Krešimir: Croatia's Truly Insane Grenade Launcher

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10 ай бұрын

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The Kresimir is honestly the most bonkers weapon I have come across in a long while. Made by IM Metall in Croatia at the beginning of the Croatian Homeland War circa 1991, this is a semiautomatic grenade launcher. Most grenade launchers fire a big cartridge with an explosive warhead, but not this thing. Instead, it uses a 5-round magazine of M50 hand grenades with percussion fuses. A second magazine holds 7.62x39mm grenade-launching blank cartridges. Pulling the trigger drops two strikers in succession; first one to ignite the hand grenade fuse, and then one to fire the launching cartridge. What could possibly go wrong?
When you do fire, the recoil cycles the whole barrel and bolt backwards like a long recoil action, although it appears to be blowback and not locked. This loaded a fresh grenade in the barrel and leaves it ready to fire again with the next trigger pull. We don't know how many of these insane creations were actually made, but I have multiple reports of their actual wartime use from veterans of the conflict.
Thanks to the Sisak Municipal Museum for giving me access to film this!
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@londonjolly9174 10 ай бұрын

A dud AK round, forgetting the blank rounds, forgetting the tiny magazine, dropping/smacking the big magazine, short-stroking the action, pulling just the first "stage" of the trigger... The sheer number of ways this thing blows the operator up is comical, Elbonian Grenadiers need these immediately!

@johnpalmer5131 10 ай бұрын

yes, definitely Elbonian… reminds me of the Rube Goldberg cartoons of old.

@krissteel4074 10 ай бұрын

"where is the safety" Your instructor points to an area about 100 metres away 🏃‍♂

@sir0herrbatka 10 ай бұрын

Failure to feed blank round, something blocking the second firing pin…

@PeTTs0n88 10 ай бұрын

Heck just forgetting the lock on the magazine when done loading it would be... precarious - 5 live hand grenades (albeit not primed... yet) flying out seems like a pretty bad thing. 😅

@Darwinist 10 ай бұрын

What civil war does to a mfer...

@Kizron_Kizronson 10 ай бұрын

Company rep: "This is a hand grenade launcher" Customer: "I think you meant to say grenade launcher" Company rep: "I know what I said."

@emilynelson5985 10 ай бұрын

When I heard him clarify that they are in fact live hand grenades I heard a voice calling out “No!”, only to realize it was my own.

@jeffturnbull9661 10 ай бұрын

Company rep, "here, hold these pins"

@drops2cents260 10 ай бұрын

To be continued... *Customer:* "Hey, $COMPANYREP, you know how you could turn this thing into an actually effective and useful weapon?" *Company rep:* "How?" *Customer:* "Sell it to the Serbs."

@BuGBurnout 10 ай бұрын

Company rep: DID I STUTTER?

@jadrankodolovcak627 10 ай бұрын

There was no company, there was ppl in garage doing weapons, because we didnt have it, nobody was throwing rain of weapons on us. But I must admit it this is crazy one.

@SynchronizorVideos 10 ай бұрын

Getting a dud round in a normal gun: 1) Keep the gun pointed in a safe direction 2) Wait a short time to make sure it's not a hangfire 3) Ensure the magazine is seated 4) Cycle the action to eject the bad round and chamber a fresh one 5) Continue shooting Getting a dud round in a Krešimir: 1) Yeet the gun as far as you can 2) Run like hell in the opposite direction

@V4nh4K3ttu 10 ай бұрын

3) Hope that barrel ends up pointing away from you, in case it is just slow primer.

@Thrashmetal2130 10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@sebastijanglozinic8630 10 ай бұрын

Its like a Warhammer 40k Plasma gun.

@1337penguinman 10 ай бұрын

I suspect the function of the blank cartridge striker being able to be cycled regardless of the grenade actually being launched is due to this particular quirk of the weapon system. In other words, if the grenade doesn't launch keep pulling that trigger and hopefully you just had a light strike.

@moe5346 10 ай бұрын

@@1337penguinman u playing a numbers game here i wanna play with feelings my guy

@Axquirix 10 ай бұрын

It feels like if Games Workshop ever decide that Orks need a grenade launcher in their usual style of "technically works but by insane means and will probably kill you", this is their reference point.

@qdaniele97 10 ай бұрын

Just needs to be painted bright yellow

@djdrack4681 6 ай бұрын

@@qdaniele97 Tonk-Truck pattern yellow

@DataJager 4 ай бұрын

Pretty sure you'd want it in Blue for luck. You're gonna want all the luck you can have with this thing @@qdaniele97

@sir0herrbatka 10 ай бұрын

Krešimir is a psychological weapon. When the enemy sees our weapon, he will know that we are truly fearless.

@_indig0 10 ай бұрын

Our genius... It's almost frightening

@MrJest2 10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@COCOniTOOOOOO 10 ай бұрын

Or complete idiots.

@phillgizmo8934 10 ай бұрын

Wouldn't the enemy be targeting the granade mag on top?

@Sub-If-You-Are-Against-Zionism 10 ай бұрын

For when your actually a suicide bomber but larping as a grenadier lol

@ZeroneAngel 10 ай бұрын

About 15 years ago I worked at a restaurant and there was a Croatian dude there working as a line cook. He used to tell war stories. Some of them we chosed to believe, some less so. One of the ones I presonally thought was bogus was his story about a, as he put it, "pistol that shot handgranades". I think there might have been something lost in translation in his story but...damn...who knew?

@mikel1998100 10 ай бұрын

@@Paul_SergeyevMany hobos are wicked smart. They have just been dealt a bad hand, or drugs, or both. Shame really, how many smart and capable people are rotting away as we speak.

@JosephKano 10 ай бұрын

I take it you are now re-evaluating some of those stories.

@aidanacebo9529 10 ай бұрын

@@Paul_Sergeyev there were a grand total of 400-600 special forces guys active in Vietnam. so far, I've met 3,000 of them. seems like every homeless man in the US over age 65 was some sort of operator. now, whether that means he operates a can in front of his cardboard mansion, or was actual SF, I leave that up to your discretion.

@aidanacebo9529 10 ай бұрын

@@Paul_Sergeyev that doesn't matter. I was giving an anecdote.

@petarbarukcic5706 10 ай бұрын

He wasn't lying about that, they used everything they could to launch hand grandes as far as possible. My father used a k98 with a added on tuba like muzzle device to launch hand grandes

@terryreed9134 10 ай бұрын

This is by far the most elaborate pipe bomb I have ever seen

@bodan1196 Ай бұрын

Could it be called a _semi-functional_ pipe bomb?

@TheRealAmusableBman 5 ай бұрын

The fact that this clusterfuck of safety violations got used in actual combat both scares and amuses me to no end.

@GameModTech 2 ай бұрын

well the homeland war was basically steal and make shit as much as you can so every engineer with a tool shed could get in on the action

@japanesehitler 2 ай бұрын

It really is the type of weapon that is made after a war started and is discontinued as soon as the war is over, when you have the time and resources to design something who’s operating instructions does not include the line “ remove the safety pin from five hand grenade and load them into the magazine”.

@buckinthetree1233 10 ай бұрын

When you see a man carrying that, you know he's serious. He got dressed that morning knowing somebody was going to die, and he doesn't care who it's going to be.

