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why drop it when you can award a multi-million dollar contract to revise it slightly and shave off half a pound
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Regarde Aduck posted:mmm? The L85 is only used by the British army and is still in service with no plans to replace it. Or is this some other L85? My mistake then. I've heard that British troops don't like it, in part due to the weight, and that the UK was gravitating towards an M4 clone.
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future infantry folks gonna have a real gun show going on after packing around XM5s all day every dayWheeee posted:why drop it when you can award a multi-million dollar contract to revise it slightly and shave off half a pound can't work on those broceps if you got a little girly rifle
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*rifle explodes an account of case pressures at ~hand grenade levels in a receiver manufactured by the lowest bidder* whoops, no arms
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Wheeee posted:why drop it when you can award a multi-million dollar contract to revise it slightly and shave off half a pound Yeah, they give it a lighter receiver and it has the accuracy of a blunderbuss.
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The military isn't going to actually adopt it. It's going to be like the last 4 times they considered a new rifle, spent hundreds of millions to get companies to submit designs, then just go "guess we'll stick with the M4 for another decade  "
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Remember the OICW? A 5.56 rifle with a 10" barrel, so basically a 10/22. And also a magical grenade launcher that never worked. Just another waste of money. Regardless the US military can't continue using the M16 because it is the official rifle of the Taliban so we need something new.
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May 27, 2022 21:50
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Wheeee posted:that's the basic all-brass cartridge stuff with considerably lower muzzle energy That's a cool watch mechanism.
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Supplying the Taliban with so much M16s that the black market price kept tanking for months.
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why was so much stuff left behind? bribing the guys in charge of taking the m16s to the garbage compactor out back? too many weapons to ever destroy them all?
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Rutibex posted:why was so much stuff left behind? bribing the guys in charge of taking the m16s to the garbage compactor out back? too many weapons to ever destroy them all? it’s really hard to get things in and out of Afghanistan. getting containers and equipment in and out through Pakistan is rough.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:it’s really hard to get things in and out of Afghanistan. getting containers and equipment in and out through Pakistan is rough. oh I would never assume the us government would bother to actually take it out. but why wasn't it spitefully smashed into junk
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Rutibex posted:why was so much stuff left behind? bribing the guys in charge of taking the m16s to the garbage compactor out back? too many weapons to ever destroy them all? Think of all the poo poo a person accumulates over the course of 20 years in a house and then extrapolate that across a warzone for an army of occupation
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500excf type r posted:Think of all the poo poo a person accumulates over the course of 20 years in a house and then extrapolate that across a warzone for an army of occupation Ah yeah, and I also assume a lot of it was "owned" by the "afghan army"
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Pryor on Fire posted:Remember the OICW? A 5.56 rifle with a 10" barrel, so basically a 10/22. And also a magical grenade launcher that never worked. Just another waste of money. Lol that super rifle is so old at this point I remember it showing up in 90s doom wads. Any day now it was coming! The Future of weaponry! 
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in 2032 america will be fighting a proxy war against china using weapons purchased from china
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Btw, theoretically the Afghan Army was suppose to keep on fighting for a while, so I could see the US not actually wanting to destroy the stockpile. It just we didn’t expect them to last a couple weeks.
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Wheeee posted:in 2032 america will be fighting a proxy war against china using weapons purchased from china in real modern world war everybody would cease to be able to produce weapons if the ships got shut down
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what makes the fury bullet so funny is that im pretty sure this is all in response to the taliban outshooting our colonial gendarmes with soviet surplus 7.62mm
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I would imagine so, plus the Taliban starting to accrue surplus body armor (admittedlY most of it passed from the US to the Afghan government directly to the Taliban). Admittedly, it is also true at this point, pretty much most standing armies the US may face would have domestic body armor. The issue is obviously what everyone says that everything about the project is impractical and it would be better to accept that 5.54 is going to have some compromises but it is still a very effective round.
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this evaporation of weapons stocks with an inability to replace them will probably be a characteristic of any peer war. especially if international shipping is interrupted.
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Wheeee posted:in 2032 america will be fighting a proxy war against china using weapons purchased from china with the bravery of cops in uvalde
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https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/status/1530561588134027266 peep all those iranian drones
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lol Iran is Mr House, hording robots in their underground bunker
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Rutibex posted:lol Iran is Mr House, hording robots in their underground bunker people ask me why i am allying with caesar's legion this play-through, i tell them i am role-playing as the USA, everyone groans and is tired of myt bullshit
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Lostconfused posted:That's a cool watch mechanism. they cost like 70x what my regular seiko does i say swears online has issued a correction as of 15:48 on May 29, 2022 |
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jesus christ that is a large, powerful, expensive, complicated bullet
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What the heck is with the transparent mags on the sig Spear
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maybe so you can see how much ammo you have left at a glance?
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Cerebral Bore posted:maybe so you can see how much ammo you have left at a glance? RGB mags
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conspiracy theorists in twent years: release the alienware reports
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i say swears online posted:conspiracy theorists in twent years: release the alienware reports LIQUID METAL DOESN'T MELT COPPER HEATPIPES
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Danann posted:The new XM5 rifle apparently weighs 5kg fully loaded and is supposed to replace the in service m16/m4 rifles while being incompatible with the current service round (5.56mm). Someone at SIG won a contract for the history books dang. Don’t worry, I’m sure they gave some to the Taliban so they can get some feedback from the end user.
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I think most countries around the world use plastic magazines nowadays, bullets feed more smoothly from them than metal ones and you get fewer failures. Transparent or windowed magazines are great because yeah you will lose track of how much you shot and you'll have multiple types of ammo to worry about.
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transparent guns will be a hit with Instagram baddies
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Has anyone tried these digital ammo counter like in the rifles in Aliens? Right down to it being placed in a useless position?
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countdown to American troops being killed by drone strikes
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