Coolest/Ugliest Weapons V5 - Bullpup AKs are the best - General

[QUOTE=catbarf;42694740]I have to chuckle at the idiots over on /k/ and elsewhere who think 'airshit' is the pinnacle of wit. Thanks to 'airshit' the SWAT and FBI officers I've trained with get more force-on-force practice than ever before in the history of American policework. Even the [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVvYqD5EhSQ"]National Guard uses it[/URL], albeit in a less formal context. Travis Haley of all people recommended the use of airsoft for training (and [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87uj5_2hEGk"]oh god no orange tips we're all gonna die[/URL]). It's an extremely useful training tool and sport neglected by elitists who have grossly exaggerated views of the realism of simunitions (let alone tried to secure the budget to use them on even a semi-regular basis), and nobody keeps the orange tips, not recreational players nor police officers nor federal agents. Under most state laws it's legal (or at least a grey area), it carries no hazard if they're treated properly, and leaving the orange will earn you exactly zero seconds of hesitation if you pull it on a cop. .[/QUOTE] yeah airsoft can be used as a training platform but so can fucking lazer tag or paintball. I personally hate the airshit community because of idiots removing the orange tips because they think it gives them an absolutely insignificant handicap on a make believe battlefield or for the sake of realism with their plastic AKM bb guns. Taking the orange tip off is the equivalent of driving on a country road at night with no headlights.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;42696137]Taking the orange tip off is the equivalent of driving on a country road at night with no headlights.[/QUOTE] No it isn't, at all. Get over yourself. Removal of orange tips =/= being a fucking idiot. More than 90% of the airsofters who remove or respray the tips from their weapons for whatever ever reason they so desire do so aren't fucking idiots. Just because some 10% of dumbfucks remove the orange tips and then go and be dumbfucks does not suddenly equate a completely harmless visual modification being similiar to driving a large block of plastic, electronics, gas and metal at speed in a rural area with no visibility.

[QUOTE=Taggart;42696200]No it isn't, at all. Get over yourself. Removal of orange tips =/= being a fucking idiot. More than 90% of the airsofters who remove or respray the tips from their weapons for whatever ever reason they so desire do so aren't fucking idiots. Just because some 10% of dumbfucks remove the orange tips and then go and be dumbfucks does not suddenly equate a completely harmless visual modification being similiar to driving a large block of plastic, electronics, gas and metal at speed in a rural area with no visibility.[/QUOTE] I'll say this again and then I'll drop it forever in this thread. Since airshit companies are going to such extreme lengths to replicate actual firearms looks, removing the orange tip is removing the only thing that visually differentiates a toy and a weapon. If some dip shit gets shot and killed because of his idiocy, that cop has to live with killing someone that wasn't a threat and a mother loses her idiot son.

The point still stands. Differentiating an airsoft gun from a real gun shouldn't be an issue because airsoft guns should only ever be in the "public" eye at an airsoft site or in the comfort of someone's own home. Anyone stupid enough to open carry, wave around, and/or threaten anyone with an airsoft gun (orange tip or not, because at the end of the day, the orange tip on the end actually means pretty much dick all, considering you could paint a real gun's tip orange) deserves what's coming to them. It's unfortunate for whoever has to deal with them, and families involved, but it's ultimately their fault alone. Not the fault of airsoft companies for making their replicas actually good replications of real weapons, not the fault of police officers for being unable to tell a "plastic toy akm" from a real akm, theirs alone; for being stupid enough to do whatever it is that landed them in the shit.

Can we seriously stop getting our panties in a bunch over fucking airsoft weapons and get back to actual content? Jesus christ, if you're going to act like children why don't you go grab some of them yourself and duke it out between you.

