M45 Quadmount .50 Caliber "Meat Chopper"

The Maxson M45 Quadmount .50 caliber "Meat Chopper" was one of the most effective weapons against low flying aircraft during World War II. It went on to serve extensively in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, providing ground fire against enemy troops. Today, if you're lucky, you might see one at a gun shoot absolutely annihilating a target.

[@spg3331]

Is this suitable for home defense? Asking for a friend

[@hadrianbuiltawall9531]

Only if you don't like your neighbours. Anybody within a thousand feet, regardless of walls, vehicles or trees, is going to die. If the intruder started to drive away though, unless he's driving a tank, he's toast.

[@oldman4803]

I got a hunch some overzealous DA would try to call this "overkill"

[@L0stEngineer]

Before I got one, I had a Kaiju problem.... Not anymore.

[@rinoz47]

@@hadrianbuiltawall9531 or you can take it on the street. perhaps of a major metropolitan city?

[@hadrianbuiltawall9531]

@@rinoz47 Depends on the city. Maybe somewhere dark with a lot of walmart ninja.

[@MostorAstrakan]

"We don't like to run the generator, 'cause it's noisy and it smells." Lol!

[@lynnwood7205]

The lead acid batteries used in Vietnam on the Gun mount were Bakelite case asphalt top batteries. No where near as powerful or durable as the present iterations for storing electricity. Often the generator would have to be hand started.

[@peetsnort]

Of course. Us soldiers need a few comforts

[@Skittizh1]

😂😂

[@okid6330]

next to 4x .50Cal` s xD

[@soopahjj11]

😂😂😂the irony is strong with this one 😂😂😂

[@akyukon]

I want an emotional support Quad 50.

[@THEfamouspolka]

My safe space is gunna need one as well! ;)

[@adrianmartinez1587]

I need to supplement my medicinal M1 Abrams with a healthy dose of Quad 50

[@mordinvan]

@Dave Cockayne I might need a loan, but so long as it has a 6 year term I should be fine.

[@openthinker6562]

@@mordinvan Just get the loan, get the quad 50, go back to the loaners with it and “persuade” them to change the loan to a generous donation.

[@mordinvan]

@@openthinker6562 I think that could have legal complications, but I will look into it.

[@catlady8324]

“It’s highly effective against ground attack aircraft”. “It’s extremely effective against massed Chinese troops”. Is there anything it’s not “Very effective” against?

[@TheBuster0926]

...MBTs?

[@bobmartin9918]

@@TheBuster0926 Somewhat effective against MBTs, that amount of .50 bmg rounds going down range would annihilate equipment such as the commander's, gunner's and aux gunner's sights.

[@tharionthedragon3531]

Anything that the gunner can't see, apparently

[@manowa3395]

Leaving survivors

[@PregnantWhale3000]

My ex-wife

[@RoyalFizzbin]

My great uncle was a quad .50 cal gunner in WWII. He shot down three Nazi planes (confirmed). In addition, he told me that one time he was in a column moving through a town in Belgium, and they took fire from a sniper. His sergeant had him turn the quad .50 cal on the building where the sniper fire was coming from. I asked him if he got the sniper; he told me that there wasn’t much left of the building when he was done with it. (I took that as a yes.)

[@jeffreydyanzio5709]

My grand father was a quad 50 AA gunner in WWII and I remember a similar story as well. Also, he had one confitmed downed plane. He said it was hard to confirm because most of the time multiple half tracks were firing at the same time. Pattons 3rd army, 4th armored division.. PS my grandfather is still alive, 98

[@michaeld.uchiha9084]

What how can a plane be a NAZI?

[@Edfiki86]

Your grandpa saved europe from speaking German.

[@SoWhat1221]

@@Edfiki86 Yes, instead we get to speak Arabic. Thanks a lot, gramps.

[@mevenyo]

German planes

[@jkoeberlein1]

A friend of mine served in Korea. He said this weapon would, "suck the life out of a mountain side."

[@southernlonghorn4507]

That’s a frightening thing to imagine.

[@nigelft]

@Robert Dill One of my many uncles by marriage, was Scots, whom served in a Scottish Regiment in Korea. He never spoke a single word about his experiences, although his his drinking and smoking habits meant he must have seen enough shit that he tried to blot them from memory. As for this ... I don't know which would be worse ... shooting this into a mass charge against your position, and see, at all too close range, the utter carnage being wrought; or be flung against this meatgrinder, at the pain of being shot by your superior officers, in an, essentially, suicidal attack ...

