This could be an effective tool for trench warfare. As the enemy advances upon your position, you throw this at them and while they try to figure it out, you shoot them with a bolt-action rifle.
@Wardxg_0 Жыл бұрын
underrated comment lmao 😆
@ZerokillerOppel1 Жыл бұрын
Lol!!!!😂😂
@von_dusenhain25234 жыл бұрын
its a typical Swissway of designation of the Firemode E is for "Einzelfeuer" = Semi-auto M is for "Mitraillieren" (comes from the french word "Mitrailleuse") = Full-auto
@williamforbes62913 жыл бұрын
What words would be used for safe or locked ect? If one was safe and another was fire. The ring could be the selector (ring at the back above the stock) All hypothetical ofc
@inkandesk3 жыл бұрын
I know they aren’t that similar, but I always think of feuer as “celebration”
@david0666666663 жыл бұрын
Then it doesn’t have a safety switch?
@von_dusenhain25233 жыл бұрын
@@david066666666 its the ring at the back like on a K31
@marcothommen24843 жыл бұрын
"M" stands for "Mechanisches entladen" (mechanic unloading) ;-)
@Luciferofom5 жыл бұрын
You know it's a weird gun if Ian isn't sure how to classify its operation.
@remcodenouden50195 жыл бұрын
You know it's a weird gun when Ian calls at least one component 'the thing'
@@crimsonhalo13 I think the G11 still has that title locked down
@hoeruokamix5 жыл бұрын
Blow forward Piston delayed flapper lock?
@polygondwanaland83905 жыл бұрын
@@hoeruokamix Close, but it isn't blow forward, because blow forward means an unlocked breach, much like how blowback means an unlocked (rearward moving) breach. Now, systems are usually named after how they work. Roller delayed is delayed by rollers. Rotating bolts rotate. Recoil operated firearms take their impulse from the recoil. So I'd call this a gas operated, flapper locked, fixed breach sliding barrel firearm.
@YourFavoriteCommie5 жыл бұрын
9:35 *Ian removes the single largest spring ever seen in a firearm* "This guy is one of two springs..."
@Agent-cy5yb5 жыл бұрын
It flopped around like a fake dong
@thatguy.98865 жыл бұрын
That's not the spring for the gas piston, that's the slinky I lost 8 years ago after my brother threw it down the stairs.
@IronCypher4 жыл бұрын
Yes that spring was endless
@maestrozero1174 жыл бұрын
*1911 spring flashbacks*
@randylahey22424 жыл бұрын
Go look at 7 shell shotgun tube spring
@TheCatBilbo3 жыл бұрын
Swiss Military: "design us a gun" Swiss designers: "what features should it have? Swiss Military: "er, whatever you like, we're never going to use it in anger"
@marc-andreservant2013 жыл бұрын
Swiss designers: You do understand that my expertise is clocks and watches? Swiss Military: Yeah, we don't care. Design us a gun.
@charliedulol3 жыл бұрын
@@marc-andreservant201 clock, glock, practically the same thing i'm sure, you'll do fine.
@Allstar-yl1ek3 жыл бұрын
@@charliedulol Daily reminder that the Glock was made by a company previously known for making plastic curtain rods and door knobs.
@Sk0lzky2 жыл бұрын
@@Allstar-yl1ek with the main production centre in a garage
@uwuowo48562 жыл бұрын
@@Sk0lzky wow...really?
@davidgreen405 жыл бұрын
This was a practical joke by the engineering team at SIG. Clearly the cross of Swiss humor and engineers' humor sailed clean over the heads of everyone. And that catch on the left side is a disassembly lever of sorts - it allows the removal of the magazine; thus disassembles one part.
@REZPUBLIKA5 жыл бұрын
When you watch the video with that being the assumption, it's actually pretty hilarious and seems highly likely.
@milesgerschefske62315 жыл бұрын
Early example of California compliance. Magazine is fixed until disassembly
@steveh17925 жыл бұрын
Swiss firearms designers, late in the evening after a long day at work: "You think that's a weird operating system? Ha! Here, hold my bier..."
@totalitaer.5 жыл бұрын
Perhaps SIG hired a watch maker? To develope the back then new style guns that not only go tok. But tik tok, tik tok, tik tok.
@crimsonhalo135 жыл бұрын
Let's just call it the Clock Maker's Nightmare.
@uzi750205 жыл бұрын
Everything metal on this rifle has beautiful machine work expected on something Swiss. The stock however, looks like it was made in a middle school shop class out of some scrap wood found behind a barn.
@andrewvanatta15695 жыл бұрын
That's also very Swiss. Swiss soldiers carried their rifles next to their crampons so the spikes on the crampons chewed up the buttstocks. Anyone with a K-31 in a beech stock will recognize the look.
@stuartdodson66305 жыл бұрын
uzi75020 Hey! I created the ak after shop behind the barn. Don’t forget.
@uzi750205 жыл бұрын
@@stuartdodson6630 I built a crossbow out of an old 2x4, so nothing's wrong with scrap wood! It just seems odd on that gun.
@daveweller95795 жыл бұрын
I thought it looked like something I would make in freshman wood shop
@lucianene77415 жыл бұрын
It was sort of a prototype, function was all that mattered. lf it made it into production it would surely have had a prettier look.
@MrNside3 жыл бұрын
20:30 "The way this is supposed to work..." >moment of silence >sigh of frustration
@101_skeleton63 жыл бұрын
I think it's called a collet.
@o0TheRipper0o5 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming that the E and the M on the fire control group stand for Einzelfeuer (semi auto) and Mehrfeuer (full auto). You can find similar markings on the SIG 510 (PE 57) rifles. Greetings from Switzerland!
@CxOrillion5 жыл бұрын
I like that your fire control basically boils down to One Dakka and MORE DAKKA. Are they usually different colors? Usually here in the US, if there are two colors in a fire selector, they are white for safe, and red for fire. Though I suppose if the safety is supposed to be the thing with the striker cocking ring it wouldn't be THAT weird. Or at least no weirder than the rest of this thing.
@loyp43285 жыл бұрын
F ass/Stgw 57 and 90 come with a visible white dot on the side to indicate the full-auto selector is disabled, for shooting ranges. I guess it's why it's red for full-auto
@GeoffreyWirth5 жыл бұрын
I agree, M could stand for "Maschinenfeuer" = 'machine fire'
@ashhillmodels38015 жыл бұрын
Now that makes sense.. Was failing to figure it out myself. But then again, switzerdeutsch is slighty diffrent to "normal" deutsch. But this is one weird gun anyway.
@loyp43285 жыл бұрын
"Die Armeeversion des Assault Rifle 57 schiesst Einzelfeuer (Sicherungshebel auf Stellung "E") und Dauerfeuer (Sicherungshebel auf Stellung "M" = mitraillieren)."