Content? Content. [t]http://i.imgur.com/xUAEGiV.jpg[/t] The Vickers Medium Machine Gun. It may not be winning any beauty contests, it may not have the insane ROF of the MG42, it may not have the stopping power of the huge M2 Browning, but it's still cool in one pretty big way to me. This thing is a fucking tank. It just does not malfunction. In 1912, the British Army looked into adopting it for us. Current procurement rules stated that they had to know how long it would take for a gun to break down before they could adopt it. After 3 days of testing with it, they ran out of ammunition before a malfunction occurred, leading to the Army needing to get special permission to use it. On the 24th of August 1916, the British Machine Gun Corps 100th Company held off a German counter-attacking force at High Wood with ten Vickers machine guns for 12 hours straight. Twelve hours of sustained fire, stopping only to change barrels and ammunition belts. Two whole companies of infantrymen worked as carriers bringing water, food and ammunition to the gunners. They went through 100 barrels. All the water in the neighbourhood ended up being used to cool the guns. Over one million rounds of ammunition were fired in those twelve hours. Afterwards, all ten guns were still in perfect working order and hadn't suffered a single malfunction. In the 60s, the gun started to be phased out of service. In 1963, one armoury decided to do do the most exhaustive trial of the Vickers in history, because of the attachment people still felt towards it. 7 days and 7 nights of sustained firing. No bursts, they fired full belts of 250 rounds at a time. In that total time, they fired just under 5 million rounds of ammunition. The result? "At the end the gunpit was surrounded by mountains of boxes, belts, cases, debris; a large cleft had appeared in the stop butts where the bullets had destroyed the butts. We took the gun off it's tripod and back to the workshop. We inspected and gauged. No measurable difference anywhere. It had eaten barrels, they were changed every hour to 1½ hours, but mechanically [the gun] was unchanged." Goddamn indestructible.

[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;42696857]No bursts, they fired full belts of 250 rounds at a time. In that total time, they fired just under 5 million rounds of ammunition.[/QUOTE] [img]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spentshells01_741.gif[/img]

[QUOTE=Drury;42697169][img]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spentshells01_741.gif[/img][/QUOTE] More like [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5636656/tumblr_m5dcsdebMU1r9khx4o1_500.jpg[/img]

The Zumwalt left drydock recently [img]http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/10/29/1385801_599649906763559_1134575553_n_620x413.jpg[/img] hnng that dreadnought prow Also LCS because its pretty as hell [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce_(cropped).jpg[/t]

so they finally built the blocky floating monolith? i remember first hearing hype about it in some science magazine in like 2006ish

[QUOTE=Timebomb575;42699683]The Zumwalt left drydock recently [img]http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/10/29/1385801_599649906763559_1134575553_n_620x413.jpg[/img] hnng that dreadnought prow Also LCS because its pretty as hell [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce_(cropped).jpg[/t][/QUOTE] No railgun for that yet, right? [editline]30th October 2013[/editline] Someone's SHOT Showoff contest entry: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ctisoOa6Hk[/media]

[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;42696857] The Vickers Medium Machine Gun. [B]It may not be winning any beauty contests[/B][/QUOTE] Only reason for this being true is for being too damn beautiful to compete.

If you have water, ammo and a few spare barrels for the Vickers, you're able to fire for as long as you goddamn feel like it. It's in good ol' .303 British by default too, IIRC. Hell, a few countries actually keep a few in stock in case of emergency if I recall right. Now, for the manliest of vehicles, prepare for the Pink Panther. [t]http://www.adrianstomcat.co.uk/Military/PinkPanther02-05.jpg[/t] This fucking land rover would be driven along a runway, fucking shit up with those guns. The driver and gunners gave no fucks, they were SAS commandos. [t]http://www.adrianstomcat.co.uk/Military/PinkPanther01-03.jpg[/t] Pink is actually a great desert camo, and these vehicles rocked it. Later versions of these contained things like Carl Gustav recoilless rifles too, in case sheer dakka was not enough.

