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@Flimflam_fan
Жыл бұрын
Ok sir 🫡
@oldesertguy9616
Жыл бұрын
But wehraboos will simply agree with everything they said, lol.
@mathiaspoppe5304
Жыл бұрын
Does goatguns have german weapons, too?
@SquireComedy
Жыл бұрын
@@oldesertguy9616 Shit...you're right. Okay, abandon that plan!
@Flimflam_fan
Жыл бұрын
@@mathiaspoppe5304no
@huntertrum3658
Жыл бұрын
"My brother was killed by an MG42, so he told me." Great line there😂😂
@brainflash1
Жыл бұрын
Could only identify them by the holes.
@frenzalrhomb6919
Жыл бұрын
@@brainflash1 All twelve hundred of them!! OUCH!!
@Arthurschkil
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps foreshadowing
@frenzalrhomb6919
Жыл бұрын
@@Arthurschkil Perhaps a foreshadowing of things to come in Ukraine!! OOOF!!
@ennui9745
Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, rate of fire so fast that it just ends up wasting ammo. There's a reason the MG3 has a lower rate of fire.
@FlyingTooFast
Жыл бұрын
Gone are the days of cardboard…. We have passed into the age of modernism
@SquireComedy
Жыл бұрын
We still have vast stocks of cardboard.
@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046
Жыл бұрын
For all you know they might have become better and better with cardboard modeling
@autistic_m4a3_76w_hvss
Жыл бұрын
@@SquireComedy Give them to me
@GGLao-shi
Жыл бұрын
@@SquireComedyno me
@neonlovegalaxy
Жыл бұрын
@@SquireComedy no me
@Icemann89
Жыл бұрын
Poor MG-42 guy was there all by himself while the rest of his team was on a lunch break and couldn't defend him against any potential flanking attack.
@unclelarry8842
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, eating horses.
@JohnDoe-on6ru
Жыл бұрын
His flanks were probably covered by the superior German S-mines
@andrewanderson3472
Жыл бұрын
The mg42 is still being used in a modified form but the smle hasn't been used in since the fiftys
@alanmackinnon3516
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewanderson3472i believe the Afghans used them against the US troops, not so long ago.
@samfire3067
11 ай бұрын
@@alanmackinnon3516They used even a stengun with lazer soghts
@roadhouse6999
Жыл бұрын
>The MG42 had a very high rate of fire >The MG42 had a very light barrel >It could thus only be fired in short bursts >Therefore, the MG42 was just a belt-fed FAMAS in 8mm Mauser
@LukeDay-pv7qw
4 ай бұрын
The barrel was changeable with new barrels so they could continue a high rate of fire so i disagree
@BruceConklin-js5rg
3 ай бұрын
@@LukeDay-pv7qw It couldn't be too hard to change a barrel in the middle of a firefight. Just ask the enemy to stop firing for a bit....
@LukeDay-pv7qw
3 ай бұрын
@@BruceConklin-js5rg the gun was always manned by two people so? It would be as quick as possible mg42 teams worked in teams not alone
@stuborn-complaining-german
Ай бұрын
@@BruceConklin-js5rg No, not at all. It has a latch on the right side that you just push forward, the barrel sleeve opens up to the right, the barrel swings slightly out and comes sliding out right parallel to the right side of the gun. Ideally you put your carrying case for the exchange barrel there when you set up your position, so the red hot barrel will land right on the asbestos liner where it can stay to cool off. You take the other barrel lying there all prepared in the 2nd half of the case, slide it into the open barrel sleeve and whack it shut. --> Pull trigger, keep going Brrrrrt... Takes 5 seconds max... This is all done by the gunner himself, because its on the right side of the gunn where there is no ammo belt and box and stuff in the way. The assistant gunner lies on the left side of the gun, where he has the ammo and keeps feeding it. Anyways you still only shoot in bursts, because you actually aim, so you hit stuff. Your not just making noise and hope to get lucky like with a 50cal. Also 2 people are the bare minimum for light MG configuration shooting from the bipod. In heavy MG configuration the MG42 would be set up on a Lafette (tripod), bolted down and have a periscopic sight on it. There would be at least 4 people, one more to prepare ammo, and a spotter with good binos or even a optical range finder. Those guy would also give cover fire with their rifle if the MG should have problems in any way. They would then also bring more than just one exchange barrel, and the barrel change would probably be done by the spotter on the right side of the gun. An "MG nest" like that would be set up well beforehand, also measuring distances and marking certain points on the adjustable elevation and traverse, and could hit accurately up to 1200m with the first shots.
@private_noise
Жыл бұрын
Your british impressions are spot on
@SquireComedy
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. We've been practicing them for 27 years.
@private_noise
Жыл бұрын
@@2ndcomingofFritz IT WAS A JOKE
@jakesoros2376
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@respectmathias
Жыл бұрын
@@SquireComedy Now you guys just need 20 years of practicing German Impressions and you'll be on the same level as the comment section
@christopherreed4723
Жыл бұрын
They blackmail Bismarck for the German impressions.
