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Still entirely inferior to this baby. Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim, and they have not. https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1632454588782505988
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Like those Maxims also anti Shahed Degtyaryovs https://twitter.com/FriaUkraina/status/1631188742730907649
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Herstory Begins Now posted:on a pretty fundamental level an entrenching tool is intended to be an entirely different tool from a full sized spade, despite both fundamentally being about moving dirt out of a hole this post right here made me realise i need an entrenching tool, so thanks for that
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Just Another Lurker posted:Yep, the fact that Pioneer and artillery troops on both sides had serrated bayonets, as was the fashion at the time, for clearing brush was ignored. Hell in WW1 the british standard kit included a short hafted mace specifically for trench fighting, they didn't give a gently caress. e]forgot quote
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And Sonny Pouzikas wasn't 'Spetsnaz' as the Western thinks. He was on a prison Spetsnaz Team, not a military/FSB type. Spetsnaz is a catch all term for specialized forces (as I understand it- please correct me if I am wrong), not a specific group like say Navy SEALs or Special Forces, and lots of less than scrupulous dudes parlay the title into unearned expertise.
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Kallikaa posted:Like those Maxims also anti Shahed Degtyaryovs I love how Swedish looked at boring translations like "maskingevær" and decided that nope, a machine gun is clearly a Bullet Sprayer.
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bulletsponge13 posted:And Sonny Pouzikas wasn't 'Spetsnaz' as the Western thinks. He was on a prison Spetsnaz Team, not a military/FSB type. Spetsnaz is a catch all term for specialized forces (as I understand it- please correct me if I am wrong), not a specific group like say Navy SEALs or Special Forces, and lots of less than scrupulous dudes parlay the title into unearned expertise. Isn't he also the guy who demonstrates this completely absurd "technique" where you tuck your rifle in your arm and use your pistol so that you can ineffectually fire wildly in two directions at once?
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Computer viking posted:I love how Swedish looked at boring translations like "maskingevær" and decided that nope, a machine gun is clearly a Bullet Sprayer. Didn't you Norweigians go with the French mitrailleuse back then?
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SavageMessiah posted:Isn't he also the guy who demonstrates this completely absurd "technique" where you tuck your rifle in your arm and use your pistol so that you can ineffectually fire wildly in two directions at once? Yes, and I will forever love him for it. E- in looking for the video (and failing) on YouTube, I came across this gem. The Makarov Holster from Deadliest Warrior- https://youtu.be/fobvYJVXqBQ You bulletsponge loved the Makarov, and spent entirely too much money to get one of those holsters imported from Russia. It's the biggest piece of poo poo holster I've ever seen. It works, but I wouldn't trust the parts to stay together under stress, and the plastic felt brittle and oily? I don't know how to describe it. I still have it somewhere in my life, but gently caress did I learn there. bulletsponge13 fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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in a well actually posted:Request ambiguous, result: loving Sam Hughes and the MacAdam shovel. That guy knew how to grift. golden bubble posted:Still entirely inferior to this baby. Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim, and they have not. Trying to find this in my signed copy of "The Devil's Paintbrush" but I can't. Can you give me a page reference? In a combination tangent of these posts, at my Museum we recently received access to a photo collection for scanning purposes. One of the photo groups was of some pre-FWW soldiers of the 72nd Battalion (Seaforths) training on Vancouver Island in kilts as field dress armed with Ross Mark IIIs and a limber mounted Maxim. I've never seen these guns being used in combination like that before, and it might be the only photo documentation of them being used like that. When we get permission to share I'll post them in TFR.
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Kallikaa posted:Didn't you Norweigians go with the French mitrailleuse back then? Kind of. We use "maskingevær" (machine [long] gun - compare German "Gewehr") for what you'd probably call a light machine gun, and "mitraljøse" for heavy, usually mounted, machine guns. The line seems to be that an MG3 on a vehicle mount or tripod is a mitraljøse but the same MG3 carried with a bipod is a maskingevær - so it's more about the role than the weapon itself. I'm not sure when the different words came into use, though.  Also, I have to admit I had to check - I had not really thought about the finer details of what each word covered, and I've never been in a situation where it was relevant. (Ref mitraljøse / maskingevær )
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Computer viking posted:Kind of. We use "maskingevær" (machine [long] gun - compare German "Gewehr") for what you'd probably call a light machine gun, and "mitraljøse" for heavy, usually mounted, machine guns. The line seems to be that an MG3 on a vehicle mount or tripod is a mitraljøse but the same MG3 carried with a bipod is a maskingevær - so it's more about the role than the weapon itself. I looked up kulspruta and Nordisk Familjebok 1885 says: "Kulspruta l. mitraljös (T. kugelspritze, kartätschgeschütz; Fr. mitrailleuse, mitrailleur) kallas en skjutmaskin, bestĺende af en eller, vanligtvis, flere pipor och ur hvilken en mängd projektiler kan utslungas med stor hastighet. Namnet kulspruta gafs första gĺngen 1848 ĺt en dylik maskin, konstruerad af professor K. A. Steinheil i München, vid hvilket vapen centrifugalkraften nyttjades som drifkraft." So German kugelspritze became kulspruta in Swedish Seems the K.A. Steinheil is this guy: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_August_von_Steinheil Though the wiki says he invented a "Zentrifugalwurfgeschütz" which is a nice name in itself.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Yes, and I will forever love him for it. Also as said earlier he is known for shooting one of his students in a shoot house.
