That reminds me of the time in Vietnam. when the Navy seals desperately needed a sub-machine gun in 9mm, and was using the Swedish K at the time. Seeing how Sweden was a neutral country, it posed a problem having Swedish guns in a war zone to which they cut off the supply of new sub-machine guns. So the government commissioned Smith and Wesson to make the model 76 which was a direct copy of the Swedish K. Super interesting story in my opinion. I don’t understand why when the government shamelessly copies something it’s okay, but when I pirate a copy of shrek 3 to DVD the FBI kicks down my door.
The Police Department where I work here in Brazil still has some units of Smith & Wesson M-76 (probably supplied by CIA during anti-Communist struggle in 70's). M-76 is a fragile gun. All that I handled are with loose buttstocks, dropping magazines while cocking or losing parts. Other SMGs of the same era, or even older (like Beretta M-12 or Brazilian INA) generally came to our days in better conditions.
After the FBI corrals your sorry rear end for stealing Hollywood's cut, they are an approved propaganda organ after all, you will be punished. I see being locked in an unpadded room with bright, oscillating rainbow colors and forced to listen to Nancy Pelosi speeches at 100db, for at least 48 hours. After which you will be force fed the blue pill, attend some re-education seminars before being released on Rodeo Drive with no money. That'll learn ya!
@@OGRajamaki There is no wire cutter in RK62. The Wire cutter is in the bipod in Galil and RK62 has no bipod. The bottle opener was because soldier break their magazines by using them as bottle openers.
@@okaro6595 The wire cutter is the muzzle device on end of RK62. You twist the muzzle of the rifle around the wire using it and shoot that's the way to cut wire with RK.
Norinco also produced the Type 56 a very similar copy of the Tula Soviet SKS. However this rifle was designed with cooperation from the Soviet Union . However the Soviet Union regretted it after the Sino Soviet Split. This is when the two communist countries turned on each other . They also later designed the Type 63 which is also in COD Cold War. It has a detachable 20 round magazine where the original SKS uses stripper clips . The Type 63 could also be produced for full automatic fire where the original SKS was semi automatic .The Type 63 had higher accuracy then the Type 56 a Chinese Copy of the AK47. The Chinese army used their own copies of the SKSs and AK47s against the Soviets the same country they copied from in the Sino Soviet border war.
Nice the great GTA youtuber, (generic comment aside Norinco even made some M14's as well.Back in vietnam i think they were back and forth but went with russian like frames).
It's worth mentioning that the Sten is quite literally a gutted MP-28 because it worked and they had the ability to make a lot of it. The MP-28 was a German interwar-era improvement upon the MP-18 from World War 1. So yes, the sidemounted magazine well of the Sten is from the gun's... lineage.
@@jimjam5239 I mean, there is the obvious lack of comfortable furniture on the Sten but mechanically they're the same. A simple blow-back submachinegun. Calling the Sten maybe more of a mass produced and gutted spin on the MP-28 is probably more appropriate than calling it a ripoff, though
Mexico's fx 05 was thought to be a copy of the g36 and hk sued them. However, they dropped the lawsuit when they were allowed to see the interal mechanisms and concluded that although it takes visual inspiration the fx05 is not a copy
Just a note for the Israeli Galil, Yisrael Galili was not Palestinian but rather Russian with the original name of Mikail Balashnikov yes Balashnikov and he has no connection to Mikail Kalashnikov the famous AK47 designer. He changed his name to Yisrael Galili to sound more Israeli like because they were going to name a gun after him and so Galili was chosen. Edit: lot of people seem to think Balashnikov was born in Mandatory palestine but no he was not, the wiki page you read is of Yisrael Berchenko a Hagganah commander who also changed his name to Galili. So in summery there are 2 Yisrael Galili's one with the original name of Mikail Balashnikov, a Soviet who moved to Israel and designed the Galil rifle, and Yisrael Berchenko who was born in Israel and was a Haggana (underground millitia before the IDF) commander.
@@duff6587 they never claimed to be communists , they call themselves socialist , western fed media keeps calling them communism when China does better in than the US in business and trade
Yisrael Galili actually was not originally called that. He actually had to change his name because of the rifle. His original name was completely unsuitable for someone developing a Kalashnikov copy. Believe or not, it was Balashnikov. RK62 use also a milled receiver. Only exception were the RK62-76 models made by Valmet for about five years from the the late 70s. Sako never used stamped receivers. The army required similar tolerances for the stamped so it did not become much cheaper and was abandoned. Mine was from 1973 and had a milled receiver. Sten was a simplified version of Lanchester SMG which was a copy of German MP-28 Schmeisser. Schmeisser was one of few German SMGs with semi-automatic option and Sten kept that. MP40 was only fully automatic.
@@eelchiong6709 it was the mp28 they copied from for the Lanchester the British had captured some of these in Ethiopia the british did not have access to mp 38s at the time, the most immediately obvious difference between the mp28/Lanchester and the mp38 is the former 2 feed from the side and latter feeds from below
You forgot the most important feature that the Israeli galil had. A built in bottle opener! It was added because Israeli soldiers kept using their FAL magazines as make shift bootle openers and in the process ruined said magazines. So in order to avoid this situation IWI designed its original galil with both a wire cutter and a bottle opener at the base of the barrel
The Galil is often issued to reservists troops, so it's not unusual for the reservists to keep the weapon at home, or carry it after training. Israelis aren't all drinking soda all the time, it's just the reservists.
The fact that the Springfield rifle, a copy of the Mauser bolt action, was not included is a damn shame. Especially since the patents for the Mauser were still valid so the US "nationalized" them.
If I remeber correctly Mauser won the trial, but due to the end of the war it was barely enough to keep the company rolling instead of going bankruptcy
I’m surprised he didn’t mention this and no one brought it up as far as I can tell. The type 4/5 (it is referred to as both) which is basically an m1 garand with a 10 round magazine instead of 8 and uses 7.7x58mm arisaka but aside from that is just an m1
@@payday2sucksballs216 HA HA USA dont copy but steal. Your rocket technology is direct steal from german V2, Your B2 is a copy of the horten 229 which again you actually steal from german Plz dont make us laugh
Britain in fact did copy an SMG as well. Lanchester MkI was a straight copy of German MP28 SMG with additional bayonet lug. This was however way too expensive to produce in mass quantity so Britain had to resort to cheapening it's productation till they managed to make it into the Sten, which Germans copied later to complete the full cycle of copying.
For the amount of weapons still capable of holding bayonets I wonder how many people were killed with them in ww2.. seems like that and horses were some of the dumbest traditional pitfalls.
He forgot to mention the Type 56 assault rifle, Type 56 semi automatic rifle, Hakim semi automatic rifle, Hanyang 88 bolt action rifle, Vz 58 assault rifle m56 SMG and the K 50 SMG.
What is also interesting that the Polish Underground State build own version of Sten, which was called Błyskawica or The Lightning. And it also looked like sten gun but with magazine like in MP40.
The Sten jammed during the assassination of Heydrich, but he later died of wounds from a grenade his partner had. So, the Sten was probably one of the worst designs to copy, but when you need a lot of guns, reliability will always play second fiddle to quantity in the field.
@@_Abjuranax_ The Sten or something similar is the best weapon to covertly and cheaply produce. It’s quite literally a pipe, spring, bolt, trigger, and barrel. The Błyskawica could also use captured MP40 mags making reliability better.
CQ is only for export, and is not a project of the Chinese military. The PLA did have AK-47 license and develop their own variants, but today they are using QBZ-95 and QBZ-191, all developed by themselves.
Fun fact, his real surname was Yisrael Balashnikov, and because he was a gun inventor, he felt he needed to change his name because of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
@@user-op8fg3ny3j probably just an error in research. Yisrael used to live in Palestine (pre-israel) and the Gaza Strip I think. Don’t take me up on that though
@@okaro6595 two conflicting reports seem to be either that he’s born In Palestine or Ukraine. So my guess is he was born in Mandatory Palestine but had Ukrainian/Russian parents- ancestry
14:54 I love how they embraced the “Made in China” Meme where the stock from the CQ-311 just straights up falls onto the ground like the gun was poorly made, just like the products made in China are.
It takes a Bolt Action Rifle enthusiast to recognize the similarities (in the bolt, mainly) and… unfortunately… there are very few of those left. But yeah the 1903 is basically an American Mauser chambered in 30-06.
The animation of parts falling off of the Chinese 'M-16' reminds me of the original M-60, used in Vietnam. The trigger section had a tendency to fall off rather sneakily if not checked or somehow fastened more securely. This would prove to be rather embarrassing when the M-60 gunner needed to lay down suppressive fire during an enemy ambush. Some gunners wound their dogtag chain around the barrel to prevent some other stuff from getting loose.
I'm surprised they video didn't mention the M60 when talking about MG42 clone, but I'm sure that wouldn't be clone, just that it "drew inspiration from".
@@mrsock3380 It seems that this channel tends to be a bit biased towards China in general. NATO is notorious for using eachother's designs in tanks, jets and guns but it largely focuses on China to perpetuate the idea that only China copies, when in reality most countries do the same thing. I bet if they made a video about China they would criticize their use of "human wave attacks" but when they make a video on Napoleon they would praise his "genius tactics" when Napoleon's greatest tactic was also literally human wave attacks.
