I don't know who decided to edit in the memes/ outlandish visuals into these videos, but I want them and the person doing the editing to know that I really appreciate the effort.
@ptonpc2 ай бұрын
Same here.
@ulissedazante57482 ай бұрын
I second that.
@jameshughdalton2 ай бұрын
I third it.
@geoffbenoy2052Ай бұрын
I have such a Hebel flare gun, never realised it could be adapted to a kind of stock to shoot anti-tank ammunition. But I wouldn't be confortable in battle situations 😊
@DirePanda2 ай бұрын
Sturmpistole at 90 degrees = most epic game of lawn darts dare ever.
@patrickrose12212 ай бұрын
" It's no use running around with your hands on your head" 😆😅👍
@peepsbates2 ай бұрын
Nah that'd be the Panzerwurfmine. Look it up. Me and my buddies used to call it playing 'Explosive Lawn Darts' when we played Heroes and Generals where it was an AT weapon in that game.
@patrickrose12212 ай бұрын
@@peepsbates sounds mint 😆😅👍
@andreyradchenko82002 ай бұрын
@@peepsbates Mine was renamed to an expression that roughly translates into English as 'Metal Box Burial'. H3 magnetic mine was 'Turret Launcher Mk3'. So many fond memories.
@epikmanthe3rd2 ай бұрын
THEY WERE WEARING PARAMILITARY CLOTHING
@Getpojke2 ай бұрын
Knowing British squaddies its probably just as well we didn't have these. The amount of broken or dislocated arms after persuading new recruits that they're "...not a proper soldier..." until they can fire one, one handed & sans stock would've filled whole wings of hospitals.
@hibob8412 ай бұрын
Reminiscent of the Japanese Type 89 light mortar of WW2. Nicknamed the "knee mortar" by U.S. troops, it was decidedly NOT designed to be used that way. There are accounts (possibly apocryphal) of broken femurs, but at the very least it would have left you with a nasty bruise and difficulty walking for a few days. Whoops.
@evillabrador12 ай бұрын
Wasn’t a baton gun a converted flare pistol
@copee29602 ай бұрын
@@hibob841Everytine I hear broken femur...I think Brian Reagan...
@KaijuBiologistАй бұрын
Half the beds would be Americans, trying to prove who the tougher soldier was.
@mats74922 ай бұрын
Fun fact: „Züge“ in German can either mean „rifling“ or „trains“ depending on context 😂
@tommeakin17322 ай бұрын
As far as I can see, it's from the same root as English "tug". It does seem like the word has been a little too stretched in how many things it can mean, but hey, unlike us, they like to speak their mother tongue. Fair enough. I think it'd be nice if we were allowed to speak more English rather than having unspoken social rules that ranks English as lower class dumb-speech, and anything Greek-Romance as le intelligent et sophistique
@mats74922 ай бұрын
@@tommeakin1732 In german its indeed "Zug" which means "tug" ..
@willob7632 ай бұрын
@@mats7492 I was also gonna say "train" is "Zug".😅
@DaDudeb2 ай бұрын
Ich mag Züge.
@denisrauch2 ай бұрын
Züge or Zug can also mean "moves" or "the move" like in chess
@VekhGaming2 ай бұрын
"Not using it without the stock". I'm kinda surprised I never saw some Rambo or BJ Blazkowicz-type person dual wield them stockless in any piece of media I can remember.
@pegoossens2 ай бұрын
in the later versions of the wolfenstein games you actually have a version of the kampfpistole. Even though they turned it into a revolver
@billysasterd57072 ай бұрын
Thats my biggest problem with Wolfenstein, they can never get the guns right. Its so inaccurate it ruins it for me.
@jimfortnite78102 ай бұрын
@@billysasterd5707that's the point, they're fictional retro-future-looking versions of real guns. They are deliberately trying not to get them right. You can't tell me the gatling mg-42 doesn't rock.
@pegoossens2 ай бұрын
@@billysasterd5707 the later games (new order and after) are based in a fantasy setting going from the 1960 s to the eighties. So the designers inspired themselves mixing classig WW2 with more modern elements (like HK rifles) if you take the kampfpistole for example. It is a different gun in the game but the lines are clearly ins pired by the weapon in this video
@kilroy41992 ай бұрын
@@pegoossensthe version in the old blood looks even more like the real one
@AlbertFrederickLarunАй бұрын
Another great episode! Thank you Jonathan Ferguson and the Royal Armouries.
