Not surprised; the ZB machine guns were excellent, and well ahead of their time.

but top loading makes a lot of sense for a vehicle weapon, more than a bottom loading gun depending on how its mounted

Toploaded magazines for magazine fed Lmg's are modern though. it literally became a thing because having a mag hang out the bottom sucks for magazine fed light machineguns

I love 💘 the cooling fins on this thing, so bada$$

This type better on top

Groan.

Waiter, Czech please!

Don't tell us: you're here all week & available for weddings, birthdays & Bar mitzvahs. 😜

What is the result of an abortion in Prague? : A cancelled Czech.

Nah, just put it on a Jeep gun mount. Then he'd have to get ammo. Seems to me some of the IJ ammo is very tough to impossible to get.

@@robertthomas5906 yes but a tankette is way cooler than a jeep gun mount

@@jannerantanen5121 And the only thing even cooler would be a Kettenkrad. :P

I'm still waiting for Karl to add a gun mount to his VW Kubelwagen/thing

There is a video of this gun where they cut out the machine gun port from a wreck of a Type 97 Chi-Ha from an island to install this gun lol

I wonder if they ever thought about adding cooling fins to the cooling fins' armoured shrouds, and then an armoured shroud to go over the cooling fins' armoured shroud's cooling fins.

@@AshleyPomeroy I don't think this 'side fact' is remotely factual.

@@TheJazsa80 It’s real

I'm surprised Ian didn't mention the barrel shroud (which is missing from the example in the video). It's a visually distinctive part of the Type 97 when it's actually mounted on a vehicle.

Despite everyone else simply discarding cooling fins, and just going for a heavy profile barrel.

Everybody needs that sweet sweet Czechnology.

360 degrees, to shoot the enemy, and cowards alike

milatery oragami

Yeah the design of that bi pod is next level

Seems japan always was way ahead of the curve when it came to weird NSFW stuff.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who instantly went there when I saw that padded "eyepiece"

@@justindunlap1235 Is that the Jenna Jameson model eye piece?

@@OGJonnyKamikaze I don't know it's a bit small plus it looks too pristine

But the muzzle isn't pixellated?

I need one like that.

🤣🤣 I was too sleep deprived to think of the word for what I thought that looked like, but there it is.

Brandon Herrara/Forgotten Weapons crossover.

Lmao I was thinking the same thing🤣😂

I think this guns nickname is the "woodpecker" too lol

Made my day lmao

It’s also hard to duffle cut a tank gun.

Tanks usually burned out back then, which destroyed the guns. To damage a gun by explosion, it had to be very very powerful. Guns take explosions way better than, say, humans.

Oh so this automatic machine gun was mounted on the tanks back in ww2?

They bipod is pointy on the bottom Just fold it up facing forward and you're ready for double bayonet charges

im sure the scope can double as a bludgeon if need be

@@dndboy13 it can double as a kinky sex toy as well. Just look at the damn thing

I am also still confused.

The calendar the Japanese used (Kōki) didn't line up with the Gregorian/Julian calendar we use. 1940 was their year 2600, so 1937 would have been 2597.

I think it's because they were counting from the start of the current era ie the Meiji Restriction.

@@KyriosMirage Thank you.

@@Grimmtoof It semi-standardized after the Meiji Restoration, but the year count doesn't start from there.

It is not so surprising if you think about the ethymology of "firing" a gun. It started with holding a flame close to your gunpowder until it caught fire and exploded in most cultures, so it would seem logical for fire(like flame) and fire(like gun) to be the same in many languages

I bet if English had a system like kanji it would also be use the symbol for fire, since I'm pretty sure that's the etymological root for its use. A "firearm" is a weapon that uses fire.

Sure, the etymology is there, but I still would have guessed that by that point it would have shifted to being derived from the word "shoot". While the word "fire" in English can refer to many things (literal fire, shooting a gun, losing a job, etc.), the kanji 火 isn't quite as ambiguous (to my knowledge, not an expert), and isn't usually (again, to my knowledge...) a part of words related to the meaning of "firing a weapon". I see 射 and 撃 much more there.

