German Weapons Weren't That Good

Fact: Everything the Germans made during the Second World War was superb. Also fact: Everything the Allies made during the Second World War was completely awful. Anyway, thanks to GoatGuns for sponsoring this one, check them out here: goatguns.com/?
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[@SquireComedy]

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[@Flimflam_fan]

Ok sir 🫡

[@oldesertguy9616]

But wehraboos will simply agree with everything they said, lol.

[@mathiaspoppe5304]

Does goatguns have german weapons, too?

[@SquireComedy]

@@oldesertguy9616 Shit...you're right. Okay, abandon that plan!

[@Flimflam_fan]

@@mathiaspoppe5304no

[@huntertrum3658]

"My brother was killed by an MG42, so he told me." Great line there😂😂

[@brainflash1]

Could only identify them by the holes.

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

@@brainflash1 All twelve hundred of them!! OUCH!!

[@Arthurschkil]

Perhaps foreshadowing

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

@@Arthurschkil Perhaps a foreshadowing of things to come in Ukraine!! OOOF!!

[@ennui9745]

Ah yes, rate of fire so fast that it just ends up wasting ammo. There's a reason the MG3 has a lower rate of fire.

[@FlyingTooFast]

Gone are the days of cardboard…. We have passed into the age of modernism

[@SquireComedy]

We still have vast stocks of cardboard.

[@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046]

For all you know they might have become better and better with cardboard modeling

[@autistic_m4a3_76w_hvss]

​@@SquireComedy Give them to me

[@GGLao-shi]

@@SquireComedyno me

[@neonlovegalaxy]

@@SquireComedy no me

[@olliegoria]

"He was a field marshal, okay??" "And look where we are, a field" "Dammit, we've played straight into his hands!" 💀

[@Icemann89]

Poor MG-42 guy was there all by himself while the rest of his team was on a lunch break and couldn't defend him against any potential flanking attack.

[@unclelarry8842]

Yeah, eating horses.

[@JohnDoe-on6ru]

His flanks were probably covered by the superior German S-mines

[@andrewanderson3472]

The mg42 is still being used in a modified form but the smle hasn't been used in since the fiftys

[@alanmackinnon3516]

​@@andrewanderson3472i believe the Afghans used them against the US troops, not so long ago.

[@samfire3067]

​@@alanmackinnon3516They used even a stengun with lazer soghts

[@TheOperationsRoom]

"Depending on the level of your parents' basement that you live in" - it hurts just how much this is true

[@poppy63765]

The fuck you're doing here

[@saradolphin3242]

Yup Ask a Fat Minnelieal Even What WW2 Was and They Say Which War Of Tank's Version?????

[@rachard]

Relevance is on your latest vid lol

[@MrKugelsicher90]

@@extantfellow46 This happens to me just all the time this time not but is it maybe just a glitch in the matrix we are expierience?

[@mrmicksteel1213]

Excuse me, but i live in my parents back porch

[@andrewgarberXYZ]

"forced labor is actually pretty effective, you almost have to admire it." - absolute fantastic delivery.

[@krellio9006]

Actually Bill Gate's line during visit to beijing in 1994

[@ernestpaul2484]

True, until you factor in the sabotage that took place by the slave laborers. Squire skits are always great.

[@Name-ps9fx]

​@@ernestpaul2484 There was actually very little sabotage... it's everyone's favorite fantasy that the people in concentration camps would file something off, or underload shells...they could do that of course. ONCE. And then they'd be executed. Most likely, the Nazis would randomly execute people and "let it be known" that the reason was attempted sabotage. Do you really think that slaves would have ANY significant effect on the German's war efforts? And what was the German population doing during the war? Lounging about on wicker beach chairs? Oh, and YES the _Soviets_ were fighting 2/3rds of the German forces...so they do in fact get most of the victory laurels!

[@jkjkrandom]

Yeah the designs for their weapons weren't bad in theory especially some of the late war stuff, production quality on the other hand

[@Otterdisappointment]

“Even if they burned bodies 24/7 the furnaces didn’t exist”

[@WhenToastersAttack]

His gun may be loud and scary but his head is still made of head, and if the allies had anything it was an overwhelming wealth of anti-head devices.

[@jason200912]

Every single country had a standard rifle if that was your point.

[@generalwadehampton.2578]

Wehraboos get no head.

[@yesseru]

But his helmet is made of secret super indestructable metal that ONLY the Germans have.

[@jimaco0312]

@WhenToastersAttack what? 😂German army helmets were the best design because the shape allowed shrapnel to go away from the face, even modern day military helmet now copies the German design.

[@jason200912]

@@jimaco0312I think you replied to wrong person

[@roadhouse6999]

>The MG42 had a very high rate of fire >The MG42 had a very light barrel >It could thus only be fired in short bursts >Therefore, the MG42 was just a belt-fed FAMAS in 8mm Mauser

[@LukeDay-pv7qw]

The barrel was changeable with new barrels so they could continue a high rate of fire so i disagree

[@RichardMontgomeryYT]

"mark felton said they're as big as cities" I LOVE this.

[@EllaTheOctopus]

Can already hear that dreaded music.

