Overpowered Guns used to Cheat in Battle
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Warfare is one of the most influential drivers of technological innovation. When the fighting breaks out, participants will utilize the latest technology and weaponry to give them an edge over their opponents. There are some weapons, however, that those on the receiving end found dishonorable, overly cruel, or just plain unfair.
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As a part German user I hate shotguns
So the UZI is like the THOMPSON in the 1920s
France was first using gas on the battlefield, they deployed tear gas in August 1914
0:28 Magnum3.0 reference?
I heard it first at the Great War channel but I do have a written referenser too
Fun Fact: Gatling Guns are still legal to own in the US because they are not considered to be Automatic Weapons by the ATF. They're expensive though.
God bless america
Murica!
Yup. You can get Gatling Guns that take Glock mags. My local range has one.
@@ratgobbler What round of Gatling gun was?
@@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 What?
“If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.” John Steinbeck
"The only rule of war is win" Unknown
Straight up!!!!
Fuckin A right no such thing as a "fair fight "
Fair fights are for sports. War is for winning.
I like this
Germans: *Uses poison gas to inflict slow and painful death*
Americans: *Brings out Shotguns*
Germans: NEIN! ZIS IS NOT HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY ZE GAME!
NEIN! YOU WAR CRIMINALS!
Don't forget the flametrhowers
Ha! ha! Trench Gun go CH CH
Germans being mad and frustrated that shotguns are taking over their trenches
Bro germany is not at war why u using present tense @naidraug1990
"Just plain unfair"
Has there ever been a war that's fair ?
it's called gaining advantage
Not a war but look up "Combat of the Thirty", one of the best examples of a "fair fight"
No such thing as a fair fight.
All's fair in love and war.
I feel the same way about steroids in sports.
The only ones who find a weapon unfair are usually the ones losing and would use it with out a second thought had they thought of it first
Sounds like Palestine today
This time the jewish people arent getting hert by people.
Are nazis more hypicrites or isreal?
Exactly
@jonrobbin170 💯 a few months ago they had a much different tone then they do now...
No fight is ever a fair one. Anyone will use c whatever they have to their advantages
“There are two kinds of bayonet fighters; the quick and the dead”.
Every Army Drill Sergeant.
Would be true if they hadn't taken away bayonet training. They had stopped doin it right before i joined in 13
And of course no one mentions the other shotguns used in WW1, the Winchester Model 1912 and the Remington Model 10, both of which were also capable of slam fire.
Well, the model shown likely was the most famous.
Agreed
OK dude we get it. You've watched other videos about the trench gun
@@badger297or he just played bf1
@@badger297 don't get mad because his superior knowledge of firearms exceeds yours..
There's no such thing as an "overpowered gun" that is "used to cheat". In combat, you bring as much mechanical advantage, tactical advantage, violence of action, as you possibly can. The only fair fight is the one you lose.
For anyone who'd like to know a little more:
1. Shotguns were effective in WW1 (at close ranges only, about 50 yards at most), but they were really prone to muck and mud (especially the 1897 since it had an externalized breechblock and a lot of openings). Also, the shells were made with paper, which made them have trouble feeding if they got wet since they swelled and jammed in the gun. Brass cartridges were rare and expensive-most did not make it to Europe in time.
2. Slam fire had a really limited use-you're dealing with higher recoil, and most trench guns had really tight cones (you're not peppering 5-6 guys with one large spray of buckshot, you're blasting one dude in particular with a tight spread), so usually you just used slam fire as an emergency or if you were firing at a grouped-up target.
3. Yes, the Allies did protest sawbacks, but sawbacks don't actually inflict further damage (and like SH notes, they were purely used as tools). Also, while the protests were partially why the Germans stopped using sawbacks, it was not the only reason-the actual saw became less useful since most soldiers either didn't need a saw or got a separate tool instead, plus sawbacks take more time to make, so they were withdrawn and many had their saws removed.
