History of WWI Primer 096: British Hotchkiss Portative MkI* Documentary
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Othais and Mae delve into the story of this WWI classic. Complete with history, function, and live fire demonstration.
C&Rsenal presents its WWI Primer series; covering the firearms of this historic conflict one at a time in honor of the centennial anniversary. Join us every other Tuesday!
Additional reading:
U.S. Infantry Weapons of the First World War
Bruce N. Canfield
The Belgian Army in the Great War: Portable Service Weapons
Pierre Lierneux
The Hotchkiss Company During the Great War
Pierre de la Gorce (probably)
Les Mitrailleuses Francaises
Jean Huon and Alain Barrellier
The Machine Gun, Vol 1
George M. Chinn
Navy Ordnance Activities: World War, 1917-1918
Government Report 1920
A Great munitions centre: Coventry's armaments and munitions industry 1914-1918
Batchelor, L.A.
Safe range space thanks to Triana Protection
Additional photos thanks to Rock Island Auction
Ammunition data thanks to DrakeGmbH
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@evilfuzzydoom 2 жыл бұрын
Othais: "I don't have a monitor but that seems pretty good" Gun: *is perfectly centred*
@leighneil 5 жыл бұрын
The professionalism and hard work that everyone at C&Rsenal puts into making these videos what they are, is really appreciated. Keep up the amazing work.
@BigBosley 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah. In addition to the quality content, I too appreciate the production value. One of the many reasons I support C&R and InRange/Forgotten Weapons thru Patreon. I've said it before, and will again: [They are] Simply the best firearms content on the internet.
@mattdickson2 5 жыл бұрын
C&Rsenal is one of the highest production quality YT channels out there as far as I've seen, and I love it. I have to agree with you Leigh Neil the work these guys and gals do is truly amazing and it is sincerely appreciated.
@stephenblakely9608 3 жыл бұрын
and so say all of us !
@danielcurtis1434 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah these will be used in firearm history class one day!!!
@44R0Ndin 5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like loading this thing is like trying to get a USB drive in the right way up the first time. It always takes 3 tries. Once, it's upside down. Twice, it's still upside down after you flipped it. Flip it again and try a third time, it goes right in.
@Candrsenal 5 жыл бұрын
accurate.
@mrmors1344 2 жыл бұрын
have you heard the story of the triangular usb? it is not a story its creators would tell. it is said that in beta testing it took up to 6 tries to get it plugged in correctly.
@Mildcat743 5 жыл бұрын
It took 40 minutes for Crozier to pop up. To be frank, I'm quite shocked.
@razor1uk610 5 жыл бұрын
[in the style of Monty Python] No one expects the American Crozier...
@OrangeAmped 5 жыл бұрын
The guinea pig or the historcal figure? Only 31:47 in right now
@dak4465 5 жыл бұрын
So was crozier
@mattdickson2 5 жыл бұрын
David Hynes the angry American moustache man not the adorable blueberry addicted guinea pig
@Tomartyr 3 жыл бұрын
Maxim flipped upside down = blessed Hotchkiss 1914 flipped upside down = cursed
@mollymcallister1671 5 жыл бұрын
I just wanna say I love the charging-handle/selector on the Hotchkiss Portative, it's like it's a gun with a gear-shift.
@mattdickson2 5 жыл бұрын
Molly MacAlister i can't unseen that now and I'm actually quite pleased with this
@madmarauder9925 5 жыл бұрын
where's the clutch?
@dak4465 5 жыл бұрын
Dude thats so accurate! Not the gun, the comment. I always liiked at it like a bolt action combined with an open bolt system
@mattdickson2 5 жыл бұрын
John Whittington it's a dual-clutch clearly lol
@mattdickson2 5 жыл бұрын
John Whittington also maybe the finger that moves the feed strip is technically the clutch?
@edm240b9 5 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: Springfield Armory 1913 fiscal reports state that they tested a Maxim silencer/suppressor on the Benet Mercie. Now imagine that thing along with the Warner Swasey scope...
@janwacawik7432 5 жыл бұрын
Imagine Doughboy spec-ops commandos hunting Pancho Villa armed with their tacticool scoped suppressed M1909s.