@@Jake-dh9qk China are known as the worlds cheap replica fiends, when it comes to basically every piece of technology. "Made in China" is the joke for a reason. Basically every country has done it to some extent though.
Fun fact about the Galil; there was a bottle opener built into the bottom of the handguard. I don't remember if it was INTENDED to be a bottle opener but it quickly earned the reputation for being the rifle that openly promoted cracking a cold one with Ishmael and Yoseph after a long day of stomping basically everyone next door to you.
Speaking of bottle openers, many Ford vehicles built in the early 50's had a bottle opener on the back of the clamp that secured the steering column to the dash. I don't think Ford intended it but it sure came in handy.
@@BananaRama1312 Imagine low-key bragging about the obvious fact that you don't technically need a bottle opener and you can do it with three times as much difficulty by using something else.
I'm surprised the North Korean M16A1 wasn't mentioned. It wasn't standard issue to their troops but for their guerilla forces that would have smuggled them into the south, commit terrorist acts and ditch the guns. The idea was that once the guns were recovered, local forces would blame American soldiers for the acts.
From what I heard, North Korea have unlicensed copy of K2 rifles since 1990's issued by special forces and it was known during 2015 North Korea shelling of South Korea across the Western Front.
@@JustGuy7721 Like the call of duty mission. Makarov and friends attacked a russian airport, didnt speak russian, and left the dead body of a CIA agent that was caught undercover by them to make it look like the americans attacked the russian airport, causing World War 3
I kinda love how those Yugoslavian inventors won a patent case with the argument; “Oh, your mad because we’re copying your design?! You remember that war not too long back…?”
@@milosnikolic7842 Could be true but it surely would have not have been a walkover. True Germany got immensly demilitarilised after ww2, but both parts of Germany were actually remilitarised and being prepared to end up at the front (cold war soviet block vs western block) in case of an upcoming war. Thus both armies were always at the ready.
@@Schwachsinnn I hope everyone got this comment in a more of comical way than a true statement. Well, that was a thing I was referring to so the West side had Allies armies, and East side had the Soviet army. But none of those were German. So in theory. But that being said Yugoslavia was no pushover at all
During my service in the Taiwanese army, I used a T-74 machine gun. His disassembly method is very similar to FN's MAG machine gun, and the appearance is the same. FN is also said to have filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the T-74 machine gun.
Fun fact: Although Norinco copied the CQ-311, they’ve never intended it to be used by China’s official armed forces but instead export it to foreign countries at a cheaper price. The Norinco QBZ-95 instead is the official service rifle of China.
i recall in Warrior competition at Jordan where all Special Forces around the world compete at each other, i saw a photo of Chinese spec ops carrying CQ carbines
I remember hearing some of the old timers talk about how you can just throw a sten smg in a room and it would just fire until it runs out of ammo, the trigger was that sensitive
I have been following this channel almost since its beggining. But dawn, the animation has gotten soo good that it true pleasure for the eyes. The rotation of the magazine on the STEN, the first person views and the cutout part at the galil and others gave me pure joy. All I can say is to thank you.
Yes, the Lanchester was the British 'version' of the German MP28 from which as you mentioned the Sten was copied from in certain design areas. This was due to the British not having any design experience making SMG's, so they studied captured German MP38's pressed into service as the Lanchester (primarily used by the Royal Navy) in order to learn how to make one under wartime conditions. Thats also likely why (as mentioned) the Sten had a side mounted magazine because the German MP38/British Lanchester did too.
My dad has a Romanian AK-47, full automatic (converted into a semi/full auto select fire pre ‘68), legally registered with the Department of the Treasury. He tested it out prior to having to store it outside of California in the late 1980s when anti-gun fever contaminated the state. It fires pretty well, even now when he tested it again in his new home state where it is legal.
My Galil 392 ARM is extremely accurate and of course 100% reliable. It is however extremely 'over-gassed', but can be cured with aftermarket parts. I do wish it had a different twist rate than its 1:12". My NORINCO 1911A1 is a very fine pistol. I can not recall a malfunction EVER; in fact it feeds empty cases and is very accurate with a great trigger. The steel is supposedly 5100 series, which is a better spec than any other maker of this pistol... Even has a fully chromed barrel/chamber and all parts are milled and forged. Good enough of a pistol that it is only one of three or four brands that Wilson will build upon. Will also add NORINCO 5.56 M193 ball ammo is very good. I ran it over a chronograph and its speed is on point, is clean and very effective. Cases reload well, but I do notice some variance in the extractor cut, but so far has been no big deal.
little note on the CQ311A (the civilian-sale variant of the CQ311): given the absurt ITAR export fees compounded to the already expensive Italian import fees for firearms, it was pretty common in Italy to buy a CQ311A and then buy aftermarket accessories like handguard, pistol grip, stock etc. to mock them up into an actual AR15. Mainly because you could buy a Norinco CQ for 300-400€, whereas even the cheapest PSA/Anderson AR would cost around 1500 to 3000€ due to the difficulty of procuring one.
@@leileijoker8465 yeah, but sadly, as I said, once you compound US export fees, Italy's import/serialization/registration fees, and distributor's fees, a high-tier AR15 would end up costing almost twice as much, and a cheap one would end up being four or five times the price....which is why the vast majority of ARs you see here are chinese SDMs and Norincos, or EU-made Schmeissers, Hammerli and Oberland Arms, ADCs made in Italy, and very rarely some military surpluses from other countries
I would like to add that the M98 was also ,,copied‘‘ and manufactured by the Americans without a license. The Springfield M1903 is very Simulator to the m98 System. well, both sides were repeatedly inspired by their opponents, which is somehow paradoxical
Everybody is talking about the guns but can we please appreciate how absolutely awesome the animations are in this video?! The different angles, shadings and the small details like the rotating bullets at 5:58 are absolutely amazing. Great work!
i love the thumbnail for this video because as we all know the M16 was famously known for it’s reliability and quality in extreme conditions during its early outings.
@Adam Korzeniowski people like to blame it on ammunition, but that's the half of the story, mags were trash as well, recievers were also weak, due to inexpiriance with aluminium.
The powder used in the 5.56 round at the time was a Smokeless Powder.. it was not black powder. Lots of different kinds of Smokeless Powder with high and low burn rates as well as single and double base powder's.
The original m16a1s actually perform very well given cleaning and correct ammo; the army ordinance department purposely sabotaged the weapon with among other things, improper ammo.
One of my favorite stories about copying weapons design is that the first Soviet nuke was such a close copy of an American design that they actually replicated some minor errors in a couple of mechanical and electrical components that the US later ironed out in serial production
Even funnier is that the USSR made some changes in the design of the nuclear bomb using spies from the UK and American equipment (participated in the Manhattan Project)
The MG-42 could achieve its high rate of fire because it incorporated ball bearings into its slide mechanism. The U.S. M-60 MG was a virtual copy of its design after the war, but it did not include the ball bearings, relying on more standard bushing designs for its operations. But the new Chinese fighter is said to be a near clone of our new F-17s, so it's good that we both get to play with our new toys in our own backyards.
Old Chinese fighters (such as J-10, J-15 series) inherits the Russian MiGs and Sukhoi DNA. However the new stealth J-20 is a powerful domestically designed and built jet. Even though it looks like the F-22 Raptor, almost same specs as F-22, but that rumour of it being a copy of the Raptor is false. The J-20 was actually designed and planned to counter F-22 should the situation arise, therefore it has mostly almost-same specs as F-22. Take a look at Korea's new KF-21, it looks so much like the F-35 jets, and even though it has mostly the same specs as F-35 too, it is surely not a copy of F-35
When I just getting into this hobby, I’m just a college student with part-time job, Norinco did good job let people like me can afford a firearm with calibre larger than .22. I owned the AR/SKS/P226 clone and I can say all of those made by low quality materials and finish looks like done by amateur. But after own those thing make me have motivation to work harder for finally own a real deal like colt or sig. good job Norinco
@@corvoattano4777 Rogak. In this particular case, it isn't another country's arsenal copying another's military intellectual property. It was a private organization copying a handgun for the civilian market. The Steyr GB ultimately lost out to the Glock 19 aka the P-80 in Austrian Military service.
@@fernandoruizpou6905 MP18 but with a box mag instead of the luger drum(i think it also had slighly more capacity) the lanchester was a copy of that which was later simplified to make the sten which was than copied and further simplified(removed mag swivel machanism, removed semi auto) by the germans
@@colin4tor781 Only the looks are simlair. StG44 is mechanically more simlair to weapons like Vz 58, SKS, FN FAL or SVT-40. AK's interiors resemble those of a Garand (rotating bolt, long stroke piston gas system and trigger mechanism). Edit: All contemporary assault rifles are somehow simlair to the StG44, by the way.
