Firearms Expert Reacts to Robocop: Rogue City’s Guns

this is Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal armories Museum in the UK which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history and in this week's episode he's taking a look at the iconic 80s arsenal of Robocop Rogue city which features one of his favorite fictional weapons here's this is what we're here for this is the auto 9 here is a real Auto not really it's not really real this is the airsoft replica fascinating movie gun second only for me to the pulse rifle from Aliens make sure to subscribe and let us know what other games or guns you'd like to see Jonathan break down in the comment section below but without further Ado it's over to Jonathan and The Guns of Robocop Rogue City seems like a very high rate of fire and some very geometric case ejection straight out to the side it also seems to be weirdly ejecting two streams of cases at the same time closed bolts I mean the tech 9 is is in reality a closed Vault semi-automatic pistol people have converted them to automatic overall it looks okay but yeah that case rejection is weird and some of the weapon models are touch rough well they lack in sort of fidelity they certainly make up for in uh respecting RoboCop's Legacy and uh feel yeah I almost feel like I should carry out all my comments with I don't care cuz it's RoboCop I mean instinctively I don't like seeing Robocop use a tech 9 because it feels like it's beneath him especially as he already has the auto 9 I can't work out what ingame advantage that gives you and the real world Advantage would be approximately nil very weirdly I'm obsessing about the case rejection I know but the cases look like they're coming out backwards they absolutely are coming out 100% come out backwards they just freeze framed astonishing that's going to distract the hell out of me I mean I guess in in mitigation famously Heckler and Co did that once with a marketing photo and that brochure if you have it it's worth a lot of money now they put the rounds in the magazine for this promo promotional picture in backwards having them eject backwards out of a gun is something I haven't seen ever Uzi of course bit of a similar Niche to the tech 9 when you've got your Tech 9 running automatic like that looks quite small in his hand but then his hands are huge famously I can't tell if it's operating open bolt as it should be because the bolt ah no it's not so the bolt is staying still when he [ __ ] it and weirdly the charging handle is moving so the cocking handle on Yi should stay where it is and the bolt should be open on firing and should open obviously between shots cuz that's how guns work doesn't look like he's using the magazine release the magazine catch but I could be missing that on the uzi I didn't pick one up we we've covered them a number of times you really got to use the thumb of your support hand to press the magazine cap rip out the magazine there's no no drop free there's no ability to press magazine C to even try to drop it free so magic mags on this Uzi the rate of fire is far too high for this Uzi the uzi is like 5 600 RPM first firearm I ever shot was an Uzi nice toate rate of fire very easy to handle yeah this a this ain't it guys sorry and the cases are coming out the top of the gun through the sheet metal this is painting me as cool as the game is right arant I used to be happy that he dead one less [ __ ] on my way to the now now the Cobra assault Cannon I believe is what this is supposed to be well it's start we it's got both the Barrett and the Cobra so I've included both okay well that's interesting because this isn't right for a Barrett assault rifle you've done that Dave you deliberately showed me that I had to see it some people will argue there's no such thing as an assault rifle those people are wrong however it is a vague term it isn't a very helpful term it definitely doesn't apply to this this is an antimaterial rifle it is not an assault rifle by any definition I think they have shared models without I haven't seen the Cobra yet but I think they must have shared gun models between the Barrett and the Cobra which makes sense if they have because the movie Cobra assault cannon that was literally just a dressed up Barrett Barrett with some bits stuck to it very few people in 1987 knew what a Barrett was relatively speaking so they put a few bits on it fancy looking scope called it the Cobra assault Cannon like it was a brand new future weapon so including the Barrett in the game is weird and yes I'm right they have used the same gun model for both guns and it has weird grebles and stuff on it that are not on the real Barrett let's prove that yes I do need to lift more or even at all however the Barrett M82 is a very straightforward very good design but a very straightforward sheet metal receiver in two parts two main two assemblies once it's assembled this gun looks more like a machined thing with with weird stuff going on at the front there the bents are different they've obviously tried to idealize I think they did this with the um with the Terminator resistance rifle as well which also irked me sorry guys I love the game and so they've done an idealized version of the Barrett that's also the Cobra assault Cannon so it looks a bit different futuristic so I guess it's not it's not meant to be a Barrett it's just that it has a more Barrett style conventional scope on it then the assault Cannon has the actual movie look to it I'd have to go back to the movie or at least to IM FDB to compare in detail to see if those changes they've made actually do match the prop I'm not sure they do from memory 15 