@Rebellion1776
Жыл бұрын
Most casualties were caused by mortars, artillery, and air power. Small arms really made up a much smaller percentage of casualties in the War. I know Hollywood likes to glorify the small arms fighting of engagements, but they leave out how many casualties were caused by mortars, artillery, and air power before they even got down to small arms combat. We are seeing the same exact casualty ratios in Ukraine right now. I do put drones in the airpower category
@Neion8
Жыл бұрын
Of course they do; most Hollywood war films come from an age where they were made as millitary propaganda and showing their people getting blown apart by unseen enemies displays only the futility of bravery and the high cost of war. Intense fights between small arms fire and engaging tanks only when you have CAS or anti-tank weapons conveniently within reach makes it seem like you can fight back man-to-man, that maybe if you're good enough you too can be a hero. Reality is most soldiers thoughout history died before they even got a chance to fight; historically, disease, hunger and poor weather were the trio that claimed most lives but these days as you say, indirect fire, CAS and mines are the most likely ways to go.
@AdamantLightLP
4 ай бұрын
@@Neion8 Or, maybe it's not nearly as entertaining to watch soldiers not actually doing much fighting. You act like everything made is propaganda...
@thegiantrat4271
Жыл бұрын
Don't get them started on the "nazi super guns" or "nazi alien tech", truly game changers in the war
@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785
Жыл бұрын
The time travel bell...
@respectmathias
Жыл бұрын
Or 'The Ark of the Covenant', I'm sure the team will be back at any moment.
@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785
Жыл бұрын
@@respectmathias Face proceeds to melt off...
@maxbennett5412
Жыл бұрын
Lets not forget the Ratte, a tank so powerful it could eat up all of Nazi Germany's fuel with just 1 mile of driving. Certainly terrifying!
@frankdrebin3988
Жыл бұрын
@@maxbennett5412 Or the marvelous ME-163 which exploded on the runway when starting up the engine.
@user-ns3vs3bp3e
Жыл бұрын
“Mark Felton said” gave off strong “my dad is bigger than your dad” energy 😂😂😂
@Nobody.exe50
Жыл бұрын
The field marshall, and basement joke killed me also Wehraboo Squire was something i never tought i would see ,The twist of a tankie and that all of it was arisoft was incredible....... a bonus the look on squires face when he just said ME 262
@lepidusstupidius2956
Жыл бұрын
This video is beautiful. And the revelation that Derek was a tankie was hilarious.
@SwedishDrunkard5963
Жыл бұрын
The tank part got me thinking and i did some reaserch, most small scale tank battles where won buy the won buy the side that fired first. and the reson the myth of "it took five Shermans to destroy one Tiger" i think just comes from the fact that every "group" or what you call it was five Shermans
@biffmarcum5014
Жыл бұрын
There are actually very few documented cases of Shermans vs Tigers and of those the Sherman is giving as good as it is getting, but no one wants to hear that. The Tiger was a monster, especially in 1943, but a Tiger platoon at that time was 2 Tigers and 2 Panzer III specials that somehow never never gets told in the Tiger tales.
@waynenash6008
3 ай бұрын
Id say the tiger was the challenger 2, of it's day, massive advantage at long range, until the firefly was introduced
@haunter_1845
Жыл бұрын
The airsoft ending had me dying. It was like an M. Night Shyamalan plot twist. It suddenly all made sense.
@IMelkor42
Жыл бұрын
No eye pro, shameful. Unless they're wearing German contact lenses...
@flyingfish5054
Жыл бұрын
Squire's budget has dramatically increased; not only are his guns real, there's more than two people in his sketches.
@jason200912
Жыл бұрын
How do you know they're real and not demilled
@thurin84
Жыл бұрын
@@jason200912 demilled guns are still real, just sadly neutered.
@jason200912
Жыл бұрын
@@thurin84 I consider them no different than a replica
@thurin84
Жыл бұрын
@@jason200912 were that true then theyd be a lot cheaper.
@jason200912
Жыл бұрын
@@thurin84 in the US they're actually cheaper than replicas because of the unsightly hole and cut receivers
@AcceptableAsGenerallyDecent
Жыл бұрын
german prescription glasses have been historically documented to be the first military application of night vision technology. a lesser known fact about them is that they actually had a telescopic zooming function that allowed soldiers to see targets clearly up to 1500 meters away!
@mikedrop4421
Жыл бұрын
This might be the best thing you guys have ever done! Love the Mark Felton jab too! Also Hard Thrasher just addressed the first combat jet situation and the Meteor in his video the other day and hearing you mention it again cracked me up.
@shockblaster1201
Жыл бұрын
Another blessing from our English Overlord, the Tea Guzzler himself, the honourable Squire... Ehrm... Squire.
@PATROITICWAYS1776
Жыл бұрын
Soldier: general Payton we called off the war. Patton: Why? Soldier: Because the Germans had one mg42. Patton: WHATTTTTT!? We’re doomed!
@dreamypizza8458
Жыл бұрын
payton tho
@2ndcomingofFritz
Жыл бұрын
@@dreamypizza8458fr
@spiffygonzales5160
Жыл бұрын
@@dreamypizza8458 General Payton Manning. If he could lead the broncos to the super bowl than he's the perfect for for an allied general
@thurin84
Жыл бұрын
but, but he peed in the rhine!
@ivormott7309
Жыл бұрын
I didn't realise that such a warped view was so widespread, but then looking at depictions like Fury it does make sense. Do people really think films made primarily for entertainment are actually historically accutate? I think maybe Waterloo made in the 60s is the last time a film got close to accurate. Top notch as ever chaps.
