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White House directs officials to draft proposal to lift US sanctions on Russia
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The moron that tried used an AR-15 which shoots a tiny little bullet and not the appropriate calibre. If he had known anything about ballistics we wouldn’t be dealing with this.
That's what you get with a bad education system.
I was taught how to consider bullet velocity and trajectory by the government when I was 20.
You probably also were taught to use at least a 30 calibre bullet like the M21 (which is what the Secret Service used to return fire)
I wasn't being trained as an assassin.
Choosing the calibre wouldn't be my prerogative.
What we were shooting with was just 7.62. Which now that I check equates to a .30cal actually. Never knew that, huh.
I did handle some .50cals, but not a sniper rifle, and I don't know how sneaky I could be with a tripod mounted .50cal AA machine gun.
Tldr basic conscription but I did go the longer way voluntarily and am an NCO. I just recalled some basic ballistics lectures from your comment.
The AR bullet is less than one third the weight and much smaller than the 7.62 round which is why I said it was a shitty choice (and specifically why we still use Korea era armament to this day in the M 21, and 60, mini gun etc (NATO 7.62).
NATO 5.56 Is for ground troops and is designed more to incapacitate
7.62 and 5.56 is basically just a choice.
Thats what made us Finns joining NATO so hard (as in a side from all the politics and just practical matters), because we use 7.62 for all ground troops, especially because Russia uses it as well and wed like to be able to scavenge their ammo if they try any special military operations this way.
We've fucking tons of our own make of a AK variant, the RK. RK62 is decent but the sights are shit, RK95TP is awesome. That was my main weapon, had to keep a -62 for 2 months when I was in a poorer regiment for trainining. (Their boots sucked as well everyone from our brigade got a permit from the doc to wear holiday boots for normal service because they were just so much more comfy, like walking on air vs walking in glass.)
That 7.62 is not the same as NATO 7.62. The AK round has the diameter but not the length, weight or amount of gunpowder.
You are right that it doesn’t matter that much compared to 5.56, for a battle rifle, but NATO 7.62 is much more powerful and weighs a shitload more. It’s what I use to shoot 700m (and as I said above what US special forces still use as the standard sniper rifle M21)
Russia has been using 5.45 since the 70s (The ones with the brown magazine instead of black). I know the Czech SAR models were available in 5.56x45, 5.45x56, and 7.62x39 (NATO is 7.62x51)
You mean our RK 7.62 or the weird Russian 7.62?
I don't know that much about bullets tbh, it's been closer to 20 years since I was in the army. I do remberer practicing the operation and dismantling and reassembly of the most commonly used Russian 7.62 machine gun(can't remember named model whatever but I do remberer the sequence) and that cartridge was way bigger and kinda clunky but still a 7.62 bullet
Edit wait idk that its the most common but was common enough for us to train against
I don’t know enough about your weapons systems. I only know about US (and thus NATO) small arms and the subsequent AK variants up through the 90s. I have no knowledge of other countries’ squad weapons or larger).
I looked it up, nato round is 7.62x51, ours is 7.62x39
The Russian machine gun uses 7.62x54mmR
No knowledge of our squad weapons, so maybe not they much from the squads either. Perhaps... You'd enjoy watching some?
Taistelukenttä 2020 | Slagfält 2020 | Battlefield 2020
Some of it is in English but most is Finnish, some Swedish. Excellent CC no ai-generated shit. It's made by the FDF, Finnish Defence Forces. It's essentially a video of what would happen between an invasion if a.. cough cough Eastern neighbour, happened to attack.
Jeesus, I loved being in the army so much and my nowadays person who uses 95% English is such a different person from the person I was when doing my conscription, that I turned on the CC to check it's okay and every sentence gives me could chills for some reason. I know how to translate this obviously. But it's some weird clash between my English personality and Finnish 20y ago personality. Not bad. Good.
You don't have to be sneaky, just not fucking miss like the gormless cretin that last tried.
I mean, if you're not sneaky and you're setting up a .50cal turret where they're holding a speech from POTUS, I'm pretty sure someone would have some notes on that.
I mean I'm Finnish, not American and I do understand American gun culture is pretty liberal, but is it that liberal?
Edit but oh boy would I fucking love to open up on that cunt on a stage. CHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOKCHOK
But he missed because the bullet he used was too small and too light and didn’t have a proper ballistic trajectory
Also, don't aim for the head. Jesus. Aim for the chest.
And why only one shot? Keep pulling that fucking trigger.