It doesn't sound like a bad idea.
They don't have to get right up to the building to breach it.
[QUOTE=professional;16326471]Wut?
Improvise, overcome and adapt is the order of the day of course, but I seriously doubt they'd resort to that unless they're somehow running low on shape charges.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, but I think he meant blowing in outer walls of compounds and things, at a distance. It seems more plausible that way.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV6;16326857]It doesn't sound like a bad idea.
They don't have to get right up to the building to breach it.[/QUOTE]
Isn't what they always do in Afghanistan?
Blow up the mud walls of a 'town' and send in the troops?
[QUOTE=angelangel;16326971]Isn't what they always do in Afghanistan?
Blow up the mud walls of a 'town' and send in the troops?[/QUOTE]
Pretty much. It's the only safe way of getting into a compound without risking enemy fire or booby traps.
[QUOTE=professional;16328272]Pretty much. It's the only safe way of getting into a compound without risking enemy fire or booby traps.[/QUOTE]
That was the word I was looking for, "compound", those Afghans and their mud/sand compounds.
This isn't really firearms related, but I guess the people that might know would be in this thread, Also it isn't worth it's own thread.
Why do the British always have paintbrushes whenever I see a picture of them in Afghanistan? It's in their chest webbing or whatever you call it so it's at hand easily.. but why? Unless we plan to paint a mural mid battle to inspire the men?
[QUOTE=Tucks;16331401]This isn't really firearms related, but I guess the people that might know would be in this thread, Also it isn't worth it's own thread.
Why do the British always have paintbrushes whenever I see a picture of them in Afghanistan? It's in their chest webbing or whatever you call it so it's at hand easily.. but why? Unless we plan to paint a mural mid battle to inspire the men?[/QUOTE]
Are you sure they are paintbrushes?
I know they carry glowsticks to mark possible IED locations, its easy for Engineers to find later, or other troops to avoid the location.
Real men call them chem lights.
[QUOTE=GunFox;16331642]Real men call them chem lights.[/QUOTE]
Well Rambo called them blue lights :P
That lines funny :)
Do the .44 Auto Mag
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lmao
[QUOTE=Tucks;16331401]This isn't really firearms related, but I guess the people that might know would be in this thread, Also it isn't worth it's own thread.
Why do the British always have paintbrushes whenever I see a picture of them in Afghanistan? It's in their chest webbing or whatever you call it so it's at hand easily.. but why? Unless we plan to paint a mural mid battle to inspire the men?[/QUOTE]
Maybe it's for cleaning their firearms? I'm not sure
[QUOTE=HarryLerman;16339647]Do the .44 Auto Mag
[editline]01:55AM[/editline]
lmao[/QUOTE]
That's an [b]excellent[/b] firearm indeed
The Desert Eagle of its time, plus jamming issues due to its mechanism and bad ammunition
[QUOTE=Fishyfish vz. 3;16339680]That's an [b]excellent[/b] firearm indeed
The Desert Eagle of its time, plus jamming issues due to its mechanism and bad ammunition[/QUOTE]
It's a semi auto .44 magnum! It's the deadliest gun in the world!
[QUOTE=HarryLerman;16339749]It's a semi auto .44 magnum! It's the deadliest gun in the world![/QUOTE]
Semi auto?
[QUOTE=HarryLerman;16340030][URL=http://www.cubeupload.com][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/b8c800lool.png[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE]
Since when do .44 magnums require a power source
78)NSV
[img]http://world.guns.ru/machine/nsv_01.jpg[/img]
Named after its three inventors Nikitin, Sokolov and Volkov the NSV picked up where the DShKM left off.
It was developed in the late 1960's as a lightweight replacement for the aging Dooshka weighing in at about 100 kilos less. Specifically 41 kilo with a tripod and 50 rounds of ammo (that stuff is not light) or 25 kilo for the gun itself. Although to be fair it isn't attached to a freaking trailer which I imagine would help. Either way now the Red Army had a heavy-caliber MG that one guy could pick up with his hands. Thus it was officially adopted in 1971.
When it comes to the overall proliferation of this weapon it is used by basically everyone who uses soviet bloc equipment. The biggest sellers of the NSV were Russia's various tanks. The NSVT to "Tank" version is designed specifically to be mounted on a vehicle. But the portable version tends to follow in its wake. Currently it is used, as I said by all of the countries that use soviet pattern equipment. We're talking countries like Finland, the Baltic states, the "Stans", Eastern Europe, the Middle East, much of Asia, Africa and also Cuba.