@thebighurt2495
3 ай бұрын
The new Midway was pretty good
@OnurErtas-q1o
Ай бұрын
Das Boot was also pretty Accurate. Love that film.
@sebbes333
Жыл бұрын
4:59 LOL!!!! You don't put the Magazine into the gun, you put the GUN into (onto?) the magazine! :D
@michaeledmunds7056
Жыл бұрын
"They'd turn the tide." "What, of the whole war?" "No, the sea."
@sakkra93
Жыл бұрын
Doing a 20th century Canute
@samuelvoegelin7249
Жыл бұрын
It was nice to see you three at Tankfest this year!
@KevinEontrainer381
Жыл бұрын
1:37 Genji's Deflect?
@anonymouszz-ye8db
7 ай бұрын
"He was a field marshal, okay??" "And look where we are, a field" "Dammit, we've played straight into his hands!" 💀
@TheArklyte
Жыл бұрын
I feel like someone called out my 2004-2006 self... several times in a row 🤦 Come on, information was scarce, those were the dark days, _let me tell you of those days of high adventure!_
@obvious-troll
Жыл бұрын
I was a wehraboo once. Then I grew up.
@telophasemusic
5 ай бұрын
"He was a *field marshall!* " "Yeah, look where we are." "Damnit. We're playing right into his hands!"
@hunterdebeau2318
Жыл бұрын
“Dammit, we’ve played right into his hands” 3:22
@blitzgamingenlisted
Жыл бұрын
Love this! 😂😂 you guys never disappoint! Always bring funny and amazing videos!
@SquireComedy
Жыл бұрын
Cheers mate!
@blitzgamingenlisted
Жыл бұрын
@@SquireComedy cheers!
@The23Anonymous
Жыл бұрын
To be fair: the MG 42 was a completely badass gun. I can understand, that you want to keep your head down, if you hear that thing
@TheBayzent
Жыл бұрын
My grand uncle used it in Krasny bor (he went with the Blue Division) and always told us that it was good at mid to long range if you shot on limited sprays, but overheated like hell. Guy literally had to use it to maul Russians by the end of their assault and burnt his hands badly.
@AdministrativeResults
11 ай бұрын
As someone who's been shot at by a MG-42, it might as well be an airsoft gun
@SquireComedy
11 ай бұрын
Big fan of your work, mate. I'm always saying we need to combine comedy with live firearms, what could go wrong?
@AdministrativeResults
11 ай бұрын
@@SquireComedy come to the US and we can👁️👄👁️
@SquireComedy
11 ай бұрын
@AdministrativeResults Sounds like a blast, if you'll pardon the pun. Shoot us a follow on X, I'm gonna drop you a dm at some point mate 👍
@SquireComedy
11 ай бұрын
Nevermind, I see you don't use that car crash of a site. I'll drop you an email or something soon mate. Would be fun to hang out.
@cobrageneral556
Жыл бұрын
Cool thing about Erwin Rommel: He lost
@paulthiessen6444
Жыл бұрын
Not really, he got taken out by the legendary Erwin Rommel
@sugarnads
Жыл бұрын
@@paulthiessen6444so, he lost
@macbrown99
Жыл бұрын
@@sugarnads But Erwin Rommel defeated Erwin Rommel, so my math brings this out to a draw.
@thedude5449
Жыл бұрын
Cool thing about that, we're losing now because we didn't help the Germans kill every bit of communism when we had a chance.
@wilberwhateley7569
6 ай бұрын
Due to inadequate support from the leadership behind the lines, yes - he did lose. Had the Germans focused their efforts on taking control to North Africa and the Middle East instead of wasting all their resources on bullshit like “Operation Barbarossa” and other doomed-to-fail ventures (like trying to bomb the Brits into surrender - just cut them off from their colonies and watch them wither on the vine!) the war could have easily had a different outcome. But leave it to Hitler to disregard a sure, proven strategy of defeating an island nation in favor of some grandiose display of pyrotechnics by throwing away hundreds of aircraft to bomb everything without any prioritization…
@choomah
Жыл бұрын
"Mark Felton said...." "Oh, blast, I appear to have dropped 2 live grenades."
@Killerean
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Weapons on their own, are just stationary pieces of equipment lying on the floor.
@spiffygonzales5160
Жыл бұрын
T-800: "Am I a joke to you?"
@Mikhail-Tkachenko
Жыл бұрын
@@spiffygonzales5160 T-600 is the best one
@thurin84
Жыл бұрын
not according to the the us gun control lobby. according to them guns are an evil talisman that subverts anything within a mile of it.
@spiffygonzales5160
Жыл бұрын
@@Mikhail-Tkachenko T-69? 👉👈😳
@greg_4201
10 ай бұрын
That guy had days to select a firing point and he chose to plant himself on top of a freakin' wooden platform 10ft off the ground at complete odds with the surrounding terrain and highlighted by a wire fence
@mitchel123234
Жыл бұрын
Bro, I was playing hell let loose the other day and this guy was so adamant that German tanks were so much better than the Allied ones. Hurts my brain.
@Trusty_Spoon
Жыл бұрын
You never fail to disappoint, Squire. Keep up the work, lads.
