You better scream "rattle em boys" when you shoot

@@00Athus1 First time I did my little line was, "Welcome to The Bone Zone! Population; You!!"

Idk launching screws at my enemies seems rather fucked ;3

@@Atamosk-bu7zt even if they survive, tetanus get 'em.

What a way to die.

With the rise of Power Armor, it would make sense.

@@GlitchedRed a second theory is the exact same thing happened with the assault rifle in fallout 4 it was meant to be used by power armor clad troopers as a secondary weapon due to its strange design.

@@redmoon256 that’s not even a theory it was literally the original thing they were gonna do, you see it in the art book

@@redmoon256 also its editor Form ID is "Light Machinegun" indicating a rather last minute name change to Assault Rifle. Considering it as light machine-gun makes it slightly more reasonable although it still looks quite goofy.

Thats a fact my guy. In lore it specificly states that power armor was designed to carry heavy fire power to areas tanks couldnt reach as it was better and more efficent to send 1 man that is LITERALLY a tank and have him carry multiple heavy weapons then a tank. Tanks needed fuel which was running out but Im sure at some point they started switching some tanks out with fusion power which is why we se some n game so they werent entirely obsolete. Another thing is power armor could get to places tanks couldnt lol. So You could get heavy fire power where it was needed and lay it the fuck down on the enemy. T45 struggled but they then upgraded to T51b which just made this even better.

Seems like every weapon made after a certain point was to kill communists 😂

@@Rad_King Especially weapons made by Communists.

Whats even funnier Ian from Forgotten Weapons bought a 3.06 one and tested it. It operated for about 500 rounds after being carefully greased,and then jammed to high hell. So in theory it would be tested 50-100 rounds,the soldier would be trained on it for 2-400,and then the second it got to the field it would jam.

Interesting history lesson, thanks dude

@@redenginner bear in mind the gun Ian had survived 100 years because it worked against the odds, it was basically the cream of the crop.

so in other words americans ruined the reputation of an otherwise fine weapon

@@ToriusHeart No, it had plenty of problems. However the US one was just exponentially worse. So more like the US version ruined the reputation of an "ok" gun, or a decent gun of the time. The biggest issue that both guns had was within 100-200rds it would get so hot the recoiling barrel would expand, get caught in the shroud, and essentially lock in place jamming the gun. It would only be fixed once it cooled and spontaneously released with a distinct "Thoonk", this is why there are stories of soldiers slamming them against trees trying to get the barrel released, not knowing it just needed to be cooled down.

Big Guns 100 Some people think they can out smart me... Maybe but I have yet to meet one who can out smart bullet

Sasha? WHO TOUCH MY GUN!?

It fires 200 cap custom tooled cartridges at 6000 rounds a second…

You guys are cracking me up today.

It costs 400 thousand dollars to fire this gun for 12 seconds. Crazed laughter.

You’re just compensating for weak companions.

@@Rad_King Yes, indeed. Companions are nice and some are amazing, but your best friend is the guns you carry. Why not flaunt them off by showing how big and mean they are?

@@pepper-0ni-t1m Jokes on our liege Radking, I hardly have such scrawny companions around. ... ;-;

@@Rad_King I just use companions as mobile backpacks. Though Boone plus ED-E makes you a killing machine, though Raul is an absolute beast espeically when you add in his ability to increase weapon durability.

Let alone getting mulched by a boatload of bullets per minute of fire.

Plus with it shooting 1000 rounds per second that would tear people up no matter what you put in it. 1000 rounds per minute is the fire rate for fast smg's, let alone per second.

True..and that's what FONV did with the 5mm rounds. It's what made the assault carbine viable through at least midgame

Smaller bullet means smaller recoil which means better accurate fire. .22 is underrated for this reason. A hole is a hole and multiple holes with high speed, numeracy, and accuracy is not to be joked about. Might not kill them immediately, but have fun patching up 10 accurately placed holes that bounce around.

It’s like bees, a single bee is nothing, a couple aren’t that bad, but an entire hive, entire swarms can kill you No matter how tiny the bullet if enough of them are thrown at you they will kill you

Good point!

"This sonic emitter is nice, but you have anything that spits lead?" "Lead? What, like pencils?" "No, I think the lobotomite wants a combustion gun!"

"We can't give it a GUN! GUNS KILL!"

@@buttahXD i love the think tank, they are so goddamn hilarious

Yeah I thought that too because I've seen videos of handheld minigun that use 7.62 and the person tends to spin so they can only shoot for less than 3 seconds

This is definitely plausible. I would be interested to know what the round was intended to be like since all we know is the bullet diameter and nothing else. Maybe it has a lot of powder to be more useful in a wartime application so is necked down to 5mm. So many questions.

@@Rad_King It could have been an all-purpose weapon for power-armored troops. The real-world 5.7mm round used by the FN P90 and FN Five-seveN was designed for its armor penetrating capability, low recoil, high capacity magazines, and light weight. The potential for a 5mm minigun round in the Fallout universe being a power armor troop's primary all-purpose weapon, effective against body armor, unarmored targets, and even light vehicles, makes a certain amount of sense.

