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That projects looks rather fugly to me. Might be good for Wuhan to help mitigate smog, but is looks so damn bad. 

BURN IN THE PHOENIX' FLAME!

But, in all seriousness, Chetwood has alot of say on the looks so ...... #BlametheUK

I'm... fairly certain Belgium and some middle eastern countries like Kuwait and maybe Saudi Arabia still use the Cockerill Mk 8 in various light AFVs .... If that counts.

Maybe South Africa.

Clear threats to Ukraine for sure.

The planned Phoenix towers and surrounding artificial island it will be built on, which is planned to bring tourism to the city of Wuhan in central China. Along with other buildings on said island, the taller of the two towers (the male "phoenix" Feng, the opposite being called the female phoenix of "Huang") will be 1 kilometer high, run off it's own energy, and filter out air pollution around it. It will also have things such as the largest suspended in mid air resturaunts, the worlds tallest kaleidoscope, and the pinkest goddamn building award ever.

After much planning, It's expected to be done in 2018 assuming no delays, and design work is being aided by a joint effort with the British firm Chetwood.

(Chetwood's concept from their website.)

(Chinese interpretation)

Examples of how the building will sustain it's own power, among others on the island.

To be honest, I find the SIG 556, which can change between 7.62x39mm and 5.56x45mm a pretty nice looking design, haven't got to try one though so, no idea if it actually properly supports AK magazines.

It's like if you took the .45-70 cartridge and put it in dam form.

Being that I'm a huge sperglord for architecture, I love construction related mega projects that I can show here.

But yeah, I have to agree the Manhatten project is overall the coolest.

So AK-12 won competition for a Ratnik system main assault rifle. Surprise!

Ensign beat you to the announcement I'm afraid.

This is awesome, It's like having 2 competing Russian news agencies.

Eh, Wade's isn't that bad, I mean pretty much any salesman is going to try and butter you up and make you feel good about a purchase no matter how misguided, but that's unfortunately how they stay afloat really.

Plus they have a really nice shooting range.

Honestly Donward, exactly what gun stores in Seattle or it's suburbs do you go where you have all these problems finding ammo? I mean, I've seen it really bad at certain times like during certain panics, but, aside from not finding my precious Buffalo Bore in .40 S&W (But the Golden Saber Bonded I found works really well as a substitute and was half off to boot.) I don't have all that much trouble finding gun fuel, and I've bought in quite a few calibers in the past say, 2 years or so.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just genuinely curious where you usually go that has these problems.

My suspicion is that wulfram possesses superior effectiveness against the intended targets.

I'm not saying your wrong but, I don't really see alot of intended military targets where Tungsten alloys would perform better then DU alloys, mainly considering these aren't long rod designs and, memory serve me, Tungsten only achieves parity with DU in Steel armor at around 2000 m/s (I'll have to check that) which is much faster then these round would be moving. and that APDS rounds in the 20-35mm+ range still use DU somewhat commonly and have roughly the same designs.

I'll have to look for some documentation on this I guess, since while I'm not certain, you still could be right.

Though, Colli also had an interesting theory that you may need a license to handle larger amounts of DU as it might be classified as "nuclear" material and also that working with smaller amounts of DU is more hazardous due to the smaller surface area of the product in question being made and manufacturing difficulties on working with a pyrophoric material.

Also, something I've been pondering, why do countries use Tungsten alloys over DU for SLAP and and small arms "apcr" (such as the M993/5 and DM131)? I suspect the reasoning for most countries is dumb hippie shit, but even countries who use it alot like the USA, Russia, and China use Tungsten alloys for penetrators in the 5-15mm range (If you want to count prototype weapons and such.)

Wouldn't DU be preferred considering how many of the rounds are actually made, where the edge would fall to DU for sheer cost and raw amount of the material? (Also the whole Pyrophoric thing would be nifty)

AEK-971 is just destined to lose things.

For the price of barrel conversion kits, I don't know why you just wouldn't get two guns. 

A factory G31 barrel with the proper tools to swap them would cost me $140 new (quoted price).

I'm more concerned exactly how well a Glock's frame and springs/rods will handle the 5,000-10,000 psi increase, depending if we're going by SAAMI or CIP specced loads because I'd rather not have to to dig shards of slide and cartridge out of my face.