Mauser filed a lawsuit (and subsequently won) against the Springfield Armory claiming the M1903 (the US's primary battle rifle until it's replacement by the M1 Garand) was a copy of the Model 1898 (which would be Germany's primary battle rifle in one shape or another through WWII). Unfortunately for Mauser, WWI broke out before they received awarded compensation from the US. Also worth noting, the US M60 machine gun is mostly the love child of the MG42 and FG42. However, it was noted by the the US military in 1974 that the successor to the MG42 (the MG3) was in fact a far superior and more reliable design (one which share a high level of parts interchangeability with the original 42) to the M60. The MG42 is an OG legend and still one of the finest fire support weapons ever fielded and a design that clearly works. Another blatantly copied MG design is that of the Maxim Machine Gun, which first came to be in 1884 (though most copies are licensed). Fun fact, both the MG42 and Maxim can be found in use in Ukraine today.
Norinco reproductions are actually very good products: AR15 clones aside, their Winchester 1897 shotgun repro is very good. Historically speaking, the Chinese made MP18s are way more significant: they were used to fight the Japanese invasion, and the Japanese Army itself captured and used them because they pretty much lacked any officially adopted SMG (the Type 100 was extremely rare)
@@alexanderl.6207Easy, politics. If Norinco repros weren't valid, people would not buy them with or without a ban. Also consider this, the pc/phone you are using probably has components made in China. Why not banning them as well?
One of my favourite things about this channel is that it looks like its a low budget Wikipedia reader like info graphics show, but it's actually well animated and well researched.
@@alienmorality The idea of Stalin being a "mass murderer" is statistically impossible. "The Soviet population increased by one-three million every year between 1927-37 excluding 1932", "Western powers attempted to halt Soviet industrialization via the "golden blockade", accepting only grain and oil for trade", "In 1932 Soviet grain exports were lowered by 340% while imports with countries that accepted gold increased", "Kulaks killed between 20-35% of all livestock", "In parts of Southern Ukraine, up to 50% of land was uncollected due to Kulak sabotage", "The Kulaks often did not even work their own farms", "Stalin sent aid as soon as the situation was realized, in one instance he had aid sent within a day after receiving a letter from a citizen", "Thanks to collectivization, the Soviets never had another large famine after 1947", "During peacetime, Gulag mortality was 3% , roughly equivalent to the mortality rate in current American prisons", "The maximum sentence for a Gulag was 10 years.", "Gulag prisoners were often paid local market wages, compared to American prisoners who are often unpaid", "Even the CIA has admitted to the large number of prisoners released from the Gulags each year!" The CIA admitted in their document "Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership from the Central Intelligence Agency" that the western idea of Stalin as a "dictator" was an exaggeration and misunderstanding, they had admitted that the Soviet Union featured collective leadership and that Stalin was merely the "captain of the team" as they worded it. Also, Stalin was elected three times and was regulated through Democratic Centralism. massacres of CAPITALIST nations; the Holocaust, The Rohingya Crisis, The Indonesian Genocide, The Central American Crisis, the Dirty War, La Matanza, El Mozote Massacre, Guatemalan Genocide, the Indigenous Cultural Genocide, etc.
I have a Chinese Norinco 1911 clone that I have found one part that was not a direct copy of the US 1911. The one part is the firing pin retainer and about 30 minutes with a file, and I was able to fit it. This 1911 clone has had over 3000 rounds through it and still works fine even though I have modified it with a 7 inch ported barrel and red dot sight.
I think you will also find the grip bushings will not interchange - The threaded part for the grip frame is not the same, but the threads for the grip screws are the same as with any other 1911 clone. Love my NORINCO 1911A1 a bunch.
I'm Mexican, and I'm wondering why not mention the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl. It may have been dismissed by H&K themselves as not a direct clone of their G36 platform, but I still would have loved to see it mentioned
@@theoneandonlydetraebean8286 Yep. Still would have loved a mention on the weapon though. They just used the G36 design mostly since that is what the Mexican military primarily used up to that point. G36 Rifles
My Galil is a hybrid. It was built in Israel, sold to a Central American Government, {rode hard and put away wet} then parted out when they were done with it. Then a company with a (less than) STELLAR reputation acquired the parts. The first models had issues. Including the name "Galil". IWI was, um... not happy. They sued. The type was renamed and some features altered. That's how my "Golani Sporter" came to be. Mine is tip top. A previous owner was even kind enough to replace the night sights.
Actually there were three copies of the Sten submachine gun made by German gunmakers. The Burp Guns used by US tank crewmen that were given the appellation M3 Grease Gun was actually license built in China as was the CQ-311
The Chinese also made a copy of the sten. The one they based it on had a dent in the receiver, thinking this was part of the design they put a dent in the same place on their copies
I always loved the Galil, such a cool history behind it and the fact that it binds the reliability of the AK-47 with the accuracy of the FN FAL is so cool. It's always been my assault rifle of choice in FPS for good reason.
_"the fact that it binds the reliability of the AK-47 with the accuracy of the FN FAL is so cool."_ The original RK 62 did exactly that. Not really a Galil innovation in any way.
The Springfield 1903 bolt assembly was a copy of the Mauser K98 butterfly head locking bolt. Mauser sued after the war and had a good case but lost due to the patent infringement being declared "war booty".
@@grafdragon3033 nope, not even close. Mosin came a couple of years before the Mauser made their first magazine fed rifle. Mosins bolt is also made from multiple pieces whereas Mausers is single piece. The locking lugs are also different. Lee-Enfield is also a completely different design. Its bolt lock at the rear and use a helical locking lugs.
This channel has not always been known for accuracy (pun intended) especially when it comes to arms. This video is very much the exception. Info and depictions are spot on.. great job
The Israeli IMI Galil is how a copy really should be; it didn't just copy verbatim the AK-47 or make a cheaper version of it but instead modified the weapon to better suit their needs and improve the overall performance of the weapon system. The rest were just shameless copies or done in desperations.
Well the Galil wasn't even based on the AK, since it was based on a rifle that was already an entirely separate gun that was only manufactured around the design of an AK... the RK62 is a much better gun compared to the AK47 it was copied and enhanced from. I've shot both (never shot a Galil though), and the Galil is even further from the AK. So it's definitely much more than a copy, even if the basic mechanisms and the silhouette are the same.
I handled a sten gun in 1968 at a summer fete where our local Royal Engineers had a stall. It was still their personal weapon as it had firepower and could be stashed easily in a vehicle. The one I handled was chained to a table so I couldn't take it home.
Some of my family bought two of those Chinese Ar's several years ago at a gun show, for about 500 each. I wouldn't recommend them, they heat up fast and you can feel it in the hand guard, the ones they get had a really thin piece of aluminum under there , very loud and they had issues with the triggers . Besides the lower receivers, they replaced everything on them. They bought them because of the price but have invested about the same amount a regular AR would have cost
From what I read at /k/, it's almost like what you said. Except that with proper tweaking and modification, you can fix that heat up handguard with 3rd party handguard which have better material. But yeah, wouldn't recommend it. i consider Norinco AR as "Baby's First AR".
You didn’t mention the American WW1 era Springfield bolt action 30-06 was a copy of the Mauser bolt actions of the time, and they were forced to pay significant penalties and licence fees afterwards for breach of patent. And the M3 grease gun was copy (better than original) of the Sten.
What's interesting is that Yisrael Galili, the inventor of the Galili gun was born as Yisrael Balashnikov but changed his name later in life It's a fun coincidence that both his weapon and his lastname are similar to the Kalashnikov
Some more in-depth information on the CQ-311, the Rifle not only was made out of a lesser quality aluminum, but also all measurements were up converted in Metric. I actually came across a stripped 311 upper a buddy gave me and after I realized what it was I understood why a Colt BCG had so much play inside of it. Norinco also licensed the 311 to Iran and Sudan
The cq311 has a very rough trigger group. Terrible trigger pull no clean break. Butt stock is good and solid with a good design. Forstock could do with upgrade. But the barrels gave me better accuracy than any other common brand.
IJ obtained the Czech ZH-29 and made a copy of it by Tokyo Gas and Electric. Forgotten Weapons has it in details. The rifle was put to trial in the 30's but never adopted by Japan so Japan stuck with variations of Arisaka throughout most of the war.
Yeah but it was also called the type 5 it also had the clips from the garand and changed it to use 7.7 x 58mm Arisaka it’s interesting but never saw combat parts for 250 were to be made but only 125 were made.
Many copycat weapons have been designed during wars,when armies were in need of weapons. For example,during the Yugoslav wars,Slovenia made MGV176 which was a copy of the American 180 SMG,and Croatia made a variety of defferent guns,both the original designs and copies of other guns (Ero was a copy of Uzi, Jelen was a copy of PPSH, APS95 was a copy of the Galil/AK, etc.)
Apparently Israeli women weren’t allowed to serve in frontline units back then. This means that showing Israeli female soldiers in combat is technically innacuarate
The Sturmgewehr 44 was a semi auto weapon with a caliber of 8mm. Meanwhile the AK 47 is a fully automatic weapon whose caliber is 7.62X39mm. The only similarity is the outside design and even that isn't very big.
