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First Iran and the Khoozi now this
 
Jee there seem to be allot of people reverse engineering M16s or buying foreign reverse engineered M16s to replace G-3s
 
German engineering huh? 

Object 490 (? or 490A ?), possibly just a small model or mock up.

Thank him for his service for me. There is a good chance he could of been covering my fat ass while I struggled out of a BMP if things hit the fan

Some years ago I was goofing around with a tavor:
 

 
And a somewhat... less practical design as well:
 

 
Upon field stripping them, I noticed something interesting:
 

 
The desert eagle's bolt is on the left, and the tavor's is on the right.

They're surprisingly similar.

The cam surface for the bolt rotation is located on the bolt stem.  In most other rotating bolt designs the cam surfaces are located on the bolt carrier, not the bolt.

This is the TAR-21 bolt carrier:
 

 
You can see the hole where the cam pin sits (it's the big one you can see the wood grain through).  In most designs, like the AR-15, the cam pin is attached to the bolt and translates past the bolt carrier.  In the tavor it's the other way around.  Some older designs like the Lewis and its many progeny also work like this, but ever since the M1 garand the fashion has been to place the lug on the bolt and the cam on the carrier.

As you can see, the desert eagle works exactly the same way:
 

 
The cam pin is removed, and you can see the slot it sits in as well as the bolt cam surfaces just showing through.

The similarities do not end there:
 

 
In the above image you can see the bolt carrier group as it is removed from the stock for field stripping.  The rod under the return spring is a guide rod that prevents the bolt from rotating during feeding:
 

 
Once the bolt carrier runs all the way forward it overruns this rod, which allows the bolt to rotate:
 

 
 In an AR-15 the bolt is kept from prematurely rotating by having the cam pin drag against the upper left inner side of the receiver.  The tavor must have this system with the guide rod because the cam pin is stationary with respect to the bolt carrier. 

The desert eagle bolt is held forward in a very similar manner:
 

 

 
Rather curious, no?

That "setup" must weigh about four pounds unloaded. I put together the dumbest combination I could find.

Peirre Spray really has to stop trying his hand at designing attack helicopters 

Peirre Spray really has to stop trying his hand at designing attack helicopters 

Peirre Spray really has to stop trying his hand at designing attack helicopters 

Pictured: Tony Williams' ideal infantry rifle.

"You know, I really hate the M14 as a weapon, but I feel it just doesn't have enough problems, and could be a lot worse if someone tried hard enough."

FSB team with Steyr TMP

 
Other western weapons in use by FSB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting optics on VSS. Can anybody ID it?

 

 

Spaming continues!
 
GLOCK STRNG

 

 

 

 

Glock and Vityaz SMG
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full auto Glocks, i guess.

Minions:
 
A searing indictment of the underground sadomasochistic sex scene in New York, this drama deserves to be watched but is almost impossible to enjoy. 
 
The plot is a loose-spun thing following the lives of three underage professional subs as they are drawn, each in their own way, into the maelstrom of depravity and violence that characterised the pre-2008 sex underground of the city. Each is, in his own way, on the run from their past and hopeful for a better future. As they are to discover, however, there are pitfalls and predators aplenty in the greed-soaked streets. From there the plot unfolds like something out of a nightmare or particularly cruel folk story, a surreal dream which seems designed to strike directly at the views through the characters they are forced to empathise with.
 
Each of the three main characters (Robert, Stephan and Carlos - although you'd have to watch the credits to even spot this detail) have their own stories woven into the film by means of divergent stylistic elements: hypersaturated colour aping early technicolour films, a chiaroscuro style in over-contrasting black-and-white, and hand-drawn animation. These elements, which were used to such dramatic effect in the trailers, do unfortunately bog down the already bloated plot by making the visual narrative incoherent at times. However, when they do all come together (in a scene which I simply refuse to spoil but which every theatre goer will recognise on sight) the effect is astounding. A stirring score by James Horner (his last and left deliberately unfinished) certainly adds to the emotional gut-punch of the climax.
 
Overall, the film is sometimes artless in its references and homages. It is also, as mentioned, strangely paced and often incoherent. But the story and characterisation, along with superb performances by Steve Coogan, Pierre Coffin, Michael Keaton and Sandra Bullock (whose scene-stealing cameo deserves, again, not to be spoiled) lift it from the mire. If you can stick through it to the end, this film will then reward you by breaking your heart.

