• Coolest/Ugliest Weapons v7 - SHOTGUNS
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[QUOTE=Riller;50474697]Took me a good minute of looking at the magazine to realize the feed lips on the bottom was due to taping two together.[/QUOTE] I've seen that done by a lot of African militias. Don't do it. It's retarded.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;50474809]I've seen that done by a lot of African militias. Don't do it. It's retarded.[/QUOTE] When it comes to taping mags together (which i'm not a fan of in the first place), I much prefer the 'V' method, doing them side-by-side with the same end upwards, bottoms touching but a pencil or something laid in between as a spacer, giving a slight angle so the tops stay clear of the magwell. Doesn't require flipping, and causes less dragging exposed magazine-tops through dirt.
[QUOTE=Riller;50474831]When it comes to taping mags together (which i'm not a fan of in the first place), I much prefer the 'V' method, doing them side-by-side with the same end upwards, bottoms touching but a pencil or something laid in between as a spacer, giving a slight angle so the tops stay clear of the magwell. Doesn't require flipping, and causes less dragging exposed magazine-tops through dirt.[/QUOTE] Don't tape mags together. Just don't. It [I]triggers[/I] me.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;50474896]Don't tape mags together. Just don't. It [I]triggers[/I] me.[/QUOTE] I know this too. It's dumb and offers no real advantage with a fair bit of disadvantages. Just saying IF I were to do it, like I did back in my airsoft-days since I only had two mags anyway, that's how I'd do it.
I'm almost finished with the novel Caliban's War, and i'm really enamored with its description of the Martian Navy Marine Recon powered armor suit used by the character Gunnery Sergeant Roberta Draper. Syfy started a show adaptation of its series, The Expanse, and the author's twitter teased a couple photos last month of its representation in the show, but they're not much to go on: [t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ch9fxaKUoAAcs4A.jpg[/t][t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ch9mrBhVAAAv622.jpg[/t] It's described as working a lot like power armor from Fallout 4, being an unfolding multi-layered cage with armor plate assemblies affixed to the exterior. Its primary weapon is a three-barrel rotary cannon fixed to the right arm that fires up to 2000 reserve rounds of 2mm caseless armor-piercing or incendiary cartridges. The same book also includes a walker mech deployed to the surface of Ganymede which sounds a lot like the Peace Walker from MGS, and which might actually have good reasons to stand tall on articulated legs. As opposed to a traditional wheeled/treaded ground vehicle, the walker could pin itself to complex terrain in microgravity and use the height advantage to fire over the horizon of planetoids, asteroids, and orbital stations. But those are my guesses, and the authors have said they don't consider the series hard sci-fi anyway, so it's probably written like that just to sound cool. But its name is Yojimbo! and that's dope.
that whole series is a masterpiece. also i like to stack the books up in the corner of my room. the stack is like 2 feet high now and i only own like half the books. the descriptions of space-warfare are pretty brutal. like in one book their ship does get hit by an anti-ship missile and it basically turns the inside of the ship into a can full of shrapnel. in that series they basically use everything as a weapon, orbital mechanics, rocks, Inner-planetary balistic missiles capable of flying anywhere in the solar system undetected, rail guns, mass drivers, anything industrial, including the high power laser com systems which on military vessels are powerful enough to burn holes in small ships. every ship has ridiculous amounts of CIWS and high rates of fire because missiles are basically a guaranteed kill for everything under the massive battleships. the last book they put out though, holy fuck is it depressing. SPOILS BEWARE[sp] basically earth gets totally fucking destroyed for no reason, and basically 7 billion people are wiped out within days [/sp] and thats like 3 chapters in. [editline]8th June 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=DChapsfield;50475079] Syfy started a show adaptation of its series, The Expanse, and the author's twitter teased a couple photos last month of its representation in the show, but they're not much to go on: [/QUOTE] dude you're a bit late, the show premiered last november. season 2 is under production right now, its basically the biggest thing the scy-fy channel has had since stargate [editline]8th June 2016[/editline] [quote]Book 6: Babylon's Ashes:Orbit UK:[5] June 16, 2016 ([B]Orbit USA:[6] November 1, 2016[/B])[/quote] fuuuuuuck
So what, the rotary gun fires literal needles? Seems rather ineffective.
Fuckin F-104 [thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Lockheed_F-104A_of_the_83rd_Fighter_Interceptor_Squadron_at_Taoyuan_Air_Base,_Taiwan,_on_Sept._15,_1958,_during_the_Quemoy_Crisis_-_Operation_Jonah_Able.jpg[/thumb] [thumb]http://www.warbirdsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Lockheed_XF-104.jpg[/thumb] [thumb]https://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/F-104-checkered.jpg[/thumb] Interceptors are impractical but they are awesome. Very unsafe, very cool.