@michaelshelton54882 ай бұрын
Looking down the rifled barrel reminded me of the opening of a James Bond movie
@tacticalmanatee2 ай бұрын
some of the newer versions of the medium-velocity 40mm grenades can penetrate 85mm of armor according to Rheinmetall: "The HEDP round, even with its large shaped charge capable of penetrating 85mm of RHA, still emits more than 1000 fragments when functioned." That's quite capable of taking out most light armor out there, and even capable of taking out heavy stuff from the sides or rear.
@zoiders2 ай бұрын
Different grenade. The 40mm round used in a 203 or Hk type launcher uses the high/low pressure system. The grenades you describe are the 40x53mm rounds intended for the Hk GMG or the US made Mk19. They are higher velocity and they are not compatible with hand held launchers.
@tacticalmanatee2 ай бұрын
@@zoiders The medium velocity 40x51mm I was referring to is compatible with the M32A1 handheld launcher and a few others. It is separate from the older high-velocity 40x53mm that is limited to the big belt-fed GMGs. It is currently being developed by Rheinmetall and in testing with the US military, so it's not well known yet. I was citing it as an example of how far handheld compact anti-armor weapons have come, since 85mm is not only more pen than the largest warhead fired by this WW2 launcher, but actually surpasses many early WW2 light and medium tank cannons.
@williamzk90832 ай бұрын
-The German 30mm diameter Gewehr-Panzergranate could penetrate 30mm of RHA when fired from the standard K98 bolt action refile grenade launcher with the "Schiessbecher" or shooting cup attached. A 44mm supercaliber Gross Gerwhere-Panzeregrenate fired from the same fitting could penetrate 70mm. The Waffen SS developed its own and variety of supercaliber grenades up to 61mm diameter fired from the "Schiessbecher" could penetrate 139mm. I suspect the 30mm versions could have evolved to penetration of nearly 2 diameters as German HEAT rounds improved at the end of the war. -I see flare gun adaption as quite useful as both the G.43 semi automatic rile and the StuG.44 assault rifle had problems with rifle grenades. The 44mm supercaliber round would be very useful.
@tacticalmanatee2 ай бұрын
@@williamzk9083 139mm is absolutely wild for the time. I'm guessing the range was pretty short, though, unless they were using the converted anti-tank rifles (Granatbüchse Modell 39). I'm guessing the SS AT grenade you mentioned is the Grosse Panzergranate 61?
@zoiders2 ай бұрын
@@tacticalmanatee And I don't believe you. Stop gamering.
@plunder19562 ай бұрын
Congratulations on the Storm-Ents sequence.
@darthplagueis132 ай бұрын
Pronunciation advice for Jonathan: The st in the word "Pistole" is exactly the same as in the English word pistol. No need to prounce it Pishtole instead. The Sht pronunciation for st only applies when the word starts with st (z.B. Stahl, Stern, Steuer...).
@Chromatic_Death2 ай бұрын
Ah, the wise indeed!
@Emily-ou6lq2 ай бұрын
OO Sheven begsh to differ
@williamzk90832 ай бұрын
You have to pronounce the "e". as in Porche. No silent e in German
@andydaniels30292 ай бұрын
The cut-scenes to the comedic relief were absolutely brilliant!
@VeraTR9092 ай бұрын
Love the occasional joke (also with the editing) makes these videos feel a bit more lighthearted and less stuffy. Great editing in general btw, with the relevant pics and well timed cuts.
@skyd87262 ай бұрын
Coupled with the t-shirt!😂
@JinKee2 ай бұрын
They have the most beautiful milling and stamping.
@wsippel2 ай бұрын
Totally forgot this thing existed, I found it fascinating as a young teenager. I had an old book with a pretty detailed description and technical manual of the Kampfpistole and the available ammo. Might have even been in an old issue of the Reibert I had (from the early 60's I believe), which would suggest that the Bundeswehr still had a few in its arsenal back then. Reiberts contained manuals for pretty much everything the Bundeswehr had, even if it was just collecting dust in storage somewhere and never issued.
@zoiders2 ай бұрын
The tree trunk attachment is actually something that makes perfect sense as it allows you to turn a flare pistol into a trip flare. A very common item used for fighting in defence and ambushes.