@Sh1tbagActual3 жыл бұрын
Me, the viewer: "Wow, that looks surprisingly crude for a Swiss gun Ian pulls the mechanism out the back: *Swiss anthem begins playing at high volume*
@BSpacc132 жыл бұрын
This is the very first comment i have ever made on anything, anywhere on the internet. I just dont do it. However, you sir, deserve massive props for a comment like that. Well done..
@Bolognabeef Жыл бұрын
@@BSpacc13 i don't think this comment was really worthy of your reply. You should have kept it for another one
@hboyO210 ай бұрын
@@Bolognabeeflmfao honestly i kinda of agree
@katinmazniv471410 ай бұрын
@@hboyO2kinda like asking for a happy meal for your make a wish
@hboyO28 ай бұрын
@@katinmazniv4714 lol
@scullystie43895 жыл бұрын
Your gunsmiths were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
@fixman885 жыл бұрын
THIS. I was thinking of that exact quote about halfway through the video!
@danieljob31845 жыл бұрын
Nature will find a way to make guns like this not exist.
@princeofcupspoc90735 жыл бұрын
I was imagining a messy blackboard with chalk outlines of guns and pieces of guns, and the designer looking at it, and he is shocked when he realizes "wait, that will work," and quickly scribbles it down before he forgets.
@rodrigogascagomez51905 жыл бұрын
Why consider it tho? If you have money and time, after being super-neutral and basically untouched by WWII, you can devote yourself to wacky contraptions, no problem!
@zacharynoe17875 жыл бұрын
exactly.. its as if the world has forgotten the inventors of the wacky, waving, whaling, inflatable armed tube-man were swiss. @@rodrigogascagomez5190
@davidelzinga97574 жыл бұрын
Can’t tell you how much I want to see slow motion footage of this thing running
@ziros224 жыл бұрын
I think Ian is the only guy who can go into a museum, take stuff apart, put it back together in semi-working order and walk out and the museum is smitten that he visited
@CameraHam2 жыл бұрын
It probably helps that he has a few thousand videos showing that he is careful and trustworthy with really rare pieces
@davidbowman27162 жыл бұрын
I once saw a DW documentary when a 14 YO russian girl disassemble and assemble an AK in a few seconds.
@MirunaNero2 жыл бұрын
@@CameraHam that's the power of reputation honestly. Ian has an amazing reputation, that's extremely consistent
@peterbruschi86902 жыл бұрын
My dad and I reseated a dangling pushrod on a big steam engine in the Henry Ford. It made an extraordinarily loud tap as he let go of the rocker arm. Luckily, we had our backs turned by the time the guard came around the corner 🤣
@realtalk61952 жыл бұрын
Museums have a display section and archive section. The latter is physically handled all the time.
@ctillich5 жыл бұрын
It's probably E = Einzel as in single M = Mehrfach as in multiple
@zacharynoe17875 жыл бұрын
mehrfach off.. this is why yer still einzel. :D
@grahamlopez62025 жыл бұрын
E=every time you shoot it gets weird M= man this is REALLY weird
@hendrickziegler84874 жыл бұрын
That seems about right - even thouh I would have thought that M stands for "Maschinen-" or "maschinell"; this would basically be the same M as in "M"G. No clue about the safety though. Nevertheless: Like + answer for your comment to push it up.
17:13 you know this gun is extremely weird when Ian refers to something as "thing"
@DennisRash2 жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard when he said that.
@codemiesterbeats5 жыл бұрын
BRUH... the barrel cycles forward... and it has a bayonet lug... CLEARLY they didnt produce these because they created a fully automatic stabbing machine. On second look it wouldn't they missed a good opportunity there.
@Voron_Aggrav4 жыл бұрын
Swiss Sewing machine
@DualDesertEagle4 жыл бұрын
@@Voron_Aggrav This is genius and absolutely made my day!
@Voron_Aggrav4 жыл бұрын
@@DualDesertEagle you'd only make Swiss cheese out of someone's clothing instead of repairing it
@DualDesertEagle4 жыл бұрын
@@Voron_Aggrav Dude, ur killin' me! 🤣
@gazs72374 жыл бұрын
Damn that would be terrifying lol
@Paul-in-Missouri5 жыл бұрын
The Swiss Machinist Union loved this gun. I suspect the Saturn 5 rocket was just a modified and re-purposed Swiss made ball-point pen.
@franciscoschwarz64515 жыл бұрын
😂
@cloudbuster88195 жыл бұрын
That's why we developed Apollo: the Swiss ball pen was way to complicated to reassemble, and too expensive. Particularly these ball-lock mechanisms that only a small Swiss ferderal-subsidized family business produced; grinding the ball into shape manually, one by one.
@JonatasAdoM4 жыл бұрын
@@cloudbuster8819 They're better off making space watches.
@cloudbuster88194 жыл бұрын
@@JonatasAdoM Are they still Swiss? Did not Viktor Vekselberg buy the Swiss Space watch businesses up, and integrate them into his Renova Group?:D
@alekpo20004 жыл бұрын
you got to admire Ian guts here to take apart a weird obscure gun that nobody even knows existed whit all sorts of bits falling off of it while he does and remains calm lol i would be sweating like a madman
@notgray883 жыл бұрын
field stripping this gun is like trying is disarm a bomb.
@ironleeFPS3 жыл бұрын
Because he sits there 15 hours a day reading about guns like this and studying schematics.
@visassess86072 жыл бұрын
@@ironleeFPS He says in the video that he had to figure it out
@tehgreatvak5 жыл бұрын
glad they put a bayonet lug on this rube goldberg gun so you have a way to actually use it as a weapon (this post brought to you by the imperial japanese army)
@Tunkkis5 жыл бұрын
@@borismuller86 except the lug is on the barrel jacket, which doesn't move. Sorry to run your joke.
@RyoLeo5 жыл бұрын
Tunkkis we can dream can’t we?
@borismuller865 жыл бұрын
Tunkkis yeah I realised that and it made me sad. My way would have been pretty silly. Probably would have fallen off constantly.
@dustyboots26935 жыл бұрын
@@Tunkkis so it helps you to easily extract the blade of the bayonet from the body of the enemy!
@oceanhome20235 жыл бұрын
Dusty Boots Could be called a bayonet assisting design
@Leisurelee535 жыл бұрын
He sounds so uncharacteristically...confused going over this poor abomination. Exactly why I love this channel though; great stuff.
@TheSimpleMan4544 жыл бұрын
Every step of the disassembly had me and my girl both going "Wait what? Why?"
@anzaca14 жыл бұрын
That happens a lot on this channel, mostly with guns where the origin is unknown.