Speaking of The Expanse (which I really need to get the books for, as I loved the first season of the show), here's some pics of MCRN weaponry: [t]http://i.imgur.com/crfWls1.jpg[/t] MCRN Service Rifle (a spacegun'd APS UAR airsoft rifle) [t]http://i.imgur.com/atbQvDa.jpg[/t] MCRN [I]Tachi[/I] / The [I]Rocinante[/I] (Classed as a gunship) [t]http://i.imgur.com/UQI3tRi.png[/t] MCRN [I]Scipio Africanus[/I]
Love me some starfighters.
[QUOTE=Ilwrath;50475860]So what, the rotary gun fires literal needles? Seems rather ineffective.[/QUOTE] Depends on what the needles are made from and their impact velocity, since railguns and other high-velocity weapons exist in The Expanse, and just as well, it sucks big-time to get hit by any sort of high speed projectile in space, period.
[QUOTE=ScriptKitt3h;50475929]Depends on what the needles are made from and their impact velocity, since railguns and other high-velocity weapons exist in The Expanse, and just as well, it sucks big-time to get hit by any sort of high speed projectile in space, period.[/QUOTE] Sure in vacuum, yeah, but in atmos it sounds rather ineffective. You still have to remember that despite railguns in theory need much smaller projectiles, the smaller the projectile, the more velocity is required to fulfill the impact properties and energy parting of a larger conventional projectile. And since it is a rotary gun, I'm assuming it isn't a railgun since building a rotary railgun seems rather redundant. But, Sci-fi is always sci-fi, it just seems kinda funny to me, firing 2mm projectiles.
[QUOTE=Ehmmett;50476177][img]http://i.imgur.com/djYizQC.jpg[/img] can anyone tell me what is the point of / what advantages a square bladed knife has?[/QUOTE] Easier to machine which cuts down on production costs.
[QUOTE=Ehmmett;50476177][img]http://i.imgur.com/djYizQC.jpg[/img] can anyone tell me what is the point of / what advantages a square bladed knife has?[/QUOTE] prying instrument? chisel?
You can unscrew screws with it?
[QUOTE=Ehmmett;50476177][img]http://i.imgur.com/djYizQC.jpg[/img] can anyone tell me what is the point of / what advantages a square bladed knife has?[/QUOTE] It makes it much, much better at stabbing with little effort. Source: Deer Sex - Human Revolution.
[QUOTE=Ilwrath;50476171]Sure in vacuum, yeah, but in atmos it sounds rather ineffective. You still have to remember that despite railguns in theory need much smaller projectiles, the smaller the projectile, the more velocity is required to fulfill the impact properties and energy parting of a larger conventional projectile. And since it is a rotary gun, I'm assuming it isn't a railgun since building a rotary railgun seems rather redundant. But, Sci-fi is always sci-fi, it just seems kinda funny to me, firing 2mm projectiles.[/QUOTE] My best guess would be a 2mm cartridge would be some sort of high-density metal flechette (like tungsten or titanium) meant for ultra-light ammo loads in the same space as conventional loads. That's my best guess though.
[QUOTE=ScriptKitt3h;50477161]My best guess would be a 2mm cartridge would be some sort of high-density metal flechette (like tungsten or titanium) meant for ultra-light ammo loads in the same space as conventional loads. That's my best guess though.[/QUOTE] Yeah, kinda like a APDSFS round on a small scale. Good amount of mass behind a tiny point flying at high speed. Possibly made out of some exotic, super-dense metal too.
[QUOTE=Ehmmett;50476177][img]http://i.imgur.com/djYizQC.jpg[/img] can anyone tell me what is the point of / what advantages a square bladed knife has?[/QUOTE] Bigger weight distribution to the end of the blade so it's better at chopping? Tbh the point is probably rule of cool.
[QUOTE=Ehmmett;50476177][img]http://i.imgur.com/djYizQC.jpg[/img] can anyone tell me what is the point of / what advantages a square bladed knife has?[/QUOTE] My only guess is that if you're using it as a diving knife, you have a lesser chance of accidentally stabbing yourself with the point if you have to cut yourself free (if you got caught in a net or something).
[QUOTE=Sableye;50475682]dude you're a bit late, the show premiered last november. season 2 is under production right now, its basically the biggest thing the scy-fy channel has had since stargate[/QUOTE] Yeah, i know, i watched it back in December. And the photos [i]are[/i] from season 2 production... i just haven't seen anything posted in here about the show or books, thought they deserved some attention.