@alexandermarinin7036 5 жыл бұрын
In short barrel SOCOM variant
@eazy8579 4 жыл бұрын
Serious Steampunk Sheningans
@stephenkissinger4434 5 жыл бұрын
In addition to anti-aircraft use, the 14-round strip was also used in the Mark I and Mark II tank, because the 30 round strips were too awkward in the confines of an armored vehicle. The Mark IV switched to the Lewis Gun, while the Mark V used a Hotchkiss with semi-rigid belts made up of 3-round solid segments flexibly linked to each other (with a 6-round first segment to make it easier to feed the belt into the Hotchkiss).
@stephenkissinger4434 5 жыл бұрын
(and now that Othais said "we'll get to its real use at the end," I'm guessing I should have finished watching the episode before commenting)
@JackDo-lu8ux 5 жыл бұрын
Well on this gun there's no records of Korean fighters or Korean militaries of both sides using this system. BUT, since I am a gun nut, I will still drop an interesting Korean firearms history. Sometime after the liberation of the Korean peninsula and the south was temporarily ruled by the US, there was a domestically made bolt action rifle - here's the crazy part - that takes an en block clip. Of the Garad. There's not much written or researched on this gun because there weren't many even made nor surviving the Korean War. Though I believe there is one example in the South Korean Army Academy - though it is in a pretty bad shape. And one showed up in a recent auction by Rock Island Auction. Yeah, we even made some crazy WTF stuffs aside from the Note 7. Thanks for the amazing video! - Jack the Gun Nut from South Korea.
@Ashfielder 5 жыл бұрын
도형섭 any links to a picture?
@ArchieKeen1 5 жыл бұрын
Toby Wood www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/589056826233302424/ I found a picture in Pinterest... interesting gun seems to be a child of the m1903 and the garand
@ArchieKeen1 5 жыл бұрын
Toby Wood www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/lot-201-rare-possible-one-of-a-kind-korean-army-rifle-34177/ I found the original listing for you XD
@fastmongrel 5 жыл бұрын
Would this have been built on an ex Japanese or Chinese production line
@ArchieKeen1 5 жыл бұрын
fastmongrel I’m personally thinking that they had lots of parts lying around and decided to assemble them into a rifle as looking at the bayonet lug it looks like an arisaka, the bolt looks like an 03 Springfield, the magazine and stock looks like a garand, judging by how few are left it seems they ran out of parts quickly
@derekk.2263 4 жыл бұрын
I like how in Battlefield 1 you can shoulder fire this thing as easily as any rifle.
@philipbrening433 3 жыл бұрын
In Verdun you don't
@georgewhitworth9742 2 жыл бұрын
Tbf, the Battlefield series isn't meant to reflect what actually happens irl
@davitdavid7165 2 жыл бұрын
If you look at how ww1 was actually fought you quickly realise that any game that tries to be fun play will take a lot of liberties with realism.
@pempotfoy6206 11 ай бұрын
Developers assumed it was a light weapon, it's worth mentioning the other mgs in the game behave a bit more realistic
@matthayward7889 5 жыл бұрын
Heavy, but around the same as an FN MAG. Amazing that it had so few iterations. Thank you C&R!
@jankaas4504 5 жыл бұрын
@keith moore the dutch ones do lock, i think they ude the standard bi pod
@pkt1213 5 жыл бұрын
But the MAG just runs. We've got the weight down with the 240L. It does have some disadvantages over other 762 MGs but she just runs. Keep her oiled with something other than CLP.
@matthayward7889 5 жыл бұрын
pkt1213 Absolutely! I recall reading about the original trials of the FN MAG when it came into British service, and how (IIRC) The riveted construction meant that while other guns welded receivers could crack, MAGs could just be repaired and, essentially go on forever.
@pkt1213 5 жыл бұрын
@keith moore Never fired the HK. The 240 is not the ideal dismounted MG. It cannot be shoulder fired like the 60. It is on the heavy side with the 240L making it even more unbalanced. For reliability though, the 240 is vastly superior.
@davidbrennan660 5 жыл бұрын
Another moment of calm in a world gone mad.... Bless you’ll.
