Why “Cool” Military Gear Never Actually Works

[@Justin_Taylor]

Leave the piece of tech that broke your heart by being cancelled here 👇

[@ducembarr7057]

Could it be worth making a video on shhot around the corner guns that have been tried over the century?

[@cyclonesfan7205]

Urban camouflage as a concept. I know it doesn't work but it looks cool

[@macleanhawley1742]

the ipod that would have made my dad come back from the store :

[@AircraftFTW]

The XM-25 wasn't cancelled because it didn't work. It was cancelled because exploding bullets are a war crime.

[@CharliMorganMusic]

AH-56

[@alguien6462]

funny that you mention halo so much when the UNSC have been using the same assault rifle series with the same caliber for 165 years

[@Justin_Taylor]

Yeah but the relative stability of human controlled space before the beginning of the insurrections and focus on space faring technologies is a good enough lore cop-out for me. Just don’t actually try to look at the Scorpion tank with actual tactical scrutiny

[@okokokokokhahaha]

The tactical scrutiny of the Scorpion is that I fucking blow a Phantom out of the sky ​@@Justin_Taylor

[@virtuallyreal5849]

Nice pfp 👍

[@generictag1050]

They still used 7.62 nato in halo, right

[@Justin_Taylor]

@@okokokokokhahahatank beats everything

[@nosidenoside2458]

Every military stops funding their OICW program right before they make a successful rifle/grenade launcher combo

[@randomka-52alligatorthatis34]

It's kinda weird how South Korea and China are the only militaries outside the US that tried the OICW concept(is their any other country that tried it?).

[@badideagenerator2315]

​@@randomka-52alligatorthatis34 canada also tried to make one

[@bliboblob620]

@@randomka-52alligatorthatis34 France tried too with the PAPOP program

[@G36C-556]

​@randomka-52alligatorthatis34 Belgium tried (it was more of a rifle/ rocket launcher, the designers were silly)

[@randomka-52alligatorthatis34]

@@nosidenoside2458 OK, what's with most major Militaries in the 90s and early 2000s being obsessed with the OICW-style rifle lol.

[@efoxneo]

I just wanted a helmet with integrated comms and hearing protection. But my hearing loss is not service related.

[@FreakTesticals]

I just wanted standard issue bulletproof crotch cop My missing testicals are service related

[@QuizmasterLaw]

i just pretend its the refrigerator. i am followed around by a refrigerator it is of course very well stocked.

[@Justin_Taylor]

You will get a used ACH with foam ear plugs and a handset that doesn't plug in properly to your ASIP and be happy

[@tubeetogoo]

3m sporttack isnt that expensive? Even comtac is Like 800 Bucks with Full setup

[@patrickbateman312]

That's pretty common now.

[@JosephHenry-l5e]

I joined the Army and given an M60A1 tank. Then a M60A3 tank. Then spent time on an M551 and finally on an M1A1. That thing was from the future. The faster you go, the more accurate the firing solution. You could get the entire tank off the ground and land with no injuries. You were the fastest vehicle cross country. If you could see it, you could kill it. With the proper track tension, you couldn't 'throw' a track. A flat surface to sleep on. The list was endless. That thing was a dream. I got just about everything I wished for. No complaints here.

[@PAGrunt]

Sheridan huh? Saw them, mostly at NTC. I liked the look of it.

[@maceomathis771]

The M1A1 was a dream. Compared to the 60s, night and day. The only thing I would add is the deck hatch, but I understand due to the torsion bar.

[@Mrblobfish2]

The M1A1X scares me. But what scares me more is the military rocket powered M1A1 designed to reach speeds up to 95mph. At that rate you don’t even have to shoot something to destroy it you can just ram through it

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

Designing gear to be tacticool is why it’s never worth a shit. What’s most effective and most widely used, or even better whats effective and only used by elite warriors always becomes what IS COOL because of what it represents. Once the idea of effectiveness and necessity takes root and makes it synonymous with the warriors of that era it becomes desired and aesthetically pleasing. Plus, if something looks cool but can’t keep you alive it’s absolutely worthless when and where it matters. Almost every human thats ever existed would wear the most ridiculous outfit if you told them it would give them a 50% greater chance to survive. Enough badass people do enough badass things wearing stupid clothes, the clothes get stained in glory too.

[@Pedanta]

This is honestly outstandingly well put sir

[@miepmaster25]

Well said

[@stealthfinger]

Like that time the army spent a fuckton of cash on new bullets and guns to make dudes more accurate only to figure out if you give them a scope you get a better result.

[@user-nikkebot]

omg this

[@soupcangaming662]

"Scope? Nah dude, give them a red dot and ask them to fire at 500m." >slightly higher accuracy scores relative to iron sight scores "Dude, these shitty optics heavy as hell, I'd rather use my irons." >red dots proven to be more effective than irons, atleast in close range

[@Boomy2nicce]

@@soupcangaming662thing is army acts like we need to ration bullets when we win wars through volume and accuracy by volume. We have the money to afford all the rounds in the world. No way we do the “die mutherfucker die” saw intervals for no reason.

[@nicodemusmattson8613]

​@soupcangaming662 that was the advanced rifle program. The colt model was a modified m4/m16 (ar15) platform rifle that had a scope and shot "duplex" rounds, basically colt said "what's better than one bullet? Two". And the army realized since it was the best option and the main modifications to colts new rifle was a scope, that all they actually needed was the scope, because duplex bullets were stupid😂

[@Brent-jj6qi]

@@Boomy2nicceon the scale of a full war? Yes. On the individual soldier level? If they can do things with half the bullets, they can carry half the ammo and reduce weight

[@notaspy1227]

The Military can barely get functioning wifi in the barracks. Give it a half-century lol.

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

half a century? come on anything before the year 3000 is fast tracked

[@slingshotjohnny1]

That would be a huge morale-buster- they don't want us to know what everyone else knows! Kinda defeats the purpose of recruiting so many dipshits...

[@notaspy1227]

I forget to multiply by 10.

[@NCR_vet_ranger2347]

5 eons later

[@misfit492]

thanks BOINGO!!!!! (why is there over 900 access points flooding channel 11 on 2.4ghz?)

[@ManinTidyWhities]

CIA agent: May I interest you in a bipedal weapons system, a kind of gear made of metal? US military: Great idea! It's not like it's gonna get stolen by some Brit and we gotta send some reptile on a sneaking mission to get it back!

[@kamakazioverland4584]

This comment didn’t get enough likes

[@notaheretic6675]

My favorite deep state agent naked serpent.❤❤

[@deadpan2866]

you forgot to mention that the brit and the reptile look identical and kinda look like a young version of the president

[@deebo9981]

youre pretty good

[@CrushedBenadrylPills]

Metal gear?! It’s already active!

[@billyheaning]

Anybody remember the Future Soldier article from Popular Science about 25 years ago? Dude was dressed all in black, wore a motorcycle helmet and had a wrist-mounted gun. I don’t think any of that came to fruition.

[@ArmouredProductions]

I remember that one. It was called the Future Soldier 2030.

[@wbond6692]

I still have that issue. So far, we seemed to have branched off into another direction. One thing that Popular Science never takes into its predictions? Politics. 😒

[@mechadeka]

That's just every 80s sci-fi B-movie hero.

[@takanuva588]

I remember "mobile computers" were supposed to be the next big thing in military. I used to have one, a handheld stylus touchscreen brick that ran some form of windows 98... in 2009

[@No-mq5lw]

That would have been Windows CE. Looks like Windows 98, but kind of isn't.

[@billlhooo6485]

its like when you leave high school and they just rebuild the school from ground up with new stuff.

[@uku4171]

Exactlyyy. About to finish my compulsory military service in a month and my battalion is gonna get so much new stuff.

[@RusticRonnie]

@@uku4171honestly… probably for the best.

[@g_rr_tt]

I was a stryker driver then VC for a good 6 years in 2CR, the same year I ETS'd they introduced the 30mm cannon variant. I was livid.