Replacing the Gavin with a expensive wheeled APC?
 

 
What the hell is it with people thinking wheeled and tracked APC's are interchangeable 

General Bonesteel and his fucking eyepatch. 

I don't get this at all...let wheeled APC's be wheeled APC's, and tracked APC's be tracked APC's. One should not replace the other, rather compliment it. Same goes for IFV's. 
 
Is Russia really the only country that understands this? Kurg-IFV & Kurg-APC, Bumer-IFV & Bumer-APC, heck...even a heavy-IFV. 
 
- Also, replacing APC's with IFV's... I didn't know this until now, but the Boxer is actually *cheaper* than our Stryker. 

Dont get me wrong, its an epic song
 
But its not a glorious 80s disco theme 

WWII --- Polish resistance fighters rest by the fire during the Warsaw Uprising

 
The 28th (Māori) Battalion of the New Zealand Army performs a Haka (native war dance) before going to battle in Egypt during WWII

 
WWII --- Japanese soldiers celebrate victory next to a damaged steam locomotive (Hankou, China - October 1938)

 
Claude Monet seated with some paintings which sold in 1880 for 1,000 francs. They were worth 100 times that at the time of the photo, most likely taken in the mid-1920s, as Monet’s career was winding down and his eyesight was failing.

 
WWII --- U.S. soldier using an M2 flamethrower against a Japanese position at the Battle of Manila (Philippines - c. Feb 1945) 

 
Joseph Stalin with children 1935

Two North Vietnamese soldiers holding hands, circa 1975

 
One of only twenty ever made, a German Panzerkampfwagen A7V heavy tank makes it way to battle (France, 1918). The original Fascist Box tank

 
People celebrating the legalization of the Communist Party as the news were being spread, Spain, April 9th, 1977

 
Half naked soldiers preparing Christmas dinner at the mess in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during WWII December 25, 1942 by Ralph Morse

 
German soldiers on outpost duty near Antwerp, sharing their food with Belgian orphans, published in 191

 
1940: An air raid warden checks on children sleeping on hammocks strung between the train tracks in a London Underground station during the Blitz 

 
Dewey Beard aka "Wazu Maza" was the last know Lakota survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn and the Wounded Knee Massacre. He lived to be 96. 1948

 
Two Japanese Imperial Marines who killed themselves by placing their rifle muzzles against their heads and pulling the triggers with their toes, rather than surrender to U.S. Marines, after the Japanese fought almost to the last man during the Battle of Tarawa

 
Sailors catch up on their tans while others load 14' shells aboard USS New Mexico, 1944

 
Injured man protesting Yeltsin's ruining of my nation, I wonder if you can guess who that is in the upper left

A man testing a prototype of a football helmet in 1912

 
Majdanek Concentration Camp 1944, soviet soldiers look on at a massive pile of human ashes, horrific.

 
Annie Edison Taylor, The first woman to survive going over Niagra Falls in a barrel.

 
Papa New Guinea during WWII, an advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug.

 
1961, Disneyland Employee Cafeteria.

 
1936, the last ever public execution in The United States.

 
1903, The World Record for biggest black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellyn, alone. It Weighed in at 412lbs!

 
These ‘Punt Guns’ were banned in 1860. They were made for duck hunting and supposedly had the potential to kill 50 birds in one

Ambrose Burnslide, a Civil War General who, fittingly, was deemed the nickname ‘Sideburn’.

 
Hindenburg Disaster, May 6th, 1937

 
12. 1962, JFK and LBJ during The Cuban Missile Crisis. The US were hours away from World War III

There are only 2 known pictures of blues pioneer Robert Johnson. One of them was taken in a photobooth early 1930s.

 
Saturday evening bath, Spencer, Tennessee, 1939 - Kodachrome by J. Baylor Roberts 

 
 
Young Bernie Sanders speaking at a sit-in he organized as protest of segregated campus housing

 
Adolf Hitler inspects the remains of Char B №442 "LIEUTENANT DE GISSAC" - Crugny, France, 21st June 1940

 
Muslim Bandits, Xinjiang, China, ca.1915

 
Waiting in Trafalgar Square for the coronation parade of King George VI, London, 12 May, 1937 - by Henri Cartier-Bresson

 
The National Space Invaders Championship held by Atari in 1980, I was probably enjoying a beer induced nap in a hammock in Western CSSR while this was happening

 
Soviet rockets being fired at German positions during the Battle of Stalingrad, Winter of 1942/43.