@JAAGen012 ай бұрын
Before I watch the video but after reading the description. I'm going to do something I dont ever thing I've done before and defend a seemingly baffling German WWII arms development choice. If my memory serves me correctly this thing was being put into service before development on the Panzerfaust or Panzerschrek was finished. And of course during this time German infantry was having massive problems not being able to deal with the unending tide of T-34's and KV-1's on the eastern front. So to me personally, I can absolutely see adopting this thing as a stopgap AT weapon to equip troops with as an emergency measure before the proper AT weapons are ready to be deployed. Considering it's a modification of a widely available well known and tested system it was likely quick and cheap to do this, and having a poor ranged man-portable AT weapon is better than none at all. I personally would take this over a Panzerknacker anyday. Here's hoping I'm not wrong on any of those points or Johnathan covers the min the vid.
@F1ghteR412 ай бұрын
It's also compact, doesn't produce a backblast which would impede firing it indoors and has a reasonable choice of ammunition.
@harryfaber2 ай бұрын
I sometimes wonder if it is simpler than that. Years ago, I went on a crazy 'sales' course where the instructor kept going on about 'added value', we see it today in things like wall mounted electric radiators with USB charging ports. The guy making the flare gun hoped to sell millions, sold a few dozen and thought 'what else can we do with this? If he had been English, he would have added a tea making round but a much more sensible German thought 'armour piercing'.
@me.ne.frego.2 ай бұрын
Having a proto-M79 for dealing against enemy nests, barricades, building walls, trucks, armored cars and light tanks is awesome. The Sturmpistole only lacks an antipersonnel defense shotgun-like round.
@STRAKAZulu2 ай бұрын
Love the use of Hot Shots Part Deux footage!
@sagrudАй бұрын
It is once again nice to see a weapon from my hometown featured in such a video (sometimes also on Forgotten Weapons) as ERMA stands for Erfurter Maschinen- und Werkzeugfabrik
@BLADEOFSUN12 ай бұрын
your pronounciation of Doppelgelenk-Baumschraube was pretty spot on.
@krauterz2 ай бұрын
Thanks Jonathan and team! much appreciated, one of my favourite channels.
@wackawackacount2 ай бұрын
0:20 "Forgive my German" sounds like the classy, British version of "Pardon my French" ;-)
@elephaux56712 ай бұрын
Not quite. Pardon my French is used to apologise for swearing, which is ironic as most of our cruse words in English are of Germanic derivation.
@afwalker19212 ай бұрын
But what if I am swearing in Urdu?
@wackawackacount2 ай бұрын
@@afwalker1921 That's the real question.
@tarmaque2 ай бұрын
@@elephaux5671 I can swear in Spanish, although other than that I can't really speak it beyond ordering a beer.
@afwalker19212 ай бұрын
@@wackawackacount Isn't it?
@noreply-70692 ай бұрын
I would appreciate greatly you showing the camera looking down through the sights. Thanks for the content.
@RoscoesRiffs2 ай бұрын
Thanks. I've wanted to see one of these since a World War II combat veteran described a day of being on the receiving end of them.
@BallisticTech2 ай бұрын
How did this not get turned into a star wars gun...
@itsmejak7888Ай бұрын
they made 200 of them making them very rare like Johnathan said if you paid attention
@JoeKing-_i_am_not_joking2 ай бұрын
Hello Jonathan Ferguson, The Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, home to thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history! You are the male Taylor Swift of weapon history for me ❤
@ternarycode2 ай бұрын
sturmpistole mentioned!!!! this has gotta be one of my favorite quirky weapons out there
@thurin842 ай бұрын
i laughed way harder at the treant a/t team than i had any call to lol. thanks!
@TheBeefSlayerАй бұрын
I love in the background there is a library storage shelf system …. Instead of books…. It’s just racks upon racks of historic firearms!!!! Wow. I hope it’s secure and fire proof… because it’s priceless. Wow. So many firearms. 😱
@knightmarethe1st2 ай бұрын
I love your work and very much appreciate the willingness to say you dont know something. To many people hate to admit that and I can count on you to be honest.
@AllNamesWereAlreadyTaken2 ай бұрын
The LotR clipped made my day ;)
@yetanother91272 ай бұрын
I imagine the tree mount isn't just for flares, but could also be used for a booby trap or mine of sorts in conjunction with the anti-tank grenade. Set the thing up in a hidden position pointing at a road you think enemy tanks are going to be using, and put an observer with the remote trigger in a position with a good view of the road. (Or just rig it to a tripwire.)