@dak4465 5 жыл бұрын
That sketch of the the project lightening hosts together all holding guns was really good
@raymondgill9796 5 жыл бұрын
Really interesting. I have been past the building in Coventry where these were made many times but will now think of its place in WW1 history whenever I pass. Many thanks for all the hard work you do.
@paulmanson253 5 жыл бұрын
FWIW,I read a history of MG engines from Morris Garages forward. Right into the classic period of the much beloved MGB,there was one threaded hole in the engine that was metric with a metric thread. The Hotchkiss machinery moved from France was purchased by the always frugal Lord Nuffield and used nonstop until it wore out beyond any economical repair. Thus driving generations of engine restorers wild,unless they find out about this land mine in every engine. The very bit(cannot remember which one) needed to be put back in,or else. So Whitworth plus metric. Quite a combination. Quite a story.
@Foche_T._Schitt 5 жыл бұрын
@31:20 A shoulder thing that goes up! LAWL!!!
@M.M.83-U 5 жыл бұрын
Great video! The way you explain the history of this early guns is fantastic!
@craigfurey942 5 жыл бұрын
You guys and Ian are the greatest things that could ever happen to firearms collecting. Thank you for doing what you do.
@robinpayne125 4 жыл бұрын
It's interesting the contrast between this and the "heavy" '14 alternative. The heavy version seems so robust and simple, it's so surprising how different the two are
@smackarel7 5 жыл бұрын
Wait its a French gun, with a SAFETY? Sacré bleu!
@arisukak 5 жыл бұрын
All of their automatic guns had safeties.
@ogang24 5 жыл бұрын
@@smackarel7 thats because its a hmg also why would that need a safety because it is not loaded when moved
@smackarel7 5 жыл бұрын
@@ogang24 I may be wrong but I don't think the HMG Hotchkiss had an automatic safety like the Vickers or Maxim guns. But I get your point it is pretty easy to unload a Hotchkiss and being open bolt you don't have to worry about a round being left in the chamber like the other two.
@jackandersen1262 5 жыл бұрын
Stephen Mackarel the Hotchkiss HMGs made for the French had the safety removed just for them.
@johnfisk811 5 жыл бұрын
Well done team. The Portative was the Indian Army standard LMG interwar and was only replaced by the Indian made Vickers-Berthier (son of the Berthier LMG in the episode) in the 1930's. Trivia: Voisin is pronounced VWAH-ZANN.
@dennisdenuto 5 жыл бұрын
Hi Othias! keep up the good work
@Candrsenal 5 жыл бұрын
thank
@ST-zm3lm 5 жыл бұрын
$1,190 for a Norinco SKS? I’d be laughing just like that.
@ericmckinley7985 Жыл бұрын
Update: with a bit of a stretch, that's really not far off in a market like today.
@jacktheaviator4938 8 ай бұрын
It is completely insane. I was in Hong Kong 91-94, there were Norinco brokers there trying to push their products to buyers from Africa and South America. They could offer their new manufacture AK variants cheaper than the eastern European republics could sell surplus. After a night of drinking, one of their reps told me they could still turn a profit selling at a 4£ unit price. That tells you everything you need to know about Norinco. There should be more than 4£ of steel in an AK, even at 1991 prices in China.
@acid6urns 5 ай бұрын
@@jacktheaviator4938norinco AKs are 100% solid guns man. they’re one of the most common variants on earth
@kamata93 2 ай бұрын
@@jacktheaviator4938Eastern European countries make one the best AKs out there.
@MilsurpMikeChannel 5 жыл бұрын
All I have to say is thumbs up. Another great episode!
@neilokeefe9647 5 жыл бұрын
the quality of these vids is constantly improving. keep up the good work guys.
@cheesenoodles8316 5 жыл бұрын
Big heavy and reliable....Hi Othias. You are one of the best too. Thanks for the Japanese reference. The last 5 secounds...Gun Broker...priceless.
@jon-paulfilkins7820 5 жыл бұрын
Portable, as in relative statement, like late 1980's early 1990's portable computers (size of a suitcase, you get strap rash from carrying the weight, needs mains power!).
@44R0Ndin 5 жыл бұрын
The Apple IIC was a "portable" computer in that regard, minus the monitor of course.