@benlamborn57924 жыл бұрын
I think this the first time I've heard him refer to something as a thing he didn't have a name for it so it just became thing
@alefuentesbarriga4 жыл бұрын
when you see Ian struggling with a gun...you know it is a rare gun
@drastgreyhreadfshtgf99175 жыл бұрын
E: Everyone around you isn't safe M: Maybe it will shoot
@HavanaSyndrome695 жыл бұрын
I was thinking that M was for Machinegewehr for automatic
@BloodReverb5 жыл бұрын
@@HavanaSyndrome69 And E for Ein - one
@passafar14 жыл бұрын
I assume E mean Einzelschuss (single shot) and M means likely Maschienegewehr (multi shot)
@nopainbeastnumber4 жыл бұрын
@@passafar1 thats should be correct ;-)
@anthonyjacob47664 жыл бұрын
@@passafar1 Maschinengewehr* Means "machine gun", not full auto. Something that'd make a bit more sense, considering it's a Swiss gun, would be "mitrailler" the French word for full auto. Let's not forget that Swiss =/= German. They use a ton of Italian and French words alongside German and Swiss German ones - depending on the region, of course. Side note: Swiss machine gunners are called Mitrailleur (Fr. lit. machine gunner), so it'd make sense if their select fire switch said M for mitrailler.
@AlaskanQueenInExile5 жыл бұрын
The real reason this never saw commercial success was that it was actually the product of a particularly wild night at SIG that no one present actually remembers. There is still extensive debate amongst the survivors as to who actually came up with the idea to this very day.
@rinnhart5 жыл бұрын
"Give it a serial number and never speak of this again."
@seanjacobs70215 жыл бұрын
Oh, the man responsible knows the truth, he just won't admit I for fear of the shame and possible exile.
@UnholyTerra5 жыл бұрын
Taka Takarra “the survivors” haha
@johndallman26922 ай бұрын
I've been in brainstorming sessions like that. It's impossible to be sure who thought of the key idea, you just have to put all the names on the patent.
@Si74l0rd3 жыл бұрын
This is what you get when a nation of clockmakers make an automatic rifle! Edit: That main spring is a thing of beauty! I've never seen an entwined strand spring in a firearm before. I bet that beast has all the power!
@JamesPhieffer10 ай бұрын
And then someone asked the designer how that clock works would do if it was regularly disassembled and reassembled... The next day the search for a new rifle began again.
@JPR3D5 жыл бұрын
You know you're in for a good time when the video is 25 minutes long and the history segment ends at 1:30
@GlowingSpamraam5 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@chickenman18015 жыл бұрын
I only watch for the history part
@Abby_Normal_19695 жыл бұрын
we'll call this thing the...thing. This may be the most Swiss firearm I have ever seen. I am not sure how they could have made this any more complex.
@SgtKOnyx5 жыл бұрын
You can always add more pieces
@Statusinator5 жыл бұрын
Could've used a balanced recoil-system, hyperburst functionality, and progressive belt feed.
@Salesman90015 жыл бұрын
They could have added: multiple magazine feed system, integral grenade launcher (that may or may not use the barrels forward momentum as propellant), match grade sights, folding stock & pistol grip, fast takedown system where you fold entire rifle like them origamis, folding quick detach tripod that actuates in 3 or more directions, etc.. You can always add MORE
@jeremak5 жыл бұрын
Just add toggle lock
@Abby_Normal_19695 жыл бұрын
Wow, guys. I didn't think my statement through very well. I propose we incorporate all your ideas and call it the Sig Thing. Oh, and in true Swiss fation, we mill this whole thing from a single ingot of high carbon steel.
@broseffman3 жыл бұрын
Within 3 seconds of him starting disassembly with that mag release I was already thinking "Jeeeeeeesus Christ".
@948320z3 жыл бұрын
No "tactical mag change" for this gun, that's for sure.
@thunderbeam91665 жыл бұрын
“Do you want a blow forward or blow back rifle?” Yes.
@robrocksea4 жыл бұрын
As Long as it doesn't Blow Up! don't care.
@sabretech20015 жыл бұрын
H und K: We make complicated stuff with lots of parts! Sig: Hold my beer.
@princeofcupspoc90735 жыл бұрын
They have more dark winter to dick around.
@culture-nature-mobility78675 жыл бұрын
And I thought german companies were known to be overengineering their stuff...
@arnekrug9395 жыл бұрын
@@culture-nature-mobility7867 Yes, but we sometimes had to use those things in an actual war, wich the Swiss don't really have to. That might be an explanation.
@MrKeserian5 жыл бұрын
@@arnekrug939 Thank you, I almost had beer flying out my nose I was laughing so hard after reading that. In all honesty, I don't think this is an inherently bad system, just that this may be a proof of concept prototype that never got the refinements that most production firearms get. Maybe change the feed system to a rear extracting system like the Bauberg, and simplify some of the components in the breach, for example. Of course, there'd have to be some advantage to this system to make it worth that further development, which is why I suspect this project didn't go anywhere.
@Patrick-8574 жыл бұрын
The difference is that Germany makes complicated stuff that (a) works, and (b) is able to be efficiently manufactured. Their stuff usually also has a reasonable excuse for it's complexity, such as achieving some kind of desirable outcome. This bizarre creation has no reason for it's complexity. It boggles my mind that it even exists, there is nothing gained here.
