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0:00:42 – Elbonia replaces the Reichsrevolver: revolver or semiauto?
0:03:48 – Bayonets in modern war
0:06:58 – FN Evolys vs Knights LAMG
0:09:34 – Squad MGs in intermediate or full power cartridge?
0:10:55 – Should NATO replace 9×19?
0:13:21 – Elbonia and the MHS & NGSW programs
0:17:31 – Next British service rifle
0:20:29 – CMP M14s and their implications
0:24:07 – Vitali magazine – the best magazine conversion?
0:26:16 – Semiauto as the normal selector setting in war
0:29:02 – Could .30 Super Carry have worked better as an improved .380?
.30 Super Carry cartridge: https://youtu.be/Et4C7_fmoG8
0:31:39 – 6x45mm SAW
0:35:05 – Could I start Forgotten Weapons on YouTube today?
0:41:50 – Best single shot black powder rifle action
0:43:16 – Do I have training as a presented/speaker?
0:43:54 – Resto-mod classic pistols
0:48:17 – My marksmanship progression
0:49:17 – Best action for brass ejection?
0:52:50 – Limits of subsonic ammo
0:56:13 – A 2nd-gen stamped PCC in today’s FRT environment
1:00:08 – 6.5mm CBJ as an SMG cartridge?
6.5mm CBJ cartridge: https://youtu.be/90ECrL_4GPc
1:01:41 – Subsonic sealed-piston 9mm cartridge today?
1:02:28 – My favorite Varusteleka products
Tactical jeans:https://varusteleka.com/en-us/products/varusteleka-tactical-jeans-v2
Merino henley: https://varusteleka.com/en-us/products/srm-henley-shirt-merino-wool-v2
“Could .30 Super Carry have worked better as an improved .380?(…)”
Wait… It is possible to Ackleyimprove cartridge with straight-walled case?
Federal soldiers in the US Civil War noted the utility of their spike bayonets as candle-holders …
Doesn’t it seem with modern chassis-based pistols you could take, say, a Sig P365 innard and then 3-D print an R51-shaped frame to wear on it?
Someone, somewhere, should reproduce the Swiss M52 parka. Pockets galore, in and out, big enough and numerous enough. You can even leave the hood and waist tie off. Varusteleka, are you listening?
The Swiss M52 parka was part of a system that included the StG57. As such, it was all integrated, intended to be both uniform, web gear, and survival suit all in one. Or, at least, that’s the way it was explained to me by a Swiss Army officer.
The idea was you’d have your entire loadout in that uniform, and all you’d do to get ready to report was get out of civilian clothes, put on whatever season-appropriate undergarments you needed to wear, and get your ass off to your deployment site ASAP. The idea was to speed things up.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad idea, but I can see some issues with it, particularly in terms of day-to-day life soldiering. There are always things that need to be done relatively unencumbered, and having your combat load/web gear integrated in with your outer garment is probably an actual operational nightmare, for the individual soldier. Even in the field, there’s always stuff that needs doing, and you do it way better absent thirty-forty pounds of combat gear. Also, it’s a really good idea to be able to maintain inclement weather gear separation such that you don’t lose the benefit of it when you drop your combat load to do a work detail.
This was always one of my objections to the whole “integrate body armor w/combat load” concept. In an ideal world, you’ve got the ability to basically do precisely what you do with regards to layering winter clothes, which is retain the ability to tailor clothing/gear to exactly what you’re doing.
Which, of course, in an awful lot of military forces means “Comply with the Sergeant Major’s idea of mindless uniformity”.
I lost track of how many arguments I got into because I’d basically allow my guys to wear what they needed, personally. When you’ve got some poor bastard from Florida in your squad, along with a guy who came from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, trying to establish a winter uniform that both could tolerate was… Difficult. The poor bastard from Florida was screwed, blued, and tattooed doing winter field operations in Korea: In order to survive, he basically looked like a moving heap of cold-weather gear. The guy from Michigan would have been out in that exact same weather wearing shorts and a t-shirt, if he could have been. Which then meant that the Sergeant Major would show up at my jobsite, and start raising hell because I’d failed to “maintain uniformity”. That idjit never could get the point of “Yeah, people are different…” and that what kept my Michigander from sweating and winding up a cold-weather casualty when he stopped moving would turn my Floridian into an instant cold-weather casualty if I made them match what the Michigander was wearing… I really grew to hate that particular Sergeant Major, because about all he could do was drive around and make people miserable; he never lifted a finger to do anything to make people’s lives in the field better.
Ah, well… Such is the life militaire…
“(…)Limits of subsonic ammo(…)world
where subsonic ammo is the norm for
militaries in a particular application
or at large?”
Before technical progress allowed to get higher muzzle velocity fire-arms were sub-sonic. For example of such military weapon see Krnka https://www.militaryrifles.com/russia/krnka which used 15.24 mm Krnka with following property
Muzzle velocity when fired from the Marksman & Infantry rifles: 305 m/s
If your troops are used to double-action revolvers, give them better double-action revolvers. If you use 9mm SMGs, give them DA revolvers chambered for the 9mm you’re using. A seven or eight-shot revolver isn’t as likely to induce “spray-and-pray” mag-dump tactics as a DA revolver. The target won’t notice the difference.
To make the bayonet useful again, you need a longer rifle to mount it on. One that’s physically tougher, as well. A bayonet on an M4, an SA80, or an AUG is mainly there to look mean. And a spike with no cutting edges is useless for weapon retention in MOBUA.