[@sosteve9113]

A great channel

[@armourer_kat]

@@EllaTheOctopus Mark Felton Productions Presents...

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

@@sosteve9113 At what? Fact checking?

[@antlerman7644]

I don't know much, what's wrong with the guy?

[@brainflash1]

Did you know that Nazi Destroyers were so advanced that they only needed to fill the fuel tanks up to 30%. Yes, definitely a sign of masterful engineering, and not all due to the fact that the ship would sink in rough seas if they added more weight.

[@Mr_Fancypants]

Not any regulair destroyers, but *NAZI* destroyers!

[@BlooCollaGal]

Absolutely not because Germany was suffering a shortage of fuel... that would just be silly....

[@FriedrichBarb]

I cant tell if this is a satirical comment or not but I'll take the bait anyway in saying this is completely made up and not Historically accurate at all lol, most German destroyers had a average range of 4000 nautical miles (7400km) and whatever source you heard this from Im sure was a rare incident of a particular design flaw/inefficiency

[@kuhluhOG]

Or the Königsberg-class which also was back in part fast enough to not run below a certain fuel level. It was certainly not because they would have turned over during a turn when it would have been too low. That would be ridiculous.

[@jackster2568]

​@@kuhluhOGIncomprehensible babble

[@Blueghostboi]

I love how the guy surrounded by Wehraboos at first is presented as the level headed one, but then the twist comes and he’s just a tankie lol. Then it’s all revealed to just be a role play set in modern day, which makes a lot of sense. The way they captured the historical internet community was hilariously accurate. As you in Britain would say, jolly good show chaps! Cheers from across the pond! ^^

[@BryanJohnson4891]

You seem like a nice chap

[@Blueghostboi]

@@BryanJohnson4891 thank you. 💙👻

[@revanati222]

This skit is so neo- pythonesque that it's rampantly awesome 😂

[@thurin84]

now thats just silly. [walks funnily away]

[@aaronrowell6943]

Squire lives in the spirit of Blackadder and the Pythons

[@danielrobertson2154]

My dad asked if I was watching Monty Python, and I replied..I might as well be.

[@aaronrowell6943]

@@danielrobertson2154 are you watching one of those costume things Malcolm?

[@surfdocer103]

So damn Python😂😂😂

[@private_noise]

Your british impressions are spot on

[@SquireComedy]

Thank you. We've been practicing them for 27 years.

[@private_noise]

@@2ndcomingofFritz IT WAS A JOKE

[@jakesoros2376]

😂😂😂

[@respectmathias]

@@SquireComedy Now you guys just need 20 years of practicing German Impressions and you'll be on the same level as the comment section

[@christopherreed4723]

They blackmail Bismarck for the German impressions.

[@Lonovavir]

As a WW2 reenactor I can verify this is 100% accurate. It's very bad when it comes to tank talk.

[@shikikankillzone4239]

Honestly, there's a fine line between superb and shit. Unfortunately, most wehraboos, allyboos, commieboos don't actually delve into their own claims to actually realise it. But if you're a japan simp, you just know most of theirs was just... awful. I mean, the Arisaka, Zero, Val, Kate, etc are definitely beautiful, tried and true... although they fell off, but... I mean *What the fuck is that Nation Defense Rifle*

[@teamcybr8375]

The Tigers may have been the most powerful tanks of the war, but they were far from the best. The best tank is one that doesn't break down all the time!

[@griftinggamer]

​@teamcybr8375 German tanks breaking down is over stated, them simply running out of fuel and being scuttled are vastly understated

[@samfire3067]

​@@teamcybr8375and You can have then made in a good amount of numbers

[@ryangoslingIRL]

@@teamcybr8375 Wouldnt say they were the most powerful either.

[@thesnazzycomet]

While I do miss the old war thunder stuff, I think it’s nice that squire has evolved into something new. These comedy sketches are different but very good

[@petermcallister107]

I think everyone Scottish and in their 40s(or English,Welsh and so on)heard the tales of these guns from their grandfathers. But always remember the venerable vickers,in one test a single gun fired over 25,000 rounds with no real bother. No barrel changes either.

[@paullittle9187]

Are you serious?

[@borisket7852]

one if them actually had some issues with reliability testing. The testing factory ran out of ammo before the gun broke@@paullittle9187

[@amhuman5138]

fact: British soldiers are supposed to fire the SMLE with the middle finger, and thus the SMLE is not only superior mechanically, but superior in insult to the foe

[@TalesOfWar]

You can more effectively give them the V with such a grip.

[@angry_eck]

MODERN DAY ARCHERS

[@myfairlady343]

​@@TalesOfWari forgot middle fingerbisn't a thing in britain

[@EthanThomson]

@@myfairlady343 yes it is?

[@myfairlady343]

@@EthanThomson well in my experience the equivalent to the middle finger is the reverced peace V scine.

[@windbuster]

These skits get better every single day from cardboard weapons to fully accurate looking uniforms with Airsoft it’s amazing keep up the good work 👍🏻

[@SquireComedy]

They're not actually airsoft guns.... The No.4 and the MG are real, the Sten and the SMLE are Denix. We'd hurt ourselves with airsoft guns I reckon.

