Machines | Heavy Machine Guns of the Great War
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Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons Check out The Great War's complete playlist here for your easy binge-watching enjoyment: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT I have been really enjoying The Great War series, so I figured I ought to take advantage of an opportunity to look at several WWI heavy machine guns side by side. This is a video to give some historical context to the guns, and not a technical breakdown of exactly how they work (that will come later). These really were the epitome of industrialized warfare, and they wrought horrendous destruction on armies of the Great War. The guns covered here are the German MG08, British Vickers, and French Hotchkiss 1914. Hammer Prices: Vickers: $20,000 MG08: $11,000 Hotchkiss 1914: $7,000 Other heavies used in the war include the Austrian Schwarzlose 1907/12, the Russian 1905 and 1910 Maxims, the Italian Fiat-Revelli, and the American Browning 1895. The book I was quoting from towards the end was Dolf Goldsmith's unmatched work on the Maxim, The Devil's Paintbrush.
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When listing the Balkan countries you forgot Greece
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The Boer War gave a vary good example of what WW1 was going to be like, but as you said about the high command over in Europe: "colonial wars are not the real thing"
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the whole 9 yards is about kilts and the fabric needed to wear/make one....
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the more I learn about WW 1, the more I am amazed, that anyone was left to breed another generation. lessons learned in WW 1, were perfected & weapon technology made leaps and bounds to kill faster. guess mankind has a hard time learning the right lessons.
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What boots is Ian wearing?
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I've also heard that machine gun belts were origin of "the whole nine yards"...I can second that.
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isn't this about the first time that we know of PTSD actually appeared? Too much blood and guts with a lot of luck versus ability to survive was a fairly new notion i think. They called it shell shock in those days didn't they?
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Not water cooled?
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Thank you once again Gun Jesus <3
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Awesome video!!!
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thank you for that insight, it all makes sense now. I always wondered why the European army's did not pay attention to the trench warfare that happened during the American civil war even though they all had observers, they thought it was absurd and repulsive. and not gentlemanly so they would ignore the future and try and stay with Napoleonic tactics, that would last about a year in 1914, Bright colored fancy uniforms disappeared by 1915..
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cloth shrinks when wet......... ok maybe he meant after it dried. lol
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Maxims salary to get out of the way: What cost $20000.00 in 1881 would cost $495523.35 in 2015.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2015 and 1881,
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awesome counterpart to the great war series from indy
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guys said there are still mg08 in 金門 an island very close to China(could be frontline if conflict) in good shape
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With dickhead Commanders like the one described at the end of this video it's no wonder so many brave young men needlessly lost their lives, I feel sure if the situation arose again today the 1st bullet fired would be through the Commanders head!
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I feel bad for any persons' ears who was in that seven day and night fire test
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Making money from something that is a mass killer is disgusting.
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I read that the poms were paying the Germans royalties' to make the Vickers as thy had the licence, so basically paying them I kill them with the gun design they own. Now that is the stupidity of war and the world in general
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so you could say that Thomas Edison was somewhat responsible for the atrocities of WW1? he was the reason we had a man make a reliable and powerful machine gun...