@Fingerlelucky92 жыл бұрын
I actually drew up plans for a prototype machine gun that operates similar to this. So I'll take a crack at what that loop on the back and the switch is for... One issue I ran into with the original design was recocking the firing pin... the action going forward won't recock your typical firing pin (because of the forward motion of the bolt)- Basically, the issue is that the firing pin has to be recocked by a separate action powered by another gas mechanism, which is not an issue when the gun is being fired HOWEVER cocking the gun manually should not prime the firing pin (at least not without some serious complexity). This is because they are two different "gas" operated actions so cocking and (what i call) "priming" the pin requires two separate actions. You have to cock it AND prime the pin to shoot your first round. It is also possible that the different switches maybe disassembles the gas-operated firing pin mechanism. This would mean that the firing pin has to be manually armed after each shot creating the illusion of semi-auto fire... If any of those switches or rotations have any effects on the firing pin, it probably wouldn't be noticed until you fire the gun... One thing I found with this design was that switching to full-auto and semi-auto isn't as easy as it seems. It has to do with timing mostly. When a typical gun recocks, the hammer can't easily fire prematurely because the action in the bolt moving backwards keeps the hammer compressed down and latched differently depending on the fire mode, allowing it to release once the action completes by closing and decompressing the hammer- allowing the hammer to only fire at its appropriate time... For this gun, it is no longer the case. It can fire prematurely if not timed correctly resulting in the firing pin releasing without stricking anything, which means you disrupted the gas cycle, meaning that the pin needs to be reprimed to begin the cycle again... In fact, it would need to be manually "reprimed" in almost any situation where a trigger pull doesn't result in a fired round... You might say "well duh", but the separation between chambering a new round and recocking the hammer means that you have to troubleshoot the gun every time a round doesn't fire... was it a dud? Or did the striker malfunction? One would require cocking/rechambering, the other would require "repriming" (hence why I call it that, because it needs a separate term to prevent confusion). I know that this is why the "repriming" loop is so accessible and obvious in their design (somewhat similar with my first few rough drafts). Now, the barrel... The barrel moves forward with the gun because they also ran into the biggest decision i did: keeping the barrel and chamber connected, or disconnecting the chamber from the barrel... this CAN be done safely enough if done right (cough* cough* revolvers...) but gas will almost certainly leak into the gun without a perfect seal, and this leak increases substantially with barrel length and higher chamber pressures from larger rounds... if the gun is complex, then this extra grime would never work if not dealt with or sealed. You could use that leak to power the piston, but doing so- so soon- is not ideal (and dangerous) with chamber pressures being at their highest peak when beginning its cycle... Having the barrel and chamber connected creates more issues than the obvious moving barrel (that can't be obstructed since it's full motion is required to load the next round), for instance: clearing a stuck casing through, or clearing a jam from the ejection port... A lot of this i actually solved, but all i did was trade simplicity for complexity, which probably couldn't have been done 60 years ago... If you think that any of this can be made simple... you are overlooking many problems (and this is only on paper and considering only foreseeable problems). Lastly, the safety. The safety could actually be working properly, and pulling the trigger is actually safely decocking the gun and not firing it, but i have no way of knowing for sure. With all that said, the guy who thought this up almost certainly did so for the same reason I did: counter-balancing. He wanted to reduce felt recoil, and muzzle climb with fully-automatic fire, increasing the accuracy and comfort of firing large rounds from the shoulder, but it didn't take me long to realize that it would be reallllllly impractical for anything other than small cartridge rounds or long range rifles and the advantages are small... Basically, the age old saying still holds true: you are reinventing the wheel... aaaand don't...
@SuperTelecom5 жыл бұрын
SIG AK-53: A truly fair argument against recreational drug use
@dimadrifter99204 жыл бұрын
Well LSD was curiously invented in Switzerland around the same time.
@worldtraveler9304 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking that Serious amounts of mind altering chemicals had been abused in order for this to come into existence!
Thanks, I just spit coffee all over my laptop.......
@mrmag6663 жыл бұрын
(Hits blunt)...... What if we made a gun that worked backwards....
@zerograv1855 жыл бұрын
Weird guns like this are the reason why I watch this show You made it about 45 seconds into the breakdown and I knew this was gonna be good
@bob_._.5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I never thought I would see Ian would have a breakdown 45 seconds into disassembling a gun.
@smartassdroid51493 жыл бұрын
That looks exactly like a gun every kid draws when trying to draw an AK from memory.
@chzzyg26984 жыл бұрын
Somebody at Sig actually sat down and came up with all of this on paper. I'm amazed by this thing.
@caseygriswold86175 жыл бұрын
The Swiss engineers forgot they weren't designing a watch.
@TheMCCraftingTable5 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I thought!
@jjarechiga4 жыл бұрын
Or.... The watch engineers got ask to design a rifle
@DeepPastry3 жыл бұрын
But what a complication.
@marc-andreservant2013 жыл бұрын
- Captain, do I have to field strip my weapon? - Yes, like any other gun. - Can we just never go to war then?
@nopdiddley7512 Жыл бұрын
I like how normal Forgotten Weapons videos is usually 1/3 beginnings history of the gun, 2/3 mechanics and disassembly, 3/3 where the gun is now/what happened to it. A gun is SO complicated and has SO little history that it mandated about 20~ minutes of the video just explaining the mechanics and disassembly.
@luzianwasescha60565 жыл бұрын
E mean Einzelfeuer(Single Shot) M means mitraillieren( Full Auto) it comes from the French word for Machine Gun, Mitrailleuse.
@willh89505 жыл бұрын
Ahh yes.... this truly is peak Swiss gun craftsmanship. Not only does I require at least three clockmakers and a DMM ( Deutsches Machine Magician) on hand to assemble it properly, you have to speak both German and French to operate it.
@EggBastion5 жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy.
@shirothehero06095 жыл бұрын
Very potentially part of the other French influence as well... Nice.
@tamlandipper295 жыл бұрын
I was thinking mitrailleuse. But the best I had for E was en garde.
@Braun305 жыл бұрын
We were always told that M on our Fass57 was for Maschinenfeuer. Not saying you are wrong, Just giving what my Swiss German corporal said. Guy was from Lucerne and was in a Ticinese platoon since he spoke Italian.
@buckstarchaser23765 жыл бұрын
With a bayonet affixed to the barrel, this would make a great S.A.W..
@pjnoonan14235 жыл бұрын
Maybe it would have had commercial success if it was marketed as an automatic saw, rather than a firearm.
@brocksdaddy0819105 жыл бұрын
I audibly loled when I read this
@zachbrummett83095 жыл бұрын
For wood or suppressive fire because saw back bayonets are frowned apon
@Callsign_Jaeger4 жыл бұрын
@@brocksdaddy081910 how would you even "laugh out loud" without making a sound....
@brocksdaddy0819104 жыл бұрын
@@Callsign_Jaeger I guess "litterally" is the word I should have used.
@LawsonMcLaren3 жыл бұрын
Everyone: Who the hell wants this thi- Elbonian Military Commander: How many can you make? Does it come in 7.62x45?
@nguyen-vuluu31503 жыл бұрын
u mean 7.62x39? cause 7.62x45 is a round used for a mere 5 years in the USSR for 3 WW2 era guns
@shootymcshootfacekoff79723 жыл бұрын
@@nguyen-vuluu3150 he meant 7.62x7.62cmR
@kylehagertybanana3 жыл бұрын
the elbow people will conquer the world!
@Neophage3 жыл бұрын
@@kylehagertybanana "elbow people". lmao.
@sorrenblitz8053 жыл бұрын
"Can it use highly corrosive ammunition?"
@leximatic4 жыл бұрын
This must be the work of engineers, that got totally bored of gun operating concepts since. There are mechanical calculators, that have less parts.
@BL00DSETTAKINOVA3 жыл бұрын
its actually a puzzle for Chris Ramsay
@donjones47193 жыл бұрын
Total boredom - why else come up with a forward operating system. Is it supposed to reduce recoil? That Swiss 7.5 is not an intermediate cartridge, right? Methinks firing it in full-auto would make the M-14 look like a practical design.
@uwesca62633 жыл бұрын
@@donjones4719 interestingly there are Other guns With a Forward operating system. Like the Krieghoff Serpio. I think its Just an Experiment For the Designer to Look what Other concepts Work and the companies sell These Things since its a really uncommon system.