[@Boristhaspydr]

That shit happened in middle school (all new carpets) and high school (all new air conditioning!) Each time right after I left lol. Even my elementary school, I got to at least spend a liiiiitttttle bit of time on the brand new expensive playground before I went to middle school lol

[@drewmalesky9869]

I wouldn't write robo-tanks off just yet. I think everything that can be dronified, will be dronified.

[@mnk9073]

Look at what drones dominate the battlefield now, the Reapers and Global Hawks or cheap one way drones? Drones are ammunition not vehicles. That's why we'll never get robo-dogs, robo-mules, robo-tanks or even robo-suits.

[@moss8702]

​@@mnk9073 Not true. Theyre using robo mules for resupply and casualty retrieval in Ukraine

[@herrfantastisch7489]

⁠@@mnk9073 It really depends on the cost and technology. Police adore using those little UGVs because you’re sending in eyes and ears into a room or area without risking a human life. Not only that, it’s proven many times that it does work, as shown in San Francisco and Dallas, and is remarkably cheap for what it is. And now it gets even cheaper with aerial drones used as scouts in the military. But if we ever made more progress with the robots Boston Dynamics is brewing up, the military would 100% adopt it, and we could see robot dogs and mules. The only big things barring this are power, mobility, and AI. The AI is actually getting more intelligent and sophisticated. We just need a robot which can effectively traverse a battlefield and harsh conditions without being reliant on humans too much, and something that’ll last, and boom, you’ve got a platoon’s new pack mule. And power armour and exoskeletons are definitely a thing we will see. Exoskeletons are very beneficial already, and power armour is something I can see for turning people into pack mules or allowing them to use heavy armaments. Definitely not something like in the video games, where power armour is used on the front lines, but more for logistics and utility. Exoskeletons are already ranged around 100,000 dollars, which is remarkably cheap if you consider the US military budget, and power armour isn’t too far off. We have the technology for these two, exempting power supply. Our biggest hurdle is miniaturizing a power source to effectively power something like it reliably.

[@drewmalesky9869]

@mnk9073 reapers and global hawks, aren't there because the participants in the war don't have much access to them. You fight the war with the stuff you got.

[@ohnoes3084]

robo-tanks already exist funnily enough, Russians have been modifying T72's into drones, only issue is theyre horrifically bad and need another drone to guide them

[@TukaihaHithlec]

I remember the XM8 being in a ton of games and books back around 2008. Everyone seemed to preemptively include it like it was an inevitable next step. I know it’s practically just a G36, but it has a special value for me.

[@Zack_Wester]

I think part of it was that the US army/military was supper into it and ran several test runs and the result was good like we will probably adapt it ether in full or for some part of the army. and then nothing happen maybe budget cuts. I remember one project years ago that got accepted and then the army said we need 10 million copies of this to outfit all out soldiers and have stock and all that. note this was not a we need 10 million by the next year starting today this was we sign the contract you build the factory the factory is built next year (takes 7 month to build this kind of factory) and then you make the 10 millions copies over 3-4 years if you need more time thats fine just give us a sort of expected time window. the company we have no way to make that a possibility even whit 1 new factory making 10 million copies will take 10-12 years.

[@tachyon8317]

I always half-jokingly figured that the army didn't adopt the xm-8 because it wasn't "pretty enough." Think about it, for ceremonial reasons, the garand, and even the m16 can look nice in a role like that, especially the garand. They look pretty. Also, there's history and a sense of pride behind those weapons that can be used to subtlety convey a sense of seriousness to a ceremony. One might make the argument that an xm-8 would look too "sterile" or "purpose built" to be in a ceremony.

[@maseoembry4165]

I think only the Malaysian commandos use it now

[@HorsesArePeople2]

I still loooooove the XM8

[@ej4458]

I remember reading this exact comment in another video like this, it feels like deja vu.

[@Lobos222]

Back in 1998 in Norway. We tested a targeting computer with nightvision for the 84mm Carl Gustav, aka the MAAWS in the US. You lased something at speed and similar to Abrams the recital would move to show where you should aim to shoot the moving tank. While another aspect did not work on our current 84mm recoilless cannons. The targeting device also had a copper output thing on it for electrical signals. This means that if the 84mm had a drilled line of copper as well, which was sort of the idea, you could technically send range airburst info to the shell rather than pre twist the airburst to detonate at a given range. It would also implement green scale, white scale for above or direct shot. Obviously a programmable shell wasnt invented ether, but that wouldnt be a big deal to develop. 26 years later and it still isnt really implemented. A thing that was implemented, but not to scale in context of options, was the combat vests we used. Basically we had combat vests that had allot of different stuff we could add on to to totally change the setup. I think it was called Combat Vest 2000 program. Anyway, my setup was like this. All my G3 mags were side loaded on one side, mags horizontal, meaning I could easier reload while prone and I could crawl without dragging the ammo pooches like plow...

[@Streetsvillainy]

7:15 - coming from a family of sailors going back centuries i can agree it looks tacticool and Bond villain-esque, but it doesn't look like a human boat for humans. If the tech parts break you can't do anything with it, you can't even climb to the bow from the stern. It's a spaceship for a evil empire in scifi that only works if the empire is working. How do you tie off to a dock? Well you press a button to expose the tie-off, okay but we cant press the button right now its broken the remote control got lost. We can't dock.

[@TotalRookie_LV]

I want actual exoskeletons fielded, partially for personal reasons - illness is damaging my spinal cord, so maybe medical stuff will also become more available to mere mortals like me, when this technology is more widespread.

[@CrumpetsNBiscuits]

Not gonna happen unless you're rich.. sorry

[@TotalRookie_LV]

@CrumpetsNBiscuits Maybe, on the other hand I got medication for over 1100€ each month for free to attempt to keep my disability in check; and I get around 2900€ every couple years for mobility devices like a wheelchair, walker etc.

[@masterpython]

They have them for drywallers now

[@TotalRookie_LV]

@@masterpython Yes, and there are some medical exoskeletons too here and there, but still very few of them.

[@MeowNaur]

@@CrumpetsNBiscuits If the technology gets worked on more its likely its gonna be cheaper and more common place in the future

[@1s3ngr1m]

Former german paratrooper here. While we were deployed, the H&K G3 was the "up-to-date" thing...without any fancy-shmancy add-ons. I was lucky, because i could shoot straight from the beginning and got issued a H&K MSG90, which basically is an accurized, semi-auto variant of the G3 with (for this time) very nice working scope. Nowadays the same german soldiers get issued the H&K G95 (which is essentially just a HK416) and the H&K G28 (which is an accurized, semi-auto variant of the HK417) As a veteran i quite regularly get in touch with todays soldiers (as some of my friends stayed in the Bundeswehr to become higher-ups) and we have some informal "meetings" Sometimes we even have some leisure-time shoot-outs on the range (in anti-gun germany a rather seldom happenstance) and at one of these events one of my old friends got me an ages-old, but well-maintained MSG90 to "compete" with some of their best shooters (with their modern weapons). Just to be clear i'm now nearing my 6th decade of living, have ageing eyesight, and my left (shooter) hand near-always trembles due to nerve damage from a botched back surgery. I apologized up-front before shooting, knowing full-well i didn't shoot my beauty for around 20 years and made myself comfortable on the range ground as good and as limber as i could make it look and tried some getting-back-in-the-game shots. Well, it went far better than expected. Given that they had training up to this day, had modern weapons with all the fancy gadgets and high-powered optics, are of young age and were still serving, i held my own accuracy- and speed-wise very near to their performance. Only that their equipment costs right around 10-15 times as much as my ages-old rifle. Skills, training, dedication and experience beat equipment every time. That's why we oftentimes got the hurt in afghanistan by people in flip-flops and with AKs that are far older than the people wielding it.

[@Hellsong89]

In Germanys case perhaps the results would been far different if private gun ownership was not so shun. In Finland 15y olds get into moose hunting with 54R and 308 rifles, least if they are from countryside family, though here too the gun ownership was being driven out, but government loosened things a bit after whole Ukraine fiasco, but still kids here learn to shoot and the basics of firearms from early age... or they have helicopter parents and havent even seen a gun in real life, but alas some learn and practice, building the experience and in military service they get to shoot anyways. Buddy who had the early training easily mag dump 30 rounds standing into 50meter target, when LT claimed they wont hit anywhere with full auto and to use semi only to conserve ammo reserves and looking those that had not held gun before it might been the case, so there is the experience difference that yes beats equipment every time.