[@windbuster]

@@SquireComedy oh how much did the MG and NO.4 cost a ton I reckon

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

@@SquireComedyHow did you survive getting hit by that flurry of pinpoint accurate machine gun fire?

[@riograndedosulball248]

​@@windbusterI figure that a "deactivated" MG wouldn't be thaaaaat expensive

[@Pantsinabucket]

@@windbusteralmost certainly museum pieces considering how clean they are and the fact that they work with museums for most of these videos. So probably free for them to use for the video.

[@smokescreen100]

I can tell the writer of this video is done fighting with people who think this

[@SquireComedy]

Guilty.

[@NLTops]

"Let's face it, we're f*cked to come across anything German, or Japanese, depending on the level of your parents' basement that you live in.". Already started laughing my balls off here.

[@HawaiiFoodAndFun]

If you attach a steadycam rig and a Kawasaki trigger to that MG42, itll double the firepower and allow you to battle xenomorphs.

[@347Jimmy]

With the right plastic tubing and greeblies, it can also be converted to a heavy Stormtrooper blaster (maybe more firepower, but less accurate)

[@onion599]

smartgun be like

[@Trbrigade]

True.

[@joshcarter-com]

I had to think a moment about "Kawasaki trigger" but then I remembered the "smartgun" from Aliens. Well played. That was a bad-ass MG42, and the "pulse rifles" made from Thompson SMGs were pretty darn cool, too.

[@dotmairis]

MG42 with a Katana Bayonet. Oh, the terror...

[@thegiantrat4271]

Don't get them started on the "nazi super guns" or "nazi alien tech", truly game changers in the war

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

The time travel bell...

[@respectmathias]

Or 'The Ark of the Covenant', I'm sure the team will be back at any moment.

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

@@respectmathias Face proceeds to melt off...

[@maxbennett5412]

Lets not forget the Ratte, a tank so powerful it could eat up all of Nazi Germany's fuel with just 1 mile of driving. Certainly terrifying!

[@frankdrebin3988]

​@@maxbennett5412 Or the marvelous ME-163 which exploded on the runway when starting up the engine.

[@user-ns3vs3bp3e]

“Mark Felton said” gave off strong “my dad is bigger than your dad” energy 😂😂😂

[@SwedishDrunkard5963]

The tank part got me thinking and i did some reaserch, most small scale tank battles where won buy the won buy the side that fired first. and the reson the myth of "it took five Shermans to destroy one Tiger" i think just comes from the fact that every "group" or what you call it was five Shermans

[@biffmarcum5014]

There are actually very few documented cases of Shermans vs Tigers and of those the Sherman is giving as good as it is getting, but no one wants to hear that. The Tiger was a monster, especially in 1943, but a Tiger platoon at that time was 2 Tigers and 2 Panzer III specials that somehow never never gets told in the Tiger tales.

[@dclark142002]

The reveal of the 'sane one' being a Russophile was brilliant!

[@Highice007]

"Commieboo"

[@hazmatt3250]

✨ R u s s i a n b i a s ✨

[@Flak_Gun]

@@hazmatt3250 war thunder in a nutshell

[@smorrow]

One could even say, a tankie.

[@muhamatfatir9900]

Suu

[@tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224]

"My brother was killed by an MG42. He told me himself." "Your brother's a force-ghost?!"

[@michaeledmunds7056]

"They'd turn the tide." "What, of the whole war?" "No, the sea."

[@sakkra93]

Doing a 20th century Canute

[@lepidusstupidius2956]

This video is beautiful. And the revelation that Derek was a tankie was hilarious.

[@Thoran666]

Boys will be boys and there will always be a fandom for some military stuff of the past. Now let me tell you about the Roman Pilum, a very versatile weapon and tool used by ..

[@mikerotch6234]

Oh please, nobody would dare prattle on about outdated equipment just because they thought it looked cool as a child. The Sims-Dudley dynamite cannon far more than looking cool also sounds cool, it was used sparingly by Union forces as they knew using too many would end the Civil War before we could even get any cool collectible coins based on the conflict. Designed to spec by…

[@MrDMIDOV]

Nazis will be nazis you mean

[@riograndedosulball248]

The Landsknecht Mercenaries and Spanish Tercios relied primarily on the pike, a two handed weapon composed of a wooden pole 2-5 meters long and a light spear head. Pike warfare usually was centered along formations advancing in line...

[@carlocappello67]

Look Nothing beats old stuff Now lets talk about this sharpened piece of bone..

[@PobortzaPl]

You all are focusing on offensive weaponry, forgetting the importance of defensive equipment. Thus you're repeating the mistake done by Swedes, who were completely surprised by impressive properties of Polish winged hussars chest armour. As you see it was shaped like a wedge and that allowed...

