Gustloff VG1-5 Nazi Last Ditch Rifles

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The Volkssturmgewehr Gustloff, more commonly (albeit incorrectly) known as the VG1-5, was one of the few semiautomatic Volkssturm weapons produced at the end of WWII. I have discussed these rifles before, but wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to take a close look at two more examples of the type.
Mechanically the Gustloff uses a system quite unusual in rifles - gas delayed blowback. Chambered for the 8x33 Kurz cartridge, there are 4 small gas vent holes in the front half of the barrel which vent gas into a chamber in the front muzzle plug. Pressure in this chamber acts to keep the slide closed, thus delayed the opening of the action. A nearly identical system is used in the much later Steyr GB pistol.
One of these in particular still has its original sling, which is a neat feature (the other clearly was issued with a sling but has lost it). In total 10,000 of these were manufactured, but they were not able to make a significant impact to prolong Germany's war effort.

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@szczur03 2 жыл бұрын

The gun: flimsy, uncomfortable last-ditch carbine Call of Duty: lightweight full-auto assault rifle with many attachments available, one of the best guns in the WW2 era

@ninjauser3808 Жыл бұрын

Or how about the Fallout 4 dlc Far Harbor with its radium rifle, different attachments with the ability to deal radiation damage as well as ballistic. One of my favorites from that dlc.

@Choom-li Жыл бұрын

Same deal in Battlefield V

@929Finn 8 ай бұрын

Fucking Beta C magazine in Vanguard 😂

@Not-so-secret-agent 8 ай бұрын

How did Call of Duty go from being one of my favorite franchises to the absolute worst? I hate call of duty now. It used to be great. When the very first one came out.

@guavamax420 7 ай бұрын

Call of Duty Logic

@MemestiffGaming 4 жыл бұрын

Me: Mom can we get the STG44? Mom: We have the STG44 at home *The STG44 at home*

@TheNamesSnek 4 жыл бұрын

-the-

@Hchris101 4 жыл бұрын

Burger

@bryanmartinez6600 4 жыл бұрын

@@Hchris101 BORGER

@creepyshadow55 4 жыл бұрын

*MP43

@Padriacfain 4 жыл бұрын

DUDE! lol golden comment

@Spudtron98 4 жыл бұрын

You know you're in trouble when the magazine is the nicest part of the weapon.

@digitaal_boog 3 жыл бұрын

I really like the trigger and finger guard. Mag is nice too

@sumvs5992 3 жыл бұрын

And it wasn't even originally made for it gun

@radityarakha90 3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@markdavis180 2 жыл бұрын

@@radityarakha90 the magazine was originally intended for the STG

@george2113 11 ай бұрын

The magazine is the most important part of a repeating firearm

@peterlewerin4213 4 жыл бұрын

It has come up in discussion elsewhere, so for those who didn't know: The Volkssturmgewehr is *not* a Volks sturmgewehr ("People's assault rifle"), but a Volkssturm gewehr ("Militia rifle").

@LadyFairChildVideo 4 жыл бұрын

potato potatoe.

@aixide 4 жыл бұрын

Volkssturmwagen, let's make it happen I really don't care which one

@Benedocta 4 жыл бұрын

Which is also why its called VG, and not VStG.

@peterlewerin4213 4 жыл бұрын

@@Benedocta Yep

@NichtNameee 4 жыл бұрын

A house is a house is a house is a house

@ramennoodleslurper7752 6 жыл бұрын

As you were beginning to take this apart, I initially thought "wow you could actually probably make this in your garage". And then you pulled out the trigger group.

@HustleMuscleGhias 8 ай бұрын

You could probably modify an AR-15 or Tapco G2 trigger to do the job. It might require a transfer bar of some sort to do the job. Of course if one were talented enough they could enlarge the design of either trigger designs to the design.

@isuckatstarcraft96 7 жыл бұрын

Christ, the Germans couldn't make good last ditch guns because even their siplified designs were too complicated. Love German design.

@alfnoakes392 4 жыл бұрын

The same problem they had with developing anything (tanks, aircraft etc) ... huge resources put into 'new' weapons when they could have had greater 'battlefield effect' putting those resources into improving and increasing production of existing types. Hindsight is a wonderful thing of course .

@cocker3050 4 жыл бұрын

Alf Noakes the thing is thought with tanks and aircraft as u mentioned, the germans lacked oil very badly. making 100 good tanks was a much better decision for them than 500 good enough tanks. the same thing is true for aircraft.

@thedogisaneldritchgod491 4 жыл бұрын

9mm is easy peasy to make simple which was the mp3008. This thing was firing an intermediate cartridge that has a wee less power than a 7.62x39 ak round. For these kinds of rounds, you'd need a delay of some sort to keep the shit from blowing up the gun which complicates everything. The fact that they made the rifle fire the powerful rounds without a locking mechanism of some sort is pretty amazing. All they needed to do on this rifle was lathe a few parts, rivet and drill a dew holes in comparison to the headache that is the AK or AR bolt. Although the trigger group is way too complex.

@jasonbloho8015 4 жыл бұрын

30% of their tank and aircraft losses were just from running out of fuel so they ditched them

@burnheretic3950 4 жыл бұрын

@@thedogisaneldritchgod491 I was familiar with the sturmgewehr and other German guns before this video but this was the first time I had seen one of these. I am a machinist by trade and bet I could make one of these pretty easily but much better looking and well constructed with my access to lathes and milling machine as well as pretty much anything else I could possibly need. I think I will try in the future. This looks soo simple that it would be a awesome gun to modernize and remarket.