@Dell-ol6hb 10 ай бұрын

Yea I see a guy carrying that into battle I’m deserting immediately, especially if we’re on the same side

@rrolf71 10 ай бұрын

The scariest bit is the mind of the creator who apparently put a lot of effort, engineering skill and ingenuity to design this... thing.

@Dutch_Prepper 10 ай бұрын

... including himself

@ivanklaric2221 7 ай бұрын

@@rrolf71😮

@djdrack4681 6 ай бұрын

His philosophy: there's a fine line between killer and the killed...that fine line being the crimped wall of the blank cartridge. In wolf steel case he does not trust

@george2113 10 ай бұрын

I rarely celebrate the deactivation of a firearm, but in this case I'm going to make an exception.

@JoshuaNicoll 10 ай бұрын

It's not so much de-activating a firearm as diffusing an IED

@earlahmer5528 10 ай бұрын

In this case deactivation is for the best.

@hackerx7329 10 ай бұрын

@@thecommissaruk Now it is a REALLY big frag grenade. Pull the trigger and then throw the whole gun and duck.

@andersjjensen 10 ай бұрын

@@thecommissaruk You actually have a really good point. If you load this thing correctly and fire it you have a handheld pipebomb that makes normal pipe bombs look like cherry bombs.

@george2113 10 ай бұрын

@@thecommissaruk if it had been crushed by bulldozer, it wouldn't be a warning to future generations.

@a.p.2356 10 ай бұрын

The weirdest part of this to me is how well made it seems to be. The concept and design is utterly bugfuck insane, but the execution is genuinely impressive.

@yourmother9359 10 ай бұрын

well, when you get attacked by yesterdays friends and you have litteraly no weapons- you then proceed to curl up and cry. we did what we had to do, to repel the rats and monsters.

@markiobook8639 10 ай бұрын

It is incredibly clever. Insane, mad, bonkers, utterly *does the lip twiddling thing* but clever. It's like a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang version of a grenade lopper? I expect Dick van Dyke to burst into song and dance firing it.

@a.p.2356 10 ай бұрын

@@yourmother9359 It's just that you usually don't see last ditch weapons of last resort made with so much attention to detail. The idea is something you'd only do if you were truly desperate, but the build quality doesn't speak to someone frantically banging these out with limited resources. It's complex, clearly pretty well developed, and surprisingly well made for something you'd only use if you were out of good options.

@yourmother9359 10 ай бұрын

@@a.p.2356 You do realize that every single great weapon( or any great thing, in that matter) was made out of necessity, not monetary greed? Just because it was made competently it does not mean it was not only resort for us. If you do not know, in their infinite wisdom the eu and unprofor made huge sanctions toward attacked sides( Albania, Croatia and BIH) and not so much toward serbia. They blabber a lot, not so good with actions. So we needed to make it with what we had. Also, if you want to see some trully over the top weapon systems, how about rolling anti-ship( yes, submersible bomb) weapon down the hill to kill some serbs? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9Z6dsmWztbaeYU.html

@chetmanley220 10 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly. It’s not an open bolt smg haphazardly welded together in a shed. Someone handed an engineer an insane set of coke-fueled specifications and he executed it to perfection.

@bryangrote8781 10 ай бұрын

Finally, a weapon has been invented in which there is no need to clear a jam/misfire! Weapon self-clears in only 5 seconds. Also takes only 5 seconds to clear a trench of all troops within a 10 meter radius. Only downside is the troops cleared from the trench are your own, including yourself as the operator of the weapon.

@alicebrown6215 10 ай бұрын

Approaching the enemy trench as a grenadier, only to chuck the whole thing in as one big cluster bomb, that doesn't immediately look like a cluster bomb

@dominikajducic5858 10 ай бұрын

A small price to pay for kaboom

@AreGeeBee 10 ай бұрын

Ahh, but imagine how badass you'd feel every time you actually used it correctly! Assuming you survive the first attempt

@Psilomuscimol 3 ай бұрын

@@alicebrown6215. Would the primers on the other grenades in the magazine be activated?

@Psilomuscimol 3 ай бұрын

Like by the force of the other explosion?

@gagemason3865 10 ай бұрын

An even worse case scenario is if it fails to launch the grenade, blows up the launcher but *doesn't* detonate the rest of the grenades in the magazine, but instead flings said remaining IMPACT ACTIVATED FUZED live grenades in multiple directions. Turning it into the worlds smallest cluster bomb.

@johnbaker1256 10 ай бұрын

Seems like there's a whole list of worse case scenarios.

@KR-hg8be 10 ай бұрын

Hear me out,we mount 3 of these together on a vehicle mount with pan or hopper magazines. It's like the worlds worst 40mm machine gun.

@JCdental 10 ай бұрын

Turning YOU into the worlds smallest cluster bomb

@kowell 10 ай бұрын

New plan, we "accidentaly" airdrop them behind ennemy lines and let the ennemy try to use them...

@IAZAIN 10 ай бұрын

I think the gun is just a disguise, for a timed charge you would throw into a room, after purposely malfunctioning it, if you manage to load it safely

@MicraHakkinen 10 ай бұрын

So what is the procedure for a misfire? - There is none, this launcher is so reliable, nobody has ever reported a misfire!

@qdaniele97 10 ай бұрын

Throw the whole thing toward enemy lines and take cover waiting for the world smallest cluster bomb to go off 😅

@yellowprime8491 10 ай бұрын

Truly a weapon of terror: For the Operator, the Target, and everyone in the area.

@Valnjes 7 ай бұрын

I used to knew the dude that designed this. The prototype he mad was with an Ak47 like gun. Rest in Peace Misel, known as Slovenac. Great dude, great dad, great mechanic, motorcycle driver, and most of all, a great friend. PS - When the Serb Army attacked Petrinja, Misel used this for scarring the enemy. And on the military radio you could hear the Serbian screaming "Run away, the crazy Ustase are throwing grenades 500 meters" "Bezite bre, lude ustase bacaju bombe 500 metara"

@vetdoc35 6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 Thats a cool Radiocall 😂😂😂

@willywonka7812 6 ай бұрын

Ustase. Literal Nazis

@Zmaj5S26 6 ай бұрын

@Valnjes jel ima negdje na internetu taj snimak?

@kuhar5165 6 ай бұрын

brate ja sam iz Petrinje, kako mu je bilo puno ime

@andreasmartin7942 5 ай бұрын

They must have been extremely impressed by their enemies' athletic capabilities.

@Seraphus87 10 ай бұрын

This is definitely a "destructive device". What does this device destroy? Yes.

@jonathanbaer9409 10 ай бұрын

But I need to have one... Imagine the poor soul working at the ATF reading the forms as I try to register it as ANY OTHER WEAPON!

@douglasduda9826 10 ай бұрын

@@jonathanbaer9409 Its for launching water balloons nothing to see here!

@captainsewerrat 10 ай бұрын

As Seen on TV Salesman "What does it destroy? What DOESN'T it destroy? Cindy, bring out the targets for our audience! Let me show you."

@fire304 10 ай бұрын

Yes, operator included... No an operator doesn't come with it, I meant the destruction part.