4. If you have a Gewehr 98 bayonet, you can tell if your bayonet was originally a sawback by looking at the back-if the back is straight and even the whole length, it was a straight edge the whole time. If the back has a dip and thins near the middle, it was originally a sawback but had the teeth ground off.
5. For anyone curious, the reason Thompson drum mags weren't used was because they're heavy, noisy, and awkward to carry and load compared to sticks. Some were used really early on by the British, but most were withdrawn. Also, Thompson magwells have cuts milled in the sides (the stick magazines go straight into the opening, the feed lips of the drums fit around and into the cuts). The Thompsons used by gangsters (the M1921 and M1921, with the famous foregrip) and the first military Thompson (the M1928A1) have these cuts, while the WWII Thompsons (the M1 and M1A1) don't. If you milled the cuts into the receiver of a WWII Thompson, you could use the drums."
You've been waiting your entire life to throw that out there huh lol. Informative.
@@greggrace967 Lmao, thanks, I just watch a lot of videos and know a thing or two.
Bro wrote a whole essay😭😭😭💀💀🙏
I would love to read allat but I’m hella tired
@@iforgor8271 TLDR; Shotguns are situational, slamfire isn't good, sawbacks are overrated, andThompson drums aren't good,
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Very cool to include the Girardoni air rifle. I’m a huge air rifle enthousiast and the rifles that are built today are no joke.
At that time it was really high tech. Today pre charged pneumatic rifles (PCP), like the girardoni, have around 2900PSI in the air reservoir. That having said, 80 shots on an 800PSI tank, with 46caliber round balls effectieve to 125 yards is astonishing. I have yet to see that in modern airguns. Usually at that range you could expect around 25 effective shots at 125 yards, that being a 9mm or 12.7mm pellet @ 3000 PSI
Whoa
Seems like air rifles can be used for assassination
That's what I'm saying, some of the numbers just don't make sense. So you're telling me over time we lost shots per fill with technology getting better? I think he meant to say 8 shots at 800 psi. 80 shots at 800psi with a .46 cal projectile and you'd need like two dive tanks full of air to get that and I almost guarantee the girardoni wasn't regulated like a lot of modern air rifles either so that even greater reduces shots per fill. I'll believe the .46cal balls being useful to 125yds but again any air rifle today that can shoot that kind of projectile and you're lucky to get two shots out of a 500cc air tank which is quite large. As an air rifle enthusiast as well, what did you think of those numbers?
@@petershaneracoma7844they could but the ones that are powerful enough to kill a human with one shot still exceed the sound barrier both with the projectile, and the air behind it so they're still extremely extremely loud. You also will get a very very very limited number of shots as in 1-2 before you have to repump the gun which takes several minutes with an electric pump and about 10-15 by hand. However the ones for small game and like hogs, you could whisper over when shot but again wouldn't be lethal to people except under very extreme freak circumstances
@@SpyrosAdventures yeah I’m still trying to wrap my head around those numbers. You are right about the shot count on the .45 and .50 caliber airguns like the AEA Zeus etc. That having said, those are actually even effective at around 250 yards. These produce around 1200+ FPE of muzzle energy (not velocity, energy). I have read more articles about the Girardoni and a couple of similair air guns from that era. Usually they produced around 110 FPE like about a 10/22 Ruger .22LR. But bear in mind we are talking 45cal round balls instead of 40 grain .22 bullets. So where they lethal at 125yrd? Probably, not so much as we think though. I also agree that 80 shots unregulated @ 800PSI seems way farfetched. I think they COULD get the ball to exit the barrel for 80 shots, that being the last dozen shots only go 30 feet away so to speak .
They didn’t had a gauge that said they should refill. Try Empty the complete cilinder to zero PSI, you would be amazed by the amount of shots, though very weak at the end! Cheers
Honorable mention: the 155mm Howitzer can be used as a direct fire death cannon if needed. Not sure if it was ever used in such a way but it's definitely something you absolutely do not want to be in the business end of.
