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It's not seen as an issue. 
These Bradleys, along with the T-72 battalion of Hezbollah, will be among the first targets when the next war erupts.

I like everything about what they're doing here!
 
Even the lack of Spike totally makes sense to me in a sort of "you eat elephants one bite at a time" way.
 
What i mean by this is attempting to integrate spike on top of the APS all in the same relatively small volume and possibly power consumption limitations would have likely added 6-18 months and at least one or two extra zeros to development time and prices.
 
Meanwhile, Moore's law might be rapidly reaching the wall in consumer stuff but properly hardened and certified military computing etc options still seem to have a bit more wiggle room before they hit their wall. 
 
What this means to me in this instance is that we're probably very likely to see something spike like show up at worst as a midlife upgrade. At which point, everything about the necessary electronics etc will be cheaper, more robust, and more capable for any given budget.
 
Also, namer looks really F***ing MEAN with that turret, which is AWESOME!

M4 has a sighting system in the handle (including a spirit level, I think) and a lanyard to fire. I don't know about a safety, but you can certainly set up and fire one by yourself.
 
The little I've heard about them seemed to indicate that the bomb itself wasn't all that powerful. It also wasn't all that accurate, as you have to hold it at a specific inclination yourself. I think the main use was as a suppression tool to keep other people's heads down while your mates maneuvered.
 
I'm pretty keen on the idea of an integrated, computerised rangefinder/sight (mentioned above), as this shifts the role of the weapon significantly.

What timing.

and a really cool looking vehicle(riot control vehicle) from South Africa(i just love South African vehicle design!)










 
 
and the link......http://unitegroup.co.za/riot-vehicles/aardvark-2/

The RFI for the FFG(X) was put out, the general consensus seems to be that the beefed up versions of the LCS are not an option.
 
http://breakingdefense.com/2017/07/navy-steers-well-away-from-an-lcs-frigate/
 

I'd settle for just a 9mm M-series derivative with a threaded 4.5" barrel and a compact slide. Develop some squeezebore AP ammunition and a Littlejohn attachment, and you can get 90% of the capability of the fanciest machine pistols without deviating from NATO standard.

He's totally right, and i hate having to agree with him because my personal preference is always to build the absolute best system we can still mass produce economically.... Which with time and money spent on MHS to get to a contract winner it's unquestionably certain in my mind that a revolutionary pistol ammunition and production technologies to make both could have been brought to life!
 
But realistically, absolutely none of it is needed to do 99% of the tasks this service pistol is being bought to do!
 
Really you just need to counter green on blue, sudden jihad syndrome outbreaks, and be able to shoot your way out of a sitdown with local warlords...
 
This basically precludes the need to penetrate even soft armor almost entirely, same with the need to shoot past 15 meters at absolutely worst! (Truthfully most non snake eater pistol use in the GWOT has been at closer to 15cm than 15 meters, so there goes red dots roland specials and major power factor / MV over 1400 fps!)
 
Between the above factors and JAG saying fuck it to forbidding jhp plus the womenfolk situation i totally see why a hilariously high bore axis boring modular pistol in stupid 9 & 40 is fine... I don't like it but i get it!
 
Given my druthers we'd have ended up with a 7-8mm round loosely based off 7 penna and 7.92 vbr (likely using a fully developed version of Van Bruane Rik's GP AP pistol ammo concepts as GI ammo) with very high MV's and total projectile weights of no more than 95 grains. By very high i mean make 7.62 tokarev look SLOW high...
 
We'd fire this out of a rotating barrel multilug short recoil pistol designed with a nearly inline feedpath like bubbits designed for the enhanced caracals and a capacity of 17-21+1 in a magazine with dimensions similar to g19 mags and height from baseplate to top of rear sight that's g19 height or less! Additionally great care would be taken to "cheat" the point of the gripframe where your thumb wraps around and the trigger placement specifically to make a true double column magazine pistol still capable of fitting very small hands with the smallest backstrap and grip panel option.
 
 It would very probably also have a bbl length that is shockingly long for the overall length of the gun to achieve the very high MV's even in compact versions. Said long bbl would also get help from something along the lines of the CT ammo nose cap which would function as a pseudosabot type deal as well as making the bullet nose less pointy and likely to gall gouge or etc internals of the pistols. The ammunition would almost certainly use a newer case technology like ultrathin wall stainless or polymers. Either way utilizing coatings etc to get best powder burn efficiency at acceptable heat transfer, peak pressure, and residual pressure after bullet exits the muzzle... I'm not too concerned at all about either throat erosion or other wear characteristics because very good coatings and fairly ubiquitous automated barrel reconditioning and repair gear is about to be a very real thing... See this years NDIA presentation coverage on TFB for specifics. The barrel would also be very likely to have mild taper bore characteristics and if necessary gain twist rifling. 
 
How the f*** do you think you can justify going so fancy on the barrel? 
 
Simple, in a very real way the barrel makes or breaks this gun and will likely be a major portion of the manufacturing costs per pistol. The rest of it is pretty well tailored to be very very cheap to make, and frankly the barrels will be cheap to repair almost indefinitely once the resources are in place.
 
The slide will take several cues from the gsh-18 including being primarily "stamped" from a single piece of heavy gauge steel along with integrating a similar second set of radial bbl lugs with a "bbl bushing" having similar cutouts to gsh-18. 
 
From there there'd basically be a fuck ton of potential fitout options and degrees of complexity/ feature integration, but overall you'd end up with something smaller, lighter, cheaper, and far deadlier than current offerings.
 
 

This guy hit the nail on the head, it doesn't matter how much 'better' one gun is if they both pass the minimum specs.
 

Woohoo.... And the butthurt shall flow like fine wine at an orgy thrown by Nero...
 
