I don't like how they keep refering to the americans as oh i dont know, some one else. I mean, being an american it just seems strange. To be reffered to in the third person.
Wouldnt drilling a small hole into the first tird of the barrel have increased the accuracy of a smooth bore musket by controlling the spin of the bullet to go always in the same direction? (Similar maybe to the Hop-Up-System in a modern airsoft gun.)
The 250k per kill in vietnam figure was due to suppressive fire. charlie in the bushes? spray the bushes. Vietnam isn't like the the beaches of normandy, or afghanistan for that matter. The viet kong fought in dense jungle, and you cant see whos shooting at you, so you shoot and hope, aiming isnt possible. They just let loose with the brownings and covered an entire area.
@anteracmacash You can't compare these numbers. It's one thing to spend 250,000 bullets to kill one guerrilla soldier is not the same as a volley missing a rank and file opposing force
@nerdbomb07 yes that would be the same thing since the weapons that they were firing were not straight shooters while the weapons used in vietnam are still today being glorified for their accuracy
thats a really ineffective way of judging the ultimate effect of small arms.
The big firearms duel in Vietnam was between 5.56 and 7.62x39....and the first caliber always outranged the latter. US lost 58.000 in a 10yr span...killing 1.6 million combatants.
there is no way of confirming that statistic...its a myth. No one can track shipments of ammunition and then marry up confirmed kills. Out of 1.6 million dead gooks...they think there was another half million unconfirmed.
This is incredible, how that's ALL videos don´t tell any way of the Spaniard contribution in the old firearms. You're a fucking chauvinist and prepotence.
@castegere Yes man, I admit my angry. But even so, not it's my country who which to solve differences between neighbors or nations to be shooting out. I can do it talk, like now. Thanks.
The gun barrel shown at 2.59, Clip 4, has longitudinal grooves, which did mprove accuracy, not spiral grooves which came later. I don't see how longitudinal grooves
could possibly have put a spin on a musket ball which spiral grooves cerrtainly did and still do.
Standardization is always the best way to increase the lethality of the weapons of the time. Proven by the Romans, with javelins, shileds and the Gladius.
I beg to differ, Standardization is the best way to increase the lethality of AN ARMY, yet reducing the lethality of an individual weapon.
Javelins and Gladius are the result of learning from barbarians. Standardization is the result of roman's military reform as army was maintained by the states since then.
@COLUMBINE1818 It is very effective because an army would produce only one caliber which is simpler, but it depends on the weapon mostly because if your general weapon is inferior to the enemy mixture of weapons, you will lose most definitely
I don't like how they keep refering to the americans as oh i dont know, some one else. I mean, being an american it just seems strange. To be reffered to in the third person.
MrBagginsEsq 3 months ago
Wouldnt drilling a small hole into the first tird of the barrel have increased the accuracy of a smooth bore musket by controlling the spin of the bullet to go always in the same direction? (Similar maybe to the Hop-Up-System in a modern airsoft gun.)
SadamSkywalker 8 months ago
The 250k per kill in vietnam figure was due to suppressive fire. charlie in the bushes? spray the bushes. Vietnam isn't like the the beaches of normandy, or afghanistan for that matter. The viet kong fought in dense jungle, and you cant see whos shooting at you, so you shoot and hope, aiming isnt possible. They just let loose with the brownings and covered an entire area.
sammorgan31 1 year ago
the comentator sounds canadian...just listen how he says "book" or "football" :D:D
anteracmacash 1 year ago
3000-10 000 per casaulty ??in Vietnam it took 250 000 bullets per killed gook...
anteracmacash 1 year ago
@anteracmacash Be respectful, they pwned u
phungvietanhao 1 year ago
@phungvietanhao who pwned me??
anteracmacash 1 year ago
@anteracmacash You can't compare these numbers. It's one thing to spend 250,000 bullets to kill one guerrilla soldier is not the same as a volley missing a rank and file opposing force
nerdbomb07 1 year ago
@nerdbomb07 yes that would be the same thing since the weapons that they were firing were not straight shooters while the weapons used in vietnam are still today being glorified for their accuracy
anteracmacash 1 year ago
@nerdbomb07
thats a really ineffective way of judging the ultimate effect of small arms.
The big firearms duel in Vietnam was between 5.56 and 7.62x39....and the first caliber always outranged the latter. US lost 58.000 in a 10yr span...killing 1.6 million combatants.
USMarineRifleman0311 3 months ago
@anteracmacash
there is no way of confirming that statistic...its a myth. No one can track shipments of ammunition and then marry up confirmed kills. Out of 1.6 million dead gooks...they think there was another half million unconfirmed.
thats statistical inaccuracy is stupendous
USMarineRifleman0311 3 months ago
This is incredible, how that's ALL videos don´t tell any way of the Spaniard contribution in the old firearms. You're a fucking chauvinist and prepotence.
ELmalodelapenicula 1 year ago
@ELmalodelapenicula you need to chill, buddy.
castegere 1 year ago
@castegere Yes man, I admit my angry. But even so, not it's my country who which to solve differences between neighbors or nations to be shooting out. I can do it talk, like now. Thanks.
ELmalodelapenicula 1 year ago
50 yards????
georgewashington92 2 years ago
The gun barrel shown at 2.59, Clip 4, has longitudinal grooves, which did mprove accuracy, not spiral grooves which came later. I don't see how longitudinal grooves
could possibly have put a spin on a musket ball which spiral grooves cerrtainly did and still do.
Hendrikdevuile 2 years ago
The Italian name Tataglia should be pronounced without the G. Incidentally, this is also the name of one of the capi mafiosi in "The Godfather".
Hendrikdevuile 2 years ago
Standardization is always the best way to increase the lethality of the weapons of the time. Proven by the Romans, with javelins, shileds and the Gladius.
COLUMBINE1818 2 years ago 11
I beg to differ, Standardization is the best way to increase the lethality of AN ARMY, yet reducing the lethality of an individual weapon.
Javelins and Gladius are the result of learning from barbarians. Standardization is the result of roman's military reform as army was maintained by the states since then.
moxinghbian 2 years ago
@COLUMBINE1818 It is very effective because an army would produce only one caliber which is simpler, but it depends on the weapon mostly because if your general weapon is inferior to the enemy mixture of weapons, you will lose most definitely
dekool88 5 days ago