@mark_williamh1340 10 ай бұрын

The most effective way to use this to defeat enemy soldiers would probably be to issue it to enemy soldiers.

@geodkyt 10 ай бұрын

All Hail Elbonia! 🎉

@liberatumplox625 10 ай бұрын

It reads like snark but it's the literal truth.

@WalkaCrookedLine 10 ай бұрын

Top magazine off with a snap cap demo round, pull trigger, throw weapon at enemy. Easy-peasy.

@Cyclopeantreegiant 10 ай бұрын

@@liberatumplox625the little red bugs that explode?

@onii-chandaisuki5710 10 ай бұрын

Without a manual.

@Swindle1984 10 ай бұрын

"We need a semi-auto grenade launcher, fast." "Sure. What are we working with, 30mm? 40mm?" "Hand." "... Josip, pass the slivovitz and a big hammer, we've got work to do."

@mariocroatia9321 7 ай бұрын

LOL

@unlearningcommunism4742 10 ай бұрын

Just to add some more context. In Yugoslavian WWII mythology, there was a special place reserved for brave, skillful Partisans called bombaši (grenadiers) who were literally tossing grenades into bunkers, after sneaking and finding impossible angles. They were featured in pretty much every Partisan War movie, thus being able to throw a grenade was the most manly, the most bravely thing imaginable. Having this would turn you into an instant Giga Chad.

@alicebrown6215 10 ай бұрын

Until something goes wrong and it turns you into spaghetti sauce, anyway

@drdelewded 10 ай бұрын

Except these death traps were from the 90s..

@matijakukuruzovic3175 10 ай бұрын

@@drdelewdedthings remain in pop culture, thats not your pop culture but it is something that people who fought in Croatia and Bosnia know and remember

@unlearningcommunism4742 10 ай бұрын

Wow, 194 Likes?! Ok, in that case I must give you the link to probably the most Chuck-Norris-Like Yugoslavian movie: The Grenadiers (Bombaši). A typical mythological scene can be seen at 26 min Have fun! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/preYiMl_nqjRZmg.html

@oan1249 10 ай бұрын

figures you'd need that level of convincing to get anywhere near, let alone fire that thing

@chapiit08 10 ай бұрын

The guy who first tried the first working prototype deserves a monument.

@alankertz5951 10 ай бұрын

A tombstone is technically a monument.

@chapiit08 10 ай бұрын

@@alankertz5951 Yes! Lol!

@billsmith346 10 ай бұрын

That or a straitjacket.

@target844 10 ай бұрын

I would test-fire the gun. Just tie it down to a stand and pull the trigger with a line when you are in a safe location. You would not use a life-hand grenade for initial testing., even testing it the grenade will detonate can be done with a dummy granite body and a live fuze, the explosion will not be that large if just the fuze goes off. Later you can rest it tied down with live grenades. I would not hold it and fire it with real live grenades but that is not needed for gun development.

@chapiit08 10 ай бұрын

@@target844 You didn't get it, did you...?

@therideneverends1697 10 ай бұрын

"Oh i get it, they use the impact fuse grenades so that they wont be primed until they are fired and hit something, thats a clever safety mechanism" Ian: "So as you can see theres a striker infront of the chamber "Oh no"

@jeffkeith637 10 ай бұрын

hahahaha exact same thought processes. Why, oh why, did they think priming the grenade before it left the barrel was a good idea? They could've had a guy with a tennis racket by the muzzle who hit the grenade and primed it on it's way downrange.

@PeTTs0n88 10 ай бұрын

They aren't even impact fuzed - it's a timed fuze with impact priming. 😅

@DIEGhostfish 10 ай бұрын

@@PeTTs0n88Let the inpact be the landing even if it bounces around a bit after

@bmxerkrantz 10 ай бұрын

@@DIEGhostfishnah... click..one one thousand, two one thousand, three one, second click.. grenade goes off right about the time it lands... or its a quick fuse and you never get to the second click.

@MGlBlaze 10 ай бұрын

@@bmxerkrantz Or the cartridge that is meant to throw the grenade away from you is a dud, and now you don't have any time to get away from the weapon before the whole thing blows up in your face.

@marsguyphil 10 ай бұрын

Before today I was conflicted on which is more dangerous, the weapon that fires when you don't want it to, and the weapon that doesn't fire when you absolutely need it to. Now I know the truth. Kresimir is the most dangerous weapon, whether it works or not. Thank you, Ian, for clearing this up.

@birdmanoo0 10 ай бұрын

Imagine giving directions on how to operate this weapon to a guy in about to be deployed. "Ok, Jimmy. This is your new Grenade Launcher." "Now to load it you pull the pins on 5 grenades and carefully load it into this spring loaded magazine." "No, Jimmy your other grenades" "Then you load up your AK magazine" "No, Jimmy you use your blanks" "And then you aim and shoot" "No, Jimmy you have to make sure both firing pins go off" "If you ever get a misfire... We will tell your family you went out like a man" "Any questions?" "No Jimmy you can't just throw them"

@extrastuff9463 10 ай бұрын

That's a good one, not letting the grenades jump out of the magazine prior to getting it on the launcher is missing though. I'm sure Jimmy needs instructions too on how to prevent accidents, maybe just have him reload away from the squad whenever possible.

@bluemoondiadochi 9 ай бұрын

guys half that stupid dont survive past elementary school in the Balkans.

@tomislavb5760 7 ай бұрын

I have never met a Croatian named Jimmy lol

@birdmanoo0 7 ай бұрын

@@tomislavb5760 lol, to be fair I have never met a Croatian before.

@tomislavb5760 7 ай бұрын

Ha ha@@birdmanoo0

@MythicMagus 10 ай бұрын

"Put live hand grenades into the magazine" is a phrase I never expected to hear. "Insane" indeed. Thanks for sharing this terrifying weapon with us Ian.

@johnathansaegal3156 10 ай бұрын

As an expert grenadier veteran of the US Army, hearing "The magazine is loaded with five live grenades all with their pins removed" sends chills down my spine. That magazine is sheet metal. Sheet metal bends and contorts in ways milled steel does not. To think there are live grenades w/o their pins and nothing but a contact primer fuse within this sheet metal container makes the pucker-factor tighten up to the atomic level just hearing this.

@andersjjensen 10 ай бұрын

Not with the pins removed. This is for impact activated hand grenades. They don't have pins or spoons.This is the kind no sane army would have in the first place. If you have those on your webbing and you take a hard tumble you convert your "stash" into a suicide vest. WWII taught us to not ever do that again...

@JohnSmith-tr9us 10 ай бұрын

Now that you put it that way....

@gala385 10 ай бұрын

In the begginng of war, we had only hunter rifles. Federal army was under serb control. So we tried to survive...

@ultratorrent 10 ай бұрын

I think a system that arms the grenade as it is traveling down the barrel would be quite a bit better 😬 the whole [activate hand grenade fuse before attempting to fire blank] function is a lot to process.

@carlosromanikaoss3063 10 ай бұрын

@@ultratorrentiusung a tenis racket to throw grenades would have probably been safer....