@@Kakashi_Senseiofficial "While the StG 44 was capable of fully automatic fire, German soldiers were directed to use it primarily in semi-automatic mode. Fully automatic mode was to be used only in emergencies, for short bursts of two or three rounds" - Wikipedia
If we want to talk about good gun copies I suggest in a part two you bring up the Beretta BM-59. The gun is basically a copy of the M1 Garand modified to be an M14 type select-fire battle made in Italy. They didn't have the money after the war to buy a license for FN FAL or H&K G3 used by their neighbors so they took made this gun instead.
What do you do if you have no original ideas of your own? Steal and rip off someone else's research, ideas and design and make a shameless copy! 🤮🔫
Good idea! I’ll try this one sometime not like there gonna have a war with me
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We all know that China will always will be good at bootlegging and copying
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That reminds me of the time in Vietnam. when the Navy seals desperately needed a sub-machine gun in 9mm, and was using the Swedish K at the time. Seeing how Sweden was a neutral country, it posed a problem having Swedish guns in a war zone to which they cut off the supply of new sub-machine guns. So the government commissioned Smith and Wesson to make the model 76 which was a direct copy of the Swedish K. Super interesting story in my opinion. I don’t understand why when the government shamelessly copies something it’s okay, but when I pirate a copy of shrek 3 to DVD the FBI kicks down my door.
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The Police Department where I work here in Brazil still has some units of Smith & Wesson M-76 (probably supplied by CIA during anti-Communist struggle in 70's). M-76 is a fragile gun. All that I handled are with loose buttstocks, dropping magazines while cocking or losing parts. Other SMGs of the same era, or even older (like Beretta M-12 or Brazilian INA) generally came to our days in better conditions.
Because this greatly angers Shrek when you pirate his life , and the government fears his ire
Watch out dude disney may sent assassin to stop you from copying their films
After the FBI corrals your sorry rear end for stealing Hollywood's cut, they are an approved propaganda organ after all, you will be punished. I see being locked in an unpadded room with bright, oscillating rainbow colors and forced to listen to Nancy Pelosi speeches at 100db, for at least 48 hours. After which you will be force fed the blue pill, attend some re-education seminars before being released on Rodeo Drive with no money. That'll learn ya!
Unlike Russia's model, the galil actually had built in wire cutters and a bottle opener.
The M60 was also technically a clone.
Wire cutter in Galil was copied from the finnish RK62. The bottle opener though was genius for their climate!
@@OGRajamaki There is no wire cutter in RK62. The Wire cutter is in the bipod in Galil and RK62 has no bipod. The bottle opener was because soldier break their magazines by using them as bottle openers.
@@okaro6595 The wire cutter is the muzzle device on end of RK62. You twist the muzzle of the rifle around the wire using it and shoot that's the way to cut wire with RK.
Well I would say the M60 is a mashup of the MG 42 and the FG 42
The M60 is a hybrid of the FG42 and the MG42.
Norinco also produced the Type 56 a very similar copy of the Tula Soviet SKS. However this rifle was designed with cooperation from the Soviet Union . However the Soviet Union regretted it after the Sino Soviet Split. This is when the two communist countries turned on each other . They also later designed the Type 63 which is also in COD Cold War. It has a detachable 20 round magazine where the original SKS uses stripper clips . The Type 63 could also be produced for full automatic fire where the original SKS was semi automatic .The Type 63 had higher accuracy then the Type 56 a Chinese Copy of the AK47. The Chinese army used their own copies of the SKSs and AK47s against the Soviets the same country they copied from in the Sino Soviet border war.
Nice the great GTA youtuber, (generic comment aside Norinco even made some M14's as well.Back in vietnam i think they were back and forth but went with russian like frames).
didn’t expect to see you here
I own a Type 56. Original parts on her. Chinese stampings. Everything. She's dinged on the stock that she more than likely seen multiple theaters.
Communist China copies everything.
They also made copy’s of M14 and all sorts of pistols. (Most from the Soviet Union)
It's worth mentioning that the Sten is quite literally a gutted MP-28 because it worked and they had the ability to make a lot of it. The MP-28 was a German interwar-era improvement upon the MP-18 from World War 1. So yes, the sidemounted magazine well of the Sten is from the gun's... lineage.
Surprise surprise the american TH-camr is biased.
@@neowisek7757 Who isn't?
I’m kinda surprised that the British didn’t relegate the Sten to reservists and resistance while adopting the Owen gun or something as standard-issue.
I think that's a bit of a stretch. Though the Lanchester, used by the Royal Navy, was quite literally a shameless copy of the MP28.
@@jimjam5239 I mean, there is the obvious lack of comfortable furniture on the Sten but mechanically they're the same. A simple blow-back submachinegun.
Calling the Sten maybe more of a mass produced and gutted spin on the MP-28 is probably more appropriate than calling it a ripoff, though
Mexico's fx 05 was thought to be a copy of the g36 and hk sued them. However, they dropped the lawsuit when they were allowed to see the interal mechanisms and concluded that although it takes visual inspiration the fx05 is not a copy
Lol I wonder how much money changed hands with that fiasco.
I can’t wait to sell water in cans that are red with white letters on them and I’ll make my brands name . . . “Goke”
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus okay but I call the rights to Diet Goke!
@@adamarens3520 how about 20 percent of the distribution profits and 30 percent of merch profits?
Fair use and piracy are moral obligations
Just a note for the Israeli Galil, Yisrael Galili was not Palestinian but rather Russian with the original name of Mikail Balashnikov yes Balashnikov and he has no connection to Mikail Kalashnikov the famous AK47 designer.
He changed his name to Yisrael Galili to sound more Israeli like because they were going to name a gun after him and so Galili was chosen.
Edit: lot of people seem to think Balashnikov was born in Mandatory palestine but no he was not, the wiki page you read is of Yisrael Berchenko a Hagganah commander who also changed his name to Galili.
So in summery there are 2 Yisrael Galili's one with the original name of Mikail Balashnikov, a Soviet who moved to Israel and designed the Galil rifle, and Yisrael Berchenko who was born in Israel and was a Haggana (underground millitia before the IDF) commander.
"What should we name this gun?"
"The Balishnikov."
"That sounds too much like Kalashnikov."
"Fine, how about Galil?"
"Good enough."
"mom, can we have Kalashnikov?"
"We have Kalashnikov at home"
Kalashnikov at home: "Balashnikov"
AK : you are weak
Galil : I'm You !
@@then00brathalos insert two Spiderman pointing each other meme*
He was born in Mandatory Palestine, which makes him Palestinian.
USA: I made this new gun!
UK: Cool, too expensive for us.
France: I got my Famas, but good for you.
China: OUR gun.
China makes guns cheaper to do business , that's why China is so wealthy
@@jcn268 they claim to be communist but they're more consumer market driven than the US cheap stuff made to be replaced
@@duff6587 they never claimed to be communists , they call themselves socialist , western fed media keeps calling them communism when China does better in than the US in business and trade
@@jcn268 Cheaper within acceptable quality
@@jcn268 cap
Yisrael Galili actually was not originally called that. He actually had to change his name because of the rifle. His original name was completely unsuitable for someone developing a Kalashnikov copy. Believe or not, it was Balashnikov.
RK62 use also a milled receiver. Only exception were the RK62-76 models made by Valmet for about five years from the the late 70s. Sako never used stamped receivers. The army required similar tolerances for the stamped so it did not become much cheaper and was abandoned. Mine was from 1973 and had a milled receiver.
Sten was a simplified version of Lanchester SMG which was a copy of German MP-28 Schmeisser. Schmeisser was one of few German SMGs with semi-automatic option and Sten kept that. MP40 was only fully automatic.
Atleast the galil a good rifle
🅱️alashnikov rifle would have been so cool
MP-38, not 28.
Galill now have a best copy gun in Vietnam . That is STV gun
@@eelchiong6709 it was the mp28 they copied from for the Lanchester the British had captured some of these in Ethiopia the british did not have access to mp 38s at the time, the most immediately obvious difference between the mp28/Lanchester and the mp38 is the former 2 feed from the side and latter feeds from below
You forgot the most important feature that the Israeli galil had.
A built in bottle opener!
It was added because Israeli soldiers kept using their FAL magazines as make shift bootle openers and in the process ruined said magazines.
So in order to avoid this situation IWI designed its original galil with both a wire cutter and a bottle opener at the base of the barrel
Holy moly, that is awesome.
and the bipod doubled as wire cutters too
his last name was also balashnikov before changing it to galil (to avoid confusion)
The Galil is often issued to reservists troops, so it's not unusual for the reservists to keep the weapon at home, or carry it after training.
Israelis aren't all drinking soda all the time, it's just the reservists.
Not to be outdone, Picatinny rail bottle openers are readily available.
The fact that the Springfield rifle, a copy of the Mauser bolt action, was not included is a damn shame. Especially since the patents for the Mauser were still valid so the US "nationalized" them.
How dare imply that americans ever copy other things
If I remeber correctly Mauser won the trial, but due to the end of the war it was barely enough to keep the company rolling instead of going bankruptcy
I’m surprised he didn’t mention this and no one brought it up as far as I can tell. The type 4/5 (it is referred to as both) which is basically an m1 garand with a 10 round magazine instead of 8 and uses 7.7x58mm arisaka but aside from that is just an m1
yeah i was expecting it to be in the video, surprised it wasnt
@@payday2sucksballs216 HA HA USA dont copy but steal. Your rocket technology is direct steal from german V2, Your B2 is a copy of the horten 229 which again you actually steal from german
Plz dont make us laugh
Fun fact! The Sten was based off of the Lanchester, and the Lanchester was a copy of the MP28, a German SMG!