@LiveDonkeyDeadLion2 ай бұрын
How do you catalog a weapon like this that could fit into several different categories? Is there an equivalent to the Dewey decimal system for arms and artillery?
@dd111112 ай бұрын
Thats actually an interesting question. I hope they answer you!
@HalfPersianMan2 ай бұрын
I believe this thing is a light grenade launcher.
@burgerforcongress1001Ай бұрын
Probably the same category as a modern single-shot 40 mm grenade launcher (M79); there a wide range of munitions in that form factor, including flares, smoke, anti-armor high explosive, antipersonnel explosive, super-shotgun, & "less lethal" tear gas or baton rounds.
@Moredread252 ай бұрын
I enjoyed the more daring editing of this episode.
@samsonsoturian60132 ай бұрын
Welcome to Germany. They repurposed the flair gun as a grenade launcher, but none of the parts are interchangeable anyway.
@EiKk4__2 ай бұрын
Typical Deutsche engineering... :P
@harryfaber2 ай бұрын
@@EiKk4__ A 'flair gun' is only used in very expensive haut couture French fashion houses....
@EiKk4__2 ай бұрын
@@harryfaber Battlefield might have been the only game, where I have seen this bloober of a lightgun.
@rikusschulze62492 ай бұрын
why shouldn't be the parts be interchangeable?
@samsonsoturian60132 ай бұрын
@@harryfaber this is pyroland, where flare and flair are the same
@pauljames17622 ай бұрын
Remember watching an episode of Battles for Europe: Hurtgen forest where a US veteran talks about the Germans using these.
@Craig-u6j2 ай бұрын
Yes, saw a veteran talk about the hell in the Hurtgen, the Germans would stay low in trenches and fire into the trees as the heads of the allies appeared from as little as 15m, causing a lot of head, neck and shoulder wounds, all of which are obviously serious if not fatal. The yanks absolutely hated the blooptubes, so they must have been effective, at least from prepared defences
@o.r.grinter776314 күн бұрын
Jonathan you have the best job in the world
@44WarmocK772 ай бұрын
Ah yes, the Kampfpistole ... I was always fascinated with that chapter from my book about german close combat firearms (probably the one you mentioned if it's the one from Jülch and Fleischer). ^^ IIRC both the Wurfkörper 361 with the egg handgrenade and the 358 with the boombastic tin can had the propellant charge built into the base of the adapter, so you only needed to shove the 358 and 361 into the flare pistol's muzzle until the springs at the base of the adapter would kook into the groove for the normal ammo's cartridges and you were already good to go. My personal favorite for the rifled version definitely is the Nachrichtenpatrone Z, which was filled with a few sheets of paper for sending messages (and sometimes even a small pencil for writing a reply!). Ballistic Express Mail for the win. :D
@zin6749Ай бұрын
I didn't know House MD was a firearm collector in his spare time
@michaelscholfield56432 ай бұрын
It would be a great idea to do a round up video of the extra info gathered by the "If any of you know, please get in touch" suggestions. It would be interesting to find out. Not just people nitpicking or questioning your knowledge but the genuine amendments
@danovercast9282Ай бұрын
The invention of the shaped-charge changed everything for defeating armor. You no longer needed velocity for penetration, so you could turn low pressure systems like flare guns (and PIAT) into armor killers.
@derBenIsPlayingАй бұрын
>"We'll talk about that [the sight] in a minute" >Refuses to elaborate >Instead explains everything else on the gun All I ever wanted to know is what purpose these funky sights serve
@harpomarx77772 ай бұрын
Creative and Ingenious German thinking in WWII!
@parrotraiser65412 ай бұрын
Putting a flare into a rifled pistol would surely be less regrettable than the converse.
@kevinmcmillin870Ай бұрын
Hmm why yes indeed
@juusolatva2 ай бұрын
rifle grenades reminded me of the Rifleman's Assault Weapon due to how hilarious it looks, i.e. a 140mm metal ball filled with explosives and rocket fuel hanging under the muzzle of your rifle. it's basically a HESH warhead that is powered by a small rocket motor that you launch kind of like a rifle grenade. it does have nozzles to induce spin that stabilizes it in flight, since I doubt just sticking a rocket motor on a ball would work very well and there might have been a HEAT version of it as well. also funny how the Finnish RK 62 was never designed to shoot rifle grenades, but the later model RK 95 TP was given the ability to do that, although rifle grenades were never really used in any capacity and one does wonder why that capability was even added to a weapon made in the 1990s.