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I should have guessed - so many fun words end up being German.
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EorayMel posted:Don't forget the IRA vs Taliban and/or Theodore Roosevelt vs Lawrence Of Arabia Deadliest Warrior episodes Was it Lawrence of Arabia who snuck back into a boarding school in his 20s and then sent letters to the other boys pretending to be his uncle and demanding that they whip him until he jizzed? I hope that made it into the episode.
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Wrong Theory posted:I have only heard of one incident where an e-tool was almost used. Some dude went full section 8 in MCT and went AWOL while out in the field in pendleton with his rifle. So we had to form up in lines and go searching up and down all the loving hills looking for the rifle, since cadre just assumed he would toss his rifle when it annoyed him. We were told to bust out the etools for cutting away at brush and stuff. We crested a hill under a giant spreading oak tree and my buddy next to me shouts "I see the m16!", followed quickly by the sound of the rifle going off and my buddy dropping. The rear end in a top hat was working the action on his rifle 20 feet away and all I had was my shovel. I was about to brain him with it when one of the sgts got to him first and football kicked him in the face. Luckily he was shooting blanks and just scared my friend so he dropped, and no one was seriously hurt.
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https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1632580394833924096?t=-ZIl0sXluEfRx5i7CHtG1Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1632580397816061952?t=MBw7pWbfd4bvRqITQPUXwQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1632580401653772291?t=2aD9uJeL80IXz5PZW9pN0w&s=19
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CainFortea posted:Some dude went full section 8 in MCT and went AWOL while out in the field in pendleton with his rifle. So we had to form up in lines and go searching up and down all the loving hills looking for the rifle, since cadre just assumed he would toss his rifle when it annoyed him. We were told to bust out the etools for cutting away at brush and stuff. Jesus christ that’s a hell of a story
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CainFortea posted:Some dude went full section 8 in MCT and went AWOL while out in the field in pendleton with his rifle. So we had to form up in lines and go searching up and down all the loving hills looking for the rifle, since cadre just assumed he would toss his rifle when it annoyed him. We were told to bust out the etools for cutting away at brush and stuff. Sgt "featherweight" Jackson's kick didn't result in a serious injury?
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golden bubble posted:Still entirely inferior to this baby. Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim, and they have not. Operation Flashpoint had a Finnish Defence Force mod where the first missions had you as a UN peacekeeper in modern gear and later ones where you are a mobilised reservist tasked to crew a Maxim. I think those were in the books up to the early 90's or so.
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Ataxerxes posted:Operation Flashpoint had a Finnish Defence Force mod where the first missions had you as a UN peacekeeper in modern gear and later ones where you are a mobilised reservist tasked to crew a Maxim. I think those were in the books up to the early 90's or so. Fdf coop mission where you have to ambush a convoy of btr70s with as reservists with mosins, a maxim, satchels and a lahtika is seared into my brain.
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Is there anything inherently wrong with the Maxim? The M2 just turned 100; seems like you can only innovate a bullet stick so much. Or really anything for that matter: road construction and smallpox vaccines are basically unchanged for the past couple hundred years as well.
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psydude posted:Is there anything inherently wrong with the Maxim? The M2 just turned 100; seems like you can only innovate a bullet stick so much. Or really anything for that matter: road construction and smallpox vaccines are basically unchanged for the past couple hundred years as well. It's a perfectly reliable gun, but it's water cooled and heavy as gently caress, almost 140 pounds fully assembled and filled. That's not too outlandish for the early twentieth century: the M1917 Browning was 103 pounds in operating condition and the German MG08 was ~150 pounds. The Brits managed to get their own derivative down to 50 pounds by using advanced and relatively lightweight metal alloys. It also depends how much stuff you're mounting with the gun: apparently an M2 with tripod and other fancy gear installed can be 128 pounds. A Maxim in a fortified defensive position will be pretty drat effective but if you're fighting a mobile battle you're better off with just about anything else. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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Kallikaa posted:I looked up kulspruta and Nordisk Familjebok 1885 says: I thought I loved bullet sprayer until I saw shooting machine.
