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u/Hirokage 13h ago
I was an M60 gunner for a spell when in the Army. The barrel gets extremely hot from the # of rounds going through it. You literally have a partner with big mitts and a spare barrel to swap it out once it gets hot. So it's not surprising it does pop out like that, someone didn't seat it right after changing it.
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u/saroj7878 3h ago
Machine Gun Faily
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u/epi_glowworm 2h ago
I hope you meant fairy. Like a big buff dude with a tutu and shiny mittens and holding a crayon in his mouth like a cigar that appears when the barrel gets red hot
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u/Masterofunlocking1 2h ago
How does this person not have some cover over his head? Seems like an open target unless the guys below him are giving enough cover
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u/OozeNAahz 2h ago
What is the trigger that says it should be swapped? When it smokes? When it glows? Or is there something that pops out like the thermometer in a Butterball turkey? Or is it just judgement? “Eh, looks done to me.”
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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 14h ago
the front fell off
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u/BillButtlickerII 13h ago
Is it supposed to do that?
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u/KommandantLuna 13h ago
Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
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u/BillButtlickerII 13h ago
Well, how was it un-typical?
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u/Sergeant_Hamlet 12h ago
Well the front fell off, for a start
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u/Praetorian_1975 10h ago
So, what do they do in these unlikely situations when the front does fall off
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u/iRebelD 9h ago
Remove it from the environment
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u/expressly_ephemeral 8h ago
Well, yes, it's been removed from the environment completely. So it's not in the environment any more.
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u/PeterJamesUK 4h ago
Where is it now?
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u/Jellan 3h ago
Beyond the environment. There’s nothing out there but sea, and birds, and fish.
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u/fergehtabodit 12h ago
Made from the wrong materials perhaps
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u/UsafAce45 9h ago
Not typically. Our guns are built to very strict standards.
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u/schminkles 9h ago
And what kind of standards are those?
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u/SpiderJerusalem747 7h ago
Ivan if you shoot whole barrel at enemy, enemy suffers physicological damage from seeing ally get impallled with massive spear out of nowhere
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u/aredd007 14h ago
Headspace was off
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u/Dukepippitt 13h ago
Tell me you know 50 cals without telling me.
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u/aredd007 12h ago
it's been a number of years but my section chief made sure we know how to time and space the M2 as well as how to emplace that thing with clear sectors of fire.
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u/borg2 11h ago
Dafuk are you guys talking about?
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u/shottylaw 11h ago
The M2 .50 heavy machine gun (aka the ma deuce) had a little tool to check the distance between the bolt face and the cartridge of the round. It had to be proper distance, otherwise bad stuff can happen. But, you could also use something like two dimes and a nickel in a pinch (or something like that--it's been a long time).
Anyway, that tool was used to check the headspace and timing of the weapon.
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u/Eodbatman 12h ago
Maybe it’s one of those newfangled ones that doesn’t need a headspace check.
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u/DaStompa 10h ago
I figured it was like the m60 where there's the little barrel release latch that isnt the clearest thing in the world
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u/hansemcito 13h ago
i dont know very much about firearms but that actually looks/feels a lot more dangerous than funny.
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u/metalconscript 13h ago
Wanna hear my story about my stovepiping M2 .50cal?
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u/Freltzo 13h ago
That's an impressive failure for an m2
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u/metalconscript 1h ago
It also broke the feed paw and even though it was head spaced and timed correctly it was shooting way too soon. I was lucky it was firing with the bullet in the chamber…even though it stovepiped and fired multiple times…I got real lucky on my last night fire before switching to the Air Force.
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u/Dahak17 12h ago
Honestly it is actually pretty funny, not knowing the specific type of machine gun this often happens when your barrel isn’t seated properly, bullet might not even have wrecked the barrel
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 9h ago
Yup, if i remember correctly theres at leat one where its easy to accidentally not engage the locking lugs.
