Khand-e

3 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

I do love when folks completely misread what I wrote.

 

I also love the meme that the WW2 German infantry model is dominate - is why they won the war, right???

Well that's also why all modern tanks are based on the Tiger and Panther with doctrines based on those used by CRACK TIGER ACES!

Tanknet was hacked before and that got it flagged by google.

Once your site is on Google's watchlist it's damn near impossible to get off it no matter what the circumstances were or how legitimate your site normally is.

Well you see It's not like other nations use beefed up rifle platforms as mach.....

.....Oh

3 minutes ago, Ramlaen said:

 

Comments like the guy wanting an M27 with QD barrel make me wonder how many actually read the article.

Well don't worry, successful military reformist and AH/Fiction author Tony Williams apparently didn't read it either so it's ok.

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autogun said...

stancrist said...

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/12/04/first-last-saw-squad-belt-fed-dead-end-brief-thoughts-005/?

That's pretty much the same conclusion I came to in my recent article on future small arms, only from a different angle: that armies are increasingly finding that belt-fed 5.56mm LMGs are not worth the bother, so they're switching to 7.62mm LMGs like the Minimi instead.

Oh wait, he read all of one line and decided to take the rest of the article completely out of context including the demonstration of point video using a 7.62x51mm Mk.48! My mistake.

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Not quite:

To close with and destroy the enemy through fire and maneuver is the mission of the Infantry in both services – yet the SAW concept is detrimental to that mission. Although it is capable of prodigious firepower, it sacrifices key characteristics of individual weapons to achieve it, and in doing so becomes something that is neither fish nor fowl. It is too heavy, cumbersome, and finicky to be a good individual weapon, and its caliber is too small to serve as a very good crew-served machine gun. Therefore it exists in a space where it is neither one nor the other.

That is clearly a condemnation of 5.56mm belt-feds, which sit in between individual weapons and crew-served 7.62mm belt-feds.

14 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

 

It turned into a huge dumpster fire. Nobody really said anything productive.

You can literally say that about the comments section of any article you've written ever and it would still be true!

List of handguns to somehow secure purchase of.

FK BRNO

Somehow skim Russian import laws to get a PE-10 - Next on list.

I modified the recoil spring weight/guide rod and added a nice robust buffer plat to my FNX-45 for when I'm not using it as a the subsonic loaded gun I originally bought it for to better handle .45 Super.

Also, I wonder if he realizes that, of the 6 powers in the war (who made their own weapons at least), the one using the smallest bore diameter pistol/smg cartridge did the most to win the war. (7.62x25mm master race!)

2 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

Wait but didn't we use .45s in Viet....

.....oooooohhhhhhh.

So when will the gunsmith be hired by Remington?

-When dumb carebears always bitch about "teammates killing on sight" and there should be a penalty for it, not realizing THIS

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Cooperate with strangers or get shot by your friend in the back - there are no rules.

IS RIGHT IN THE FUCKING GAME DESCRIPTION THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO READ.

Some sample new uniforms and weapon loadouts for the ROCA.

I question the safety of drinking Four Loko while in the presence of a loaded firearm.

For shame FAB.

11 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

Oooh, Erik already snagged it.

To be fair, by the end of his article I couldn't tell if it was an announcement about the actual story or a dick sucking piece on the HK416.

https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/preorder-page

Black Friday sale is on.

2 hours ago, That_Baka said:

Is there any 14.5mm cartrige derivatives? Like WW2 soviet 14.5x147mm Blum ?

Never heard of anything aside from good old 14.5x114mm that wasn't an old experiment with almost zero information on them.

4 hours ago, That_Baka said:

http://sturgeonshouse.ipbhost.com/profile/9-khand-e/

Is China even using 14.5mm HMG?Or switched like Russia to 12.7mm?

 Any hard on 14.5mm SLAP round? Is there chinese modern analogue of 14.5mm B-32 tungsten cored API seeing Chinese have biggest amount of Tungsten ores?

By the way, for future reference, directly linking to my profile doesn't actually do anything, you have to do @ name without the space for it to page someone. Also, while it's fine here, don't bother doing it on the general discussion boards because I very rarely read that forum.

Anyway, the newer 14.5mm rounds used by the Chinese are rather interesting, and while it is suggested they use it, both on fixed tripod mountings and in turrets for certain vehicles aswell as for export, alot of where and how exactly it's used is unknown for the most part.

As for data on the SLAP round made for it, well, let's take a look.

The round itself is called the DGJ02, there's a few interesting things to note about it, like, unlike the US .50 SLAP design, it has a fully covered nosed designed to break away in petals after firing (originally it was design to separate after 150-200m, I've heard that's been improved on though.)