@michaelmorley9363 5 жыл бұрын
That pencil sketch of the three of you shooting from the hip is a masterpiece.
@stephenblakely9608 3 жыл бұрын
very well done - covered everything in excellent detail -
@611_hornet5 5 жыл бұрын
A shoulder thing that goes up? That means its extra deadly in California.
@dak4465 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah but not in REAL america am i right??!! California isnt real america its feux america
@FearlessLeader2001 5 жыл бұрын
@@dak4465 I take offense to this
@leppeppel 4 жыл бұрын
I watched this video a couple months ago and completely missed that joke the first time around. This is why I love deadpan humour.
@wikikomoto 5 жыл бұрын
"portable is a word" yes. yes it is
@johnd2058 4 жыл бұрын
Also, a word is portable.
@iceickl 5 жыл бұрын
was about to go to sleep, but then this appeared, I guess I'll have to stay up late
@Mongo63a 5 жыл бұрын
I recommend that you do not slowly squeeze the trigger on an open bolt machine gun. This will wear a sear in the gun more and can damage it. Open bolt guns should be on or off and not squeezed. You basically jerk the trigger on and release it abruptly when done.
@Old299dfk Жыл бұрын
- *Just gonna try and centre this thing.* - *Centres it perfectly.*
@kkloikok 7 ай бұрын
I love how locking the action open to load a strip changes the color of the butt stock.
@bcompany650 5 жыл бұрын
so light so compact and have ability to fire full auto in semi auto mod what a great gun
@borkwoof696 5 жыл бұрын
RED ARMY lol ”so light so compact“
@linksbro1 4 жыл бұрын
"It's got a shoulder thing that goes up" GOD HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS
@TopAce1945 5 жыл бұрын
Hope you get to the 1895 nagant revolver soon! Great videos!
@Barabel22 5 жыл бұрын
Glad I watched until the end, that was pretty funny.👍
@clongshanks5206 2 жыл бұрын
I like the music at 4:58 All in all, this video was a pleasure to watch
@AFV85 3 жыл бұрын
The story of the American employed at the French hotchkiss factory is on youtubes forgotten weapons channel! I've just watched it before seeing this pop up next but have noticed the feed strip being changed from top side up to bottom fed rounds! That was a hiccup move from the original French hotchkiss with hythe rounds falling out the strip feed being this way!
@ZGryphon 4 жыл бұрын
"Portable... is a word... you could use." It seems to be portable in the same sense as those early "portable" computers in the '80s that had an old-fashioned tube monitor built into them--a sufficiently motivated individual could _move_ one, but only in the sense that you'd move, say, a toolbox. When proper laptop-style portable computers with LCDs started appearing, those of us in the industry at the time started referring to the older type as "luggable" to distinguish them. :)
@richardsveum8452 5 жыл бұрын
That thing is a beast and definitely made to last.
@TheStewieOne 5 жыл бұрын
I want the U.S. version in 30-06.
@mattdickson2 5 жыл бұрын
TheStewieOne no you don't it has a horrible reputation for being unreliable
@planescaped 5 жыл бұрын
I'd just like a c96 or bergman :( Even though I wouldn't be able to shoot it. Scratch that, I want a shanxi.
@jackandersen1262 5 жыл бұрын
Matt Dickson the US’s problem with the Hotchkiss Portative had to do with training and low light usage, not actual reliability.
@anthonyhayes1267 5 жыл бұрын
@@dak4465 every sensible person does
@154Kilroy 5 жыл бұрын
If I were to guess, I think you have to watch the loading from the left side the whole time. Because all the indicators are over on the left, and you can see where you are guiding the strip. Just a guess. But maybe.
@CodeyMcewen 5 жыл бұрын
What a great day, fresh snow and a new C&Rsenal video. Will you be taking some time off once you've covered the small arms of the great war? Thanks again for all the work you do here.
@jackandersen1262 5 жыл бұрын
Hey! The artillery sound at 28:00 has been changed.