@unlearningcommunism4742 10 ай бұрын

Croats have a sweet spot for hand-grenade-thrower-ing-things since the Battle of Vukovar. According to an anecdote, Croats were able to somehow toss them about a hundred yards and some officer from the Yugoslav Army was complaining on walkie-talkie that "Drunken Ustasha on drugs are tossing grenades like mad!". In reality, they were using WWI improvised tech and the device entered the legend as "Drunken Ustasha" (Pijani Ustaša)

@krumpirko8888gaming 10 ай бұрын

In reality it was tromblone mine

@markiobook8639 10 ай бұрын

I am simply lost for words at this contraption. I thought the Vietnamese, then the Iraqi's had cornered the market on improvised weapons. But nope, everytime we delve into Croatian military we find this crazy thing or that crazy thing and now this the A4 intercontinental V2 Vengeance rocket of fabri-cobbling. And the scary thing is it probably worked like a swiss watch.

@aaabb4432 9 ай бұрын

True story, my father who was in war saw the thumbnail for this video and immediately started laughing "oh look it's Pijani Ustaša". On the more serious side, this name for a gun gives you a nice insight into serbian way of thinking. When they saw grenades flying from a great distance, they didnt think "oh Croats must have engineered something", instead they thought that the only rational explanation was "Croats must be drunk or on drugs". Pure projection from what they saw at their own army and society. Speaks volumes about serbs. Very sad that we had to spend almost one whole miserable century with them in one state.

@unlearningcommunism4742 9 ай бұрын

@aaabb4432 although being an ethnic Setb, I must say that you are right. During the 90's, under the influence of his wife, Milosevic's propaganda was seriously flirting with - magic, and all the daily newspapers had pages devoted to dubious experts. There was a parade of experts in bio-energy-something, stories about secret weapons made by Tesla, and even a legit military unit that was supposedly able to fight with their mind against aircrafts (in 1999). In that context, explanation that involves superhuman powers was very logical

@osa-mv4iv 9 ай бұрын

@@krumpirko8888gamingits not tromblon mine its hand granade lanch from semi automatic rifle called papovka that have divice on end of barell to fire hande granade

@sauceyguitarist 10 ай бұрын

Here I was thinking it would use the force of the blank firing to actually prime the grenade, because that makes sense from a safety standpoint, right? Hearing "two distinct strikers" filled my soul with an indescribable dread.

@Bosniarat24 10 ай бұрын

As a fomer 203 gunner, good god, that thing is terrifying. What happens if it short strokes? Its a 5 Grenade landmine.

@DjDolHaus86 10 ай бұрын

"Hello, my name is Pvt. Perisic and I will be the designated squad wipe. Let's hope I checked my ammo and my weapon is in serviceable condition!"

@tomrobb9974 10 ай бұрын

you got that right ! I was thinking "What could possibly go wrong ?"

@WasLostButNowAmFound 10 ай бұрын

Allah Snackbar mode 😂

@mattm340 10 ай бұрын

I wouldn't want to use this grenade launcher, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to share a foxhole with whoever does!

@ricardokowalski1579 10 ай бұрын

A HANDHELD land mine. 😊

@herknorth8691 10 ай бұрын

When I was a kid I knew what hand grenades were and I assumed that a grenade launcher somehow fired them. This is the closest thing to my childhood mental image of a grenade launcher that I've yet heard of.

@benjaminrabbit659 10 ай бұрын

This is not the only grenade launcher to use hand grenades. Like the Japanese knee mortar could fire hand grenades, USA had an adapter to for hand grenades that was used from ww2 into Vietnam, Russian RGD-5 grenades could be used as rifle grenades... Edit: wondering if the M50 was designed to be used as a rifle grenade like the RGD-5 was

@skid_Demon 5 ай бұрын

"Safety lever".. safety seems like a strong word to use around this thing

@evanplanas 10 ай бұрын

Never let safety get in the way of a good design.

@gilmour6754 10 ай бұрын

I'm sure when the guy who designed this thing showed up to the military they just let him build this because they were worried he'd go back to the drawing board and come up with something even more insane.

@JD-tn5lz 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's usually better to give a lunatic something to do... but maybe not in this case😁

@00andJoe 10 ай бұрын

And now you know why Leonard of Quirm remains on the Patrician's payroll...

@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274 10 ай бұрын

hahaha yeah 😂

@captainbube1217 10 ай бұрын

bro this was the design with most safety systems in the balkan. the guy before just handed them primed granate and slingshot.

@johnanon6938 10 ай бұрын

Reminds of that time Archchancellor Ridcully investigated the "musical pipes" lever in his... ah lets say, in a bathroom made by bloody stupid Johnson. 🧙‍♂

@capnstewy55 10 ай бұрын

Not only would I not want to use it. I wouldn't want to be in a platoon with a guy that had one.

@tompiper9276 10 ай бұрын

You'd swap it for the flame thrower, because you'd be safer.

@CommodoreFan64 10 ай бұрын

@@tompiper9276I think a belt made of old school TNT sticks, and a box of hotel matches would be safer, and more effective than this crazy thing!!

@PP266 10 ай бұрын

Every day in the autumn of 1991 in the central news of the Croatian state TV you had some dr. Krieger working for Croatian Armed Forces showing something like this. Only God knows how we stopped Yugoslav tanks and APCs with these crazy things, but we actually did.

@lionichov 10 ай бұрын

Ovo oružje je vrlo opasno, vojnici koji su ovo koristili stvarno se nisu ničega bojali.

@DinkoPerisic 10 ай бұрын

Greetings from Croatia! 🇭🇷This is the first time we see this weapon. I participated in the Homeland War, but this is a big surprise! An interesting concept and something original. In war, people get great ideas and innovations in the absence of conventional weapons! Praise for presenting Croatian weapons.🇭🇷😉

@comradesam3382 10 ай бұрын

Svaka čast svakomu tko se usudio ovo koristiti, izgleda opasnije za korisnika nego za protivnika

@owensthilaire8189 10 ай бұрын

I worked for a couple years with a Croat dude. He was the only guy I worked with that spooked me in paint ball. Long live Croatia! From a very sad Canadian guy that may have to die with his boots on.

@markbonnell7922 10 ай бұрын

@@owensthilaire8189the hell is happening in Canada if I may ask

@owensthilaire8189 10 ай бұрын

@@markbonnell7922 The state media that has told us for two generations or more that, " Canada is the best place to live " has done a job on most people that Herr Goebbels would envy. So we now find our selves divided and ripe for conquest by a puppet of Klaus and his WEF. A few provinces are resisting but the natural tendency of people here to do as they are told is crushing us.

@Evanspar 10 ай бұрын

@@markbonnell7922 they passed a law that makes it illegal to take off your boots

@capt.bart.roberts4975 10 ай бұрын

That has to be the most dangerous weapon I've seen in a very long life, and I've fired a live PIAT!

@aker1993 10 ай бұрын

I rather choose a PIAT then thise abomination.

@ToanNguyen-ev3rr 10 ай бұрын

True, they can just give the soldier 5 grenade to throw instead of this overcomplicated SAW trap

@tomaspabon2484 10 ай бұрын

A PIAT is a paragon of user safety compared to this

@alangordon3283 10 ай бұрын

Of course you have.