[@nigelft]

@The Xenomorphian I had an assignment in High School, for English Literature, where the idea was to write a number of letters to, and from, the Home Front. You could pick any war you liked. Most chose WWII. A few adventurous ones picked Vietnam. But I must have been the only kid to pick WWI. Before I even started, I realised the only way to it justice was to do a lot of background reading. The names of Ypres, Verdun, and the Somme are still etched into my memory, not least Ypres, where almost as many men drowned in the mud, as were killed by enemy action, especially as so many trees were simply reduced to stumps by artillery. And then there was the 1st July 1916. Granted, technology way out paced tactics, and its easy to critique in hindsight ... ... but bloody hell (literally ...) ... no wonder the old adage of 'Lions led by Donkeys' came into being, not just for Senior Enlisted, but equally Officers including Captains, weren't spared. So, yeah ... it doesn't take much, after reading even more since, to imagine a hillside in Korea turning into something out of the Battle of Verdun, with equipment like this around ...

[@derfunkhaus]

@@nigelft I think this is one situation in which it is truly better to give than to receive.

[@jkoeberlein1]

@@derfunkhaus my friend said after one battle one 50 cal gun pit was so full of spent brass they had to dig the guy out.

[@roadwolf2]

Now that’s a stress reliever. Had a hard day at the office? Just squeeze off 800 rounds.

[@Gunscom]

$ $ $

[@mrschwifty5564]

LOL If I can make $4,000 per day IDC how stressfull it is.... 50 cal ammo $5.00 per round X 800 rds = $4,000.

[@yetimangaming9384]

@@mrschwifty5564 more like $3.75

[@yetimangaming9384]

@@mrschwifty5564 just depends on we're your at down we're I'm at there a shop that sells it for $3.75

[@stevenmonson5149]

And so goes the paycheck too ,Cha ching$$$$$

[@carguy1979]

So the woman firing the quad 50 really could be called “Ma Deuce”

[@skorochemik]

“Mama Deuce” :-)

[@soopahjj11]

Ma double deuce maybe

[@grayeaglej]

Twice o.o

[@mrsandman914]

🤣. Good one!

[@user-td1zo3tv9p]

When she's behind the sight and finger on the trigger, you'd damned sure better call her "Ma'am!" If you know what is good for you that is. LOL

[@captjim007]

My dad drove a halftrack with a quad fifty in the Korean war. He was in the Army and part of a light armored anti aircraft battalion. He said they used them against mass wave assaults. He also went through basic at Fort Ord the same time Clint Eastwood was there. He remembered Eastwood being a life guard or swimming instructor at the pool, he said. My dad passed at 80

[@hookeaires6637]

My pop was in Korea also. He wanted to be a pilot but ended up as a radio operator talking to the pilots. He passed 2018 at 89.

[@captjim007]

@@hookeaires6637 My dad passes in 2008 at almost 81

[@Zulutime44]

I went through BCT at Ft Ord in Fall 1961 before ending up in 2-28th Inf (mech) in Germany. All peacetime but lots of war stories passed on by Korean War vets.

[@elektronischemusik1903]

That is really gnarly. Imagine beeing a 18 year young chinese conscript storming with hundreds of your comrades in a mass wave assault forward and suddenly everyone one around you get's ripped apart from 50 cal hits. War is horrible.

[@bartschwartz9233]

He was- was a safety job for him

[@michaelharris1455]

My Dad was an armorer, in an automatic weapons unit, of the 28th Infantry, during Korea. This was his his favorite piece of equipment. Thanks for sharing this.

[@fasteddie4145]

"Amassed Chinese Infantry" a target rich environment by any other name......

[@johnchandler1687]

My father's oldest brother, C. P., was Gen. Ridgeway's aide in Korea. In one Chinese attack they were coming down a Mt pass about 60 yard wide and over a mile long. Us had quad 50s from WW2 ships mounted on old Sherman tanks with gun turrets removed sitting about 15 ft apart across valley. They fired until gun barrels were glowing red. When battle was over dead Chinese were 5 to 6 feet deep from one end to the other in that valley. The Chinese " death registrations" crew was 2 big bulldozers. They dug big trench shoved dead and wounded into them, covered them up and ran dozens over spots a few times and left. The General said the Chinese were just getting rid of excess population doing this as only every tenth man had a weapon.

[@johnlop7763]

@@johnchandler1687 this is just like stalingrad again!

[@thomaszhang3101]

Not even in the Korean War, way back during WWII. Americans forced many Germans to surrender by rolling up with the Meat Grinder and shooting into German barracks.

[@killman369547]

@@johnchandler1687 holy shit........

[@donalddodson7365]

This was great to hear the quad-50's, again. When I was in Vietnam (1969-1970) we did a lot of convoy travel along Highways 19 and 14. One trip as we approached Mang Yang Pass the convoy came to a halt (never got the full dope but rumor had it there was an ambush set in the zig zags). We started paying attention, especially when our Quad 50 escort gun truck sped past us and pulled in a couple of trucks in front of us. They opened up into the gully and it was like an invisible roto-tiller chewing up the ground. Glad somebody spotted the other team! Two "lurker" F-4's from Phu Cat were near and finished off whoever was out there with WP and napalm. After about 15-20 minutes, we were on our way again. Don't know if they smoked the ambush rear closing squad or the front tripping squad. Thanks for the memories!

