the Darne recoil spring, allowing the Darne back plate to be removed. Once this is done the Darne bolt and gas piston can be removed. The Darne Complicated™ feed tray was a little too much for Ian, so he will not be removing it from the Darne machine gun in this video. Ian then finishes up the video by stating that only 11,000 of the Darne machine guns were built. The timing of the Darne gun just wasn't right.
@nicolatesla94293 жыл бұрын
Without having seen this video yet, it seemed like a Darn(e) good gun!
@paulosborne65173 жыл бұрын
Says that stripping the Darne is easy, and immediately proves how darned difficult it is, unless you have three hands.
@therocinante34433 жыл бұрын
That's a darn nice looking gun
@Doubt_Cast3 жыл бұрын
I love the darne company and those darne shotguns. The darne french company is just the best. They developed those darne 303 guns which such success.
@fredericlepeltier34353 жыл бұрын
I suspect the "G" beyond the serial number indicate a left feed gun. In a wing mounted gun you want your belt to run outboard of the wing and the gun as much inboard as the propeller "disc" allows. and you could apply the same principle for cowl mounted guns for easy acces to amunition casings. As such any "D" gun is a right feed. As an universal mount gun (cowl and wings) the "Darne" design as to take into acount that. The trigger mecanism on top looks like to be set up for interupted fire but i could be wrong on that. So my guess is a left wing or left cowl gun.
@lanedexter63033 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. What an action! It would be interesting to see that operating, a slow motion camera looking into the big port on the side.
@NukaCola773 жыл бұрын
Everytime he says "Darne" I hear things like "that darn gun"
@timbaskett62993 жыл бұрын
Anyone else snicker a little bit each time he said "Darne"? I did!!! Reading the comments requires watching the video, again!!😂😂
@CheezyDee3 жыл бұрын
The "pins" holding together some of the complex assemblies look more like nails with the heads cut off.
@serbsi29223 жыл бұрын
These Darn Aircraft machine guns! That Darn company!