Will This Be Replacing The US Army’s 50 CAL?

foreign [Music] [Music] won the m250 and that's gonna be replacing the saw but a bigger question is will the 338 be replacing the m240 will it be replacing the 50 cal perhaps in Socom we don't know the Sig m338 we're gonna do all the testing on it we're going to talk about it we have the Sig employees themselves here to explain it but before we get into that we of course have to thank the sponsors of the channel the biggest sponsor of the channel is who Charles Korean meat bathing suits Sonoran Desert Inn students getting further away every time the Sonoran Desert Institute if you're looking to get your starting Gunsmithing they are the people to go to we cannot thank them enough and of course who can we not forget Micah primary arms uh and they make an optic that's cooler than I don't know where I'm going with this but they're good we like them cooler than World War II there you have it cooler than World War II and of course all ammunition is always sponsored by AC ammunition which unlike your phone the camera equipment and everything that we do all this on it's actually made in America so a big thank you to them now in the case of the ammunition that we have today of course this is directly provided by Sig and the weapon of course the m338 is not ours but is from Sig so that we can do this video on it so with everything out of the way let's go ahead let's get into it let's start testing this guy now here we have St John from Sig thank you for thank you thank you nice to see you again Mike hey it's good to see you again uh you did a great job with the m250 video so good of a job that they actually let you come to us this time well like I told you I moved the needle right not in content but in comments insane and some good looks in the uh the uh erotic mustache that wasn't going to be how I described it but it's it's it's something okay the m33 can you explain to me the thought process behind this is what do you guys classify this as this is a medium machine gun yeah this is the Sig medium machine um machine gun that was developed out of a necessity from an operational capabilities Gap from the US Army to kind of bridge that distance between a 762 and a 50 cal and really a little bit closer to the 50 cal side right so 762 M20 m240 machine gun capabilities 800 meters on a point target this is you know extending it to 1500 meters anti-material capability it really bleeds or bleeds into that m250 Cal space so from reading up on it I understand that the m338 is capable of 1500 on a point target 2000 on an area and about 6 000 total so we have quite a bit of range on this and a big I think uh reason for the development of this was overmatched because this is a much lighter weapon than the M2 and it's uh it's actually three pounds lighter than the m240 depending on the variant uh which depending on the variant so our gun right now the Gen 3 is coming in at about 23.1 pounds so you could say 60 pounds lighter than an M2 and when you look at the capability Gap you know if you think about it from what was going on the last 22 years you know it's kind of a good example when you're looking out here at uh Mr crazy guy with the rake over there but when you look at the ridge to Ridge capability the ridge develop Valley capability the man portability of being able to take this up the mountain and then when you look at it from a simple blocking position the only way of being I have an anti-material anti-vehicular capability before was bringing a heavy weapon and now I can give it to a guy like you and you can carry it to the to the battlefield that's it right here we have 50 cal right here we have the 338 Norma Magnum this is open tip we're gonna go ahead we're gonna shoot it on the ballistic dummy we're going to look at the capability and then we're gonna do some more you know figuring out on this and seeing how it how it performs but talk is cheap and ammunition is paid four by six and the best way to figure out ballistics is going to be of course what Charles tubby Labs ballistic dummies this is the North Korean version as you can tell it's a good approximation to uh ballistic performance now of course the 338 is a very powerful round we're very close this is you know Saving Private Ryan on the beach style you know oh but from the other side [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] obviously the m338 with the 338 normal Magnum is an incredibly powerful round uh and as you can see here it absolutely shredded the body in half because it is a extremely violent cartridge it's it's really it's really good yeah I do want to say that this is actually the highest level of Carnage that we've gotten from a from from a weapon I understand that the barrel change is quite quick on the m338 yeah purposely um obviously with a machine gun you want to be able to change the barrel quite quickly as you were kind of talking earlier about you know how a machine gun works and area fire and beaten zones and stuff like that in a high volume obviously is the gun high volume fire makes it heat up usually you have a you know a gun team and one of the person's responsibility is to manage the gun while the guy's firing the gun and Barrel changes are required well and we can't show that on YouTube but it is as quick as a snap of the fingers right here yeah it's just quick so normally fingers no it's just never the finger yeah snap for the fingers uh no so it is a so what you have here is you have the assault version of the barrel so when you do look at the gun overall length it's quite large