seconds to comp now the not Auto 9 this is a really quite dodgy looking sorry developers not Desert Eagle now the real story of the of the movie gun of the auto 9 that we're going to see hopefully at some point is um they were going to use the Desert Eagle because it was the the big gun of the day it makes sense that a big powerful machine like this could handle or part man part machine all C could handle this thing and make it a practical handgun in a way that basically no one can in real life not for not for combat but they found that it looked small it looked too short and stubby in his in his big glove rubber hand and uh the rubber finger wouldn't in the trigger gu the the armor of Randy Moore had the gun we're about to see so it won't spoil literally in his car cuz he had it as a a self a self- protection car gun and that became the auto n the Desert Eagle did show up in its um sort of chrome finish in an office environment appropriately what I'm seeing it in now used by well one of the bad guys overall it's it's desert eally it's not changed so much that you can't recognize it but it's little bit modern Call of Duty level of change where it almost feels like they're trying to avoid some perceived legal concern I don't know one thing that I noticed as playing it's called the 50 cal heavy pistol in game but if you pick up ammunition for it it says in the little corner .44 ammo yeah I wonder if that's because I can't remember don't don't sue me guys but I there's every chance the desert eagle in the movie is a 44 and Desert Eagle in the movie is a 357 which makes it even stranger oh okay we scratch that my theory is is clearly not correct that's just a weird mistake I thought maybe they'd kept that in the game script as it were but yeah hammer down the whole time is just famously well not fam only famously if you watch these videos really uh not right drop it scum here's this is what we're here for this is the auto 9 weird amount of debate over why it's called the auto 9 I thought it's pretty damn obvious why it's called that it's a n based on a 9mm pistol so it's probably 9mm in Universe here is a real Auto not really it's not really real this is the airsoft replica uh so it's based on a 9 mil pistol I'll show you in a second and it's it's automatic all three round burst if you want to be um super pedantic and I do ah okay that's firing an automatic so is it select fire so across the game and this is something that I actually really like about um RoboCop RC is because the auto 9 is the iconic RoboCop gun the game gives you the ability to upgrade it to to give it like a few more features unlike a lot of other games where your starting gun sort of skills out it remains your go-to gun throughout the entire game in Universe it's explain is you can install like old school pcbs on the gun which allow you to increase damage give it automatic fire give it single shot technically it can become select fire but the nice thing that I did appreciate about it is that the game lets you make sure it is useful for the entire story because how could RoboCop's aut9 not be excellent design decision yeah no that's music to my ears to be quite honest I was very concerned that this would get relegated Randy Moore worked on this with Ed new me terrible pronunciation suspect and Paul Hoven as well I believe to create this this iconic look with this additional sort of muzzle weight extension a screw extended barrel interestingly because it only has to fire on blank and they just added this semi gutter sight housing with a with a pistol sight inside it because otherwise well your Baretta sites have been negated but the other addition is this extended grip to to fit RoboCop hand better and also make it look different in case anyone does know what a 93r oops I've said it Beretta 93r is what this is let me stop showing you this plastic thing and let me show you a real 93r so this is the gun that Randy Moore had in his car I don't know if he had the butt stock or not let's get rid of that because that the first step in turning it into the auto 9 I'm sure a lot of you know this from other video games in its unmodified form and we can actually show it side by side that substantially it is the same gun they've removed the folding for grip Which F up that's why so this was great for RoboCop's massive finger that's originally so that you can get two fingers into it added that extension that extended barrel ports in the end for that um what they call a bow tie shaped flash that's a real practical effect in camera now they also in the movie Mr Moore came up with a seven round ratchet somehow not sure how he managed to fit that in but he did and a full auto version as well so the fact that full auto is in the game does reflect the movie uh so the movie guns did three or seven or full auto depend depending on how they were set up before a scene fascinating movie gun second only for me to the pulse rifle from Aliens nothing says 0 sci-fi like a plastic coated Bullpup in this case shotgun so this is the Mossberg 500 series but it's in a Bullpup chassis makes it look like a totally different gun and of course that's why they love that sort of thing for these types of movies it's not particularly faithful unless as has a different carry handle that I'm not aware and I'm not aware of this one our is polymer and it is solid and a solid back the one in the game completely different shape looks like it's meant to be metal so we don't have a I mean it's a good representation other than that I think I hate to say this it almost doesn't matter cuz it's like a future gun it's not necessarily the exact same thing as this now amusing fact