@damnoldguy 8 жыл бұрын

The service life of the user wasn't very long either

@hugebartlett1884 4 жыл бұрын

Most of them were fighting in Berlin by now,all the other fronts already overrun. This was a last ditch battle fought by fanatics and men and boys conscripted into the Volksturm. The men were in their seventies and the boys about fourteen. All in all they were a menace to themselves and the regular Wehrmacht Soldaten.

@slmb_b 4 жыл бұрын

Huge Bartlett Wasn’t the Wehrmacht defeated after Stalingrad?

@hugebartlett1884 4 жыл бұрын

@@slmb_b Most of the Wehrmacht had been captured by the time the last ditch battle for Berlin started. The relief armies that Hitler was calling up no longer existed. The sixth army was marching into captivity by then. Only fanatics and kids were left for the Party to call up.

@Ukraineaissance2014 4 жыл бұрын

@@slmb_b No, but a lot of historians see Stalingrad as 'the beginning of the end' of the Wehrmacht. Bear in mind the invasion of russia was by far the largest invasion force ever assembled. The Wermacht was huge

@RAAM9001 4 жыл бұрын

@@hugebartlett1884 It's a common misconception that Berlin was the end. It wasn't. The Wehrmacht had forces all across Germany in garrisons and the Volkssturm was lead specifically by Wehrmacht troops reassigned to these groups. There's a reason why there was an official call to surrender after Hitler died. Because all across Germany there was still a few hundred thousand troops in service waiting to either die fighting or surrender depending on who made it to them first. The Wehrmacht was an intimidating enemy till the very end and many, many allied troops would continue to die in the final months of the war. It's just here the ratio was a clear 1:1 or 1:1.3 in allied favor in terms of losses by this point.

@pRahvi0 4 жыл бұрын

"Hans, were we not supposed to make a simple to produce gun?" "Jawohl. I used rivets instead of removable pins!"

@Techie1224 4 жыл бұрын

Hans , thats more complicated 😂

@Porty1119 7 жыл бұрын

It's like an SKS and a Sten gun had a one-night stand...

@darklighter8968 7 жыл бұрын

with the sturmgewehr being the unfortunate single mother.. yeah work that thing out

@Bowfella 7 жыл бұрын

Headframe Hunters And then gave birth to a child with a lot of deffects.

@TimboXLP 6 жыл бұрын

Well, thats the best thing i've read all day.

@murderousintent7838 6 жыл бұрын

the child had Down syndrome as well

@JohnDoe69986 5 жыл бұрын

The mother drank during the pregnancy

@theswissnavy2801 7 жыл бұрын

I think that it's weird a last ditch weapon was a semi auto rifle while the standard issue riffle was a bolt action

@badconker83 4 жыл бұрын

they swapped the standard issue riffle in 1943, with the Gewehr 43. As they had to compete with M1 Garand and the russian Machinepistols and their half automatic rifles.

@Gogglesofkrome 4 жыл бұрын

practically every standard infantry unit was armed with at least one machine gun man. Had semi/full auto rifles come into the game sooner, who knows how things could have went, especially since full auto gave every soldier that wielded them the effectiveness of a machine gunner.

@fragglefknrock7568 4 жыл бұрын

They were considered useless long range mind you they ran out of ammo fast with the kill death ratio getting dimmed down. Full auto even today is only good for suppression most good soldiers prefer semi auto fire more accurate.

@thedogisaneldritchgod491 4 жыл бұрын

@@fragglefknrock7568 Most battles take place in urban settings with engagements being at usually 75 meters. You don't really need that much range especially when you are giving weapons to kids and other folks who hasn't been trained that much at all.

@fragglefknrock7568 4 жыл бұрын

@@thedogisaneldritchgod491 Whereve you been for the last 30 years? Lol urban. Most engagements are in the desert or rural areas. When i was in service it was long range that mattered.. Most engagements in the middle east are all long distance. The close proxy battles as you refer arent. Even during ww2 and especially ww1 most engagements were highly long distance being between 50 yards to 400 yards. There's many many battles you can look up involving long spans. Long range weapons are highly nessesary. My original comment was severing the idea of submachine guns being overly effective. Meaning they weren't efficient. The last ditch rifle enplaced was a good concept the bolt action was effective for ww1 if they had more semis to begin with youd look at another 2 years added to ww2. Think about that.

@Ajc-ni3xn 3 жыл бұрын

“So only 10,000 were ever made?” “Yeah, pretty interesting right? And the ones that were mad weren’t even full au-“ Battlefield 5: *”I’LL TAKE YOUR WHOLE STOCK.”*

@rokairu0-216 3 жыл бұрын

And make it a really good starting weapon

@gloomsouls 2 жыл бұрын

@@rokairu0-216 And better than the STG 44... and nearly every single gun in the game.

@polygondwanaland8390 2 жыл бұрын

Enlisted does it a bit better, the starting weapon for the Berlin campaign is the VG.2 and late-war Kar 98s, the VG 1-5 unlocks later.

@andymancan_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@gloomsouls I just bought BFV and holy shit the Sturmgewehr 1-5 is probably my favorite gun in the game I can’t believe it’s a starting weapon for assault

@rouxgreasus 5 ай бұрын

@@andymancan_i usually try to run with Gewehr 1-5 since it's more historically accurate but hackers and pros say no :(

@HSMiyamoto 6 жыл бұрын

Incidentally, the most common "last ditch" defense for Japanese civilians in 1945 was a wooden spear. So the Volkssturm were lucky to have actual guns! My mother was relatively "lucky," and was assigned a longbow. Yes, if Olympic had happened my mom, then 15 years old, would have taken on GI Joe like an Indian in a cowboy movie!