[@Rebellion1776]

Most casualties were caused by mortars, artillery, and air power. Small arms really made up a much smaller percentage of casualties in the War. I know Hollywood likes to glorify the small arms fighting of engagements, but they leave out how many casualties were caused by mortars, artillery, and air power before they even got down to small arms combat. We are seeing the same exact casualty ratios in Ukraine right now. I do put drones in the airpower category

[@Neion8]

Of course they do; most Hollywood war films come from an age where they were made as millitary propaganda and showing their people getting blown apart by unseen enemies displays only the futility of bravery and the high cost of war. Intense fights between small arms fire and engaging tanks only when you have CAS or anti-tank weapons conveniently within reach makes it seem like you can fight back man-to-man, that maybe if you're good enough you too can be a hero. Reality is most soldiers thoughout history died before they even got a chance to fight; historically, disease, hunger and poor weather were the trio that claimed most lives but these days as you say, indirect fire, CAS and mines are the most likely ways to go.

[@AdamantLightLP]

@@Neion8 Or, maybe it's not nearly as entertaining to watch soldiers not actually doing much fighting. You act like everything made is propaganda...

[@cowetareserve]

"@Mark Felton Productions said they're the size of cities." 😂😂😂

[@mikedrop4421]

This might be the best thing you guys have ever done! Love the Mark Felton jab too! Also Hard Thrasher just addressed the first combat jet situation and the Meteor in his video the other day and hearing you mention it again cracked me up.

[@jamesthelamenter5464]

This sounds like pretty much every WW2 discussion board conversations I've ever experienced. I'm pretty sure that people can understand the feeling.

[@patrickancona1193]

My great uncles fought in WW2, I once made the massive mistake of telling their first hand experiences to some commie redit brigadiers, their still telling me how stupid I am 12 years later….. soooo… ya, can’t fix stupid

[@TheIzroda]

Yea. Lately the anti wehraboo sentiment has gone into the other extremity - bashing everything German and declaring everything the Allies made as supreme. Even if it was not great and got people who used it killed it's still supreme, because it's easy to manufacture. I recently watched the Tankfest stream from Bovington, and they were shilling for the Matilda 2, just like people have been glorifying the Tiger I. Blah blah blah...it had very thick armor. Blah blah blah, but yea, have you seen how thick the armor is?

[@SwedishDrunkard5963]

indeed

[@nevermindthegermans6242]

german WW2 discussion boards are superior

[@toolbaggers]

In the same spirit of this video - everything the Germans did was evil and everything the allies did was good. 🤣🤣

[@haunter_1845]

The airsoft ending had me dying. It was like an M. Night Shyamalan plot twist. It suddenly all made sense.

[@IMelkor42]

No eye pro, shameful. Unless they're wearing German contact lenses...

[@AcceptableAsGenerallyDecent]

german prescription glasses have been historically documented to be the first military application of night vision technology. a lesser known fact about them is that they actually had a telescopic zooming function that allowed soldiers to see targets clearly up to 1500 meters away!

[@_-KR-_]

the airsoft bit near the end reminded me of this one time in the woods. I was borrowing a friends AEG something I rarely get to use, and there was an isolated exchange between myself and a group of two others. I got them through thick brush playing by ear more than sight, but I wasnt sure of it. We were both blind, but when they broke through the brush they had their airsoft rifles at rest as if they had been hit, but they seemed uneasy. I asked them "were you hit?" and their response was more a 'kinda sorta maybe not' so I lit them up on the spot and told them 'well ur hit now, call your hits next time' nd I pushed forward to the next encounters. fun times.

[@Nobody.exe50]

The field marshall, and basement joke killed me also Wehraboo Squire was something i never tought i would see ,The twist of a tankie and that all of it was arisoft was incredible....... a bonus the look on squires face when he just said ME 262

[@LikeTheBuffalo]

Ah yes, the perfect representation of any history Discord server, well done.

[@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground]

"Germany would have won ww2 if I was in charge"

[@Hans-ht2ft]

@@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground Said Every Hoi4 Wehraboo ever

[@Spiralredd]

​@@Anakin_Sandy_High_Groundyet they would die the second their boots touch the ground

[@dusk6159]

@@Spiralredd To be fair, they would be leading and be in the war room, in charge. But it would be simply anyway: just do the opposite of what Rommel or other german generals (Halder and others) have in mind, their bigger scale plans (Manstein as well).

[@sebbes333]

4:59 LOL!!!! You don't put the Magazine into the gun, you put the GUN into (onto?) the magazine! :D

[@terryjacob8169]

My late father served with the Long Range Desert Group of the British Army in WW2 North Africa. He and his mates always highly prized a German MP38 or MP40 submachine gun in preference to a shoddily-made British Sten or the good but heavy American Thompson. His sidearm of choice was always a 9mm Luger P08. With a British-issue Webley .455 revolver Dad always said you'd have trouble hitting a barndoor even if you were holding it's handle.....

[@RaidDK]

To be fair those would have bern early production Sten Guns. And the MP40 is just 1 lbs below the Thompson.

[@toxikyle5419]

​@@RaidDK2lbs, not 1

[@flyingfish5054]

Squire's budget has dramatically increased; not only are his guns real, there's more than two people in his sketches.

[@jason200912]

How do you know they're real and not demilled

[@thurin84]

@@jason200912 demilled guns are still real, just sadly neutered.

[@jason200912]

@@thurin84 I consider them no different than a replica

[@thurin84]

@@jason200912 were that true then theyd be a lot cheaper.

