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To use an expression 'everybody chooses their trade'. Back in the early 2000's the British Army started civllianising certain roles within units that were essentially 9-5. Instead of soldiers that were paid decently, they hired the cheapest civvies they could find, which were usually retired soldiers and eastern european immigrants.
Not at all. There weren't significant armories in the region and in general having massive stock piles dotted about isn't a practice that's common in the west as it was in eastern European nations. People can ship as many weapons as they want to a place, it getting there is a separate matter. In this case the IRA had a benefit of a considerable rough coast line and a generally sympathetic catholic Irish neighbor. You have the same thing with Ukraine, not so much the coastline but the sympathetic neighbors. Not to mention centralized organization. Most of the militias in the US are not only stand-off-ish but some of them actively beef with each other.
I don't buy his excuse that the low pressure training ammo means you don't have to worry about barrel life. These things recoil a shitload with the 80k PSI ammo and you can't train to handle that without a lot of practice with it, it's like saving on money by using a 10/22 to train for shooting an AK, it isn't going to give you habit in handling the recoil characteristics.
It is possible to make a weaker round that is ballistically equivalent to a stronger round, and they could have done that here. If so, you can use the training round for marksmanship practice as recoil doesn’t matter as much if you’re carefully lining up each shot. Articles taking about the NGSW ammunition types refer to the training ammo as “reduced range”:
“Reduced range” probably refers to something like this; a training round that follows the same ballistic trajectory the same as the real round until a certain point where it falls off in order to prevent accidentally hitting someone’s house a mile downrange.
That's just impossible. You can't stop people from posting on social media or talking about what their boyfriend/brother does in the Air Force at a bar. Moving military families out of the country, I mean at least someone in their close family must have a job right? Are these jobs going to be moved to Ramstein or Camp Bondsteel or is the US just going to take the economic hit?
I can't find the confirmation anywhere, but there's people saying the barrel material is going to be 32CrMoV12-10 (the stuff Rheinmetall uses on 30mm cannons) and diamon-like carbon coat rather than hard chrome. I think they're not advertising whatever barrel technology they're using because it's going to be like M855A1, they won't sell the high pressure ammo and the case design is going to be protected by patent so nobody's gonna clone it.
Whether the M5 goes the way of the M14 is really dependent less on the rifle itself, and more on the wunderwaffe Vortex scope that is a lot more clouded in mystery still. I think the whole "increase armor penetration" stuff is mostly meme/smoke on the part of the Army, but the real purpose of the switch is to extend the range of the weapon system to match the capabilities inferred by the new optic and change doctrine to match (at least, they are in theory). If this scope really does live up to the hype, it could be like slapping the Longbow on the Apache, in that they're creating a niche no other military currently has the capacity for. Where the average infantryman can reach out and touch opfor grunts way beyond their range, akin to the Egyptians popping Isreali tanks en masse with ATGMs in 1973. Basically, the rifle not being controllable in full auto is of secondary importance because of the accuracy boost from the new optics combined with the extended range means that doctrinally you shouldn't really ever be firing the thing full auto. If you need withering fire, that's what the M250 is for.
Vortex plans to sell the scope on the civilian market, so that can’t be it.
Yeah, that's pretty much what he does. Although I'm sure he also read those talking points in the army announcement/documentation for the new rifle.
Which doesn't get past the recoil characteristic, you don't get used to shooting a .44 by just practicing with a .22
Ergo it's M2 Ball again, but goofy.
I seem to remember the loaded round was not a clean sheet design from all competitors but rather the army handing them a proprietary bullet with a range and velocity requirement.
This.
That's literally the same idea as the M5 "practice ammo", too. The ammo is cheaper, and it helps soldiers train marksmanship without developing a flinch due to harsh recoil.
Is there a profit? Yes. Then the Cartels would and do give a shit. Hell just the other day there was a A&N article on some Yakuza fuckwad getting busted for trying to smuggle anti-tank weapons (AT4 IIRC).
I have no doubt that the more politically-connected cartels are likely sending kickbacks to anti-gun politicians in border states. Another AWB would be a boon to them, and if one were to happen, you can expect the black market to be flooded with Norinco knockoffs of all your favorite gats.
I'd love one of them norinco side folder kalashes
If there were so worried about barrel life, why did they make it so incredibly easy to change the barrel out with a new one?
Changing the barrel on a rifle is something that's done by a company level armourer (who will make a point of not telling you that he's fucked your zero). Changing the Barrel on an SA 80 which is not the easiest rifle in the world to work on, takes about 20 minutes in a workshop.
They wouldn't. Even if they would manage to turn a profit it would be a smaller and more risky profit than what they would turn from just dealing their narcotic of choice. Especially not to arm people that for years have been actively trying to (and mostly failing) fuck with their business. That's assuming they turn a profit, arms trafficking has been shrinking since the 00s, and the only reason it boomed in the first place is because all of a sudden you had all these post communist countries with weapons stockpiles that no one was keeping track of. Some 500k outdated and likely poorly maintained small arms lost in Afghanistan don't even compare to the millions of at the time modern and well stored small arms that flooded the weapons market during the 90s.
Oh i'm sure you can brute force the information out of sheer autism, this entire forum is built around that, but the issue is this. If they're out of country...what are you gonna do? Are you gonna go after their friends and family in country? I'm sure that will win hearts and minds.