The 105 with flechet and bee hive rounds were used all the time in Vietnam. When the enemy got in or close to the wire they blasted them down. Wasn't there. Read, and wstched docs. and interviews about it. 155 I'm not sure about.
@@greggrace967 155s today can be loaded with cluster munitions. Probably a little more effective.
Marines used 105s in the Pacific during WWII
Most notably on Guadalcanal at pretty much point blank range.
Also, soviet ZU-23-2 as a direct fire weapon against vehicles and infantry is kinda nasty. 23mm anti air "shotgun".
heard one story about a tanker in iraq that blasted a enemy with the tank gun because he forgot to switch to the machine gun
" Humans are always creative when it comes to killing and making each other suffer but not so much in helping each other"
creativity is creativity
Of course, its basic instincts. Me helping you means there's less resources for me to reproduce and multiply my genetics, if I take you out though, that means more resources and more women for me to spread my seed. Sorry, blame evolution.
i get the point really but have you not seen how far technology everywhere else has come lol
To some,
Destroying lives IS crazy helpful.
Million $ question...to whom🤔?
I actuelly think of policies to help people./just asume no1 cares because discrimination.
Germany: No! You can’t use shotgun! It’s against the rules of warfare!
America: I forgot the part where that’s my problem.
It's missed not forgot in spiderman
Haha, Shotgun go BOOM!
It was rightfully brought up the use of mustard gas which made the german army at large enemy combatants under hague. Dummkopfs.
I always chuckle when the topic of 'That's not FAIR' is used to describe the evolution of weaponry. War isn't 'Fair,' and only a Fool would try to engage in one that is.
I'm no firearm expert, but i had a friend who served in the DDR Military (not for the longest time, though.) who told me once "if you have an Uzi and a Granade and you want to sweep a room, just throw the Uzi in." I wonder if they really had such an light trigger that they could sometimes go off on their own. Maybe he spoke of the replicated Uzis.
Also been told this by a guy I work with, he was in Israel army for 20 years
Guns. Can't live with them. Can't live without them.
Incorrect. You can live with them all day as proven by the hundreds of millions who have their whole lives. Good luck living without them….
Gatling: My creation will reduce the casualties of war.
Human nature: yeah...about that
1:25. My response. "Didn't you fuckers invent the flamethrower didn't you fuckers play with mustard gas first"
The first bit on shotguns reminds me of how a few years ago I got called a "Motherfucker" in Hungarian after wiping the floor with the German team in a BF1 match while playing in the American team, to add to how fitting this was I was playing on European servers as an American...
Most fitting moment of gamer rage ever
It wasn't because of the shotgun they do that to any Americans that come to their servers and beat them. They'd prefer we stayed on our own servers😅
How does one say that in Hungarian? I am now curious
Those air rifles were insane and if they had done one thing, they could have been "unstoppable" imagine in garrison positions having them set for use with external feed. so on say, a wall, you plug a hose in and fire them that way. with that resivor being refusled by large steam engines. again same system would work on rail lines or even large wgons, where dismounted and dug in infantry fed off air lines from wagons... then when advancing attached their bottles.
We could of had steampunk instead of cyberpunk T.T
“If a bullet to the chest won’t stop you, my words will!” Winston Churchill
Epic Rap Battles
A bullet can't stop the bull moose!
Talk no jutsu
10:01 you know if this gun made it to large scale production we might not have ever fought a war. The opposing armies wacking off to each other would have erupted in laughter and terrible jokes.
Germans: Use flamethrowers and chemical weapons
Also Germans: Nein. You can’t use shotguns, they are dishonorable and cruel.
Bullshit
Literally became a call of duty game
Das boomenstick? Nein
Germans were just salty 😂
*"Laughs in buckshot"*
There is no cheating in war when someone is trying to kill you. It's about survival.