@burgundypoint
Жыл бұрын
How many modern weapons are based on "allied" WW2 weapons? How many modern weapons are based on German WW2 weapons? 'nuff said
@ozsnakeboy2233
2 ай бұрын
the way you stick that mg42 out is tbh perfect most people would do that until they found out overtime it broke the bipod but ay it works
@stephenclarke2206
Жыл бұрын
Isn't a variant of the MG42 still in use by the German Army to this day?
@FreckleAkane
Жыл бұрын
Not a huge fan of German stuff…but the mg42 is still in use today. Rechambered for 7.62 nato. The MG3
@Khonsu1373
Жыл бұрын
The fire rate is a lot lower though, I think it's something like 800 rounds per minute.
@holoween8103
Жыл бұрын
1200 rpm at least in german service
@Ukraineaissance2014
Жыл бұрын
The bren and sterling left service not that long ago, it doesnt mean much and its only the last 10 years or so this weird worship of the mg42 started
@MrLampes
Жыл бұрын
@@Ukraineaissance2014 its not weird to worship the best mg of ww2, no allied mg could compare to it really. And it was considered probably the best since the end of ww2, so not sure what are you talking about.
@Ukraineaissance2014
Жыл бұрын
@@MrLampes the M2 and Bren both better.
@sebastian114
Жыл бұрын
I mean funny as it is, The MG42 were terrifying just... The basic design of LMG's today are still based on it. In general both sides had some things that were better some things worse.
@rorto002
10 ай бұрын
The British Lee-Enfield was an outstanding rifle. Saying goes; Germans build rifles for hunting, Americans for Sport, Brits for War. Stayed in service in various variants from WW1 to the 50's.
@KleinesStein
Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing “superior German tanks” written in a museum (I’m omitting the whole paragraph but it doesn’t change how dumb that statement is) and I couldn’t help but chuckle a little. Ah yes, when your transmission breaks more often than the times you’re in actual combat, your tank is definitely superior
@PrvnCoke
Жыл бұрын
Even with some tank types being destroyed more often by their own crew they were still superior, theres not a single case of any allied tank destroying 50 tanks all by themselves while there are multiple cases where german tanks did that
@KleinesStein
Жыл бұрын
@@PrvnCoke show me the studies for that please, and note what tanks they killed as you cannot call a heavy tank killing a scout a fair kill in a comparison, since you might as well include anything the tank shot. In an actual study of tank effectiveness, called the United States Army's Ballistic Research Lab (BRL) study in 1946, they actually found the performance of Shermans to be better than their German counterparts when they met in combat. They even found a 3.6-1 kill ratio in their favour. The common belief that German tanks were superior stems from a memoir of a guy who never saw combat, as he was merely an engineer.
@PrvnCoke
Жыл бұрын
@@KleinesStein liking your own comment wont make your statement true lmao, just look up 1 tiger vs 50 or 60 t34, the t34 was one of the best tanks of ww2 and had no business losing to an inferior german tank or maybe they werent that inferior but you can call t34 scout cars if you want also barkmann destroying 9 shermans with his panther is another great example, when did a single sherman ever knockout 9 or 50 german tanks? Overwhelming the enemy with numbers doesnt make a tank superior, following that logic the crappy panzer II would have been the best tank in early war
@goifur
Жыл бұрын
Tell that to the French 😂
@rinsonator1668
Жыл бұрын
US training video told new recruit that way too. Many of them were drop on Omaha beach.
@webcrawler9782
Жыл бұрын
the Airsoft ending is amazing LOL
@film57r7
Жыл бұрын
I don’t see any bren or bar still in use but I still see mg3 being use till this day 😮
@mitchellswistak7820
Жыл бұрын
That’s crazy cause last I checked, derivatives of the m1919 are definitely still in service in pretty much the same capacity that the mg3 is used.
@TheUSgoverment
Жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? There's a bar right down the street
@jon2922
Жыл бұрын
Probably because the army that used the mg3 ceased to exist and they all got stuck in storage while the armies that used the bren or bar continued to exist and carried on using those guns until they were worn out/phased out.
@chaosXP3RT
Жыл бұрын
Just like the M2 Browning, except that the Browning is older by about 10 years
@alaricvis09
Жыл бұрын
Günther Koschoreck was a MG34 and MG42 gunner. In his book (Blood Red Snow), nearly every engagement is him and his guys furiously trying to unjam their weapons (who the hell thought cloth linkage was a good idea?) before the Russians reach their line.
@tedarcher9120
Жыл бұрын
Mg34 and 42 used metal belts, russian Maxim belts used cloth
@robert-h2x
Жыл бұрын
hahah wrong
@SamuelWebber-qy2kq
Жыл бұрын
This was so freaking spot on I couldn’t find the climax they were building up to since the whole thing was comedy gold!
@ironmatic1
Жыл бұрын
I thought the character bit was a britishmuzzleloaders style comedy intro to some long form video essay, but it kept on going lol
@RonaldDump_real
Жыл бұрын
Imagine being hired to play a character just to die in the first 7 seconds
@mandowarrior123
Жыл бұрын
I blame the History Channel. 'Hitler totally would've won if not for this tiny mistake or 1 week late in design/production' I have to explain to my dad each time excatly why the latest thing is tosh. The number of times I've had to explain the luftwaffe was not 1 week away from destroying Britain's air power by bombing airfields- our aircraft can and were taking off from literal fields.