[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;42696857]Content? Content. [t]http://i.imgur.com/xUAEGiV.jpg[/t] Goddamn indestructible.[/QUOTE] i think its because the whole reciever is milled out of a massive chunk of steel instead of stamping, and the repeating action is very simple [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Lewis_Gun.jpg[/t] lets not forget its little brother, while not quite as indestructable, there wasn't a battle, ship, plane, or conflict that didn't have a Lewis gun in it, on it, or shooting at it

[QUOTE=Terminutter;42701229]If you have water, ammo and a few spare barrels for the Vickers, you're able to fire for as long as you goddamn feel like it. It's in good ol' .303 British by default too, IIRC. Hell, a few countries actually keep a few in stock in case of emergency if I recall right. Now, for the manliest of vehicles, prepare for the Pink Panther. [t]http://www.adrianstomcat.co.uk/Military/PinkPanther02-05.jpg[/t] This fucking land rover would be driven along a runway, fucking shit up with those guns. The driver and gunners gave no fucks, they were SAS commandos. [t]http://www.adrianstomcat.co.uk/Military/PinkPanther01-03.jpg[/t] Pink is actually a great desert camo, and these vehicles rocked it. Later versions of these contained things like Carl Gustav recoilless rifles too, in case sheer dakka was not enough.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lp2x6bx89ygjpg/original.jpg[/IMG] The LRDG and RAF painted their jeeps and planes that shade of pink to blend in with the sunrise and sunset which is when they usually did their raids. [t]http://static.tumblr.com/iyodnno/d9nmcl25r/13_steptoe_pink_cloud_sunset_1.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0105.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Griffster26;42702775] [t]http://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0105.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] There are over 500 [del]Navy Seals[/del] RAF planes in this picture. Can you spot even one?

[QUOTE=Griffster26;42702775][IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lp2x6bx89ygjpg/original.jpg[/IMG] The LRDG and RAF painted their jeeps and planes that shade of pink to blend in with the sunrise and sunset which is when they usually did their raids. [t]http://static.tumblr.com/iyodnno/d9nmcl25r/13_steptoe_pink_cloud_sunset_1.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0105.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] They were Recon planes (notice the complete lack of gun ports on the wings), and it wasn't just for sunset and sunrise, it was for flying just under the clouds because they actually have a pinkish hue.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;42703068]They were Recon planes (notice the complete lack of gun ports on the wings), and it wasn't just for sunset and sunrise, it was for flying just under the clouds because they actually have a pinkish hue.[/QUOTE] My misteak

Pink camo was also common in Russian armour. [IMG]http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2074/PinkTank20050326_2.jpg[/IMG] [I]T-34, carrying the markings from one of the Cherna Afshilev brigades, also known as the ChAvs[/I]

The lewis gun was also used in Star Wars. It was just the gun without the magazine, not even a bit of greeble on it. [img]http://www.customstarwars.freeweb.hu/film/sandtroopers.jpg[/img] This one look a bit more sci-fi-y though [img_thumb]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060725174361/starwars/images/3/3d/Light-Repeater_negwt.jpg[/img_thumb] Still an awesome weapon !

although completely original sci-fi guns can be cool, i'd love to see absurd/old/whatever weapons being used as energy rifles etc again

Well, I've tried to make a blaster out of a Luger in sketchup. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/J7HBtdY.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/vbAD6Z9.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/YDWJLOE.png[/img_thumb]

[QUOTE=Joazzz;42705243]although completely original sci-fi guns can be cool, i'd love to see absurd/old/whatever weapons being used as energy rifles etc again[/QUOTE] C96, MG-34, sterling, Lee enfield, and M-16 are all energy weapons in the Star Wars cannon.

How to activate a Japanese hand grenade: [video=youtube;tb1o4asc7go]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb1o4asc7go[/video]

but it's not a glock

Was that intentional with the Nambu? The suicide shot sounds interesting.

[QUOTE=Leo Leonardo;42729804]Was that intentional with the Nambu? The suicide shot sounds interesting.[/QUOTE] No of course not, was just a joke at how notoriously fanatical and suicidal the Japs were during WWII.

Sounds like quite the nifty design feature, then.

If you think having your gun go off if you grab it by the slide is useful, yeah.

Does the nambu also go off when dropped onto a hard surface?