pretty much the entire chinese military

Funny thing with the Galil: In order to prevent Magazines being used to open Bottled Beverages(Which in turn would cause damage to the magazines) They built the Galil A.R.M with a bottle opener at the Front hand guard.

Uniforms and weapons being copied makes a lot of sense, afterall why waste time creating a new design when you can just copy one you're familiar with

“This enraged everyone, who sued and punished them severely”

"Is this your original prototype plane?" "No, the other one is the mother Fokker"

The animation of looking down sight looks absolutely amazing.

Legend has it that the Japanese shipped a Harley Davidson back to Japan, disassembled it and copied it.

Fun fact: once quality control appeared for stens, they became sometimes equally as reliable as the Thompson (Bit exxagerated and only really in desert environments)

Factory owner: "We can copy sophisticated guns, but we haven't figured out a way to drive our conveyor belts with something other than a big mechanical finger"

pisses me off how much credit galil gets and nobody knows the rk62-95 line exists

If a design works, then it works for everyone who uses it. Technology has no loyalty to its inventor.

There is no moral advantage in disputing a country's right to copy, learn, or improve upon weapon designs. Firstly, it is hypocritical to blame China for copying weapon designs when it was China that invented gunpowder and the western world learned from them. Secondly, weapons are different from other patented items as they are used to kill people or threaten the lives of other countries. In this case, a country may do whatever it takes to gain access to the same weapons in order to maintain a balance and avoid external threats. Insisting that weapon designs have a moral high ground is simply foolish. When Genghis Khan slaughtered people in Europe, there was no moral high ground to prevent the spread of knight technology to other countries.

Gives the phrase ‘made in china’ a completely different meaning…

I loveee your animations. Keep them up!!

My father worked for the U.S. Army in the 1970s for the Foreign Science and Technology Center (FSTC) whose entire purpose was to investigate what military equipment other countries had and to either be prepared for it or to copy it as appropriate. I can't tell you the specific models involved as I was a kid at the time and didn't know those details, but they especially liked to showcase the example of a truck-deployable floating bridge whose basic design they had copied from the Soviets. Something like the Standard Ribbon Bridge or Improved Ribbon Bridge family, where trucks carrying pontoon bridges can quickly deploy multiple sections of floating bridges to cross a river. My father spent part of his time with the FSTC investigating foreign camouflage patterns as well, which ties in well with this video.

I really enjoyed the animation in this video. I can tell lots of work went into it

It not only happens now it happened during WW2 and probably WW1. But it was more with tanks and planes.

No such thing as a copycat. Adapt and overcome. Whoever comes out winning, that is all that matters.

Three B-29s were interned by the Soviets after they were forced to make emergency landings in the Soviet Union following bombing runs in Japan. At the Tushino air show in 1947, in full view of the Americans... Four B-29s flew overhead! The forth was a reverse engineered Tupolev-4

The fact that everything is meticulously drawn as accurately as possible even showing the cross that shall not be named in the German WWII factories brings great respect from me. It’s very important to me that we remember what happened no matter what.

The Chinese rifle from the thumbnail has a voice box that the creator yelled “BAM BAM BAM” into it, and it plays whenever the trigger is pulled.

The problem is not whether if those weapons are copied, the problem is China is capable of doing so with a much lower cost and other countries are desperate to do but incapable of doing so

The M1903 is an example of this. It was a direct copy of the Mauser Gewher 98. Mauser sued the United States and won.

In China, "copyright" means "right to copy".

The Germans developed a camo pattern during WWII using squares of color. It was mostly used on vehicles. In the late 70s the US 2nd ACR painted their vehicles using a version of this camo. It was superior to the swirly pattern that was typical for that time, but did make the unit easy to identify. Fast forward to this century, and the USMC (then the other branches) launched "digital" camo uniforms using this same pixelation type box pattern. It has pretty much swung back to other patterns now. As for the Howitzers that China copied from Russia. It may have been good to add in the American M109 in there as well. The form factor for all of them dates to WWII. As for the MG - these were such a significant jump that all major armies started work on a similar weapons platform. The M-60, while not a clone by any means, owes several head nods to the MG-42/44.

Noticed the Chinese military are now using a dot matrix pattern camo that the Americans where using and abandoned a number of years ago.

