Last Ditch Axis Weapons

this video is sponsored by World War Doh World War Doh is a brand new mobile RTS game that's different from the other games in the same genre in this game you control your moveable commander and towers that rage and heal him to take on the enemy base assisted by a whole host of crazy units there's the bunker to hide my commander in a safe place tank arena to soak up damage and destroy towers da choppah and 1-800 air strike to ensure range and air superiority the catelyn gun for defense and van gun for his sniping action and then there's major fire with his flamethrowers that do fire damage for crowd control still not enough there are a ton of skins dances and taunts for you to show off and let your enemy know exactly how you're feeling very soon there will be a global tournament with a $25,000 prize pool so download now and get good fast to be crowned the best in the world and get a chance to win the prize money click the link in the description below to get the game now and join the simple history club o and established or aspiring content creators can apply to join the World War Doh creator program link also in the description below last ditch access weapons world war ii in the latter half of World War 2 the Axis powers continually found themselves cut off from resources they have earlier in the war without the materials needed to keep their massive more machines going the Japanese and German forces began scrambling to find ways to support their forces while using the least amount of resources possible this generally meant making crude forms of their current weapons finding ways to dramatically simplify production or even making completely new often times extremely simple firearms mp3 0:08 type submachine gun place of origin germany in the waning days of the Second World War the German military was looking at anything and everything they could field one answer had been sitting in their faces the whole time the British Sten submachine gun already designed as an emergency weapon by the British the Sten was lightweight simplistic effective very reliable in close quarters and above all else extremely simple to manufacture for the British the Sten replaced the highly expensive Thompson submachine guns they had been purchasing from the United States so to the Germans creating their own version of this already existing emergency weapon was an all too easy idea at first Mauser created the Garrett Postum an exact copy of the Stenmark - then the company was instructed to simplify the design further creating the Garrett knowing monstah officially called the mp3 0:08 from the stun to the mp3 0:08 only one serious change was made the magazine of the mp3 0:08 was locked in a vertical position on like the lateral magazine that protruded off the left side of the stand aside from this small change that two submachine guns were almost completely identical in total only about 10,000 M p300 eighths would be produced the mp3 0:08 would be produced throughout 1944 1945 what often times find themselves in the hands of auxiliary troops or in the hands of Germany's fallen allies in occupied states such as Czechoslovakia after World War 2 the mp3 0:08 still found service with many of these auxiliary troops until they were eventually washed out by the native designs or other imports Volkssturm gávea of the g15 type semi-automatic rifle place of origin germany maybe the most famous of Germany's last-ditch weapons is the Volk sim de Vere the name is translated as the people's assault rifle this oddly shaped and clearly cobbled together rifle was a mainstay of the German home known as the Volkssturm or people storm this Zweifel was supposed to get extra firepower to the severely under train and under-equipped Volkssturm militia that was used as the final stopgap between the Allies and the complete collapse of the Third Reich the Volks dem Gavea was both an extremely rushed and impractical design the rifle used the standard magazine of the stg44 and it's 7.92 by 33 millimeter kurtz round unlike the stg44 the Volkssturm de vere was purely a semi-automatic rifle the production of the works team Gewehr itself was extremely crude almost all of the firearms construction was made from stamped or folded metal therefore could be made with even the simplest of manufacturing tools the only part of the weapon that wasn't made of stamped metal was the bolt itself the bolt was actually somewhat of an advanced one it used a simplified blowback action that only uses one moving part the bolt itself the same theory would reduce the recoil the Volkssturm de vere was held together with simple bolts and rivets while this made the firearms somewhat more rugged this meant that it could not be easily disassembled for maintenance so if there were any issues with the gun it was often thrown away and replaced I'm Stas Flemming Vova 46 type throw away flamethrower place of origin Germany one of the most feared weapons of all time is the flamethrower the German army had made good use of the flamethrower all across the world but these giant devices were expensive were complicated to produce and they required specialized training that would take up valuable time as the Fuhrer called more and more people to the front many of whom would receive little to no formal training in order to combat this issue a lightweight portable tubular single-shot flamethrower was pressed into service in 1944 this was the Einsteins flemeth ephah of which little information is known in English literally meaning the single-shot flamethrower it was just a simple metal container filled with fuel with a nozzle and a trigger at the front once the trigger was pulled the entire contents of the canister would be emptied projecting a single burst to flame for less than a second to an effective range of about 30 yards after this it was thrown away the flamethrower itself was tucked under the