even though it's a lightweight machine gun you know at 23 pounds you put a 24 inch barrel on it so that you can get that 2000 meter capability um the nice thing about the shorter assault Barrel is it allows you an opportunity to still be supersonic past 1500 meters and be a little bit more maneuverable for you know an assault machine gun what's the length on the barrel on this guy uh this one right here is 17 inches okay and that's supersonic past 15. it is yes impressive very impressive it is impressive that is actually pretty cool it's uh you know the round's pretty magical really when you think about it and so we talked a lot about The Recoil mitigation system so if you don't mind we could uh show a little bit of the shooting here Michael have you get on the side and then uh just kind of see what that looks like yeah we can we can definitely do that so um before we go on yeah I was gonna I didn't know we only were kind of getting towards the end here so it kind of feels odd bringing it up because it was the first thing I wanted to bring up with you was uh I was excited for you today because it's kind of been a complete Journey for me and it's always an exciting day at Sig but you know I seen you got that Toyota pickup up there four-wheel drive TRD Pro you know you probably had a Miata or some exotic sports car like that you look like a guy who's been compensating his whole life and uh I would say that when you well you know you know what I'm saying you know yeah yeah he's not wrong but uh that journey is complete today with the 338 machine gun yeah get over it I'm safe for everything in my entire life all my failures that he's gonna walk and shoot it look at me I'm John I work out you can hold them dry pods if you want while Byron too you know kind of God ah damn what oh god damn [Music] Jesus [ __ ] not bad better than me because I fired it standing earlier it didn't seem that bad that just wait do you think that you could fire that standing I could walk and shoot that better than John Crane even what does that look John no oh my God do I gotta push this forward yep all right why are you getting in front of him stop walking back hey to be clear nobody showed me how to load it and I just loaded it nice job great job you want to shoot a standing first before you try the walk no okay no all right okay try it here we go can't do it I couldn't do it how'd you do that one more try one more try I'm coming back for Redemption that is so weird I'm actually okay John I made fun of you but Color Me impressed short barrel is way lighter so we're gonna go ahead and talk a little bit about some of the points that we haven't really gotten to and just shooting it so first off with the suppressor that we have here um this is mostly like a signature reduction right when it comes to sound and uh for the shooter and Flash downrange correct I'd say that that's probably more of a primary function of a machine gun suppressor but obviously it does have some sound suppression sound suppressive qualities as well right and that suppressor is built from you know we've talked in previous shows about the surge program to the SLX suppressor that's on the ngsw guns this is our BLX which is an extension of the SLX which is trying to evacuate those gases from the shooter um I think when you shot this when you were up in New Hampshire maybe six eight months ago the Gen 2 gun with the Gen 2 suppressor you ate a lot of gas I did yeah it was terrible yeah it was a standard normal welded baffle design type of can and so we've you know put our flow through technology in there and you know you figure the challenge is that for one you got a high pressure round but it's also about 100 grains of powder compared to you know 46 to 48 with the 762 machine and so there's a lot more gas and so I don't think you probably experienced much of that today and specifically comparatively significantly less it was way better this time around a definite Improvement that we're seeing there I'm kind of moving down here as far as the mounting points we have we just have our standard M lock that we have you know just going down for whatever you might need and then when it comes to the optic mounting what I've always liked about whether it be the m250 or the 338 is the fact that like compared to the saw this picatinny rail isn't moving so that's going to ensure just a more consistent zero yeah absolutely it's a more fixed rail on it you know coming back up a little bit to position gas it's usually normal and adverse not suppressed unsuppressed Works in either position we've got our bipod leg same one on the ngsw John I know that you know it it we talked about a few things that were their positives and negatives about it um if you you know we've got the captured top rail that I told you was going to come on the xm250 eventually so you have that captured top rail so that when you do have your inline Optics they rotate out to do your barrel change and you don't have to worry about the top cover coming off really you know it's kind of an extension of our small gun the big gun is really even though the big gun was born first side opening feed tray cover we've did some improvements since the last time we've got some ammo keeps still can loaded open open uh feed tray or closed feed tray with the spoon pull through similar design that you see on the ngsw for the magazine Magwell and I'm supposed to get a shout out to my friend my friend Nikki cycle that gun has a ammo purse so I mean I thought that was that's the name of it actually yeah it is actually correct I told her I'd