Yeah, the bayonet could lock into the slot either forwards or backwards, so it could be stowed easily when not in use. Unfortunately this meant it could lock into two bayonet slots at the same time and it could not be removed then. Later versions added an extra hole so you could still unlock the bayonet even if you were dumb enough to do this.
The average grunt is the most creatively inventive demographic you've ever seen. Unfortunately for their COs, they will exclusively use that talent to break shit, so the CO's job is to keep them leashed into they can find an enemy's shit to break, or said grunt learns how to direct themselves in that manner.
A Sapper friend of mine found his talent for such things being not only exploited but endorsed by Big Army. Somebody somewhere, after seeing that my buddy had managed to severely damage or comprehensively demolish several pieces of engineering equipment, arranged for him to be sent to Fort Nameiforgot, in Maryland I think it was, to spend six weeks driving test vehicles around and trying his best to break them. He described it as pure heaven, driving expensive government property into obstacles and ditches, off of small cliffs, into moving water, over ploughed fields and "car-killer" washboard roads, even seeing what sort of aggressive stupidity could roll the vehicle over and send it down a hill. He was, in effect, a human test dummy. Apparently he was told to imagine all the dumbest soldiers he'd ever served with, distill their fuckwittery down to it's purest essence, and do to these vehicles what Pvt. Snuffy would if given the chance. He was annoyed however, that he wasn't allowed to try out any explosives or EFPs- I think his professional pride as a Sapper was somewhat slighted by that, as well as his inner Adam Savage, which frankly was never very inner to begin with
I did this with the flute section in highschool (yes flute heads got stuck in the end of other flutes). When you're bored and curious, you fuck around with things
To add on to the other replies, they called it the French Finger Trap like those ones you'd get at arcades or fairs as a kid. The bayonet itself is pretty nasty, fairly long as as cruciform in shape and incredibly sharp. The rifle itself is the MAS-36, i've got a 36/51, gorgeous rifle.
Edit: I guess if i just scrolled a bit further i'd see someone else explain it but hey.
So they had to redesign the bayonet connection to prevent this from happening⌠and it only happened because two soldiers thought it would be hilarious.
Not even the designer of the rifle considered anyone would be stupid enough to ruin their rifle like this
I always go back to the trial of a robot built to detect soldiers, and multiple marines beat it by: cartwheeling, crawling, and hiding in a cardboard box.
The Brits call it "squaddie-proofing" and it's generally considered a theoretical ideal, not something that can be achieved in the real world. Soldiers can destroy anything. Bored soldiers are somehow worse.Â
Leave a pair or junior enlisted soldiers alone in a locked room with three bowling balls and strick instructions not to touch the bowling balls. Come back in an hour and the soldiers will have somehow lost one, broken one, and fucked one.
Theyâre connected by the part of the rifle that is used to mount the bayonet. Thereâs a kind of button the operator would press to release the bayonet from storage position in a tube under the barrel, and then you put the bayonet on that mounting point. To release, you press the same button. This image shows what happens when you attach Gun A to Gun Bâs bayonet while Gun Bâs bayonet is in storage position. The release buttons on both become inaccessible.
There's two release buttons on the bayonet but if you lock a gun on both ends both the buttons become impossible to press and they can't be unstuck without breaking them
I have two of these (with the modification to allow detachment). It's funny as hell to dock them. Brilliant rifle and almost junior enlisted proof, but that was a big oversight.
A marine somehow jammed an entire clip into a magazine. That strip of metal by the bullet shouldn't be there. A clip is basically a small strip of metal that hold together several bullets, not the same thing as a magazine, which is basically a box that holds bullets.
Tbh those bullets look like crayon, so I wouldn@t be surprised if the reason the bullet doesn't fire is because there is no primer in the colored carbon
I was in the army working as a unit armorer and had a cadet come in to use some of our ARs. When they delivered one back after cleaning?
They had managed to jam the bolt in backwards
The loud metal banging I had heard moment before made perfect sense as soon as I saw it.
As far as I know youâre supposed to use the clip to load the magazine by ramming the bullets into the mag, not the full thing (see the raid at the bottom of the bullet)
A clip is always used to load a magazine. You can't have one without another.
Edit: I worded this poorly, my apologies. I meant that even when a gun is reloaded via a clip, it still has a magazine. The clip is used to load the magazine. I wrote that because there is a misconception that weapon loaded primarily with clips (like WW2 rifles) don't use magazines but use clips. In reality the clip is simply used to load the magazine.
I mean you can load a magazine without a clip no? Like you can just put them in by hand and self tension it, I dont think it would be super great, but I am of the understanding that you can do it.
Trying to load a tiny .380 mag with my sausage fingers was one of my more difficult shooting experiences. That and trying to get that 17th .45 round into the Glock mag.
Yeah, some have internal magazines that you just push the clip into. Examples include the m1 garand, C96 Mauser Pistol, speed loaders for revolvers, etc.
Do you see the thin metal thing in between the bullets and the magazine. That helps load bullets faster by holding them while you put them in. He forced the whole way thing in their.
Mauser clips (aka stripper clips) have the rounds stripped off the clip into the magazine by pressing downward, and the clip is then removed.
Mannlicher clips (aka Enbloc clips) have the entire clip inserted into the magazine, where the function as an integral part of the magazine until empty and are automatically discarded.