Of all the countries it served in it was manufactured in India, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and don't forget about Poland. While it exemplifies everything that is Russian about a weapon the factories that actually made it are located in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Thus while it was originally made in the USSR it was never made in Russia. When the USSR broke up in 1990 this put what was left of the Russian army in a bind since the factories that make their heavy caliber machine guns are now in other countries.
This is why Russia replaced it with the Kord.
While no longer officially used by its motherland (although thousands of NSVs were left over and still se some use) the NSV is still remains pretty much the standard heavy-caliber soviet-bloc machine gun around the world.
Nice.
Did they commonly come fitted with scopes?
I'm actually now sure how common the scopes are. Probably not all that common.
[QUOTE=Fishyfish vz. 3;16340065]Since when do .44 magnums require a power source[/QUOTE]
Since they fire .44 megawatts of energy
[QUOTE=ghuh;16341233]Since they fire .44 megawatts of energy[/QUOTE]
Yea-nooooooo...
Do some on tanks please!
Preferably T-34 etc.
[QUOTE=Squeaken;16365721]Do some on tanks please!
Preferably T-34 etc.[/QUOTE]
Only really good because it was used in numbers. Otherwise it was a piece of crap (quality wise).
Ok, as far as small arms go what should I do next?
Someone mentioned the PTRS rifle a while ago.
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79)PTRD
[img]http://www.geocities.com/tpatcher_2/Images/PTRD1941.gif[/img]
Way back during the inter-war years (between WW1 and 2) Russia was trying to develop an anti-tank rifle, something for which the DShK round wasn't good enough. The result of these trials and errors (many, many errors) was not a gun, it was a boolet.
And a pretty damn big one.
The 14.5x114mm is the mother of all small arms rounds. In fact it is borderline artillery. It packs as much as twice the punch of .50 BMG which itself is a colossal cartridge. And it needs to, since it is meant to take on the armor of a German tank. To be fair, it wasn't meant to blast through the front but it was designed to knock out a tank by penetrating the side or rear armor, sometimes scoring a fatal hit on the crew or destroying the engine. With the bullet designed a contract was put out to make a gun to fire this bullet out of. Pretty much every soviet firearms designer who was anyone made and submitted a concept. Two were adopted.
The first is the PTRD, designed by Degtyaryov and adopted in 1941 is a very simple weapon indeed. Essentially it is a barrel which is almost as long as most people are tall with a single-shot action which is closed by a bolt. Attached to this barrel are a pair of rudimentary sights, a fat muzzle brake, a bipod, a trigger, a carrying handle, a pistol grip and a stock. In all this thing weighs in at a honking 17.5 kilos. That's roughly 35 pounds. In fact it is so massive that it is meant to be served by a crew of two. It is accurate (as well it should be) but what is important to note is that while it is a marksman's weapon to be sure (you certainly don't want to miss with it) this isn't a sniper rifle like the Barrett. It wasn't meant to be used to snipe people at incredibly long range. It was meant to snipe certain parts of tanks at close range.
While it was effective at first since small crews could easily sneak up to just about any German tank and knock it out the Germans soon adapted to these attacks by fitting "Skirts" onto their tanks, all of which had them by 1943. These "Skirts" were relatively thin pieces of armor that protected the main armor from such small arms fire and indeed were effective against some heavier artillery as well. But while this signaled the death-knell for such elephant guns it wasn't the end. Throughout the war it was used against lightly armored vehicles and targets. It was also used to reap havoc on unarmored supply lines.
But it was inevitable that with the advent of better armor after the war these things essentially became useless.
They were withdrawn from service in 1945 and pawned off to Russia's allies which occasionally faced forces which still used WW2 era tanks although the caliber remained in service for the KPV AA and vehicle-mounted machine gun. A number were used by North Korea and China during the Korean war. One was captured and re-chambered to .50 BMG in what became essentially the first experiment in a large caliber sniper rifle. Thus while the PTRD itself isn't really the kind of big-caliber sniper rifle we think of today it was the genesis of this entire class of weapon, largely by accident.
[QUOTE=Bean-O;16321739]
One notable factoid is that the expended launchers can occasionally end up in the hands of collectors. Since they cannot be reloaded the laws of many countries allow civilians to own them as collector's items without any paperwork, but it is still technically a "rocket launcher" even if it cannot be reloaded and re-used so the expended launchers remain illegal in some law jurisdictions. Nevertheless they are a popular collectible and they make an interesting conversation piece.[/QUOTE]
OH CRAP!