@kestrels-in-the-sky
Жыл бұрын
As someone who is interested in modern military history I have met these people before when I pointed out that even if the Germans had taken the uk they would still have lost the war as the uk being invaded would probably call the us in and even if they didn’t join then by December 1941 they would have joined which means that they would then develop the nukes which they could have used on Germany as well as Japan but the argument is pointless as Germany failed to capture the uk in some post war exercises
@vampi-chan3793
Жыл бұрын
It's an interesting point of view but I think it wouldn't have gone like that. US wouldn't have join the war as US citizens believed that Nazi Germany was a problem of Europe, the Isolationism of US did hit hard the country in this aspect + the effects of the Great Depression. Germany was already developing their own nuke before US, but thanks to british commandos and the norwegian resistance their plans didn't succeed if they ever had any chance of success. From this point on I can't tell what countries would have won ww2 as infinite things could have happened that we will never know.
@kestrels-in-the-sky
Жыл бұрын
@@vampi-chan3793 the German nuclear weapons program from what I’ve read was far behind the us’s but to challenge the not joining war part I feel it’s more likely that it would be a move somewhat akin to many of the wars started in the Middle East where despite mass distrust and public not agreeing the loss of a major trading partner (which would set up for the invasion of the USSR and the loss of another trade partner) would force the us congress to seriously consider joining the war to protect there own interests and realistically the attack would have happened around the end of 1941 ish depending on how long it took to prepare knockout the RAF and defeat the british navy which most likely would give the Japanese time to go and bomb pearl harbour dragging the us into the war however I personally believe that the allies would win in most universes except in one where: the us where never attacked by the Japanese and never set up any reason to join the war, Germany never attacked the Soviet Union, germanys leadership was sane and not Atlantis hunting madmen (yes folks this is real), the Germans had sufficient manpower resources and a way to maintain moral in what probably would turn into a war of attrition as the uk whilst small has many areas that would prevent a challenge to take, maintain a strong border with the Soviets so as to prevent an attack from that side which I just don’t see as sustainable for any amount of time altogether the chances of the Germans coming out on top is really quite small especially in this universe however you make a valid point of not exactly knowing how actual governments would react in that situation
@americanmonarchist6592
Жыл бұрын
I don't think the US would have gotten involved directly(by itself) over the invasion of the UK, and it all paints to how Hitler would have reacted when the war with Japan happened, Not that it might make much of a difference but Germany actually declared war on America from my understanding not the other way around mainly due to supplying England and of course Japan being an allied played some role i'm sure. Instead I think Churchill being who he is would have fled to either Canada or India and basically would have said "Full siege me down", which while highly impractical I could definitely see him doing it to prolong the war and stick it to the Germans, of course the ramifications of the occupation and how differently this would shape the war is unimaginable because althistory is eternally biased to one's own view. To the Wehraboo it ends with a German victory with them being able to fully focus on the Soviets. To a Teaboo Churchill continuing his resistance and fighting on the war in the other fronts and likely demanding US involvement from that stage with a much more brutal and longer war taking place. Either way you slice it the war will last much longer, as even if hypothetically the Germans could focus everything east (they couldn't because they would then need to garrison even more land and I think the English would be active in resistance as the French/Polish), they could have probably beat back the Soviets a lot more than our timeline but we can't dictate how differently key battles would have gone especially seeing the Soviet tactics of throw everything and see what sticks, and with the fall of the UK we can very much expect a much larger Allied train heading in support of the Union to prevent collapse, possibly even Allied Expeditionary forces. It would be difficult to determine a winner with that mindset of *if* the Germans took over mainland UK, because it really does just make the war drag on, and by the end I would just say every side loses in it's own way, of course Germany would likely collapse in the long-run but there isn't really a way to determine how long that run would be, could be 5 more years, could be 2-3 decades. Because once more alt-history is enteral bias, but I would suspect some semi-truce taking place as the war gets bloody, but never lasting of course, because I mean look at the situation. TLDR, everyone in that timeline is just a bit fucked.
@kestrels-in-the-sky
Жыл бұрын
@@americanmonarchist6592 basically if they invade someone will win and either way the common person is the person who will suffer
@americanmonarchist6592
Жыл бұрын
@@kestrels-in-the-sky Yeah basically
@EisIzo
Жыл бұрын
A lot of it boils down to what was adopted after the war, the 9mm P-38 was adapted into the P-1 and became the basis of modern sidearms. The MG-34 laid the groundwork for the modern general purpose machinegun and the MG-42 was adapted into the MG-3 and was the basis of the M-60. The STG-44's influence is self explanatory serving as the inspiration for the AK-47, and the internals for western rifle designs, notably the G-3, CETME, and MP-5 with stoner borrowing some of the internals. The Panzerfaust was refined to modern RPGs. German bouncing betties and teller mines are still the gold standard of mine design, with claymores occupying a different role. The German Stahlhelm is the design basis for modern kevlar helmets (Fritz helmets), Germans were the first to field night-vision optics, and many German infantry tactics have become standard. The FG-42, while amazing, really didn't have a lot of impact of much of anything, even during the war. For the allies, the superior bolt action of the war was of course the Lee Enfield rifle, with 10 rounds and the short stroke bolt. The M1 Garand of course made the springfield (and by extension bolt action rifles) obsolete, and then became the basis of the M-14 and mini-14. Submachineguns were a dead end technologically, but the Sten was stupidly cheap and exactly what you'd want to produce for partisans. The M2 is still in service to this day, and allied grenade designs proved superior with the pin and spoon design, and being more portable overall. The bazooka was innovative and forced the Germans to adopt spaced armor, while it's rival the panzershrek was just overall the worse design. In terms of weapon infantry equipment, the Americans had the best, and all other armies adopted the American model. Furthermore American logistics were and are still the best. For the Soviets the DP-28 is still in service today, the SVT-40 would go on to be the basis for later rifles, and the ppsh-41 would evolve into the pps-43, and both are still in service. The TT-30 was a solid handgun design, seeing use in the USSR and China... although it was replaced by the Makarov, which was in turn based on the Walther PP a German law-enforcement design. Based on that it could be said that the Germans had the most influence on modern infantry equipment, followed by the Americans. The Soviet's WWII equipment only seems to have affected the former Warsaw pact, and China/North Korea. Still, the Germans prioritized innovation, recognizing the need for force multipliers due to their manpower issues in the war. The Allies while willing to innovate, saw the need to win with what they had, what was proven, and what could be easily mass produced, post war every other nation scrambled to innovate and many fixed the issues with the rushed 'primitive' German designs.