@54356776 4 жыл бұрын

The longbow was considered for use by Wellington during the peninsula war against napoleon because of the difficult hilly terrain. Training to adequately use it would have been to long though so it never saw reality. I know what you speak of was crazy and desperate but a longbow is a viable weapon used correctly.

@edyslavico3761 4 жыл бұрын

@@54356776 Yeah longbowmen were used extensively by British till the late 1600s

@ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746 4 жыл бұрын

@@54356776 But not against automatic rifles, aeroplanes, and tanks.

@HSMiyamoto 4 жыл бұрын

@ - Yes, but if WWII had not been fought at all, my father would probably have never meant my mother, since he was sailor in the postwar U.S. Navy. In other words, "history matters."

@mr_h831 4 жыл бұрын

Hannah Miyamoto or more likely she would have been killed... And then you Wouldn't be here. There's a reason most nobody used bows in this particular time period. Although, if she was smart enough, and was in good positioning, i suppose she could have done some damage. Technological superiority doesn't always grant one victory.

@martyb999 7 жыл бұрын

I love the wooden “furniture” looks like it was (and probably actually WAS) made from actual old furniture!

@TheRustylungs 7 жыл бұрын

martyb999 yeah to right it looks like school desk material probably was just collected from a bombed out school

@beakiethegoon4439 6 жыл бұрын

Fan thats too 🔥

@jacobstaten2366 5 жыл бұрын

At first i thought it was from a wooden pallet.lol

@coppertopv365 3 жыл бұрын

Crude in many ways, and Leaves eye appeal behind. If it was me I'd Shoot it, and Take a Real military Piece of hardware, maybe a Thompson Submachine Gun...🙊

@psychosneighbor1509 3 жыл бұрын

B.Y.O.F.

@Kevin-fj5oe 4 жыл бұрын

Officer : " hans, this is last ditch weapon, how complex do you want it ?" German Engineers: *YES*

@Gen_ShadowCompany_203 3 жыл бұрын

*Ja

@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 8 ай бұрын

Bad joke, not funny, get new joke.

@Kevin-fj5oe 8 ай бұрын

@@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 go on, make it yourself.

@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 8 ай бұрын

@@Kevin-fj5oe no, you get new joke.

@SPAZTICCYTOPLASM 7 жыл бұрын

I know people are looking at it and saying it's crude. But compare it to the crude guns of other nations. Liberator, Sten, Last ditch Japanese guns, etc. From a machinist perspective: This gun is way too complicated, simple things like the protective flaps on the sight or the sling having it's own mount, to more complex ones like it's trigger group or it's gas sealing operation.

@undertakernumberone1 3 жыл бұрын

@G Sav I'd rather have a "way too complicated" Jerry Can, than one of those really simple, continually leaking, tool needing cannisters from before that.

@dynamicpaintball 3 жыл бұрын

@@undertakernumberone1 if I'm the one paying the maintenance bill, I'll take the leaky shitty can. I might die in a fiery explosion, but at least I won't be bankrupt when I do.

@undertakernumberone1 3 жыл бұрын

@@dynamicpaintball Aka why everybody and their mother switched to the Wehrmachtseinheitskanister. Wait...

@enwurdgibsmedat1517 3 жыл бұрын

@@undertakernumberone1 To be fair in the war they were free, and after the war you might as well have the fancy tin.

@danofdybukon6040 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kadeo-ms6qw erm, Stens are quite well known for having a shoddy build quality, they might have done the job but they were rushed

@williameaton9058 6 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The origin of the expression "last ditch" comes from a 1715 speech by William of Orange where we promised to fight and die in the last ditch.

@palt7036 5 жыл бұрын

@baconman2.052 4 жыл бұрын

I learned something new

@diurdi 4 жыл бұрын

William of Orange died in 1702

@scootergeorge9576 4 жыл бұрын

@@diurdi - Took most of the "fun" out of Eaton's "fact."

@grosom31 4 жыл бұрын

@@diurdi you sure? Dudes fact was fun, if he was dead not so much!

@joevidya 8 жыл бұрын

Hey you know that MP44 we spent years designing on? Lets throw away half the improvements we've made to it make a crude version of it to mass produce for old men and boys.

@badconker83 5 жыл бұрын

MP44 ??? Dood ... its called Sturmgewehr 44 STG44 or STGW 44. nothing like a fucen MP.

@Jebu911 5 жыл бұрын

For some reason i love that someone there was dumb enough to always do weird shit like this. Like all the superweapons and weird guns are really nice to look at these days. Like I personally think this gun looks really nice and has interesting story to it.

@ClaptrapRapture 5 жыл бұрын

@GangnamMu Yeah you're wrong bucko. The MP44 is what the Wehrmacht called it to get the programme through under Hitler's nose, he didn't like. By the time it was fucking great and the army had already made it, he relented but said it should have a proper name, and renamed it Sturmgewehr-44. Same gun, two names. Search this channel for a video on it, Ian covered it well.

@Eminem12378 5 жыл бұрын

Or because they didn't have enough resources to make the better, more advanced, more expensive version? We're talking about the end of the war here.

@mementomori1320 5 жыл бұрын

GangnamMu it was titled the MP 44 because Hitler didn’t like the idea of a full auto combat rifle. So his advisors renamed it as a machinenpistole so he would think of it as an improved submachine gun.

@TwistedKestrel 8 жыл бұрын

This makes the shovel AK look like a competition rifle

@elzorro9987 8 жыл бұрын

I want to be Ian when I grow up. I am 69 years old, so that should be happening at any moment.