@ralphmills7322 2 жыл бұрын
I was surprised in your additional reading to find no mention of "Hatcher's Notebook" by Maj. Gen. Julian Hatcher (Ret.) 1947. Part one, chapter five "Notes on Machine Guns and Their Development" has both technical and anecdotal observations of the Benet-Mercie with an emphasis of gun maintenance and gunner training required in wake of the 1916 Pancho Villa raid.
@Ni999 4 жыл бұрын
Great video as always. _German aviatic (aviatic German)_ at 36:27 - had to look up that British adjective. Reminds me of when Othias interjected _marksmanry_ in a discussion with Ian.
@thibaudduhamel2581 4 жыл бұрын
He was talking about a german Aviatik spotter plane (that’s a company name)
@Ni999 4 жыл бұрын
@@thibaudduhamel2581 Many thanks! I didn't know anything about them. Time to learn more! 👍
@09stoneheart 5 жыл бұрын
How can this be Primer without patented plastic pokey thing?
@plasticglock 2 жыл бұрын
I'd watch 60 minutes of Mae any day. No glasses today is nice, but I kind of dig glasses. Hope you are having a great day.
@surfmonster2323 5 жыл бұрын
Sweet👏
@BigWillyG1000 5 жыл бұрын
Love to see you guys do the Browning heavy guns. Potato Digger and then the 1917.
@bullpupgaming708 5 жыл бұрын
I love that last scene with the Norinco SKS lol
@felixargyle8698 4 жыл бұрын
28:07 Gotta love that footage of drifting back in the 10s The 1910s, that is
@XKCDism 5 жыл бұрын
ace shooting by mae!
@svartderbi 5 жыл бұрын
Finally! I've been waiting for this one!
@mattdickson2 5 жыл бұрын
literally just realized what the "shoulder thing that goes up" is for! IT'S FOR SUPPORTING THE GUN WHILST YOUR OFF HAND APPLIES DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON THE WOODEN BIT ON THE STOCK TO DECREASE BOUNCE FROM RECOIL. I feel like a fool for not realizing that earlier. it also explains why such things are on other lmg's like the 1930's/40's BAR and the nambu lmg's.
@mattdickson2 5 жыл бұрын
like I can not express how silly I feel for only just now figuring that out
@davitdavid7165 Жыл бұрын
I never realised that. Don't be sp down on yourself
@XMarkxyz 5 жыл бұрын
Regarding machine gun inside out the bolt of the italian Fiat-revelli 1914 actually run outside of the frame
@flypaper2222 5 жыл бұрын
Captain Charles Chandler (with prototype Lewis Gun) and Lt Roy Kirtland in a Wright Model B Flyer after the first successful firing of a machine gun from an aeroplane in June 1912.
@Emdee5632 5 жыл бұрын
I'm not going to try to find out if it was already mentioned here, but I believe Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons also did an episode about this machine gun. Not on the Lightening series, but on his own channel , I think a couple of years ago. After taking it apart and putting it back again (which takes quite some time), he says that in the case there is ever going to be some Forgotten Weapons exam, it will be about the Hotchkiss Portative. WHAT a way to designing a ''light'' machine gun !! :-)
@brucemcnally3924 4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely admire the deeply researched documentaries you and Mae make. The one thing I dread is that seemingly out of place and dreary cello intro but that's my problem not yours. Great work guys.
@RodrigoFernandez-td9uk 5 жыл бұрын
Are you going to make a video about that Comblain on the wall?
@marcussilvabrombila309 4 жыл бұрын
in Brazil the Hotchkiss Portative were used by cavalry battalions and various northeastern military police between the 1920s and 1930s to combat cangaceiros.Sendo the caliber adopted in the Brazilian version of the 7mmMauser machine gun, then endowment caliber of military police and Brazilian military at the time.
@seangannon6081 7 ай бұрын
Forgotten Weapons just did an episode about a version of the Madsen that the Brazilian Police are still using today.
@IntroSpectre6x3 5 жыл бұрын
Favorite Othias is favorite.
@psp1921tsmg 5 жыл бұрын
I’m so glad to hear you say “shoulder thing that goes up” because that’s what I’ve called it in a couple videos and it’s such technical term ... Have you ever seen one of these in anything but 303? I know there’s the American version but outside a museum I’ve never seen one. I don’t think there’s even a video of the American version shooting.