According to one of my ancestors (1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry 1861-65), the epee’ pattern Springfield bayonet had exactly three uses; as a candleholder, a tent peg, or a roasting spit. He never saw an action where a bayonet could be applied as per drill, because before the Rebs got that close, they were forced to go to ground and initiate a firefight.
The SAW needs a full power cartridge- and a proper tripod. The squad needs to be trained to support the SAW team, meaning the support MG crew. I defer to Kirk on this. The “Light SAW” such as M249 is a contradiction in terms and should never have been adopted to begin with.
9 x 19mm is the default NATO pistol/SMG round reflecting the same logic that has had most U.S. LEOs changing to it over the last 40 years. (Remember, I was right in the middle of that shivaree.) It is adequately powerful, falling between .38 Special +P and .357 Magnum. It has relatively low recoil impulse, making it “easier to shoot” accurately than .40 S&W, etc. It works well in high-capacity autoloaders. And officers who may or may not be “gunny” types tend to shoot better with it than almost any other cartridge with acceptable ballistics. Other than high-capacity magazines encouraging “mag dumps” and “spray-and-pray” in IAs, there is really no downside to the 9 x 19mm.
The next British service rifle? Probably this;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA
The British Ministry of Defence demands to be taken seriously. I see no evidence that they should be.
.30 SC as an improved .380? See Ordnance Went Up Front by Roy F. Dunlap, specifically Chapter 17 on Italian pistols. He didn’t notice any appreciable difference in results between the Beretta M1934 in “9mm Corto” or any other pistol round used by anybody in the Western Desert. The .380 was powerful enough to put a man down with a couple of center hits, which was about as well as 9 x 19mm, .45 ACP, or 0.380in Revolver did. I doubt that an “up-powered” version like 9 x 18 or 9 x 20 (any variant, Browning, Ultra, etc.) would have performed noticeably better. Even today, you could do a lot worse than a .380 as a pocket or “hideout” pistol. Ruger sold a few million LCP .380s for a reason.
Best single-shot black-powder rifle action? The Remington Rolling Block. Simply put, nothing was stronger, faster, more reliable, or more idiot-proof. Honorable mention(s); Snider-Enfield, Martini-Henry (hammerless unlicensed Peabody copy), Werder (both Bavarian rotating-breech and Austrian dropping-block, yet another Peabody clone but with a faster operating lever).
Limits of subsonic ammunition? Don’t expect most of the breed to reliably cycle self-loading actions. Stick to manually-cycled types. For maximum feasible ME, go for larger calibers and heavier bullets. In fact, the “perfect” subsonic load for suppressed weapons is probably the .45 ACP with standard 230-grain FMJ. Next up, the .44 Magnum, 300-grain, or .454 Casull, 400-grain, loaded to no more than 1,000 F/S, in a Dan Wesson revolver with a special suppressed barrel and barrel/cylinder gap set with gauge to no more than .005″.
Best all-around “one-and-done” suppressed subsonic? .45-70, 500-grain lead bullet with copper gas-check at 1,000 F/S, from a suppressed Marlin Guide Gun.
clear ether
eon
That should have been “high-capacity autoloader“.
more coffee, eon.
Dear Mr. eon: Please define IA in your context here.
Immediate Action; military and LEO terminology for “contact with enemy/suspects” plus “shots fired”.
cheers
eon
Directing this at eon, not wanting to move his error-correction from its place in the queue.
I think that there’s a place for the belt-fed weapon in the same caliber as the individual weapon. It’s just that the whole thing is down to that devilishly complex question of “doctrine”, namely “how the hell do you intend to fight?”
My take is that if you’re gonna build squads that you want to be able to do everything, then by God, you’d best give them decent support weapons that can range out far enough to matter. That means actual support-weapon cartridges in the support weapons, along with the necessary accessory items like rangefinders, tripods, and observation tools.
If you’re wanting to go the “specialist formation” route, and have actual close-combat specialist squads for doing assaults and close-in defenses? Then that’s where you’re going to find a place for things like the M249. I don’t think the Marine idea of an M27 instead of the M249 really works in some of these combat situations, because there are times and places where the enemy will make you wish you could absolutely saturate a zone with fire inside your 300m individual weapon band. Having those things along is also an economy-of-force measure; you can stop an enemy assault dead in its tracks with very few men, if there are M249 equivalents present. Otherwise, you’d best have enough men with rifles present to do the job…
It’s all dependent on how you intend to fight, and what your enemy is going to do. I think there are times and places where belt-feds in an individual weapon caliber can be useful and even damn near mandatory, but if you’re going to limit me to nothing but multi-purpose squads that have to do everything from taking objectives to holding them, I want real support weapons instead of the individual weapon-caliber versions.
If you really want to have both, I’d have few objections, but I’ll point out that those sorts of squads are a logistical pain-in-the ass, and move more slowly. They’re also somewhat less flexible, unless you get really creative with your training and leadership.
Instead of the .30 Super Carry, it should have been a +p version of the .30 Luger. With modern propellants .30 Mauser performance is possible from this case. The 30 Luger is loaded to a much lower pressure than the 9mm. Loading it to the same pressure as the 9mm would greatly improve it performance. Would it sell? Probably not. I thought that the 30 SC would flop from the beginning. A 30 Luger +P would work in the existing 9mm guns with minimal changes.
The purpose of .30SC is 9×19 performance with more rounds (like .327 vs .357). It stalled primarily because of timing: micro 9s now provide ample capacity for a huge percentage of DGUs, so .30SC buyers forfeit the most ubiquitous and affordable cartridge for an advantage in a tiny fringe of cases. With identical rim diameter, .30Luger+P could offer the same ballistics, but for zero advantage whatsoever.