Cooliest/Uglest Weapons v10 - FAL Pride World Wide - General

Sometimes the operators don't give a shit and sometimes the photographer don't give a shit. Like that one time an US SOF team got stranded at some military airport in Libya or whatever when the local soldiers snapped pics of the soldiers with their faces visible.

Also varies hugely from country to country, with the US being quite lax on it while the UK is very, very strict.

I would hardly call the fictional guns in MGSV wonky. They looked all functional. Only wonky looking thing I can recall being the long trigger guard on the SVG-76 (fictional AKS-74). And the amount of trigger discipline in MGSV was just fantastic. http://www.imfdb.org/images/c/cd/MSG5-MSR-1.jpg Far sexier than some bikini clad chick.

quiet was better in the unlockable XOF outfit anyhow

https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1014297833409785856 Not caring to much about the giveaway, but goddamn is that gun sexy. Brass n' Wood on an AR15 is so lovely.

The Canadian JTF/FOI 2 are also famously secretive, pretty much everything about them is officially classified. Oddly appropriate since their motto is Facto non verba, or "deeds not words" Also if we wanna talk special forces vehicles it would be remiss of me to not mention the Desert Rats jeeps https://i2.wp.com/charlesmccain.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sas-colonel-stirling.jpg Standard Willy's jeeps that have been packed to the gills with gear for long range operations, and fitted with two to three bren guns which themselves have high capacity drum magazines, or sometimes a .50 Browning.

Actually I don't think they used bren guns all that much. Most pictures including that one used the Vickers Gas Operated along with browning machine guns. Apparently they had a marked preference for the Vicker GO above everything else.

Those are actually SAS jeeps, and Vickers K aircraft machineguns, to be accurate. The LRDG used Chevy trucks https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Two_lrdg_patrols_meet5.jpg Bigger, heavier and longer-ranged than their SAS companions. Interestingly, the LRDG recruited in large part from the Royal Navy, since navigation in the desert is more akin to navigation on sea than on land.

Oh yeah, I forgot all about that thing, my bad.

And of course, me.irl http://i.imgur.com/DpQ9YJl.png

Did drums actually get made for the Bren? I imagine having that much weight on the top of a gun and spread out towards the sides would make it rather ungainly compared to the 30-round boxes

Yes, it was intended for an AA version with raised sights or vehicle mounts. http://www.cairdpublications.com/scrap/armbitguns/images/Bren%20Guns.jpg They weren't supposed to be moved around like the standard Bren, but since they made plenty of magazines, and the conversion peocess was very simply (just added on a bracket to rest the front of the drum on) they did show up elsewhere http://i.imgur.com/pIMPba9.jpg

http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/artiklar/fs/bilder/vickers_k.jpg The aforementioned Vickers K in ground configuration. Semi-bullpup design with the grip sort of below the front of the action, and the spade-grip replaced by a big ol' well-padded buttstock to make up for the fact that this clunky beast fires at 1200 rounds per minute, making it essentially a much more British MG42 in this configuration.

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1013800043877421056 Drones are now being used for carpet bombing by insurgent groups. Not gonna lie, pretty fucking intelligent. Now if only these groups learned how to use doppler radars, and create VT-type fuzes for artillery shells/bombs. Then we'd actually have something to be afraid of. That reminds me, is their any insurgent groups that have built ATGMs yet?

More importantly, when's a snail-mag a snail-mag and when is it a drum-mag? Is a drum mounted sideways a snail? What if you mount a pan sideways, does that become a seaslug? I have many mag-related questions, none of them wise. PS that drone looks awful and seems to have the accuracy of a very drunken darts-player.

Here's the way I like to see it: Box magazine, everyone knows one of these, bullets stack one on top of the other, sometimes staggered slightly to the left and right alternating Casket magazine, like two box magazines stuck together that merge into one at the top drum magazine, cartridges all arranged in circular or spiral pattern, all facing the same direction Helical magazine: as with drum magazine, but cartridges protrude forward/backward as they circulate Tube magazine: cartridges stack nose to toe Pan magazine: like a drum, only cartridges are perpendicular to the axis of rotation snail magazine: a box magazine with a drum magazine on the end, attached in such a way that both the box and drum are visible when inserted in a gun Swedish mistake magazine: similar to snail magazine, but with a helical magazine instead of a drum.

Then https://fn57sale.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ps-90-magazine-1.png what https://i.imgur.com/4DPy42B.png are https://i.imgur.com/jiragO1.png these? Trick question, the answer is magic.

Well if we wanna get technical: both the P90 and G11 magazines are box type, just with a rotary feed mechanism, and of course the P90 has the rotation built into the mag while the G11 relies on its internal clock. https://i.imgur.com/h2D9rjp.jpg The LMG11 is completely space magic. XRAIL and the SRM shotguns are both just multiple tube magazines stuck together. https://gastatic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SRM-1216-Second-batch-2.jpg The difference is of course just that the SRM magazine is actually integrated into the gun and doesn't require it attach onto the end of a normal tube, but the XRAIL has a spring loaded ratchet so it doesn't need to be manually rotated.

I'd agree that the SRM is just four tube-mags stuck together, but I'd argue that the xrail is slightly more than that, given the way it feeds and rotates and attaches to the 'original' tube. Also the SRM is reportedly one of the worst guns made in recent memory, but that's another discussion I suppose.

I thought that was the UTS. The way the XRAIL works is rather interesting, it is at its core just 4 tubes that attach onto the end of an existing tube, but they're spring loaded so when you deplete one tube it automatically rotates to the next. http://2ht1mik98ka4dogie28vqc4y.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/XM2XI-26-Benelli.jpg They also do a full length version in case you wanted a 26 round shotgun.

The G11 looks really unergonomic, are people sure the Germans would actually have adopted it given the cold war continuing longer than it did?

Yes. They probably would've just made better iterations of it later down the line, as is the norm for most firearm designs.

https://youtu.be/hiY1phT-nEQ https://youtu.be/KVRyY5QH9Lo Hard to say if they would have actually gone through with it, but what did shut down the project for Germany was the financial strain of reunification. The US Army canned the ACR program as a whole because they believed it was actually impossible to make a rifle that was significantly superior to the M16a2.

The 1216 called, and it's a cooler XRAIL. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/463/0fe2b384-199d-4827-9c60-4664de4d5275/image.png (the xrail is still pretty cool though)

https://twitter.com/AbraxasSpa/status/1014608365358600193 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhSthvXXUAEdoqX.jpg:large that clamp

So eventually none of these prototypes was futher developed?

Yeah, they all got canned.

There should be a meter for everytime the g-11 is mentioned

https://youtu.be/8dENYJbN1z4

how did any overly complicated future soldier program get as far as they do without someone saying the exact same thing. the problem I see is that our guns like the m-4 and most other nation's assault rifles are about as light as they can be and adding anything else to them like a computer driven sight, adds a massive weight for little to no reward