[@OCinneide]

As they said in medieval times, the longbow man beats the crossbow man.

[@Frille512]

@@OCinneide Up until a knight is on the field

[@Снайпер_Хренов]

Wo ist denn das G36 hin? Ich sehe jedes mal nur diese Waffe bei den Soldaten

[@christ4032]

Tell that to the French at Agincourt

[@kangsen6361]

That Chinese guy said "Trash handgun. Trash rifle. But a repeating grenade launcher or an individual soldier guided missile! So long as my bullet is big enough, there's nothing I can't hit".

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Gork and Mork approve of this message

[@metro-v8]

@@ArkadiBolschek hell yeah

[@BigBoss-cc2mh]

​@@ArkadiBolschek This is some serious warp heresy!!

[@tiagobelo4965]

​@@ArkadiBolschek who needs accuracy when you'z got dakka

[@ArkadiBolschek]

@@tiagobelo4965 When you got dakka, the only thing you need is _more_ dakka

[@clawabidingcitizen]

0:15 When your artist has a side hustle

[@raptop]

The M2 Browning will still be in use in the first war on Mars

[@Jabberwockybird]

And the officers will have 1911s

[@Hoplopfheil]

It's too bad Metal Storm turned out to be basically the MIC version of a crypto shitcoin.

[@Terranallias18]

How so

[@hedgehog3180]

Oh god what if the US Army created a shitcoin. I can totally see that happen they already tried twitch streaming.

[@Whatevs_Punyeta]

​@@Terranallias18 Also interested in how

[@sierraecho884]

Lol this shit was funny as hell. I really enjoyed most the stuff on future weapons. Always wondered why drones aren´t a thing, guess they are now.

[@memph1ston]

@@Terranallias18 dumped a bunch of money into it and it never went anywhere

[@Rimasta1]

“We fear change.” -Department of Defense

[@Marinealver]

And with good reason, I learned that "new" doesn't mean "better", it often means they found a "lower bidder".

[@clydedoris5002]

Not to mention usually when a new piece of gear comes out their is abysmal parts support

[@_--Reaper--_]

@@clydedoris5002 there*

[@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046]

"we have nothing to fear except fear itself and new things,those things keep me up at night due to the seer terror they produce on me" -Secretary of Defense X Y Z

[@soupcangaming662]

@@_--Reaper--_ the'eiy'heiyheyi'eiyeheehe

[@lordsheogorath3377]

The Airforce took all the "Cool Shit" money as per usual.

[@hoilst265]

"Sir, the Air Force requests 40 trillion to investigate the possibility of a VTOL stealth bomber with active optical camouflage and a teleportation system else this letter we got on Lockheed Martin letterhead said they will, quote, 'release those tapes they have of you and Defense Secretary in Thailand.'"

[@Pilotmario]

Given that the threshold for “good enough” for air combat against another superpower is the F-35 or a 4.5th Gen that can chuck a really big missile a really far distance, and the same threshold for infantry rifles is the M16A2, it’s probably understandable.

[@charlesmckinley29]

@@hoilst265they would never put it in writing. Just a discrete mention somewhere it wouldn’t be picked up on a microphone.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

​@@Pilotmario it's not because of that. It's because everyone knows Us won't ever have to defend itself, so the military is an invasion force not defense force. So you have to have a lot of power projection all over the world to squash the rebels as the dominant Empire, but don't need to focus on real defense of the homeland

[@k_469]

its only fair - if you have to live with the shame of being in the Chair Force you should get some sort of consolation. It is a military but we aren't monsters.

[@rickrudd]

03:26, pretty sure I walked in on my wife using one of these the other day.

[@theannouncer5538]

I bought it for her man I’m sorry

[@rickrudd]

@theannouncer5538 it's cool man, glad somebody stepped up.👍🏿

[@yerroblige23]

I didn't even have to click on the timestamp to know what you're talking about

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

I feel like the biggest reason is simply "complicated = bad." Fancy near-future gear is almost always chock full of fiddly computers that no soldier is going to use during an active gunfight. Hell, a lot of soldiers struggle to use their basic walkie-talkies during a gunfight, you're too busy trying not to die to start entering the konami code into your super-robot-gun-9000 to get it to shoot with the same gun a normal manned turret has. Same reason why, in current conflicts, simple commercial drones make for better weapons than a lot of military designed ones. They're just cheaper and easier to use.

[@Zach_Hazard]

One of the things that is hilarious to me about the ACR demonstration video is how confused the soldiers look. The guy at 4:40 looks like he could be in a video from the Edgewood LSD trials. Also: Oh hey, it's the Kinetic Kill Vehicle (11:57)!

[@Justin_Taylor]

@@Zach_Hazard it literally looks like it’s his first time ever carrying a rifle at all

[@taichi2245]

Ah! Fancy seeing one of my favorite content creators here. For what it's worth, I believe the modernized KKV is actually deployed in very limited numbers under the ground-based midcourse defense systems in the continental US, but most people who know for sure aren't talking about it. (Yes, AF gets all the cool shit.)

[@soupcangaming662]

I like the G11 demonstration vid where the guy is clearly bewildered by the sheer force of that gun. I don't want to say recoil because it looks like it's the reciprogating magazine that's the problem, but you even get a good few smacks from it. Also, kinetic kill vehicle is Battlefield 4 XD-1 Accipiter. What a seemingly impractical but kickass lookin' piece of tech

[@stevbe1723]

@soupcangaming662 I'm like 90% sure that's because it's demonstrating the hyperburst, I don't think the gun-within-a-gun recoils like that in semi- or fully automatic fire recoil will be much higher with hyperburst since you're feeling the force of three shots at once, that was pretty much the entire point of the rifle

[@ar1299gaming]

I was legit looking for your comment zank 😂

[@gatorcroc7212]

0:41 to answer your question? The cool stuff goes to SF, Ranger Batt, and CAG guys..

[@matthewkornder5586]

I'm pretty sure he's aware of their budget and technologies.

[@Justin_Taylor]

I should have been allowed to have one cool piece of gear. As a treat.

[@StellarGale]

You can have a drone. ​@@Justin_Taylor

[@potatoes8414]

​@@Justin_Tayloryou get complementary neatly carved nunchucks

[@Resident_Kriegsman]

​@Justin_Taylor I agree, working on things that if the military wants they'll have to wait in line. I intend to sell to civ & enforcement

[@randallrobertson7190]

So many failed weapons programs. I'm relieved to see the tacti-stache system came through at least.

[@phincampbell1886]

The tacti-stache ALWAYS comes through

[@QuizmasterLaw]

comanche helicopter looked promising it was actually better designed for ground effects

[@clippy-v4q]

I love how in the promo videos all the troops and all the fancy gear is always just so clean

[@QuizmasterLaw]

@@clippy-v4q and everyone is well rested, clean, handsome. if there are women they have the typical civilian female camo loadout

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

It's a staple of being in the military. Whether it was WW1 officers, SOF guys in Vietnam, or modern day, the tacti-stache stays. I grew one on my first deployment. Taking section photos with the howitzer, all of my section had big bushy mustaches. A bunch of buff Super Marios, posing in front of $(TOO MUCH) worth of military hardware always looks cool, like "that guy doesn't 'have sex,' he *FUCKS"* type shit.

[@SCPlayz7000]

if only humans were able to carry 55 pounds of steel armor and 35 pounds of longsword while riding a horse

[@Stimbim]

A Shovel. The best friend of infantry since forever.

[@Onithyr]

I mean, the "programmable air-burst grenade launcher" was a thing, and it was very effective and well appreciated by those that actually used it. It was just quietly discontinued (using false claims of unreliability) after someone realized its use could technically be construed as a war crime.

