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    The "Share A Bargain" Thread

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    3 hours ago, LMKipper said:

    Hmm the MG4 is a bit of a tempting brave pill 😂

    I thought the same but the wiring loom is missing and it doesn't say if that includes the little motor that sync's the gearbox. They also mentioned it had feeding issues before the loom disappeared which suggests someone has changed the gears messing up the timing that that little motor uses to sync the magazine motor. It could be an expensive wall hanger.

    The 'What have you just bought' Thread

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    59 minutes ago, Impulse said:

    Nowhere near as expensive as the NVGs there,

     

    I got the NVG's from Aliexpress and it was delivered for £566 which is about the price of a Tm NGRS. 

     

    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006816652648.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.29.136c1802fL5pMX

     

    The price listed is £649 but when I went to buy them they knocked off £100 at checkout. Not sure if this is for everyone but I wasn't going to complain.

     

    I'll try to stick up a video showing the quality (once it gets dark!)

    LCT AK Receiver question

    in Guns, Gear & Loadouts

    Posted · Edited by mightyjebus

    side mounts are usually bolted or riveted to the side of the receiver and can be drilled off. Wire stocks on AK's came in 4 versions, Romanian, Polish, Egyptian and Hungarian and all 4 are different. The Romanian and Polish look very similar but the difference is that the polish version used a button for folding whereas the Romanian one used a lever. The Maadi is similar to the Hungarian version but instead of a T shaped butt stock, had a triangle shaped piece of metal. There is more nerdy detail I could go in to but that's a general rule. One other thing to consider is all wire side folders were built on AKM's and not milled receiver AK's. 

     

    In airsoft you can find 3 of the 4 stocks as aftermarket parts (no one makes a Maadi)

     

    EDIT - I forgot to mention East German but these were just a copy of the Polish one

    Recommended quiet NBB pistols?

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    The Makarov isn't that quiet. It has quite a loud pop from the CO2. Quietest is the TM MK 23 with silencer attached. Used to run around Copehill at night and my giggling as I shot people was louder than the pistol. 

    If you fancy branching into small form factor rifles instead of pistols, I reckon you could make a TM VSR 1 pretty quiet.

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    Gun picture thread

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    fun project. Picked up a worn PTS Masada AKM from Strykerles with a few known issues. Originally it looked like this:

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    I stripped it completely down, removed all the old paint and replaced the micro switch in the gearbox which was goosed. Cerakoted the upper receiver with Magpul flat dark earth, put in a new front sight and replaced a few other bits. Turned out pretty good.

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    The King Arms FAL returns!

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    1 hour ago, ButcherBill said:

    It's been slated many times on here & on YouTube but pfft... I like it, would it last a match tho?

    The STAR/ARES SLR? I have both and both have done thousands of BB's over the years without a glitch. I've even fitted the full auto selector to one and again it's been bombproof. The company has a bit of a bad rep but outside people looking for youtube likes they aren't that bad. No better or worse that the bulk of AEG's. I have the King Arms Para FAL and it's no better or worse than the Ares apart from you are unlikely to get an external part from King Arms if it falls off and you loose it as their support game is weak.

    Well Pro XM5/M7 GBBR

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    20 hours ago, Rogerborg said:

     

    Frikkin lasers. They've been promised for decades, but have yet to appear as robust, man-portable units. Cold comfort to combatants in the field now.

     

    Shotguns are a known quantity, can be churned out cheaply in big numbers, and work in trenches and buildings too. It's what both Ukrainian and Russian troops are crying out for, and I think we should be listening to them, rather than gambling on a wunderwaffe countermeasure becoming available, let alone the decade or so it would likely take us to get it into the field.

    I don't think it will be lasers, too big, bulky and power hungry to be useful. Drones only need the shittest component on the board to fail for it to fall out the sky. A powerful enough signal could burnout a capacitor or resistor making the drone useless. The downside is anything else within range would suffer the same but I'd rather my radio popped than the AFV I'm in popping. It shouldn't take too long for a change in drone warfare due to the evolution in the drone world currently being 8 weeks. Every 8 weeks there is a branch on the evolution tree, good or bad and within 8 weeks another change.

    Well Pro XM5/M7 GBBR

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    The last 2 US service rifles didn't do too well out the block. The M14 being so bad it got binned quite quickly whereas the M16 went on to one of the best weapon platforms out there. The M7 will mostly likely be adapted however unlike the previous 2 it's not just a replacement weapon. You have integrated optics, 3 bullet variations with the high powered version able to penetrate level 3a/4 at 800 yards and it's suppressed to reduce the noise signature making it harder to pin point your fire position.

     

    The next war being planned is most likely China who's troops will be armed with body armour. The previous conflicts using 556 proved that 556 just annoys the bad guys when they are high on drugs, plus they fired from stand off positions making the 556 ineffective at range. The M7 with the high powered cartridge will overcome the body armour and lethality at ranges unseen on a modern general issue weapon. 

     

    On the topic of drones this problem will likely be solved during the Ukraine war. At a guess using electronic counter measures and the drones greatest strength is also it's biggest weakness. The ability to see your target and drive straight into it has been a game changer over traditional artillery (and the Ukrainians use the drone because they have limited artillery shells) however if you stop a drone from seeing then it's just another artillery shell. Once someone figures out how to blind a drone the threat will be reduced. If you think that this doesn't apply to fibre drone then I'm talking about the camera on the drone itself not the drone feedback to the operator and with the drone blind AI would be useless as well apart from predictive targeting based on the last known image

     

    Going back to the M7 and the 6.8mm round this will probably become the new NATO round simply because the US dictate which round is the NATO round. The fact that the British are looking to replace the SA80 with something in the 6.5 or 6.5 calibre suggests that moves are afoot to make the 6.8 the new NATO round. The 6.5 is probably a red herring (a bit like the EM1, good idea but shelved because the US wanted 7.62). I hope we don't try to make something ourselves as we have lost that skill and the skill fade is even bigger since we designed the SA80. It's probably best to go to someone who knows what they are doing (HK, SIG, LMT, etc) and just license build them in the UK.

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