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citybeatnik posted:What on earth do they mean by squirrel guns? 
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Taerkar posted:Close Combat was my first exposure to such Oh yeah A Bridge Too Far was amazing. Educational to put six Stuarts against one King Tiger, as surely one will get a lucky shot on the rear armor, right?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh yeah A Bridge Too Far was amazing. Educational to put six Stuarts against one King Tiger, as surely one will get a lucky shot on the rear armor, right? I put an anti tank gun inside a shed and the german tanks kept merrily strolling right up to it and dying. Other than that I don't remember much about the game
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Imagine being told to carry around a whole miniature artillery piece to shoot the equivalent of M203 grenades in a world where autocannons already existed
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is it supposed to be like that https://twitter.com/kolezev/status/1601078745917685762
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VSOKUL girl posted:is it supposed to be like that https://twitter.com/kolezev/status/1601078745917685762  : da.
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what the hell is or was that
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:what the hell is or was that A giant fire in the Mega shopping center in Khimki near Moscow
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Oh I hoped it was a military base
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shame on an IGA posted:Imagine being told to carry around a whole miniature artillery piece to shoot the equivalent of M203 grenades in a world where autocannons already existed 37mm anti tank guns put significantly more energy behind their rounds. https://preview.redd.it/qi12yvy0chq31.jpg?auto=webp&s=60cbe9a481a31dd1ade1d48ceeb2208ee8e1140f
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The US 37mm had rather good anti-armor capabilities for its size, especially compared to most of its contemporaries. Unfortunately more often than not it'll be flinging HE at soft targets and in that regard bigger barrels are almost always better.
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Taerkar posted:The US 37mm had rather good anti-armor capabilities for its size, especially compared to most of its contemporaries. Unfortunately more often than not it'll be flinging HE at soft targets and in that regard bigger barrels are almost always better. I’m like 70% sure I remember reading about and M8 getting a kill on a panther by sneaking up behind it during the Bulge.
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Murgos posted:I’m like 70% sure I remember reading about and M8 getting a kill on a panther by sneaking up behind it during the Bulge. quote:While the northern and eastern flanks had been heavily engaged, the northeastern sector (Troop A, 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron; Company A, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion; Troop B, 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron) had been rather quiet. The only excitement there had been when an M8 armored car from Troop B destroyed a Tiger tank. The armored car had been in a concealed position near the boundary of Troop B, 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron and Company A, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, when the Tiger approached the lines at right angles to move along a trail in front of the main line of resistance. As the tank passed the armored car, the latter slipped out of position and started up the trail behind the Tiger, accelerating in an attempt to close. At the same moment the German tank commander saw the M8, and started traversing his gun to bear on it. It was a race between the Americans, who were attempting to close so that their 37-mm. gun would be effective on the Tiger's thin rear armor, and the Germans, who were desperately striving to bring their 88 to bear. Rapidly the M8 closed to 25 yards, and quickly pumped in three rounds; the lumbering Tiger stopped and shuddered; there was a muffled explosion, followed by flames which billowed out of the turret and engine ports, after which the armored car returned to its position." Karma Comedian fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Dec 9, 2022 |
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shame on an IGA posted:Imagine being told to carry around a whole miniature artillery piece to shoot the equivalent of M203 grenades in a world where autocannons already existed why would the US military us a 50 cal machine gun instead of giving everyone a desert eagle they're both 50 cal PookBear fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Dec 9, 2022 |
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PookBear posted:why would the US military us a 50 cal machine gun instead of giving everyone a desert eagle 
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Desert Eagles are made by the Israelis, it's up to them to donate deagles. Would you like a pile of M9s?
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Would you like a pile of M9s? The one I carried in Afghanistan needed to be aimed about a foot to the left of the target at the qualification range. Whenever I went outside the wire, I left it in the arms room and just rolled with my M4 because it was more useful as a club than a weapon.
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I never had an M9. Battalion decided it was a better idea to hand everyone 6 feet tall a crew serve weapon to tote around instead. Somehow a HQ company had dozens of M249s. E: joke's on me, I'm a tick over 5'10" now.
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psydude posted:The one I carried in Afghanistan needed to be aimed about a foot to the left of the target at the qualification range. Whenever I went outside the wire, I left it in the arms room and just rolled with my M4 because it was more useful as a club than a weapon. I've seen people literally using them as hammers, so this checks out.
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not caring here posted:I've seen people literally using them as hammers, so this checks out. To be fair, anything is a hammer if you're brave/dumb enough.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:To be fair, anything is a hammer if you're brave/dumb enough. Including 0.50cal rounds! 
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Icon Of Sin posted:Including 0.50cal rounds! Saw a picture of a soldiers hand after he tried using one as a hammer, nope, nope, nope, nope. 
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Just Another Lurker posted:Saw a picture of a soldiers hand after he tried using one as a hammer, nope, nope, nope, nope. Yea, I was out for a few years already when that safety bulletin came out. It’s still top of the pile when I think of “things that shouldn’t have had to be explained to anyone, but here we find ourselves”.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I never had an M9. Battalion decided it was a better idea to hand everyone 6 feet tall a crew serve weapon to tote around instead. Yeah but you never got overrun, did you?
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Arrath posted:Yeah but you never got overrun, did you? They've got us surrounded, the poor bastards!
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Arrath posted:Yeah but you never got overrun, did you? Did anyone get overrun in Iraq? Besides the Iraqis?
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Did anyone get overrun in Iraq? Besides the Iraqis? You'd have to go back to DS, in Khafji. And I'm not sure the M9 would be your go-to against T-55s.
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I can't imagine a 249 would be much of an improvement on a t55 either. It did do a number on my lower lumbar, though.
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Madurai posted:You'd have to go back to DS, in Khafji. And I'm not sure the M9 would be your go-to against T-55s.  is a tank not of the earth
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Alan Smithee posted:
No, it is of the lake. 
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A.o.D. posted:No, it is of the lake. Serous “lab retriever in a puddle and refusing to get out” energy there.
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psydude posted:The one I carried in Afghanistan needed to be aimed about a foot to the left of the target at the qualification range. Whenever I went outside the wire, I left it in the arms room and just rolled with my M4 because it was more useful as a club than a weapon. They make for a great sign that says "Please keep a safe distance from our convoy". Mine was very useful and I never even fired it.
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bees everywhere posted:They make for a great sign that says "Please keep a safe distance from our convoy". Mine was very useful and I never even fired it. I hypothesize film has a huge role in pistols being used explicitly for shooting people, especially in the case of armed forces using them as primarily as executioners tools or in desperate moments.
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The M9's safety lever is so drat useless, it'd keep switching from safe to fire while sitting in my holster. Hopefully the P320's safety is better.
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drat, my Sig P6 doesn't even have a safety, just 12 pounds of "are you sure?" and a de-cocker.
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M9s, when new, were probably just fine; lots of people love Beretta 92-series handguns. But 35 years of being slammed around arms rooms and field training and deployments weren't great for them.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:The M9's safety lever is so drat useless, it'd keep switching from safe to fire while sitting in my holster. Hopefully the P320's safety is better. Sig is currently being sued for P320s that fire without a trigger pull.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Sig is currently being sued for P320s that fire without a trigger pull. Is it a problem for P365s too? I generally don't carry one in the pipe anyway, but it'd be good to know
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Jesus did they outsource those to Taurus
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