[@IluvPancakes21]

It's not "construed" it's literal. International Humanitarian Law Rule 78 reads:"The anti-personnel use of bullets which explode within the human body is prohibited." The rule entered IHL in 1868 with adoption of the St. Petersburg Declaration which defines "any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances” as prohibited. Guess what - the 25mm grenade in the XM29 Prototype and XM25 are 108 grammes and very much intended for anti-personnel use. They ARE a war crime. Incidentally, they're also damn effective. I kind of hate that Justin instead chose to cite the "technical malfunctions" when most personnel were ready to equip standard squads with the stuff and fully integrate it, because it was so damn effective. Why wouldn't it be, we still use the stuff on a larger scale for vehicles. I get that it sounds a little "know-it-all" and we'd like to believe that "oh surely this can't be the reason", but lets not forget that in a recent example the german military in a project (the Puma tank) forgot to make sure to clarify that certain workplace ordinances were met by regulatory measures (i.e. pregnant people are not supposed to be transported or allowed into the vehicle) and thus the company developed it in keeping with those industry standards, which resulted in stronger interior cooling making the thing more expensive as well. Sometimes we tend to forget obvious things, like, maybe ask the customer if he really needs a tank for pregnant people or whether or not they've read their international law recently.

[@n00bist723]

@@IluvPancakes21 No not literal at all... they AREN'T a war crime by intended use and their effectiveness was not based on their use as a war crime, read what you yourself wrote dude and comprehend the words "air burst" you can have

[@TheLongDon]

​@@IluvPancakes21The US never signed any international war crime agreements. The US has absolutely no obligation for any of this

[@johno1544]

​​@@TheLongDonThe US signed the Hague convention that banned exploding and expanding bullets a very long time ago. They also signed the Outer space treaty that banned the placement of WMDs in outer space

[@IluvPancakes21]

@@n00bist723 I am sorry to tell you this, but just because you don't "intend" to use them that way doesn't make them any less of what they are. I understand that this was how they're used. They're still the textbook definition of the statements used in the St. Petersburg declaration, which the IHL uses as a basis to decide. Its also why I specifically included it and didn't leave it at the manual definition we (as in, during my training) received. The US has been commited to not break it. Otherwise there'd be literally no good reason, why modern squads aren't equiped with one.

[@someboi7308]

So, in a nutshell, "cool" military gear is simply just a nightmare to implement.

[@lordjor96]

Good Ideas, with Bad execution and Terrible logistical nightmares.

[@TuShan18]

Something that comes to my mind when I research this stuff is that the military really is a huge machine. It’s just a funny name. If you want to change a part, how much modifications will need to be made with the machine to accept it? Is it just better to chuck it and start building a new machine entirely? Is all this work really necessary when the parts already implemented are still working fine, even if it could be better?

[@Снайпер_Хренов]

A small group of smart people engineer a marvelous gun, and the rest of the World is too stupid to properly manufacture it

[@someboi7308]

@@Снайпер_Хренов The nightmare reaches all corners of it.

[@Doomguy-777]

We don't speak of the cool gear that does make it through the trials and ends up used though.

[@MyTruth1771]

Wars between near peers pushes the most innovation

[@techmage89]

Caseless ammunition is definitely the kind of thing that *should* be a huge win in terms of logistics. Each soldier can carry more ammo for the same weight and ammo supply can just scale up everywhere. It's a shame no one can quite get it to work in a package thats cheap and simple enough to be practical. Maybe some day. Railguns are the other thing that seems like, if they can just solve the the few really tricky issues with wear and power supply, could completely change the landscape for long-range indirect fire.

[@Schwarzvogel1]

Caseless ammunition isn't necessarily a win for logistics, though. Whilst the ammo would be lighter per cartridge, that just means that they'll load up the grunts with even MORE ammo to meet the original weight of the brass or steel-cased ammo loads, heh. Whilst having more ammo on hand in a fight IS a good thing, it's not as fun when you end up doing what soldiers typically spend a large percentage of their time doing--waiting and walking around. Moreover, with caseless ammo, the cartridges themselves are more fragile and vulnerable to damage from rough handling in the field. I guess you could counter this by issuing the ammunition pre-sealed in disposable magazines, but now you've created a NEW logistical issue of needing to constantly manufacture new mags for your troops because the magazines are designed to be non-reusable. So what do you do? You make the mags as cheap and lightweight as possible... which results in them being unreliable pieces of crap that everyone hates, and the few cased weapons still in your nation's inventory suddenly start being reissued when you get into a war because the caseless rifles you eagerly adopted suck donkey balls. As for railguns, please tell me how they'd "change the landscape for long-range indirect fire" because I'm not seeing any real indirect fire applications for a railgun that a cruise missile, theatre ballistic missile, or even just guided rocket or long-range tube artillery wouldn't do even better. Sure, the railgun would be cheaper per shot, as it's just an inert hunk of metal you are shooting, versus a shell stuffed with explosives and a complex guidance system or a rocket filled with explosives and a highly sophisticated guidance system that's going on a one-way trip to oblivion. Except that your railgun slugs WOULD need one heck of a guidance system, because they will need to hit their targets precisely, on account of not having any explosive filler to ensure that a near miss still ruins the target's day. And since those slugs are relying solely on kinetic energy to inflict damage, any course corrections they undertake in flight as to remain on target will effectively slow them down and rob them of some of their KE. Maybe not enough to make a difference in the damage inflicted, but who knows?

[@techmage89]

@@Schwarzvogel1 Well, the decisions about what to do with the reduced weight are kind of a separate question. Probably some innovation with regards to magazine design (and possibly propellant) is required to make it practical, due to the issues you pointed out. You'd need some kind of magazine capable of properly protecting the ammo, and refilling it may not be as simple an operation, so soldiers may need to carry multiple. Rail gun rounds may not require guidance except at very long ranges. The speeds they travel make them drift much less than conventional artillery. Unguided rail guns may not be precision weapons like cruise missiles, but they'd be excellent against fortified positions, large formations, and depots behind the front lines, where they could theoretically lay down a lot of fire much more cheaply than missiles. They're also almost impossible to intercept given the speeds that they're traveling, which could make them useful as anti-ship batteries. Of course, the current tech has a lot of problems that means it can't deliver on these promises yet, but it's certainly possible that solutions to these problems could be found.

[@ed1341]

The E-girl bit at 3:02 is oddly accurate

[@Justin_Taylor]

Let’s just say I’ve learned some hard lessons in my younger years

[@ed1341]

​@@Justin_Taylor me too brother, me too.....

[@dannyzero692]

The AR-15 design is for me already the end-all be-all for firearm design as long as we still use gunpowder. It's literally everything, it's an AR, it's a carbine, it's a submachine gun, it's a machine gun, it's a DMR, it's a freaking shotgun if you wanted it to, it can cook you a meal, do your laundry and walk your dog.

[@PracticalReformation]

The slow decent into madness in this post 😁

[@themastermason1]

The crux of the AR-15 comes down to barrel length. The 10"-13" proponents constantly go back and forth over optimal length to velocity ratios while those content with 14.5"-16" barrels or bullpups just watch from the sidelines

[@mikesmnell414]

I don’t know, it seems people need to penetrate body armor now. Bigger caliber is needed.

[@shinigamizzz5372]

@@mikesmnell414they make a lot of different AR's with a lot of calibers

[@smartfella7914]

Most european NATO rifles are just derivatives of the AR18 tho

[@RikkiSan1]

11:57 we have been using that, basically that thing is a thruster for rockets and missiles in space with crazy amount of thrust as you can see since it can literally hover in air. Raytheon and a few other companies developed it for Anti-ICBM use.

[@L_Train]

What is it?

[@sierraecho884]

THey might end up using the tech against small drones. Anto drone, deone interceptor.

[@RikkiSan1]

@@L_Train it's called the Exoatmospheric kill vehicle or EKV

[@RikkiSan1]

@@sierraecho884 not likely again this was made to go into space and to fly around more in zero gravity so that it can intercept missiles quickly and track them. With drones you don't need this level of tech.