I better hide my M7A2
Pic of my brother posing with it:
[media][IMG]http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e30/NaboeN/kimogpvrk015.jpg[/IMG][/media]
[QUOTE=Bean-O;16340757]78)NSV
Sokolov ...[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/mgs3/english/pic/chara_sokolov_pic.gif[/img]
[B][I]SHAGOHOD![/I][/B]
L85A2 would be nice. Its not that new either, A1 version (which is absolute crap) 1985, A2 version, 1997. As long as you do the A2, I cant see why it doesn't qualify. Despite the haters.
Andy Mcnab is a former SAS operative. Famous for being part of Bravo Two Zero along side people like Chris Ryan.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fcCaIOgB-U[/url]
[QUOTE=Bean-O;16340757]78)NSV
[img]http://world.guns.ru/machine/nsv_01.jpg[/img]
Named after its three inventors Nikitin, Sokolov and Volkov the NSV picked up where the DShKM left off.
It was developed in the late 1960's as a lightweight replacement for the aging Dooshka weighing in at about 100 kilos less. Specifically 41 kilo with a tripod and 50 rounds of ammo (that stuff is not light) or 25 kilo for the gun itself. Although to be fair it isn't attached to a freaking trailer which I imagine would help. Either way now the Red Army had a heavy-caliber MG that one guy could pick up with his hands. Thus it was officially adopted in 1971.
When it comes to the overall proliferation of this weapon it is used by basically everyone who uses soviet bloc equipment. The biggest sellers of the NSV were Russia's various tanks. The NSVT to "Tank" version is designed specifically to be mounted on a vehicle. But the portable version tends to follow in its wake. Currently it is used, as I said by all of the countries that use soviet pattern equipment. We're talking countries like Finland, the Baltic states, the "Stans", Eastern Europe, the Middle East, much of Asia, Africa and also Cuba.
Of all the countries it served in it was manufactured in India, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and don't forget about Poland. While it exemplifies everything that is Russian about a weapon the factories that actually made it are located in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Thus while it was originally made in the USSR it was never made in Russia. When the USSR broke up in 1990 this put what was left of the Russian army in a bind since the factories that make their heavy caliber machine guns are now in other countries.
This is why Russia replaced it with the Kord.
While no longer officially used by its motherland (although thousands of NSVs were left over and still se some use) the NSV is still remains pretty much the standard heavy-caliber soviet-bloc machine gun around the world.[/QUOTE]
Thats a KORD not an NSV
[QUOTE=Bean-O;16340757]78)NSV
[img]http://world.guns.ru/machine/nsv_01.jpg[/img]
Named after its three inventors Nikitin, Sokolov and Volkov the NSV picked up where the DShKM left off.
It was developed in the late 1960's as a lightweight replacement for the aging Dooshka weighing in at about 100 kilos less. Specifically 41 kilo with a tripod and 50 rounds of ammo (that stuff is not light) or 25 kilo for the gun itself. Although to be fair it isn't attached to a freaking trailer which I imagine would help. Either way now the Red Army had a heavy-caliber MG that one guy could pick up with his hands. Thus it was officially adopted in 1971.
When it comes to the overall proliferation of this weapon it is used by basically everyone who uses soviet bloc equipment. The biggest sellers of the NSV were Russia's various tanks. The NSVT to "Tank" version is designed specifically to be mounted on a vehicle. But the portable version tends to follow in its wake. Currently it is used, as I said by all of the countries that use soviet pattern equipment. We're talking countries like Finland, the Baltic states, the "Stans", Eastern Europe, the Middle East, much of Asia, Africa and also Cuba.
Of all the countries it served in it was manufactured in India, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and don't forget about Poland. While it exemplifies everything that is Russian about a weapon the factories that actually made it are located in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Thus while it was originally made in the USSR it was never made in Russia. When the USSR broke up in 1990 this put what was left of the Russian army in a bind since the factories that make their heavy caliber machine guns are now in other countries.
This is why Russia replaced it with the Kord.
While no longer officially used by its motherland (although thousands of NSVs were left over and still se some use) the NSV is still remains pretty much the standard heavy-caliber soviet-bloc machine gun around the world.[/QUOTE]
How bad is the recoil? I mean if a guy is gonna jam his eye over that scope and go full auto, won't the scope just snap back and blind him?
I've heard about it happening with RPGs but I am curious if it applies to machine guns.
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