[@Gunscom]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing Donald.

[@jefferymoran286]

A friend of mine who just recently passed was a gunner on the gun truck "BIRTH CONTROL" in Vietnam. Have a couple of pics of him and his his crew on the truck and doing convoy duty. Totally awesome weapons system. REST IN PEACE ALEX.

[@ZuluBlackout]

Yeah thanks for sharing! And thank you for your service!

[@soopahjj11]

Glad you came home sir. Always like hearing stories from past conflicts from living eyewitnesses as they are firsthand accounts of history that you may not hear anywhere else. Thank you.

[@korky7775]

I thank you for your sevice...All you lads were hero's.....

[@ED209no]

When I served in the Norwegian air defence, we had these. This was back in 1994. I do believe they are still in service. At each post around the airfield, there was one manual/automatic radar (RS2000), two 40mm cannons and two of these babies. The 40mm cannons was fun tho. They shot 300 rounds a minute. My job was being a tracker operator, sitting on top of the radar spotting incoming planes. Then I had to get the plane in sight before taking a lock on, and then the radar did the rest. The radar then took control of the cannons that was in synch, and all hell could break loose. 😅

[@gunnar6674]

I don't think the quad 50s are still in service. My dad used them back in the 60s though - that and the Bofors gun.

[@ED209no]

The 40mm cannon we had was Bofors. And as I wrote, I served back in 1994 at Andøya Flystasjon. They were still in use back then. Don't know if they use them still today. 😊 Still, it was awesome seeing them in action. 🤗

[@PrezWashinguns]

"How pro gun are you?" Me - "this much"

[@andrewkeene6429]

In 1968 after running out of ammo for my M16, I jumped on a two and a half ton truck with a quad 50 in the bed. They were already tired before myself and a few others showed up help load and change barrels. They had a 10 ton dump truck next to the quad 50 with an entire bed load of ammo. An exhausting 12 hours later we had expended all of the ammo available and another 10 ton dump pulled up. The estimates were that over 1.55 millon rounds were fired that night and morning. Most amazing sound I have ever heard and that was 50 years ago. I still get a rush when I hear one or more 50s open up

[@Gunscom]

Wow. Great story. Thanks for sharing Andrew.

[@andrewkeene6429]

@@Gunscom The next morning we had to go out and try to figure out how many dead there were. Nothing but meat and boots.

[@donalddodson7365]

Andrew, WELCOME BACK & THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THE CALL.

[@laniejuanitawhitehurst1624]

You can still hear. What was that? I didn’t hear you. LOL

[@terrym1979]

Yes great story. Love to hear more. Gotta learn for the waves of chinese.🙂

[@HighCalibr]

Everybody gangsta until the .50s show up

[@guitarman11000]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sebastianwurtz5294]

Yeah well. ..

[@joshlower1]

Pulls out flak 88. Say what?

[@julianmehninger5366]

@@joshlower1 the good Flak

[@Mickey-ul1bo]

Especially if it comes in quadruple :-)

[@muctop17]

"Hey man! The housekeeping money?" "Sorry honey! I was at the range!"

[@MrSkyl1ne]

Yeah, I can imagine that the neighbors will start complaining if you run the generator, so noisy.

[@GunDrummer]

This is the coolest thing ever

[@steffenrosmus9177]

Nope, a quadruple Mg 42 is. Could you imagine the sound?BŔRRRRRRRRTRTRTTTTRRRRRRTTRTTTRTT

[@norcal9168]

@@steffenrosmus9177 no lol m2 or nothing

[@steffenrosmus9177]

@@norcal9168 have you ever heard such a quadruple Mg 42?

[@norcal9168]

@@steffenrosmus9177 yeah but its not cool compared to 50s

[@steffenrosmus9177]

@@norcal9168 ok typical American size matters😉😂

Oh how cute they’re blocking traffic again We’ll see about that.

[@germaxicus6670]

🤣

[@randelldarky3920]

That would shut down an AntiFa rally in 5 seconds.

[@jasonpeace8183]

@@randelldarky3920 .05 seconds

[@mpk6664]

I bet if someone said this about the republicunts who were blocking the roads earlier this year because they didn't want to wear their mask you'd be crying a river.

@@mpk6664 no comparison. Fact cannot be misconstrued as fiction. Go watch videos that you can relate to. This is not one of them.there’s no video of republicans blocking traffic because of a mask.Dummy.

[@--emt]

Blowing your entire paycheck in 30 SECONDS 😆

[@siliquaesid703]

Worth it 💥

[@michaelvigil5321]

One big ass paycheck

[@HeadHunterSix]

Reminded of the Heavy from TF2: It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds!