They forgot to mention who copied the Idea of making gun powder and paper 😂😂

Shamelessly "Papercliped" all our Equipment

if one thing can be "copied", which means it was not the cutting edge technic. Blaming someone the copycat can't help you win the war or battle, unique technics and weapons can.

sorry for being the nerd emoji right now but a little correction at 20:49 the synchronizing mechanism was not a french invention, but a romanian invention created by the romanian engineer George Constantinescu for the british R.A.F.

When you are a copycat, you are always a step behind. Imagine during a war and you are one step behind your opponent.

Fun fact .. during the gulf war American military men were accused of looking very familiar to the WW2 Germans based off their helmets . So they eventually altered them ... Also the M60 that was used in vietnam looks a bit similar to the Germans mg42. If you look closely, youll see what i mean . The Germans knew how to build

16:25 " excuse me? you're going to take _US_ to the hague? do i even need to say anything, you're literally *_GERMANY!_* "

The Sten series of SMG is probably the closest the British ever came to making an actual pipe gun.

Made in China stickers are made in Korea

when u copy your friends homework and u don't want your teacher to find out:

Mirage III is sorely missing from this video. Also, spot camo was used in WW2 by Waffen SS units.

China try not to steal ideas challenge (impossible)

The IWI Galil also came in 7.62X51mm NATO (not 7.62X39mm, which is what the AKs shot) versions, but they weren’t quite as common. Also, the 1:12 rifling twist simply means the bullet spins 1 revolution every 12 inches. The original XM16s all the way to the M16A1s did that, but starting with M16A2s and most the AR 15s of similar designs with 20” barrels, they had 1 in 7 inch revolution twists. The M4A1s and most the AR 15s of almost the same barrel length have 1 in 9 inch twists. In other words they’ll all shoot the same ammo, but the 1:7 and 1:9 twist do better with most kinds of ammo than the old 1:12s, that would cause certain kinds of ammo to be inaccurate or even lose stabilization.

“Made in china” stands up to it’s name, even in war production.

Pov: You are Simple History and you want to upload in time for the schedule but have no ideas so you just mash up some videos to make a marathon to keep up with the schedule.

The modern US military helmet and uniform looks a lot like the WWII German helmet and uniform. American copy from the German and the Chinese copy from American

Copies are deserved. Guess who made Gunpowder and who copied Gunpowder lol.

There are no points for originality in war. The only goals are to win and survive

13:47: The Chinese soldier is STILL grinning when his CQ-311's buttstock falls off... 😂😂😂😂

"can i copy your Homework?" "Just don't make it Obvious"

Everyone makes guns but few are designed for the soldier's ease of use.

This is usually not a result of industrial espionage, but reverse engineering.

Sometimes the copy is even better than the original 😅

I love how the American soldier in the thumbnail is getting progressively angrier in these Military Copycat videos. Lol

I love at 11:57 the M16 is ejecting cases towards the camera, without the ejection port, while pointing right? All sorts of messed up there.

I love my Norinco CQ-A.

Is this a re-upload? I feel like I’ve seen this same video before.

Barbarian: "Yolo! I invented a round wheel". American patriot: Hey slow down buddy. We already patented it and will expose the copies on KZfaq. 😂

As an engineer or speaking for a military designer, all you need is: hey at least it works!

I was expecting nothing but the Chinese military and I was not disappointed

In the modern era, it's totally inaccurate to say that similar-looking weapons are copying each other. Similar demands induce similar designs, and specific development level induces particular inventions. Most people who comment here have probably never realized that their countries directly procure foreign weapons instead of producing domestic ones because their countries are not even capable of making any decent products, no matter civil or military.

Germany was like: “So the British copy our MP18? Let’s copy their STEN gun.”

what a coincidence i just today checked out information on the Galil

Germany had over-engineered weapons and equipments back in ww2, probably the best and most high-tech but their leadership scwd them over.

You should have mentioned the 1903 Springfield rifle being copied from the Mauser.

imagine the classmate who copied ur homework ends up scoring higher in exams than u.

Fun fact the gerät Potsdam even had english markings on it despite being produced by mauser

This is nothing new. Every country tries to reverse engineer whatever they think the best kit is. But not every country is capable of reproducing the items. Either good security to limit massive data leaks or not being able to reproduce quality products.

No sense in reinventing a "wheel" if it works.

The Thompson was/is so freakin rad. Just need a sharp dressing handsome man and a sweet 1930s era black car with the whitewall tires and real suicide doors. Yes, give me the fantasy.