Since the Assault rifle in Fallout 1&2 is explicitly called the AK-112 and explicitly called a Russian design, I just assumed that Fallout's "5mm" is their world's equivalent of the 5.45x39mm round.

@@Foxxie0kun I love the idea that the 5mm round is basically a rifles answer to the 5.7mm round.

Hey sometimes I miss stuff, sometimes I get it :)

Looking at the M2 design in 76 as an M2 operator is sheer pain. The reload animation should be a good clue as to why the placement of the front handle would be an absolutely terrible idea. The top cover is known to fly off and smash into the faces of operators who are not prudent enough with properly calibrating the headspace and timing. And that would be from just the power of a .50 BMG round alone, when given too much space. Resting the ENTIRE weight of the weapon on that thing seems "slightly" stupid. More so when they decided to attach the entire fricken mounting cradle of the M3 tripod to the weapon for it to basically serve no purpose other than holding the ammo box. If they had attached the front handle to the cradle, the damn thing would at least have more of a point being there. And then - how is one meant to operate the trigger? This being a WW2 PT boat version of the gun, the trigger would be the latch on the backplate. Which would be operated in a twin mounted configuration, and as such, require some extra attachments to properly work with it. Anyway, to operate the trigger it needs to be pressed downward. Downward, as in pushed away from the rear grip which they thought was a good idea to attach to the rather flimsy buffer tube on the backplate which itself is a part one might not want to have the weight of the weapon hanging from. Sure, the traditional dual grips are also attached to the backplate in standard configuration - but those assume the weight of the weapon is either mounted on a vehicle, or at least fixed onto a tripod, and that the worst the backplate would have to endure, is the recoil and being pushed against the operator, not having the weight of this monster of a weapon hanging from it while firing.

Note: keep in mind that wikipedia started off as an unreliable source of information and took many years of effort before being acknowledged as a reliable source only to become even more unreliable (and politically biased in spreading lies and slander) then when it first started. Like when it first started up I used wikipedia to get at the source information (the studies performed) in a project for school, the teacher asked how I got the information and the source for the information I explained that I used wikipedia to get basic information and using that site as a spring board to get at the source to get proper information that wasn't just a basic interpretation that the site used at the time.

I think the light support weapon from fallout 2 wouldnt be bad. Maybe even that cut industrial weapon from Van Buren which was designed to be an early game big gun. It fired railway spikes or some such iirc

Could you imagine a pipe Gatling gun? That would be sick as hell to use early game

Junk jet

Don't you fucking get a minigun from helping out preston in like the first damn encounter with him? Along with power armor?

@@benbannon5605 yes but if used as intended, you use up most of your ammo on the deathclaw, and the raiders, and 5mm is not a common ammo type like .38 or even .45. The minigun also has pretty weak damage scaling, and is best used as a massive chainsaw rather than an actual gun with the shredder barrel

Regarding the P-90 5.7 comment, sorta. It was meant to penetrate soft body armor like Kevlar, but the round will fragment apart against anything more solid, because the weapon was to be used as a PDW for VIP protection, etc. so the idea was, you didn’t wanna overpentrate walls and kill some civilian through a wall.

Wild Wasteland be like

The way it’s supposed to be.

as far as i can tell, Pentagon Wars is about the exact opposite of what actually happened lmao

@@heliveruscalion9124 Ah, is it? To be honest, I've only ever seen that scene I mentioned. Is the whole movie an exaggeration of the real events? Or am I taking your reply too literally?

@@raziyatheseeker no, like, the main character in pentagon wars irl is a crotchety old man that thinks advanced technology like gps and active protection is useless, that old tech vehicles like ww2 era tanks make "better soldiers", and got angry at the Army making a better Bradley because "it wasn't fair" when he was trying to make his own design

Late reply but yeah, the Bradley has proven very effective in every conflict where the US has used it. The Pentagon Wars movie really misrepresents things. It acts as though the concept of an IFV (vehicle that carries infantry but also has a sizable gun and missiles) was some kind of absurd bungling, ignoring the fact that the Soviet Union and West Germany were already fielding their own successful IFVs by that point. The movie also leaves out the actual controversies of the Bradleys development, such as the firing port saga and the protracted doctrinal debate over what mechanized infantry should do in the first place.

Daily reminder that pentagon wars is as great movie but is completely bull shit when viewed as a historical film

I bring good news.

Another thing that backs up it being an MG3, is that it fires 308. Which is considered to be somewhat interchangeable with 7.62x51mm NATO that the MG3 was chambered for. I consider it likely to be in the inventory of Commonwealth Military forces in the fallout universe and possibly was shipped to the USA as a sample for evaluation prior to Military adoption.

In my knowledge 308. is 7.62.51mm the only difference is system and name 308. (imperial?!) 7.62 obviously metric system and 308 is civilian ithink and 7.62 is military grade with different powder loads Like 223 and 5.56

I'm pretty sure the "5mm round" in Fallout is supposed to be the 4.85x49mm round, it was a British derivative of 5.56 that uses a narrower bullet, exactly 5mm in diameter, and a longer cartridge neck. The result is the projectile itself is launched significantly faster than a standard 5.56 round, which improves penetration while actually reducing recoil. The reason I think this is the case is the similarities in the cartridge, as well as the existing lore for the 5mm round stating it was originally developed as an assault rifle cartridge that got rejected in favor of 5.56, which is what happened to the 4.85x49mm in real life, additionally one of the few weapons to use the 4.85 round was the XL70e3, which appears in Fallout 2 using 5mm rounds.