@marknovak8255 5 жыл бұрын
It's called a shoulder rest, a shooters aid when prone. Keeps the butt in the pocket
@psp1921tsmg 5 жыл бұрын
Mark Novak lol. I’ll just call it the flip up thingy easier to remember
@DRNewcomb 5 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see a test of the cavalry model run as a crew-served weapon.
@itsnodawayitustabe5654 5 жыл бұрын
Wow that's an incredibly simple feed system
@jonwingfieldhill6143 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine lugging that weight into combat on foot it would be like carrying an extra man or 2 into battle before you even get to the fight.
@josephsatricleofevillanuev3194 5 жыл бұрын
Why didn't the Hotchkiss machine guns have *feed trays* or *magazine wells* to make inserting the feed-strips easier? Was the concept alien or just not developed yet? It would make for a faster and easier loading of the feed strips, right?
@kylebell7323 5 жыл бұрын
Needs more dakka
@puebespuebes8589 Жыл бұрын
Old mg where so cool looking firing full caliber rifle bullet at moderate rate, also the mg45 must have had a hell of a recoil, the basic top mag mg of the time where already heavy to carry so good luck for the guys carying the 45
@jacobmccandles1767 2 жыл бұрын
Looking at the Chaucaht, I can see how a general issue of shotguns may have provided better "walking fire".
@finmills3722 5 жыл бұрын
Any chance of the St. Etienne 1907 soon?
@brettnelson6710 Жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure that the developers for metro 2033 and metro last light looked at this Hotchkiss for inspiration for the bastard gun. The feed strip clip.....?, skeleton stock, and rearward located bolt, all feature on the bastard, just in a SMG/Carbine form. Pretty sick
@williamsager805 5 жыл бұрын
And by coincidence Forgotten Weapons todays just did a episode on a for sale a Hotchkiss 37mm ,captured in Cuba.
@overcastandhaze 2 жыл бұрын
If anyone happens to know, what are the receiver dimensions for the portative? Im finding absolutely no resources on it.
@SlavicCelery 3 жыл бұрын
Okay, just saying you guys didn't attempt the American, smacking the bottom of the button with the feed strip ~ @41:10. I'd be curious if that works well.
@rhvette 5 жыл бұрын
Man, maybe it's my eyes, but the lighting on that gun around the 5:00 mark is freaking me out. It looks like it's superimposed on the frame like an animation cel or something. I think it might be the extremely crisp lines on the underside of the receiver against Othais' shirt. Really cool looking, though.
@terrygibson9111 5 жыл бұрын
why don't you mount it on the front on the brass one
@BigBosley 5 жыл бұрын
13:40-14:00 "Where you can accidentally disassemble the gun." I LUL'd. One of the many reasons I love this nerdy gun stuff is little nuggets like that. Things that probably horrified our ancestors, we chuckle about now. Better to benefit from the advances in small arms design, than to be part of the process and have to stake your life on the equipment still in development.
@thetomatoking9714 5 жыл бұрын
Woo, another C&Rsenal video! Slightly off topic, but is there plans for WW2 C&Rsenal content in the feature in the same vain as the WW1 series?
@ST-zm3lm 5 жыл бұрын
I think they intend to once they wrap up the First World War
@thetomatoking9714 5 жыл бұрын
@@ST-zm3lm i hope they do plan to do it. WW1 has been unmatched in terms of information about some of the vaguest of guns, I can only imagine WW2.
@coltonsin64 5 жыл бұрын
@@thetomatoking9714 Small Arms of WWII Primer 174: MG42. 3 hours, 46 minutes. Calling it.
@44R0Ndin 5 жыл бұрын
@@coltonsin64 and 59 seconds.
@target844 5 жыл бұрын
The above the shoulder part of the stock might be had to use on flat ground but in a situation like a trench, AAA tripod or other uneven ground where your body is below it would be quite useful. The easy to find picture of indian troops with it behind sandbags and a trench but with a bipod instead of the tripod show the usages quite clear, I think tjat os was show in the project lightning series. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/IndianArmyMGCrewFlanders1914-15.jpg
@lordDenis16 5 жыл бұрын
You know if they only added a liever to the thingy that you have to push up every time before loading, and extend that near the trigger, so the gunner could have simply flick a finger. Thus simplfying the reloading process.
