Why did the suppressed Thompson lose out to the Sten? With firearm & weapon expert Jonathan Ferguson
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Publicado 2024-07-24
0:00 Intro
0:40 Silenced Thompson
2:13 Inside the Silencer
2:36 Silencer Features
6:50 Questionable Origins?
9:54 Tommy vs Grease?
12:41 Please see attached...
13:25 Trials
14:40 Conclusions
16:15 STEN reigns supreme?
17:22 Outro
17:50 TikTok!
18:21 Ferguson... Jonathan Ferguson.
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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That view down the silencer and barrel was great. Well done!
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This is the first time I’ve seen a Thomson suppressed looks very cool, but yeah a suppressed Thomson is very expensive compared to a suppressed Sten
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The S in Mk2S stood for "special" not "silenced"? What an intriguing tidbit, I'd never heard that.
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2:33 That wipe! I see what you did there...
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@Jonathan/@Royal Armouries. Would you ever consider doing a "Walking the Racks" series on the channel. Ian McCollum used to occasionally do it at some of the large auctions & it was great walking along, picking out interesting firearms for snippets of info, that could be expanded upon at a later date. I always salivate at the ones behind you in the vids, so an expanded tour would be excellent.
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“Hey guys, we’re going to add the Thompson to inventory for the Army. What designation shall we give it?” “Whatever will cause the least confusion, ideally.” “M1 it is, then.”
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I know as you can't get the suppressor off that it's hard to clean the bore of that Thompson. But looking at the fluff & detritus in there I couldn't help but hear Michael Caine as Harry Brown saying "You Failed to Maintain Your Weapon Son!" Very cool video, thanks for showing it to us.
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I think the silenced grease gun in .45 was cool as hell, but seeing the silence sten in that new Guy Richie war movie looked very cool too.
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So cool to be handling one of only two known examples of a firearm. I am envious of what Jonathan has access to in those vaults!
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I can see where this configuration would not be practical in the field, but oh boy, it does look very cool. Thank you for sharing.
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This is unfathomably dope
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As an FYI, there is an intergrelly surpressed M1/M1A1 Thompson Submachine Gun located in the West Point Museum Collection. Its suppressor starts much closer to the receiver and is a shorter overall package than the one presented here. They seem to routinely fire it, as it routinely pops-up in the Cadet's annual historic weapon shoot.
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First time I ever saw that suppressor on that Thompson was back when I played Sniper Elite 5
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That outro was amazing 😂
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always astounding presentations from the reference collection.
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Love the new outro...
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A video of Johnathan & Ian coming up with alternate designs to achieve some of these ideas could be entertaining.
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Thanks for the vid! Love learning about a new gun I didn’t know existed!
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That end animation with Jonathan Ferguson was fantastic! Wonder how many caught the Bond reference? Thank you Royal Armouries !
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Now THIS is a good base for a Star Wars blaster!!