 
Portrait of Chief Flying Hawk, Oglala Lakota, undated

 
A church service being conducted beneath the forward 15-in guns of HMS Queen Elizabeth off the coast of the Gallipoli peninsula during the Battle of Gallipoli, Jun 19 1915 

 
Serbian "Tiger" Paramilitary kicks a dead woman's body in Bijeljina, Bosnia, 1992

 
 
Russian children take cover as the Luftwaffe bomb their neighborhood. Stalingrad, 1942

 
The earliest known photograph of Abraham Lincoln. Taken by Nicolas H. Shepherd in Springfield, IL, probably in 1846

 
Japanese battleship "Yamashiro" launching a Sparrowhawk aircraft

 
Three members of the French resistance, 1944.

WWII --- Japanese aircraft in flames, struck by anti-aircraft fire from USS Hornet (Okinawa 3-18-45). The last respites of the war did not hesitate to claim as many young men's lives as possible 

 
Elm Street in Dallas, 1945

 
Man looks over the construction of the Glomfjord power plant, Norway, cirka 1920 

 
Grigori Rasputin with Alexandra Feodorovna and her children, the Russian royal family, 1908. They look like brats

 
Navy pilots on leave dancing with their dates in Hawaii (1944).

 
Bumper V-2, the first missile launched from Cape Canaveral, lifts off. July 24, 1950.

 
 
Four MPs read about German surrender in Stars and Stripes newspaper, May 1945 

 
Concorde flying over Djibouti (circa 1988-1989), escorted by French fighter jets since President François Mitterrand was on board. 

 
Partisans operating in the forests of Belarus - WW2 (September 1943)

 
WWII --- British "Hawker Hurricane" fighter is loaded with ammunition (France c. Sep 1939 - May 1940) 

 
December 4th 1943 possible scout plane from the USS Yorktown photographs Japanese air base on Kwajalein Atoll

 
Ibo separatist guerrilla near Biafra, Nigeria

 
(Colorized) Flight in its infancy: Wilbur Wright (of the Wright Brothers) clinging to his flying machine after an unsuccessful trial, December 14, 1903

 
Apollo 16 Astronaut Charles Duke (the 10th man out of 12 to walk on the moon) placed a photograph of his family on the surface of the moon a short distance from the landing module on their last day on the moon, April 24, 1972, this toke place less than 80 years after the previous photo

Russian prisoners of war lifting up an American soldier after the US 9th Army liberated them from their camp at Eselheide, Germany, 9th April 1945.

 
IRA Volunteer Derry, Northern Ireland (1971)

 
Soviet soldiers relaxing and reading the paper during the Battles of Khalkin-Gol, summer of 1939

A German civilian looks at a large poster portrait of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden in Berlin, 3rd June 1945. 

 
Clay vodka bottle, parents owned alot of these,  Azerbaijan SSR, 1980s. They like to keep atleast one of the empty one's for memories, they were big fans of Stalin. Oviously this isnt one of mine but they looked exactly like this. There were tons of these in that region 

 
 
Wounded infantrymen smoking after Battle for Hill 598, Korea, 1952

 
Hungarian war correspondents with girls in occupied Soviet village. circa 1942

 
Four heavily armed German soldiers wearing gas masks and an early type of steel helmet called the Gaede which was introduced on the Vosges Front in late 1915. 

 
Crimean War casualties with amputated legs who were seen by HM Queen Victoria when she visited Chatham Hospital. Left to right - William Young, Henry Burland and John Connery. John Connery is holding his artificial leg - c1856. 

 
Two running men with Type-59 in the background at the Tiananmen Square crackdown Beijing, China

Brigadier Tony Wilson, officer commanding 5 Infantry Brigade, on the Falkland islands before the final battle - June 1982.

 
A German recovery crew, desperately tries to repair a disabled Panzer IV tank. Monte Cassino, Italy. January 1944