@lordDenis16 5 жыл бұрын
And then I saw that clip of the us soldier smacking that rod from the bottom with thie clip
@jameskellard5075 4 ай бұрын
Used in 1940 by British light anti aircraft regiments in France, who hadn't been equipped with the 40mm Bofors. It was also used as an LMG by the ad hoc units and Pioneers, who didn't have Bren or Lewis LMG's, but had been thrown into battle as infantry with nothing but rifles. It was much better than nothing.
@jelkel25 5 жыл бұрын
For a horrible second when you were telling us what was at the barrel end I thought you were going to say bayonet lug!
@ottovonbearsmark8876 5 жыл бұрын
It is British after all, gotta be able to charge gloriously with it 😉 🇬🇧
@voiceofraisin3778 5 жыл бұрын
@@ottovonbearsmark8876 A proper Gentleman on colonial campaign does not bayonet charge. Thats what the natives are for.
@duckman1741 5 жыл бұрын
Did you guys have difficulties with the ammo for this during P.L? Or was it converted to N ball?
@webtoedman 5 жыл бұрын
This one is British production, stamped .303 on the receiver.
@McNubbys 5 жыл бұрын
And Mae delivered many pews that day😁
@McDylanNuggets 5 жыл бұрын
What is the center post on the tripod for? It raises the elevation of the gun?
@marknovak8255 5 жыл бұрын
yes
@silverfingerthesilverstack5062 5 жыл бұрын
Jeeez I have bigger tripods for my cameras than that one, looks less stable than a good bipod, great vid as usual.
@craigstewart6194 4 жыл бұрын
I heard the 1 with the shoulder thing that goes down is 10× more deadly.
@jaxonbidinger4000 5 жыл бұрын
Is that a 12 pack of Norinco SKS For that price?
@tom_forsyth 5 жыл бұрын
47:32 - the word people used about the first "portable" computers is pretty appropriate here - this is "luggable".
@elpoderdelasgalaxias 5 жыл бұрын
Hotchkiss' Workout time !!
@derekbrogan4241 5 жыл бұрын
Looks like bed time is at 4:00am
@finaloption... 2 жыл бұрын
Soldier being assigned to a Hotchkiss crew: "I'm dead".
@swamppappy7745 5 жыл бұрын
I have a Japanese Sword from the Russo- Japanese war. My grandfather saved a Japanese boy from drowning in Sasebo harbor in 1945. The next day the boys father gave him the sword.
@neptune3569 5 жыл бұрын
Russian or Japanese?
@swamppappy7745 5 жыл бұрын
Neptune Japanese
@swamppappy7745 5 жыл бұрын
Similar to this one: www.ima-usa.com/products/original-russo-japanese-war-murato-army-officer-kyu-gunto-sword-with-ancient-signed-blade
@swamppappy7745 5 жыл бұрын
This sword has a peg holding the hilt to the blade so according to that description its a hand forged blade. The Japanese man that gave my grandfather the sword also named his second son after my grandfather. Which interestingly my grandfathers name was Phonsie. So, somewhere in Japan is a 78 or so aged man named Phonsie.
@voiceofraisin3778 5 жыл бұрын
@@swamppappy7745 wonder if he's got a leather jacket and a DA?
@jacobtarantino2249 5 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or did project lightning spoil the performance review, though in all fairness the focus is on the history
@idontwanttoputmyname403 5 жыл бұрын
How would it spoil it?
@kw9849 5 жыл бұрын
43:35 Ouch! I bet that really hurt!
@Yuzral 5 жыл бұрын
Wait a sec...did this gun inadvertantly invent the two/three-round burst mode?
@brianj.841 3 жыл бұрын
Yup.
@fien111 5 жыл бұрын
Hotchkiss Portative: The name alone is just casting shade all over the previous version Brought to you by the folks who gave you the Maxim Moveable and the Browning Not 200 Fucking Pounds ALSO 28:06 DEJU VU I HAVE BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE
Not A Pound For Air To Ground
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