[@coachmen8508]

Well a 50 cal round cheapest I could see online was $2.60 us per round. Can go all the way up to $10 per round depending on what kind of shell how many grains Etc

[@christophereger1053]

IF I could give this 4 thumbs up, I would. Talk about "Get Some..."

[@tacticalmattfoley]

You definitely don't need to lead them at all with this thing.

[@The13400000]

In Vietnam, I was stationed near a ROK outpost where they had a deuce and a half with a quad 50 in the bed under a canvas cover. They would go out at dusk with that truck, alone, to attempt to get ambushed along a roadway. Claymore's mounted along the sides of the trucks bed. The Korean's plan was to get ambushed, set off the claymore's on both sides of the truck and then open up with the quad 50. Those ROC's were terrific soldiers, the best of the war, IMO.

[@bloodyspartan300]

Initially ROC's were trained by marines and with far less rules and compunction, they came to do it. I concur with you assessment.

[@f0rmaggi0]

Anyone know the efficacy against squirrels? I got a problem that needs fixing.

[@FargoFX]

This is America, “richest country on earth”… Come on, should be one of these in every driveway!

[@olafblaskura1951]

Rich but not on intelligence

[@231mac]

​@@olafblaskura1951 Your grammar nightmare of a 'sentence' displays such irony, you monumental dunce.

[@urdnotwrex6969]

@@231mac His grammar is alright, what´s wrong with it? Btw, you ever consider the fact that he might not be english speaking person? If you are american and you didn´t considered that fact, then it just proves his point tho.

[@urdnotwrex6969]

It should be written there aswell ´´we got money, weapons, sci fi army but no health insurance policy and future for your childrens´´.

[@rj4590]

@@urdnotwrex6969 Yeah,that's why millions of people want to come here and some literally risk death to try and get to the U.S..

[@stevemiller7433]

I worked with a guy who ran a quad mount like this on the back of a truck in Viet Nam. It was used for convoy protection. It was effective at deterring and terminating an ambush. It was a terrifying weapon.

[@albarry4333]

Yes, used extensively for convoy protection. I witnessed the ambush of a convoy that was between the Rockpile and FB Stud (Vandergriff). The quad 50 was on the bed of a 6x truck, like you said. The convoy stopped and the quad just mowed the vegetation along the side of the road down. The attack broke off immediately. No other fire support was needed. Quads seemed to accompany most convoys that I saw.

[@stevemiller7433]

@@albarry4333 You described an event that was similar to one he described.

[@donlarsen1374]

I was there in ‘69 - based at Dong Ha - as a SeaBee we surfaced the road from there up to the Rockpile turned left past Firebase Elliot towards Vandergriff - the convoy’s would come barreling past - they only had one speed - go like hell - they had a Duster & a quad .50 front & rear - saw them in action a couple of times - they definitely get your attention- a sight & sound you never forget- was glad to have them around.

[@TwentyOneBunSalute]

In the event of an ambush, there won't be many bushes around for long

[@solar_bionic115]

The NFA needs to be abolished so everyone can have one of these

[@daytonasixty-eight1354]

I'm sure as global powers are forcibly shutting down our businesses and demanding we stay at home with a muzzle on our face, repealing the NFA is a top priority.

[@dadeo8957]

My Father manned a “Quad-50” as a 19 year old Marine. He described it as the deadliest machine on Earth.

[@avtomatkalashnikova9388]

Just like in the movie Waterwold when The Smokers attack the Atol.

[@charlescouch511]

I was in Turkey in early mid 80's they had a few of these hard wired in around airfields truly AWESOME

[@WarHawk-]

When you absolutely, positively, have to get your point across 🤨

[@charlescourtwright2229]

When you positively, absolutely want to make Swiss cheese out of anything that moves with light armor than a tank

[@blank557]

These always were a game changer when employed. In the Battle of the Bulge, a US half-track with one of these wiped out a company of Germans crossing a open snow covered field. At Dien Bien Phu, before it fell in the final assault, several of these held off the Viet Minth forces near the airfield and command post. In Korea, these protected Task Forth Faith at the Chosin Reservoir until they ran out of ammunition.

[@mordinvan]

@Chris Oly What are you going to do to a Tiger with 50 cals? Let it know you're there?

[@rpscorp9457]

@Chris Oly to be fair, so did the shermans.

[@donculp9563]

@Chris Oly unfair comparison. The Tiger was like Mike Tyson vs the rest of us.