users arm and held in place by a strap that went over the soldier's shoulder often these flamethrowers proved to be more dangerous to the user than the enemy the einsteinium and Vova found itself used by german paratroopers until the end of the war and would ultimately end up in large numbers in the hands of the Volk star as it was deemed that no training was necessary to use the ein stuff lemon FIFA despite it being so cumbersome approximately 30,000 700 were manufactured last-ditch arasaka type 99 type bolt-action rifle place of origin Japan much like the Germans the Japanese Empire was on its heels and was running dangerously low on supplies in the late years of the war conscripts with little or no training or being equipped with whatever could be found on the standard-issue rifles of the Japanese Empire were stripped to their basic components in order to save on production time and material at the beginning of the war the type 99 arasaka was a well made and very well liked firearm that used a smooth mousers style action this rifle would be stripped down to its core by the end of the war compared to the original rifle the late war version looked like a poor copy of its earlier self the sights on the late war arasaka consisted of a stationary peephole rear sight without the adjustment for windage or elevation which the original featured while at the end of the barrel there was an unprotected blade for sight these sights worked but lacked the finesse of the original rifle just behind the sights the bolt itself was of a much worse quality than the original smooth low tolerance metal work was replaced with crude unfinished metal with little to no markings this saved on machining time and allowed for less skilled machinists and metal workers to produce these rifles metal pieces that were not absolutely necessary were removed from the gun entirely this included the butt plate which was stripped off and replaced with a wooden butt plate and the cleaning rod which was removed completely and not given any kind of substitute although the metal construction at the end of the hand guard was slimmed down and changed so as to not hold the cleaning rod it's bayonet lug was kept so that soldiers could still a fix bayonets and charged enemy positions much like its metal components the wooden body of the type 99 was cut down wherever possible the most noticeable change being that the finish on the original was completely removed thus leaving the bare wood to face the elements with no protection from there the wooden handguard that used to run the length of the rifle was cut down to cover only about one half of the barrel and lastly the finger groove under the rear sights were completely removed overall the Japanese had removed and simplified anything they could without making the rifle dangerous to use although that point is still up for debate National Defence rifle type bolt-action rifle place of origin Japan with the Americans and even potentially the Soviet Union closing in on the Japanese home islands the threat of invasion was very real and a pre-existing civil defense leads were starting to be mobilized in the event of an invasion these home guard troops and guns did not be made fast enough or in large enough numbers both outfit the frontline troops and the home guard so even the hugely simplified type 99 would not find itself in the hands of the Home Guard troops instead of an extremely simplified bare-bones rifle that national defense rifle was issued out to members of the Home Guard little is known about these series of rifles they were not any kind of specific rifle basic designs were handed down from the Japanese government to workshops around the country who were ordered to manufacture rifles chambered in either the 7.7 by 58 millimeter arasaka rifle cartridge or the 8 by 22 Nambu pistol cartridge the finished works that were put out by these workshops were extremely simplistic and crude since each workshop had free rein of how they wanted to design their rifle they're designed different from workshop to workshop but all versions had certain commonalities such as a stock made from a single piece of wood oftentimes this was just a plank with a slot cut into it in order to hold the barrel and trigger assembly and a single-shot capacity although these rifles were supposed to be chambered to use standard Japanese ammunition some did not even use cased ammo but instead used a muscle loader that used black powder an unknown number of these rifles were produced and none of them saw frontline action as the invasion of Japan never occurred although most of these weapons did see combat in some form they were produced in fairly limited numbers and their production ceased with the end of the war after the war almost all of these weapons except the mp3 0:08 which went on to be used by many police forces and the Balkans and other Central and Eastern European countries were immediately destroyed or sold off after the war today they are extremely rare and oftentimes considered unsafe for use because of their crude and fast production methods you

Channel: Simple History

Views: 2,362,231

Rating: 4.8829498 out of 5

Keywords: simple history, animated history, educational, education, last ditch, end, downfall, MP 3008, Volkssturmgewehr, VG.1-5, Throw-away flamethrower, Einstossflammenwerfer 46, Arisaka Type 99, Late War, desperate, National Defense Rifle, german, germany, japan, japanese

Id: YE0JhyS2aKA

Length: 11min 57sec (717 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 25 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Robeartato]

MP3008 would be quite easy to do since it's just a vertical-magazine Sten. However, Anton as said that he's taking a long break from third-reich era weapons due to negative experiences he had from a few users

[u/7_92x57_mm_Mauser]

Hoping for the MP 507, not expecting to get it in the foreseeable future