M16 and AR-15 - How firearms work! (Animation)

It's one thing to understand how a gun works - but it blows my mind thinking about some point, some time in the past, designers and engineers actually built these things from scratch!

Even if you hate guns, you cannot deny that they are a marvel of engineering.

As someone who struggles with Math, the fact people can visualize how to make the intricate parts of a gun are brilliant. Engineering is amazing. Thanks Eugene Stoner

These guns are more technical than what I expected.

I’m small arms repair in the army. This has to be one of the best illustrations of the breakdown of this weapon system I’ve seen.

The amount of 3D modeling software skills is unbelievable

I feel like ive learned something and forgot it at the same time

The creator of the M-16 and the AK-47 have met each other in the past and done an interview together. They both liked each other's weapon and complimented each other

This has more effort put into this than youtube rewind

Holy shit this is good.

This video has more effort than my university's learning materials

AR-15: Needs a little spring loaded mechanism to eject the casing AK: Ejects the casing with a little steel notch

Holy I've taken apart, cleaned, and put together this weapon so many times and yet I still learned something...a nice, well detailed video 👍

The quality of explanations is extremely high. The quality of section cuts is extremely high. The dynamics of the machines is completely detailed. The physics of the mechanism is completely described. Your talent can generalize to motors, mechanisms, complex processes on any sort of robotics dynamics. The talent and the clarity on these videos made incomprehensible processes transparent. This is what technology and pedagogy can do for education. Can anyone imagine how this could generalize to Kepler motion, astronomy and sun geometry? You found business. 100/100

As an AR-15 owner, I'm impressed that all this happens at the pull of a trigger.

People talking about hiw the video looks so good, when im over here thinking about hiw they made a couple peices of metal in your gun a felony

The metal even has scratches holy shit

One of the best animations that I ever saw. Thank you!

Subjects of engineering required to design a gun 1. Theory of Machines ( Mechanisms, Cams & Followers, Springs, Vibration) 2. Machine design & Manufacturing (Design and manufacturing of parts, Metallurgical selection, ergonomics, anthropometric, Measurements) 3. Thermal engineering ( Energy Transfer/ dissipation like Flash hiding, suppression, Heat Transfer and dissipation) 4. Fluid mechanics (Gas movement, flow through nozzle, diffuser for gas operated ones, compressible flow) 5. Optics (Magnification and all about light/ lasers) 6. Mechanics (Uniform Weight, low Centerline CG, muzzle velocity, projectile range (bullet range)) 7. CFD ( Modelling and Simulation) Well that's entire Mechanical Engineering 😲

I'm no gunsmith by any means but I'm comfortable in saying that I know 90% of what there is to know about AR platform rifles and I've always wondered how burst fire worked and now I finally learned!