[@lynnwood7205]

Task Force Faith's Dusters ammo resupply was not air dropped to the embattled Force. Instead it was staged at a depot miles away down the road. Consequently the Chinese forces were able to close and disable the halftrack quad mounts, there being no covering fire from the 40mm Bofors of the Dusters to keep the Chinese crew served weapons at distance. The then stationary Quads exhausted their ammo in place, not on the road covering the column's movement. Luckily the Marines were under a different command structure. Not only is the destruction of Task Force Faith heartrending so was the destruction of reputation and valor of the men. they kept fighting despite loss of unit cohesion, most of them becoming casualties, most of their officers and nco's killed, the wounded and frostbitten survivors who made it to Marine lines were accused of abandoning their comrades, of bugging out. This smear campaign continued for decades when in fact they fought beyond what anyone could expect of a military force against overwhelming force. They kept reforming and fighting after their units were overwhelmed and destroyed. Credit is slowly being restored but their fight was almost 70 years ago.

[@lynnwood7205]

@Chris Oly You know, It is a weapon, a tool to be used, part of a system, not an end all be all

[@anon8429]

Forgot to mention its use and how effective it was against a wave of Shreikers while manned by Burt Gummer 😂

[@alifmuthahari2689]

"Quad Cannon." "I do not have a patience for this." "Don't push Me." Anyone remember this line?

[@bakatzen6243]

CnC generals.

[@labohn1]

Yes, yes I do. C&C generals Zero Hour whenever I need AA to cover my base.

[@AnotherWorthlessMoron]

C&C Generals, my favorite RTS.

[@hidhirmdnasir8713]

"Four on the floor"

[@rhekman]

Only thing that would have made the video better would be a shot of the smile on that young ladies face after her time on trigger.

[@Gunscom]

😆 😆

[@mordinvan]

I'd be grinning so wide the top of my head might fall off.

[@losronin3875]

100 year old weapon that's untouched, STILL IN SERVICE. Now that's heavy metal!

[@joshlower1]

Not a 100 years yet

[@losronin3875]

@@joshlower1 but damn near!

[@Jreb1865]

@@losronin3875 Close enough...Probably be using it for another 100...

[@losronin3875]

@@Jreb1865 Cant fix what's not broken right?

[@losronin3875]

@@Jreb1865 The only other option is to put more m2s on top of each other!

[@DiceStrike]

These things wipe anything that flies. Gaijin: I'm gona pretend I dont know this

[@stub2022]

This in the back of my pickup would discourage tailgating.

[@avtomatkalashnikova9388]

Your pickup truck must be a B25 Mitchell and the tailgaters should be a A 10 Thunderbolt.

[@RobertBielsky]

On perimeter security at firebases I was at in Nam these quads were awesome. When they opened up I will never forget that sound.

[@laciihasz4734]

Seen it in action mounted on a patrol boat, the footage was captured and released in a documentary called waterworld

[@1timcat]

Yeah I remember the look on the face of the guy running it!

[@charliebuckley6572]

Charles... or Chuck.... he really enjoyed that. 😂

[@laciihasz4734]

@@charliebuckley6572 I think he was called Chuck 😁

[@1timcat]

@@charliebuckley6572 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqutoaVjl6dkqck

[@soopahjj11]

😂

[@ryanmccunny88]

Maybe he doesn’t answer to Chuck, call him Charles. Hey Charles!

[@g2hellboy]

Fuuuuuck lol I imagined the exact same scene before I saw this comment. One of my all time favorite movies.

[@Ranulfdatank]

fkn beat me to it kek

[@JohnSmith-yb1im]

Was this rig used in the movie "Waterworld"? They had a system like this in one of the battle scenes of that movie and if this is the only one in the U.S.A. it must be it right?

[@dittfeld1972]

Yes! ^^

[@haldyordan2316]

Yeah, I watched it😊👍

[@jcarne1015]

Not the only one in the USA.

[@tanker2156]

Most likely it’s a freedom Dispenser

“I can’t see the target,Sir!” “Never mind,lad,give ‘em a couple of bursts,anyway!”

[@rickb1973]

Consider that the burst that his wife did toward the end was only the bottom two guns...a hundred rounds each....The thing can sling twice that much lead, for twice as long with the "tombstone" ammo cans.....My only complaint would be to ask for tracers....lotsa tracers!

[@mordinvan]

That would look pretty epic.

[@rickb1973]

@@mordinvan It truly would....And then you think about that this was a favorite weapon in Korea, for use against Chinese night time "human wave" attacks....Imagine it...Good fricking golly, man!

[@lynnwood7205]

@@rickb1973 Also field artillery at close to horizontal elevation possible, gun tubes packed with glass, metal bits, nuts and bolts, small arms shell casings, as per my father's account, bugles and whistles screaming all night. Such was the carnage the adjacent bluffs/ridges had to be blasted into rubble to create aggregate to use to seal the battle site into a mass grave. He never really came to terms with that. Prayers for all.

[@goobfilmcast4239]

Tracers are difficult to handle and store and EXPENSIVE !!

[@mtower235]

What dove hunting would be without game rangers 😂

[@pegasus514]

u call that sport?

