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Alex C.

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  1. Alex C.
    It is now live. Please share the hell out of this:
  2. Alex C.
    I would kill for a pallet of ammo and about 50 G36s so I could spend a week trying to destroy them in order to put this damn thing to rest.
  3. Alex C.
    "We asked 200 soldiers about the problems, but they like the gun so it's all good." http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/10/14/hk-vindicated-no-problems-found-with-g36/
  4. Alex C.
    This made me tear up But... pay attention to the caption at the end
  5. Alex C.
    I really enjoy shooting mini 14s, and AC556 rifles scream:
  6. Alex C.
    Those dudes got nothin' on me! God Sundays are boring.
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  8. Alex C.
    Can comfirm. The man did nothing but weigh guns and gun parts. For 12 hours. Good data here that is quite surprising.
  9. Alex C.
    That is how most heavy equipment works. Diesel-electric powertrains are standard in most haul trucks and whatnot above a certain size. I do not however know what the formula is for determining at which point diesel-electric is more efficient than mechanical.
  10. Alex C.
    Interesting. I have yet to examine a G41(W) but I would love to do a photo comparison. I have a G41(M), but it uses a better rotating bolt system, and a worse everything else.
  11. Alex C.
    As a bonus, my friend's K43 showed up today. Differences are very subtle but from what I have read are reflective of production date:
  12. Alex C.
    So I am a day late on this, but here is the G43 field strip. It is worth noting that the difference between a G43 and a K43 is the letter prefix: Bolt locks to rear on empty mag: Trigger group: With bolt locked back, you pull it a big farther and use the manual lock. Press the recoil spring plate and lift out: Release the manual lock and it all comes apart: Gas system: I have not shot this, but I was able to take it apart just by looking at it. Impressions are that I do not like how the flappers must be inserted on their designated side and could be easily lost. Other than that it seems fine (again, I have not shot it).
  13. Alex C.
    I do not. Having to fill up with fuel and water would be a burden, not to mention the complexity (even with modern production simplification, there are and always have been significant problems with steam relative to conventional internal combustion engines). We have over a century of R&D into internal combustion engines so we know pretty much what works and what doesn't, and all advances have been very incremental (not unlike the small arms plateau discussion in the Infantry Tools sub-forum) but attempts to veer away from it have always failed. Take for example the Mazda RX7: Rotary engines are very nifty and produce an incredible amount of power relative to their displacement, but they are so notoriously unreliable (with boost) that even Mazda threw in the towel after the RX8. Electric cars even experience a "renaissance" every other decade or so and always fall flat on their face. Thomas Edison himself told Henry Ford not to dick around with electric cars, even though they were around and well known as early as 1900. This Tesla thing is interesting, but what people are now starting to realize is that the claimed mileage is optimal, with no A/C on (which creates a tremendous drain on them). Who knows where it will go.
  14. Alex C.
    I have one I can break down. Will have to wait until tomorrow. But they made 400,000 of them, so I would call it pretty significant. But as for the bad design, I assume you are referencing the flapper locking system? In contrast, less than 20,000 FG42s were made.
  15. Alex C.
    I remember watching those at friend's houses when I was younger (was on cable and I did not have it). Really not a bad program for giving a solid overview of various small arms. In the Jap one, Ian's pops is one of the experts.
  16. Alex C.
    Lol! A most excellent analogy.
  17. Alex C.
    Whoops, edited. But the story of the Lee-Metford is an interesting one for sure. I would love to pick Rob's brain in person one day. Also, I never know whether to put post like these here or in the historical warfare subforum.
  18. Alex C.
    When 8,000+ horsepower lets go: I have the suit he was wearing during that pass on display in my office. It knocked him out cold and he doesn't remember a thing from it.
  19. Alex C.
    I keep up with his videos, but you would be hard pressed to argue that .303 Mk I was not arguably the pinnacle of smokeless powder ammunition! Edit: I dont know why I typed smokeless when I meant black
  20. Alex C.
    Lee-Metford for me. A rifle that truly represents the apex of blackpowder tech:
  21. Alex C.
    Fun fact: Out of my 28" barreled 10 gauge, it throws these: At over 1,600 FPS
  22. Alex C.
    Man, I don't know what more to do. Dust seized the rifle up (made it inoperable), mud seized the rifle up, and ambient air seized the rifle up. I have done that kind of testing with an AR15 and an AK and both worked just fine after.
  23. Alex C.
    That isn't even the worst section of the test. It is bad. Really, really bad.
  24. Alex C.
    This is a small section of the torture test (it was after I put some dust on the gun, and I had to use the water to get it to function): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQbrvFUvtxU
  25. Alex C.
    This video is applicable, and one of my favorites. NDT argues that NASA was founded on the basis that Sputnik freaked people out (as it was a hollowed out nuclear warhead):
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