And the MP28 was an updated version of the MP18
Dude wut
Britain in fact did copy an SMG as well. Lanchester MkI was a straight copy of German MP28 SMG with additional bayonet lug. This was however way too expensive to produce in mass quantity so Britain had to resort to cheapening it's productation till they managed to make it into the Sten, which Germans copied later to complete the full cycle of copying.
MP18
@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 the mp28 is an evolution of the mp18, with many improvements made to its design after the end of ww1
For the amount of weapons still capable of holding bayonets I wonder how many people were killed with them in ww2.. seems like that and horses were some of the dumbest traditional pitfalls.
Yeah I saw one and it look exactly like a mp28.
We definitely need a part 2 . Who's with me .
I am!
A part two where it’s just the stuff the soviets stole from finland
🙋🏾♂️
He forgot to mention the Type 56 assault rifle, Type 56 semi automatic rifle, Hakim semi automatic rifle, Hanyang 88 bolt action rifle, Vz 58 assault rifle m56 SMG and the K 50 SMG.
Yup
“I need guns, lots of guns.” John Wick
@Snowy 🅥 stop being a disgrace
Fun Fact: Late war Sten guns were made in a way that would allow them to use MP40 magazines!
that is very practical
What is also interesting that the Polish Underground State build own version of Sten, which was called Błyskawica or The Lightning. And it also looked like sten gun but with magazine like in MP40.
The Sten jammed during the assassination of Heydrich, but he later died of wounds from a grenade his partner had. So, the Sten was probably one of the worst designs to copy, but when you need a lot of guns, reliability will always play second fiddle to quantity in the field.
@@_Abjuranax_ I like your words, funny magic man
@@_Abjuranax_ The Sten or something similar is the best weapon to covertly and cheaply produce. It’s quite literally a pipe, spring, bolt, trigger, and barrel. The Błyskawica could also use captured MP40 mags making reliability better.
like me?
@@mp40submachinegun81 precisely
These animations keep getting better and better! I love the M16 function check you guys put in. Keep it up!!
As an actual Gun Enthusiast, i do hate Copycat gun designs, although i find them somewhat interesting.
The worse they look, the funnier it is to make fun of them
The Galel is actually pretty impressive
The only copycat gun I approve of is the Spanish 1911
@@bravecylinder93 Yep.
@@royale7620 Spain made a 1911?
CQ is only for export, and is not a project of the Chinese military. The PLA did have AK-47 license and develop their own variants, but today they are using QBZ-95 and QBZ-191, all developed by themselves.
Fun fact, his real surname was Yisrael Balashnikov, and because he was a gun inventor, he felt he needed to change his name because of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
How did they make that mistake?
@@user-op8fg3ny3j probably just an error in research. Yisrael used to live in Palestine (pre-israel) and the Gaza Strip I think. Don’t take me up on that though
No, he was born in the Mandatory Palestine in 1923.
@@okaro6595 two conflicting reports seem to be either that he’s born In Palestine or Ukraine. So my guess is he was born in Mandatory Palestine but had Ukrainian/Russian parents- ancestry
@@okaro6595 thank you by the way. I don’t want to be spreading misinformation
14:54 I love how they embraced the “Made in China” Meme where the stock from the CQ-311 just straights up falls onto the ground like the gun was poorly made, just like the products made in China are.
I was hoping it would just completely fall apart.
I was expecting it to pop out a flag saying “no refunds”
Yeah, check your computer rq, you see it? Yeah, I but ya do, made in China
@@海人-n4t mine says made in taiwan.
@@lanceamadantebonife3987 the chips are from taiwan
Wait what about the Springfield 1903???? They ended up paying Mauser royalties for copying it
It takes a Bolt Action Rifle enthusiast to recognize the similarities (in the bolt, mainly) and… unfortunately… there are very few of those left. But yeah the 1903 is basically an American Mauser chambered in 30-06.
wasnt a copycat. America was paying royalties for the action
@@freedoomer2524 Yes, but that was AFTER Mauser sued the US.
@@FishKepr A mistake in the US for not putting it in the peace treaty. They took the Aspirin trade mark but forgot the rifle.
Springfield is kind of trash everything they have is a copy of something.. and its worse
The animation of parts falling off of the Chinese 'M-16' reminds me of the original M-60, used in Vietnam.
The trigger section had a tendency to fall off rather sneakily if not checked or somehow fastened more securely.
This would prove to be rather embarrassing when the M-60 gunner needed to lay down suppressive fire during an enemy ambush.
Some gunners wound their dogtag chain around the barrel to prevent some other stuff from getting loose.
My M60 stayed solid and accurate as long as you did short bursts.
No wonder why the Chinese knockoff never saw major service with anyone
I'm surprised they video didn't mention the M60 when talking about MG42 clone, but I'm sure that wouldn't be clone, just that it "drew inspiration from".
@@mrsock3380 It seems that this channel tends to be a bit biased towards China in general. NATO is notorious for using eachother's designs in tanks, jets and guns but it largely focuses on China to perpetuate the idea that only China copies, when in reality most countries do the same thing.
I bet if they made a video about China they would criticize their use of "human wave attacks" but when they make a video on Napoleon they would praise his "genius tactics" when Napoleon's greatest tactic was also literally human wave attacks.
@@Jake-dh9qk China are known as the worlds cheap replica fiends, when it comes to basically every piece of technology.
"Made in China" is the joke for a reason. Basically every country has done it to some extent though.
Fun fact about the Galil; there was a bottle opener built into the bottom of the handguard. I don't remember if it was INTENDED to be a bottle opener but it quickly earned the reputation for being the rifle that openly promoted cracking a cold one with Ishmael and Yoseph after a long day of stomping basically everyone next door to you.
Speaking of bottle openers, many Ford vehicles built in the early 50's had a bottle opener on the back of the clamp that secured the steering column to the dash. I don't think Ford intended it but it sure came in handy.
@@n.mcneil4066 Neat! Nothing better than a car that endorses driving under the influence 😂
@@n.mcneil4066 we always used the lower hinge to the driver's door.
Lol Imagine needing a bottle Opener to crack Open a cold one 😂
@@BananaRama1312 Imagine low-key bragging about the obvious fact that you don't technically need a bottle opener and you can do it with three times as much difficulty by using something else.
I'm surprised the North Korean M16A1 wasn't mentioned. It wasn't standard issue to their troops but for their guerilla forces that would have smuggled them into the south, commit terrorist acts and ditch the guns. The idea was that once the guns were recovered, local forces would blame American soldiers for the acts.
‘Terrorist act’
From what I heard, North Korea have unlicensed copy of K2 rifles since 1990's issued by special forces and it was known during 2015 North Korea shelling of South Korea across the Western Front.
Sounds like no russian
@@TrumpIsYourPrez2024 Huh? What do you mean?
@@JustGuy7721 Like the call of duty mission. Makarov and friends attacked a russian airport, didnt speak russian, and left the dead body of a CIA agent that was caught undercover by them to make it look like the americans attacked the russian airport, causing World War 3
I kinda love how those Yugoslavian inventors won a patent case with the argument; “Oh, your mad because we’re copying your design?! You remember that war not too long back…?”
I'd just say what you gonna do about it?
@@themenacingpenguin.7152 Invade again
@@TheMock5000 LoL Yugoslavia would kick Germany's as* easy in those days, well up until the brakeaway and civil war. And that's a fact
@@milosnikolic7842 Could be true but it surely would have not have been a walkover. True Germany got immensly demilitarilised after ww2, but both parts of Germany were actually remilitarised and being prepared to end up at the front (cold war soviet block vs western block) in case of an upcoming war. Thus both armies were always at the ready.
@@Schwachsinnn I hope everyone got this comment in a more of comical way than a true statement. Well, that was a thing I was referring to so the West side had Allies armies, and East side had the Soviet army. But none of those were German. So in theory. But that being said Yugoslavia was no pushover at all
During my service in the Taiwanese army, I used a T-74 machine gun. His disassembly method is very similar to FN's MAG machine gun, and the appearance is the same. FN is also said to have filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the T-74 machine gun.
武统的时候记得投降❤
@@qinxianghou885 先來再說
那可不 得先提醒到位 看你美帝主子到时候可会救你🥰🥰🥰
@@qinxianghou885 你不來你要怎麼統？
@@qinxianghou885 嘿，老兄，人家没说关于大陆和台湾的言论，你这样你这样有点像无脑粉红
Fun fact: Although Norinco copied the CQ-311, they’ve never intended it to be used by China’s official armed forces but instead export it to foreign countries at a cheaper price. The Norinco QBZ-95 instead is the official service rifle of China.
Yeah we heard from the video but still cool I guess
They said that in the video…
Since 2019, Norinco QBZ-95 is being rapidly replaced by the QBZ-191 as the official main rifle of China
The SWAT unit in Fujian actually equipped CQ-311，or maybe it's variant.
i recall in Warrior competition at Jordan where all Special Forces around the world compete at each other, i saw a photo of Chinese spec ops carrying CQ carbines
As Bumblebee said in Transformers: Age of Extinction:"I hate cheap knock offs!"