@gavinjenkins8993 жыл бұрын
There are mechanical calculators with no moving parts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6m7kpywnNGmmdk
@misterwin23933 жыл бұрын
Shoutout to my abacus
@PhantomSavage4 жыл бұрын
If you were to look up "overengineering" in a dictionary you would just find a picture of this.
@chandrasekharpalepu13794 жыл бұрын
This and a G11
@reaperox_4 жыл бұрын
And most WWII German tanks from the late war era
@OmicronX-19994 жыл бұрын
@@reaperox_ At least they kicked ass though. Basically nothing could take a Tiger head on and live. This thing is some sort of weird experimental gun so it's no wonder it sucks, and the G-11 may actually have been decent had the Germans been able to use it before the reunification, despite having the Antikythera Mechanism as its firing system and being fed on magic space ammunition that nobody else was using.
@CThyran4 жыл бұрын
@@OmicronX-1999 German tanks may have been "better" one on one but they weren't ever facing just one tank. Instead they duked it out against a crap ton of "good enough" tanks like the T-34 and Sherman.
@dragonllig7904 жыл бұрын
Omicron9999 tigers were moderately effective on the battlefield but a logistical nightmare
@franciscarreon94093 жыл бұрын
You need a bachelor’s degree to fire the gun A Masters degree for disassembly
@zx7-rr48611 ай бұрын
And a Ph.D. to design it .....
@Rx_Vitamin_R4 жыл бұрын
“I broke it, and um...I’m gonna leave now.”
@chrissinclair87053 жыл бұрын
Shhh....maybe they won't notice....
@likebutton31365 жыл бұрын
The weapon has already failed when it takes 10 minutes to describe how the magazine works.
@jerkfudgewater1474 жыл бұрын
Anything original takes time to explain Ie. How does a microprocessor work?
@r4ahz1294 жыл бұрын
@Anthony Swiss as an IT professional, i say you nailed it.
@mbsb13764 жыл бұрын
@@jerkfudgewater147 ...Thats not how it works.
@michaelkeha4 жыл бұрын
@@mbsb1376 a magazine is very rarely complicated by intention they are supposed to be fairly disposable
@mbsb13764 жыл бұрын
@@michaelkeha I mean, I was talking about "anything original takes time to explain", and I was disagreeing. Yes, magazines are easy to explain.
@alexprokhorov4073 жыл бұрын
This is what happens when a gunsmith turns into a pacifist and he designs his last gun, so no one would be able to operate it.
@BugMagnet4 жыл бұрын
Ian pulls out a Honda Civic final drive shaft. "This is the gas piston." And thus the McGuffin was a little front heavy.
@fredsmith1124 жыл бұрын
Honda civic is front wheel drive therefore has no drive shaft
@BugMagnet4 жыл бұрын
@@fredsmith112 I said final drive. How do you suppose it gets torque to the wheels? Through the power of love?
@koloy9994 жыл бұрын
@@BugMagnet honda, the power of dreams
@SonjaTheDork4 жыл бұрын
@@BugMagnet Final drive usually refers to the differential (which is incorporated in the transaxle on the civic), the more accurate term would be cv axle or halfshaft. (Not that it matters, the joke is still brilliant anyways lol)
@BigWheel.2 жыл бұрын
@@fredsmith112 I know I'm a year late, but I'd like to mention that Honda considers the front drive axles the "driveshaft" on the civic (among ALL their fwd cars actually) that's how it comes up when you try to request the part through the program we use to fill out repair orders. The term "axle" only applies to non driven wheels, or rear wheels.
@MrDmitriRavenoff5 жыл бұрын
This thing seems like it was designed by a garage door company. 27 feet of springs.
@damienairalay5524 жыл бұрын
25 minutes later, I still dont know how it works, but neither does Ian, lol
@jubuttib3 жыл бұрын
Just for the sake of an intellectual exercise, I'm going to try to put this as simply as I can. =) 1. When you fire, the gas piston is pushed back, compressing the springs, and locks on to the barrel assembly. 2. When the gas pressure subsides, the outer spring acting on the gas piston pulls it, and the barrel assembly with it forward, and the cartridge gets ejected. 3. Once the barrel assembly hits the forward position, the inner spring, acting on the barrel, gets tripped and pushes the barrel backwards to load a new cartridge.
@julioalmeida49803 жыл бұрын
@@jubuttib thank you sir! Helped a lot!
@sorrenblitz8053 жыл бұрын
I think I get it. Point click and whatever the cursor was hovering over is dead. So it works like any other gun.
@damienairalay5522 жыл бұрын
@@jubuttib that's about as Swiss as you can get, lol. Only they could make an AK complicated
@jubuttib2 жыл бұрын
@@damienairalay552 I know what you mean, but for anyone else reading this it's worth saying that "AK" doesn't always refer to THAT kind of AK, in both SIG and Swedish parlance it means "automatic carbine"... =)
@polygondwanaland83905 жыл бұрын
I feel like this was at some point a brilliantly simple concept, but it didn't quite work. So they added a few more parts, and added a few more parts, and added a few more parts, until it was a glorious mess. Like, in theory, there's all of three or four moving parts here. But they need so many weird and janky supporting structures, it stops being simple.
@Jesses0015 жыл бұрын
I think you are onto something there. I can imagine how this thing is suppose to work in my head. It seems simple enough. Then you look at the actual rifle.
@yangcheng-jyun85425 жыл бұрын
It's actually rather simple, but you have the illusion because Ian haven't figured out the perfect way to disassemble it
@gruttepier21655 жыл бұрын
That's German/Swiss engineering in a nutshell.
@tskwared6675 жыл бұрын
I think this might just be a proof of concept for the operating mechanics and it never received further development. Would explain why the stock looks like it was an afterthought and the magazine was rigged up just enough to work without making much sense.
@ferwiner25 жыл бұрын
It is actually quite simple. If you compared it to the rifles we use today without knowing anything about guns, it would actually be simpler and would make sense much quicker. The only problem it has in its design is that everybody already used different system at its time. And this different system was proven by the war which made it even more desirable.
@azog235 жыл бұрын
If you'd put this video out on the 1st of April no one would believe this gun was real.
@scoutrifle68274 жыл бұрын
Beautiful machining throughout. Considering this was in days before CNC, there were some highly talented people making those rifles.
@Omnihil7775 жыл бұрын
17:16 The Fantastic Sig: Mr. Coilspring, Miss Invisible Safety, Johnny Gasport & The Barrel-Thing! Imagining 4 Swiss Superheroes....
@bulldowozer58585 жыл бұрын
I'm callin Blitzmensch
@CHmale815 жыл бұрын
You Sir made my day. :) Regards from Switzerland
@ezdeuce18185 жыл бұрын
This is a fuckin quality comment and funny as hell. Also made my day.