@ZGryphon 10 ай бұрын

I love that this weapon is _so bizarre_ that even Ian, whose whole purpose in this enterprise is to know and employ the technical terms for everything, can do no better to describe part of its function than "... engage that lock on top, so that you don't have all five grenades go _kawoing_ out of the... thing." :)

@MrGrimsmith 10 ай бұрын

Something I learned a *long* time ago was that the KISS principle exists for a reason and *NOT* to tempt Murphy. This thing is giving Murphy the double bird then dropping its trousers and mooning him for good measure! That is absolutely *terrifying*.

@Xiones11 10 ай бұрын

Imagine the trial and error development of this gun. The creator was literally insane.

@atropa6053 10 ай бұрын

i imagine the creator was drunk as hell and giggling while making the prototype

@davorbatinic7594 7 ай бұрын

There was no development, there was no testing and improvements, there was no time for that. Just an idea, and workshop, and soon as guys in the workshop figure it out how to put it together to work, weapon was ready to deploy on the battle with live hand grenades.

@perocigla4425 4 ай бұрын

@@atropa6053 🤣🤣

@jacobthompson-bu9ru 4 ай бұрын

Thats the thing, there wasnt

@trolleriffic 2 ай бұрын

I think in this case it would only involve a trial, because any error would bring the development process to a rather spectacular halt. Kudos to its designer though, for having the skill to pull it off as well as the faith that it would be good enough to actually use.

@flupetepak 10 ай бұрын

Maybe it's interesting to note that the name Krešimir translated to english means approximately "he who sparkles peace". Eternal peace in the case of this contraption.

@anoninunen 10 ай бұрын

"If I was a bad peacemaker, I wouldn't be standing here discussing it with you now would I?"

@doctorgeneric8070 10 ай бұрын

Certainly known for sparkling pieces over a 30 yard area.

@bodyno3158 10 ай бұрын

Most cursed weapons are just aesthetically unpleasing, or mechanically stupid, but this, this one is outright terrifying. Engineers at IM Metal surely didn't make a war-worthy grenade launcher, but they created a prime example of how to build suspension and terror: a foreseeable terrible fate plus a healthy dose of uncertainty, sprinkle powerlessness all over it, then the formula is complete.

@jonathanbaer9409 10 ай бұрын

trained recruits forced to shoulder that thing and do a mag dump would create the worlds MOST BADASS FEARLESS WARRIORS going into combat for the first time would seem like just another day!

@peaceoutbruh7085 10 ай бұрын

@@jonathanbaer9409 imagine almost being blown to bits in fucking training because your grenade launcher was made by satan

@FlashHawk4 9 ай бұрын

Add to that the knowledge that you're going up against an actual military, with an entire arsenal of normal-people weapons, all of which are designed to efficiently and reliably kill the target instead of the user. Unlike yours.

@WBtimhawk 10 ай бұрын

The cool thing if I understand it correctly is that you can cook the grenade inside the chamber by pushing the trigger past the 1st stage then waiting the desired amount of time then pushing past the 2nd stage. A talented and crazy shooter could get the grenade to airburst right where he wants them.

@skrape99 9 ай бұрын

The image that evokes, of an operator having used this weapon for long enough to develop that combination of familiarity and hubris that would lead to him using that technique, is genuinely terrifying. Imagine yourself stuck next to "that guy" when you realize what he's doing.

@frigid_metal9545 8 ай бұрын

no way, irl loose cannon tf2

@franbenac4441 10 ай бұрын

As a proud citizen of Sisak I am overjoyed that you have taken the effort to visit my hometown and made a video. Hope you had a great time 😁

@sealpiercing8476 10 ай бұрын

This is a tool to motivate soldiers in PT. If you can throw a grenade as far as the launcher, you don't have to use the launcher.

@Ghost_Of_SAS 10 ай бұрын

So let me get this straight: this stores five live hand grenades inside a stamped metal box next to your face, then uses a crank to move one even closer to your face, then one half trigger pull to prime and start cooking the grenade, then a full trigger pull to use the gas from a blank AK round to propel a body not really made for aerodynamics into the air to what one hopes is a safe distance from the shooter. And if for some reason the AK round jams the grenade explodes in your face.

@TimperialBroadcastingAgency 10 ай бұрын

That's about the long and short of it, yeah.

@Bacteriophagebs 10 ай бұрын

You have five seconds after the click to chuck the gun at the enemy and take cover, though. Seems safe enough to me! Personally, I'd rather use this gun then be anywhere near someone else using it. One guy here in the comments said you should drop it and run if it doesn't fire.

@jonathanbaer9409 10 ай бұрын

MAD MAX level batshit insane...I WANT ONE...if only to chuck smoke grenades during peacetime

@drengr811 10 ай бұрын

Croatians are just built different.

@theowainwright7406 10 ай бұрын

And if you drop the magazine or gun in the right way you can set off the impact fuse

@76boneman 10 ай бұрын

Let me give you some context here. Imagine that your city or a town is under attack by a far superior equipped enemy. I'm talking tanks, heavy artillery, well armed infantry. As for defenders, they have a few hunting riffles and hearts big as houses. Some guys at a local hinge factory or a car mechanical shop decide to take their part. One has basic mechanical engineering knowledge, the other is a decent welder, third one is a machinist. They try to create something that will help the boys on the front line. It might be an old van converted into an army vehicle by welding a steel plates on it or Krešimir or something third. They don't have resources, they don't have time, just will and human ingenuity. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a mark 1 iron man suit built in a cave. We all know how that turned out.

@equilakos1601 10 ай бұрын

This needs more upvotes.

@kahlzun 10 ай бұрын

There are few forces stronger or more powerful than a man with a shed.

@chucksneed1264 10 ай бұрын

it didn't turn out because iron man isn't real

@caboosemacs 10 ай бұрын

So like current Myanmar, & the Tatmadaw genocide-ing farmers, who are using 3d printed guns to fight back? PSR did a video on it.

@adrianodepino5746 10 ай бұрын

Agree but croatia can produce the helion ar that thing requires hi tech as usa or germany

@johanesgo8096 10 ай бұрын

One interesting thing, in the beginning, the Croats made a part that was put on the Ak47 and so they would fire grenades, it later got the name(pijani ustaša) drunk Croat, because at the beginning the Serbs were so confused, how the Croats could throw hand grenades so far that they reached the only realistic conclusion: Croats get so drunk that this is the reason for such strength P.S. if you google - pijani ustaša- you will get those technical drawings on how to make them

@mrkrabs2153 10 ай бұрын

Ustaša doesn't mean Croat it means the Croatian fascist Soldier from the second world war ..

@TurboDog73TX 10 ай бұрын

That's just about the most terrifying weapon I've seen.. Not for the damage to enemies, but from the almost infinite ways it seems like it could kill the operator, and everyone around them!

@iododendron3416 10 ай бұрын

You leave those for the enemy to find, you don't even need to booby trap them.

@kentvesser9484 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's like you would need to dig a grenade sump large enough to drop the whole gun into before you use it, so you can put a couple feet of earth between you and the earth-shattering kaboom when it goes wrong.

@mrt2this607 10 ай бұрын

@@iododendron3416 yes, and load the ak mag with actual cartridges instead of blanks. Maybe some api rounds?