[QUOTE=Ehmmett;50476177][img]http://i.imgur.com/djYizQC.jpg[/img] can anyone tell me what is the point of / what advantages a square bladed knife has?[/QUOTE] Holy shit that knife is beautiful
[QUOTE=napalm_bomb;50475916]Love me some starfighters.[/QUOTE] Too bad, everything in the expanse is dictated by Newton's laws, so every ship is a box, except for the nuravo which is a box with a spinning drum [editline]8th June 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Ilwrath;50476171]Sure in vacuum, yeah, but in atmos it sounds rather ineffective. You still have to remember that despite railguns in theory need much smaller projectiles, the smaller the projectile, the more velocity is required to fulfill the impact properties and energy parting of a larger conventional projectile. And since it is a rotary gun, I'm assuming it isn't a railgun since building a rotary railgun seems rather redundant. But, Sci-fi is always sci-fi, it just seems kinda funny to me, firing 2mm projectiles.[/QUOTE] They do have different loads for different types of combat. I do remember her switching out to bigger guns for in atmosphere combat. The purpose of the 2mm is to put as many holes in the other dude as fast as possible and let space take care of the rest. The rounds themselves are dense tungsten so they have some mass behind them. In space you don't have to worry about spin stabilization, just ensure that the round leaves the barrel going straight [editline]8th June 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Ehmmett;50476177][img]http://i.imgur.com/djYizQC.jpg[/img] can anyone tell me what is the point of / what advantages a square bladed knife has?[/QUOTE] its for utility from what i can find. the square blade basically makes it stupid-proof since nobody is going to get stabbed with it, while at the same time, the thicker metal lets you make it rugged for cutting and other uses
[QUOTE=Ilwrath;50476171]Sure in vacuum, yeah, but in atmos it sounds rather ineffective. You still have to remember that despite railguns in theory need much smaller projectiles, the smaller the projectile, the more velocity is required to fulfill the impact properties and energy parting of a larger conventional projectile. And since it is a rotary gun, I'm assuming it isn't a railgun since building a rotary railgun seems rather redundant. But, Sci-fi is always sci-fi, it just seems kinda funny to me, firing 2mm projectiles.[/QUOTE] A small fast projectile does have a higher energy density than a large slower one, even though they both have the same specific energy. The smaller projectile will as a result impart its kinetic energy to a smaller area when it hits something, which would probably give it better penetrative capabilities. Its the same principle that long rod penetrators in modern tanks use. Maybe in the future personal armor technology has advanced to the point where sub-caliber munitions are more practical than full size ones. Beats me how they keep a 2mm projectile stable and low drag though. Maybe its like a really thin, long arrow.
[QUOTE=mecaguy03;50481639]A small fast projectile does have a higher energy density than a large slower one, even though they both have the same specific energy. The smaller projectile will as a result impart its kinetic energy to a smaller area when it hits something, which would probably give it better penetrative capabilities. Its the same principle that long rod penetrators in modern tanks use. Maybe in the future personal armor technology has advanced to the point where sub-caliber munitions are more practical than full size ones. Beats me how they keep a 2mm projectile stable and low drag though. Maybe its like a really thin, long arrow.[/QUOTE] Well kinetic energy is 1/2*mv^2, increasing velocity gets you a better return than increasing mass, also mass is heavy and if you are the martians who need to project force across the solar system, mass is critical, so you can transport more bullets for the same weight The other thing is that the Martian Marines only do close quarters fighting (where 2mm wouldn't punch through the hull plating) and Eva fighting where drag isnt an issue so it makes sense in that way. There's no massive open battlefields like on earth, everything is inside or in vacuum
[QUOTE=mecaguy03;50481639]A small fast projectile does have a higher energy density than a large slower one, even though they both have the same specific energy. The smaller projectile will as a result impart its kinetic energy to a smaller area when it hits something, which would probably give it better penetrative capabilities. Its the same principle that long rod penetrators in modern tanks use. Maybe in the future personal armor technology has advanced to the point where sub-caliber munitions are more practical than full size ones. Beats me how they keep a 2mm projectile stable and low drag though. Maybe its like a really thin, long arrow.[/QUOTE] Indeed, but thin long rod projectiles in small arms are still at odds when damaging a soft target like human as the main cause of internal damage apart from the projectile perforating matter is the deformation, yawing, and fragmenting of the projectile inside the target, thus increasing the volume of damaged tissue (and increasing odds of damaging vital organs and causing massive internal bleeding), and long rod projectiles rarely yaw or deform enough to shatter or split, as has been, and is evident, from the use of flechettes in prototype weapons and shotgun shells. But, like I said, it's all fun and games, and like Sableye pointed out, they seem to use the tiny rounds in space, where it makes sense since rupturing opponent's suit in space is the main goal.
[IMG]http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/djjqeLd-1.jpg[/IMG] RPK-400 Note the belt-in-box resting beside it, sporting a mounting bracket clearly designed to fit inside an AK-spec magazine well and the underbarrel gas tube which is unlike most AK variants.
Maybe I just don't get it but every ak variant just looks like an ak with something stuck to it I know this isn't a very widely held opinion on this thread though
I don't think anyone's going to fight you on that. Because the entire point of a variant is that it's a variation upon a design. It's just that some people find certain variations of the AK nicer to look at than others.
[QUOTE=Sableye;50491847]Maybe I just don't get it but every ak variant just looks like an ak with something stuck to it I know this isn't a very widely held opinion on this thread though[/QUOTE] Not every one [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Vector_cr-21.jpg[/t] The Vektor CR-21 is surrounded by so much polymer it's practically impossible to tell there's an AK hidden underneath until you disassemble it. [t]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X7_hIdr7L_c/UFOphcNRMaI/AAAAAAAAAIU/iHIwXFKfSg0/s1600/vektor_cr21_l2.jpg[/t]
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