Hopefully you all know about Thorneycroft by now (if you don't, there's probably a book on it), so in this episode Jonathan get's hands on with a weapon owned by the man himself.

To coincide with our resident Keeper of Firearms new publication pre-order, we're doing an episode on a WW2 commando carbine prototype that a few of you might be familiar with....

Jonathan's book pre-order is available here: https://shop.royalarmouries.org/products/pre-order-signed-arms-and-armo...

Today's episode revolves around a Revolver with some historical significance and represents the 'last gasp' of revolvers within UK Police service.

Frederick Wilkinson. ‘Those Entrusted With Arms’ (Greenhill Books, 2002).

https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/judgments/lockerbie-trial/

https://www.sh...

Boasting 1,200 rounds/min with a unique "Super V" recoil mitigation system, The Kriss Vector (on paper) sounds like a firearm to be reckoned with.

So Jonathan is going to put it to the test.

If you want to see how the Super V system works, in-depth, and in your own virtual hands, then you can ...

Unusually light, extremely fast firing and featuring a feed cage mechanism. This week's weapon is the ShKAS machine gun.

Today's episode is an interesting one... you could almost... write a book about it.

In other news - we're taking part in a Call of Duty livestream against the Cody Firearms Museum in a 3v3 for each museum to defend their gaming honour. And to hopefully raise a few donations from you lovely viewe...

Dave and Jonathan return for a repeat of the museum supermarket sweep that is 'Antiques Gunshow'. This time, the category is: Video Games.

As seen in Squid Game, this week Jonathan delves into the South Korean service rifle - the Daewoo K2.

Luger what we have here - a hands-on with the carbine variant of the Luger series of pistols.

Oh and this one is very, very rare.

Autocannons, Martini-Henry Rifles and... a weapon that screams as you shoot it?

What's not to love?

Join Jonathan & Dave in the final part to their look back at 2024's video game firearm offerings.

This week and next, Jonathan & Dave look back and reflect on 2024's videogames and how they handle firearms and decide which 5 they loved the most.

In today's episode we showcase two rifle's that participated in 19th century British weapon trials that eventually lead to the adoption of the Martini-Henry.

Sources mentioned:

Burton's life in arms from Logan at High Caliber History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNGgXVIIncU

'From Under I...

Our first episode of 2025 covers variants from the Ruger P series of pistols featured in films like Desperado and True Lies with our star of the show being the 'laser gun' P94DAOL.

P.S. Someone tell Jonathan to take his Christmas decorations down.

Merry Christmas from us at the Royal Armouries - you don't have to unwrap our present from us to you, as it comes in the form of a special episode with our good friend Dave Jewitt.

Not quite Christmas magic, but definitely full of sparkles. Today on What is this Weapon is a visually astonishing diamond, white gold and platinum Smith and Wesson Revolver as featured in this years Re:Loaded exhibition.

Jonathan has a festive conservation-wrapped box for you all today, with something shiny inside...

Stick around until the end of the video for an announcement - you can take part following the link below:

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We're focusing on the macroscale today as Jonathan get's hands-on (mainly for scale) with what could quite possibly be the smallest flintlock... in the world.

The Pattern Book:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/726774

The DeWitt Article:

https://americansocietyofarmscollectors.o...

Jonathan returns to the range in part 2 of our AN-94 episode to compare it to the AK-74.

We have a very, very special one for you this week.

David Lake of Small Arms Defense Journal describes a firearm that can "fire, eject, reload, fire, eject and reload, with perfect reliability, while almost totally eliminating recoil, in less time than the human eye can blink. Quite literally......

This week to end our two-parter we have all things Kalashnikov as we delve deeper into the Cold War with Ian from @ColdWarConversations .

We have something VERY very exciting next week so stayed tuned for that...

This week and next we have a special guest star of Ian Sanders from @ColdWarConversations to aid Jonathan into examining the firearms involved within the Cold War and the history surrounding them.

Be sure to tune in next week for Part 2 about the infamous Kalashnikov rifle.

Down, down, down in the stores of the NFC, Jonathan get's hands on with a English Civil War era matchlock musket that was made during the time of heightened witch superstition.

Do check out @Novum_YT and eagerly await his video which will feature Jonathan discussing a scene from Robert Egger's...

We have a slightly different one for you all this week, as Jonathan visits the Cody Firearms Museum.

Curator Danny Michael showed us their one of a kind factory fall camo Intervention of Modern Warfare 2 fame. Mountain Dews at the ready!

This episode was created in collaboration with Real Time History exploring Shotguns in Saipan - their episode will air on November 15th so go check it out when it goes live at @realtimehistory .

Meanwhile, join Jonathan as he gives his longer hands-on with one of the trench shotguns of the 20th...