@IggyMaid2 ай бұрын
I remember this gun from Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker! That game had a very large variety of weapons
@barticle2 ай бұрын
Lapel Kolibri will be the next hot trend in open carry.
@kevinoliver30832 ай бұрын
The buttstock looks like it was adapted from the Pzb 39 anti-tank rifle. Which would make sense as that gun was obsolete, and out of production when the K42 was developed. So they probably had surplus parts to hand.
@bizzzzzzle2 ай бұрын
It appears smaller
@LeeviHokka1262 ай бұрын
Oddly, my learning of the Sturmpistole came from the manga "Golgo 13" - it was featured in at least two volumes.
@sortaspicey92782 ай бұрын
It occurred to me that the reason the butt pad can articulate is so when you angle the weapon to fire you don't have to lean your whole body back and the contact with your body will be maintained regardless of the angle you point the weapon at!
@me.ne.frego.2 ай бұрын
It's so evident that feature is for having most optimal shoulder rest at the angles this thing must be fired! Sometimes this guy and Ian from FW can't figure out pretty basic things for their gun-nerd levels.
@eloryosnak41002 ай бұрын
So... I would agree with you guys if the butt pad was in some way spring-loaded and or articulated in both directions. It isn't. Your 'cheek weld' (as it were) can be uncomfortable or bad contact if the padding is separated from the body. At default, the design is a ')' shape. This is pretty common, as it matches the curve of the shoulder. If you wanted it to spring articulate, making it change to an 'I' shape (with top and bottom alternately hooked) would potentially be useful, but even then the recoil will ruin the contact with the spring pressure. The thing is, with no spring pressure and only two real positions, you either can have a ) that matches your shoulder, or a > that... uh... doesn't do a damn thing. *And* if it did would immediately upon recoil unfold into the aforementioned ), smashing into your shoulder. You wouldn't want to use this in the folded configuration.
@donaldunderhill30202 ай бұрын
Thank you for making your video in a well lighted room
@nantarg8 күн бұрын
That would be an absolutely lovely base for a Star Wars blaster conversion.
@Idnekib2 ай бұрын
Please... Give even more freedom to your editor... We deserve his nerdiness!!!
@SteamGeezerUK2 ай бұрын
As an aside, that sticker on the side of the gun could be safely removed using WD40 and kitchen paper (or cotton buds etc) without causing any damage to the metal or the finish.
@cyberleaderandy12 ай бұрын
Surgical adhesive remover should remove it as well.
@pommunist2 ай бұрын
scraping it off with a thumb nail would work too
@DaveDexterMusic2 ай бұрын
I imagine that the professional firearms conservators and experts employed there are very aware how to do such things and there's a good reason for that sticker still being there. for example: if that sticker was there when the pistol was accessioned, it's potentially part of the item's provenance and history and can't simply be removed for aesthetic reasons. ferguson almost always uses surgical gloves when handling the firearms, because skin contains oil that will print onto them and have to be cleaned; using wd40, thus adding MORE oil into the firearm's environment that would have to then be removed, seems like a poor choice in any case museum objects are handled with extreme care and cleaning/removing/restoring them is not as simple as "wd40'll get that right off, no worries"
@juusolatva2 ай бұрын
Germans did have the Nahverteidigungswaffe for shooting flares and grenades from inside the tank and it was apparently compatible with these flare guns, but Israelis took that whole idea to another level by having an internal breech-loaded 60mm mortar in their Merkava tanks, since somehow a 105mm or a 120mm tank gun, an M2 Browning and 3 FN MAGs just weren't enough.
@williamzk90832 ай бұрын
Tiger tanks had a system of launching grenades upward to air burst and delouse the tank of infantry.
@juusolatvaАй бұрын
@@williamzk9083 Nazis did think of Jews as lice, so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised when one of them thinks that the people fighting the Nazis were lice as well.
@andrewwatkinson15482 ай бұрын
Appearing soon in the first person shooter of your choice. That is so cool.