This is rather interesting, as some machine gun designs and rifles can't actually use US styled open tipped SLAP without modifications, example, the Barrett M82/M107 can't because the sub caliber tip won't actually engage the feed ramps properly without a modified barrel and ramping.

You'll also notice from the image above that it has a tracer in the back, nothing out the ordinary, one minor point of interest however is that it harkens back to old school ranging tracers of WWI in that it uses a dual colored tracer that's Green out to 500m and then Red out to 1000m+  (I don't know the exact burnout range on the 2nd stage of the tracer.)

As for how it performs, the thing is a goddamn brute, the Tungsten Carbide penetrator has a weight of 45g and has a MV of approximately 1,250 m/s and will reliably punch through 20mm of RHA at a 60 degree incline at 1000m distance. some speculations on why the Chinese chose to go with a new HMG design in the QJG02 over the Type 56 and 58 (old license produced KPVs and ZPUs) is that these run quite a bit hotter than WW2 vintage ammunition, or that maybe it feeds better, or just that they wanted a fresh design to replace the aging fleet of KPV clones, I've never really gotten a straight answer on this, but the point is it was deemed necessary to move on to a new design, which we'll discuss later.

There's also a second round they designed to go with it called the DGE02, which is listed as an "APHEI" round designed against soft skinned and light armored vehicles and low flying aircraft, basically, the test for this was, once again, at 1000m, it will penetrate 15mm of RHA set at a less punishing 30 degree incline, then there's a second test where they shot 2 thin RHA plates at 300m, one 2mm thick and another behind it 1.2mm thick (distance apart is unknown), they claim that "at least 20 fragments will penetrate with 75 to 95 additional incendiary pellets being produced which have an average of an 80% chance to ignite aviation fuel." what fuel type exactly they were using, once again I don't know as obviously there's more then one type of aviation fuel. note that this also features the double colored tracer of the DGJ02.

So, in addition to the SLAP round, they also made kind of sort of an Mk. 211 analogue to team up with it, they supposedly also made 12.7mm versions of these but I don't have performance characteristics of these. (one of the pictures I used to have for the of DJE02 I used as a stand in was of the 12.7mm version, green case with a yellow tip and black band painted below it.)

I'm going to do a part 2 on weapons but, I need to clear some things up first.

Important notice that from the 23rd to 25th, there will be a black friday sale on all versions of the game, VERY SOON IS THE TIME TO BUY IT IF YOU WANT IT.

Also, I posted these earlier but, official development models of 2 new confirmed pistols, the APS and SR1M

Someone who was remotely relevant on the internet in the early 2000s that ran a page called "the best page in the universe" that apparently let his small bit of fame get to his head.

2002: All about freedom of speech and offending people on the internet.

2017: Being a whiny pussy suing people for offending him on the internet.

Oh how times change.

Though, honestly, with the exception of like, a few *kind of* funny articles, Maddox was never funny in the first place, he relied on being either A. a dumb, talentless edgelord or B. a Pseudo intellectual making fun of other pseudo intellectuals as his humor. I guess when someone out edges him though then suddenly the world owes him $20 million dollars.

I honestly hadn't heard a thing about him for like a decade and just thought his eventual fade in total obscurity happened, but It's good to see that he fell off a cliff into being a completely pathetic laughing stock at the end of his writing "career."

And here I thought Maddox faded into obscurity like the talentless hack he was back in the early 2000s.

This retard is still relevant to anyone?

On 11/13/2017 at 3:51 PM, Collimatrix said:

Interesting, especially in light of the news a few months ago that the UAE and Russia were looking at co-producing a new fighter.

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What could possibly go go wrong? Ask India.

To be fair, that's not really a fair question since you could apply that to literally every "modern" weapons system known to man.

On 11/14/2017 at 8:30 AM, LoooSeR said:

MAC got his hands on this thing, mr @Khand-e

 

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I'm.....optimistic I'll have one by no later than January.

.....Though, seeing the production numbers on them and how many get shipped here, I expect said optimism to be dashed into bits like a group of jihadists inside of a room with a Voitenko Compressor going off.

3 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

 

Ok YES, so it could be alot worse, but at least the coup leader doesn't have "near record shitting on economy", "deposing people of certain skin colors so that other farmers could have their lands" and "literal ethnic genocide" on his list like Mugabe yet.

.......not that we know of at least.

I'm actually hoping the coup runners are successful on this one, I mean they can't possibly be worse than Mugabe himself can they?