[@jason200912]

@@thurin84 in the US they're actually cheaper than replicas because of the unsightly hole and cut receivers

[@dn2064]

Brits being full on Wehraboos is both ironic and hilarious at the same time

[@bananenmensch4147]

The amount of Teaaboos is surprisingly high

[@Ciborium]

Of course there has to be at least one Tankie in the group to break the truth to them that the USSR won the war on their own without the Allies' help.

[@Ag3ntL3mon]

@@Ciborium Truth?

[@bananenmensch4147]

@@Ag3ntL3mon copium*

[@greatestape960]

@@Ciboriumbullsh*t

[@ironmann16]

How in the hell is this channel not at 1M already? every video is an absolute banger. These guys are truly overlooked and it makes me angry.

[@Hans-1917]

Love these videos, had the good fortune to meet you lads at Tankfest. Keep up the good work!

[@Pibola64]

I love how these 3 British soldiers were arguing about german tech being superior and how the Soviets singlehandedly won the war, seemingly *during the war*, until it's revealed that all of this was actually an airsoft game (with pretty immersive guns, if I say)

[@Pantsinabucket]

If you see his reply to another comment, the MG42 and SMLE Mk 4 are real.

[@DarrenLamb-on3py]

The Soviets won by having 10x the casualties. I wonder how they did that.

[@Clems407]

Lend Lease was a big help to the Soviets. Good trucks and they also loved the p-39.

[@dusk6159]

@@DarrenLamb-on3py Don't you know that whatever the nazis did they always struck soviet citizens and just sometimes the Red Army?! And then Berlin fell. With the Allies on rivers.

[@shockblaster1201]

Another blessing from our English Overlord, the Tea Guzzler himself, the honourable Squire... Ehrm... Squire.

[@ivormott7309]

I didn't realise that such a warped view was so widespread, but then looking at depictions like Fury it does make sense. Do people really think films made primarily for entertainment are actually historically accutate? I think maybe Waterloo made in the 60s is the last time a film got close to accurate. Top notch as ever chaps.

[@demologic76]

10:13 *casually stands next to an avre centurion* (desert storm 1991)

[@fustigate314159]

Even with the improved weapons and uniforms, the binoculars in this one seem to be a poorer quality 😂

[@SquireComedy]

Our cardboard ones are kept safely on display, as they're very old and fragile now. A few years good service on those toilet roll tubes.

[@thurin84]

@@SquireComedy is it true theyre of polish origin? or is that just a rumor?

[@johnleney9541]

Citing Mark Felton, eh? I suspect a Norfolk-based takeover of military-history vlogs is on the cards

[@SquireComedy]

Norfolk collab of the century.

[@nanObytez-kb5ru]

Well, for what it's worth the MG42 was pretty great at what it was made to do - provide suppressive fire support and area denial. So good that it's still in service today in the Bundeswehr practically unchanged but for an artificial reduction in fire rate to reduce maintenance intervals and allow for longer operating times between barrel changes. There's only a few critical flaws I've found with it during my own service. It's very heavy if you include ammo, finicky to reload, the recoil is very difficult to manage even while using the bipod or having the thing properly braced and _when_ it jams the thing really is _jammed_ which means you'll be down a barrel for the foreseeable future, often requiring specialized tools to clear the malfunction which you may or may not have been issued. All of this also makes it an absolute requirement for the complete weapon system to be carried and operated by a two-man team which, at least for machine guns, is something modern battlefield doctrine has been moving away from for good reason.

[@kael2881]

As shooting the MG3 by myself i wouldnt say that the recoil isnt a big problem. Also with the jamming - it is supposed to change 'in field' Also like 'changing' to a 1 man machine gun isnt the best option. You still need the ammunition. The Bundeswehr is changing to MG5 but... this MG has big issues and the MG3 is a stable and reliable piece in the field with exzessive firepower. They would be stupid to change that.

[@nanObytez-kb5ru]

@@kael2881 Oh, don't get me wrong! I'm not saying it doesn't have a place. It's a great weapons system to augment a static or elastic defence line or to set up in an ambush. However it's difficult to utilize to its full potential in anything but those ideal conditions. A lighter, more modern platform using either NATO 5,56 or 7,62 would be more flexible in those scenarios where you may not have time to prepare proper overlapping firing arcs as well as several fallback positions. What I'm trying to say is that you need both the MG3 and something like the MG4 or MG5 that is a little more mobile but can still do that which the MG3 was designed for - lay down suppressive fire

[@kael2881]

the MG3 and MG5 have nearly the same weight. Doing the same job but the MG5 is worse in its job than the MG3 is doing. Main reason they are doing it, its because they want to "save ammunition" - If you are in a fighting area you dont want to 'save ammunition'. You want to survive. And the psychological and the 'hitting' effect of the MG3 is still far superior then the MG5. There are even the upgraded versions of the MG3 to a 'modern version' (like with nightvision etc.) which nearly cost the same. Our 'great Leaders' just want to implement something new, even when its useless. Like with the MG5, if you need to do a barrel change, you cant do it in your position. With the MG3 you can do it. Its some throwing away money for a system which is already there. @@nanObytez-kb5ru

[@zymelin21]

as for the jamming thing, a danish MG gunner in the 60ties ( the upgraded version of MG42) told that fixing an empty beer-can at the entry port of the belt, fixed the jamming problem.

