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Yeah I was going to throw one on my good Polish 5.45 side folder... I see we share the same taste in replacement gas tube covers too LOL. Every time I wind up with kits that look like psychotic beavers raided a commie armory for dam building supplies I buy one of those to stick on it until I decide what to do with the finished build.

I got to ride in a Bronco once when I was like 12. The local air museum had just got one which was still flight rated at the time they got it and a former Ov-10 pilot on the museum staff took me up in it one afternoon for a half hour or so. I wasn't a large child so they stuffed my helmet with t shirts out of the gift shop so that it kind of almost fit because the pilot knew that buckling me in wasn't going to keep me particularly safe LOL.

I've been contemplating putting together a new desktop mostly for Autodesk stuff, but with a secondary gaming use. Would a Ryzen be completely crap for this?

Hah... Those comments should be good enough to rustle some jimmies and spark some laughs! http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/06/06/socom-wants-u-s-made-pkm-nsv/ I hate summer on the internet, not enough people posting stuff so I have to resort to trolling the TFB comments section.

Your map seems highly accurate and attuned to the "moderate headchopper" on the street... You should probably be an analyst for CNN or the CIA or something. Seriously, I bet there's some serious butthurt flowing in the enclaves you've highlighted right about now.

One question I've always had is whether there's anything resembling a "focal point" with HEAT type warheads... What I mean by this is can you engineer them with a sort of optimal penetrative depth to where the jet or EFP starts to spread out just as it's getting into the crew compartment of what you're intending to kill with a particular product? If I wasn't on watch lists before... I am now, but I really want to know.

I felt really dumb the first time I checked the shipping label after ordering parts for the fourth time in a month and realizing I lived about a 20 minute drive from them LOL! Also, you might try robertrtg.com for MG1/MG3 stuff... The prices are usually steeper than apex but whoever runs that site has some very very good connections for getting German milsurp stuff! I'm sure you're already aware of this site and have checked, but other than checking sarco just for the hell of it I don't know of any other really good sources for German stuff anymore. Robertrtg is where I was going to pick up a Pallad handguard from eventually, but last I looked they were all gone. I'll probably end up doing an MLOK handguard from the company the AKOU guy is working with instead.

I know I was very surprised at just how little starch it took out of my assailants when I realized I had actually planted rounds into at least one of their torso's... I remember thinking as I locked back empty off the magazine originally in the pistol that it was like those bad dreams where you hit the other guy and it just has no effect at all. I had 15 +1 in the chamber and two spare loaded 15 round magazines at the start of the fight and I pumped every single round I had Into them and their car. I expended every single round I had, and it was just barely enough! The way it all went down heavily reinforced my belief in carrying a gun and ammunition combination that allows for a high total round count even at the expense of individual round effectiveness. I believe this is justified though since pistol rounds just are not effective at stopping a situation on a one for one basis, and you're pretty much guaranteed to need to shoot someone several times before they will stop being a threat. Your mileage may vary in all of this, it's just what I believe based on my singular experience with gun fights.

The internet also reliably tells me that I'm a horrible person and going to be killed if I ever have to use my gun defensively because I sometimes load carry guns with 115 grain fmj... Funny though because I have had a defensive shooting incident and choosing to carry fmj loaded mags is likely why I'm the sole person who walked away that night because the PEOPLE who chose to go OK fuckin corral on me also chose not to leave the safety of their vehicle before doing so! Luckily for me, I was too broke to buy good defensive ammunition at the time... For that matter, my gun was also not anyone's first choice combat pistol that night either since it was a $189 surplus Astra A100 from who knows where! I actually credit my survival to good situational awareness, since it's the only thing I did "right" in the entire situation. This awareness made me realize that the car full of cholos was bird dogging me and set me immediately kicking gears on my street bike so I could at least pick a nice place to die... Banged blind around a corner in a part of town I didn't know, saw the nicely floodlit bank parking lot locked up my front and rear brakes so I could bomb over the curb and got myself nice and brightly lit from behind by the floods with the bike crosswise to where they were pulling into the parking lot and got my kickstand down slammed my helmet and backpack off and about the time I got my gun clear and almost up I was getting shot at. I lived They didn't Completely unashamed to say that I was bawling like a little girl when I called 911 as I was trying to stuff loose rounds from another box of fmj I had in the backpack into magazines screaming for them to send someone to come help me. That's what I get for working shifts overnight remodeling grocery stores through a temp service in a shitty part of the Phoenix metro area and riding a motorcycle home at 3 am... Either way though, basically the only stuff I did right was realizing that I had a problem early, reacting promptly to it, and having a gun with which I could defend myself with... Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that my open carrying in a cheap surplus military style thigh holster is what marked me as a target worth hitting in the first place.