@fruckles2 ай бұрын
The game 'Hotdogs, Horseshoes and Hand grenades' has this and it's my favorite emergency room clearing weapon. Especially when I'm trying to reload. ☕🐝🇺🇸
@patrickbo20452 ай бұрын
You should watch the episodes that Jonathan did on that game, it's just hilarious! xD
@TheBeefSlayerАй бұрын
Never heard of that game… but have heard the saying that … “Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.”
@everybot-it2 ай бұрын
Pronunciation of "Leuchtpistole" was spot on
@brokeandtired2 ай бұрын
Would be a good grenade launcher. So no surprise that they added a HE element. Plus there was still a lot of light armour around as well, so a heat charge isn’t as bad an idea as someone might think.
@j.robertsergertson45132 ай бұрын
It might not penetrate the tanks hull ,but it could disable the tracks .
@verycreativ2332 ай бұрын
@@j.robertsergertson4513 it absolutely would penetrate a tanks hull 80mm isn't somethign to laugh at that thing goes through the front of early shermansand the side of most medium tanks.
@j.robertsergertson45132 ай бұрын
@@verycreativ233 i said it " Might" not .
@harryfaber2 ай бұрын
The most produced armoured vehicle was the Universal Carrier....
@me.ne.frego.2 ай бұрын
Only an ignorant kid would consider the german "assault pistol" ridiculous. Urban combat with one of these and a MP40 in the age of bolt actions and hand grenades is a dream kit to have!
@thegunfoogle28642 ай бұрын
"LP" at the end is LeuchtePistole, denoting is is a flaregun, so it would be called "fighting pistol - flaregun", and American troops generally called it a Sturmpistole because everything else German was sturm this or that, and it sounds cool. The danish military still currently uses these and even makes reproductions as they affectionately refer to it as a pirate blaster, since its large patinad brass colored barrel resembles a large antique pistol.
@acomingextinction2 ай бұрын
That is a friggin' sweet backdrop.
@ulissedazante57482 ай бұрын
Lot of interesting things lurking from there. And for the video the lighter background helps
@johnklein2332 ай бұрын
Great video. It is nice to see an original of this extremely rare weapon. All that typically show up on the market are the tan or yellow reproductions/fakes, and they have high prices too. It is too bad you didn't have examples of the grenades it fired. I have most of them in my collection, but the 326 LP is the coolest.
@Shinzon23Ай бұрын
I didn't think much of these things in the few video games they show up in but holy s*** they're very effective especially if you can get behind the tank
@kathleenfoster9887Ай бұрын
Another very interesting presentation well done.it would interesting to workout how much felt recoil each munition produced.
@TallDude732 ай бұрын
First time hearing of this weapon. Very interesting. It couldn't have been widely used, or we would have heard more about it. The panzerfaust was famous because it was widely used.
@tuckerlindsey73782 ай бұрын
beautiful looking piece of machinery
@Yuzral2 ай бұрын
Since nobody else has, I'm going to ask the obvious (and stupid) question: What would happen if you tried to fire the flare round out of the rifled version? Going to guess various flavours of unhealthily close kaboom depending on what bit failed first...
@jonathanbohm64892 ай бұрын
I’m assuming your flare would start spinning around and not go as high due to rifling
@vornamenachname9892 ай бұрын
The Flare in the rifled version would be a lot better for your health than doing it the other way around...
@massivepileup2 ай бұрын
The rifling seemingly narrows the barrel somewhat so the flare just wouldn't fit.
@juusolatva2 ай бұрын
the Soviet RSP 30/ROP 30 flares were not made to be weapons, but nevertheless the flare part itself is a 30mm chunk of metal powered by a rocket motor to the extent that you can seriously injure someone, if you shoot it at them, which you might not at first expect from something that looks like a short and thick roman candle. apparently the used tubes left over after shooting the flare can help you keep the barrel of your rifle clean in the field.
@JO19pLuMbUm94HN2 ай бұрын
I Love in the drawing of the shaped charge it clarifies previsely: "Balls"
@prestongarvey77452 ай бұрын
I just got back into Enlisted, and it had me wondering about this thing. It a pain in the proverbial to use, but quite interesting to look at.
@dumpskyАй бұрын
"rifled barrel" in german means "gezogener lauf". "gezogen" is past of "ziehen" which means "pulled" or "drawn".
