Sturgeon Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 That's your bog standard tripod and T&E mech, colli. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 Aha! So it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 What gun did they replace? The articles imply Beretta 92s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 Somebody actually use those ballistic masks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E. Watters Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 You can see it better here, where it isn't buried in brass:http://images.military.com/media/equipment/weapons/m240b-machine-gun/m240b-machine-gun-002.jpg Fr srs though, does anyone know what that attachment on the trigger is? It doesn't look like a solenoid kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex C. Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 Obvious PR photos are some of my favorite kinds of photos. That feel when you see some truly excellent stock footage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 Somebody actually use those ballistic masks? Nobody cared who they were before they put on the mask Crashing this donbass, with no suriviors. Lotta loyatly for a hired Nazi Tell me about the Azov, why does he where the mask If i annexed crmiea would you die? "It would be extremely painful" Your a big country "For you" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Apparently my sense of humor is terrible too sophisticated for my readership over at TFB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 Apparently my sense of humor is terrible too sophisticated for my readership over at TFB. Eh. I read it as if you were totally serious too. You needed a couple zany, off the wall remarks or something to tip your hand that it was intended as a parody. You should follow up now with something off-the-wall of what you would call assault rifles Patriot rifles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 Eh. I read it as if you were totally serious too. You needed a couple zany, off the wall remarks or something to tip your hand that it was intended as a parody. You should follow up now with something off-the-wall of what you would call assault rifles Patriot rifles. It was a success in the sense that nobody appears to hate me for writing it, but not in the sense that I think a lot of people didn't get that it was supposed to be humor. I had hoped the paragraph about Hitler would tip people off, but I guess not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 It was a success in the sense that nobody appears to hate me for writing it, but not in the sense that I think a lot of people didn't get that it was supposed to be humor. I had hoped the paragraph about Hitler would tip people off, but I guess not. I think you calling Hitler a dork is what you would normally do. Honestly, who would want to use terminology invented by him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 My human friends told me that understatement was a form of Earth humor, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 My human friends told me that understatement was a form of Earth humor, though! Which doesn't always come across that well in written form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 I was also trying to mimic those horrible progressive type articles that talk about "ending" this or that word or concept. You know, "ban bossy", all that kind of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 You should have said that the term assault rifle triggers you. Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 At least he's doing it, and not me: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 God damn your eyes Nathaniel! Because of you, now I have a personal wager of whether the number of comments complaining about the term assault rifle being used by Liberals to take away our Freedumbs outnumbers folksy anecdotes about what somebody called them when they were in the military. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 Apparently my sense of humor is terrible too sophisticated for my readership over at TFB. 181 comments without anyone calling for your head... Not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 BLOATED INEFFICIENT AMERICAN .45 CALIBER ROUND MAKES GUN MALFUNCTION: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E. Watters Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 As I stated in the comments, I suspect the issue is a misdimensioned trigger bar. Beside the already identified interference with the cartridges feeding from the magazine, I suspect that the vertical arm isn't reliably depressing the firing pin safety plunger in order to clear the striker in time. A quick detail strip of the slide would show that the safety plunger and the striker have dings and chips where they are colliding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 It looks like our reader dnepr0mike came through for us on a translation of a very detailed Russian article covering the history of the 5.45x39mm caliber. We've all but finished making arrangements with the magazine that originally ran the article, and once they give us the green light, we can publish Part 1. Whether we publish Part 2 will depend on how strong the response to Part 1 is, because Steve's unsure we can afford a translator. LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 Turkish forces, combating with PKK/Kurds inside of Turkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 "We just dinged them!" I see that Cobalt Kinetics is digging into some old ideas. Interesting mechanism. As you can see at 1:00 in this video, the EM-2 (at least later versions of it) had a mechanism whereby a lever in the top of the magazine would release the bolt hold open when a loaded magazine was inserted. The bulge at the top rear of the magazine houses a lever that activates the bolt release, unless the follower is at the top of the magazine (i.e. the magazine is empty). Cobalt seems to use standard mags, so I'm not sure how theirs works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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