That's a pretty major contract, and I confess to being happy that at least our wheeled death traps will have a decent gun plus the mounted ATGM.

A huge part of my total ignorance when it comes to naval stuff harkens back to my early teens, spent reading the shitty Robotech Novels. It's basically permanently warped my ideas on what modern and future naval warfare should look like in favor of asinine missile spam which can only be adequately defended against using arrays of secondary gun stations that make the Iowa class look lightly armed for point defense. This might be why I am so much in favor of the combustion light gas gun solutions we could have had for the Zumwalt.

I have now bought hard copies of all his books I "early adopted" heh... But I really do buy the hard copies to support authors who do good work... Or sometimes I just PayPal them donations. If your book sucks though I can become a little vocal about it's suckery I still desperately need a copy of Peter Stiff's Taming the landmine... I probably butchered his name there but I am on pain meds tonight lol. I'd love even a poor scan or digital copy or buy a copy if any of you own one. I have just got a big chunk of cash dropped in my lap last week and I'm taking the opportunity to buy at least $500 in books for my collection. Speaking of which, can you guys recommend specific Brassey's design books on firearms or etc? I also went a bit crazy building an epic shopping cart at both German manuals website that sells all manner of translated manuals in languages I don't speak! (Makarov and AK tool manual woohoo!) I actually have voluntarily instituted my own internet impulse buy cooling off period program because of such lists lol... If I reopen the tab in 3 days and no longer need it like AIR... I remove it from cart lol. I also bought a new phone today to bring on my road trip to Wyoming with my brother this summer. I am proud of this rationalization too... I "needed" a spare digital camera for the trip, and this one coincidentally has a phone attached to the camera.... *shrug* TBF it's a 20 megapixel kinda plenoptic camera though which is a massive upgrade and should help me make passable photos etc of the museum guns.

Walter, I cannot recommend Bruce Canfield's book on the Johnson Automatics strongly enough! Frankly, it's every bit as good as books we all know and love by Collector Grade.(which is saying a lot because between black Rifle Death From Above and the SPIW book collector grade is king Kong of the gun jungle) And the description below about magazine capacity is true, and there's a very familiar back story behind that weird ass mag catch with a whole bunch of ordnance assholes shoveling sand into Melvin Johnson's vajayjay! (Imagine fucking that lol....) Tbf though, Melvin was a prick! And, had he been half the litigator that he was a gun designer, we almost certainly wouldn't be using the AR15 today since he tried to shut armalite down in court later on! Basically, the original guns Melvin trialed for someone at ordnance actually took BAR mags and that initial trial went BAD!! Melvin, and I believe him because Jesus Christ him gene and how many other guys all had it happen to them too!! He swore that the USMC all but blatantly and openly dented up feed lips smashed dents in sides and every other trick to make sure that the gun failed! So, after some refinements and realizations that ordnance will fuck you if you let them... He came up with a feed lip free, hard to dent to malfunction single stack magazine that even threw the USMC a big fok ewe by allowing 1 type of already issued 5 round clip top up both rifle and machine gun ALL WHILE DESIGNING A FEED SYSTEM EVEN ORDNANCE COULDN'T SABOTAGE!!! honestly sparky and the amphigavin / marine corps fucktards spat ain't got shit on Melvin and the colossally single minded way in which Melvin built an entire suite of infantry weapons whose every feature can be traced back to someone who he was spiting!

Thanks for highlighting that piece of amaze balls stupid priory! I have had a rough week and that made it just a little bit better... Again, thank you!