@matatron.2 ай бұрын
Am I the only one who feels that the term 'Waffenamt' is being used incorrectly in most english speaking videos? An 'Amt' is a government agency, so in this case the agency for weapons. The eagle is therefore not called 'Waffenamt'. It is rather the proofmark/logo OF the Waffenamt.
@Alakazzam092 ай бұрын
Is that shoulder stock the same as the one for the MG15 ground support conversion?
@AeonicentityАй бұрын
Attaching it to a tree is actually a pretty genius idea because you can pretty much guarantee that whoever is firing a flare is probably a senior enlisted or junior officer so being able to fire it remotely allows you to do it from a trench or cover.
@georgeacethomas41452 ай бұрын
The way Jonathan pulled out that second flare gun like it’s his concealed piece
@Rando_Shyte2 ай бұрын
Yes? You didn't finish that sentence.
@CitizenSmith502 ай бұрын
Wonderful waffling on by Jonathon as usual to take 20+ minutes to tell us that Germans shot grenades from flare pistols ! Love it; and look forward to the next one !
@nelson01102 ай бұрын
This background is much better, brighter.
@kettujabamiesukkeliukko2 ай бұрын
Didn't even know this was a thing, thank you for this video. Question to Jonathan; are there any weapons in the collection you haven't seen?
@VyantQuijt2 ай бұрын
To whomever wrote the description: "... alongside *their already effective areay..."
@thecommenter96782 ай бұрын
=D about time i saw a quality video on the sturmpistole.
@1s3ngr1m2 ай бұрын
Actually the german army often employed, and to this day employs multi-purpose weapons like these. In my time we used the "Handflammpatrone" a single-shot- Flare/Incineration cartridge launcher in offensive modes, even if it was, according to documentation, only to be used to create smokescreens and burn down foliage that could be used by enemies as cover...
@yfelwulf2 ай бұрын
Germany used flare pistols extensively for signalling attacks etc they developed an explosive round which is where Americans got the Idea for the M79 / M203 and other similar devices. As an anti tank round 😮
@tommeakin17322 ай бұрын
Oh come on, I know we love to c*ck for the goose-steppers, but such basic grenade throwers don't need to be built off other basic grenade throwers. It's almost as basic as a gun can get. The idea itself of "lets make a breech loading grenade thrower" follows right after "I wish I could throw this grenade further". The lack of such a weapon in, say, ww1, speaks mostly to the lack of logistical willingness to invest in new things.
@Quaker5212 ай бұрын
Darn it, I seen this on X and got it right but I don't post on X so was waiting for the question on KZbin. Sadly you didn't post this weeks question on YT. Thanks for the video.
@PanzerkomandantFencer2 ай бұрын
I dont remember if its actually the case or not, but i truly believe seeing that thing in an anime is what got me into guns
@odinswrath862 ай бұрын
Love the shirt!
@honkhonl73082 ай бұрын
Paratrooper Rudi Fruehbeisser (Fallschirmjägerregiment 9) mentions this weapon in his war memories as part of the armament of the 3rd Paratrooper Division before the Normandy Landings. The division had recently been established and was thus quite impressively armed: "A particular pride (...) is the new Fallschirmjägergewehr (...). The so-called Kampfpistole is also a lot of fun. It is a flare pistol, the barrel of which is rifled and a special aiming device is attached to the handle. It can be used to fire explosive ammunition for anti-tank use and flare ammunition. There is simply no weapon or piece of equipment that would be missing anywhere in this regiment." When the division was re-equipped in the fall of 1944, it no longer received such weapons.
@agn8552 ай бұрын
"Doppelgelenk-Baumschraube" - (double hinge tree screw) obviously used to set up a semi automated intrusion detection system that will launch a flare once it gets triggered via a trip wire…
@agn8552 ай бұрын
…and yes, if the intruder (who has released such a device) will get killed by a grenade that has been fired at an 90° angle, wouldn’t that make sense. So aren’t we taking here about a "Selbstschussanlage"!?
@KaboomfАй бұрын
Possible but unlikely, as they had cheaper single use devices for doing the same job. Germans had several variants of trip wire fuse mechanisms that could be used to set off anything from a flare to an explosive charge. I suspect it was more a survivability thing, enemies would see where the flare was being launched from and might immediately target that area hoping to take out a command element. Officers or their sides being the most likely to launch flares for signalling an attack for example. Rig the launcher to a tree and use a long trigger lanyard, and you stay out of harm's way if the launcher site gets targeted.
