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01:05 – Elbonian service handguns and training
06:16 – My contrarian views?
07:16 – Elbonian Gendarmerie SMG
08:39 – Difference between M2HB and ANM2
10:35 – Impact of the H&K G11 if it saw service?
G11 video: https://youtu.be/QGKcvM2Hh4g
13:34 – What is the future of NGSW?
14:40 – Why are StG44 magazines so much longer than AK magazines?
16:50 – If I could have any one SMG
M2 Hyde video: https://youtu.be/08_mAlLrbTI
18:48 – Self-regulating gas systems for sub/super cartridges?
Farquhar-Hill video: https://youtu.be/n8VtQt2EtJk
23:20 – Die Hard but it’s 1908. What does Hans carry?
26:17 – Did communist forces use the SKS in the Korean War?
Type 56: The Story of China’s Army: https://www.youtube.com/@Type56_Ordnance_Dept
35:00 – What were the MP1 through MP4?
36:48 – News on FAMAS clones and kits?
38:17 – Flechettes, caseless, and duplex ammo
41:10 – Why didn’t the P14/M1917 replace the SMLE and Springfield?
42:56 – 6mm ARC for future military use?
45:20 – Benefits of primer-actuated operating system
47:31 – Do American firearms laws get better, or only progressively worse?
49:56 – My preferences in gun safes
51:29 – Would I testify before Congress?
53:19 – Why are bullets jacketed?
55:55 – Future of HICAR
M2HB vs ANM2?
Simple.
HB= Hydraulic Buffer (not “Heavy Barrel”). Reduces RoF to about 450 R/M for ground or vehicle-mount use.
ANM2= Army/Navy M2. Flexible aircraft gun with no buffer to allow gun to fire at the natural cyclic rate of the Browning recoil-operated gun system, which in 12.7 x 99mm averaged 800 R/M, optimum for air to air use, for example by bomber gunners (B-17, B-24, etc.)
ANM3 was basically the same gun except modified for fixed mounts such as wing guns in “pursuits” such as P-40, P-51, P-47, Navy Wildcats and Hellcats and Marine Corsairs. ANM3 normally had pneumatic (air pressure canister) system for cocking.
It says a lot about John Moses Browning design, dating to 1917, that it is still in service worldwide today, having outlasted several guns that were supposed to replace it. (Anybody remember the “Dover Devil”?)
cheers
eon
To add to StG 44 mags – they had quite bad springs and in Yugoslav service they were supposed to be loaded with 24 rounds. Some had springs changed in the early ’60s but that was not considered worth it since it was considered that those would be replaced soon.