@admiralMcmufin5 жыл бұрын
LMFAO
@Omnihil7775 жыл бұрын
@@CHmale81 Was a pleasure. Greetings back from Germany :)
@csours5 жыл бұрын
You never know if it will work until you try... But you kinda know
@SgtKOnyx5 жыл бұрын
Sometimes the fact that it "hasn't been done before" is because it is actually a bad idea
@sixstringedthing5 жыл бұрын
@@SgtKOnyx beat me to it. If it didn't already exist by that stage in firearms history, there's probably a good reason why. Or several good reasons, which you're going to have difficulty counting off because you no longer have fingers.
@AlecioG5 жыл бұрын
Your profile picture looks like an x-ray of Joseph Stalin's face
@polygondwanaland83905 жыл бұрын
@@sixstringedthing I bet $5 you could make this concept work and work well. Ditch the annular gas piston, find a better solution for the magazine, and don't let a Swiss watchmaker near it.
@unhippy15 жыл бұрын
@@polygondwanaland8390 "and don't let a Swiss watchmaker near it.".......but then your rate of fire won't stay consistant
@menherachan78104 жыл бұрын
For a gun that's as over designed as this, it looks like a post apocalyptic diesel punk prop reject. Seriously this thing wouldn't look out of place in Trigun or Mad Max
@mikespongili82543 жыл бұрын
The curtains sure as hell don't match the drapes. The outside screams improvised weaponry while the inside looks like precision machinery circa 1950.
@menherachan78103 жыл бұрын
@@mikespongili8254 Maybe the swiss should stick to making watches.
@FinalManaTrigger3 жыл бұрын
And yet I have a feeling this gun wouldn't last a week in the field.
@menherachan78103 жыл бұрын
@@FinalManaTrigger Probably not
@JEilonwyn3 жыл бұрын
Or Fallout, Metro, etc.
@AxxySnipes4 жыл бұрын
It's funny because a few years ago I was thinking about a blow-forward handgun, for the purpose of allowing a slightly longer barrel in a compact package, and no rearward motion (allowing you to cheek-weld a stock), and I wondered to myself: surely I can't be the only one who's thought of this... I wonder why it hasn't been done. Turns out, it's possible, it is just a nightmare.
@pjgppjgp Жыл бұрын
I’ve also thought of this
@I_am_Signal9 ай бұрын
The SIG AK-53 is not a blow-forward action, rather it is a forward-operating action using a locked breech and a gas system to unlock the breech. There are blow-forward action pistols out there (that are much simpler than a locked breech forward operating system) if you are willing to look up the Mannlicher 1894 or the Schwarzlose Model 1908.
@robertm.41675 жыл бұрын
Help me Ian, my select fire pogo stick is broken.
@Timbobjr5 жыл бұрын
Is it stuck in full semi auto?
@Massakre8492nd5 жыл бұрын
Have you tried turning it on and off?
@skookapalooza20163 жыл бұрын
This looks very forward thinking for its time. The designer was clearly trying to create a rifle that provided maximum recoil mitigation for full-power rifle cartridges. It turned out to be too awkward. It's definitely fascinating. Too bad you can't take it to the range. I would like to see what accuracy it was capable of.
@-Zevin-9 ай бұрын
Exactly, I really want to see this rifle fire, with the muzzle brake, low cyclic rate in full auto, and mass reciprocating forward I have a feeling it would be one of the most controllable and comfortable full powered rifles ever built. Very interesting design.
@worldtraveler9309 ай бұрын
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍🇨🇭
@seriousGeex5 жыл бұрын
I think the safety ring in the horizontal position lets you release the hammer without striking the primer. You can see that it sticks out slightly more when it is in the horizontal position and you pull the trigger
This gun is insane because the way the feed ramp is and the bolt face is it just seems like a really huge pistol. Minus the LSD expirement of the recoil action
@SgtKOnyx5 жыл бұрын
When you're less than 30 seconds into the close up and you're already "WHY?"
@Jesses0015 жыл бұрын
Ha I said that out loud about that time.
@SgtKOnyx5 жыл бұрын
@@Jesses001 Me too. It was for the mag release. Admittedly I got my answer, but that certainly added additional questions
@mikedidvlogs86655 жыл бұрын
The more I see it come apart the more I'm convinced I am that I'll be reassembling it in my nightmares for as long as I live.
@lyndababy3 жыл бұрын
How incredibly convoluted. I can't imagine how a soldier would be expected to field strip and maintain such a bizarre contraption.
@FinalManaTrigger3 жыл бұрын
Exactly my thoughts, this thing wouldn't last a week in the field.
@Mr-Trox3 жыл бұрын
@@FinalManaTrigger Considering it would never be in the field, this is hardly a problem.
@genericaccount59975 жыл бұрын
The " 4 pronged thing" is called a collet.
@bubakawara5 жыл бұрын
Terrible rifle, but very accurate clock.
@schrodingersgat43444 жыл бұрын
There's a box of chocolate in the stock.
@joelvelezjv764 жыл бұрын
Swiss have to make everthing with a loud koko bird.
@fulcrum29514 жыл бұрын
Wonder if there's chocolates in the buttstock
@CrusaderCrunch4 жыл бұрын
I mean they never really were planning on joining a war anyways, they just needed to be able to tell the time to see who can get the best speed run completion time time for the next world war.
@nunyabizness1994 жыл бұрын
It just ticks rather loudly..
@BoomstickNick884 жыл бұрын
Ian out here enthusiastically teaching people how to solve puzzles that history deemed not with solving. The GOAT.
@michaelpielorz97105 жыл бұрын
"Must we do a field strip for cleaning after an engagement ?" "As any other gun,yes." " Ah,hmmm.It would be wise to become a neutral nation !"
@charliedulol3 жыл бұрын
war is hard work that really ain't worth it most of the time.
@mikestavisky80092 жыл бұрын
Lol
@pkt12135 жыл бұрын
Management: Think outside the box. There are no boundaries. We want to explore all options. SIG Engineers: Done!
@jeremiahtompkins69525 жыл бұрын
Two months later, "we were very wrong, get back in the box, now"
@Mr83goat5 жыл бұрын
Hold my beer
@AM-dc7pv5 жыл бұрын
1920's Management: Think outside the box. There are no boundaries. We want to explore all options. 1930's SIG Engineers: Done! 1940's Management: After much work, you guys seem to have made an exceptional sample of SIG engineering prowess. Very efficient. A lot of good engineering work. Let's kick it up a notch and see how much more you can do boosted up on meth. 1950's SIG Engineers: Done! There, I fixed it for you, bro.
@toysoldiernerio71723 жыл бұрын
i was questioning the recoil design, then when you showed the mag release my only words are "why is everything about this gun wrong?"
@narwhocalypse96565 жыл бұрын
9:09 Top jump scares of 2019
@Astroman19905 жыл бұрын
"I think that is most we need to talk about". No Ian, this rifle has a lot more to talk about. This gun is nuts.