@juliusxeno65372 ай бұрын
Editor outdone themselves
@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe2 ай бұрын
Intresting topic advertised in a Ronco 70s fashion.
@fruitbat44292 ай бұрын
Wow! A long time back I'd read about these in Ian V. Hogg's 'Infantry Weapons of World War Two' - a very good IMO, although not perhaps as authorative as I first thought - but I'd never thought I'd see one. Fascinating bit of kit, and I'd never heard of the tree spike before. "Lord Saruman! The trees have come to life and are attacking Isengard!" "Have no fear, they're only trees. What threat could they possibly be?" "But they've got grenade launchers!" "Ruuuuunnnnn!!!!!!" But no, that was a great video, very informative. Though I was looking forward to some info on how they were used in battle and how effective they were, but from what Jonathon said there just isn't really any data available on that. Though given the apparently very low numbers produced that may not be surprising. If I may share a memory from Mr Hogg's book, IIRC, one of the rounds available for this was a message grenade intended for battlefield communications. It, apparently, had a bulbous plastic head, like an egg grenade, but this unscrewed and inside was a pencil and a message form. So presumably you filled in the form and then launched the grenade in the direction of the intended recipient. It sounds kind of fun, but I am dubious about its practicality. Anyway, thank you Jonathon for a fun & informative video.
@GypsyHunter232UKАй бұрын
My old mum aged 10 9yrs old here in the qeer old corrupt UK 🇬🇧 brought one back from Germany aftet she took part in the battle for Berlin in the dying days of the ww2 as she formed part of a Ruski Cossack battalion. Her one was parkerised and still not one bit of rust or decay on it .
@FrankenTiger882 ай бұрын
Brilliant stuff! How about a video on the Italian “Trombocino” launcher please 🙏
@bashkillszombiesАй бұрын
Did you know Australia has outlawed flares? Idk if it stuck, but I saw legislation pass through banning them as weapons. Even though international courts ruled that potential for abuse is so minimal compared to the life saving function that no laws should be made around life saving devices (including smoke grenades, which they also banned). Shockingly that means they've banned all life saving devices that aren't tech based.
@frankschaeffer81532 ай бұрын
This reminds me of Ernst von Salmon's The Outlaws where he mentions flare guns being used against vehicles by Freikorps soldiers in the inter-war period.
@numeristatechАй бұрын
That nub under the trigger reminds me of the old western 6 shooter carbines, and that used your supporting hand over your main hand and your supporting index finger looped over this to pull in and stabilise from there. And get your supporting hand away from the blowback!
@sleeplessindefatigable63852 ай бұрын
I dare say that in a modern context for one-hand anti-tank munitions it's probably going to end up being drones. Either some kind of self-guiding drone that can identify your chosen tank and navigate to something like the tracks or the barrel to make it less of a threat, or maybe a simple sticky little dart drone that would attach itself to a tank and call for any nearby loiter munitions. In either case I imagine these would be a sort of "oh crap that's a tank" solution for the infantry in case of emergency, rather than a dedicated way to knock out a tank.
@patginni5229Ай бұрын
I would assume that the screw to tree idea was a perimeter trip wire. Military’s around the world use perimeter trip flares still. My old unit started a forest fire with one. Thankfully it was in training and we got it out before it went far.
@SchwarzeBananen2 ай бұрын
I guess that humans are so inventive in quick thinkers on the battle field is, that you have a high incentive by surviving your enemy.
@ДмитрийСлепцов-д6п2 ай бұрын
14:39 Damn, that's good! My respects to editor.
@TheArklyte2 ай бұрын
Question: given that HEAT grenades for it started to be supplied to troops during initial stages of Barbarossa, does it make it chronologically the first adopted en mass and used in combat infantry HEAT "projector"?
@Emily-ou6lq2 ай бұрын
People who like their own comment is like people who smell their own farts.
@TheArklyte2 ай бұрын
@@Emily-ou6lq oh, it gets worse. Sometimes I even copypaste my own comments if they don't reappear to become visible after some time. How dare I, right?🤣
@bizzzzzzle2 ай бұрын
Everyone taking about the use as a perimeter intruder detection rather then road side remote tank destruction. That makes the most sense in the context he’s talking….