There are (and should be); things like perfidy (false surrender), targeting of medics, etc. are laws of war that are usually respected (usually but not always). Its 'cheating' (and not to mention stupid) to break those rules when your nation has already agreed to it, if only because the backlash would be worse than what you would militarily gain.
Perfidy is the easiest example; if you fake surrendering once or twice to surprise your enemy, one possibility is that the enemy simply stops accepting surrenders altogether, meaning that troops who are genuinely trying to surrender gets gunned down.
Similarly, offering mercy and accepting surrender is tactically and strategically sound; if you build a reputation as someone who treats prisoners fairly, it means enemies are more likely to surrender to you and not fight to the last man, meaning that your troops can be deployed elsewhere rather than dying to enemies who know that surrender is useless.
I can only agree with you that the use of powerful guns are use for survival even if it ment violation of war event.
Exactly.
Nukes
It's called a "tactical advantage"
Nothing is scarier in WW1 than a crazed marine armed with a shotgun with a short sword for a bayonet.
Crossbows, however, are the perfect everyman's weapon of the medieval era. Simple to load, simple to fire, powerful when used in mass. A terrifying weapon in concept and in practice when massed enough against those armed with swords and pikes.
Tell that to the Christians in the medieval era 😂
and incredibly easy to aim compared to other ranged weapons of the time
Just a note, because it bigs me everytime: *... en masse...*
Shields be like: am I a joke to you ?
also, most soldiers in this era were armed with spears and of course, they also carried with them a shield
in old Croatian gun magazine Delta i read about Giordini air rifle used inNapoleonic war. there was a section of French artilery officers diary about them being shoot at by air rifles. loader was shot, and they thought he had a stroke ore a heart attack untill they noticed a blood stain on chest.they saved them self with luck after that.(run away).
Can I just say that there is no such thing as fair fight thru history
13:26 I swear i lost it when the German soldier just kept going 😂😂😂
The Lewis and Clark expedition west brought two Giodairni air rifles! They only used one at a time. They were by far the finest weapons on the expedition and invaluable as a huntung piece.
The Gatling gun was no worse than grape or canister shot from cannons. It was lighter and faster, but no more devastating to opponents. It was fed with thirty to fifty round sticks or one hundred round cylinders. A good 16-18 pound Napoleon cannon with double canister could easily fire one hundred ball shot in less than a second.
if you are fighting fair, you are not fighting hard enough
Whenever the Uzi is mentioned, I can't help thinking of the Terminator
My Dad told me that if you are not cheating in combat, that means you are not serious about living. Dad was an infantryman during Korea.
German: *Uses flamethrowers and mustard gas*
Americans: *Has shotguns*
Germans: WHAT THE FU-
*BOOM!*
After finishing the video, I wanted to say I found this video slightly more enjoyable than the typical SH video- I'm unsure if it is due to the topic or the presentation, I noticed the extended coverage of each weapon. Excellent video, thank you.
The Gating Gun is a symbol of awesome!
The Maxim was the gun used to conquer Africa. The Gatling was too heavy and bulky for much of Africa
Gatling Gun go Brrrr
True, even the german MG 08, used to wipe out the Herero insurgency in german sw-Africa in 1904, and its improved version 08/15 were based on the Maxim.
@@Furzkampfbomber Heia Safari
16:14 the gatling gun is shown in africa, but how come the attacking people don't look African... wth
@@Defender78 How so? Are you aware how many different ethnicities you find in Africa and how ver different they can and will look?
Just look at the Khoikhoi and the Zulu and how very different they look and _those_ tribes both live in South Africa.
I feel like I've watched these videos for years and I've never seen this dude's face until now.... Cheers to you and the team, bud. Love the years of content.
The use of Chuck Norris, in battle, is a war crime.
That’s a fact.
That's the equivalent of the Tsar Bomb being dropped continuously until the world explodes.
