You observe very rightly. Like most French guns after WW1, it was made so that wheezing forty-year-old reservists who hadn't been in uniform for twenty years could master them with just a few days hasty refreshing before going to the front. It is a crying shame that France closed all its arsenals because those engineers were wizards who knew their trade better than most.

It has a slow rate of fire

@@ice-tgaming4609 that rate of fire is exactly what you want in a real battle….you get your bullets on target…unlike say a Mac10…two hits on….maybe…the rest on the birds and the clouds and the trees whatever…MAT49 was one of the best guns ever built

Thanks for the video. It stayed in the army service until early 90's. ( Army class 91/10)

I saw the MAT49 still in service in France in Gendarmerie highway unit in the year 1991.

I wont be surprise if it still around today in some units ..@@codelocust3297

When was the last time France won a war? Anyone, anyone? And you want me to buy a weapon from these people...not gonna happen.

Fred Heigl pitoyable ignare !

@@Wormhole798France is the country with the most battle fought and have one of the best win ratio in Europe. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rs18frmSr93UiI0.html

@@Wormhole798 @ fred height You think you know something, don't you? General Mason-Macfarlane, the head of military intelligence, summoned journalists & told them that they were to inform the British public to blame the French for “not fighting,” & to proclaim that the B.E.F. was “undefeated.” Hard to see how 90,000 killed meant “not fighting.” "B.E.F. 3,500 killed in 3 weeks." On May 30, 1940, the BBC announced that “men of the undefeated B.E.F. have been coming home from France. They did not come back in triumph, they have come back in glory.” On November 1, 1940: The Director of Statistics declared: “The Dunkirk episode was far worse than was ever realized … The men getting back to England were so demoralized they threw their rifles & equipment out of the windows of railway-carriages. Some sent for their wives & their civilian clothes, changed into these & walked home.” Even Churchill was honest (in private) when he declared to Hugh Dalton, a prominent member of the Labour Party, who later became Minister of Economic Warfare in Churchill’s cabinet, that Dunkirk was “the greatest British military defeat for many centuries.” As he also famously said: “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” Churchill knew well of what he spoke … Given the early British determination to dis-continue the fighting & prepare for evacuation, the very low levels of casualties, it is a complete distortion of truth to “mock” the courage & commitment of the French forces to say they did not fight - particularly when they were fighting a completely new form of mobile warfare which the French High Command was completely un-prepared for. The very existence of the Churchill Government was at stake and it was well-known his successor would most likely be Lord Halifax who wanted peace with Germany “Victory at all costs” Churchill was right to look for a scapegoat But sometimes the truth is not very pleasant: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZxzaLNepr-rlI0.html . "Despite our overwhelming numerical superiority, the French counterattack in several points. I can not understand how these soldiers, sometimes fighting 1 in 20, find the strength to storm. It's amazing. I find in these soldiers the same ardor that those of Verdun in 1916. We do not pierce anywhere and we suffer terrifying losses. [...] Dunkirk brings me proof that the French soldier is one of the best in the world. The French artillery, so dreaded already in 14-18, once again demonstrates its formidable effectiveness. Our losses are terrifying: many battalions have lost 60% of their strength, sometimes even more! " General Von Küchler commandant of the XVIII army during the last stand of the french army to cover the british at Dunkirk. "And you want me to buy a weapon from these people...not gonna happen." The theoretical framework on which the conceptualization of fmi3-24-2 is based. smallwarsjournal.com/blog/from-trinquier-and-galula-to-petraeus smallwarsjournal.com/documents/galulatopetraeus.pdf

@@Wormhole798 when did Germany win a war? People seems to buy their weapons

+Alexandre: Perfectly right!... Also don't let your left thumb over the security hole of the chamber: think about a early firing of a cartridge...

oui absolument indispensable pour la sécurité; et aussi la propreté de la chambre de tir

Love 7.62 Tok round...

@@xzqzq Ehh, 5.7x28mm is better.

@@ironraccoon3536 could be. Have never fired that round, but did buy some once-fired brass, outta curiosity. Can get a gun for $ 200 to fire 7.62 Tok,. guns for other round @ 6 times as much.

@@ironraccoon3536 would love to compare ballistics of 5.7 X 28 with 7.62 X 25 Tok, loaded with .30 sabot & .223 bullet.

xzqzq have you heard of .223 timbs?