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meatbag posted:I thought I loved bullet sprayer until I saw shooting machine. I read it as ball sprayer and loled
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Ataxerxes posted:I think those [Maxims] were in the books up to the early 90's or so. I recall reading that they were in the books specifically for units tasked with close-in defence of permanent coastal artillery batteries. Which would make a degree of sense, given that the weight becomes largely a non-issue in that context.
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Ataxerxes posted:Operation Flashpoint had a Finnish Defence Force mod where the first missions had you as a UN peacekeeper in modern gear and later ones where you are a mobilised reservist tasked to crew a Maxim. I think those were in the books up to the early 90's or so. How did they model the bicycles, that would seem non-trivial. I'm so jealous of the Ukrainian army bicycles. 
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https://www.fontanka.ru/2023/03/02/72101819/ Last year, a bill was signed into law in Russia which makes it illegal to "discredit" members of volunteer units fighting for Russia. One of the bill's co-authors, Andrey Kartapolov (State Duma deputy chairman, chairman of the defense committee), was interviewed and asked about the prominent neo-nazis fighting for Russia. Here's a pertinent bit courtesy of Google Translate. quote:- Let me give you one example. God bless her, with Wagner PMC. Since 2014, a certain organization that calls itself "Rusich" has been fighting in the Donbass. In its purest form, fans of the Nazis, there are photographs where they zigue [sieg heil - my edit] against the background of the swastika, they have swastika tattoos. But now they are fighting on the side of Russia. Is the story about these people discrediting?
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Basically "The only moral nazism is our nazism!" e: he's being surprisingly blatant about it though. I get that Russian internal propaganda is just a firehose of lies to make people give up on sussing out what the truth is, but I would have that each individual lie would at least try to sound convincing. Slashrat fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1632695013942370304 Ukraine maybe overstayed again. Kyiv Independent and Hauer are decent sources afaik, lemme know if that's wrong. Dunno why they keep doing this. Maybe they really need the time to improve next defenses, or it's just this brutal calculus that you have the 2wk training guys to spare, idk. Some really bleak quotes in that article.
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bulletsponge13 posted:And Sonny Pouzikas wasn't 'Spetsnaz' as the Western thinks. He was on a prison Spetsnaz Team, not a military/FSB type. Spetsnaz is a catch all term for specialized forces (as I understand it- please correct me if I am wrong), not a specific group like say Navy SEALs or Special Forces, and lots of less than scrupulous dudes parlay the title into unearned expertise.  Spetsnaz = Special Tactics: Snazzy
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meatbag posted:I thought I loved bullet sprayer until I saw shooting machine. In Swedish, kulspruta works well on many levels, as it also translates to fun, as well as bullet. I did very much enjoy the Funsprayer 58, bringer of joy and good tidings.
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McNally approved post: Hey thread I wanted to thank you for being welcoming to the GBS Ukraine thread posters while it was locked. It's open now! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4026289&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 I'd like to invite those interested to post there as well. Thanks again!
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Is it still cool to root against the Russians here? I spent a large part of my adult life training to fight against them and I kind of don't want to pretend that I don't want their military wiped out.
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Flyinglemur posted:Is it still cool to root against the Russians here? I spent a large part of my adult life training to fight against them and I kind of don't want to pretend that I don't want their military wiped out. Long as you're not making bloodlust posts I can't really imagine why you wouldn't be allowed to say things like "I hope the Russians get sent packing". If you're going to lust for troop death and or make graphic posts concerning dead Russians though you might find a rather cooler response to your posts. Literally nobody in this thread has a positive opinion of the Russian military or their invasion of Ukraine, but drooling over dead Russians is a very bad look.
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Saukkis posted:How did they model the bicycles, that would seem non-trivial. Dave Mirra BMX reboot looking lit
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psydude posted:The M2 just turned 100; It did, but the M2A1 upgrades started rolling out over a decade ago. Among other things, barrel quick changes are way easier on an A1, and it now has a fixed headspcae and timing, so soldiers don't need to rob one another or pay outlandish prices to private vendors for headspace and timing keys.
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