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  1. It’s not the size of the barrel, it’s how you use it… right?

  2. brett says:

    the bang.

    The clang.

    the akward silence.

    Beautiful

  3. Mookie says:

    Projectile Dysfunction.

  4. ydobon says:

    For your information:
    Queen Anne is dead!

  5. rexifelis says:

    premature ejaculation

  6. pigeonreaper says:

    Those guys are damn lucky that didn’t happen in an actual fight…

  7. hudso says:

    So that’s where the taxpayer dollars are going.

  8. Arthur Eld says:

    I love it when those highly trained professionals with the best military equipment fail like that. There´s a lot of similar videos on youtube.

    • Tylatz says:

      Meh, the threads were probably stripped or someone didn’t seat it right. I don’t think a bad timing would have caused that, but I’ve never seen what happens when you screw those up.

      • Arthur Eld says:

        Do you think the gun was loaded with combat ammo? I would expect it to explode or something – but I never was a soldier.

        • Tylatz says:

          That was just a .50 cal with linked ball ammo. Pretty much the same thing that a M16 fires, but the bullet is about the size of your thumb if you include the jacket. It’s not going to blow up. You can fire a M203, grenade launcher, straight down and be fine. The military is cautious about fail safes. That’s why we don’t use stuff like RPGs.

      • Nope, timing won’t.. the gun won’t fire at all if the timing is off. Stripped threads or improperly seated barrel is my guess too. But, hey, with a gun designed in 1917, anything could happen.

  9. loufail says:

    So that’s what happens if you load a machine gun with potatoes instead of bullets.

  10. icantspell says:

    it’s a fake.

  11. God. says:

    Defending our country FAIL.

  12. abstract says:

    he was aiming at that caravan in the previous fail.

  13. GladIwokeUp says:

    I bet they haven’t let him live that one down, always ddouble and triple check your weapons after dismantling for cleaning and maintenance.

  14. coyote says:

    ♫Roll Out The Barrel♫
    ♫We’ll Have A Barrel Of Fun♫

  15. Baris Unver says:

    (Political humor) Actually, the whole war in Iraq was a fail. The biggest fail of all times. Although it was a huge win for the big families who sold guns (not all like this one).

    Yeah, I watched Zeitgeist: Addendum.

    • Arthur Eld says:

      Hey, don´t forget Germany! We had one or two war fails too.

    • slaggingham says:

      Iraq: A good idea, poorly executed.

      Seriously, how ELSE are you going to flank both Iran and Saudi Arabia?

      • Arthur Eld says:

        Due to the lack of legitimacy it wasn´t a good idea. If 100.000+ people die, one should have far more acceptable reasons – or else is no better than those brutal dictators.

        • slaggingham says:

          There were better reasons. Kind of the same reasons that in WWII the Allies landed troops in North Africa and then Italy before directly attacking Germany.

          It just wasn’t workable to attack Iran or SA directly. Iran’s programs were farther along, and SA is the holiest Islamic nation, having Mecca and Medina, as well as controlling so much of the oil that disrupting it would have really flushed the West’s economy.

          Either would have been a more legitimate target, but both were even more likely to go badly from the start and get worse, while Iraq was a known quantity, militarily. Also, being between both nations it allowed for (as I said) the flanking of Iran (with occupied Afghanistan) and a potential base for ops in Saudi Arabia – you may remember that Al-Qaeda’s first big grievance with the US was that US troops were still based in SA after Desert Storm.

          Also, controlling Iraq, which had the Middle East’s second-biggest oil reserves, would allow more pressure to be put on SA with less economic disruption.

          Most folk weren’t interested in such a big-picture view (I blame MTV), so they used WMD. It seemed simpler, plus at the time, every intel agency still believed Iraq had them (just not that they’d have used them.)

          The occupation was bungled badly, because Rumsfeld was a colossal tool.

  16. loufail says:

    So these people were shooting those jumping flash guys after they were court martialled, right?

  17. Noconspiracy says:

    Huh, who’da thunk bush was stupid enough to invest money into the one time use machine gun?

  18. Smegz says:

    Ah…the smell of our tax dollars at work.

  19. BondFan4518 says:

    Orly, you have come at an unfortunate moment, where most of the thread starters are gushing with innuendo. It’s really not this perverted usually.
    As for commenting on the video, let’s try reading every comment before we complain, shall we?

  20. Jin says:

    the 50 cal wasnt gauged properly, so the unit armorer is fail as well. lol

  21. capt. awesome says:

    This is why Anpu doesn’t let the French tell him how to make a machine-gun.

  22. BurgerKlonk says:

    Lol amaracan army!

  23. Avis says:

    If those guys were shooting at an actual enemy I doubt they’d be so cavalier about it.

  24. Mike says:

    Proudly made in the USA (by the lowest bidder).

  25. m0ep says:

    Support our troops… they need the money for equipment!

  26. Failme says:

    I don’t think they mounted it properly.

  27. Finally, it’s up! I’ve been watching and LOLing at this video for a while. I was scared it wouldn’t get enough votes and get stuck in limbo.

  28. penguin_man says:

    How come no-one else saw this video the first time it was on the first page?

  29. NeenerNeenerNeener says:

    You know what people? I’d take the time off work, buy a plane ticket from Los Angele, rent a car and get a room just to party with you guys. Instead I get derision.

    • Bod says:

      Says the man blowing the raspberry.
      Oh, and I’ve got an s you can have. If you want it.