I tend to shill for Delta P design's Brevis suppressors and reflex suppressors in general whenever the topic of a pure fleet suppressor effort comes up. Really, either of the two approaches (or a hybrid approach that involves printing a reflex suppressor version of the brevis design right onto the damn barrel if it comes down to it!) would work phenomenally decently!

So I'm happy with all but the railguns part. As far as that goes I'm team Combustion light gas gun all the way! I strongly believe that we picked the wrong dog in the fight between those two, and that in the near to medium term the CLGG's were a much better choice specifically because they fit our needs much better during that timespan. This is partially due to their paraphernalia which would be installed in ships carrying them could be leveraged to do other stuff that would prove very useful. As well as said paraphernalia being very likely to be installed in such a way that if a ship carrying one took hits that took down a gun because of damage you'd be much more likely to be able to get the gun back up at a reduced but nonzero fire rate. Plus a few other things that I'm likely 100% wrong about! Basically though I'm pissed that Lockheed POLAR and the CLGG weren't both funded since they represent capabilities we really need to have in the next decade at longest. Plus, with both programs being inherently very affordable, I feel like there would have been enough meat still on the bone to slow roll railguns a little bit so that they are ready when the technology is ready. On the other hand though, F*** yeah!!! Railguns!!! Now all we need is to get army's coilgun mortar across the finish line!

I am perfectly willing to acknowledge that I may just have a very poor understanding of big boy naval weapons. It truly would not surprise me truthfully.

Thank you Scolopax! That would be the graphic I was referring to. Colli, This is definitely the vexing part for me. The nuclear super carrier most definitely has some extraordinarily clear advantages even without factoring in all the space there isn't required for fuel for the actual ship in addition to the fuel and ordnance that you need for the embarked aircraft.

Ramlaen, Not being a naval systems guy, other than a fascination with with Umoe surface effect ships (skjold class) small watercraft like the riverine warfare guys etc use anything really high speed WIG's concrete submarines and amphibious warfare systems, I tend to separate naval weapons into long range stuff like harpoon and SM series missiles and CIWS stuff like rolling airframe missiles and Vulcan guns. With this in mind, with all the mark 41 VLS cells in a carrier strike group is a pretty substantial punch IF you're loaded up 80/20 or 75/25 defensive missiles to offensive systems. My assumption is that most of the time this would be the case for a carrier strike group's entourage. But then we get to the close in antimissile and small boat knife fighting systems which a nuclear super carrier itself and her entourage carry, they're just not all that well armed compared to Russian equivalent platforms. Someone actually posted a picture somewhere on the SH forum showing the difference between kuznetsov and American nuclear super carriers. The graphic showed the number and location of missile and gun systems as well as the arcs each item covers and the difference between the two was very evocative! Honestly, modern American naval vessels are really lightly armed on a tonnage basis from the LCS all the way on up to super carriers!

With China it's not any ONE system that is the issue in my personal opinion. The issue is instead that they have those really fast catamarans, a metric shit ton of aircraft which can carry antiship missiles, anti-ship ballistic missiles, diesel subs, nuclear subs, and I'm sure a bunch more things that I've missed! When you look at it from that angle, and from the angle of our surface combatants of all classes having pretty sparse defensive armament as compared to their Russian counterparts, I believe that the Chinese could definitely sink one of our carriers operating inside the first island chain. Even when you look at the very serious muscle that American super carriers travel with, like a famous actor's entourage, it's still readily apparent that the Chinese could pretty easily flat out run an entire carrier group out of defensive missiles and then sink an entire carrier group except for the sub(s). The question then becomes exactly how willing they are to have a nuclear disaster x kilometers from their coastline and et cetera. But they can definitely do it. In a way, I look at the Nuclear reactors which power super carriers as their penultimate defensive system which allows them to operate with impunity well within range of hostile coastal defense missile systems. Sort of one of those situations where sure you COULD sink us... But you won't because your country depends far too heavily on protein sources etc that come from the waters we're steaming in!

I really need to dig out my dymaxion care picture archive and post it here. This is probably one of the few groups of people who would appreciate the beautiful madness of an 11 passenger van suitable for a plumber or service electrician to use as a work vehicle which could beat actual race cars from the era in a race and STILL got 30 miles per gallon. Yeah, I mean there was that ONE TIME an idiot crashed one and killed himself as well as one or more other people if I remember right... But, that's like blaming the Honda civic for the existence of douchey teenagers and Vin Diesel!