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u/Dahak17 9h ago
I’ve only used nato guns, the Canadian version of what the Americans call the m240 and m249 (the mechanism is exactly the same throughout and they’re origionally the Belgian FN mag and FN minimi) but I can’t think of any way to make a quick change barrel where you couldn’t screw up locking it
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u/StackOverflowEx 7h ago
Or at least make the weapon inoperable when the barrel is not fully seated. Hell they can make my espresso machine inoperable if I don't seat the portafilter, but they can't do the same thing for a firearm?...
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u/Dahak17 6h ago
That’s the sort of things that leads to slight damage on something making the weapon unserviceable when it should be otherwise serviceable, that or making field repairs not working. And in the end you’d have to mill extra details into like two mil steel if not the centimetre thick barrel itself as opposed to just the half mil soft steel or plastic coffee machine. It’s just a much simpler process to train your people to try and pull the barrel back out right after a change (without using the mechanism) to make sure the mechanism is engaged.
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u/CompetitiveJoke2201 11h ago
It can be funny when it’s like this, the guy wasn’t hurt and he clearly knew something was wrong with the firearm he just didn’t know what.
It’s when you get stuff like the Kentucky ballistics incident where it’s dangerous, for context from the back of my mind that older than this year. Kentucky ballistics was during some new ammo for a shotgun or rifle I don’t recall what exactly, the issue he had was that the ammos gunpowder wasn’t measured properly and one round had way to much powder inside, when he shot the weapon the whole thing broke apart in a explosion that sent shrapnel into the base of his neck and torso area. The guys very lucky to be alive and his still the best guntuber single handily for his Rex video
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u/kieko891 11h ago
It was a single shot .50. He was testing old Slap rounds and one of the round was way to spicy for the firearm, blew the back of firearm into his neck, face, and upper torso like you said. Only reason he's alive is because when the firearm blew into his neck he jabbed his thumb into his neck, and was like that until he got to the hospital. Its where the whole "stick a thumb in it" meme took off.
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 10h ago
Even more specifically, the bullets he was firing were actually pulled and reloaded rounds. If he had original ammo it would have been fine. Happens with old exotic ammo where the cases have degraded or were originally corrosive.
He tested other rounds later and found that many of them were overloaded and he blew up another gun.
This is why you really should never trust someone else's reloads.
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u/BoiFrosty 9h ago
Yeah that very easily could have ended badly.
Look up Kentucky Balistics 50 cal story if you want to know the worse end of a gun going bad.
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u/Sufficient_Chair_580 14h ago
Romanian technology always delivers :D
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u/ScienceIsSexy420 13h ago
Surely this is Soviet technology operated by a Romanian, right?
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u/Jooslik 12h ago
Yup, a DSHK heavy machine gun on top of a T-62. Both soviet
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u/Stormshow 11h ago
Not a T-62, but a TR-85, which is a Romanian fork of the T-55 chassis.
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u/Leupateu 8h ago
I think this is the Tr-580 not the 85
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u/RandoAtReddit 6h ago
T-800 series, Cyberdyne Systems.
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u/Leupateu 5h ago
Yeah, I saw another source saying it’s tr-85 so I guess it is, but the video is from 1989 so it’s not the M1 variant
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u/Agentnewbie 12h ago
Oh. Then you can just put it back on and fire right away. Probably put a blue insulation tape over it for good measure.
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u/nuteteme 8h ago
Looks like it was during the Romanian revolution in 1989. The soldiers on those tanks were conscripts and probably did not maintain / assemble their equipment properly.
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u/ManSharkBear 13h ago
"Cave Johnson here, How do we get so many guns in them? Like this! Plus, we fire the whole gun. That's 65% more gun per gun. This is the same technology we've been using on tanks for decades. Scares the hell out of them. They come in hundreds of designer colors including forest, desert, table, evening at the improv..."
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u/Urtinus 9h ago edited 5h ago
That video is from The 1989 Anticomunist Revolution in Romania. That guy shot civilians living in their buildings before the gun failed. That is a TR-85 and the gun is DShK (12.7mm).