Next thing you'll know, in the future we'll have laser/plasma blasters and Bolt guns
Albert Einstein was quoted as saying he didn't know how the next war would be fought but the one after that would be fought with sticks and stones. That's something to think about huh.... may not be exact quote but pretty close.
@@greggrace967"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
The UZI submachine gun is also popular in video games, like Grand Theft Auto.
That game is based on criminals…
Good Thing GTA is a 🎮 right😏?
These are all very good points
the Uzi came out in 1954 but looks modern and sleek even today
W israel
Good to see the Girandoni air rifle getting some recognition.
IKR.
🤔There is the matter of making the pneumatic mechanism more practical though.
Yeah despite the air pumping animation looking like they are dangling their ding dongs 😂xD😂
@@christianamort3062 🤔Maybe they were.
15:12
Gatling: nooo you cannot use it to cause suffeing!
Soldiers: haha suffering go brrrrrt
I love that for the uzi, you added chuck Norris’ iconic scene for it
"...Capable of holding 6 12-gauge slugs, often containing double-aught buckshot."
-Simple History, December 19, 2023.
5+1 in chamber
😂
So… was it slugs or buckshot??
@@gumps1986Precisely.
Hey at least Chris didn't say it's a 45 shot magclip.
During the second British Afghan war during one particular defence an officer of the Scots highlanders killed hundreds of enemy on the first day using his personal shotgun. His commanding officer banned him from using it on the second day as he deemed it "unfair" on the enemy! The position was eventually overun by the enemy but the officer his commander and a handful of men managed to escape to safety.
911 happened because he used the shotgun.
Raceism ruined the middle east and caused 911.
That didnt happen
So, based on my research of the trench gun in WW1, the weapon often jammed, as paper cartridges were often used, and was prone to swelling up and jamming.
Thats why we put a sword on the end of it.
Yeah but they used brass to fix it.
The "shooting grenades with a shotgun" is a myth, ditto carrier pigeons. Only 00 buck was issued, which patterns poorly, sparsely, and is unlikely to do much to a grenade even if you do hit it. Any hunter or clay shooter can tell you that. However the shotgun was a weapon many fresh recruits were familiar with and had killed game with before, and so had considerable effect on morale.
. And the brass ones didn't make it to the front in time.
@@VikOlliver did other trench shotguns other then the 1897 have this issue.
Imagine using a trench shotgun in ww1 and the german you just killed reports you for hacking💀💀💀
You should have mentioned the Meiji government of Japan’s use of the Gatling gun during the Satsuma rebellion. That’s straightaway where my mind goes when I think of the Gatling gun, especially in the context of one side of a conflict being strongly outgunned because of it
I believe they based a scene in The Last Samurai on that.
Yes, good catch! I think the whole movie was based roughly on the Satsuma Rebellion
For years, the Uzi was regarded as being the best SMG you could get your hands on, that is until H&K managed to one-up IMI with the invention of their MP5. Regardless, both guns are VERY sexy.
Shotguns in WW1 are vastly overemphasized. There weren't that many of them in the field, the paper shells weren't great in the mud, and they most definitely were not shooting grenades out of the air with them. The issued shell load was 00 buckshot, not birdshot.
Sorry, but the statement: "Containing 6 12ga slugs, often containing 00 buckshot" is inaccurate. Shells either have slugs or buckshot, you don't have "slugs containing buckshot". A slug is a single solid projectile in a shell. Buckshot is multiple projectiles in a shell. The word "slug" and the word "shell" mean entirely different things, they're not interchangeable
That’s what my thought was when I heard that phrase.
Germans: "develop poison gas and flamethrowers"😊
Americans: "bring hunting shotguns"🫡
Germans: 😡😡
It’s only cheating when you are on the receiving end.
And the shotgun is still used today.
Other guns you could have added was the 2 American Civil War rifles the Spencer and Henry Repeaters.
