LoooSeR Posted March 20, 2018 Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 14 minutes ago, Sturgeon said: What competition were these trials for? Unknown, Komrade Kalashizm doesn't tell. Next gun he will do post about: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 20, 2018 Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 Links to his accounts: https://www.instagram.com/kalashism/ https://vk.com/kalashism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 20, 2018 Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 D.E. Watters 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 23, 2018 Report Share Posted March 23, 2018 Houthi and his trophy Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 23, 2018 Report Share Posted March 23, 2018 Quote Well okay… I come back from vacation and the gun control debate is still going on and now YouTube is banning gun videos, causing some channels to go to Pornhub. Interesting times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimpy75 Posted March 23, 2018 Report Share Posted March 23, 2018 On 20.03.2018 at 6:09 PM, LoooSeR said: Unknown, Komrade Kalashizm doesn't tell. Next gun he will do post about: could it be that the trials for the Pakistani Army? because they are holding a competition for replacing the type 56 AKM and the G3 and all the rifles you mentioned are those which are part of the trial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 23, 2018 Report Share Posted March 23, 2018 14 minutes ago, Stimpy75 said: could it be that the trials for the Pakistani Army? because they are holding a competition for replacing the type 56 AKM and the G3 and all the rifles you mentioned are those which are part of the trial Maybe. Photos he posted showed something i see in Mid. East, and from description i belive that this place was futher than Syria or Iraq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted March 23, 2018 Report Share Posted March 23, 2018 That_Baka and Donward 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 I was waiting to see who would monetize the #Onemoregun thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 On 3/11/2018 at 12:21 PM, Ramlaen said: Regarding the apparent ~$13 unit cost of XM1158. I was going through past year editions of Army Mantech's annual brochure, and the FY15 one mentioned a new start of "7.62mm Advanced AP Penetrator & Assembly Cost Reduction", the following three issues have had a 'tungsten carbide penetrator & assembly cost reduction' section. FY16 FY17 The current FY18 brochure specifically mentions XM1158. I also found an army.mil article that talks a little bit about it and has better pictures. Xlucine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 So I got this email from Classicarms.... https://www.classicfirearms.com/eaa-600530-tanfo-appeal-22lr-16-blue?utm_campaign=2018-3-23_Really+A+Gun%3F+(NTUSd6)&utm_medium=email&_ke=bmRrOTE1ODhAZ21haWwuY29t&utm_source=All+Email+Subscribers+(Excluding+Suppressed+%26+Weekly%2FMonthly)+Segment HIDEOUS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 https://mpopenker.livejournal.com/2308023.html Saiga in .444 Marlin Spoiler D.E. Watters and Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 I note they are using .410 mags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 3 hours ago, Sturgeon said: I note they are using .410 mags. Looks like it started lift as a .410 saiga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 I don't follow small arms news very much, but there seems to be trend of ditching belt fed machine guns in favor of automatic rifles at the squad level (USMC, UK army). Does this make sense, and if so, do we need to start a "John Browning was right" movement? All meetings will be held at the local BAR? Oh wait, I just googled BAR looking for an image to attach to this post and ran across this monstrosity. Never mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApplesauceBandit Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 Not sure where to put it or how long the sale will go on, but there are some really cheap 5.56 and 7.62 NATO orange and purple tip tracers for dirt cheap here. I don't follow prices of 7.62, but even for normal 5.56 stuff is really cheap. http://www.theamericanmarksman.com/556x45-Nato-Ammo_c_147.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Walter_Sobchak said: Does this make sense I wrote extensively about this. The answer I have in abbreviated form is that the SAW is a crime against God and never should have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted March 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 Keep in mind a lot of outdoor ranges or private places like farms will get bitchy if they see you using tracers due to the fire hazard risk. (yes, tracers do, infact, burn hot and long enough to ignite certain materials.) I have on at least one occasion started a brush fire unwittingly firing off a mag of tracers during the winter, was a dumb thing to do that I didn't take into account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApplesauceBandit Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, Khand-e said: Keep in mind a lot of outdoor ranges or private places like farms will get bitchy if they see you using tracers due to the fire hazard risk. (yes, tracers do, infact, burn hot and long enough to ignite certain materials.) I have on at least one occasion started a brush fire unwittingly firing off a mag of tracers during the winter, was a dumb thing to do that I didn't take into account. And that's the one thing stopping me from just stocking up right now, I've not got a place off the top of my head that I can think of to shoot it off, I know the range I go to doesn't like them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 7 hours ago, Sturgeon said: I wrote extensively about this. The answer I have in abbreviated form is that the SAW is a crime against God and never should have been. Thanks for the link, good article. I didn't realize that the SAW was issued to each four-man fire-team in the US Army and USMC. I had always assumed that since it's called the "Squad Automatic Weapon" that it was issued on the squad level, not the fire-team level. But then, I really don't know much about infantry tactics and weapons beyond WWII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 The original doctrine for the use of the SAW is pretty unusual. Also, it isn't really used as the original doctrine recommended, which probably explains why it hasn't exactly been a world-beater. The SAW differs from the GPMG first and foremost in that it's supposed to be way more numerous than GPMG. Thus, as you say, it's issued at fireteam level and not squad level. This is all an elaboration/evolution of the old GPMG-centric squad organization that the Germans pioneered, and most copied, in WWII. A lot of ideas on how to fight the red hordes during WWIII were taken from German experience in WWII. One of the problems with the GPMG concept is that the majority of the squad's firepower comes from one weapon. In the 1940s this was even more pronounced, since the rest of the squad would have been armed with bolt-action rifles. This means that the GPMG needs to be set up in such a way that it has maximum field of fire in order for the squad to control an area during a defensive engagement (fighting the Warsaw Pact, I guess NATO expected a lot of defensive engagements). But that also means that it's very vulnerable, not just to return fire from rifles and machine guns, but also to artillery. It also means that there is no redundancy within the squad. If their GPMG gets knocked out, they're much, much less effective. The Germans were actually well aware of this, and one of the things that was very interesting to them with the STG-44 was the question of whether the STG-44 allowed the concentrated firepower of the GPMG to be spread out across the squad, possibly allowing the GPMG to be dispensed with. The SAW is sort of a compromise. Instead of one GPMG per squad you have two SAWs. Defensive fire positions can be set up with mutually supportive, but narrower, overlapping fields of fire. Each SAW is much harder to knock out than the GPMG would have been for the same field of fire, and there is some degree of redundancy now that there are two guns instead of one. This is probably a sound idea if you actually use these guns in the intended role of fighting off enormous hordes of Soviet infantry. But there have been exactly zero instances of the SAW being used in that role, and relatively few of it being used in a role that even approximates that. Sturgeon, Donward and Walter_Sobchak 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 13 hours ago, Walter_Sobchak said: I don't follow small arms news very much, but there seems to be trend of ditching belt fed machine guns in favor of automatic rifles at the squad level (USMC, UK army). Does this make sense, and if so, do we need to start a "John Browning was right" movement? All meetings will be held at the local BAR? Oh wait, I just googled BAR looking for an image to attach to this post and ran across this monstrosity. Never mind. So.. Someone re-invented the Colt Monitor. Okay then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 2 hours ago, Meplat said: So.. Someone re-invented the Colt Monitor. Okay then. Incase you wanted to know more... http://soldiersystems.net/2013/11/11/hcar-bar-21st-century/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, Walter_Sobchak said: Incase you wanted to know more... http://soldiersystems.net/2013/11/11/hcar-bar-21st-century/ Holy Jesus. Shit like this is why the NFA needs to die.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 Remington filing for bankruptcy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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