It's just a thing because I'm genuinely curious about the .357 SIG round, I used a S&W 327 .357 Magnum for quite some time loaded with Buffalo Bore that would get in excess of 1,700 fps with 125 grain rounds so I'm more used to that level of recoil/impulse, However .40 S&W ammunition is quite a bit cheaper to just shoot, so I think, even with the $140 dollar investment, it would pay for itself rather fast.

I actually have an actual print of that poster lying around somewhere.

From pretty much everything I hear, both versions of the ZH-05 are actually pretty hated, to the point I'd be amazed if something short of direct government intervention doesn't stop it from being fully adopted. (It's only in rather limited service right now.)

For reference on the "both versions", There's an even bigger but rarer version that has your typical 5 round magazine for the grenade rounds, but being that this is even bulkier and heavier, It's not exactly popular.

So...question.

I know alot of handgun designs handle conversions from .40 S&W to .357 SIG quite well, how well do Glock Gen4s handle this exactly as I really haven't used very many Glocks? Am I going to have a bad time if I swap out a G22 barrel with a G31? (Mostly concerned with the fact .357 SIG operates at a pretty significantly higher pressure than .40 S&W and if they're designed for that.)

It's a CF-06/HD-66. the only difference between the 2 variants being weather tolerances and some accessories.

Other then that, It's a proprietary 9mm SMG and a modified QSZ-92-9 as the cornershot

From what I've heard, they haven't proven that successful so far as far as actual usage goes.

Edit: I guess I should also add that it can apparently also use 5.8x21mm on the SMG portion and a standard 5.8mm QSZ-92.

Nah, .32 Long and .32 ACP are the smallest rounds they load.

....Well, if you want to be really technical, they also load match grade .223 Boat tail JHP and polymer tip rounds for various barrel twist rates, but something tells me you'd have trouble fitting .223 Remington in a .22 LR magazine for some reason.

Why stop there?

https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=132

List of things to know about Buffalo Bore:

They shoot really hot and snappy with bullet designs that tend to work really well.

They're expensive.

.....there's my extensive review of the topic.

Also, copy pasting from other small arms thread because I'm genuinely curious to this.

"So yeah, went to buy ammo for new G22 Gen4, only to be saddened by the fact the ammo store I go to was out of Buffalo Bore for the caliber (also known as John Browning's tears ammunition), and aside from "whatever FMJ target ammo is on sale that day", I usually don't buy anything else.

So, I bought Golden Sabers, but I noticed something I've never seen from Remington next to it called ultimate defense, upon unboxing it, it..... looked basically identical to Golden Sabers and had identical listed performance, but were quite a bit cheaper. I bought the sabers anyway as I've actually used them before, but, not finding much on Remington's website or googling as to what the [edited]the difference is supposed to be, I'm starting to wonder if I got duped into buying an "older", more reputable product for more and Ultimate Defense rounds exist simply for the reason of making Golden Sabers look better when you see them next to each other and they cost more, or maybe vice versa.

Either way, is there literally any difference at all aside from packaging and price?"

I guess one note is, I'm guessing the Golden Sabers may be better suited for compacts or at least tested in them, as I actually had them chronoed at the muzzle when firing them today because I like to test things, and consistently got 50-75 fps above the box listed fps. Would be refreshing if they didn't rig their test results with unfeasibly long barrel lengths and cherry picked numbers.

The whole gun recoils, more or less.  It's more precise because the optics are attached to the barrel.

This Isn't nearly good enough, I won't be pleased until the gun, the shooter, and the entire 30 square feet surrounding him all recoil.

Well it certainly tricked you into thinking it's concealing a mere table didn't it?

I'd say it's a very effective camo net by that merit!

A super roided L7

longer barrel designed for higher pressure combustible cases and with much longer rods then NATO countries used before more or less moving on to 120mm

The DU alloy rounds for said series are quoted at 600mm of RHA penetration at 2km.

Also likely using an autoloader in this case as the crew is still expected to be only 3 men to save on space and weight.

Edit: another interesting note is, despite the caliber, It's capable of firing any ATGM in the Russian Bastion family of missiles which China license produces. other then that they make 105mm HEAT and HEAT-FRAG (HEDP basically) shells for the gun.

Well, here's 4 more being transferred from a depot by train, the second to the front is the eternal heavenly emperor of slacking tracks.

The armament is the T83 high pressure 105mm series, considering almost all modern mbts simply can't operate at the altitudes and enviorments this is designed for however, this isn't seen as much of a problem to not use a 125mm gun like the full size 99A2.