Also the Gatling gun originally used iron casings that had separately attached percussion caps like on a pistol/revolver, and a minie style bullet inserted into the casing, often in the same caliber as the rifle muskets issued to infantry; the metallic cartridge we know now was not modeled into the Gatling until prior to the Span.-Am. War in 1898.
Also infamously, Custer of Little Bighorn infamy; had the chance to take a Gatling with him, but as it was the same as during the Civil War, it was cumbersome and heavy to move around so he forsaken the weapon.
Trivia: The Dreyse Needle Rifle while for a time vastly advanced, had a flaw...While it had superior firepower the accuracy was lacking because of the bullet it used, the shape of the round was to some level ahead of its time but because of how it was made in the paper cartridge it had to sit in a type of cup, and with its diameter not perfectly engaging the rifling it compromised performance leading to poor long range power.
Resulting in suffering from long distance fire but when they close in takes advantage of the futuristic idea of volume of fire at close range.
The 1897 fires “shells” that can contain slugs or 00 buckshot. A slug is an ammunition type. It’s a large singular projectile. Like a massive bullet.
Yeah because we didn't know that already 🙄
@@newman793 Apparently they didn’t because the video says the 1897 fires slugs. Like that’s the only ammunition type it fires. Miss me with your stupid comments boy.
If you ain't cheating you ain't trying.
No mention of the Mk.19 Automatic Grenade Launcher?
They cleared whole streets in Mogadishu. Facts.
Speaking of the Uzi, Major Uziel Gal of the IDF requested that the weapon not be named after him, but said request was denied. Interestingly, while living in the US, he even helped with the design of the Ruger MP9 during the early 1980s, although only 1500 of these SMGs were ever produced, despite it being called the “improved Uzi.”
The Gatling Gun was not often actually used during the Civil War until the Siege of Petersburg where several were purchased personally by officers.
Even then, it's treated like cannons when they did used it
No such thing as "cheating" , "cruel" or "unfair" in War, LOL.
Agreed
Fun fact about the ahnihilator in H3VR. in the modded Zombies game mode (a fan ported and remade cod zombies game mode) The Pack-a-punched ahnihilator becomes "Utter Devastation"
A 1:14 twist rate in rifles was also super nasty causing the bullets to tumble an ca8se much more flesh damage
''The Gyattling Gun''
I can't believe you didn't include the MG42 Machine gun in this video
The concept of rotating barrels is still used today with the guns in some aircraft, such as the A-10, as it allows for a higher rate of fire than a single-barreled weapon.
I actually shot a full auto uzi once. It was surprisingly easy to use. And a lot of fun to shoot.
did you shoot it while on a bicycle?
Try an MP5 next. So smooth.
So what was worse? Being able to lay down an impressive amount of firepower that would devastate your opponent OR getting captured by said opponent and being tortured to death as was their customs?
8:00 crossbow part is an understatement. Crossbow separated strength menial task of loading from shooting, so one experianced crosbowman, could have used 2 or 3 people to load many crossbows at once, which allowed one man to shoot both a lot of shots, and as he did not tire himself loading, he could do it though most of the battle.
it also allowed use of bigger projectiles, above 250lbs that was the limit for bows.
Second part that those 10 century old weapons, still penetrate even most modern armors. Bolt could one shot a horse, as well as it can kill against modern armor, that focuses fast and light vs heavy and slow crossbow bolt.
When the guyswho were using the gas that makes you cough up your lungs get mad that you're using a stick that shoots more bullets in a wider area.
There is no cheating in war just annoyances
Gatling guns against striking workers,...those were indeed different times.
I miss them ;)
Assasins creed unity gaurd="you know the rules!!!"
Arno="NO MASTERBATEING ON THE BATTLEFEILD!!!!"as he swings his air rifle to hit the gaurd.
I didnt think me thinking what arno said had to do with anything,i just changed street to battlefeild.