@DP-qm6qe 7 жыл бұрын

ElZorro99 Become the gun Jesus you always could be

@carlmarker9257 6 жыл бұрын

hello you are 70 years old by my estimate. anything you regret? what was your proudest achievement ? what made you the happiest ? how do you feel about the information age and coming generation? thank you for taking part in our exit interview :)

@g0679 5 жыл бұрын

ElZorro99 ... Ditto here, except I’m 60.

@Iainandnums 5 жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy your remaining years you old dinosaur

@wansino69 4 жыл бұрын

@@Iainandnums that's an absolutely horrendous thing to say, Harrison.

@Bauglir100 7 жыл бұрын

Isn't it just strange? Think of all the World War II games that have been released. Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Wolfenstein. Yet the game that introduced so many people to this weapon--that was made during the final days of Nazi Germany--is set in the late *23rd* century.

@uncleruckus9884 7 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Szuhai fallout4

@sladerheaume 7 жыл бұрын

You mean 24th century? Isnt fallout in year 2350?

@Bauglir100 7 жыл бұрын

Uh...no. That's Duck Dodgers.

@Mikhail-Tkachenko 6 жыл бұрын

Forgotten Hope 2 has both the Volkssturmgewehr 1-5 and the Volkssturmkarabiner VK98. Literally my favorite game of all time, and it's free.

@devingulyas6903 5 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Szuhai if it shoots it kills if it kills it works

@boogityboo1467 8 жыл бұрын

Looks like it was manufactured in the hills of Afghanistan. But I want one.

@HammerheadGuitar 8 жыл бұрын

+Matan Pulverman So small arms are manufactured in Afghanistan now?

@davidconsumerofmath 8 жыл бұрын

+HammerheadGuitar yup! In Afghanistan caves. Look up the Vice doco.

@gunnerr8476 8 жыл бұрын

+HammerheadGuitar weapons and bullets is common thing to be manufactured there

@Cannibal713 7 жыл бұрын

Booger Finger Lol, hell I've seen prettier weapons made in tribal Afgianistan.

@forgottouseincognito808 5 жыл бұрын

+@Ododlighet yes actually, you'd be surprised by their ingenuity.

@jeremiahdillard9201 8 жыл бұрын

They are so crude they are beautiful....

@phileas007 8 жыл бұрын

+Jeremiah Dillard yeah, the furniture looks like they nicked it from chopped down school desks

@TheDealer6373 5 жыл бұрын

To me crude is a tec 9 or an armscor. Wonder how much these guns jammed.

@markanthonypar-wise1499 4 жыл бұрын

They look so cool

@camelthegamer7165 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheDealer6373 Not often when you consider only 10k were made and they were intended for fanatics to use after the rest of Germany surrendered.

@camelthegamer7165 4 жыл бұрын

Weird how often firearms, from the firsts to the newests, can pull off the fresh outta bed beautiful/no filter or make-up look flawlessly.

@Hanske90 7 жыл бұрын

Looks like Stengun and BAR had a baby that was then raised by STG44.

@TeddyCat2007 6 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@murderousintent7838 6 жыл бұрын

ok I guess guns have children and personalities now

@fragglefknrock7568 4 жыл бұрын

No shit

@Predator20357 4 жыл бұрын

Arsenic Poisoning it’s a figure of speech, they didn’t actually do it or actually have personalities

@straightedgerick 4 жыл бұрын

Stg got cucked lol

@thunderlord3747 2 жыл бұрын

“Semi-automatic” Activison: I’m just gonna pretend that i didn’t see that

@emanueleenricovairani492 10 ай бұрын

There are rumors of an automatic variant.but It was allegedly never put into production and used only in tests

@vector6977 8 жыл бұрын

makes a grease gun look elegant!

@Dh4v0c 8 жыл бұрын

+vector6977 haha was thinking the same. Looks so crude you could build one in your garage.

@ThunderPanzer 8 жыл бұрын

+Dh4v0c If you have the tools and machinery, you can! But you still need wooden furniture and such. If i was going to build any gun in my garage i'd rather make a sten than this, it's basically metal tubes with metal strips and a few springs :P

@wybojones9896 8 жыл бұрын

Nah. The grease gun still looks like god's failure.

@wybojones9896 8 жыл бұрын

+Manilla Ice Good god that thing makes me die a little inside when I see it.

@nfiniteme2996 8 жыл бұрын

+SlimeCrusher or pps43?

@solidspooks8689 8 жыл бұрын

Seems like a pretty complex field strip for a rifle made for militia and not trained soldiers.

@lv2943 8 жыл бұрын

+Solid Spooks I think the main line of thought here was that the militia shouldn't be field-stripping it at all.

@barthoving2053 8 жыл бұрын

+Joseph V Also the Volksturm was a local militia, run by the local Nazi-party. So if the gun needed to be stripped it would be at home at the kitchen table, not in a field.

@beakiethegoon4439 6 жыл бұрын

Try stripping a M1903 hammerless

@genericfakename8197 6 жыл бұрын

The militiaman carrying this was not expected to live long enough to need to clean this.

@sevatarlives185 5 жыл бұрын

I think the (hopelessly optimistic) expectation was that enough of the Volkssturm would be WW1/Freikorps/Reichswehr veterans that it would be easy enough to retrain them to strip and clean it quickly.