    • fluffy the fish says:

      Hey Neener… It’s not only that we were all the butt of a joke (we were). It’s just that while you are willing to go the distance, be adventurous, and meet other failbloggers, most people here don’t feel that way. Most people here will not travel across the country to meet a bunch of strangers.
      I heard you were thinking of leaving. Please don’t.

  30. Avis says:

    We don’t mean it that way. Really we don’t. But to be fair, well have been the butt of a joke from time to time here. Even Dragon. I’m sure of it. I just have no idea when that might have been.
    To be a regular here (or even a guest star, really) you have to develop some thicker skin. Just for self preservation.

  31. hacksign23 says:

    I’ve seen this before o-o

  32. Z says:

    I think that may be the best ending way for a machine gun to fail

  33. jonnymoon5 says:

    made in china.

  34. Tony Millionaire says:

    not maxworthy…

  35. Fran says:

    Glad to see our country put all that money to good use.

  36. neurophius says:

    Can somebody please tell me how to copy an image from Google Images and upload it to this site? I am not very computer-literate. I have been experiencing COMPUTER USER FAIL.

  37. The Fuggler says:

    Symbolic 14 second video description of the whole US-Iraq war

  38. Unanimous- Better Than Anonymous says:

    Unpatriotic. Ur supporting the terrorists by posting this! Or something like that.

  39. darth wth says:

    Can anyone say “Wiley Coyote?”

  40. Rev says:

    Hooah to my brothers and sisters in arms still in hell.. but I’ve had that happen to me…shit I even had the barrel on my Winnie pop off once… horrible time..lol

  41. Amanda says:

    Someone not screw in .50 cal barrel…

  42. US Army .50 cal gunner says:

    a .50 cal gunner’s worst nightmare.
    That guy is obviously not a .50 gunner, though.
    epic fail.

  43. John Macon says:

    LMAO, made in China no doubt! ROTFL

    Jim C
    http://www.privacy-tools.net.tc

  44. pootpoot says:

    Duh, it’s called psychological warfare. The enemy will either be instantly overwhelmed by pity or die of laughter.

  45. Salty Sack says:

    so does this mean the terrorists win?

  46. fallenangel003 says:

    jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

  47. KB says:

    Forgot to pin that barrel in place, did ya Marine? Hell, we’ve all done it.

  48. mike says:

    This is why we check “head space and timing” instead of just eyeballing it.

  49. dna_level_c says:

    “Don’t worry, honey, it happens to everybody once in a while.”

  50. Jessi says:

    Yay for tax dollars! So glad they’re being used in the development of….one-time use…machine guns. -twitches- I think Billy forgot to check his equipment…silly Billy.

    And lawls at the Made in China post. Now they put all their lead in faulty machine guns!

  51. bogie says:

    The M2 has been around over 90 years. And they work VERY well, as pretty much anything that John Browning designed does…

    They are designed for interchangeable barrels, since the barrels take a LOT of abuse. They’re essentially disposable.

    Prior to our little situation over there, most of these weapons were packed away in cosmoline, waiting to be “decommissioned.” Well, since these things will actually shoot through the adobe-like walls of many of the mosq… er… terrorist strong points, they’ve become rather popular.

    I’m guessing that they’d done a barrel change, and someone told someone to hurry because they were getting a picture taken or somesuch, so, well, they just stuck the sucker in so it’d look good. Then someone tried to fire it.

    Oops. Instant internet immortality.

    • Jessi says:

      That’s probably more than likely, regarding the reason of the mishap. Or perhaps it really was a prank played on those poor boys. Either way, good for a chuckle.

  52. Shaun says:

    someone got their ass chewed for not checking the headspace on that bad boy… good job Pvt Murphy! lol

  53. YAYAYA says:

    YAYAYAYA I SOO POSTED THAT VIDEO!!!!

  54. Dew says:

    It’s probably just made in china.

    Just kidding. Lol.

  55. Jordo says:

    take that terry wrists

    damn sweatshops pump out jordans just fine but when it comes to .50 cals…

  56. WryGrin says:


    BEHOLD!!!!
    America’s war machine…

  57. SeruOmen says:

    The sad part is I know EXACTLY what they did wrong to that .50 cal to make that happen. >_<

  58. Sean says:

    The head space and timing was not right. The barrel was probrably not screwed in fully.

  59. Matt says:

    Silly Jarhead. You forgot to do your head space and timing. Doesn’t surprise me though. One of your Marines fired a live AT-4 in a building when I was deployed. Thankfully no one got seriously injured. That was also a fail.

  60. colin says:

    WTF remove things that are no longer watchable because of stupid youtube removing them

  61. I have H1N1 says:

    o wow…

  62. peacetank says:

    uuuuuh, join the navy?

  63. KanadetheGravekeeper says:

    Shy bullet pack Win

  64. Sue says:

    by chance was it made in China???

  65. Psycho-Tic says:

    All i can say is, what if they were fighting off a zerg swarm at the time…

  66. DraikSith says:

    Oh, I see! It’s a spear gun, it shoots the barrel at the enemy!

  67. that was a really poor comeback. =d

  68. firefox679 says:

    i thought it would explode

  69. Bushman says:

    I got a few screws left over but she’ll be right.
    U Sure?
    Yeah give her a go mate.

  70. Bawb says:

    somebody did a great job of re-assembling that after cleaning

  71. mechquestlord says:

    if that gun was a roman gun it would be called “failus maximus!”!

  72. FailScout says:

    This is not the kind of initiative that keep Soviet paratroopers off my lawn!


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