@iododendron3416 10 ай бұрын

@@mrt2this607 but only load three or so

@VladamireD 10 ай бұрын

Misload the grenade mag? You're fucked. Load live rounds instead of blanks? You're fucked. Fail cocking the weapon? You're fucked. Blank doesn't fire? You're fucked. Weapon jams? You're fucked. Mag jams? You're fucked. Standing next to the soldier armed with this weapon and any of the above happens? You're fucked.

@lordarathres 10 ай бұрын

I am not surprised at all that a fellow Croatian made this. It is just crazy, I don't know how else to describe shoving 5 live hand grenades into a cornucopia of shrapnel if ANYTHING slightly goes wrong, wow.

@greengoblin876 10 ай бұрын

Well you're not gonna make a grenade launcher that fires decommissioned or dud grenades are you Einstein..

@Bosniarat24 10 ай бұрын

I mean, technically, they are not live as the cap hasnt been hit, but yeah, no, thank you either way.

@tombogan03884 10 ай бұрын

Nothing with this thing ever goes "slightly" wrong. LOL

@matthewspencer5086 10 ай бұрын

Perhaps it was intended to be left in the open for Serb militias to capture?

@Nugire 10 ай бұрын

@@Bosniarat24 Well, imagine what happens when you pull the trigger, 1st bolt primes the grenade, bit 2nd bolt missfires (for whatever reason, like failiure to feed, bad blanks or maybe just forgot to reload the blanks). You now have a big bulk of explosive shrapnel in your hands, going off in about 5 seconds, not to mention the second or two you need to realise something is going down. And as another bonus, you might have up to 4 more grenades in that mag, ready to go cluster munitions on anyone nearby.

@davidn4956 4 ай бұрын

This gun is what everyone thought a "grenade launcher" was when they were 11 years old.

@Ivan-xq7xh 10 ай бұрын

Pozdrav Sisku i pozdrav iz moje HRVATSKE 🇭🇷✌️🇭🇷

@Ratzfourtyfour 10 ай бұрын

'Most bonkers' Ian always knows the correct technical terms.

@rahbaralhaq 10 ай бұрын

This looks so much like a Star Wars gun that I would totally believe Ian if he said it was a prop form the original trilogy.

@NoOneWantsToSubToMe. 10 ай бұрын

Holy crap thats so true

@jamesallred460 10 ай бұрын

Ah, you beat me to it! I totally thought the exact same thing! Edit: also, I'd give your comment a like but it's at 66 right now so I don't want to cause order 66, lol

@Bubba-Fudd-bulletsmith 10 ай бұрын

No gun looks like that in star wars

@c1ph3rpunk 10 ай бұрын

Even in the Star Wars universe the Stormtroopers saw it and said “oh hells no”.

@animalxINSTINCT89 10 ай бұрын

A weapon that is so likely to harm the user doesn't belong in stormtrooper legions, it belongs in the Imperial Guard!

@josip-anic-333 9 ай бұрын

Greetings from Croatia, your channel rules

@protaeya 10 ай бұрын

This is something that Croteam should put in the next Serious Sam game, you need to have some serious balls/problems to run this in the field.

@pirig-gal 10 ай бұрын

Oh, great. If the blank misfires, you basically have two options: either you try to re-strike it so that it launches the (already primed) grenade away from you, wasting precious seconds if it doesn't, OR, you drop the launcher and run as far away as you can before this contraption detonates up to 5 hand grenades.

@robertoroberto9798 10 ай бұрын

That’s Elbonian guns for you.

@StormBringare 10 ай бұрын

I bet that the double-action mechanism that potentially could fire a hard primer was considered a safety feature.

@robertkeaney9905 10 ай бұрын

Or you throw the Launcher, and potentially take out your enemy with the force of five hand grenades. In a maneuver that the Elbonian Grenadiers have labeled the Krešimir toss. Does it always kill the enemy, no. Does it always kill some one, yes. It is the only hand held weapon within the Elbonian military with a 100% lethality rate.

@jimmiller5600 10 ай бұрын

Throw it like a huge WW2 German stick grenade. Enemy will scatter.

@wesleythomas7125 10 ай бұрын

Nah, grab it by the barrel and yeet the whole mass of congealed derrangement at the enemy.

@paulmurgatroyd6372 10 ай бұрын

That moment when the M79 seems like a fantastic thing to carry instead.

@lostpony4885 10 ай бұрын

I especially like the hand welding on this. Its designer was cognizant of the need to produce it with compact tools, really great sort of engineering to see up close. Thanks for a really great video!

@encross8058 6 ай бұрын

yeah

@aaronleverton4221 10 ай бұрын

I get the feeling that most normal infantry would take one look at that and tell the private carrying it that he would have the luxury of a one-man foxhole.

@TheLadderman 10 ай бұрын

This gun is actually terrifying.

@BMW_MAN 10 ай бұрын

yes kamikaze weapons

@jimmiller5600 10 ай бұрын

For everyone.

@henry_tsai 10 ай бұрын

The even more terrifying part: it's a production weapon, not a prototype.

@PsihoKekec 10 ай бұрын

So they were using M50 hand grenades with the old fuses and 7,62x39 rifle grenade cartridges? That's so gloriously insane.

@_yerf 10 ай бұрын

Can't believe you came to my town, insane to think that a KZfaqr I watch came to a small Croatian town like mine

@benhall4162 5 ай бұрын

I just realised the grenade magazine on this would make a really good improvised trap

@capq57 10 ай бұрын

I have to admit, I'm impressed. Not only by the clever engineering, but by the sheer number of ways it could go horribly wrong.

@capq57 10 ай бұрын

@@Armored_Muskrat I bet they drew straws to decide who got stuck with the grenade gun.

@skeetsmcgrew3282 10 ай бұрын

Idk if it's that clever tbh. It's a glorified potato gun. Literal children build these

@russellfrancis813 10 ай бұрын

Just like the titan sub?

@magni5648 9 ай бұрын

When your weapon has a real risk of accidentally cluster-bombing the room you're in, you got something truly special. In the short bus sense of "special".

@zagrepcanin82 8 ай бұрын

I have never heard Krešo failed and somebody died

@marcomarcon5802 10 ай бұрын

Dear God, I remember all the safety precautions drilled into us on how to handle hand grenades when I was in the army and then I see this...😬

@emilynelson5985 10 ай бұрын

Now add to that the number number of Italian Red Devils that have been floating around that part of Europe since the end of the Second World War…

@owllymannstein7113 10 ай бұрын

Eastern Europe has a very different view on safety than the west.

@mikeo8890 10 ай бұрын

Holding a live hand grenade really gets my heart rate up.

@marcomarcon5802 10 ай бұрын

@@mikeo8890 Totally

@chash7335 10 ай бұрын

During my hand grenade training we were practicing air bursts with inert grenades but live fuses. I let the spoon fly and the fuse went off immediately. Some clown had placed a quick fuse, not a 5 second delay fuse, in the grenade.

@Dondolini94 10 ай бұрын

If you get close enough, you can drop the blanks, pull the trigger and transform this thing in a deadly bundle grenade. It's the safest way to use it that comes to my mind after learning how it functions.

@johncashwell1024 10 ай бұрын

These trips to Eastern Europe that Ian has embarked on have been a gold mine of "forgotten wepons"!

