Sturgeon

Good humor.

"That's why the MiG-29 and Su-27 were superior to their counterparts in many respects." HAHAHAHAHAHA

"Damn you for not ever getting to know anything worth knowing. Damn me, too. We had a world, once." This is a picture thread for The-City-That-Was: Detroit. We had a world, once.

Ah, the Tomcat; the Soviet Union's finest double-agent.

Back on the WoT Forum thread that preceded this one, it was a hard rule that screenshots from video games/simulators were not valid submissions to the thread. However, you're Bele so I won't enforce it with you. All you other folks bettah keep in line, tho!

It's a common misconception in the West that Soviet doctrine was to keep the chamber empty with the safety off; that's why I ask.

The latter sounds a lot like crocodile humor to me. Not sure if it quite qualifies, though.

The real question is who would win in a prose fight, Terry Pratchett, or Douglas Adams?

So the doctrine in theater would be to have a round chambered, safety on, correct?

I would just like to point out that the US has so badly handled the Middle East that we've literally allowed Fox News' predictions about the situation to come totally and irrefutably true.

Holy shit that blog post had me riveted. Unfortunately, I had to quit, as even at two in the morning I have better stuff to do.

The rifle sling on these weapons seems very naturally designed for point shooting from the "by the sling" position, without using the stock or sights. If I'm interpreting this correctly, this was intentional, yes? In other words, the grenadier/user was trained to keep his rifle slung behind him as in Figure 42, to be deployed in the manner described in Figure 51? ED: Also, they don't seem to say anything about safety usage. Were these weapons carried with loaded chambers on safe, off safe, or with empty chambers?

As a current side project stops and starts according to my whims, I figured I might as well create here and keep updated a list of rules/guidelines for design of lightweight automatic/autoloading rifles and other weapons. Here's what I have so far: 1. Volume is mass; smaller means lighter. 2. The lightest, strongest shape is the sphere, and it has the least surface area for its volume. Cubes, though conceptually simple, should be avoided where possible. All light weapons desire to approach the shape of the cylinder, an elongate sphere. 3. (For conventional-layout weapons) Adding one ounce of weight in front of the point of balance adds two in total. 4. The primary mass is the primary driver of the total system mass. As a rule of thumb, adding 1 gram to the bolt mass adds 10 grams total to the rifle. 5. The only way to achieve exceptional lightness of weight is to reduce weight wherever possible, no matter how minor the savings in each case. The best way to lighten a rifle by 10% is not by cutting the weight of one component dramatically, but by reducing the weight of all components by 10%.

As in, presenting the weapon to a target with the stock folded. Judging by the way the things are carried, I am making an assumption that they are intended to be used that way in emergencies. EDIT: It looks like the subject is discussed on page 70 and 100-101. The pictures are pretty simple, what does the text say?

Oh, hope you had/will have fun in the Nation's Crapital.

Upon the recommendation of some folks with whom I have since and as a direct result cut all ties (hi Jeff!), I watched the enema Black Lagoon; to the creators of which I have to give a lot of credit, really, as not many publishers would take such a gamble on a script so obviously written by an 8-year-old. Well, despite a premise which seemingly couldn't go wrong, between the lazy animation, the lack of attention to detail to central props and settings, and the horrible, horrible script, I have been left, like a high dollar whore hired by a man with more money than bedroom vigor, grumpy and unsatisfied. Falkenberg's Legion, Janissaries, Space Viking, The Wild Geese, Far Cry; all those I've really liked, though I'm more in the mood for something with a modern setting (bonus points if it's in Southeast Asia; Heart of Darkness with FALs has been done to death). So hit me. Good merc/military fiction, set on the edge of civilization, where a group of likeable-but-violent rogues carves out their own niche in a chaotic world. Also guns n stuff pewpewpewpewpew KABOOM

Does anyone have any documents detailing the intended use of AK-74 folding stock variants (AKS-74, AKS-74U, AK-74M, etc), especially ones with information about presenting the weapon with the stock folded from a slinged position?

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "buy organic".

A combination of new research and semantic wankery has created the Anthropocene Epoch, a proposed geological time period delineating from the year 1610 the start of widespread human influence on climate. I suspect this will be short-lived, as research will reveal that humans have been jacking with the climate since we had tails, and that it is in fact relatively normal for organisms to have major effects on the climate.

Ganymede. Enceladus.

Remember General Robert Scales? Way back when, I wrote an article - which wasn't my finest work but certainly attained the highest comment count of anything I've ever written - debunking a hit piece he wrote attacking the M4 Carbine. Well, now the Russian Investigative Committee has begun a criminal case against General Scales, since he called for the wholesale killing of Russians as a solution to the Crimean conflict earlier this week. When I originally wrote my rebuttal, I didn't know that General Scales was the author - ever since the Tom Kratman episode (which had a tone that was easily misinterpreted as denigrating his service - actually, it was intended to be the opposite), I have made a point only to address the content of a work, not the author - I deliberately didn't even look at the name of the author of the The Atlantic piece. Afterward, I found out I had publicly erm, scuffled with a certain General Scales, which felt to me a bit like a squirrel picking a fight with a bear. Nothing ever came of it, but I still felt a little silly for doing so. Not so much anymore, since this most recent development.

Hognose, I'm really humbled by the compliment. I've been following your website for a long time, and though not all the content is up my alley, I've found much of it to be invaluable. That's really my goal here - to keep the site content-dense. We're still new (the majority of the members are still the original cadre who split off from another forum, so we've all been posting together for much longer than this site's been around), but we're looking to expand with new members who can contribute. At the end of the day, I have control over the site (I'm the Admin and only moderator so far), so I don't expect that exposing our forum to your readership could have an irreversible negative effect. If you think you'd be opening the floodgates to the unwashed heathen hordes by doing so, then please don't, but otherwise I don't see a problem with it.

Oh hey! Hognose is here! Hi Hognose! Welcome to our humble forum!

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