Whoa Walter! Thanks man, this is actually applicable to things I've been thinking about lately. Free piston generators are all I've really run across, how does one make a free piston engine anyway?

The second decade of the 21st century will go down in military history as the age of the orks! More dakka Speed holes Waaggghh wagons Definitely the age of the Ork However, no one will have very much information about it except a few autistic kids who hang out at mall hobby shops because Games Workshop will own the rights to any display, description, or media presentation of everything military history from this decade. Because of this, books and model kits will be stupidly expensive and if you want to learn about any of the really cool gear, vehicles, or military units much less purchase model kits you're going to have to buy them from Forgeworld... Aka the only company that makes games workshop prices seem reasonable!

Argghhh what sucks really really bad is that M73 M219 & M85 machine gun development saga actually justified the killing of US Army Ordnance pretty thoroughly since the abortions that those 3 guns turned out to be was entirely the result of the original designer of the root gun refusing a job offer at one of the Arsenal's after selling the working and thoroughly debugged design to Army ordnance, he took an offer to work at colt instead, and in a fit of irrational stupidity said arsenal hired TRW to "evaluate" (read evaluate as fix the fucker until it's irretrievably broken) the design they just purchased. The guy that was in charge of the redesign supposedly needed to fix all the "flaws" TRW "found" was pretty much known as a consummate douche canoe already and never once owned up to taking a production ready gun and turning it into irredeemable shit either! The designer of the gun was Russell S. Robinson, and in the decade or so British ordnance or whatever messed with it but never managed to buy the very good gun that stayed a very good gun over something like a decade of playing with the gun ... You'd think they would have noticed all these serious flaws and safety issues TRW "found"! Robinson was understandably irritated by this turn of events, but GE was flat fucking pissed off since they wound up running the arsenal and having the now thoroughly fucked formerly working gun dropped in their laps after Army Ordnance got killed for one too many such incidents where bureaucrats who acted more like bitchy teenage girls actively sabotaged a design because their feelings were more important than defending the free world from dirty commies. And the tool bag project manager, you guessed it! He told anyone and everyone who would listen that the gun worked great after his team fixed the fatally flawed design and GE chose not to keep him on when they wound up in charge of the arsenal, therefore GE must have changed something! Yes folks, he is the original SHIT LORD in whose image all other lesser shit lords since him have failed to measure up to his standards of consummate and uncompromising cradle to the grave shit lording! Dude has to be like 90 now, but I swear to God.... He's the one old man I'd beat like a red headed step child if I ever met him face to face! Really really hate that guy... For those wondering, I'm pretty sure that the gun in question was the Robinson model 33 but I can't find the damn PDF of both fighting firearms articles for some reason. P.S: Australia, England, and JSSAP you guys suck too for, you know, not adopting any of the guns he developed for you guys... Especially England and Australia Here's why: Australia aka the original sin... So the Australian government put out this completely insane set of requirements for a new machine gun. It was a very long list but here's the really fun one's (from memory here and I'm not certain if the fire rate piece got tacked on later to their already "totally reasonable and easy to meet" list of initial requirements) 1. Must be in .50 caliber BMG 2. Must fit in aircraft wing and other gun stations which currently have .303 Browning anm2 guns installed. 3. Must not exceed the peak trunnion force generated by the .303 anm2 guns installed. 4. Must match the fire rate of .50 BMG aircraft machine guns (were the .50 BMG versions anm2 also or anm3?) Completely sane and reasonable list... Which is why Robinson's design was the only one submitted & or the only one that even came close to meeting the requirements. And yes, over a remarkably short development period he met all 4 of the requirements above. (anyone who tells you his design was rejected because of low fire rate just assumed that GD was at least as competent & or with the 50 years of technological advancements couldn't possibly fail so miserably to even reach the bar Robinson set so long ago with XM307/XM312... They underestimated GD grievously) He actually achieved comparable fire rates to the browning aircraft specific .50's and apparently wound up with pretty comparable receiver life which statistically speaking was perfectly acceptable because the planes tended to be destroyed before the guns wore out. Australia and if I recall right did the only logical thing when someone managed to actually meet the requirements... They didn't put the gun in production. Onto England now! We cannot let ourselves be outdone by a prison continent: Robinson is now in England, the war is still ongoing. Robinson develops about the simplest possible ring mount that you can for a simplified ring mount competition (I believe this is pre D day, and people realize that a majority of, if not every truck they send over to supply the march towards Berlin needs a ring mount and some sort of machine gun.) Robinson designs a universal ring mount that will fit any machine gun a trucker can "liberate". Being an overachiever he designs a full auto only .50 BMG gun that feeds from top fed 20 round detachable box magazines. Seeing their requirements met and exceeded even, England does the only sensible thing and doesn't buy the gun or the ring mount. Then there's the model 11 machine pistol which Robinson figures out how to make a single hand friendly machine pistol which any idiot can kill the shit out of you with where even the magazine auto ejects once empty, and the Stock is essentially a piece of steel tube that screws into the bottom rear of the pistol grip. Seeing that someone somehow actually succeeded, whichever Commonwealth nation decides that the requirements were too easy and decides that it should function and have an accuracy in semiautomatic like a hi power... Robinson was from all evidence on his way to figuring it out, but something happened and no one produced this either. (It was the only sensible thing to do) JSSAP epilogue: the model 11 nee 14 is now the model 16 idk wtf happened here but I'd sure love to find out. If anybody has anything about this of any sort please let me know. The moral to this story: If you want to design machine guns that are really truly good, especially if they're lightweight... Be born Russian