@zaretya9091
6 ай бұрын
the twist of the other guy being a tankie was very unexpected
@bond0815
Жыл бұрын
I cant say how much I love you for pointing out that Hugo Boss DIDNT actually design any Nazi uniforms. Probably one of the more common urban legend about WW2 , right besides the nonsensical (and rather new) claim that the german army was systematically given meth for use in combat. (in reality they did use pervitin only in a limited amount for long missons to combat sleepyness and not really more than other armies used and use similar drugs).
@ericmyrs
Жыл бұрын
As right as this video is, the MG42 is a generally fantastic machine gun. There is a reason why none of the German kit from ww2 is in service anymore, except the MG42, which is.
@tedarcher9120
Жыл бұрын
Bren was also in service until 2006 so
@dark2023-1lovesoni
Жыл бұрын
Yes, the MG3 is an updated MG42 in 7.62x51NATO. However, the Browning M2 and 1919 have had extremely long service lives too, up until today. The 42 however was not a purely native German, but instead Swiss design, who have a LONG history of making excellent weapons. The German K98 system is also still the MOST prolific bolt-action mechanism for almost all hunting rifles as well (though that's a Pre-1900 design). However, the Enfield was definitely the better bolt-action combat rifle. Arguably the WW2 small arm with the most prolific modern history though is the M1 Garand. Both by itself and because it was also the main inspiration for the AK-47. Many claim the AK is an STG-44 derivative, but the bolt locking mechanism and gas system are entirely different, the only real similarities at all are the cartridge, stamped steel manufacturing, and detachable box mag (the Soviets were already making wide use of the last 2 before even encountering the STG). The AKs bolt locking and gas system are a near direct copy of the Garand's mechanism, just flipped upside down. Mikhail Kalashnikov was quite open and honest about his inspirations. The actual modern weapon derivative of the STG was the Spanish CETME and then the G3 and MP5.
@tedarcher9120
Жыл бұрын
@@dark2023-1lovesoni first aks were milled, not stamped. And it was inspired not by garand, but by 1930s chech rifle that was inspired by Garand. And G3 and MP5 are descended from mg-42, not stg
@ericmyrs
Жыл бұрын
@@dark2023-1lovesoni I don't know what crack you've been smoking but the MG 42 was designed by Grossfuss. By some mechanical engineer who barely had even seen a machine gun before designing it.
@jason200912
Жыл бұрын
@ericmyrs M60 was based on the mg42. Mg3 today They still use them on tanks too. East Europe even produced several of their own copies of the mg42 too after the war Bren is also still decently active since the vz26 lmg was such an amazing and rugged design. Only bad part was that they were heavy for only having a magazine while the mg42 was heavy but that Included a long belt Same goes for the browning .50
@chegeny
9 ай бұрын
Nice. If only KZitem comments fought the Second World War. I could almost hear the Mark Felton theme music.
@billmelater6470
Жыл бұрын
And then you have stupidity in the opposite direction. I'm sure some of you have heard this one: "Hurr, durr, but it was a war winning rifle (or whatever)".
@huntergiesau6164
Жыл бұрын
Considering the only iconic English weapons were the Lee Enfield and Sten, this video is hilariously ironic. The US and Germans completely out-engineered everyone else.
@Seth9809
Жыл бұрын
The music during the ad was really good and I wish we had the link to it. My music detectation app has nothing.
@xX_AH-64E_Xx
5 ай бұрын
German wepons were so good and costly they lost pretty much lost because they went bankrupt and the russians had more soldiers suplying them with less of poor quality gear
@jjohna854
11 ай бұрын
To be fair there's a reason why nearly every hunting rifle has a Mauser action today.
@antasosam8486
14 күн бұрын
Thank you. I've learned history more than Mark Felton and World War Two combined.
@northumbriabushcraft1208
Жыл бұрын
Missed you fellas at tankfest, armourfest sounds cool, I'd never heard of it. Might have to pop along. Already got my tickets for tiger day next year, tankfest was so cool my family bought tickets to tiger day before I even could haha :D (got the tankfest tickets as a Christmas gift off my parents)
@commanderstorm8874
Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is the mg 42 is pretty much still in service today as the mg 3 I think it’s called
@artificialintelligence8328
Жыл бұрын
So are M2 Browning and T-34s..