@anatolib.suvarov6621 5 жыл бұрын

Ian; Have seen one of these in a U.S. military museum, that is smooth bore. That must be REALLY late production. SFC Bruce R. Gadbois

@culture4519 4 жыл бұрын

Bruce R. Gadbois fuck it good enough

@ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746 4 жыл бұрын

@@culture4519 It's better than a flintlock rifle tho.

@joshuasitzema9920 3 жыл бұрын

@@ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746 flintlocks were at least made to be useful. This thing looks like trash

@rlbadger1698 8 жыл бұрын

The phrase "Designed for ease of manufacture" comes to mind. The trigger group is a little design vignette.

@27suf 8 жыл бұрын

As a German I actually did not know that there was a non german way to say Thüringen. Thuringia sounds so odd to me.

@bisus 8 жыл бұрын

+27suf Almost every province has a french/english enquivalence.

@27suf 8 жыл бұрын

bisus Baden- Würtemberg doesn't. Brandenburg doesn't. Sachsen-Anhalt doesn't. Bremen doesn't. . Niedersachsen doesn't. Schleswig-Holstein doesn't. Hamburg, Hessen, Saarland don't. Most seems exaggerated.

@dumbasatri 8 жыл бұрын

+27suf Sachsen-Anhalt would be Saxony-Anhalt, but yeah. I learned them all in German classes, so hearing the english names is pretty weird for me as well, even though I'm american

@xXExpressYourselfXx 8 жыл бұрын

+27suf Niedersachen is actually called lower-saxony ;) But I agree, its so akward to hear German provinces or cities with their english name

@XmarkedSpot 8 жыл бұрын

+27suf North Rhine-Westphalia?

@AldanFerrox 8 жыл бұрын

This weapon gives the word "pistol carbine" a whole new meaning.

@yankrowan272 8 ай бұрын

Always amazed at the weapons you review, but much more at your abilities in breaking down ones like this one! You have an understanding of so many variables in weapons, and you don’t hesitate to disassemble, then somehow reassemble them!! WELL DONE!! And thank you👏

@duane8620 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the knowledge you share. You make history of some of the most obscure firearm very enjoyable to learn about. As a novice historical weapons connoisseur, I find the videos you make both enjoyable and educational. While explaining the features, functions, reason behind a certain design as well as the overall purpose the weapon would have served at time of production - You never dwell on something, never sound dull/boring and the info you share is always accurate and well explained. Well done and thanks for all the great info!

@jamescarmean2701 8 жыл бұрын

It was nice to see one of these field stripped, having only seen photos. The service life of the weapon certainly exceeded the service life expectancy of the person being issued the weapon. Fascinating construction, thanks for the walk around. Do you have any idea for the basic issue of magazines? Was it three or six using the same mag pouches as the MP-44?

@ForgottenWeapons 8 жыл бұрын

+James Carmean Ideally, it would have been 4 (one in the gun and 3 in a pouch). In practice, most had just a single magazine. You would be pretty lucky to get two.

@jamescarmean2701 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the follow up info. Not a bad combat load if well supplied and only firing semi-auto.

@m4rkm4n 7 жыл бұрын

"Thuringia" is already the English translation, so nothing to misspell there. In German it's "Thüringen".

@mamibufi 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I was like "Where the hell is Thuringia" until it doomed me that he means Thüringen, never heard the englisch pronounciation of it before^^

@rasmusrw8140 3 жыл бұрын

Auch schwedische Gothenburg/Göteborg! Zwei richtige name

@foxtrotsierraproductions8626 2 жыл бұрын

Wieso müssen die Amis immer alles übersetzen ? München-Munich, Köln-Cologne. Wenn sie es nicht aussprechen können ihr Pech.

@notgraham.7215 3 жыл бұрын

You can't fool me Ian. That's half a sheet of OSB, a bicycle pump, and some stuff you found in the dumpster behind home depot

@hazed1009 3 жыл бұрын

Another fantastic video, I never even knew about this weapon and I've read so much about the last months of the war, Berlin, Budapest etc. Now thanks to you u I have something new to read up on. Thanks again and may your channel continue to grow! 😁

@lulkak2664 3 жыл бұрын

8:52 you know your gun is made in nazi germany when even it has a gas chamber

@marzuqahmed218 Жыл бұрын

bruh

@mysteriousguy2681 Жыл бұрын

Dude I shit myself from laughing, bless you.

@AshleyPomeroy Жыл бұрын

That was dark. But funny.

@garrysmith5562 7 ай бұрын

You think only germans use gas in guns?

@sunlight-sky151 7 жыл бұрын

(Scrolls through comments.) ... Hey everyone, it's the radium rifle from Fallout 4!

@vampireguy2495 7 жыл бұрын

Literally every comment. Not that i'm complaining, but come on guys.

@GermDGator 5 жыл бұрын

AK47 LCOB Yup...

@cdf360 4 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for someone to say this

@ThaGr8Cornman 7 жыл бұрын

You have one of the coolest, most informative channels on YT. Thank you for doing such a great job.

@docthebiker 5 жыл бұрын

"The gun wasn't designed to have a very long service life" is a polite way of telling the poor untrained "volk" you were giving it to that the Operator wasn't expected to have a very long service life.

@gubbikiller 4 жыл бұрын

Imperial Gurad, the gun is more worth than the soldier

@ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746 4 жыл бұрын

@@gubbikiller But it'.s some fanatical nazis (mostly children and the elderly) armed with basically nothing instead of actually decent laser rifles, war-hardened men, and advanced artillery.

@GTA_500 4 жыл бұрын

that's another way to say they were made with the ass

@docthebiker 3 жыл бұрын

@John Smith True. If an inexperienced fighter can take a better weapon from a more experienced fighter while armed with an inferior one they can have the better weapon (for as long as the ammo holds out), but it's more "if" than "when".