@stuartcleary86214 жыл бұрын
Watching the disassembly ,you can kinda get why it never went anywhere, truly a forgotten weapon !!!
@paulbrozyna30065 жыл бұрын
It’s mind boggling frankenguns like this and the Mars pistols that feel like what this channel exists for.
@KingdomOfApple5 жыл бұрын
Paul Brozyna it feels more like these weird guns exist purely so channels like this can exist.
@RayTC4 жыл бұрын
This is the classic swiss humor of „because i can and you cant stop me“
@S0REN_4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, that piston retaining collet is basically a big version of what holds the bit into a Dremel tool. When you tighten the threaded shroud, it compresses the four prongs, squeezing the bit. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it lol
@diebastelkammer49594 жыл бұрын
Hello Ian, first of all, thank you very much for the report on this truly special weapon. Looking at the gun I immediately notice the relationship to the semi-automatic blow forward Volkssturmkarabiner in caliber 7,92x33 of the Hessische Industrie Werke and its designer August Coenders. The weapon you present seems to be a further development of the Coenders design. Instead of a recoil forced operation forward bolt it was changed to a gas pressure loader and instead of an integrated magazine a magazine to change was developed. It would be great if you would do an episode about the Coenders development - maybe there are model replicas of the semi-automatic construction or 3D models to explain it an built a bridge to SIG AK-53.
@thebaddest25625 жыл бұрын
What a jalopy. E and m stand for error and malfunction respectively.
@Braun305 жыл бұрын
Actually E is for Einzelfeuer, semi auto, and M is for Maschinenfeuer, full auto. Beats me where the S for Sicherheit may be.
@Kari-tu3fs5 жыл бұрын
Braun30 Tis your finger
@ethan_37145 жыл бұрын
@@Braun30 Like Daniel said, the safety is your decision to not fire the junker.
@dr.mighthaveknown91325 жыл бұрын
The best description of the markings on this "thing" so far!
@jerrell11695 жыл бұрын
Braun30 Man that joke just flew right over your head
@jubuttib3 жыл бұрын
10:36 I can just hear the process of them working out how to get that cocking system out. "Click on one, nothing on two, small click on three, four feels like it's binding..."
@GreatgoatonFire5 жыл бұрын
This would be great in some kind of alt-history movie/game. It is familiar but different.
@SgtKOnyx5 жыл бұрын
There are some things that don't work in any timeline
@thesnake26205 жыл бұрын
@@SgtKOnyx 😁
@skoopsro76565 жыл бұрын
Would fit right in the new Metro:Exodus game, or any of the older metro games
@gruknarorcishwar-yerhereto84895 жыл бұрын
I could see this as some backwater “slug thrower” in Star Wars. Looks like a normal firearm but is just slightly off that you question if it’s real.
@tehredmage5 жыл бұрын
It would feel right at home in borderlands
@wasdwazd5 жыл бұрын
How in the name of John Moses Browning did this make it off the drawing board?
@shirothehero06095 жыл бұрын
Because Swiss.
@gregoryfilin80405 жыл бұрын
The Swiss are bored and have zero urgency. They can design a million things with no issues.
@ericmastrocola61615 жыл бұрын
@@gregoryfilin8040 I still love the Furrer Submachine gun. "We might get invaded any day, let's design a toggle-based monstrosity that will cost 5 times any other sub gun!"
@ZGryphon4 жыл бұрын
Be honest, once it was _on_ the drawing board, could you resist building one just to see it?
@SqueakiestChair2 жыл бұрын
The cocking piece can be rotated and fired on both positions so you can dryfire the weapon. One position is for fire, while the other is for dryfire
@DjDolHaus864 жыл бұрын
What I really love about the AK is how simple it is to strip and maintain in the field.
@xgford945 жыл бұрын
A great example of development of an idea for the sole purpose of “we have done it so you don’t have to”
@AndyBonesSynthPro2 жыл бұрын
I forget the name, but there's an interwar-era Japanese blow-forward pistol w very similar action. With each shot the barrel protrudes forth from a shroud
@andreaslaroi89565 жыл бұрын
The "E" and "M" are used on the Stgw 57 (former Swiss battle rifle) as well. The "E" stands for Einzelfeuer, i.e. semi auto. The "M" stands for the french verb "mitrailler" or alternatively it's germanized variant "mitraillieren". Mitrailler means shooting full auto, or machine gunning as in mitrailleuse, the french word for machine gun. Switzerland has four official languages (german, french, italian and romansh) and loan words from french are very common in german.
@frotz6613 жыл бұрын
I'd call that four-pronged thing a "collet". On a Dremel Multitool, the "collet" looks and operates very similarly. It sits in a cup on the end of the motor shaft, receives the bit, and is pressed closed with the "collet nut". That assembly on the rifle also looks a lot like the length-adjustment joint on the bottom of a Flowmaster replacement toilet valve.
@anchorbait66625 жыл бұрын
Just the fact that you have to push the charging handle forward would totally make me useless trying to operate this gun. It would be like riding that bicycle where the handlebars turn the wheel in the opposite direction.
@DerplingKing5 жыл бұрын
Someone has made that bicycle. It's just as hard as you think it is.
@777astercheese5 жыл бұрын
Weirdly enough, above 15 mph, that property is true. Check out motorcycle countersteering if you're interested
@agate_jcg5 жыл бұрын
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery This gun is a long way from perfection.
@zacharynoe17875 жыл бұрын
That guy sounds like an idiot.. lol
@Antiganos5 жыл бұрын
@@zacharynoe1787 Hardly, the point of the quote being that things should be simplified as much as possible rather than be made more complex than they need to be. AKA if you can achieve the same result with 3 parts as you can with 40, the better design is the one with fewer parts.
@darthsidious48945 жыл бұрын
@@Antiganos Tell that to my Twin Turbo charges V8 Engine, while you drive around in your 50ccm motorbike.
@Antiganos5 жыл бұрын
@@darthsidious4894 You're completely missing the concept here. The idea is that when those turbos were designed, the engineers would be doing their best to make them function how they want to, but with the fewest parts possible in order to create the most reliable turbo they can. That way, when you bolt it up to your engine, there's less chance that it's going to break. Same reason OHV engines like the Chevy LS are so bulletproof, they're simple designs that use the least amount of parts to do what they are designed to do. Basically: if you can make a design achieve the same effect with 15 parts as you can with 40, go with 15. (Think of how simple your turbo is mechanically, or how simple the design of an AR is, no unnecessary parts) Other designs have their place, and each will be as simplified as time and money and thought allowed it to be before it was produced. While rebuilding the smallblock V8 in my 79 Firebird, it is evident that Chevy engineers very much tried to make every part serve several purposes in order to reduce the total amount of things needed to run/and therefore things that can fail. Headers have built in mounting brackets/intakes integrate fittings into the casting/etc. Now that I get to rebuild it, I get to further simplify it and make it even more reliable by removing unnecessary parts that allow the engine the freedom from extra variables. Basically: if you can make a design achieve the same effect with 5 parts as you can with 40, go with 5.