[@brandonparmeter7661]

@@RikkiSan1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oam1dX5oiL6Gosksi=ffwIJtn4V4_px27c&t=139

[@isitsustainable820]

This is an excellent video, thank you. Keep highlighting this stuff

[@Khornecussion]

I was upset helmets with a heads-up display that showed your squad's vitals weren't real. Imagine how useful that is in the heat of a fight to know if your crew is hurt and needs back-up without having to scream over the radio. Even better if you're a combat medic and were able to just link your HUD.

[@cascadianrangers728]

Had my Marine Corps unit was given some cool Gucci new gear to test; a laser rangefinder for grenades launchers and a built in, range adjusting optical site. It was cool and it worked but it was too heavy so we broke it and then we didn't have to use and carry it anymore and everything was great

[@sierraecho884]

That´s why the low IQ infantry grunts get their low tech shot while jet pilots can fly into space without being on a radar. You spend money where it counts, on ships and planes.

[@hoilst265]

^ The real reason why this stuff never gets fielded.

[@shadowslayer205]

"We broke it until they stopped giving it to us" sounds like such a Marine way to solve this kind of problem.

[@hoilst265]

@@shadowslayer205 The story about them and the human-recognition AI is just sublime.

[@pachychon]

@@hoilst265 do tell.

[@dubmeisterxd2133]

Meanwhile russia breaking out the mosin for the 3rd century in a row 💀 All jokes aside tho, kudos to them for actually adopting the AN-94, basically their version of the ACR program.

[@adskafjrufhauäšhlklöjlllhhhui]

one would think that AN-94 is used by some very special troops... ...but most of them nowadays have been given out for the border guards, they move in units as a trophy. It was a good idea, in use not so good.

[@adskafjrufhauäšhlklöjlllhhhui]

Same with AK-12 that was adopted, 30k or so made, supposed to be the main rifle for soldiers, mostly used by different special forces and border guards...

[@deadpan2866]

the funny thing to me is that russias inability to properly adopt new equipment is another reason why america +nato isnt in as much of a rush to upgrade its gear. i remember 6-8 years ago now there was this panic amongst nato members to upgrade or adopt new mainline rifles (as kinda mentioned in the video) that would allow for a higher calibre standard issue round because it was thought that with russian body armour upgrades, current nato weapons wouldnt be able to penetrate russian body armour effectively. cut to now where most russian body armour is made for airsoft of the armour plates are made of cardboard and suddenly nato is no longer in a rush to upgrade its weapons. in short, why upgrade if the old gear your currently using is still years ahead of the enemy

[@rokaslokusevicius3810]

AN-94 was created because of the Abakan project. It was one of two guns that made it to the end, the other being AEK-971. AN-94 was adopted by the soviet military, but it still got discontinued (i think). Both of these guns were brought back, but spetsnaz units generally prefer the AEK-971 (it's mostly reserved for them because of the cost).

[@Olson323]

@@rokaslokusevicius3810 dude neither AN94 nor AEK971 are being actually used in any noticeable amounts. AK12 which is just cheap facelift package for ak74 is meant for the army, while Specials prefer regular 74s with commercial upgrade, because those are nicer made, but more expensive. Do not romanticize russia, they are not cutting edge. Their regular army stuff is terribly cheaply made. AEK-971 is supposed to evolve into new 6p67 kord rifle for spec use, but i guess all those cool programs are now frozen for years due to budget constrains.

[@TheLPRnetwork]

I believe the corner shot was adopted by some special forces and SWAT-like units due to it being pistol focused and a tool for surveillance.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

yeah, lots of "cool" kit is appropriate for swat/sof

[@Schwarzvogel1]

It's definitely been adopted by a variety of units and agencies, and quite likely left to gather dust in their armories. Because whilst the concept is cool, it's honestly VERY niche in application. After all, think about it this way--how often will you find hostiles around a corner which you can engage with that weapon? If you're already trading fire with the enemy, they know you are behind that corner, which means they can do a number of unpleasant things, ranging from simply putting rounds on your team through the wall (most interior building walls in standard civilian buildings will not stop even pistol rounds) to maybe throwing some pyro down the hall at you. I'm also not so sure of how accurate the system is either, especially with repeated shots. The recoil from the handgun mounted in the system is going to slew the entire platform sideways and possibly slightly downwards in the user's hand, which would be awkward to manage since it is perpendicular to the axis along which you're actually holding the weapon. It's another example of those cool ideas which don't really pan out as great in reality. Again, I'm sure the CornerShot works fine, but the biggest issue I can see is why you'd have someone bring that instead of a shotgun, subgun, or carbine that would actually add something substantial to the team's firepower. Now, one man could carry a CornerShot in addition to his primary shotgun/carbine/subgun, but that's extra weight for a potential situation that may never actually arise.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

@@Schwarzvogel1 yeah, btw the more frequent application is a simple periscope attachment and shoot by extending rifle , it exposes your hands but is more practical since you don't need to change weapons from normal to weird.

[@michaelnordstrom6797]

5:58 woah did not expect to see this dude here. I was the best man for his 3rd marriage. Never told me he did land warrior testing. Thanks youtube!

[@TheWanderer1000000]

11:58 "I want to see it just do crazy shit" made me laugh and hit subscribe.

[@smeagollumartin]

HSTVL ALMOST MENTIONED, SPOOKSTON ALREADY POSSESSING ME

[@Justin_Taylor]

Not a lot of good footage of it out there unfortunately. Didn’t make the cutting room edit.

[@Aaano]

i can already hear the "Hey there, Buddy"

[@MrGamer4252]

10:15 The XM25 was actually a really good grenade launcher it’s just that the projectile falls under an explosive bullet which is a War Crime. Super Effective but illegal.

[@fuzzlewuzzle9388]

Lol, I was going to mention that too.

[@haplessoperator]

Except it's not an exploding bullet, doesn't penetrate its target before detonating, and has nothing to do with the St. Petersburg declaration. It's an airburst cartridge, that detonates and kills in the same manner at a VT-fuzed mortar or artillery round. They're even more removed from being an "explosive bullet' than impact-fuzed grenade rounds are.

[@alphaneumerics]

@@haplessoperator yeah the chinese have those too lmfao

[@Mechpilot0790]

​@@haplessoperatorunder 40 grams is under 40 grams, and you could walk 1 foot closer after targeting the disto, and they're going to be a pinata

[@theangryotaku3361]

they weren't a war crime in their intended role, however, their are a few treaties against ammo below 400 grams that is designed to explode INSIDE a person, which the XM25 very much could do either intentionally by the operator or accidentally by the target moving at the exact wrong moment, which, given the scale of war, is bound to happen eventually

[@boldgambit7896]

The Army was pretty much ready to issue the XM-25 "Punisher". It had its issues (Heavy/replaces a rifle) but after a catastropic misfire resulted in injuries they brought in H&K to sort out the bugs. H&K asked the Army if they had considered the fact that the XM-25 is a warcrime under the St Petersburg Declaration of 1868. After that the Army decided it didn't want a 25mm grenade launcher and it would prefer if everyone forgot they had ever asked.

[@TheLongDon]

This isn't true whatsoever. The US has no obligation to follow "international law".

[@soupcangaming662]

>bans explosive rounds >they have bombs and artillery shells >ok >they fire impact detonated grenades now >what

[@Lobos222]

@@TheLongDon Not accurate. Even USA has ratified a bunch of international laws.

[@HashbrownActual]

The army USED it in theiddle East, but couldn't justify the logistics and sensitive equipment with moon dust

[@eviljohnnybravo7575]

​@@TheLongDonit is true tho. The US isn't obligated that's true, but the US does care about optics, however pointless the reasoning may be.

[@CaptinSober]

Damn, video after video, I just keep watching this man. Such good content

[@Eristede_Kell]

Bro breakin' down DOTMLPF-P analysis, the JCIDS process, FMECA & LORA, and technology maturation Barney Style. DAU needs to hire you to revamp the Acquisitions 101 intro class. I'm definitely subscribed now.

[@prfwrx2497]

Stackable hand grenades are cool until you realize the target audience for these things would likely make a Bangalore torpedo out of it. Then we'd need 60 second fuzes.