@robertkubrick3738 8 жыл бұрын

You have to remember that Nazi Germany was in many cases down to cottage industry. I doubt it was an economy measure but a redundant production line in case something happened to the STG production. Literally people were building parts for ME 262 at home.

@jehb8945 4 жыл бұрын

When I got my hands on a copy of battlefield 5 for $30 a year ago I saw this gun I thought oh crap it's another ribeyrolles 1918 where they produced one of them and the only thing that survives is a picture of a picture but thankfully thanks to the early video I'm a SWOT then I am happy to have learned this isn't just another phantom.

@edyslavico3761 4 жыл бұрын

BF5 and BF1 are full of BS weapons that like you said, never saw use and mass production. We have Fliegerfaust, the Hellriegel, the Type-2A and the list goes on

@edyslavico3761 4 жыл бұрын

If you want to play some actually nice and historically accurate WW2 game play Post Scriptum. As for WW1 Verdun and its sequel (cannot remember the name) are awesome.

@wompus6570 3 жыл бұрын

@@edyslavico3761 Battlefield has never tried to be a hisyorically accurate game, it's historically authentic.

@AnyFukkingNameJesus 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ian! This rifle is something I haven't seen before, and it's a really cool piece of history. I can't thank you enough for sharing this.

@xmeda 8 жыл бұрын

Ian, Which of all of those last ditch weapons you consider to be the most usable or most thought through?

@ForgottenWeapons 8 жыл бұрын

+xmeda I think the gerat 06H was the best.

@xenothermia 8 жыл бұрын

+Forgotten Weapons You think there'll be any chance in the near future that we could get a new video of a Gerat 06H? :)

@jeffreyreardon7487 8 жыл бұрын

+Forgotten Weapons I very much agree

@MegaGearz 8 жыл бұрын

+Rowan Turner (Sin) he has video of a Gerat 06 and 06H

@xenothermia 8 жыл бұрын

***** I know, hence why I said new video rather than a video.

@Minat96 7 жыл бұрын

7:59 Finally i understand the Radium Rifle loading animation in Fallout 4.

@sergeantbigmac 8 жыл бұрын

Im definitely getting a Mad Max vibe. The crude welds and tube steel seems really post-apocalypse... And at the end of WWII Germany was for all intents and purposes! I thought it would be simple blow-back. Seems like a simple concept, is that action not common because of the weight you mentioned? I wonder if people have tried reproducing it. I know there was that one project a while back, but I mean individuals making it in their shops and stuff. I bet you could simplifying the trigger group or modify and existing one to make it even easier to make.

@Skiivin 4 жыл бұрын

There’s a reason this was in Fallout 4

@gohardgibson 6 жыл бұрын

Yep, saw you guys on T.V. the content is awesome. Keep up the great work!

@MrElliptific 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video and lesson in history. I have read about these weapons and saw drawings but never seen such a detailed review. Very neat!

@TheAngler2210 5 жыл бұрын

literally one of the few WW2 german guns where the designation "nazi rifle" actually is correct

@mayc.onaise5649 3 жыл бұрын

fuck off

@KitsuneJimmy 6 жыл бұрын

First time I saw this thing was in CoD WWII and I looked up the Primitiv Waffen Programm. Gotta give SHG credit on that one. Made me learn something, even with all the annoying inaccuracies of the other guns.

@rushyahr7767 8 жыл бұрын

wow, that is a fascinating design, I'm surprised how shoddy the welds are. I never thought of a delayed blow back action before. A remarkable piece of history, that's for sure.

@whynotjustmyusername 7 жыл бұрын

Hi ForgottenWeapons! I just wanted to let you know that "Volkssturm" is pronounced more like "Folkssturmgewehr". "Thuringia" is almost good, we just say "Turingen" in German. "Kurz" is not pronounced like "Kurt" but more like "Koorz".

@Kek5kopF 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Heres a little tip on how to pronounce "Volkssturm": The V is spoken like an F. The "st" is pronounced as "sht". So say it like "folks shturm" :)

@AudieHolland 5 жыл бұрын

Or when still failing, try the following: order two pints of decent German Pilsener Beer. Drink up in quick succession. Now you will have no problemsh shayying, uh... Folksh sh.. shshtoorm.!!

@daleburrell6273 4 жыл бұрын

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?!!

@draxxicek 4 жыл бұрын

AudieHolland To add some confusion - Pilsen (where a pilsner beer comes from) is a Czech town, so “German Pilsener” has a “British Wiener” or “Japanese Champagne” sound to it.

@jarmokankaanpaa6528 4 жыл бұрын

@@draxxicek Yeah, better go with Kölsch, Weissbier or Altbier! Taken together with Doppelkorn schnapps, you're guaranteed to shtart shpluttering.

@rwps3677 4 жыл бұрын

@@draxxicek You maybe disagree but Pilsen was pretty german until 1945. I mean "Königsberger Klopse" arent "Kaliningrader Klopse" now 😉

@steedu46gt 8 жыл бұрын

Ian can you do a video on the Army Advanced Combat Rifle program? The forgotten m16a2e2, hk g11, and the most interesting being the Aii and steyr ACR

@secondpath5148 7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas S Those are very difficult to get a hold of, but considering he was able to get a pancor jackhammer, i'd still have hope.

@aeoo371 7 жыл бұрын

I know this is an older video but I would like to thank Ian for doing what no one else is doing. Ian I envy you for being able to handle and sometimes fire the weapons.