give her a shout out for that but I thought it was quite unique but obviously the um magazine drum uh you know we got 1500 round for for this gun uh one of the unique features on the gun is that it's uh left side or right side charge left side or right side feet so you can configure this gun so when you start thinking about like say dual mounts boat mounts and things like that rather than having to have an offset like you would have in your 762 machine guns to allowed for the feeding on both sides you can bring them in together and you can have them feed from left to right side and manage it that direction um foldable butt stock collapsible butt stock modular butt stock the butt stock can actually just rotate the hinge switch over the tube and all of a sudden now it folds the left or right depending on what you want to have it we have convenient we have butter butterfly grips for it um and then you know when you get back into the AR style control similar to our ngsw full auto first it's a machine gun first semi-auto second for that long range engagement that 1500 2000 meter area that we were talking about earlier in the video it doesn't feel quite like a 180 degree turn to get to that to that semi-auto it feels like no it's uh I don't know what it is I think it's just another 30 degrees yeah it's kind of nice yeah I've always hated like the full 180 on like the old M16s and everything absolutely and then from a functional standpoint you know John you being a machine gunner you understand especially you know aircraft loading you know when you aircraft loaded before put the rounds on top and you know you're putting on fire and a helicopters you're coming in the land on fire trigger being pulled you're holding it to the rear right and then putting it on safe and then letting everything go forward we saw solve that problem there's no Seer bind issues with this gun you can aircraft load it when it's on safe you can charge it and go so we've kind of managed you know that aspect that we we didn't really like about machine guns as well so this is a gen 3 the Gen 4 gun is actually I think when you were up the plant may have been man it was just last summer I think yeah not too long ago and that was when we were in the beginning of our gen 3 gun and testing and we're already building our gen 4S now which is the improvements upon this um and you know we will turn those Gen 4 guns into the army program this summer for you know to an opportunity to be selected between Gen 2 and Gen 4 we're going to have close to 800 000 rounds and 300 000 of those being the specific ammunition that the Army's going to test with and you know that's a that's kind of a extensive amount of testing you think about it specifically when you start talking four to five dollars a bullet and so it's it's fine you guys will be okay I'm probably taking some of John's equipment here as a down payment for everything he shot today so everything that John has in half I get half yes it's really fine John um so you've gotten a lot of Trigger Time on this today probably about 400 rounds uh what are your impressions um having had so much time on the other uh belt fed systems I'd say the four biggest things that I like number one being that safety because like you said aircraft loading that makes it a lot safer but also newer guys whenever they're first learning their machine guns they'll a lot of times they'll rack at 240 or saw on safe and it's it's a [ __ ] to get that uh on unmessed up second one is uh you already touched on it optic being on a a rigid um not moving picatinny rail not only is that obviously better for zero but also my Red Dot isn't jumping around as much because the feature cover would be rattling um next I really like how the uh the nut sack or the ammo purse goes into the gun it's a big Improvement big improvement over uh trying to get that dovetail in perfectly um this one it's just simple click straight in and then just pops straight out um and lastly M lock away the future but it also doubles as a cooling ports um I think that's huge step in right direction yes it's always cool taking a look at these weapons that that are a possibility of the future so I'm really interested to see what the Gen 4 looks like and you know this might be kind of what the United States military ends up going with and that's that's cool to be able to get these first looks so we can't thank you enough for uh coming out here and bringing it out and uh of course for you bringing your beautiful self out to Idaho man thank you thank you so much for coming out brother quite tropical I appreciate you well guys um as always glad you could uh stay tuned and trained get out there have a good time but the biggest thing is always going to be our dad advice and since we have St John here you're like a dad to so many people um you know I I definitely feel inadequate right now so you know if you give our audience some dad advice that'd be wonderful yeah you blindsided me last time so I actually thought about it so there's way more pressure on this one because it actually might be yeah you might say something profound yeah no I don't think so it could actually be worse that it didn't come off the cuff right but uh I think what I came up with was uh Mary for money and looks love love will come later oh

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Keywords: sig m338, m338, sig m250, 338 norma magnum, us army mg, us army gpmg, gpmg, m240, 50 cal, 50 bmg

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Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 12 2023