[@alexd6557]

Yeah not sure why anyone thought that wasn’t the logical conclusion of that concept lol

[@Justin_Taylor]

We have APOBS to replace Bangalores now and honestly they're way cooler than stackable hand grenades

[@Beregorn88]

I would have thought that the intended target of those granades would prefer to not receive them at all 😏

[@davidcampbell3571]

One trip to the field with those and the whole unit would be like "wanna see what happens if we put all of our together..."

[@Curt_Sampson]

Well I don't really know much about military things, but I can't for the life of me understand how these stackable hand grenades are supposed to work. I imagine some guys in a trench, and.... Miller: The enemy's attacking! Deckweed: Oh! Should I throw one of these things? Miller: Hmm. Good question. There's a _lot_ of them, better do at least two. Deckweed: Ok. Hang on a sec, let me just screw these things together. [Turn, turn, turn.] Is that looking better? I'm kinda feeling that's not enough, given this _huge wave_ of enemies _rushing in on us_ at _full speed._ Miller: Yeah, I tend to agree. Let's add a third. Deckweed: I can't find my third one. Have you got one? Miller: Um...[digs around in his pack]. Try this one? Deckweed: [Turn, turn, turn. Unturn, unturn, unturn. Turn, turn turn. Unturn, unturn unturn. Turn. Unturn. Turn. Unturn.] B**ch! The threads are stripped. Have you got another? Miller: No, that was my last one, sorry. Deckweed: Damn, dude, I _told_ you to stop playing with those in your bunk. [Yelling down the trench] Clarke! You got a spare one of those screw-type grenades? Clarke [thinking, "WTF!?"]: I'm firing here! Deckweed: Oh, never mind, I found one in the bottom of my bag. [Turn, turn, turn.] How's that look, Sam? I'm feeling like it's a bit heavier than I want to throw. Miller: Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. Take that last one off. Deckweed: [Unturn, unturn, unturn.] [They look up to find themselves surrounded by the enemy, all pointing rifles at them.] Deckweed: Damn, good thing they killed Sarge, because he'd have our asses right now.

[@MiguelDLewis]

7:40 The Zumwalt didn't fail completely. All the premature tech it had as a destroyer were repurposed for long-range missiles. It was a blessing in disguise.

[@coteywallace7290]

Ya you have to look at it more as non stop R and D. Just because something didn’t reach full fruition, doesn’t mean it didn’t influence or save on endless other assets.

[@PrograError]

@@coteywallace7290 sounds like the Hololens... money go brr

[@coteywallace7290]

@@PrograError bro we collect like 2 trillion dollars a year in taxes, we waste money on anything and everything stupid both foreign and domestic. Having the strongest military to ever grace the earth and being able to rule the world is worth a few extra bucks on defense spending. It’s the rest of our tax money squandered that i care more about. Lol

[@PrograError]

@@coteywallace7290 HoloLens, not tax money purgatory? they ain't making HALO VISR helmets for a long, long time

[@coteywallace7290]

@@PrograError Dude, we have neural implants, VR, and AI. And we already have types of Tech Glasses. Not sure what 3rd world back wood country you live in, but here in America we spend money to conquer and rule the world. It’s why we went to the moon 50 years ago, china couldn’t even put a man in orbit until 2003 We tax 2 billion per year, I know you want free everything so you never work and we can all just be communists and ruled over by china. 800 Billion for that is nothing, it’s the other 1.2 Trillion they squared on nothing every year? Plz stop parroting party lines just so you can pretend you actually comprehend things!

[@tompraisan7642]

One word, exoskeleton

[@harrydrinkwater2671]

Advanced Warfare was one of the more forgettable CoD games, but the exoskeletons in that were cool as hell. In theory they would also solve the ubiquitous problem with all this other future soldier shite, because it's easy to carry something that's really heavy when your super strength/speed exoskeleton is lifting it for you.

[@tubeetogoo]

Ottobock, festool already introduced it to construction. Imam wearing one in my profile pic

[@sierraecho884]

@@harrydrinkwater2671 Unless your battery runs out and now you can´t move.

[@hiephiep12]

The exosuit in CODAW is just too impractical, more than even Iron Man suit, you don't see the battery anywhere. If it's ever implemented, exosuit would look like the ones from STALKER or Edge of Tomorrow. The problem would always be battery life which hopefully be resolved soon with the rise of electric vehicles.

[@ivanjason1863]

Useful for shell lifting and load or become the human autoloader

[@nathanwhouston]

Subscribed. Your commentary is great

[@Peyton-f8m]

The amount of angled armor that ship has is ridiculous. That thing can deflect an air burst round XD

[@karlslicher8520]

The last thing, it's a HTK impactor warhead for a THAD missile testing the stacked super-squib powered target tracking system.

[@creepycannibal4717]

Metal Storm superposed electronic weaponry. Their 36-barreled volley gun has a fire rate literally over 1 million rounds a minute (180 rounds in 1/100th of a second). Is there a need for such an excessive fire rate? No! Nobody could justify it no matter how hard they tried to find a use case. Is it cool? Yes! The technology itself could be useful, if they ever solved the occasional blowing up issue.

[@sierraecho884]

Well it´s dense. Meaning you didn´t need a magazine. This could be useful for drone warfare for instance.

[@patrickbateman312]

Struggling to think of a scenario where it would be useful over anything conventional. Not to mention the asspain involved in reloading it.

[@Nockgun]

@@patrickbateman312probably suppression

[@patrickbateman312]

@@Nockgun no, not at all. A weapon that fires once, no mater how quickly, cannot suppress a target.

[@Nockgun]

@ nah i mean theres a mode that doesn't turn it into a modern version of an organ gun

[@drawingcrabs7046]

Bro we have a thing that can create little explosions in it and force out a tiny piece of metal to go directly in whoever your enemy is. Thats metal.

[@Jabberwockybird]

Imagine showing it off to a bunch of feudal peasants. "THIS is my BOOMSTICK!"

[@mudcrab3420]

On the small arms blowing up the entire building: Basic risk assessment involves determining the effect of an event and the likelyhood of the event. Give each a semi random rank from 1 to 5, multiple the two numbers together and if you are getting 20s or 25s you need to start thinking hard how you are going to deal with it. (or look at a little table) For example being attacked by a T-Rex would be lethal, but extremely unlikely, so you can just note you thought about it and move on. (more seriously you could say an attack by a polar bear, but then argue that since you are located in an urban area the odds would be extremely low so you don't have to act to reduce the risks. If you were located in an Arctic are however you would have to change the likelihood from extremely low to possible and have to put in risk reduction plans to deal with the problem. Fences. Bear proof buildings. Disposable of food waste to discourage the bears raiding your trash.) The plus side of taking some situations to the extreme is then it is very easy to work backwards to smaller events. So if you can show that your structure can contain ALL the small arms ammo going boom at once then you don't need to show a risk assessment for some of the ammo going boom. You just point to the big boom calculations and go and have an early lunch. Also if you have a need to build a hardened structure then it is also normally easier from an engineering point of view just to wack a big safety factor and over engineer it. Unless you have a mass budget to worry about the engineering effort is a lot easier.

[@ribbitcoffee-x-tea7723]

11:13 if you follow the vr scene closely, i DO see it happening. goggles are just getting lighter, more powerful, and cheaper and I don't see drone warefare going away anytime soon.

[@the23rdradiotower41]

12:10 NF-22 STEALTH F-14 RAPTOR MURICA RAAAAHAHHHHHHHHHH

[@richardmardis2492]

What was wrong with the M-3 “greace gun”?!🤣 That was utilitarian military ugly- SO COOL!

[@QuizmasterLaw]

lots of ww2 is still perfectly serviceable looking at du mp40

[@collinmclaren6608]

The Philippine special forces seem to think so

[@davidcampbell3571]

Coolest gun of all time!

[@Jabberwockybird]

I think the simple mechanical guns of WW2 are cooler than any fish guns or ugg boot guns they make today.

[@davimoneylender4112]

What a cool moustache dude

[@Justin_Taylor]

Thanks dude. Grew it myself.