@user-ur7hl5ek6z 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the detailed explanation including the structure of VG1-5 that I like the most. I like ”Last ditch ”weapons the simplicity of the design, which gives off a sense of "aesthetics of destruction."

@SouthernFriedCyanide 3 жыл бұрын

This actually reminds me of the description of the rifle in World War Z, the book not the movie

@cannon0457 8 жыл бұрын

It's the Radium Rifle...

@OWNGEMASTER1993 7 жыл бұрын

I renamed mine the Nukagewehr

@ScramGuns 7 жыл бұрын

Was wondering that myself

@xringarcher1440 7 жыл бұрын

Certainly does look like one!

@acealinka489 7 жыл бұрын

When looking at how cheaply and from the last scraps made during the last desperate months of Berlin defence it seems, it's just a good fit in the Fallout unsiverse.

@vampireguy24 7 жыл бұрын

I named mine Experiment 238 because its Legendary Perk makes it do more Rads Damage. It does over 200 Rads Damage.

@jebbroham1776 4 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, the center stock pin with the steel clip retainer has been used extensively in all German service rifles since. My G3 has those same pins, two in the stock to pull out the internals, and one in approximately the center just behind the magazine well. Same principle, same design, same level of genius.

@fritzrue 5 жыл бұрын

Yet another amazing, informative and entertaining video! Keep up the great work!

@bilboproudfoot 8 жыл бұрын

Th1138, there's a reference you don't hear everyday.

@lcater9555 8 жыл бұрын

Could you elaborate for me pls

@markschwartz5614 8 жыл бұрын

+lcater9555 He is talking about an old SciFi movie called THX 1138.

@sergeantbigmac 8 жыл бұрын

Its actually a really good movie. Very underrated, Lucas's best film probably.

@lptomtom 8 жыл бұрын

+sergeantbigmac I would say American Graffiti was his best, but they are very different

@sergeantbigmac 8 жыл бұрын

lptomtom I always forget about American Graffiti haha... I like Star Wars, but ive always felt from a filmmaking point of view they were overrated (blasphemy I know)

@fritz1143 4 жыл бұрын

This weapon had to be cheap...today is one of the most expensive things you can own.

@alexm566 Жыл бұрын

only in the US. in the middle east if they find one it'll be dirt cheap and even legal in countries like Iraq which allow one full auto rifle ownership per household

@burtvhulberthyhbn7583 8 жыл бұрын

ian. your reviews are the best. you have no competition .

@brandonpetroski6663 8 жыл бұрын

Totally subscribed. Love historical weaponry, and very informative.

@wongusblongus4310 4 жыл бұрын

1933: The People's Radio 1937: The People's Car 1945: *THE PEOPLE'S ASSAULT RIFLE*

@kennedytheretard975 4 жыл бұрын

facism is weird

@niklasw.1297 3 жыл бұрын

actually more like the militia's rifle since its the VG and not the VStG

@jacobanderson1693 7 жыл бұрын

This thing looks like the radium rifle from fallout 4

@Jarris2 7 жыл бұрын

You're right. It's an obvious copy.

@acealinka489 7 жыл бұрын

When looking at how cheaply and from the last scraps made during the last desperate months of Berlin defence it seems, it's just a good fit in the Fallout unsiverse.

@chickensbelike2790 7 жыл бұрын

Swag Potato yeah i realized that its most likely based on it

@dj_skully4197 7 жыл бұрын

Swag Potato it is

@victorkane1154 4 жыл бұрын

Charles Lee Ray then ruined the gun like they did the fallout series

@billsandford3901 7 жыл бұрын

the two original wholes in the buttstock are the same as H&K, the take down pins when removed are placed in those holes so they will not be lost.

@edwindeas9457 8 ай бұрын

Really good video. Also, I stand corrected: I previously commented on a photo-post from Ian's Subreddit that the VG-1 was a selective-fire weapon. According to Ian, only the Gusloff firsts were capable of auto fire. 😊

@EXOTICZ 6 жыл бұрын

I got this recommended as it released in the new call of duty well two of my best things

@smallerfreeze 7 жыл бұрын

these rifles deal bonus radiation damage

@jamiesuvo7420 4 жыл бұрын

You have a very cool job I'm jealous you get to play with all these awesome inventions made throughout the time of history very cool

@Tomah4wkVideos 6 жыл бұрын

Saw one IRL today, only recognized it after seeing this video. Thanks for bringing these Forgotten Weapons to us!

@heartoffire8481 8 жыл бұрын

germans find a way to engineer a last ditch gun in such a way that it is beautiful... breathtaking

@mediumugly4322 8 жыл бұрын

Do you have a video of the ppsh 41 by any chance?

@ForgottenWeapons 8 жыл бұрын

+TheAmericanGuy Not yet...

@mongoskitpare224 8 жыл бұрын

+Forgotten Weapons This design reminds me of the american M1 Garand, did the nazis copy some of the Garand design maybe?.

@tedarcher9120 6 жыл бұрын

mongo skitpåre garand is absolutely different in design. This rifle is much closer to any 9mm pistol than garand

@TheOtherVenkman 4 жыл бұрын

One of these is sitting at the Battle of the Bulge museum in Bastogne. Pretty cool to see.

@loganehat2507 4 жыл бұрын

I think more than getting larger amounts of weapons out they were also looking at saving metal, getting rid of extra unneeded accoutrements to use that material towards the making of a second rifle

@MarcoPolo-tj9yf 6 жыл бұрын

Call of Duty ww2 recently added this weapon in they're first dlc "The Resistance ". Good assut rifle 👍

@CarWavExe 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite one very cool

@hfarthingt 4 жыл бұрын

“Judged too simple “ - German engineering in a nutshell

@dereks6636 8 жыл бұрын

oh man i always get excited when you make a new video

@alleycat4463 8 жыл бұрын

Ian,please keep up posted on what they went(sold) for...great channel BTW!!

