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History of the Krummlauf Device: Hitler's Folly (One of Many) (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2024-07-07 16:16:28 +0000 UTCToday we are taking a look at the backstory of the famously recognizable Krummlauf device, the curved barrel attachment for the StG-44. It is really a perfect example of how German late-war desperation weapons took shape. It went from an idea nobody actually wanted to an impossible development program in the chaos of the German defeat.
You can see my previous video on an example of the Krummlauf (from 2014) here: https://youtu.be/HSsFiS2Voxg
Comments
TheNetsrac
Thank you for the video, interesting as always. I watched Garand Thumb's video earlier and it was very cool to see it in action. Matt from Demolition Ranch made a video three years ago, where he shoots bullets directly into an increasingly bend copper pipe. It's not the same as this and not super serious, but some quite surprising results. P.S. I could've sworn Matt's video was from last year... Man I'm getting old ;-D Cheers from Denmark
Abe
Mmmnn. Bcc .))$$$
Thomas Batha
I am firmly convinced that Hitler was the best Allied general of the war. This is just another example of his military genius.
BEAUSABRE23
M#A1 version DOES look like a grease gun
BEAUSABRE23
PPSH looks like it needs Viagra
BEAUSABRE23
Great way for engineers to avoid being conscripted and sent to the Eastern Front.
BEAUSABRE23
Typical of the Wunderwaffen - if it worked and was useful, it was a wonder. Example, given the inaccuracy of the A-4 (V-2) missile and similar first generation ballistic missile, they made no economic or military sense until nuclear weapons were made small enough to be capable of being carried by them. The Germans were expending the industrial effort that could of built a bomber to deliver one, uno, singular 2000 pound bomb - once. To the COUNTY of London, not the City - maybe (huge number of launch and inflight failures and just wandering off course to land &diety knows where - sometimes in Germany. At a time when food was short in Germany, it took SEVEN TONS of potatoes to produce the alcohol needed to fuel one missile.
Earl
Has anyone tried that with an AR or AK? Sounds like an interesting scientific experiment for someone with a few they're willing to ruin. 8-) Brandon? Matt? Scott?
Leon Peters-Malone
I'm well and truly drunk and I find this hilarious. This seems to be a litany of failure, absurdity and institutional delusion. And they tried launching rifle grenades from it? That's hilarious.
Guido Schriewer
ain't enough shrapnels in the chest yet? I shoot allmost anything. but wunderwaffen of insane design. m3 in 45 would have a ton less preassure than a 8kurz let alone a 8x57!
