Ughh I’m pretty sure he is well appreciated name another gun designer in America beside Sam Colt, and John Browning off top of your head … I can’t it’s usually those three I ever hear about from anyone
In 1988, it had been just 19 years since man had gone to the moon. That's as far away as 2002 is from today. I was just 2 years after Chernobyl, another year till the wall fell, and the 386 was the pinnacle of computing. The first gulf war wasn't even a consideration. Trippy.
Wasn't the first Golf War between Iran and Iraq not going down at just that time period, including suicide bombers and chemical warfare in a somewhat proxy war...
Look into Project Salvo, SPIW (Special Purpose Individual Weapon) and ACR (Advanced Combat Rifle). Several experimental ammunition were telescoped configuration as early as the 50s.
Most of modern laser and computer science are all based on 1970s and 1980s research projects. The cold war was the mother and father of so much science.
55:51 - Ed is talking about the Javelin / Stinger systems. I hate to say it but Eugene was just flat out wrong here. A T-70 cost the USSR few million dollars, the Javelin is a hundred grand. Stingers are less than the Javelin IIRC. The equipment those systems destroy are 20 times the price. The economics of it are insane and benefit those who have these systems.
its simply the bias of not knowing better, cold war didnt go hot ever, so most of the knowledge of enemy tech was speculative, unironically we are in a new era of anti tank weapons since 2022 with drone development
“We sent a man on the moon. Why can’t we develop a shoulder-fired weapon to kill the Soviet main battle tank?” Some dude hugging a Javelin somewhere in Ukraine would be amused to hear this :)
eh depends what you mean, g11 tech was solved in late 1980s/early 90s soviet gp25 is also caseless, the things is caseless ammo might not neccessary be the way of future
how did the 35mm differ from the Oerlikon 35mm? Or why didn't they make it if the Oerlikon already existed? the are both gas operated and have the same cyclic rates.
Does anyone else get the feeling the Stoner gets a little annoyed at the interviewers line of questioning? It's more like his interpretation of what Stoner says like we don't understand
LCF guns looks a lot like contemporary Rheinmetall products, so it isn't just H&K that plundering Stoner's developments, interesting. Wonder if Stoner ever been involved with H&K in some fashion or if they done it all by re-engineering.
So basically if the big corporation already had a big contract for something they didn't want stoner coming along with a better design disrupting there gravy train.
Eugene Stoner is the Nikola Tesla of firearms.
Way ahead of his time and way too underappreciated.
Ughh I’m pretty sure he is well appreciated name another gun designer in America beside Sam Colt, and John Browning off top of your head … I can’t it’s usually those three I ever hear about from anyone
He is appreciated as a small arms designer, but his larger designs are underappreciated
His 'push' extraction technique is quite ingenious I wonder why telescoping ammunition never caught on.
They screwed you all the way, Mr Stoner, Eugene Stoner😢
In 1988, it had been just 19 years since man had gone to the moon. That's as far away as 2002 is from today. I was just 2 years after Chernobyl, another year till the wall fell, and the 386 was the pinnacle of computing. The first gulf war wasn't even a consideration.
Trippy.
Wasn't the first Golf War between Iran and Iraq not going down at just that time period, including suicide bombers and chemical warfare in a somewhat proxy war...
Wow, dude was talking about telescoping ammo in 1980s, just wow. Remote control guns and turrets, wow. 75mm @ 1 round a sec!
We had drones in Vietnam so it's not that surprising
@@TengrioftheCrimsonSky JFK's older brother died in WW2 in the first type of drone aircraft, so you are right drones are not new in the 80's.
@@DDdrifter Tks for bringing this info, I searched and was really interesting
Look into Project Salvo, SPIW (Special Purpose Individual Weapon) and ACR (Advanced Combat Rifle). Several experimental ammunition were telescoped configuration as early as the 50s.
Most of modern laser and computer science are all based on 1970s and 1980s research projects. The cold war was the mother and father of so much science.
55:51 - Ed is talking about the Javelin / Stinger systems. I hate to say it but Eugene was just flat out wrong here. A T-70 cost the USSR few million dollars, the Javelin is a hundred grand. Stingers are less than the Javelin IIRC. The equipment those systems destroy are 20 times the price. The economics of it are insane and benefit those who have these systems.
its simply the bias of not knowing better, cold war didnt go hot ever, so most of the knowledge of enemy tech was speculative, unironically we are in a new era of anti tank weapons since 2022 with drone development
He was fascinating.
They don’t make em like Eugene Stoner anymore
i wish i could have met him
old man still taking me to school
“We sent a man on the moon. Why can’t we develop a shoulder-fired weapon to kill the Soviet main battle tank?”
Some dude hugging a Javelin somewhere in Ukraine would be amused to hear this :)
In this day and age.. We still cannot make caseless ammo..
eh depends what you mean, g11 tech was solved in late 1980s/early 90s
soviet gp25 is also caseless, the things is caseless ammo might not neccessary be the way of future
Stoner got that newer any talented engineer should rely military contracts. Civil market is a Graal for constructors and engineers...
how did the 35mm differ from the Oerlikon 35mm? Or why didn't they make it if the Oerlikon already existed? the are both gas operated and have the same cyclic rates.
HSTVL btw
Does anyone else get the feeling the Stoner gets a little annoyed at the interviewers line of questioning?
It's more like his interpretation of what Stoner says like we don't understand
is the talon feed tray similar to how the p90 feeds? also is the talon a closed bolt and if so how does it mitigate heat to avoid cook offs?
Haha good year tires on an artillery gun.
LCF guns looks a lot like contemporary Rheinmetall products, so it isn't just H&K that plundering Stoner's developments, interesting. Wonder if Stoner ever been involved with H&K in some fashion or if they done it all by re-engineering.
So basically if the big corporation already had a big contract for something they didn't want stoner coming along with a better design disrupting there gravy train.
No requirement according to plans secret then . . out in open now
Tiiiiiny bubbles