Every military my entire career... wait thats my uniform. Change of uniform. 3 years go by.. hey... wait!

Ak-47 does well in dust, fal doesn’t Fal does well on mud, ak doesn’t Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

The cartoon is priceless 😂👍

" I don't know what it's called, all I know is the sound it makes when It Lies!!! "

Don't forget the American Alexander Hamilton. He proposed to steal technologies from the UK and hence made the US great.

The United States pays for the R&D, China hits the print button.

Imagine if the Grease gun came in 7.62 Tokarev

I believe the creator of the sten told his superiors he could make his guns ‘quick, cheap, or good. Pick two’

as a manufacturing engineer that had to reverse engineer things from many other companies and patents, but still be allowed (in USA), u can easily test hardness and material type even without blueprints. modern tech has came a far way (XRF) for that as well.

Is this a re-upload??? I could've sworn you guys already made this video???

Why did yall animate the sten as a close bolt weapon?

21:13 I love it how the captions say "fucker's" Instead of Fokker's

Take an Olive Drab base, add some dark brown type (dark grey shadowed) various sized "brush strokes" with a few random flecks of darker green, with a small amount of tan and Coyote brown "digital type stripes" You get a useful uniform the basic coloring of Browns, and Greens. In the military I was told Black isn't natural in nature, unless it's Shadow and shadows move, so you don't want black.

There is no such thing as shamless in war. You're in it to win it whatever the cost. The winner writes the history while the loser disappears from the world or surrenders.

For the American vehicles, one the helicopter was designed by the same person who designed the original and for the tank it was WWI everything was new. Have to start somewhere

The sten fires from an open bolt. Animation shows it firing closed bolt.

I got a laugh out of the stereotype of the guys in the American gun store. Such a stereotype. LOL! 🤣

Is this a re-upload?

Doesn't the sten fire from open bolt?

The biggest negative of a copycat is that you're never the best. Can't copy top secret stuff that hasn't been released.

Actually Canadian shooters liked Chinese clone AR-15s and Type-97's(5.56 NATO version of Type 95 rifle) and the Clone MP5. There's people purchased a pre-full auto ban of AR-15 and MP5 clones here for civilian use. Like man, they work so good.

Infamous Norinco? WTF does that come from?

I don’t know why countries get pissed off about this, if you send your troops into a warzone and an enemy wins the battle, don’t find it surprising when they take the guns for themselves

"You can Copy my work, just don't make it obvious"

The topic of the synchronized machine gun is more complicated that someone just copying it from the other one. There have been a German patent (but no prototype) and a bit later a French patent and non-functionable prototype. At the mentioned state of The Great War, the French Army were using Morane-Saulnier planes with bullet deflectors on the propellers. When Garros' plane was captured and examined by the German Army, they tried to mimic the deflectors, but were unsuccessful. They however could get the concept in the patent on a synchronised machine gun running. The fact that the "Fokker plague" was so problematic to the Allied shows, that they could not come up with a comparable solution for quite a while. Although records do not explain, who in the Fokker team came exactly how and when back to the patent solution, the dispute after the war on unauthorised use of the German patent support that this patent was used. The idea of Fokker plainly copying the Morane-Saulnier technology is based on the assumption, that the French top pilot was flying on duty, in the war, against enemy aircrafts, with a non-functioning prototype. Clear records, however, are not available.

The MP3008 is how the sten probably should’ve been made as

Don't forget about the Canadians CADPAT camouflage design. It came out in the 1990s and basically set the stage for all digital camo. So any digital camo was kind of a copycat in that way.

I wouldnt say copying is shameless. We all copy from each other. Thats how we learn and create even better models and ideas. Information written on a piece of paper that is later read by someone is also "copying". But we usually consider it copying when its in our competition (unwanted copying) . The wanted copying , we call it "teaching and learning"

For the person doing the animations: The sten and mp 3008 are both open bolt machine guns

My dad was a crewman in a Bradley tank during desert storm and was issued a m3 grease gun while the commander got a nice new mp5

To be honest, the first thing that came to my mind was "Made in China".. I'm sorry 😑

It's not about how they copy it, it's how the quality is

Khaki usually works better than pattern camouflage for comcealmemt in a desert combat environment.

Unfortunately, what you said may include all countries. Everyone plagiarizes and imitates each other. When you specifically accuse China of plagiarism and imitation, take a look at how many other people's works you have plagiarized in your own country,