[@nanObytez-kb5ru]

@@zymelin21 I know the practice and it can aid the ammo feed though less so than an actual secondary gunner handling the belt manually and it only reduces the risk of one type of malfunction. Most of the truly critical jams that can't be fixed by yanking on the ammo belt stem from ammo not being properly clipped onto the belt, bent belt links, overheating of the barrel or, most commonly, faulty ammo. The can-trick (we used an empty roll of toilet paper and duct tape ^^) only helps with aligning the ammo belt and with preventing it from twisting around.

[@zaretya9091]

the twist of the other guy being a tankie was very unexpected

[@shreyanragudaran9346]

this channel was one of the ones that got me to love history, thank you for hte amazing impact youve had on my life

[@SquireComedy]

Our pleasure! We're basically educators, I'm sure.

[@shreyanragudaran9346]

@@SquireComedy yes, much better than any school system...you could say that history classes are like a Lee-Enfield and these videos have more of a karabiner 98k efficacy

[@mafia_boss_neto]

@@SquireComedy As a History College student, I can confirm that if you get shot by an 800mm cannon right at the head, you instantly die.

[@Cortesevasive]

@@SquireComedy seen all same german documentaries lo

[@thurin84]

aaahhhhh the "national treasure effect".

[@samuelvoegelin7249]

It was nice to see you three at Tankfest this year!

[@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873]

To be honest, when you switched to making mostly skit/theatric styled content, I suppose I wasn't the only one fearing a NostalgiaCritic-esque downward spiral, but I am quite glad to observe that rather the opposite is the case. Keep it up, you fine chaps Squire & Crew

[@blitzgamingenlisted]

Love this! 😂😂 you guys never disappoint! Always bring funny and amazing videos!

[@SquireComedy]

Cheers mate!

[@blitzgamingenlisted]

@@SquireComedy cheers!

[@PATROITICWAYS1776]

Soldier: general Payton we called off the war. Patton: Why? Soldier: Because the Germans had one mg42. Patton: WHATTTTTT!? We’re doomed!

[@dreamypizza8458]

payton tho

[@2ndcomingofFritz]

@@dreamypizza8458fr

[@spiffygonzales5160]

​@@dreamypizza8458 General Payton Manning. If he could lead the broncos to the super bowl than he's the perfect for for an allied general

[@thurin84]

but, but he peed in the rhine!

[@hunterdebeau2318]

“Dammit, we’ve played right into his hands” 3:22

[@The23Anonymous]

To be fair: the MG 42 was a completely badass gun. I can understand, that you want to keep your head down, if you hear that thing

[@TheBayzent]

My grand uncle used it in Krasny bor (he went with the Blue Division) and always told us that it was good at mid to long range if you shot on limited sprays, but overheated like hell. Guy literally had to use it to maul Russians by the end of their assault and burnt his hands badly.

[@gunsmoke132]

One of the best videos on encompassing the armchair historians/wherabos/slavabos. The Russian joke got me good

[@teatanks6481]

Now that was a plot twist and a half if I've ever seen one, bravo once more.

[@dusk6159]

The british soldier pulling soviet talking points was great as well lol

[@ben9DB]

Loving the Splinter Cell music from 3:53

[@rorto002]

The British Lee-Enfield was an outstanding rifle. Saying goes; Germans build rifles for hunting, Americans for Sport, Brits for War. Stayed in service in various variants from WW1 to the 50's.

[@TheArklyte]

I feel like someone called out my 2004-2006 self... several times in a row 🤦 Come on, information was scarce, those were the dark days, _let me tell you of those days of high adventure!_

[@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground]

I was a wehraboo once. Then I grew up.

[@russetwolf13]

Germans were very smart, they built gas guzzling tanks to take advantage of their vast reserves of oil. And they used a very fast firing machine gun because they had lots of ammunition that they could easily transport to the front with their mules.

[@BasementEngineer]

They must have done something right because it took 26 countries almost 6 years to destroy a small European country.

[@russetwolf13]

@@BasementEngineer it was because everyone was still using gear and troops barely better than WW1, after a global depression. Then the Brits and French threw away every advantage they had, lost all their gear (like literally every Lee Enfield rifle and bren gun in the country was left on that beach and yoinked) and America said "fuck it, not our problem". They then proceeded to conscript soldiers from the various countries they conquered (because most of them had even less troops and gear and maybe some clapped out FT-17 tanks and a few biplanes). They then proceeded to use their conscripts and slaves to build fortification while they ransacked countries for money to pay their troops and funding for better tanks and planes. They then piddled all these insane advantages and strokes of pure luck away on stuff like the Africa campaign, bombers that can't bomb, and super tanks that lunch their final drives in 150km and need to be totally disassembled to fix. While America developed a whole new generation of tanks, planes, trucks and ships, basically from scratch, which took some time. Germany, meanwhile, hilariously fumbled their air war by basically making no plan and throwing men and machines into the most advanced air defense network on earth. Like, literally Britain had been preparing an elaborate detection and tasking system since WW1, and the Luftwaffe just bumble fucked into it with zero prep and God awful intel. They also somehow couldn't kick Russia's ass despite the Fins having already kicked their asses. Like it's amazing how easy and often everyone wrecks Russia's shit, but the Germans somehow managed to drop the combo against an army that was only just learning small unit tactics. Then everyone else, having rebuilt their armies from scratch, proceeded to shit stomp Germany. And their response to losing was... Pretend they weren't and keep fighting long past any realistic ability to win. Just like WW1.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@russetwolf13 Very amusing fairy tale.

