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    Thanks for the clarification. My issues with the site don't extend to discussions about torpedoes, so I will park them for the moment so as not to detail.
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    I fully expect that the Nazis would have found a way to make oxygen torpedoes even more dangerous to the user than they were already. Edit: see the battle off Samar for an example of how badly things can go wrong for long lance users.
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    Would you like me to retract my opinion? Qualify it? Issue a disclaimer? Feel free to advise.
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    Good thing I'm mainly interested in making em.
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    Ugh, weaponsman. Not my favourite site.
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    Also: arrows are expensive.
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    That would be so worth it if the snake came in a 50lb model.
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    We're talking at most 5% of the length of the projectile here. So long as you don't make something overtly designed to shed energy (like a rubber tip) your penetration will not be affected too much. So yeah, replace the last 2.5cm of a 50cm long rod with a similar shape made from newspaper and glue. Call me back if dramatic changes in penetration take place. Edited - because I didn't maths correctly.
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    If you live in the US, then making yourself a red oak board bow is about as simple as it gets: http://poorfolkbows.com/oak.htm Hell, you don't even need fast flight or whatever for a string. Just something reasonably thin and non-stretchy. Tie bowline loops at each end and off you go. For arrows; find straight dowel rods cut along the grain and use duct tape to make the flights. Pretty much any flat metal sheet can be used to make broadheads, and I tend to use rivets to make practice arrows heads.
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    My position, as always, is that a stealthy missile truck would have been the best possible buy. But fuck it, the F-35 is the best version of the Harrier it is possible for man to make.
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    V2, take a bow.
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    Bringing this thread back to its roots: https://youtu.be/Hy8kmNEo1i8 So... terrible.
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    Hadza need more love. Edits: More on round-section bows: http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/27300/circular-limb-cross-sections-Why-why-not#.VcroIVLvqM8
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    I'm actually on the 'cavalry still useful' side of the fence, but as dragoons. In any case, the argument is that military culture is inherently insular and driven from the top down. So it is prone to the cult of whatever worked in the general's youth. To take another example: imagine the response if you were to ask stock brokers from, say, 1990 what the future held for their profession. I doubt that being replaced by computers and the need for tighter regulation of the derivatives market would come up. Leaving military affairs solely to the military is a recipe for warrior culture malarky.
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    For the triple-post: wooden bows are a pain for me because I live in a country where the commercial options are pine or meranti. Fibreglass bows are also a pain, because you need linear glass to make really useful bows and core materials are still an issue. As far as making a self bow goes, it should be borne in mind that yew, osage, hickory and black locust are super-woods and that the D-shape profile of an English longbow is otherwise retarded. For people without access to good wood, your flatbows are going to be the easiest to make and your pyramid bows will provide the best performance. For people with access to tropical hardwoods, the circular cross-section bow becomes the best option due to it's light tips and even stress distribution.
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    Eh. Army culture, left to its own devices, produces things like the myth of the cavalry charge. Someone with actual scientific training poking around would scarcely be a sign of the end times.
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    In other news: I made my buddy a slingbow using a bow saw frame, thin nylon rope and exercise bands. It actually works pretty well, and may be the easiest bow build ever. Definitely an option for biding time while making a proper bow.
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    The last few centimetres of a metre-long projectile don't do much to change its penetration. Colour me amazed. Also: a golden opportunity for testing stone arrowheads against small, yappy dogs was missed.
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    The choice of what charcoal to use does make a huge difference, but the gun itself doesn't seem to care too much so long as your constituents are within about ten percent of optimum (which is a huge). I think this has to do with the fact that black powder weapons tend to be large bore, low velocity and short ranged. In those circumstances, a ten percent velocity difference just doesn't mean all that much.
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    Naw, it has to be a select-fire AKM with the gas flow turned all the way up. Really test out that legendary ability to eat dirt and shit bullets communism...
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    One thing I have noticed with blackpowder stuff is that the velocity is relatively insensitive to powder composition and grain size, so long as its within a certain range. Here is a good resource examining the issue.
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    TIL (fact checking on the idiotic FNaF4 thread) that damage to the frontal lobe generally has no measurable effect on IQ. This explains all the morons who think IQ = intelligence
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    Crosspost time! Is it valid to point to the development of non-explosive reactive armour as the beginning of a new ERA?
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    German airports are immune to planes landing from the front, and require at least 5 American or Russian planes to land before they catch fire. In addition, German airports can land planes from over twice the distance that American or Russian airports can land them. Germany only loses out to the US and Russia in airline traffic because the Americans and Soviets outbuilt them using so many cheap, useless airports. Finally, German airport generators don't run on fire-prone gasoline or diesel, like American or Soviet airports. Instead, superior teutonic benzin is used. I think I've made my case clear.
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    TIL that media pundits of all stripes know effectively fuck-all about IP law, and manage to know even less (somehow) when bloviating on matters related to IP: Representative sample
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