The ww1 shotgun is super badass and you feel like doom
Slam fire shotgun is so based it made the Germans cry about banning them instead of realizing their skill issue. Gatling Gun is also very epic and very based too with the brrrr it brings.
Thanks for the news at last
If anyone needs protection as in gyns just reech me
What about that damn old Yankee rifle that was loaded on Sunday and shot all week long.
Thanks for the minute of gatling gun sound in the background. Real nice.
i really love watching these kinds of content❤❤❤
The galling gun is pretty horrific...think of the carnage and terror caused by that machine back in its day. Compared to everything else it must have been insanity
Nobody going to talk about that German soldier going crazy at that guy with a bayonet, I mean like dude I think hes dead. 😂
I like how people try to ban certain weapons of war that aren't really as op or should be that wanted to be banned, throughout history. Lol. it's war this stuff happens one side nah try to get and use better stuff to gain an edge
Of course there was gonna be a Trench Gun in the list of unfair guns.
Fun fact: There is no cheating in war
"provided it didn't jam."
So im guessing i should bring some bread and peanut butter...
I learned about the giradoni air rifle when my class and were studying about the louisiana purchase and the louis and clark expedition, very cool weapon ngl!
Liberal in the year 900: Semi Fully Automatic crossbows must be banned!
13:10 "Created unnecessary suffering" as the German belly stabs the dude caveman style 24 times. Priceless.
Geez, where's the evidence for that anyways?!
Thanks for adding bows and slings. People overlook this so much. But no the crossbow can only get through articulation points like the elbow, hand, and that's rare!!!! It will bounce off the helmets and breastplate.
The title is a false premise. It’s not cheating. The object of war is victory and as Churchill said, at all costs. And the Germans objected to the trench gun but were the first to use chemical weapons on the battlefield so….
The Germans were the only party proposing disarmament.
TRUE
As a retired U.S. postal inspector, just wanted to say thanks for remembering our use of the Thompson submachine gun as one of our tools of the trade in a small part of our very long history as one of the first federal law enforcement agencies of our republic.
Come on y’all knew what you were doing @9:10 😂
Another weapon that would fit in this. The short spear Shaka Zulu designed. Instead of standing off and throwing long spears until one side decided they had enough. Causing relatively few casualties. Shaka Zulu used his short spear to get close and slaughter his enemies. Who had deficits welding their long spears at point-blank range.
I think the G11 deserves an entry here, it drops no brass upon firing! And has a fast burst fire. It would have been used by West Germany but was canceled due to other reassons.
I would’ve also included the AK-47 too. It is such a reliable gun that has revolutionized the modern battlefield. It could be thrown in the mud, doused in sand, frozen, dumped in 10 feet of water, it just wouldn’t ever stop working. It’s so easy to disassemble and reassemble that a child could do it, and in many places they do. It’s incredibly cheap and simple to make; so much so that one in every five guns in the world is an AK. It’s been used from the steppes of Mongolia to the cities of former Yugoslavia and the savannas and deserts of Southern Africa. If I were to ever fight in a war I would want an AK.
Not sure what you are referencing with what I think are Union vs Confederate soldiers using Gatling guns against eachother. They were so infrequently used by the Union the remote possibility of Confederate soldiers making use of one is virtually unheard-of outside of movies.
Also, another Catholic church imposed weapon banning on the use of fellow Christians came when Wheelock firearms were first invented. They thought self igniting firearms were heretical just like crossbows before them. Wheelock also brought about some of the first handguns and one of the earliest assassinations with a handgun was done with a Wheelock pistol
7:30 that would only be the big ones with a Wheel reload mechanism, the Arbalest.
Some called those "Infantry ballistas".
A regular crossbow would Pling right off of a armored knight.
A simple shotgun : *noo booooo too much cruelty boo violation*
Deadly gas : *totally legal*
Germans: you can use shotguns
USA: did I ask