@codieomeallain6635
Жыл бұрын
@@artificialintelligence8328 What’s your point?
@TheUSgoverment
Жыл бұрын
@@artificialintelligence8328T-34s really shouldn't be in service
@mathiasrryba
Жыл бұрын
Mosin-Nagants, PPS-42 are still in service too. By the whatever # in the world army you'd want to categorize Russia as.
@JLT0087
Жыл бұрын
@@TheUSgovermentThe DPRK uses what it has.
@ZFlyingVLover
Жыл бұрын
Japanese had crappy weapons. Germans had the foundations of all modern weapons and the MG42 is STILL in service. Yeah. They were crappy alright. lmao
@jwebcoding7289
Жыл бұрын
"foundations of all modern weapons" Like what? Who uses anything based off the MP40? The Luger? The K98? The K98 wasn't the laser rifle it's cracked up to be and had some of the worst iron sights I've ever seen on a rifle. The action itself is good and is the standard in high-end hunting rifles but the rest of the rifle was really over hyped. The MG42 is not still in service. It was updated and now uses an American designed cartridge (wonder how that came to be, huh) but is not an MG42. Even though it was a decent LMG, having only one weapon that was passable is not a good track record for your military arsenal is it?
@dmytroandruhov9119
10 ай бұрын
The Mg42 is fighting even now... In the first March and May, it managed to fight; it turned out that Ukraine had huge reserves of these machine guns. It turned out to be a monstrously effective weapon...albeit very heavy....
@vivelenapoleon1927
9 ай бұрын
They are using everything they can get their hands on, they are still using Stens and Ppsh-41's.
@therealwetwizard
Жыл бұрын
Lovin' the splinter cell music
@janronschke7525
Жыл бұрын
As a german. You are doing gods work there!
@orsonincharge4879
Жыл бұрын
mg42 was so shit everybody stopped using it after ww2 , just like the Bren and the Enfield .... oh wait
@Mr.quack25
Жыл бұрын
Is the joke that the nazis lost cause? The m g forty two was used till Nineteen sixty eight
@floriankruger-sp2wf
Жыл бұрын
@@Mr.quack25 to defeat Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪took half of the world To defeat america 🇺🇸 took Vietnam 🇻🇳. And this why American women love German men 🇩🇪❤🇺🇸.
@Mr.quack25
Жыл бұрын
@@floriankruger-sp2wf What you said makes no sense and i'm also not even american
@me-262gamingluftwaffememin2
Жыл бұрын
7:34 This is why I am here
@zachattack_the_imperialist6065
Жыл бұрын
Where do you get your weapon replicas?
@michaelthebarbarian3380
Жыл бұрын
Man, those SMLEs are in terrific shape!
@BarnDoorProductions
Жыл бұрын
My father proved what crap an MG-42 was on December 19, 1943 just outside of Ortona, Italy. He came around the corner of a farmhouse and found himself facing one (and its crew). He got one of the crew, the other opened up and all the bullets did was bounce around inside his ribcage for a while before exiting out his back. It took German veterinarians (through 1945) and Canadian doctors until 1947 to put him back together again. Over-engineered German crap.
@arthurpog8196
Ай бұрын
2 German spies and a Soviet spy acting like brits while loudly talking and crouching in the plain sight of a german machine gun nest. Totally realistic
@williamhaines7752
Жыл бұрын
Hell if unless they were the Stevie Wonder Brigade with the German telegraphing his shots they should have be able to pick off the machine gunner
@collaborisgaming2190
Жыл бұрын
1:13 The French in 1940: *Looking away Nervously* For those who don't know, the French did launch an attack into German territory while most of the German Army was in Poland only to withdraw, The most successful attack stopped because they spotted a lone MG-34 with only a thousand Germans in the whole sector despite having Tanks. Their Doctrine of Defense later took over along with their Officer's Cockiness.
@S_H_R_I_K_E
Жыл бұрын
9:19 was Lenin.
@SargentoDuke
Жыл бұрын
The only fun of this gag is that Henrich Severloh hold hold WN62 bunker FOR 10 HOURS killing near 2000 enemies with the MG42 😂😂😂(actually not inside the bunker but on a side invisible trench, and used a kar98 too, and even the mg42 with AA tracer ammo the only remaining)
@andrewwoodhead3141
Жыл бұрын
As a matter of fact, the MG42 really is ''that'' good.
@Mr.DalekLK
Жыл бұрын
German weapons were certainly superior to British and Soviet ones. In general, the British are not even today able to make good small arms
@obvious-troll
Жыл бұрын
Laughs in grand slam
@Local_twink
Жыл бұрын
That thumbnail summoned the whole gun community
@crushboss
Жыл бұрын
You tell the troops that laned on Omaha beach that.
@thomsonandfrench4974
2 ай бұрын
This is a great sketch, but I can't help but feel these guys are not swapping between WW2 soldiers and modern key-board warriors often enough.
@SLAM_y
Жыл бұрын
True, they had to shoot for 2 seconds or the machine gun would over heat and stop working
@willpugh8865
Жыл бұрын
Potato mashers were kinda rare , like a lugar it was kinda niche and limited in numbers (comparatively) , most of the time they used more traditional shaped grenades,- random thought popped up when they mentioned it
@zoiders
Жыл бұрын
No they didn't. Who's told you this nonsense?