@romka_ind5 жыл бұрын
Why they didn't made a suppressed bullpup version to make it even better?
@bruceevans565 жыл бұрын
I think the word you cannot think of for the "thing" is a collet.
@kf4tmh5 жыл бұрын
Looks like one but it doesn't operate like one so would you still call it a collet?
@lightningslim5 жыл бұрын
@@kf4tmh That's what I would collet! 😉
@hinz15 жыл бұрын
That's another Swiss thing, they totally like to use collets for everything. Probably because of the clockmaking industry here.
@DaveTex23755 жыл бұрын
I was absolutely certain that was either a thingy or a dumoflochee.
@jhughes81605 жыл бұрын
@@DaveTex2375 It looked like a thingamajiggy to me
@Trisnice4 жыл бұрын
I feel like this gun was made by a master craftsman, but extra high on an acid
@adamlee25504 жыл бұрын
Just one acid? Those are rookie numbers.
@randomtangela81163 жыл бұрын
2 acids, one pound morphine, a lot of cocaine, the souls of no less than 3 watchmakers and a chocolate maker, all ingested by a man currently suffering from hypoxia in the Swiss alps
@simennilsen54573 жыл бұрын
@@randomtangela8116 dude one acid is enough to make this, ever tried acid?
@ulvschmidt71743 жыл бұрын
This was made by someone who hated people who work on assembly lines
@P7777-u7r3 жыл бұрын
I mean acid was first synthesized by a Swiss chemist.
@SpecManX014 жыл бұрын
This is what i imagine if IKea created a gun and you have to assemble it yourself
@primalabe91905 жыл бұрын
A great day for imperium! A priest of Adeptus Mechanicus has solved yet another secret of the mysterious relic weapons from the dark age of technology. He also documented it well, so this sacred knowledge shall never again be lost to us.
@LordSluggo5 жыл бұрын
Bullets for the Bullet Throne!
@SidneyBroadshead5 жыл бұрын
@Noble Savage The Emperor Will Remember! He is the Ghost in the Machine, the Machine God, the Gun Jesus!
@SidneyBroadshead5 жыл бұрын
@@LordSluggo Will the Bullet Throne be made of lead or brass? The latter seems more OSHA friendly.
@princeofcupspoc90735 жыл бұрын
That's the important thing. Before we had one diagram in one book. Now we have an actual recorded breakdown. That is huge from a historical archive standpoint.
@flyingninja12345 жыл бұрын
@@SidneyBroadshead I would guess Brass for maximum shininess.
@ivanmonahhov23145 жыл бұрын
Ultra-ShKAS aka a MG that fires 3000 rounds per minute. And combines blow foward and blow back
@unhippy15 жыл бұрын
Normally when your rifle blows forward and blows back at the same time you get an instant case of "blackface"....
@ivanmonahhov23145 жыл бұрын
@@unhippy1 It is an aircraft MG in 7.62*54R , average ShKAS had ROF of 1800.
@loyp43285 жыл бұрын
Possibly E = Einzelfeuer M = Mitraillieren
@loyp43285 жыл бұрын
"Die Armeeversion des Assault Rifle 57 schiesst Einzelfeuer (Sicherungshebel auf Stellung "E") und Dauerfeuer (Sicherungshebel auf Stellung "M" = mitraillieren)." www.swisswaffen.com/assault-rifle-57/sg57/waupyumzaxah
@silvermediastudio5 жыл бұрын
or Mehrfeuer
@ricoblaser63085 жыл бұрын
@@silvermediastudio "Mehrfeuer" is not a German word. In the Swiss army, however, the machine-gun soldiers are called Mitrailleur.
@silvermediastudio5 жыл бұрын
@@ricoblaser6308 And this rifle isn't German, it's Swiss. "One Fire" and "More Fire" makes sense. Why would they use the word Mitrailleur for two different purposes, one to describe a crew served weapon team and one to describe the automatic fire mode? That could get confusing when giving order to a squad under fire. "Did the LT tell the crew served weapon team to move, or does he want us to lay down automatic fire?"
@Orcimedes5 жыл бұрын
@@silvermediastudio Mitrailleur is a noun which, to the best of my knowledge, comes from French and translates as "machine gun" (or "machine gunner") Mitraillieren looks like a german(-like) inflection denoting the verb form of that noun. (something like "machine gunning") Verb-noun relations such as those are quite common, and also exist in English. Keeping in mind French and German are two of Switzerland's four official languages, the explanation provided is plausible *and* is backed up a source.
@erikm124 жыл бұрын
What you're seeing is the Swiss attempt to weaponize their famous cuckoo clocks. Instead of a bird popping out the front, it's the barrel!
@howler6490 Жыл бұрын
The amount of work that went into this machine in the hope of having a serious weapon at the end of the day defies all logic.
@oncameramastery5 жыл бұрын
How on earth did something this overly complex and expensive to machine ever make it off the drawing board?! ~Great Vid BTW Ian
@totalvvar5 жыл бұрын
It's swiss
@notpulverman96605 жыл бұрын
Don't be dumb. The first gun is always expensive, and usually too complex. The question is was it too expensive to mass produce, and too complex for what it did, and the answer is yes.
@johannderjager41465 жыл бұрын
Happens all the time in Germany...
@Crosshair845 жыл бұрын
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...
@magisterrleth31295 жыл бұрын
Have you seen the Germans? Look at the Tigers and Panthers, those things were ridiculous. These are the people who invented clocks(spring driven ones anyway). Germanic people love their complicated machines.
@nicocortes51455 жыл бұрын
a: "I need to reload!" b: "We're screwed..."
@drgeoffangel54223 жыл бұрын
Well done Ian, for your patience in trying to understand this simple mechanism, which wouldn't be out of place in a clock!! One that shoots that is!!
@mauser15515 жыл бұрын
AK-53 is 1 million times more complicated than the AK-47.
@enceladus324 жыл бұрын
@absourate each digit stands for x10 complexity, the AK-1 is also known as the "rock".
@sillylittleowlguy23924 жыл бұрын
SilverDax then the ak-2 would be a stick on a rock
@Porty11194 жыл бұрын
So each increment is roughly an order of magnitude. I suppose the AK-60 is probably an Imperial Star Destroyer.
@threeleafclover60034 жыл бұрын
@@sillylittleowlguy2392 AK-3 is just a sharp rock on a bigger stick
@thermionicemission63554 жыл бұрын
Y'all do realise modern Russian AKs are in the "100s" series now, they must have nano-bots working inside them to keep the corrosive materials away from the gun :)