on this one is so on the side we got the Mossberg logo and we have a lot of text like I didn't order a book with my shotgun but I got one anyway and it says shoot from right shoulder Only Store gun and ammunition separately patent pending I was just about to ask if that's on the real version because when you reload it in the game that is also right in your face that's very cut so it is so it is I missed that now it's not in a insect panel like it is on the gun very curious that they chose to reflect that detail I I'm guessing they were as amused by it as I was and thought they'd include it even though they're not being slavish to the details definitely has the right look very chunky pistol grip trigger guard butt stop well not butt stop technically really doesn't look like the gun that's inside it it has a grip safety and that pistol grip pump is the real version pump action rather than semi-automatic you know I completely overlooked that yes there is no way to make this semi-automatic it is pump only all day long because it's just the Mossberg 500 in a party dress compromise damage suain I at least glad for all their weapon choices they have stuck with an 80s aesthetic very 80s unfortunately in this case very wrong as well but I think it's quite deliberate I think they've gone for a sort of alternate reality H kg11 cuz this is clear meant to be a G11 magazine do that the crank to [ __ ] it one thing about that Crank that struck me is quite um this this this would suit RoboCop more than it would a normal human arm demonstrations of the G11 having to crank it and start again because he's got a mechanized arm he can just spin it in one action that's a really nice touch I can't remember how much of a crank the G11 needs we don't have a real G11 so I I have handled several g1s in the same place they're like buses you don't have any and then 12 come along at once we only have this wooden mockup unfortunately but it is a wooden mockup from the actual G11 development program so this is the earlier version so this had a um a crank that would flip out the butt stock and you would then use the cck in that axis the later version that this video game version based on has does have that spin crank on the side and I cannot remember I'm not going to check now just how much you need to turn it but the fact that he's using his revolving 360 owl owl owls can't really do that but his revolving wrist is is pretty cool but they're not they're not saying this is a G11 this is I guess a follow-up to the G11 or a parallel University 11 it's much more cyberpunk in its look on the model it says that it's chambered in 45 ACP which struck me as odd as well both as a round that's being used in a gun like this but also a round that they think will take down RoboCop okay that's ridiculous on so many levels I almost don't know where to start so clearly based on the G11 G11 used 4.6 mm caseless block as its ammo this is caseless too cuz it's not ejecting any rounds so to say this is 45 ACP makes zero sense from a technical perspective yeah bit curious also bit of patini rail creeping in there there is no patini rail in 1987 there is Weaver rail but that doesn't have those multiple stops I think they're falling for the Trap here of patini rail Mak stuff look futuristic or at least contemporary and so they put a strip on top of the site okay hkg3 or something close to one very weird reload there magazine Off magazine on pull the charging handle and then it there's no noise of it going forwards but it does go forwards cartridge case is coming out the right way round on this one that's good there's no lock and slap which is a missed opportunity with any HK in my book and the rear sight is odd kind of looks like he's ripping Mags out and shoving them in not using the catch but it's a little bit harder to tell you don't really get the sense of this being a more powerful rifle but I guess you wouldn't cuz his his hands and arms are going to just absorb the recoil so it's not going to move like it would if it was in a human's house little bit underwhelming I suppose I don't know if it's doing I'm hoping it's doing more damage for being a 762 rather than a 5.56 or a pistol caliber all right next up an M60 odd choice I wonder if this is a generic 8s movie Choice it's definitely not a Robocop movie gun looks a bit weird as well Barrel sticking out on its own with nothing attached to it there's definitely something to be said for Robocop and an M60 it it is inherently cool so I think we can allow it um I'm just not convinced that that's that that looks right I've not got a side view of it we should have a bip bipod and gas Parts attached to the barrel and I can't I mean certainly there's no bipod and looks like the gas parts are too far back but you get the overall sense of this belt fed nonsense it's almost a shame that they haven't got the loose belt of Rambo just with his hand and his his arm and he's holding he's holding up the belt Rambo Style it's slightly disappointing in a way that it's in the box case it's GNA go boom thanks for watching guys that was a a special treat for me big fan of the movie movies to some extent uh looking forward to playing the game myself getting this uh effectively a preview as far as I'm concerned love the fact that the a 9 is so prominent do after this if you'd like to watch um videos on our channel the Royal armory's Channel please do um check out our new websites check out our museums if you're able to do that um but we will be here again for you next week

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Length: 18min 2sec (1082 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 11 2023