@@KingdomOfDimensions Mmm... Might be, might not be? Kanji is interesting to me in that while the pronunciation is often the same for many different concepts, the kanji themselves are often much more specific. So they might just as well have originally used the "kanji" for literal fire to refer to shooting a weapon, but later come up with another one that is still pronounced the same, but drawn differently, to refer to the act of firing a weapon.

@@thijsvandervoort8261 True in Finnish: "tulta" literally translates to "fire".

probably because of all the beligerants of ww2, japan ended the war with the least amount of surviving weaponry, and what little did, we dumped into the ocean, so only the odd survivor or trophy exists today

@@AsbestosMuffins also due to the language being much harder to translate and the japanese being fairly thorough at destroying their records and technical data to prevent capture.

I think this only applies to pop history. You wouldn't neccisarily think this watching any of the more serious KZfaqrs. Ian seems to have covered pretty much all the Japanese WW2 small firearms and I believe he owns a Type 97.

@@Stardude78 Ian's father collected Japanese arms so he is pretty familiar with them.

There are a number of reasons for that. Destruction of Japanese records plus the language issues made research into them and Japanese military in general not particularly common compared to European countries. Getting access to and translating European records is just easier for most researchers. There was little commercial trade in Japanese firearms etc. So them and their ammunition were never very common in the West. For example, someone who brought back a Mauser could easily get ammo to blast away because every store had 8mm Mauser ammo while an Arisaka didn't have a great ammo supply and it probably got relegated to the basement/attic. And yes, a lot was historically written off or ignored due to racism. Both before and after the war.

I feel like this thing is going to be going for a small fortune, it's in immaculate condition and it's complete

@@cheyannei5983 The estimate is $12,000 - $18,000

BFV?

Did you have it decked out in gold or palm tree leaves?

Thank god Enlisted exists. Gives me hope we won't be seeing nonsense like that lol

@@EastCoastMan603 Is this bait?

Wasn't same but was a type 97. Was on a tripod mount and didn't have stock. Hey, when I was young guys old guys were ww2 vets, I am that age now. When I was young kid I remember the older people talking about ww1 vets. Yes, I probably knew a few. I am feeling old now. Probably ought to go to bed and get my beauty nap. I am a night shifter, it's ok.

I wish you was funny

@@fritzdaddy-135mmgetstagger4 I wish you were funny too

@@adulescentuluscarnifex8412 best part is i wasnt trying to be funny

Drive me closer!

haha, same. I was about to close youtube when I saw it, and then I realised I needed to spend another 17 minutes and 53 seconds on here...

LOL

@@benjamindavidovichwaals2899 - Plenty of militaries supplied their machinegun teams with asbestos gloves/mittens. The MG42 in WW2 and the M60 on Vietnam spring to mind.

@@BatCaveOz wow, i did't know that. thanks for info

Back than, they didn't know asbestos was bad, till people started dying

@@justforever96 Just keep in mind that the daily use pain in the ass factor is an important consideration for troops.

The good old days

@@prfwrx2497 they can't all be Browning, that's for sure.

Silly you. The Japanese obviously put the bayonet on the main tank cannon, not the MG.

@@smygskytt1712 Yes, then they can do a bayonet charge with tanks.

@@justforever96 A lot, actually. Hotchkiss design in 13.2 was quite prolific pre-war, being adopted by a lot of nations, France and Italy among them, and that was back in the late '20s & early '30s. Italian air forces also made use of a Breda-SAFAT in 12.7×81SR (which would also be used later in Japanese Ho-103). The British actually used their .50 Vickers MG a lot on their AFVs since its adoption in 1932 and before switching to 15 mm BESA, which originated as the Czech ZB-60. The latter one was used (again, on land mounts) by the Czechoslovak and Yugoslavian armies before falling in the hands of the Germans. The Soviets adopted the DK in the late '20s and modified it into DShK in 1938, while also adopting Berezin's design for aerial service in early 1939. The Germans, who, despite arguably fathering the whole concept of an HMG as it was seen in the period being discussed, didn't use their HMGs in ground roles (aside from the captured examples), but made heavy use of MG 131 in their planes starting from 1938 (and later MG 151).

Please, what he said!