[@russetwolf13]

@@BasementEngineer alright, which part of established WW2 history do you think was secretly made up?

[@nukclear2741]

​​@@russetwolf13tbf to the soviets, they did have some strategies lying around, it's just that the guys who planned them got disappeared, so nobody wanted to use them till Zhukov. And Zhukov's like, the one guy Stalin was too scared to mess with. As for the Winter War, it's the plan Stalin *did* choose that screwed them over. Instead of a quick push towards Helsinki, they looked at Germany's conquest of Poland, and wanted to do that, but better. Spoiler alert, it wasn't a good ides in finland.

[@azzy4781]

Oh shit, I love how they tied the skit's dialogue into being part of an airsoft battle! 😂

[@ChuckJansenII]

Riotous video as always. Very well written and portrayed. Truth is, many soldiers feel their side has the best weapons and equipment. Truth is, no side has the best weapons and equipment. Most functional with the greatest number will usually prevail. The running of the tanks! Dang. Imma miss that.

[@bigboi7817]

The MG42 was very good. Anything else you could've picked bro but you picked the sole survivor from the period.

[@SquireComedy]

There are plenty of other survivors. 42's are a bit overhyped. M2 caliber 50, now there's a survivor.

[@josephahner3031]

​@@SquireComedythe Germans did finally get the MG42 right, about a decade or so after they lost the war.

[@thurin84]

@@SquireComedy finally a MURICABOO!!!!

[@Kyo-kf6jf]

@@SquireComedy "nOw TheRE'S a SuRvIVoR" You mean an archaic piece of equipment that is STILL notorious for jamming and being ditched by gunners in favor of a SAW? You know, the Squad-Automatic-Weapon doctrine that is used by basically any modern military? ... and was coincidentally pioneered by the "general-purpose machinegun" tactics of the WW2 MG-42 teams? While early SAW machineguns also often took direct inspiration from "the overhyped gun"? You're no better than the wehraboos, lol

[@MagpieOz]

It was demonstrably a pile of rubbish.

[@montynelson5033]

always a good day when the squire uploads. very accurate points made lmaoo

[@telophasemusic]

"He was a *field marshall!* " "Yeah, look where we are." "Damnit. We're playing right into his hands!"

[@roboticcasualsgaming4952]

Forgot to mention, the completely overpowered and unskilled use of a 19 yr old man’s biomechanic use of slam firing a trench gun

[@tplays6688]

3:11 We played into his Hands!

[@cnlbenmc]

for every brilliant design like the MG-42 the Germans also had Turds like the Elephant Tank Destroyer or The Greif Heavy Bomber; usually such things involved terrible engines like both those two designs...

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

My only objection to that is that you need context. A lot of German designs were incredible. But they needed to be CREDIBLE.

[@Thekilleroftanks]

in the defense of the he177, the idea was sound, a plane with the power and range of a 4 engine bomber, but with the speed of a 2 engine bomber, with some of the best defensive weapons any plane could mount. idea sounds amazing. sadly the engineers forgot that slapping two engines together, one behind each, creates a lot of heat. which means massive cooling ducts, which kinda slows down the planes requiring massive air cooled engines from the get go. something they didnt really have all that much in that department. then again could be worse, could be like the b29 which has so massive engine ducts that at 100% open, one engine could slow down that side of the plane down to a stalling speeds. they never fixed that issue with the b29....

[@highjumpstudios2384]

@@Thekilleroftanksto make matters worse for the 177 it was forced into the dive bombing role by an absolute piece of work who's name escapes me, forever dooming the aircraft.

[@zoroverse8358]

The ferdinand, or elephant didn’t have terrible Engines. It just had bad cooling and was to heavy. However the ferdinand could be considered the most succesful tank destroyer of the entire war, and had the highest k/d of any tank destroyer. I would not call it a turd, but it was terrible.

[@huntermad5668]

Seriously, German k/d ratio in WW2 were inflated as f***. Many veterans stated outright that u could slash the kill number by half and still not near the real number in some units. Also the differences in loss counting between Allied and German. Cooling system is a part of the engine design. The engine tech was not mature enough to porche fantasy

[@freddieellis8449]

Hang on…a left handed rifleman in the WW2 British army? Noooooo. You learned right-handed and that was that!

[@cringecontentgaming61]

“Mark felton said their as big as cities “😂

[@cobrageneral556]

Cool thing about Erwin Rommel: He lost

[@paulthiessen6444]

Not really, he got taken out by the legendary Erwin Rommel

[@sugarnads]

​@@paulthiessen6444so, he lost

[@macbrown99]

@@sugarnads But Erwin Rommel defeated Erwin Rommel, so my math brings this out to a draw.