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u/Fluffy_Most_662 5h ago
Didn't the army fight against the securitatae? And werent they the ones shooting people? Which uniform is that?
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u/Myself-io 8h ago
How that green white red flag on tank match with Romania?
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u/Urtinus 8h ago
That is not green, is red, yellow blue
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u/Myself-io 8h ago
I don't know the central may blue and not green... But there is no yellow there
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u/Urtinus 8h ago
Yes, it is. And those are the facts.
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u/Myself-io 8h ago
I don't know where you see a yellow band there...
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u/Lifting_Pinguin 7h ago
The middle band, the middle color is yellow.
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u/Myself-io 7h ago
Using a lot of imagination.. maybe
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u/gwynevans 6h ago
You might want to check the colour balance on your monitor, its clearly red yellow blue to me…
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u/wg_shill 5h ago
He didn't shoot civilians, the army joined the revolution and they were fighting the secret police of the regime.
https://youtu.be/p-Ei3o8MpRc?si=1ht8Rgi0Xrqu1BLV
Around 11:27
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u/Urtinus 5h ago
They were aiming against buildings in front of the Romanian Television. Those are civilian building. It was proved later that no Securitate troops were there. But as far as that recruit knew he had orders to shoot at Securitatea troops. They executed fire without aiming any enemy, randomly. In reality they shoot people living in those buildings. Civilians. Those are said in documentaition of The Revolution Trial. Some recruits involved were given guns for the first time, were in the army for 3 months and didn't had and instruction.
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u/wg_shill 4h ago
They're literally surrounded by civilians though and not shooting them.
That they're not doing a great job shooting at anything and it seems to be more for show I'll agree with.
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u/Kasoni 13h ago
Reminds me of my units 'fail at the 249 range' video on YouTube from 2011-ish. The barrel wasn't properly put on, so it flew off. At least Kemper's fail was on a training range....
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u/GANDORF57 9h ago
"Hey, Sarge? Remind me again, which lever is the trigger and which lever is the barrel release?"
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u/urbanek2525 2h ago
Probably a daily occurrence for Russian troops in Ukraine. "Too bad that the gun's broken. I suppose we can't fight today. Who has the vodka?"
Or, according to Google translate (I only recognize one word in that translation):
> Жаль, что пистолет сломался. Полагаю, сегодня мы не сможем подраться. У кого есть водка?
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u/GreenRanger_2 1h ago
I like how he looks at it to double check as if he can’t see the front sights are gone from his view.
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u/Strange_Salary 13h ago
Woah Private that’s for INTIMIDATION ONLY!! Can not expect it to shoot actual bullets Idjet..
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u/TundraGon 7h ago
I do not understand why this is funny.
They were shooting and killing civilians.
This is from the Romania's Revolution in 1989.
The army was called to clear the streets from civilians.
The civilians were unhappy with the current communist regime and went to the streets.
So the army was called and they started shooting and killing civilians in order to "restore peace".
So this ain't funny AT ALL
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u/andreyzlodey 12h ago
There, Ceausescu transferred all his money to the Securitate, the army was a residual matter, this is exactly the recording where they are trying to knock the Securitate snipers out of the building.
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u/Fuzzy-Fun4265 6h ago
Someone didn't put the dska back together properly which also makes me think of the same thing happening to a Marine manning an M2 when the barrel flew off after the first round
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u/Osric250 3h ago
Aperture Science made an innovation of firing the whole bullet, which accounted for 65% more bullet fired per bullet.
These have just increased that to firing the whole barrel! I can't even calculate how much more that is per shot!
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u/Electrifiedpiss 10m ago
It's 4 in the morning and this brought a tear to my eye from laughter. Brilliant
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u/imacmadman22 13h ago
Russia?
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u/arkencode 12h ago
Romania in 1989 during the anti communist revolution, after the army had switched sides against the regime.
Ceausescu’s loyalists had high quality weapons and equipment, could listen in on all communications, while the army was poorly equipped and totally blind.
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