Be sure to pass it around so we can keep the knowledge from fading.

Spencer King: Swedish K copied by S&W. The Navy Seals used it in Vietnam until Sweden decided to stop selling them to the USA. The Seals liked the gun so much, they had S&W copy it. How awesome is that?

I wish someone would manufacture that S&W again. It would sell.

Davy Jones: You are right about that!

Swedish Model 45

Also The Taking of Pelham123 !The first one with Robert Shaw

Alot of GI's hated the M16 believe it or not and would readily trade it for an M14, M1 Carbine, or even an enemy's AK47

@@thatguyrandy1859 I also heard that plenty disliked the M14 as well... Shame we got shafted out of the FAL.

@@elitethotunit5038 to be fair the M14 was designed with the intention of replacing different weapons in a squad, but like every other time this was attempted by a military, it did not work out

@@thatguyrandy1859 biggest problem with the M14 is how much it hates dust, wich is a problem in a country like Vietnam

Don't blame him...the M1 Carbine, caliber 30 is a light to carry, simple to use, easy to maintain reliable weapon. I have one.

Beau Haworth The Mat49 is amazing. You guys make some great vids. Love the CF-W Bolt one!! Don’t work to hard Beau maybe you can make our Big Smg shoot at HSC on 2/25!

I’ll be there!

Je une mat 49 en algerien

Jay Slomine it’s Swedish

@Bordiga Armchair at least he wasn't american

@Bordiga Armchair yes but one of the two is still very active to this day

@Sanuk Jang Lery i dont think Trump cares at all, and actually despite what i think of him he has the merit to be one of the only american presidents who has stopped a war rather than start one

This is a well-documented fact

Not grasping sarcasm is an indicator of a low IQ

U gave up to americans after germas invaded your cities and bombed it

So you respond to one comment saying that France did lose WW1 and was only saved by MUH BASED AMERICA FREEDOM HOORAH! And then you respond to a different comment claiming that it was sarcasm. So which is it?

+Cameron Conner Allies destroyed our cities. Not the nazies.

#triggered #frenchie

and a copy of the Swedish submachinegun m/45

I've always known about the Smith & Wesson 76. When I was a kid I used to see this gun in all sorts of movies during the '70s. though I never knew the name of the gun, I always knew it on sight and sound.

How about the homemade tactical light he had on it!!

Glad that you liked this video. We get more subscribers when people tell others about us. Consider sharing it on your social media and telling your friends about us. I was not aware of this. Such a shame.

50 guns were destroyed in the towers. And all this time I was grieving over the loss of life and liberty.

and the original "Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" too!

maybe the dude owned it 'cos he killed the french dude that owned it.

@@freduncle9999 he's saying maybe the Vietnamese guy he killed also got it from a french guy he killed. you need to pay attention or dumb.

Did he kill him just to steal the MAT 49 from him ? - Gimme your MAT - Không ! BANG BANG BANG - Now that MAT's mine 😊

Mmmmkayyyyy

i thought spanish liberated france. Or at least paris.

guillepankeke Paris was actually liberated by the French, I don't know what you are saying

@@blitzhill9533 eh... google it?

guillepankeke google what? if you are talking about ww2, the liberation of paris was made by the french, that's a fact, you can find photos and tons of history books about that, I'm sure it's better than a shady website made by someone drunk that you found on the depth of Google

@@blitzhill9533 why do you write bullshit without even having googled it? bc its bullshit. "The usa won wwii, thats a fact" no, thats just partial, the muscle was the ussr, and it was the allied forces . So fuck you. Kindly.

The only other Vietnam ammesy-registered gun I have heard about is that M16 with the scratched off serial.

Manufacturing expediency.

Meant to say that I had a MAT-49, not the S&W.

Because it's a copy.

I 'm surpised too when i see the test. No recoil...

I saw that too...

itll still kill a person age doesnt matter lol

Man honestly with firearms design, to an extent, older is better If I had to pick two guns to recommend you to take out in an apocalypse it would be The SKS Rifle and a Revolver in a common pistol calibre. Simple; heavy actions usually perform crudely and effectively and are rarely prone to stoppage and more hardy to wear and tear

SKS has no recoil either. Mine has a grenade launcher on it, never know when you'll need a grenade launcher...

funny actualy some had really killed to have a MAT49

Miglo X reising

No hickhock45 went to school and knows that France hasn't lost ww1

Me too

i saw your comment on an military aviation history video

He is everywere...

