The Eugene Stoner Tapes - Part 3: The Stoner 63

This video is one of many in a series created from an interview conducted by Edward C. Ezell with Eugene Stoner in 1988 at ARES Inc. in Port Clinton, Ohio. All the footage is courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. All I have done is cut some of the waiting time between tapes out and tried to fix the audio. Otherwise, what you are seeing is entirely unadulterated. Feel free to ask any questions about the various topics of the video in the comments. I will do my best to answer them. TIMESTAMPS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 - Life after ArmaLite 1:02 - The Stoner 63 concept 3:37 - Stoner on why the Stoner 63 didn’t sell 6:02 - The Army’s sabotage of the Stoner 63 in testing with bad tracer ammo 8:51 - The Army’s favoritism of the Rodman SAW 10:07 - Another 6mm shell game to eliminate competing LMGs 13:32 - The use of metal stamping in the Stoner 63 17:18 - Comments on the Stoner 86/ARES LMG-1 20:12 - The role of new materials and manufacturing technology in weapons design 23:25 - The group effort of modern weapons design 28:14 - Passing on the skills of weapons design 32:30 - Stoner comments on his and Kalashnikov’s similar lack of an engineering background 40:16 - B-roll of Ezell discussing Stoner 63 variants The Eugene Stoner Tapes playlist: All footage is used with permission from the Smithsonian Institution Archives.