I fully expected the Sig MPX to win since it seems like the requirements were almost written for it and the fact that the B&T is probably the most expensive option. I still think the MP9 or a something like a Mk 18 would be a better pick for a close protection weapon, but the requirements disqualify folding stocks or anything that isn't 9mm.
Yeah the whole thing seems a bit odd, they agreed to buy 350 guns at over 7 grand a piece, and just going with a B&T gun at all seems weird, I don't think we've ever used a gun they made before.
To me this sounds like a very limited order. So the budget could have expanded due to that. If you are only getting a low quantity, might as well get some of the best.
Sig MPX may have had durability issues, just like a couple years ago where their recoil assembly would just absolutely fail and jam up the gun. Not to mention that the MPX has 2 patterns that do not exchange parts out in the market.
Not a bad choice, just that it sounds strange when a really expensive place wins over military's darling, Sig and when price usually dictates everything.
I'm really surprised that a company as small as BT won this contract up against giants like Colt, HK, and Sig. By their own accounts Brügger and Thomet has 70 employees and a single manufacturing facility in Thun, the APC9 must have made a pretty serious impression for the army to think it was worth the gamble. Admittedly 350 guns is a pretty small contract for the US Army, but considering how literally every attempt at adopting new equipment this century has gone it's kind of impressive they made a contract at all.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmMjW6Vl6m6/?utm_source=ig_embed
It is a cutie too, looks kinda like someone wanted to make an SMG version of the SCAR.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113069/3c471568-43bb-49d5-b26d-25d2c939beec/image.png
Bell YFM-1
The Dutch look like a mix between german GSG9 and French GIGN
https://twitter.com/africaken1/status/1114924307245883392
First time I've seen one of these in the wild
https://youtu.be/a-44H321Bsg
Very unusual lockup mechanism, and all things considered a rather cheap and simple thing to build.
If all these new 5.56 rifles are going short-stroke piston, there's gotta be some kind of impetus for the mass adoption of that operating mechanism type by world MIL/LE forces.
As in, companies wouldn't make them if there wasn't a noticeable demand.
This looks like a space gun.
Saw this on my Facebook
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2047407075327796&id=848433351891847
Great for when the Russians show up to your backyard bbq
https://youtu.be/qN-iNg7FCOs
Just in case you wanted to see someone shoot a Canadian machine gun in 8mm Mauser from the hip.
https://i.redd.it/7bvl6rsa88s21.jpg
Dutch DSI with an integrally suppressed Sig MCX in 300 BLK
that's unironically tacticool as fuck, that's badass
https://defence-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D4SZ-ayUYAAjIyp.jpg
JLTV with a Kongsberg LW30 RWS equipped with a 30mm M230 chain gun from an Apache, Javelin ATGM, and can also fit a Coax M240.
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https://homemadeguns.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/armskolkata.jpg?w=624
Craft produced rifle and RPG platform from Kolkata, India.
New Dutch camouflage patterns
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/114808/8770eda3-1bcd-4bb5-bb04-ea71e4256ec7/image.png
Huh? Is that like digitized Rhodesian brush?
https://magazines.defensie.nl/binaries/large/content/gallery/magazines/05-materieelgezien/2015/03/kpu-klankbordgroep/def-d150310bn1134-jpg
It looks more like a Flecktarn-ish pattern to me. It's called Netherlands Fractal Pattern. There's an arid version of it in multicam colors and a "transitional" pattern which is supposed to be for PPE like body armor and bags so that they don't have to issue those out in different patterns.
I love the B-25. We took a medium altitude medium weight bomber and turned it into a low level, wave top flying, attack plane to strafe and parachute bomb enemy ships/defenses.
https://youtu.be/yXJUg7Yv6AM
Anyone got a couple dozen thousand dollars? This cannon was made in 1897 and is still in firing condition, it's even being sold with a case of modern reproduction ammo.
https://twitter.com/TacticalChechen/status/1120690576637210625
https://twitter.com/TacticalChechen/status/1120695531259478016
https://twitter.com/TacticalChechen/status/1101201424589959169
https://twitter.com/TacticalChechen/status/1100609383036305408
https://twitter.com/TacticalChechen/status/1099238296000057344
Jihadis hailing from post-soviet states sure love their bullpup'd slavshit.
mosin nagant bullpup when
Mosin
Already exists
https://giant.gfycat.com/NearBlandKingsnake.webm
beaufighters fucking up german ships
god DAMN that's a LOT of bullets
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