Bring on Snow Crash baby! Life would be so much cooler if pizza guys were known as Deliberators and carried what's basically the equivalent of the noisy cricket from men in black to handle disputes and robbery attempts while clothed in fashionably designed shear thickening fluid impregnated ballistic, impact, and edge weaponry resistant armor under black leather while driving a purpose designed delivery vehicle that's part Bugatti veyron part the Lexus from minority report. All whilst dodging traffic consisting mostly of hybrid minivans colloquially referred to as bimbo boxes, and trying to avoid car surfing skateboard couriers with purpose designed equipment the Army Rangers would be jealous of! To include day and night capable hyperspectral imaging based night vision and a HUD display integrated into Sport sunglasses, skateboards with actively adaptive wheels that smooth out the ride over rough surfaces and allow gravity defying wall rides by virtue of gecko mode capable tweels on crack! As well as an antirape device involving high voltages and a Chinese finger trap like one way only preventers of unauthorized pussy grabbing! Oh and the coolest car surfing specific tool in the arsenal of the underage skateboard couriers.... THAT'S RIGHT!!! THE superconductive electromagnetic MAGNAPOON device which also integrates 10+ meters of ultrathin and strong cabling and an atlas ascender like powered reel... Perfect for all your car surfing needs, even allowing you to make the disposable and almost devoid of ferromagnetic alloys bimbo box your bitch! I mean, wtf can be cooler than something called magnapoon that uses superconductive electromagnets ultra high strength cable and a powered cable reel? Especially if your skateboard has gecko mode active suspension wheels that allow you to ride up the side of Jersey Barriers and slingshot maneuver yourself between traffic on 8 lane highways doing in excess of 80 mph? Oh that's right... The Yamaha tesseract cameo appearance years before the Yamaha tesseract's debut at an auto show and piloted by our intrepid protagonist... Hiro Protagonist! What's truly impressive is that dominoes is well on it's way to fulfilling several separate things from the book. 1. They get their delivery drivers robbed semiregularly through stunningly bad corporate policies. 2. There's now an actual Dominoes specific delivery vehicle. Granted, it's more bimbo box than deliverator but it's a start! 3. Uber is kinda close to underage skateboard couriers with gear an Army ranger would kill to have... Especially since several delivery based illegal and stolen gun selling as well as delivery based drug dealing operations have been busted already. Or, short answer... Yes shit is getting very dystopian future cyberpunk lately. PS: now all we need is a strung out on heroin dolphin hacker named Jones and a gang called the lo teks to start making the news and we're officially in "THE FUTURE"