@TheWtfnonamez 10 ай бұрын

Its genius when you think about it. Chance of activating the fuse of the grenade: 100% Chance that the blank will fire correctly and launch the grenade: Not 100% I think I would rather practise my throwing skills tbh

@PeTTs0n88 10 ай бұрын

It *could* be a dud grenade too, to be fair! 😅 The chance having a dud grenade in the case of a misfire of the blank/barrel obstruction/stoppage though... I don't like those odds.

@jimmiller5600 10 ай бұрын

This is what happens if football, not baseball, is your national sport.

@theblobconsumes4859 10 ай бұрын

@@jimmiller5600 Which football? Answer wisely.

@COCOniTOOOOOO 10 ай бұрын

@@jimmiller5600 Should have designed a drop kick grenade.

@dewd471 10 ай бұрын

@@theblobconsumes4859 both.

@TurboTwinky28 10 ай бұрын

as a warhammer 40k fan, I feel like this is sort of an irl version of the plasma weapons. Every time you fire, theres a notably significant chance a weapon malfunction could just outright kill you

@robertmudry4242 10 ай бұрын

I see your point, but clearly, that is some ork level shenanigans.

@allmightyweakling4167 10 ай бұрын

Well then. it's the best if we all believe it's gonna work as intended.

@borjaslamic 10 ай бұрын

@@robertmudry4242 Well, it's the balkans, not much difference. Source: live there.

@sujimayne 10 ай бұрын

Actually, that is only if you overcharge :)

@markiobook8639 10 ай бұрын

But your death for the Emperor shall not be in vain.

@johneden2033 10 ай бұрын

Ian we need way more information about this thing. It's completely insane. Track down someone from HS Produkt and ask them how it even made it past the daydream phase of the development process.

@TimperialBroadcastingAgency 10 ай бұрын

Pretty sure I can guess the answer: "There was a war on and we didn't have anti-personnel rockets or proper grenade launchers. This was the next best thing we could bang out in our literal garage industry at the time."

@johneden2033 10 ай бұрын

@@TimperialBroadcastingAgency Yeah that's the daydream phase. The actual implementation is insane.

@mariodrv 10 ай бұрын

500 years of war with the turks will do that to a people. :)

@hmanthegamer 10 ай бұрын

Without the grenade magazine it looks like some sort of Star Wars heavy blaster

@matthewspencer5086 10 ай бұрын

Dear Ian. Should the opportunity of a shooting video for this firearm ever arise, I would earnestly recommend that you remember what you did with the long piece of string used in the video where you test-fired a wrongly-assembled Ross rifle. In WW2, some British merchant ships and steam trawlers were equipped with an anti-aircraft grenade launcher that used the de-icing _steam hose_ to propel cocoa tins with standard Mills Bombs in them. For some reason, the grenade exploding inside the tin made a puff of black smoke which looked with a real anti-aircraft shell bursting and some German aircraft were seen to break off their attacks! PS: Perhaps find the man who deactivated the weapon and buy him a nice lunch?

@sinisatrlin840 10 ай бұрын

I remember early 90s in Croatia (i was 14 in 1990), every machine shop did all it could for war effort. Many new things where produced and many conversions and repairs where done. At the time Croatia had enormous machining, casting and stamping potential, it was third in shippbuilding (right behind Japan and Korea by tonnage) and it produced combines, turbines, trains and large diesel engines, but never had weapons production excerpt tank building/assembly. If Ian could get his hands on RT-20, that would be a nice episode. Interesting weapon.

@tihomirrasperic 10 ай бұрын

interesting thing The Yugoslav Army left American M115 203 mm howitzer in Varaždin, they only removed the sights, because without them it is unusable The Ruđer Bošković Institute created new sights and a program for a laptop for targeting almost overnight so you entered the coordinates of where you are in the program and then the coordinates of the targets the first 203 mm shell fell within 10 meters of the target

@sinisatrlin840 10 ай бұрын

@@tihomirrasperic If you fire to the north you miss to the left, if you fire to the south, you miss to the right beacouse of earth rotation. 203mm spents lots of time traveling and earth rotating must be taken in equation. 120mm mortar targeting software was also developed with full line of light and heavy mortars.

@tihomirrasperic 10 ай бұрын

@@sinisatrlin840 as far as I heard, the program made corrections for humidity and wind in the air so the first grenade was on the "target" and then in Action "Storm" they sent a drone that sent a live broadcast of the target And when the first shells fell, the battalion commander was watching the shells falling on TV

@DrBunnyMedicinal 10 ай бұрын

THIS thing, right here, does an amazing job of conveying just how desperate Croatian and her people were at the start of the Homeland War. You'd need to be 100% nuts or **REALLY** desperate to even go near that thing while it was loaded!

@sinisatrlin840 10 ай бұрын

@@DrBunnyMedicinal APCs where build on 3 axle tipper chassis, armoured trains where build and used. I am raised in familly of engeneers and machinists. I saw AK bolts being made from large allen (inbus) wrenches in several operations in 3 eight hour shifts. Using allen spanners to make production fast and to avoid heat treatment. Reverse engeneering 120mm mortars was turned into serial production in 5 days, large scale production. This thing is just a little detail in our war effort. Ian could dedicate whole series on just this subject.

@drivemecloser 10 ай бұрын

You elevate the front sight to let the postman know you have outgoing mail.

@TemperedMedia 4 ай бұрын

This is one weapon where I needed to watch it twice just to get a full picture of how truly insane it is.

@5chr4pn3ll 10 ай бұрын

I thought it was just another submachine gun, then I was surprised to learn it was a grenade launcher, THEN I learned that is was a hand-grenade launcher and was terrified.

@markiobook8639 10 ай бұрын

It's genius. I love it.

@hrvojehajdic2729 10 ай бұрын

Cro Homeland War trivia. Cro forces used several ingenious ways to increase the throwing distance of hand granates. First reason is lack of any weapons heavier than rifle-grenades. And second reason is pure psy ops. Opposing forces would regularly report presence of "fiersome doped up Croats" throwing ordinary hand granates several 100 m.

@unlearningcommunism4742 10 ай бұрын

I just left the comment about that (although I'm a Serb, but the story is still too good not to be told). During the Battle of Vukovar, Yugoslavian officer was screaming in walkie-talkie that "God damn Drunken Ustashe are tossing grenades with superhuman strength". So the name stuck "Drunken Ustasha" / Pijani Ustaša Ima blizu Pariza jedna dobra kafana-muzej, selo se zove Poitiers (kafana Little Tommy). Iskopavao čovek sve živo, decenijama, od flašica za sokove preko leka za prevenciju polnih bolesti (nije radio) do delova prvih tenkova. Medju svim tim stvarima ima da se vide i originalne Pijane Ustaše i neki potpuno suludi minobacači za rovove. Ako te put nanese u Pariz - znaš gde da ideš. Pored je i najveći krater na svetu. Jedno 3-4 autobusa u prečniku. Nadrealan.

