Tales of the Gun - Early Guns 4/5

Tales of the Gun - Early Guns 4/5

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[COLUMBINE1818]

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.

[dekool88]

@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

[MrBagginsEsq]

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.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@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]

@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.

[SadamSkywalker]

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.)

[sammorgan31]

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]

@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

[nerdbomb07]

@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

[anteracmacash]

@phungvietanhao who pwned me??

[phungvietanhao]

@anteracmacash Be respectful, they pwned u