I agree and I use it alot in game.

this game is great

* sounds just like the gun in real

.45 caliber, the S&W 76 is pretty cool though made for Navy Seals

Yeah except the feature noted in conjunction with the quote you decided to post is not made possible solely by the use of a simple hinge. Not only that but if that is truly how you interpreted what the man had to say regarding the dust cover then you failed to comprehend a fairly straight forward statement which happens to be a matter of fact. That being that the mat49 is one of the early open bolt submachine guns to incorporate a dust cover that will open automatically when the bolt moves forward upon firing.

I know they don’t teach this in history class anymore, but had it not been for America’s entry into the war...in both instances, French would not be a language spoken today. The French, for all intents and purposes had fallen. It was only until American reinforcements arrived that they were able to mount any sort off offensive action. In both instances. The Central/Axis powers occupied large proportions of France and had routed their military in most engagements that mattered. France lost both World Wars, until America snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

WW1 was completely different than WW2. France was still there and kicking in 1918, they were far from being routed. Germany occupied only a small part of Northern France and the French managed to stop German offensives both in 1914 and in 1916. You seem to have huge lackings in the subject and i invite you to watch the "Great War" youtube channel to make up for that ( kzfaq.info/love/UcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A )

france win ww1 the country wasnt invade..only north east...usa come in 1917(war finish in 1918)with a little number of soldiers and...alot of french weapons...sorry😉

sorry, but that it is not true. A lot of Americans died in the WW1 but doesn't compare with the losses of France or the British Empire. The arrival of the AEF it helped in reducing the pressure on the Allies and give the respite needed for starting new offensives. But, the Allies troops could stay in the tranches for another 2 years without any major changes and the result would have been the same, the Central Powers would loose because their only resources were just some food they obtained in the East Europe by forcing Romania in an armistice and taking some territories from the Russia which was in full Bolshevik Revolution. The needed industrial and agricultural resources were very limited and the civilian population at the end cracked. And this is the reason why the Germans considered they were betrayed at home because on the front they were doing quite well their job regardless off the AEF. They were not defeated on the front. Their home front was the one that collapsed. This is the reason we had the second world war in Europe.

+Alex Plecci AEF was 2 million peoples. I wouldn't name this a small force. For sure they were trained by British, Canadians, Australians and New Zealand officers and used a lot of French equipment. Their help for sure contributed at the end result but considering them the main contributors at the victory I would say it is a huge exaggeration.

Ludo SP no..they win the first

Techically they didn't lose the second one either. The cowards in the civilian government surrendered, the military did not.

mmarsh1972 absolutly!the problem(like today)it s about the cowards politicians..not the People and Soldiers...100% right

mmarsh1972 they surrendered and save HALF their country from immediate occupation, and the impending destruction of another entire generation of their youth. Call them cowards. YOU live through the blood letting of WW1 and face the imminent destruction of your country with NO HOPE of winning (unlike ww1). What would you do? Stage some sort of wagnerian gotterdamerung? Why? They had the balls to recognise when to stop. Fucking 70 year later quarterbacks (as you americans say).

Truth is the first casualty of war. And as the war ends, the victors decide the fate of the defeated. I'm certain, one of the victors decide the fate of their comrades

It would have been nice to hear how loud the suppressed S&W M76 was during operation.

Max Otto no pretty much the french and the commonwealth totally won it. Do you have difficulty understanding simple concepts? Or were you trying (and failing dismally) to be all deep and meaningful and wanky?

the ottomans just slapped them back

They pretty much did until the US joined.

haneix they slapped US back too they are still a country you knoww

Łukasz pokoju you can't loose if you didn't fight right?

That includes me. I had a MAT-49 that I left behind, not knowing I could have taken it back home. RVN '70 - '71

We killed more of them then we lost. And we never surrendered so technically speaking not a loss. And only bc we had two dumb ass presidents being cautious instead of letting the marines do their jobs.

@@Justin-re5gb No, you did not surrender. You were kicked out.

@@carl_valentin educated yourself. We withdrew. Bc of stupid fuckin politicians.