Why are the dudes in the pics fourth and fifth from the bottom wearing airsoft-mesh-masks? At least the one with the helicopter in the background I have a hard time imagining actually being an airsofter.
Face protection for using simunition rounds. Another good pic (and discussion) here.
SAS has been using it to conceal their identities in public. Some people find them to be more comfortable and easier to put on than a balaclava. They're also used in simunition training.
I love these old style weapon ads
https://youtu.be/xqDgn-qXr0E
Because mixtape doesn't check uploads for viruses.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113069/9865f239-0fca-4ce1-8569-f560a9e588c3/image.png
is there some context on this?
It's a very tiny observatory, looking at very tiny stars
Some googling is telling me it's from the Athens War Museum. A gun emplacement that hasn't been buried perhaps?
https://youtu.be/QN1uUfMCQ0Y
The classic. Such an interesting blend of ideas that were very backwards and ideas that were very forwards. It's got a great compensator and an automatic bolt hold open, but at the same time it has two separate magazine catch mechanisms and a lockup that literally doesn't work.
A Fahrpanzer road-mobile turret with 53 mm gun at the Athens War Museum
its apparently a turret with a 53mm cannon that would be rolled out for defensive actions and could be repositioned to avoid bombardment. Its not entirely clear if it was meant to be removed from the carriage when deployed or if the carriage was integral to the setup
Well, while we're talking about strong things at war museums, this one is from Finland's military museum in Helsinki:
https://i0.wp.com/www.forgottenweapons.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/suomiflame.jpg
Apparently in 44 they came up with an idea to make flame troopers less vulnerable by mounting the flamethrower underneath a standard KP31 SMG. Was field tested but never produced, the one at the museum is the only surviving example.
that really just looks like one of those propane torches strapped to a gun
https://youtu.be/iSEMz3iaSxo
I uh... confused.
I actually really want one. Something in a small calibre would make a cool pig gun here in Oz. Maybe a double barrel pump-action rifle would be even better.
He mentions bolt-action over/under... How the actual heck would that work? Bolt setup same as shown here, I'm sure, but magazine? Side-mounted? Internal? How!
https://youtu.be/KsrURKTt5_w?t=954
You can see it in action here, side mounted mag (~16 minutes in). Plus about a minute later it also shows another weird action designed by him.
if you're moving to rear locking lugs why not do side by side over under while we're at it.
I'd go and take more pics but sadly the museum has been closed since 2016 due to water damage to the premises? They had to move the collection into storage and they currently don't have a new place to set up into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI_nO4OmCBg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/553/b6e4ad30-7c9c-4f83-9803-fc7a75faa7c0/chrome_2018-10-07_16-41-39.png
I mean I guess it works all the same, but did not a single person say "hey I think that front flip-up sight might be on backwards"?
If you look at photos of Czech soldiers you'll find that many of them have it on backwards as well. I guess nobody really cares.
one guy probably did it wrong, told a bunch of other guys to do it his way and it snowballed.
https://i.imgur.com/ZpQ6Ibr.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1P5VJwD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/pVOx8E7.jpg
80s USMC Force Recon and Navy SEALs
It might be a decision that folding it forwards instead of backwards puts it less in the way?
Maybe I'm just the clueless one here, but does it actually matter which way the sight is facing? As long as the front post is towards the front and the rear notch is near the back and they're both lined up down the central axis shouldn't it work?
It's definitely on the right way, the CZ Bren is an FN Scar copy, and the Scar front sight folds forwards, so that's how it's supposed to be. QED.
Rear sights can have orientation, since the peep hole might have a conical or other shape to help 'guide' the eye more easily, and adjustment-dials facing the operator is generally beneficial. Front sights, however, do not really have orientation, so if you want to fold it the other way around, there's nothing stopping you.
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