[@mtower235]

@@pegasus514 nope I call it fun

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodso1698]

@@mtower235 haha

[@billywill903]

I have been on dove fields that sounded just like that. Not 1 bird dropped from the sky. Hahaha

[@cuntdracula1]

"Highly effective against amassed Chinese infantry." Oh well you dont f***ing say? God that's a beastly weapon.

[@cuntdracula1]

Coincidentally both are communist.

[@pegasus514]

how about blm, antifa, etc? effective those terrorists?

[@luisllanito1865]

How about murderous cops and proud boys?

[@lukerodgers1980]

@@luisllanito1865 found the libtard.

[@eizol568]

Better dead than red 😝

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

If I had the opportunity to shoot this, I would be going all “Waterworld” Smoker Crazy Laugh with this!!

[@captainotto]

Exactly what I thought when I saw it. Am too young to have seen it in war but I sure did see it in Waterworld.

[@anasrahim2061]

The cousin operate it,Chuck or Charles is his name.

[@coreycarr5114]

Got a little bit of a rabbit problem on my property at the moment I think this might be the perfect solution

[@Ed-ty1kr]

The .50 cals each worth $6000 and there is 4 of em. The trailer anouther 10 to 12,000 $ and the mount anouther 15 thou... but the history, and that it's the only one surviving that YOU CAN FIRE.... well that my friends is pricless.

[@phillipfitzpatrick8207]

Taiwan - you listening to this. Cheap, effective and proven. Your western coastline should be swarming with these 👌😏

[@cantho11]

Make it hidden with sensor. Definitely pirate deterrent.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

They don't have to. The true Christians, Buddhists and Agnostics among them will disobey US manipulation to kill their mainland brethrens.

[@onerimeuse]

^^^This guy... Bruh, China has missiles pointed at the country and has openly declared hostilities against the country of Taiwan. They are actively training to invade. Very brotherly, right?

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

They upped the rate of fire in these and aircraft 50s. "Give them the whole 9 yards" was coined from aircraft 50s as they had 9 yard belts of ammo.

[@JDSFLA]

I never knew where that saying originated. Thanks.

[@TheJZackT]

According to Forgotten Weapons, that saying came from WW1 machine guns (the Lewis gun IIRC), not in the 50's.

[@JDSFLA]

So now I have looked this up in Wiki, which says the origin is unknown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_nine_yards

[@applejack4225]

It's an expression used by Spitfire pilots. References the length of a.303 belt to every gun in the Mk1's

[@THEfamouspolka]

Didn't go 20

[@jmmartin7766]

Had to carry just one ma deuce barrel, when I was in-- 35 lbs. at least... I shudder to think about having to *clean* four at once... 😓

[@luchoudremont]

That’s the big machine gun, that the bad guys were using in the movie Waterworld

[@samweber8090]

ATF doesn’t allow you to have one, because if you had one, there would be no ATF.

[@TROOPERfarcry]

"You know why I carry a 50-Caliber "meat chopper"? ... because _they don't make a 51."_

[@heavymetalmadness666]

I could be wrong' but I think civilians are limited to .50 caliber(for a rile, but I don't think any regulation on how much is sending it off.My point is say .458 SOCOM vs .458 Lott. .500 AE vs .500 BMG.. Caliber is only one factor of two very important details.

[@TROOPERfarcry]

@@heavymetalmadness666 Thank you. I thought I was making a parody-joke regarding the 45-ACP fan-base. However, now I realize that I am not funny in any way, and in all likelihood, the ATF will be at my house to shoot my dog due to my flagrant disregard for their maximum caliber restrictions without entering "Destructive Device" territory. _They'll probably even use a caliber greater than .5 inches to belabor the point._

[@heavymetalmadness666]

@@TROOPERfarcry I said what I did because of so much anti-gun propaganda.A huge Biden lie... "an AR-15 what do you need with 100 rounds"... That was to mislead people that know nothing about guns. any gun can hold unlimited rounds if you think outside the box

[@jaygoins1157]

Unless you buy Russian

[@laserlight2]

@@heavymetalmadness666 You still buy calibers larger than .50 in the US, you might need to get an NFA tax stamp for them.

[@gatmanaug]

when one m2 is not enough . that is a would of hurt.

[@shanek6582]

Holy shit, I bet it was effective at massed Chinese troops!