@hrvojehajdic2729 10 ай бұрын

@@unlearningcommunism4742 Hvala na informaciji. Čudni su putevi - nije isključeno da ću i popit koju u Little Tommyu...😄

@unlearningcommunism4742 10 ай бұрын

@@hrvojehajdic2729 Živeo sam u Francuskoj i Americi, volim istoriju, i uvek sam gledao ko ima "od naših" (ne gledam mikro-geografiju), ili na spomeniku ili medju odlikovanima. Iznenadio bi se koliko je naših dobilo Medalju Časti, Američku, ili koliko ih se borilo i poginulo u francuskoj uniformi.

@whyjnot420 4 ай бұрын

This thing scares me as much as it fascinates me.

@ZergleJerk 10 ай бұрын

This is Warhammer 40K Ork levels of scary-funny. Anybody who carried one of these for a long period of time was obviously insane, or had a name similar to "Chad Thundercock"

@spugbgobparewants 10 ай бұрын

Imagine you forget to load the blank magazine all the way during combat, and on your last grenade the striker hits the grenade but there is no blank to send it away from you before it explodes 😅

@Matt-xc6sp 10 ай бұрын

He didn’t mention a magazine safety 💀

@Tunkkis 10 ай бұрын

Make sure you're in a position to dump your weapon into a safe-ish place in case of blank failure.

@greengoblin876 10 ай бұрын

@@Matt-xc6sp5:40 , listen again greenhorn ... you failed this test

@thijsd 10 ай бұрын

tossing a weapon is a lot harder than tossing a grenade

@nekobyoneko444 10 ай бұрын

Semi auto grenade rifle certainly wasn't something I expected to see this morning. Also love the fact the cartridge has an "oh shit" safety and can be rehit, hopefully actually launching the grenade.

@PeTTs0n88 10 ай бұрын

If that AK magazine jams... well, you've got a few seconds to move very quickly as far away from the thing as possible. 😅

@Mishn0 10 ай бұрын

*Click...sssssssssss...click......click......CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK....rapidly receding steps.....BOOOOM

@geodkyt 10 ай бұрын

If you take the time to actually work the malfuncfion (as opposed to "immediately chuck the heavy thing behind heavy cover and wait for debris to stop falling"), you're almost certainly gonna die. 😂

@Mishn0 10 ай бұрын

@@geodkyt I hope the first step in the operations manual for it is: Step 1: Dig a Kresimir shaped hole a least one meter deep in front of the firing point.

@scottmacgregor3444 10 ай бұрын

Semi auto HAND grenade rifle.

@lithobreak3812 10 ай бұрын

A lot of people when they first hear about or see granade launchers assume they fire hand granades (including myself when i was little), and indeed in some games they work like that, but until now i could not have imagined that that falacy had been brought to life long ago

@oli1764 10 ай бұрын

This is absolutely bonkers. The amount of ways you and your buddies could be turned into a fine red mist is astounding. War makes people do what they must to survive, but Jesus christ the aforementioned survival element feels considerably dimished when your near one of these. 10/10 content.

@skillz7119 10 ай бұрын

"cram 5 live hand grenades into it..." this can only end well

@parrotraiser6541 10 ай бұрын

Aside from the various explosive scenarios some of the other comments describe, the various powerful springs in that contraption offer a choice of ways to lose fingers. Notice how cautious Ian was when demonstrating the internals. Clearly the only modicum of safety precautions would be to fire from behind a substantial wall, over which the thing could be dropped if the sequence of operating noises wasn't exactly right.

@PeTTs0n88 10 ай бұрын

Was thinking that or a double trench or something, you just dropping the thing in the forward trench and taking cover in the rear one. 😅

@jeroen79 10 ай бұрын

@@PeTTs0n88 Or a small catapult to toss the whole thing towards the enemy.

@jmalmsten 10 ай бұрын

It's less a gun, more a booby trap

@CharlieTheNerd91 10 ай бұрын

This is extremely scary, imagine having a mishap while loading it, and ejecting 5 live grenades into your general vicinity.

@killazaawl 10 ай бұрын

just say sorry

@FlashHawk4 9 ай бұрын

@@killazaawl"my bad, guys". The worst part is that the fuses on the grenades are juuust long enough for people to realize what happened, and have time left over to call you a fucking moron before all of you die.

@Coastal_Cruzer 10 ай бұрын

This gives me an idea for an interesting game mechanic. A grenade launcher where the first click (or first half of trigger pull) cooks the grenade and the second click (or second half) actually fires it, and failure to fire before the fuse runs out will just instantly kill/down the user

@Supercohboy 10 ай бұрын

This has to be the most dangerous infantry weapon design I've ever seen, wow. The existence of this design alone is incredibly entertaining, great video as always.

@aznmarty256 10 ай бұрын

I want to say it's a step up from just using a slingshot to lob a grenade, but to be honest, I'd trust the slingshot more than I trust this thing.

@benlewis4241 9 ай бұрын

@@aznmarty256 The grenade throwing slingshots used in WW1 were probability more dangerous the Leach trench catapult was very easy to fumble and the West Spring Gun liked eating fingers (including those of Captain West himself)

@zeljkozac2753 7 ай бұрын

To win the war you need to have balls kids 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@TrimeshSZ 4 ай бұрын

I don't know - the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle with it's "Projectile, Atomic, Supercaliber 279mm XM388" ammo has to right up there as as crazy dangerous small arm.

@PastorOfMuppets91 10 ай бұрын

Pretty much everything you said about this gun is terrifying. If I was handed one, I'd probably reload the magazines in a sump with a trench nearby, and I'd make an escape plan before shooting it in case a blank misfires. What a fantastic device.

@mr.techaky7655 10 ай бұрын

In case of misfire, huck launcher in direction of enemy....

@teddy3657 4 ай бұрын

And the award for most terrifying misfire goes to

@maracCRO 9 ай бұрын

Just saying Hi from Sisak Croatia, a town where this was filmed. Glad to see you were around :)

@MrJest2 10 ай бұрын

The very definition of "desperate times call for desperate measures"....

@ot0m0t0 10 ай бұрын

Welcome to Croatia! I heard about this things during the war, never seen them though. Good old balkan engineering. Oh and perfect pronounciation of "Krešimir" :)

@mrbigshoworelse 10 ай бұрын

You fire this exclusively on top of a building or from a trench, such that when you DO get a dud, you can simply toss it and duck.

@thehuscarl4835 10 ай бұрын

When an experienced Potato Gun Engineer goes to war, he builds THIS!

@BasilRathbone-ny3st 10 ай бұрын

Truly magic. Only Ian could find the connections of Croatia, gas operated, long stroke, semi auto, grenade launcher, and Farquhar

@danpettersson4671 10 ай бұрын

My first reaction was "live grenades"? My second was to check the date to see if KZfaq was showing me an April's fool's video. Thank you for showing us that thing, it was scary and awesome!

@Kyle-sr6jm 10 ай бұрын

Bullets don't have any friends, but grenades have nothing but enemies once the pin is out.

@pederschultz3283 10 ай бұрын

It is a totally crazy design, that the time fuze of the grenade is ignited before the blank cartridge is fired. given the risk of a misfire of the blank. And does the grenade in the barrel detonate it could cause a chainreaction of the grenades in the magazine.

@qdaniele97 10 ай бұрын

The best thing is it could also NOT cause a chain reaction of the magazine and just fling around the 5 live impact primed granades.