I remember hearing some of the old timers talk about how you can just throw a sten smg in a room and it would just fire until it runs out of ammo, the trigger was that sensitive
you an uzi can do that too :D best way to clear a room.
Grenade mode. Star Trek phasers do same, put them in overload and they become a grenade.
I thought you said a sten mag at first. Might have been funnier that way. Didn't lose any of its accuracy anyway.
If it fired at all. The Sten was notorious for being unreliable.
It’s so cool to see the animation and movement become so much more realistic. It’s a small detail but it really looks nice!
I have been following this channel almost since its beggining. But dawn, the animation has gotten soo good that it true pleasure for the eyes. The rotation of the magazine on the STEN, the first person views and the cutout part at the galil and others gave me pure joy. All I can say is to thank you.
The animation quality has gotten really good since I started watching some years ago. Keep up the good work!
Your videos have improved drastically over the old ones and I love it. Keep it up guys.
Ironically the German MP3008 though a copy of the sten, was also a copy of the German MP28 as that's where the sten was originally copied from
Indeed so I wouldn't call it a copy
Military weapons have been copied almost since the beginning of war. Rome copied the Celtic style of sword...
Yes, the Lanchester was the British 'version' of the German MP28 from which as you mentioned the Sten was copied from in certain design areas. This was due to the British not having any design experience making SMG's, so they studied captured German MP38's pressed into service as the Lanchester (primarily used by the Royal Navy) in order to learn how to make one under wartime conditions. Thats also likely why (as mentioned) the Sten had a side mounted magazine because the German MP38/British Lanchester did too.
Washington and New York are innovative names lol
My dad has a Romanian AK-47, full automatic (converted into a semi/full auto select fire pre ‘68), legally registered with the Department of the Treasury. He tested it out prior to having to store it outside of California in the late 1980s when anti-gun fever contaminated the state. It fires pretty well, even now when he tested it again in his new home state where it is legal.
The WASR or PM-63?
@@SBF_983 I’ll have to ask him, I don’t recall off the top of my head.
Its AKM and Yes appears în Peace Walker
Effects from Video games
Ak 47 în CI Games its from Mp 40 smg
I love to see the constant improvement in quality of animations and videos compared to older ones. Been watching since 2017. Keep up the good work.
I've noticed an animation error, that sten is firing from the closed bolt.
That's the same stinker that CoD Vanguard made
Another animation error was when it shows a Chinese soldier holding the norinco tho it said not a single was one used ont he armed forces 🤔
bro it's a animation, stop being complaining about details
Not to mention the random welding on the norinco bolt carrier...
My Galil 392 ARM is extremely accurate and of course 100% reliable. It is however extremely 'over-gassed', but can be cured with aftermarket parts. I do wish it had a different twist rate than its 1:12". My NORINCO 1911A1 is a very fine pistol. I can not recall a malfunction EVER; in fact it feeds empty cases and is very accurate with a great trigger. The steel is supposedly 5100 series, which is a better spec than any other maker of this pistol... Even has a fully chromed barrel/chamber and all parts are milled and forged. Good enough of a pistol that it is only one of three or four brands that Wilson will build upon. Will also add NORINCO 5.56 M193 ball ammo is very good. I ran it over a chronograph and its speed is on point, is clean and very effective. Cases reload well, but I do notice some variance in the extractor cut, but so far has been no big deal.
Okay okay, hear me out. The Galil may be a clone, but it's practical and a pretty neat-looking firearm.
It’s sexy and reliable AF
It also has a bottle opener and wire cutters
@@k1tsun386 Bottle opener?
Germans will love that thing
@@GK-mr9ko rElIaBlE
@@ZOVEnjoyer_ yes
"Can we have M-16?"
"We have M-16 at home"
M-16 at home: 12:11
*slams desk* "Identity theft isn't a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year!"
Source ?!?
Every gun that starts with "Type"
Thank god China uses QBZ!
little note on the CQ311A (the civilian-sale variant of the CQ311): given the absurt ITAR export fees compounded to the already expensive Italian import fees for firearms, it was pretty common in Italy to buy a CQ311A and then buy aftermarket accessories like handguard, pistol grip, stock etc. to mock them up into an actual AR15. Mainly because you could buy a Norinco CQ for 300-400€, whereas even the cheapest PSA/Anderson AR would cost around 1500 to 3000€ due to the difficulty of procuring one.
They were pretty popular in Canada as well, Norinco has quite the following here
We don't get Chinese guns or ammo anymore, here in The States. Except for some shotguns.
China can’t stop copying weapons because they are paranoid of being invaded again.
Wow, PSA/Anderson only cost $3-400 here in the states when they're on sale. I wish we didn't ban the Chinese imports.
@@leileijoker8465 yeah, but sadly, as I said, once you compound US export fees, Italy's import/serialization/registration fees, and distributor's fees, a high-tier AR15 would end up costing almost twice as much, and a cheap one would end up being four or five times the price....which is why the vast majority of ARs you see here are chinese SDMs and Norincos, or EU-made Schmeissers, Hammerli and Oberland Arms, ADCs made in Italy, and very rarely some military surpluses from other countries
I wouldn't call the Galil a shameless copycat, it's one of the best AK derivatives ever made
But it is a copy of rk62
@@MRtapio5 A good copy at that
@@AllTheSameSeam FAX. Just not as good as rk62😏
@@MRtapio5 True true, But it's good in it's own little way 😊
@@MRtapio5 Which is a copy of an AK iirc
Germany: creates MP 18
Britain: creates Sten gun by copying MP 18
Germany: creates MP 3008 by copying Sten Gun
I would like to add that the M98 was also ,,copied‘‘ and manufactured by the Americans without a license. The Springfield M1903 is very Simulator to the m98 System.
well, both sides were repeatedly inspired by their opponents, which is somehow paradoxical
@@tapferer.Toasterit is not just very simular to the G98, it's a shameless copy. 99% of this gun is just straight up copied.
Fun fact about the galil, it has another variant in 7.62 nato (.308) and a modernized vatiant called the galil ACE in 7.62 soviet
Everybody is talking about the guns but can we please appreciate how absolutely awesome the animations are in this video?! The different angles, shadings and the small details like the rotating bullets at 5:58 are absolutely amazing. Great work!
animations have some mistakes, like smgs firing from closed bolt, so i would not call animations good
I agree. I really love the animations and it’s relatively simple style. Keeps me focused lol
@@gn4128 yep some pretty poor detail in how things operate - what's going on with the RK62?...
i love the thumbnail for this video because as we all know the M16 was famously known for it’s reliability and quality in extreme conditions during its early outings.
@Adam Korzeniowski I was gonna say the same. Huge misconception that even I didn’t know about until recently
@Adam Korzeniowski people like to blame it on ammunition, but that's the half of the story, mags were trash as well, recievers were also weak, due to inexpiriance with aluminium.
The powder used in the 5.56 round at the time was a Smokeless Powder.. it was not black powder. Lots of different kinds of Smokeless Powder with high and low burn rates as well as single and double base powder's.
The vietnam M16 didnt need cleaning it was the ammo that caused it to jam
The original m16a1s actually perform very well given cleaning and correct ammo; the army ordinance department purposely sabotaged the weapon with among other things, improper ammo.
Fun fact: the sten was so cheap to make, the Belgian resistance made them in bike shops.
The Sten is the dollar store of the gun world.
The Lutty before the Lutty?
I kind of wonder if that is not a urban legend, because there is a story about the Swedish K that it could be manufactured in bike factorys.
I hope that you can see this I really like your videos
@Snowy 🅥 no
@Snowy 🅥 rethink your life
@Don't Read My Profile Photo I’m going to steal ur eyes
God bless
@Don't Read My Profile Photo we wont
1:49 The Sten is a simplified version of the Lanchester SMG a copy of the German Bergman MP18/1.
And the sten copied the mp40 magazine
MP28/II actually, MP28, Lanchester and Sten were selective fire. MP-18 and MP-38/40 were not.
@@okaro6595 Thanks
The Germans literally copied their own homework they forgot about
One of my favorite stories about copying weapons design is that the first Soviet nuke was such a close copy of an American design that they actually replicated some minor errors in a couple of mechanical and electrical components that the US later ironed out in serial production
That only one copied weapon that isn’t trash
Do you really want to blame country which just want to have nuclear shield?
Even funnier is that the USSR made some changes in the design of the nuclear bomb using spies from the UK and American equipment (participated in the Manhattan Project)
А что хорошего в ядерной монополии США?
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Did you forget about the M 60 MG 42 copy
and the Springfield clone of the Mauser
Any gun manufacturer: *Produces a nice firearm*
Norinco: *It's free real estate*
Its always nice to see Finland mentioned somewhere, didn't even know that the galil was based of the rk62
2 copy of AK...