[@garvinhooper]

@sheepcreeper the quads on the m16's and m19 twin forties at the Chosin breakout were the backbone of keeping many Americans alive,if they would have had the ammo they needed the break out would not have been so costly in American lives

[@walterkurtz4360]

My unlce was in korea one of the 3 stories he had ever told me was how his company was dug in on top of some hill and they were waiting for an attack well when the Chinese attacked they came at night and he said when the flares went up the whole valley below and the hills opposite of their position were covered in Chinese troops they all came screaming up his hill he was in his foxhole sittin behind a browning .30cal and started mowing them down but there was so many of them they were running past him and into the perimeter he finally ran out of ammo for the .30cal picked up his m2 carbine and ran out of ammo for it the night didn't get much better but he was still standing on top of that fuckin hill the next morning

[@Zappina]

@The Beast Until you get dry and they still coming. They can adopt the situation and use RPGs or mortars against fortified positions. An army is as good as its leadership. If the enemy officer is so dumb he send waves of soldiers ill equipped for the task against such weapon than its a meat grinder. Otherwise you are sitting ducks.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

Also effective against the (massed) Vietnamese.

[@michaelharris1455]

according to my Pop, extremely so, but he also said "they just kept coming........"

[@davidboland7447]

Someone should totally rig up quad mk 19's to see the usefulness... For science of course.

[@papajon62]

Now I know what I want for Father’s Day

[@jussayinmipeece1069]

back in the day we had three qaud mounts on our costal patrol boats along with two Boffers quad mounted fore and aft. Those things were made in Italy and essentially were two huge engine wrapped up in a small hull with as many guns as we could mount. For drug interdiction we could do a decent 70 knots and we could push 80 if we were pissed off but rarely was that needed. Drug runners ten to develop a sudden need to swim when two quad 50s open up on them. old school gut effective. These days we use three Canadian made 762 CWIS . A single squirt tend to get a lot of hands in the air. Edit: forgot to mention its the Jamaica Defense Force Coast Guard.

[@Gunscom]

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

[@perseusrex614]

70 knph... with a gunboat? blazing quad 50s? ashtoneshing. hard to beat a rush like that!

[@MrChiangching]

and yet the drug business is bigger than ever and continues to grow.

[@jussayinmipeece1069]

@@MrChiangching depends on a lot of factors, interdiction being just one. There are many other avenues that allows the drug business to flourish.

[@MrChiangching]

@@jussayinmipeece1069 and i'm saying interdiction has totally failed.

[@KracknCorn]

I didnt know I wanted this thing all my life

[@DougCaldwell]

Get some. I got to fire 1 MaDuce for a few rounds in Vietnam.

[@Gunscom]

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

[@NGC-7635]

3:28 “hey I think I saw a mosquito behind that car” Murcia: “this should do the trick”

[@jameshorton7496]

My Dad was trained on one of these before going to France in 1944-45. I have pictures of his unit doing field exercises with one of these. However, by the time he got to the war, he was put into a infantry unit, the 70th Div., The Trailblazers. Myself, I was on a .50 Cal team in Korea in 1967-68. What a joy to be able to fire a Ma Deuce.

[@greenbassboosts8872]

Can you expand on why the USA decided to mutilate the genitals of South Korean men?

[@JDSFLA]

The Germans in WWII had a similar, but more powerful self-propelled AA vehicle - the Flakpanzer IV "Wirbelwind" (Whirlwind) which mounted four 20mm cannons.

[@tylerbonser7686]

"If you can't see it you can't shoot it" unless they are standing behind a brick wall

[@pwnmeisterage]

Meant to shred targets hidden behind soft cover. Bricks, concrete, or sandbags might stop or slow .50 ... but wood, drywall, unarmoured vehicles, jungle, and forest won't.

[@ssm726]

We got them in depot in Denmark up to about the year 2000.

[@TheGXDivider]

There were some rare versions in Korea called the M45/S, which had 4 suppressors on the 50cals. There were about 50 of them. They used mainly it for ambushes.

[@exsappermadman25055]

When your local backhoe hire firm goes out of business and that house just has to come down.....

[@kiwi9065]

"Meat Chopper" sounds cooler than "Butcher"

[@AlphaBravoCheeseCake]

I'd very much like one of these to deal with a seagul issue

[@koroba01]

Now with this it is easy to imagine what the converted North American B-25 Commerce Destroyer was like in the SW Pacific during WWll with what the 5th Air Force came up with. The famous Pappy Gunn worked with the 5th commander General George Kennedy to install extra .50 cals in the nose of the B-25 so they could come in at wave level against Japanese shipping during their skip bombing runs and basically eliminate all AAA on the ships before the did their skip bombing. The result was the converted B-25s had a total of 10 forward firing .50 caliber machine guns...I’d hate to be on the deck of a ship on the receiving end of that business. Incidentally A-20’s and a few B-26s were converted also.

[@joshuagibson2520]

That dude is a living legend for preserving history. Thank you Sir.

[@olderthanyoucali8512]

Joshua, the Weapon is the Legend, not the man!

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

My dad is a Vietnam vet and saw those often and seen them in different variants all 50's 2 50s 2 1919s 2 50s 2 mini guns 2 50s 2 early grenade guns

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

@Bruh Fu Perfect for fire base security Spray and pray with the guns and pop out 40 Mike Mike's as needed all from one platform

[@bthorn5035]

@Bruh Fu *Some of the early huey gunships had a 40mm mounted to the nose.

