Testing Historical Weapons: From The Middle Ages To Industrial Warfare

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• DA

  @dave1994jones · 6 months ago

  Always great seeing Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK - which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history.

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• BU

  @bunburyodo · 6 months ago

  3 rounds per minute? Now that's soldiering!

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• GA

  @garethwilkins6744 · 5 months ago

  No way! It's Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK - which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history!

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• TH

  @ThePandachoww · 5 months ago

  Oh my god! This is Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK - which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history!<br><br>Anyway...i just wanted to comment to say how absolutely insane my year 10 history teacher was when he explicitly told us that ball shot did absolutely no damage and most of the time wouldn&apos;t even hit a target...

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• CA

  @captnsquashypant82 · 5 months ago

  Hey it’s Jonathon Ferguson keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal armouries museum in the UK which house is a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history. Fantastic

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• LY

  @lyooyiylklykyokyklky · 5 months ago

  Being the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK? Now that&apos;s Jonathaning!

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• JA

  @jakeviscarra3150 · 5 months ago

  During the gel block demonstration with the Vickers, I love the two different facial reactions. Dan is horrified whereas Jonathan is pretty much just &quot;oh yeah, that&apos;s what it does.&quot;

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• AN

  @anumeon · 6 months ago

  The fact that the Maxim is still being used by armies today speaks volumes about how reliable it is.. I believe that Ukraine has some for instance.

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• JA

  @JamesJdog · 5 months ago

  Always lovely to see; Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearm&apos;s and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousand&apos;s of iconic weapon&apos;s from throughout history, 🇬🇧

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• GE

  @Geographus666 · 6 months ago (edited)

  The crazy thing about the Vickers was, that you could basically fire them forever as long as you had spare barrels, the ammo and water for cooling.<br><br>There is an anecdote that when the British were getting rid of their Vickers in the 70s (I think), they had huge stockpiles of ammo for them that fit no other gun in their arsenal. So what they did was, they serviced a Vickers so that it was basically factory new, took a ton of spare barrels and over the course of a week put like 5 million rounds through it and afterwards it was still well within tolerances in terms of wear.

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• CR

  @Crytica. · 6 months ago

  Dan AND Jonathan?!?! This is a beautiful gift!

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• CH

  @chazmartin8048 · 5 months ago

  I understand you had to keep the video at a reasonable time scale but dang there&apos;s so many fascinating weapons in between that would&apos;ve been fun to see here. great video nonetheless

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