@kainepeterson6638 7 жыл бұрын

The Radium Rifle from Fallout 4 is based on this rifle, I think

@leerose8628 7 жыл бұрын

Noah Peterson looks like it.

@ShimachiAndKazaki 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is pretty same look on the barrel

@chrissanchez9935 7 жыл бұрын

If they can make this in 10mm Auto today, this may be a marketing success. A cheap 10mm carbine like this may have good sales prospects.

@desg4381 6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Christian Sanchez why would anyone even need one ?

@casey8898 6 жыл бұрын

des g Probably for fallout 4 fanboys.

@JamesCallMeJayBoyFrazier 8 жыл бұрын

simplicity at its finest. I'd love to procure one of these for myself.

@geiroveeilertsen7112 7 жыл бұрын

It's very interesting to see that the gun I used when I was in the army in Norway in about 2005/2006 (the AG3/G3) is based on weapons tech from the 1940's and that there hasn't been that much of a change :-) Specifically the bolts holding the gun together and the mechanics (when dismantling this specific gun), but also that the M2 and MG34/42 was virtually unchanged from then until when I was in the service. I've heard that they've changed most of the guns by now, but the M2 (from the 1920's) and the MG42 is still in service here

@raider762 8 жыл бұрын

It sure does look crude, but will probably go bang every time. Wow they want 30,000-50,000 for one of these.

@210clevenger9 6 жыл бұрын

To those asking, YES, this is the Radium Rifle from Fallout 4: Far Harbor.

@chickenman1801 4 жыл бұрын

You have to be 18 to use 4chan

@bokachoy 8 жыл бұрын

Interesting gun, this compared to a mp44 wow what a difference. You mentioned the Steyr GB one of my all time favorite 9mm pistols would like to see you do a video on that interested in your opinion on that one. Good video.

@Jimboy1611 7 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I've never seen these before. I'm baffled at how they could continue to make these engineering innovations as everything was going to hell around them. It can't have been easy.

@iggiaronsson 7 жыл бұрын

looks alike the new rifle in far harbor (fallout 4) DLC

@MaceGaming53 7 жыл бұрын

xD ikr

@GuinessOriginal 7 жыл бұрын

Alice Dexter the radium rifle. Probably based on it

@ETKninja 7 жыл бұрын

iggi Aronsson damn you!! i clicked on this video just to comment that! 😂 you beat me to it lol

@LowLiving 4 жыл бұрын

2016: wait... 2017: hold on.... 2018: chill... 2019: hang on... 2020: it's time

@davebeckley2584 4 жыл бұрын

For some reason I think that is one of the coolest rifles that is the epitome of 'last ditch' for a major industrial nation. Thanks for sharing.

@JunkyardBashSteve 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of those guns that proves a couple of Bethesda's devs are real gun nerds: this VG1-5, the American 180, the China Lake. I like when those guys get to have fun with the games.

@RockerGuy0001 7 жыл бұрын

Looks like someone made it in their basement

@WelloBello 7 жыл бұрын

RockerGuy0001 It literally was. Literally

@TheSensor123 7 жыл бұрын

Kind of. But a basement that was really horrible.

@mralarming5208 6 жыл бұрын

You definatelly would need a mill for that. That would be quite a cool basement to own.

@FlaresnakeAnon 8 жыл бұрын

Didn't you shot one of these before?

@ForgottenWeapons 8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Ulick Yes.

@crashandburnbirner 8 жыл бұрын

+Forgotten Weapons But Now In HD!

@ForgottenWeapons 8 жыл бұрын

+crashandburnbirner My other consideration is that especially with guns like these, it is worth looking at multiple examples. That let's you find patterns in features or markings that cannot be discerned from individual guns alone.

@crashandburnbirner 8 жыл бұрын

+Forgotten Weapons Yes and I will say you presenting skills have improved from the earlier videos.

@willyhearrell9060 8 жыл бұрын

+crashandburnbirner oh yeah I agree. Not only that...most people havent seen the EARLY videos.... so he might as well make some "doubles" in HD!

@JerryEricsson 7 жыл бұрын

Had an opportunity to fire an MP44 years ago, buddy of mine bought one on a local reservation, he had to load his own 8mm Kurtz rounds, and had a hard time making them hot enough to function in the gun. If I recall he ended up loading with a few grains of bulls-eye over some unique powder and finally got it running right. He was living back in the sticks so we simply went out in his yard and shot cow pies with it. Fun gun to fire.

@MadSpectro7 8 жыл бұрын

Honestly the overall shape of this gun is quite attractive to me. I guess the oddity the two-piece stock configuration is what I like since I also like the look of the BAR and lever rifles.

@Maximilian178 8 жыл бұрын

Thuringia is pronounced with a "hard" T, the "h" is silent. Thuringia is therefor already the English term, in German it would be "Thüringen"

@ChompsLewis 7 жыл бұрын

im glad im not the only one who thought of the radium rifle.

@dangermouse957 4 жыл бұрын

Another great video Ian, really enjoy your channel great knowledge and history thanks from. Australia.

@robertpendergast2620 8 жыл бұрын

Interesting , complex machinist work for building so late in the war when so much factory equipment had been destroyed. It reminded me a little of the SKS as you took it apart.