[@HermannCortez]

It looks as bushy as a privet hedge. Huzzah to you Sir!

[@gabbonoo]

Movember?

[@Сталкер-ь2х]

​@@Justin_Taylorliterally Borat but youtuber

[@mikurusagawa6897]

The gun racks being a limiting factor is actually someting that affected the weapon adoption in my country. I live in Poland and when we designed our Beryl AK, it was slightly longer than the previous AK variants we've used. Long story short, for some time, Beryl was infamous for having a really short stock, because if they made it any longer it wouldn't fit the existing racks :)

[@BIGESTblade]

Sounds like a really stupid way of designing storage, doesn't it?

[@Schwarzvogel1]

@@BIGESTblade It sounds like these things are designed by the lowest bidder, and in VERY large quantities, so a cheap, one-size fits all solution is the most cost-effective.

[@_mason_s]

I tested the IVAS goggles, theyre awful and we keep pouring money into them 🥲 they suck to maneuver in, looking around in the dark is a nightmare, and worst of all you only look kind of cool and not super cool

[@jimbochops]

Bro facts, just give the grunts thermal fused dual tubes like we've been begging for over a decade now 😒 I tested IVAS like 3 years go and even the training cadre thought it was a lost cause and that they should just give use duals lmao

[@forwardghost_]

Yeah you could also see dudes eyes light up under nods lol

[@talaverajr391]

Because war is expensive. Wars are frequently lost because one side simply runs out of resources.

[@thereddaikon]

"Just bring this thing back" That thing never went away, that's the exo atmospheric kill vehicle on an SM-3. It's very much in use today and one shot down an Iranian ballistic missile in space a few months ago.

[@DefaultProphet]

Prediction: batteries are bad. It’s too expensive. It’s too heavy. It’s not enough better.

[@GRIZZLYSGEAR]

From what I've read about the XM25, it was well liked by the men who fielded it. It cut down what would be a 15 minute engagement, into a 3 minute one. The big problem with the XM25 was that it was technically a war crime to use one in combat. The 1868 St Petersburg Declaration bans use of an explosive projectile that was less than 400g. This was for safety reasons (as ridiculous as that sounds to some) so that soldiers wouldn't have untreatable wounds and medical personnel weren't in danger of injury from an unexploded round, while treating those wounds. The XM25 projectiles weigh less than 200g, are loaded via a magazine and fired from the shoulder in what can be called a rifle. This didn't sit well with HK who was the distributor and they wanted to make sure they weren't committing a war crime by manufacturing and supplying the weapon. This led to a legal dispute between Orbital ATK and HK over not delivering a batch of the weapons. This was the straw that broke the donkey's back and this awesome weapon faded into history. Weird thing about this, The U.S. and Germany weren't part of the 20 countries that signed the declaration, so it really didn't matter in this instance; both countries were covered as the Declaration didn't apply to them. You can only speculate as to HK's reason behind this, maybe they were maybe getting backlash or were afraid of alienating potential customers from those 20 countries in the declaration; but we'll never know for sure... N.W. there were an instance where the primer and propellant ignited as the result of a double feed, safety mechanisms prevented the round's warhead from detonating. The explosion from the propellant rendered the weapon inoperable and the operator got superficial wounds. This malfunction happened after the weapon had been fired over 5900 times. This did cause a delay in full deployment of the weapons system, but it was rolled out in smaller numbers in Afghanistan. So it wasn't the main cause of the weapon being canned...

[@koalabrownie]

Amazing that things take decades to develop now when in 1900s, Battleships/Dreadnoughts were designed, built and launched in 2 years.

[@francishandscomb8108]

To much red tape and greed

[@docsmodels5470]

The xm 25 was great. The 101st who had them during deployment loved them. The problem was mid use, it was found to be against geneva conventions

[@nolanpeters5462]

Hi dad, I mean daddy... I mean... Hi Justin

[@phincampbell1886]

Lmao

[@Marinealver]

🇹🇭

[@blue6gun]

The only canceled program I truly regret them not finishing is the Montana class of battleships

[@TukaihaHithlec]

_”I would have liked to see Montana.”_

[@hedgehog3180]

I mourn the loss of all cool ships. I don't really care about anything else.

[@pascalsch14]

Yeah it's sad that we don't build good ships anymore now we just have those small pathetic ones with their peashooters, we need some real battleships

[@PC-coolant-pipe-sucker]

@@pascalsch14 such as Iowa which was sabotaged by a gay man for being rejected by another crewman, killing ~~50 people and finally putting the WW2 ship to rest at some museum

[@haplessoperator]

@@pascalsch14 Except battleships don't really have a practical use anymore, and can be sank just as easily as any other ship due to the past 70 years of development in anti-ship missiles and torpedos, on top of surface-to-surface missiles being more accurate.

[@dphitch]

When I joined the Marine Corps in the 90's. The 16A2 was standard issue, 782 gear was the standard lBV equipment. Night vision, optics and suppressors were things that SF or Recon might get issued. Today Infantry Marines are issued M27's with a variable optic, suppressors and night vision are now standard. Drones are now used at the platoon level and the Marine Corps has the V22 and F35. So I think the cool stuff is there but the adoption of it has just taken a long time due to slow development, budget limitations and politics of inertia in the past.

[@OrangeNotLemonLime]

thanks mate, love the channel, great videos

[@classicgunstoday1972]

Why did I think I was clicking on a John Stossel video about military spending from the 1990s? The M16 platform was thrown out there tested in the middle of a damn war and was initially a disaster in Vietnam because Robert McNamara thought it looked good on paper (soldiers from the era have other unflattering names for him). Good video.

[@someguy7346]

10:20 the xm25 was actually loved but it turns out that the grenades werent big enough to be clasified Aš grenades And were explosive bullets which Are hiper super mega ilegal So it was shoved under the rug

[@hanswurst-re7df]

Ah yes a violation of the St. Petersburg Treaty, a piece of international law people straight up sorta forgot about

[@bluntcabbage6042]

Cancelled for reasons of practicality and cost, not because of an old law that no legitimate military has taken seriously in living memory.

[@hanswurst-re7df]

@bluntcabbage6042 nah, people reportetly fucking loved it, in every engagement it was used it ended the fight then and there. Old laws actually are still binding lol. This thing was cancelled because it violated a treaty from 1868...

[@bluntcabbage6042]

@@hanswurst-re7df Being liked =/= practical or cost effective. Cited reasons for cancellation were questions of reliability and weight - it didn't offer enough to warrant the cost of procurement and had reliability issues, including an incident of the weapon exploding in the face of its user. Its niche was well-enough filled by contemporary grenade launchers that weighed and costed less while occupying less space. And again, that rule of minimum warhead size/weight for explosive mass hasn't been taken seriously in decades. Guns of equivalent or even smaller caliber frequently use high explosive fillers in widespread service globally, in every military. Besides, arms treaties of that era are notoriously pointless and not taken into consideration for modern procurement. They were products of their era in every sense of the word, used as political tools more than anything to attempt to stifle the rapid advances in military tech. It's infinitely more likely XM25 was cancelled because of a lack of return on investment and budgetary/bureaucratic factors than an ancient treaty that no serious military force takes into consideration when procuring new ordnance.

[@bluntcabbage6042]

@@hanswurst-re7df As an aside, I looked at the declaration in its own words. It is the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868. There's a couple glaring issues: 1) The US was not invited to the conference and thus did not sign the declaration. Only European and Eurasian powers were invited and signed the declaration. The declaration also made the restriction for conflicts between European/Eurasian powers, nothing more. Conflicts between non-European powers and European powers were not under the restrictions of the treaty. 2) Under this treaty's restrictions, some of the most prolific explosive weaponry ever employed in the last eighty years are in violation. This includes NATO standardized 20mm ammunition that saw widespread use in IFVs, recon vehicles, and more. It also includes Russian 23mm autocannons, some of the most prolific explosive-warhead autocannons ever devised. Every signatory of the original declaration has violated it wholly. It is therefore logical that XM25's 25mm ammunition, while infantry-portable, would be no more taboo than existing munitions. Morally, it is no more horrifying than existing munitions. It is not binding. The body which organized it no longer exists (Russian Empire), its signatories have universally ignored its restrictions, and the US itself is not one of those signatories so it was never beholden to the declaration to start with. If it's binding at all, it's in name only. No reason to believe this is why XM25 was cancelled over several other much more likely reasons.