4 copy of AK…
Ak47 copy of stg44
Well...ak47 - rk62 - gaili - fnc80 - and that is how we in Sweden end up with ak5 :)
The MG-42 could achieve its high rate of fire because it incorporated ball bearings into its slide mechanism. The U.S. M-60 MG was a virtual copy of its design after the war, but it did not include the ball bearings, relying on more standard bushing designs for its operations. But the new Chinese fighter is said to be a near clone of our new F-17s, so it's good that we both get to play with our new toys in our own backyards.
The m60 only copied the top cover lift thing idea from the mg42 but the mechanism is more similar to the fg42
MG 8?
Old Chinese fighters (such as J-10, J-15 series) inherits the Russian MiGs and Sukhoi DNA. However the new stealth J-20 is a powerful domestically designed and built jet. Even though it looks like the F-22 Raptor, almost same specs as F-22, but that rumour of it being a copy of the Raptor is false. The J-20 was actually designed and planned to counter F-22 should the situation arise, therefore it has mostly almost-same specs as F-22. Take a look at Korea's new KF-21, it looks so much like the F-35 jets, and even though it has mostly the same specs as F-35 too, it is surely not a copy of F-35
The entire Chinese air fleet are copied from other countries.
F-17?
When I just getting into this hobby, I’m just a college student with part-time job, Norinco did good job let people like me can afford a firearm with calibre larger than .22.
I owned the AR/SKS/P226 clone and I can say all of those made by low quality materials and finish looks like done by amateur. But after own those thing make me have motivation to work harder for finally own a real deal like colt or sig. good job Norinco
next video Idea:
Douglas Monroe, the first and only U.S. Guardsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor
Oh yes
If you ever make a part 2 you should talk about the Rogak P18. It's a copy of a prototype model of the Steyr GB.
Who makes it?
@@corvoattano4777 Rogak. In this particular case, it isn't another country's arsenal copying another's military intellectual property. It was a private organization copying a handgun for the civilian market. The Steyr GB ultimately lost out to the Glock 19 aka the P-80 in Austrian Military service.
@@metallicarchaea1820 }:‑):-P:-P
Some ideas:
- Type 56 (AK-47/AKM)
- the other Type 56 (SKS)
- Smith & Wesson M76 (Carl Gustaf M/45) - Yes, the USA can be guilty of such thing as well
@@rps215 type 56 was a licemse production bro
There is also the Lancaster SMG, which was a British copy of the German MP28 SMG.
MP28?
The MP28 was an improved MP18 so basically the first German SMG of ww1 is related to the last German smg of WW2
Wast the sten based on the lancaster ^^?
@@fernandoruizpou6905 MP18 but with a box mag instead of the luger drum(i think it also had slighly more capacity)
the lanchester was a copy of that
which was later simplified to make the sten
which was than copied and further simplified(removed mag swivel machanism, removed semi auto) by the germans
Not Burt Lancaster
Other countries: make a gun
China: Write that down! Write that down!
Fun fact: AK-47 is basically an upside-down copycat of M1 Garand.
Thats more of a myth. The Ak is far more similar to the STG44 than the Garande.
@@colin4tor781 Only the looks are simlair. StG44 is mechanically more simlair to weapons like Vz 58, SKS, FN FAL or SVT-40. AK's interiors resemble those of a Garand (rotating bolt, long stroke piston gas system and trigger mechanism).
Edit: All contemporary assault rifles are somehow simlair to the StG44, by the way.
No it's not you dipsh- *OOOOH OOOOHHH OOOOOH OOOHH MY GOD!!!!!*
@@user-ri5oc5rw5b relax. I can hear that all the time from people that saw weapons only in TV or video games.
@@colin4tor781 Let Papa Kalashnikov educate you about the subject.
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Mauser filed a lawsuit (and subsequently won) against the Springfield Armory claiming the M1903 (the US's primary battle rifle until it's replacement by the M1 Garand) was a copy of the Model 1898 (which would be Germany's primary battle rifle in one shape or another through WWII). Unfortunately for Mauser, WWI broke out before they received awarded compensation from the US.
Also worth noting, the US M60 machine gun is mostly the love child of the MG42 and FG42. However, it was noted by the the US military in 1974 that the successor to the MG42 (the MG3) was in fact a far superior and more reliable design (one which share a high level of parts interchangeability with the original 42) to the M60. The MG42 is an OG legend and still one of the finest fire support weapons ever fielded and a design that clearly works.
Another blatantly copied MG design is that of the Maxim Machine Gun, which first came to be in 1884 (though most copies are licensed). Fun fact, both the MG42 and Maxim can be found in use in Ukraine today.
Don't forget Besa HMG and Bren lmg but these were legal copies made by Czechoslovakia for Brits.
After WW1 Mauser was paid back royalties by Springfield or the government. Read it a long time ago and memory is fuzzy.
Spanish MG81 is copied MG42
@@daoss4620 This video is about unliscensed copies.
@@jessestreet2549 during ww1, the USA paid germany royalties for the springfield's mauser design
Norinco reproductions are actually very good products: AR15 clones aside, their Winchester 1897 shotgun repro is very good.
Historically speaking, the Chinese made MP18s are way more significant: they were used to fight the Japanese invasion, and the Japanese Army itself captured and used them because they pretty much lacked any officially adopted SMG (the Type 100 was extremely rare)
If norinco is so good like you say then why is it banned where i live
@@alexanderl.6207Easy, politics.
If Norinco repros weren't valid, people would not buy them with or without a ban.
Also consider this, the pc/phone you are using probably has components made in China. Why not banning them as well?
@@alexanderl.6207 Because of Bill Clinton.
@@alexanderl.6207 you actually answered your own questions
Yea whatever we understand that you are Chinese
im honestly surprised the springfield 1903/mauser isnt here considering how iconic the design was
One of my favourite things about this channel is that it looks like its a low budget Wikipedia reader like info graphics show, but it's actually well animated and well researched.
Go look at the channels infographic show owns
"Well-researched," say that about his propaganda on Stalin and Mao!
Not super well researched imo. But entertaining.
@@alienmorality Non, monsieur.
@@alienmorality The idea of Stalin being a "mass murderer" is statistically impossible. "The Soviet population increased by one-three million every year between 1927-37 excluding 1932", "Western powers attempted to halt Soviet industrialization via the "golden blockade", accepting only grain and oil for trade", "In 1932 Soviet grain exports were lowered by 340% while imports with countries that accepted gold increased", "Kulaks killed between 20-35% of all livestock", "In parts of Southern Ukraine, up to 50% of land was uncollected due to Kulak sabotage", "The Kulaks often did not even work their own farms", "Stalin sent aid as soon as the situation was realized, in one instance he had aid sent within a day after receiving a letter from a citizen", "Thanks to collectivization, the Soviets never had another large famine after 1947", "During peacetime, Gulag mortality was 3% , roughly equivalent to the mortality rate in current American prisons", "The maximum sentence for a Gulag was 10 years.", "Gulag prisoners were often paid local market wages, compared to American prisoners who are often unpaid", "Even the CIA has admitted to the large number of prisoners released from the Gulags each year!"
The CIA admitted in their document "Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership from the Central Intelligence Agency" that the western idea of Stalin as a "dictator" was an exaggeration and misunderstanding, they had admitted that the Soviet Union featured collective leadership and that Stalin was merely the "captain of the team" as they worded it. Also, Stalin was elected three times and was regulated through Democratic Centralism.
massacres of CAPITALIST nations; the Holocaust, The Rohingya Crisis, The Indonesian Genocide, The Central American Crisis, the Dirty War, La Matanza, El Mozote Massacre, Guatemalan Genocide, the Indigenous Cultural Genocide, etc.
I have a Chinese Norinco 1911 clone that I have found one part that was not a direct copy of the US 1911.
The one part is the firing pin retainer and about 30 minutes with a file, and I was able to fit it.
This 1911 clone has had over 3000 rounds through it and still works fine even though I have modified it with a 7 inch ported barrel and red dot sight.
I think you will also find the grip bushings will not interchange - The threaded part for the grip frame is not the same, but the threads for the grip screws are the same as with any other 1911 clone. Love my NORINCO 1911A1 a bunch.
The AK-47 has so many copies in many countries I’m surprised you didn’t mention them all.
AK copy of the STG
... and the most notorious of them being the chinese copy of ak-47.
@@franznarf the ak isn’t a copy of the stg44
Joseph yes it is
@@robertdawson8522 not a copy, it took designs but the internals are way different
14:42 that looks identical to the GTA V Ammunation 😂
I'm Mexican, and I'm wondering why not mention the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl. It may have been dismissed by H&K themselves as not a direct clone of their G36 platform, but I still would have loved to see it mentioned
On the outside it has a high resemblance to the g36, but from what I understand it's internal parts are different in function design
@@theoneandonlydetraebean8286 Yep. Still would have loved a mention on the weapon though. They just used the G36 design mostly since that is what the Mexican military primarily used up to that point. G36 Rifles
That’s a great story though, has anyone covered it on TH-cam?
Yeah, the FX-05 is a pretty damn good gun
I love how animations in this video includes basicaly all safety measures in gun manuals
My Galil is a hybrid.
It was built in Israel, sold to a Central American Government, {rode hard and put away wet} then parted out when they were done with it.