[@Zappina]

@Colin Gregson Actually they needed the Soviets to win. Their invasion forced the japanese to surrender not the nukes themselves. It make sense. Most of the japanese cities were bombed to dust by the time the US decided to use the nuke anyway.

[@richardbullwood5941]

Just keep in mind, in the P-47 Thunderbolt had this in each wing. A total of 8 50 cal guns.

[@Zekumas]

Yeah but this setup could be cleared and reloaded much faster than the P-47. The Thunderbolt would have to return to the airfield. ON a note of the P-47, it was capable of taking off carrying twice as much ordinance than the He-111 Medium Bomber.

[@richardbullwood5941]

@@Zekumas maybe so. This setup also didn't fly through the air at almost 400 miles an hour. This setup could not follow a train for miles. This setup couldn't tear up a installation from the sky. And this setup was far more susceptible to enemy fire than one flying through the air. Do you know what's amazing about payload? The Douglas Skyraider could carry more Ordnance than a B-17 heavy bomber.

[@jdstark24]

RIP to the poor Chinese conscripts that got mulched by that thing

[@RoughNek72]

That is the most violently AMERICAN THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

[@evilreddog]

my father was a gunner on one of those in the Norwegian AIrforce in the later 60's. He said they trained it on a flock of seagulls, instantly turned it in to a flock of feathers. Was one of the last years it was in active use as well, was mainly replaced with the Bofors 40mm by that point.

[@Gunscom]

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

[@markcantemail8018]

Evilreddog The Bofurs 40 mm is not as effective on a Flock of Seagulls as the Quad .50 . Your Dad knew that and his service to your Country is appreciated . Too many Seagulls Today !

[@ManofCulture]

It seems that Critical past channel watermark isn't big and opaque enough.

[@masonfoster3810]

Wow, now that is a turret.

[@emperorpawpateen.9992]

Everyone should be required to own one of these, to deter govt overreach

[@michaelreed9652]

We had one that was overran during TET ... Human wave attack....11th ACR Class of 67-68

[@milesfrommission]

My dad took a couple photos of one of these while he was in Korea with the marines.

[@ChevTecGroup]

There are a few quad 50s actively shooting in the US. Battlefield Vegas just got theirs together and firing. I see them for sale on g503 occasionally too

[@benphilippi2288]

Yes, I saw Battlefield Vegas got theirs going. Very cool.

[@Gunscom]

Yes sir.

[@stephenprescott4441]

For hire... ? Who actually hires it, and for what purpose? Rhetorical Q O

[@soopahjj11]

I got a shit ton o chipmunks livin in my stone wall.

[@АндрейШмырев-ж3з]

Такая штуковина неплохо отстрелялась в фильме ,Водный мир,...😮🎉

[@jimd2463]

I could mount that in my suburban and park ANYWHERE in Chicago !

[@alessiodecarolis]

The perfect anti-zombies system!

[@Gunscom]

😆

[@adamschebler8865]

its soooo beautiful!

[@Gunscom]

Yes it is!

[@kiwi_comanche]

19 dislikes from massed Chinese troops 😂

[@sinedn]

The « on the road today » part specifically was probably the most American thing I’ve heard this year 🤣

[@arcadianmystic]

ummm general McArthur sir, on these new guns you are wanting what size and how many?.......YES... *sees a kids doodle of what a real gun for battle should be and mcarthur builds it*

[@panzerman22]

I can imagine a mass Infantry attack and this thing starts firing and arms and legs and heads are flying 4 or 5 ft into the air. Too easy...........

[@chubbethsthunder]

Freedom and Liberty Music. Rise Patriots and Never Ever Give Up, Chubbeth's Thunder.

[@bthorn5035]

This would be perfect for trips to downtown Austin.

[@MarkPillow]

When my commander in the 2ACR realized that was a lot like a Chapparal he wanted me to strip the missle rails and /50BMG 's top replace them. I like never talked him out of it. Tread Heads...gotta luv 'em/

[@KallegrandStudios]

Imagine having to use this against human waves...One shot hits you pretty much anywhere, whatever drugs you are on, you ain't trying again. (Don't need to be a Doctor to know that) This thing has four guns. You don't even need to be accurate as well. You see it and even a tiny salvo fired in your direction, you'll be questionning your loyalty to the point you'll consider changing citizenship on the spot. Then it operated in groups of 3 vehicles as well?

[@kimballer]

sitting here high af and thought out loud "wow, that thing is cool".

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

Stop wasting your life, bro

[@benphilippi2288]

Doesn't get much better than four .50 cals firing all at once!

[@benphilippi2288]

@YoureGoingDownFed Ha. Yep. This is pretty sweet too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZC3kn5mjL-daM0