[@thedude5449]

Cool thing about that, we're losing now because we didn't help the Germans kill every bit of communism when we had a chance.

[@wilberwhateley7569]

Due to inadequate support from the leadership behind the lines, yes - he did lose. Had the Germans focused their efforts on taking control to North Africa and the Middle East instead of wasting all their resources on bullshit like “Operation Barbarossa” and other doomed-to-fail ventures (like trying to bomb the Brits into surrender - just cut them off from their colonies and watch them wither on the vine!) the war could have easily had a different outcome. But leave it to Hitler to disregard a sure, proven strategy of defeating an island nation in favor of some grandiose display of pyrotechnics by throwing away hundreds of aircraft to bomb everything without any prioritization…

[@BocoProductions189]

The brilliance of acting in your videos is amazing, keep it up.

[@ashen1921]

“We’ve played right into his hands” absolutely genius, same with the level of basement line

[@dylansawyer3446]

The field marshall thing got me.

[@Killerean]

Fun fact: Weapons on their own, are just stationary pieces of equipment lying on the floor.

[@spiffygonzales5160]

T-800: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@Mikhail-Tkachenko]

@@spiffygonzales5160 T-600 is the best one

[@thurin84]

not according to the the us gun control lobby. according to them guns are an evil talisman that subverts anything within a mile of it.

[@spiffygonzales5160]

@@Mikhail-Tkachenko T-69? 👉👈😳

[@RamblinRick_]

I like that Ollie refers to Mark Felton. Perfect!

[@becauseicangaming2479]

Yes Mark Felton is great

[@artificialintelligence8328]

@@becauseicangaming2479 Great at copying forum posts verbatim and flaunting his academic credentials

[@becauseicangaming2479]

@@artificialintelligence8328 ?

[@thesupersonicstig]

Fun fact: They used to bring multiple replacement barrels for the MG42 because it was fired so much the barrel would warp and the bullets would become inaccurate, so they just swap out the warped barrel and put in a new one.

[@jayaang4176]

that's normal practice, pretty much all modern machine guns have quick change barrels

[@choomah]

"Mark Felton said...." "Oh, blast, I appear to have dropped 2 live grenades."

[@hmsstudios4915]

And until 8:51, I thought Derek was the reasonable one…

[@NunyaBesnas]

This is truly the state of online discord when it comes to WW2 discussions.

[@rogerclarke3291]

I love your channel channel. Thanks for posting

[@rain89skarlet80]

"He was "Field"marshall...Yeah and now look where we are...we played in his hands!"...fck this is killing me xD xD xD...i cry

[@stuartnelmes348]

The air soft part at the end has me dying 😂

[@Trusty_Spoon]

You never fail to disappoint, Squire. Keep up the work, lads.

[@DaVolf]

when the topic about tanks was opened and the officer started shaking i knew where we're going to get already🤣🤣🤣

[@SilverBulletOBW]

These guys are both war history and guntube comedic geniuses! 😂

[@thomaslinton5765]

A MG design so good that it is still being used today.

[@TalesOfWar]

Yep, MG3. It's literally just rechambered for 7.62 x 51mm NATO. They based some of the design of the M60 on it too but... somehow didn't quite match the reliability aspect of it.

[@thomaslinton5765]

@@TalesOfWar The M60 was based on the MG42, with all material changes for the worse, The M240 is based on the MG42 without the poor changes of the M60 (Where's the!@#%$&!! GLOVE?) Jam-o-Matic.

[@dmansander2218]

So is the M2 HMG and in far more countries as well. Turns out good designs are good designs and people adopt what works in different ways which is why at one point literally every country used a Maxim Gun. Also the Modern M60 being fielded by the likes of the Danish Army is a thing of actual beauty they took the issues and engineered them out of the gun to create an MG far Lighter than the 240 that does its job with a good amount of reliability.

[@battleoid2411]

Yup, such a fantastic machine gun able to be mounted on any vehicle and take out anything short if a light tank, even made for a solid aircraft weapon with a bit of modification, the Browning M2 sure is a beast. Oh woops, only the germans can build good stuff I forgot

[@oldesertguy9616]

@@thomaslinton5765 The 240 action is actually based on the BAR. It only uses the MG42 feed system.

[@andyandreson3989]

Seriously one of the last bits of actual comedy left these days. We’re going to have to petition to make you all a world heritage site…….how that would work……might be a good topic to debate? Anywho, great work yet again!

[@Usonan-Foderation2016]

"T-34 is best tank ever." British tanks that have a tea boiler:🗿

[@ireallyshouldntbehereltd7814]

I don’t know what’s more impressive. The Rommel Field joke or the fact that the chap with the beard and glasses at the end is wearing Captain Kirk’s leather jacket from Chris Pine’s, Star Trek. Bon. Very Bon.

[@Lofi.z34]

GoatGuns are definitely worth getting. I hope they expand their models!

[@42Trainboy]

Very scary and very cool. wish they can be more people like you guys🇬🇧

[@WeakMap]

"1200 rounds a minute, can you believe it, read it online" 🤣

[@stephenclarke2206]

Isn't a variant of the MG42 still in use by the German Army to this day?