@hairy_putin
Жыл бұрын
@@zoiders Eihandgranate (Egg-handgrenades) were much more common than Stielhandgranate (Potatomashers) by a factor of about two at most, if I recall correctly. You just don't see them in photos because they were kept in pockets and are small enough that the hand covers them. Deny it all you want, but if you're still unconvinced, Military History Visualised has a video that goes into detail on the subject with actual source citations.
@natebox4550
Жыл бұрын
@@hairy_putin And you don't see em in movies because their an iconic "bad guy design".
@carlosspicyweiner7865
Жыл бұрын
I love how they mentioned Mark Felton! 😂
@Ursus_maritimus123
7 ай бұрын
I don't understand, how is it possible to be as funny as Squire?
@lucagerulat307
Жыл бұрын
In Germany we say the grass is always greener on the other side. (Das Grass ist immer grüner auf der anderen Seite) That's probably why the Germans praised the ppsh-41 for its reliability while the soviets praised the mp40 for its. In soviet war movies the elits soldiers would often use captured mp40s, while in German war movies like Stalingrad they take the superior ppsh-41...
@floriankruger-sp2wf
Жыл бұрын
to defeat Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪took half of the world To defeat america 🇺🇸 took Vietnam 🇻🇳. And this why American women love German men 🇩🇪❤🇺🇸.
@void-creature
Жыл бұрын
The fact that the MG42 is still in use TODAY does kinda baffle me. Then again, so is the 1911
@TheMsdos25
Жыл бұрын
And the Maxim Edit: forgot about the M2.
@masteryoda8390
Жыл бұрын
@@TheMsdos25and the PTRD, Mosin and browning hi power
@inator937
Жыл бұрын
“So he told me” the mg42 gun is so good he could turn into his spirit to tell his brother he was dead the second the gun was fired
@herrflammen6487
Жыл бұрын
I kinda want squire to go play Verdun or Battlefield 1 again. That era in his channel was too short lived.
@bluebubbadog2080
Жыл бұрын
"First time I saw a jet, I shot it down" one of my favorite quotes from the war
@enysuntra1347
Жыл бұрын
1,200 shots/minute is the theoretical cadence of the Federal Defence MG-3. The MG-42 had a solid pin instead of the "NATO brake" spring of the MG-3 and thus had an even higher rate of fire. And no, a weapon with this cadence doesn't mean you waste ammo, as you train to fire in short bursts, during WW2 as well as in the Federal Defence or the other countries fielding MG-42 derived MGs. I can attest it is a fine piece of hardware, and every post-WW2-MG was modeled after it (the GPMG concept). Also, Flecktarn that was introduced in ~1990 after the embarrassment that a camo very similar to the old Waffen-SS turned out to be the best fit for Middle Europe. (Strichtarn of East Germany took the GDR spruce plantations into account.) "Weraboos" might be irritating, but after you were an officer in the Federal Defence for a decade you start to get irritated by the other side, too, who tries to tell you how shitty Defence Force (Wehrmacht) weapons and tactics are, especially those that were taken over into the FRG's Federal Defense and NATO StanAgs, and the M60 and FN MAG also have quite a few "MG-13 Dreyse/34/42 vibes" to them. It's almost as if the Imperial Defense (Reichswehr) officers did nothing but over-analyse why things DIDN'T work in WW1 and how to improve on them, then took the aforementioned improvements to the Rapallo Treaty bases in Kazan and Lipetsk in the USSR and tried them out. It's almost as if officers from a country that was bogged down and bled dry in four years of war following the Marne battle knew what NOT to do in the future and were willing to try new concepts to not repeat the mistakes of WW1.
@venerablebrothergoriate5844
Жыл бұрын
I'd agree with you in that they weren't necessarily all that good, as most firearms back then weren't, but they did represent a pretty notable technological leap foward in terms of small arms. We wouldn't have machine guns like the M60, the 240B, or the 249, or pretty much any machine guns like those if it weren't for the MG42's and 34's we captured at the end of World War 2. I mean, the MG42 was good enough that a modernized version of it is still in use today, in the form of the MG3! As fucked up as the whole Nazi party was, they, unfortunately, had some pretty impressive engineering for the time at their disposal. But hey, at least Hitler's dumb ass decided to pick fights he couldn't possibly win. Because after stomping him out, we all got a pretty solid basis for the development of our own machine guns!
@atheistyoda8915
Жыл бұрын
Uh, Hitler wasn't the only dumbass in the German high command. Pretty much all the generals were morons as well. Most of the German high command disapproved of the attack towards the Ardenne forest. Most of the German high command favored a direct assault on Moscow instead of the more strategic Ukraine. Hitler only started "outshining" his generals (in terms of stupidity) towards the end of the war.
@wrongart1233
Жыл бұрын
That is the most beautiful thumbnail i have ever seen
@jackp.richardson6415
Жыл бұрын
The infamous German small arms were incredible. But what did it matter, when good enough small arms won the war? From the way they’re are talking you’d think they actually believed Steiner’s attack would change the tide of the war! lol
@Alex-dh2cx
Жыл бұрын
Lol, reminds me of the scene in Band of Brothers where Webster is screaming at the Germans, "you use horses, wtf were you thinking?" (Paraphrasing a bit), while they ride by the surrendered germans on their trucks.
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