@@asteroidrules Maybe in Fallout 1 and 2, definitely, but in Fallout 3 and 4 Bethesda decided that it's a giant round instead.

So some sort of fail safe?

@@Rad_King yeah sorta.

Weapons such as the RPG-7 self-detonate after a certain distance as a safety measure, so I don't see why something like that wouldn't have a similar thing.

That also makes sense that its on the Laser Detonator. After all its ment to detonate nuclear warheads.

perhapsbit powers the weapon itself

Just as the prophecies foretold.

i always assumed they would toggle the reload mode, sight, safety, and other things

I absolutely hate the modular system. It always screamed of laziness, and even more streamlining.

@@vahlok1426 its certainly implemented in a lazy way. Its a shame because the way it works (I've done some rooting around the Creation Kit) has some really useful and complex features. It really feels like a system Bethesda has but doesn't understand or at least appreciate what it can do and what it *shouldn't* be used in place of.

Shame. That thing was friggin awesome. It used 10mm ammo so it was insanely easy to get ammo for. With jurry rigging you could repair it easy enough. All in all it was tons of fun. Well worth getting the upgrades for.

@@MediumRareOpinions My main issue is that they eliminated many weapons from the game by making others able to do the same thing. No need for a 10mm SMG since you can just make the pistol auto for example. But the worst, worst thing it did was it made there be an objectively "best" weapon in every category. Unlike FNV for example, where one could finish the whole game with say, the .22 pistol with a proper build. Now, sure you could do the same with 4's system(s), but you're still gimping yourself if you don't use the best thing possible, and fully invest in gunsmith/blacksmith. It's the same issue I have with how crafting in Skyrim went. You were seriously outmatched if you didn't invest in either or both Blacksmithing and/or Enchanting. In both games' cases it made the discovery of unique weapons, or new legendaries pointless since I could just make what I already have better in most cases.

@@vahlok1426 I think that's a fair take, what things I liked about the system are really only used by Modders to achieve some really nice aesthetic options. I suppose I'd like to see a perfect world where we still have a full range of guns but kept the modularity for accessories and attachments. I understand the annoyance though. I absolutely hate the Combat Rifle taking up the slots of many weapons. The DKS-501 is conspicuously absent an in its place a Combat rifle sniper configuration is there.

Sure can, it’s on the docket.

Good to hear!

Wall length, shoulder profile, shape of slug, recessed vs non-recessed chamber, there’s a lot of physics that goes into a boolit

You are too kind. I have a lot of plans for improvements that will come with time but I am happy you are here!

You answered your own question

@@RhizometricReality Are you sure? Fallout series is full of experimental weapons that were never fielded, some of them have been mentioned in other videos, others will be mentioned in future ones. Also let me remark that the way minigun is depicted in F3 is almost the same as the XM-214 GE Six-Pax system: the weapon, plus a backpack containing the battery and 2x 500 round ammo magazines. All in a man-portable 85 lbs package.

Great idea

Thanks! One word down. Only thousands more to go.

@@Rad_King one more thing though: flechettes is usually said "flesh-ettes", but hey it doesn't really matter

Synonymous is my hero

Nice find!

Glad to have you here :)

@@Rad_King Oh hey! I didn't expect you to reply, nice surprise! I got here from your power armor video, and it's making me curious as to what your analysis on the less techy armors would be. For one thing I always strained myself trying to decipher what exactly the parts making the plating on 3 and NV's metal armor came from, or what purpose those weird cables serve, as I doubt it's extra protection

retro future, same reason they can have holograms and synthetic people but all the terminals look and work like they are running DOS

Yup, I have a photo of Kevin Dockery carrying one in the crook of his arm. They are tiny.

Well that’s good timing. Almost like I planned it that way…

@@Rad_King *gasp* You got Twitter?

Thank you, it’s been a wild ride

Hope you enjoyed it. Watching one of my videos gives you +10 rads btw.

@@Rad_King eh worth

How dare you

Glad you enjoyed it!

At that point, Jetpack Joyride could be possible lol. Imagine the recoil!

Caseless ammo is incredibly rare and difficult to manufacture in mass, and there are only a few examples of it, one being the HKG11's prototype ammo that was literally a brick of glued gunpowder around a bullet with a primer in the back. I believe the Volcanic lever pistol also used a strange caseless ammo where the lead bullet was the cartridge as well, meaning it was a larger caliber pistol with a relatively weak round due to limited powder. The russians also use caseless grenades in their GP25 grenade launchers, to a fairly resounding success. The gyrojet pistol was also caseless, because it used jet propelled bullets rather than traditional explosive combustion, but suffered several other issues

Cool thanks

Happy to have you :)

It is coming!

So funny and ironic that this is directly below a year old comment mentioning that exact thing