The United States Military issues 5.56 in ten round clips, which can be used with a feeder to speed load the rounds into a STANAG magazine relatively quickly.
In this case the clip, that strip of metal in the magazine, was not loaded with it - and the Marine managed to jam the entire fucking clip into the magazine, cartridges and all, seemingly damaging the feed lips and fucking the magazine in the process.
The mantra of "if you try to invent a foolproof design the universe will just invent a bigger fool" can be applied to anything, especially dumb 18 y. o. given a rifle to take care of.
Maybe he knew how M1s are reloaded from games and movies (it's probably the most iconic reload visual in history), but never saw anyone reload a standard mag on a modern automatic rifle, as tbh, that isn't shown in media all that much, just the mag switches usually.
So he just jammed the clip inside of it. I'm still not entirely sure how he managed to do it without any questions arising such as "why is it so hard to do this!?",but then again, universe finds a way.
To paraphrase someone: If the military issued a standard issue rock, it'd take less than an hour before two grunts come to their sergeant with their rocks either fused together or broken in half
Reminds me of the story about how the French discovered you could get the original design of the MAS-36 to render 2 rifles inoperable with just the bayonet clips.
And that's why as a product designer you never guarantee shit for fuck...but cool names promoting relative safety are fine đ¤
A tangent, but I think semi-relevant:
I remember my first experience in B2B project management. I was like a month or two in.
I made a mistake of pronouncing a form of the word "guarantee" during a routine call outside the context that calls for it, such as "money back guarantee", where there is a described clause for the "guarantee".
Damn did I have a lecture to listen to from our CEO on why I shouldn't do that. Can't guarantee shit for fuck to anyone unless you have a defined contract for the listed guarantee. That's a rule for life. But especially for business.
I guffaw as the image scrolls onto my screen. The mispelt words, the rhyming, the limerick-like qualities, and the humourous scenario engulfs me in a feeling of comedy and ecstasy. "Oh my!" I say to myself. "Ăis marine is quite a mooncalf! How does such a situation occurâ˝" My good wife asks me why I pronounced the symbol "thorn" and the puncuation mark "interrobang" outloud. She clearly doesn't understand the comedic properties of this image, and that the troglodyte-like nature of the image obviously would provoke such feelings of superiority within me. I throw a soup spoon at her.
"You aren't the target of that gift!," I shout. "Have at thee!" I throw another apple towards the thief; not as a gift, but as a weapon. It has been filled with tungsten.
"Dear Heavens..." I mutter to myself. "How have I let my rage consume me so?" And I say it rightfully. I have thrown a soup spoon at my lovely wife, I have thrown fruit towards my admirer like they had performed poorly, and now, I am being arrested after assaulting a man of service. Is this all I deserve? Do I deserve worse? Do I deserve better? I may never learn. Perhaps, I'll change. I'll change and become the human being deserving of being able to write out these words. Perhaps, I spiral more. I spiral and become seperated from reason. I fear both. Both will lead to me, the self, dying. The person sitting here, writing this message, will no longer exist within a few days. No matter if the outcome is good or bad. There is something to learn from this. But it is not my fate to comprehend it, it yours, dear reader and admirer.
Ohh i know one. In the swiss army you get issued a huge suitcase dubbed by soldiers as the "mothership" or muschi for short (which means cunt). These suitcases have each a handle that broadly extends to its rolls. Now the funny thing is you can take the whole thing of so you only have the handle and rolls part and somehow it was engineered that way so you can perfectly link two of those together creating a make shift kart.
M855. It is/was they standard issue 5.56x45mm ammunition for the military. The Army replaced it with M855A1 around 2016 but idk if the other branches have made the switch. It has a 62 grain bullet with a mild steel penetrator so if buy some you shouldn't shoot it at steel targets as it has an increased chance of damaging the target and/or causing ricochets.
He jammed the whole thing (bullet container and all) into the gun. That's not supposed to go in there. It would be like asking someone to make you a bowl of cereal, and you come back to a box of cheerios folded until it could fit.
LMAO I remember how we had to collect and count the empty shells by "re-loading" them into the metal tabs. Unbelievable how he got that jammed in there.
It's just green paint at the tip, the color indicates the type of ammunition. In this case, the standard service round which has a steel insert for better penetration. Not technically considered armor-piercing ammunition though.
There is kinda space for it and it goes in surprisingly easily. If you use a defect speed loader you won't barely feel it happen. It just feel smooth instead of bumpy.
But they are a nightmare to get up again because the rounds acts like barbs.
Because if you give a Marine a stick, a rifle, an anvil, and orders to touch nothing, you'll come back two weeks later to find they've broken the anvil.
No, I don't have any experience either, but I think he forced a clip (a few bullets held with a metal piece at the end, which you're supposed to push into the gun WITHOUT THE METAL PIECE) into the magazine, WITH the metal piece.
Funny enough, it's not that hard to do. If you were ever part of a mag loading party on range day, you probably came close to doing this yourself. The rounds come out of the box attached to stripper clips, along with a tool called a speed loader. It's basically a little guide that sits on top of the mag so you can set the clip on it and press all the rounds into the mag at once. After a while the guide gets loose because it's made of cheap pressed metal, and if you've got a banged up mag, when you press the rounds in, the whole clip slides in with them. And that's how you get this image
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