Private fifth class... Errr ... Major tom will say retarded shit
 
That other guy like pf5c tom will say something that tops even toms stupidity
 
22windbag will tell everyone the program will fail anyway because they aren't using ammunition that costs as many dollars as the bullet weighs in grains 
 
Iksnilol will find a way to make the whole issue homoerotic
 
And a good time will be had by all

Possible looks of the "Kortedj" car for His Darkness Lord Volandemort "The Crimean" Putin

 

 
http://gurkhan.blogspot.ru/2017/07/vip.html
According to that President already tested prototype "A", "B" is under development.

Honestly CNN kicked itself in it's own front hole pretty hard with the whole threatening to not only dox meme poster if he didn't apologize etc thing...
 
But where they really fucked up was with their bitchy sword of Damocles we reserve the right to fuck said poster at any time from now until forever bullshit!
 
That's essentially them taking sides in a way they can't take back, and i look forward to the day some group absolutely WRECKS a CNN field team and the world shrugs it's shoulders and gives no fucks!
 
In journalism you have one and only one shield that keeps you from being a legitimate target, and that is maintaining at least the thin veneer of not having chosen sides. Between this incident and everything else lately they've essentially thrown that away... 
 
Call me a conspiracy tard if you like but i have a hard time not seeing all this as something someone has made a decision to attempt to capitalize on... Likely at the cost of the lives of several CNN employees WHEN the inevitable incident occurs!
 
This is afterall one of the go to strategies in the radical lefty playbook, aka do everything possible to all but guarantee that a group of "expendable" to them but hyped up as a protected and completely inexcusable to commit violence against group will be targeted...
 
And then hold the usual feting and 3 days of enforced mourning with daily reminders for years after of the "senseless tragedy" all to social engineer a blackmail situation with which to force the proles and anyone with the good sense to oppose them into silence with!
 
Problem is, their usual tricks aren't working all that well anymore. 
 
All in all this makes for a spectacular time to go back to school or go job hunting if you currently work for CNN before your boss shoves you dick first into a meat grinder on purpose!

What's funny is they actually think their neighbors don't hate them...
 
The fact that nobody saw nuffin and the police have no suspects says everything since there's pretty much always people up and around all night around here...
 
Says it all...
 
Hope you like that almond taste in your cookie and baked goods offerings, pay no attention to the horizontal grooves forming in your fingernails...

Note to self...
 
Spray paint not getting message across...
 
Next time use napalm and road flares!!
 
No, seriously Californians we fucking hate you!
 
If your shit driving wasn't enough, the effective tripling of rent prices and the even more asinine building of 700 unit apartment complexes with zero fucking parking DEFINITELY gives us valid reason to hate you!

An editorial in Investor's Business Daily, citing three studies, asserts that it is likely that Trump was right about illegal votes costing him the popular vote.  The first study was by an online anti-voter-fraud website, the second was in a political science journal and the third was from a conservative/libertarian think tank.  I am curious if there are any reasonably rigorous studies that have come to the opposite conclusion.  I don't know, it's not something I've looked into.  My gut feeling is that Trump was right, or at least numerically not far off on that particular point, but guts are for digesting and holding in bacteria, not number-crunching.

$207 I think
 
I had a P320 a while back around the time they first came out and sold it pretty quickly. I do not understand why everyone hypes the shit out of them so much even before the MHS decision.
 
*Sees the SIG logo on the side.*
 
.....Oh.

Felt like sharing this gem:
http://www.ffi.no/no/Rapporter/08-01220.pdf
 
A report on hybrid electric vehicles. 
 
A neat idea here is to use the hybrid electric system to power a ETC gun. This could solve the power issue, at the cost of no or reduced mobility during firing. 

I also thought that this is an SVD or SVD-S with aftermarket chassis, but can't say for sure if it really is.

I actually found some more information and pictures at defence.pk for anyone who is interested.
 
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/new-iranian-rifle-zolfaqar.503214/page-2

I actually found some more information and pictures at defence.pk for anyone who is interested.
 
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/new-iranian-rifle-zolfaqar.503214/page-2

I'm glad I checked before I posted a link with reduced resolution versions of the images Looser posted...
 
If you open and enlarge the photos there's actually something very interesting to be seen. Namely, that both the pistol grip and stock are 3d printed!
 
I'm thinking that the weirdly too large angled foregrip is too because it's proportions and scaling are kind of odd. Thank God they haven't figured out that you can smooth the outer surfaces and get rid of the telltale sign of larger layer sizes of FDM 3d printed objects using acetone. 
 
I am kind of proud of them though, since you can tell that they adjusted layer thicknesses, print speed, and etc between the stock pieces and the pistol grip!
 
This actually shows that they truly grock some of the subtleties of 3d printing.
 
And being the huge 3d printing fanboy/nerd that I am, that's exciting!
 

^This.
 
Adding: people are generally pretty bad at coming up with something new, but pretty amazing at recreating something when they discover that it is possible. Often there is just a simple 'trick' to the thing that needs to be transmitted for the whole concept become viable. Chainmail was a good example for me, as I tried for a long time to come up with a usable weave without success before stumbling upon an approach to laying out 4:4 weave by stringing the first links up on a line. Ditto the concept of tillering - you only need to know about the idea of distributing stress evenly along the bow by thinning the limbs and everything else clicks into place.
 
Having the understanding that the Romans had all the tech needed to (for instance) make a primitive electrical grid, one has the strong suspicion that there are a huge number of other potentially game-changing inventions out there somewhere that we could pull off today if only we could think of them. At the same time, technologies tend to need the correct supporting infrastructure (including social) to become widely available and useful. So perhaps we're just not at the correct point for antigravity or whatever to make it.

I saw a quote from a neighbor that "he was quiet and kept mostly to himself".
Which is pretty much the cliche.