[@JacquelineGroves]

I’m a Canadian Ranger and I’m issued a Lee Enfield No 4 303 bolt action rifle. This is a WW2 service rifle. Why these are issued still has a lot to do with what you explained. You’d be surprised all the things that would have to be updated just to get a new rifle issued.

[@JinKee]

Have the rims on the 303 ever failed to extract even when the action was -40C?

[@hoilst265]

@@JinKee Not really a problem, because by the time you figure that's problem the polar bear's already eaten you.

[@BrettBaker-uk4te]

Didn't a new rifle get adopted for your unit?

[@RepugnantRevered]

Let’s not forget the OICW was also a warcrime with an under barrel AR

[@treyaldridge1757]

11:57 I am delighted to inform you that while the Kinetic Kill Vehicle (KKV) was removed from service, it was removed to be replaced with an upgraded version called the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) that is currently in service, launched by the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) Missile of the US Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. There are also similar kill vehicles installed on THAAD in place of explosives.

[@JamesFromTexas]

I was with the Army Evaluation Task Force at Ft Bliss. We tested a whole slew of stuff, like the Land Warrior, and let me tell you, we failed more stuff right out the gate just by handing it to a private. All the stuff we tested, if it passed, went to FCS, which was the "face" of the program.

[@hedgehog3180]

The Zumwalt looked cool as hell and this is the correct opinion. It literally looks exactly like every futuristic ship ever uploaded on Shipbase and it even tried to do the “railgun battleship” thing that everyone loves even if it was a destroyer.

[@SeraphimFelis]

My only gripe with it is the 5head on its bridge

[@hedgehog3180]

@@SeraphimFelis 🗿

[@ShadowFalcon]

​@@SeraphimFelis Pretty sure it's a 6head 🤣

[@theayeguy5226]

Dang that G11 looks like it kicks like a mule in 3-round burst mode! Weird, considering the tiny little bullets it spat out. Also, Ian said the chamber was shot out after 3,500 rounds. No bueno!! Another dream dies the death 😓

[@sierraecho884]

Why ? Nobody cares aout 3,5k rounds in warfare if it solces a problem...which it didn´t. None of the new stuff does. That the reason why it isn´t adapted

[@Schwarzvogel1]

@@sierraecho884 3.5K rounds for the rifle's CHAMBER, not barrel to be shot out is indeed no bueno. You can replace a worn-out barrel easily on some rifles. Well, not AKs. Replacing a chamber that is shot out after 3.5k rounds seems a bit too short a service life, even in wartime, unless it's the sort of war in which you don't envision most of your infantry living long enough to accrue anywhere near that number of rounds through any issued rifle, even when passed down amongst multiple owners. But you are correct that the reason these new-fangled technologies weren't adopted is that they simply didn't solve any existing or anticipated problems--or at least they did not do so any better than the current-issue kit whose strengths and limitations are well-known, and which the majority of current personnel are also trained to operate according to their particular roles. Adopting new systems will mean retraining large numbers of personnel, which takes time and money. That new kit has to provide enough of an advantage for this to be worth it, and with most infantry systems, this just isn't the case, except perhaps when it comes to less flashy, but highly important stuff not directly related to shooting bad guys in the face. Stuff like comms, medical, and load-bearing equipment.

[@sierraecho884]

@@Schwarzvogel1 "...3.5K rounds for the rifle's CHAMBER, not barrel to be shot out is indeed no bueno..." No it isnt BUT if those 3.5k rounds were say 10x more lethal and precise yeah well it might be worth the trade off. My point is it didn´t really make the pew pew hit kill part any better in a really meaningful way. Not to an extend where the trade off would be worth it. Think this way, a JAVELIN can only be shot once. "...the reason these new-fangled technologies weren't adopted is that they simply didn't solve any existing or anticipated problems--or at least they did not do so any better than the current-issue kit..." Yeah this is exactly what I mean. "...Stuff like comms, medical, and load-bearing equipment...." The "Jerry Can" was one of the BIG inventions in this field. It completely reshaped the face of the battlefield. It´s those small things everybody takes for granted.

[@tfk_001]

before I watch, I'm asssuming it's just going to be "logistics and maintenance" edit: yep plus the wunderwaffe effect

[@Furluge]

0:13 - Oh, I haven't watched the whole video, but, those worked. But they were a geneva convention violate because they were sized too small so they were considered exploding bullets which made them a Geneva Convention violation. Turns out after they developed the grenade launcher for the OICW, which they later separated from the rifle and made it it's own grenade launcher that was deployed to some teams, no one thought to double check if it was a war crime to use it.

[@adri1121]

No matter how bad it would be, we need jetpack soldiers

[@joseflie100]

The scalable hand grenade is the standard issued hand grenade of the Norwegian army

[@sierraecho884]

It´s super useless. The German standard issue grenade is an defensive and offensive grenade and nobody really uses it in any other than the standard configuration. It´s the " but why " meme.

[@samleeroy5638]

The Canadian Sipes rifle proposal of the DRDC was is probably the one that saddens me the most. This would have fit in so many futuristic video games it would have been cool to see it go a bit further.

[@BroundGeef]

The last thing you showed is a hard-kill ICBM interceptor, and even if we don't use that one specifically, any form of ICBM interceptor will look just like that, cuz those are just RCS thrusters firing off. Not useful for flying, because it's literally using thrusters to float, but don't worry, we still have those in some form or another for their intended purpose of stopping nukes sometimes.

[@sierraecho884]

Nukes ? They will probanly use the same tech and algorithms to intercept drones there days. Simply strap wings to that thing and propel it in the genral direction of a drone swarm.

[@Heeroneko]

Military Industrial Complex likes to make very expensive trash.

[@samuraijaydee]

hahaha THE POLYGON OF POWER.... oh man, that moustache and your humour... subbed.

[@robertdonnell8114]

Lets list some cool stuff that the Army did buy: M-16, thermal sights, M-65 field jackets, Jungle boots, plastic helmets, moisture wicking underwear, camouflage uniforms.

[@Chris-i9g-w4t]

LOL Dragonskin. I remeber that.

[@sierraecho884]

Yeah right. What a dumb idea. I remember my first though was, wow this shit must be heavy, what a waste. Instead of making better armor due to improved materials they simply overlapped it ....wooow genius, King Arthur would be proud.

[@jooot_6850]

@@sierraecho884 overlapping armor is exactly what they did in medieval times, so maybe he would be!

[@sierraecho884]

@@jooot_6850 Sure...

[@theayeguy5226]

The OICW idead is back though! The Army has the new Precision Grenadier System program in the works, a 30mm semi-auto mag fed weapon.

[@wylnd]

Rheinmetall also has a cool prototype

[@silenthunder85]

Omg, FINALLY, someone who gets it! 😂 we must be soul shards or something... instant subscribe and I definitely will be watching more of your stuff!

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

My Infantry platoon got selected randomly to field test high tech long john underwear, it was actually super neat, the fabric carried a heat charge for -40 I have no idea how it worked but it was interesting to test high tech gear.

[@TheAussieBlue]

99 out of 100 ideas are garbage. But that 100th is a real good one.

[@Braun30]

I was involved as testing unit in the Swiss army for the then "future" assault rifle. So we got our dirty paws on the two prototypes for a week in 1980. Our reaction? We liked the weight, the rest was of no concern.

[@christopherschneider2968]

The G11 was almost adopted. Almost only because the Berlin Wall fell and Budget cuts were made. Thats where the G36 came in, as a cheap short stroke to finally replace the G3

[@MeanBeanComedy]

12:03 "Rubbish pistols, rubbish rifles. But I have a burst grenade sniper, and a single-soldier missile! As long as my bullets are big enough, there is nothing I can't hit.😂"