Then a company with a (less than) STELLAR reputation acquired the parts. The first models had issues. Including the name "Galil".
IWI was, um... not happy.
They sued. The type was renamed and some features altered.
That's how my "Golani Sporter" came to be.
Mine is tip top. A previous owner was even kind enough to replace the night sights.
Israel isnt real bruv
@@reedmercerr IMI, is.
Actually there were three copies of the Sten submachine gun made by German gunmakers. The Burp Guns used by US tank crewmen that were given the appellation M3 Grease Gun was actually license built in China as was the CQ-311
The Chinese also made a copy of the sten. The one they based it on had a dent in the receiver, thinking this was part of the design they put a dent in the same place on their copies
Bruh
LMFAO 😂🤣
clever enough to copy it but not clever enough to understand it
Typical Chinese
Yeah to the KMT Type 36 looks really like stens
Comment section: *Forget most part of this video except the part where "China" is mentioned*
SH's animating has really improved over the years with the details in the faces and guns.
Country A: Can I copy your homework?
Country B: Sure. Just change it a little bit to make it look less obvious
I always loved the Galil, such a cool history behind it and the fact that it binds the reliability of the AK-47 with the accuracy of the FN FAL is so cool. It's always been my assault rifle of choice in FPS for good reason.
_"the fact that it binds the reliability of the AK-47 with the accuracy of the FN FAL is so cool."_
The original RK 62 did exactly that. Not really a Galil innovation in any way.
@@OltsuSuomesta No Bottle Opener?🤨
@@pharaongaming8617 Uh, Every Finnish soldier carries a knife. It's a bottle opener, too.
@@peabase knives aren't even issued to soldiers anymore, there's no point since they have guns now
@@TheMartianMancumpster Finnish soldiers don't need to be issued any knives. We bring our own.
The Springfield 1903 bolt assembly was a copy of the Mauser K98 butterfly head locking bolt. Mauser sued after the war and had a good case but lost due to the patent infringement being declared "war booty".
The Springfield had much better range.
Mauser won the law suit, but didn't receive any compensation due to the war breaking out.
Nonono... America does not copy, it only _gets_ copied 😉
For what I know the mosin nagant and the Lee Enfield are also copies of the Mauser K98
@@grafdragon3033 nope, not even close. Mosin came a couple of years before the Mauser made their first magazine fed rifle. Mosins bolt is also made from multiple pieces whereas Mausers is single piece. The locking lugs are also different. Lee-Enfield is also a completely different design. Its bolt lock at the rear and use a helical locking lugs.
This channel has not always been known for accuracy (pun intended) especially when it comes to arms. This video is very much the exception. Info and depictions are spot on.. great job
The Israeli IMI Galil is how a copy really should be; it didn't just copy verbatim the AK-47 or make a cheaper version of it but instead modified the weapon to better suit their needs and improve the overall performance of the weapon system. The rest were just shameless copies or done in desperations.
With AKs, it's a really unique situation. Almost feels like the AK is a "royalty free" gun
Well the Galil wasn't even based on the AK, since it was based on a rifle that was already an entirely separate gun that was only manufactured around the design of an AK... the RK62 is a much better gun compared to the AK47 it was copied and enhanced from. I've shot both (never shot a Galil though), and the Galil is even further from the AK. So it's definitely much more than a copy, even if the basic mechanisms and the silhouette are the same.
@@myfaceismyshield5963 Yep. Less a "copy" and more a generational improvement over the AK, with a specific goal to improve it.
*after they stole gunpowder they still have audacity to come back and bashing China*
@@myfaceismyshield5963 Israelis are good at taking other culture's things, to be fair.
The Japanese during WW2 studied captured Garands and made their own "Type 4."
A Japanese M1 Garand
Before that, they did had the Czech ZH29 copy, put on trial in the 30's but never got adopted. You look for it in Forgotten Weapons.
I handled a sten gun in 1968 at a summer fete where our local Royal Engineers had a stall. It was still their personal weapon as it had firepower and could be stashed easily in a vehicle. The one I handled was chained to a table so I couldn't take it home.
Some of my family bought two of those Chinese Ar's several years ago at a gun show, for about 500 each.
I wouldn't recommend them, they heat up fast and you can feel it in the hand guard, the ones they get had a really thin piece of aluminum under there , very loud and they had issues with the triggers .
Besides the lower receivers, they replaced everything on them.
They bought them because of the price but have invested about the same amount a regular AR would have cost
From what I read at /k/, it's almost like what you said. Except that with proper tweaking and modification, you can fix that heat up handguard with 3rd party handguard which have better material.
But yeah, wouldn't recommend it. i consider Norinco AR as "Baby's First AR".
"You get what you pay for" rings true everyday
they are more easily massproduced, so for china, i think if the gun cannot be used at the time, they just switch it
A couple of years ago I bought a Ruger AR for 400 bucks. I guess “a couple of years ago” varies widely in actual years..
@@roninkraut6873 it was around maybe 8 or 9 years ago I want to say.
You didn’t mention the American WW1 era Springfield bolt action 30-06 was a copy of the Mauser bolt actions of the time, and they were forced to pay significant penalties and licence fees afterwards for breach of patent.
And the M3 grease gun was copy (better than original) of the Sten.
What's interesting is that Yisrael Galili, the inventor of the Galili gun was born as Yisrael Balashnikov but changed his name later in life
It's a fun coincidence that both his weapon and his lastname are similar to the Kalashnikov
Some more in-depth information on the CQ-311, the Rifle not only was made out of a lesser quality aluminum, but also all measurements were up converted in Metric. I actually came across a stripped 311 upper a buddy gave me and after I realized what it was I understood why a Colt BCG had so much play inside of it. Norinco also licensed the 311 to Iran and Sudan
The cq311 has a very rough trigger group. Terrible trigger pull no clean break. Butt stock is good and solid with a good design. Forstock could do with upgrade. But the barrels gave me better accuracy than any other common brand.
for me the most shameless copy has to be the Japanese Garand copy known as the type 4.
IJ obtained the Czech ZH-29 and made a copy of it by Tokyo Gas and Electric. Forgotten Weapons has it in details. The rifle was put to trial in the 30's but never adopted by Japan so Japan stuck with variations of Arisaka throughout most of the war.
@@Joshua_N-A was it because of the IJ infantry doctrine was sharpshooting?
@@xiaodai125 i heard that its because the rifle's accuracy suffered after converting to japanese cartridges.
Yeah but it was also called the type 5 it also had the clips from the garand and changed it to use 7.7 x 58mm Arisaka it’s interesting but never saw combat parts for 250 were to be made but only 125 were made.
“Hey mom can we have AR15”
“No we have AR15 at home”
AR15 at home:
From what I have heard what Germany did was convert a lot of Sten guns into MP 3008.
THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN!!! THEY ARE BUTCHERING THEIR BODY PARTS TO BE THE OPPOSITE GENDER!
THIS MUST BE STOPPED
@Snowy 🅥 f u
Fun fact in the Slovenian military we still have about 1000-2000 of M53 in the reserves
Love the video! You could do another whole series on pistol copies. Tons of 1911, High Power, and Glock copies out there.
Smith and Wesson and Glock, who paid?
China is the country equivalent of when you finish the homework due in class and your friends says "Can I see it?" Every single time.
Digging the "Lord of War" introduction...
Many copycat weapons have been designed during wars,when armies were in need of weapons. For example,during the Yugoslav wars,Slovenia made MGV176 which was a copy of the American 180 SMG,and Croatia made a variety of defferent guns,both the original designs and copies of other guns (Ero was a copy of Uzi, Jelen was a copy of PPSH, APS95 was a copy of the Galil/AK, etc.)
Apparently Israeli women weren’t allowed to serve in frontline units back then.
This means that showing Israeli female soldiers in combat is technically innacuarate
@GordonRamsey34 I’m not sure about support, but I do think they didn’t allow women in combat roles
@GordonRamsey34 reserve and logistics units only . No frontline troops until the 1990s
The AK-47 itself is a copy of the German Sturmgewehr 44.
Saying you know nothing about guns without saying you know nothing about guns
@@no-bodymr6419 Quite the opposite.
The Sturmgewehr 44 was a semi auto weapon with a caliber of 8mm. Meanwhile the AK 47 is a fully automatic weapon whose caliber is 7.62X39mm. The only similarity is the outside design and even that isn't very big.
@@Kakashi_Senseiofficial "While the StG 44 was capable of fully automatic fire, German soldiers were directed to use it primarily in semi-automatic mode. Fully automatic mode was to be used only in emergencies, for short bursts of two or three rounds" - Wikipedia
@@KP-xi4bj Bruh the Germans couldnt even make a gun right in 1944 lol.
If we want to talk about good gun copies I suggest in a part two you bring up the Beretta BM-59. The gun is basically a copy of the M1 Garand modified to be an M14 type select-fire battle made in Italy. They didn't have the money after the war to buy a license for FN FAL or H&K G3 used by their neighbors so they took made this gun instead.
Don't forget the direct Copy of the FS 92 back in 1988 by the South Africans. Also the licensed copy of the Walther P99 by Canik.
The first ones weren't copies but modified M1 Garands, I've one which still wears the Springfield stampings.