Armas individuales y de escuadra

[poliorcetes]

Wanat es uno de varios ejemplos en Afganistán en el que las cosas no se pudieron hacer según el manual. Shit happens

[PelotonRueda]

Buenas.

Shit happens

Cierto, quizás fuesen esos tiros que desencadenaron el resto.

Saludos.

[MedalOfHorror]

Y yo, "deshomogeneización".

y yo, y yo...la putada que descolimar existe y es correcto (google is your friend). Pero vamos, yo tambien he escuchado que truir es antónimo de destruir ya que estamos...y no es coña

¿¿ ?? Pues en la BRILCAN el "elegido" que lleva la mira de 3x es la envidia de sus compañeros.

Pues vas y se lo cuentas al que literalmente me dijo "la mira que lleva es una p**a m**rda que no sirve pa naa" [sic], yo NPI, el G36 ni en museo...

saludos

[poliorcetes]

Hay un problema con los cañones pesados y otras protecciones térmicas, que es que pueden animar a los usuarios a ser más alegres con el gatillo. Por otra parte, en diseños derivados del AK se puede llegar a hacer arder el guardamanos y que la cosa sigue disparando. Eso sí, la temperatura de autodetonación o cook-off se habrá alcanzado y el disparo no será controlable.

Si finalmente los proyectos gringos concluyen y cambian de calibre, los G36 siempre se podrían emplear como arma de segunda línea o policial. Pero no se puede negar que es un diseño que ha envejecido mal por distintos motivos (diseño de cargador, palanca solidaria con el cierre, ópticas fijas, no hay cambio rápido de cañón, etc.). Los italianos tienen un diseño netamente superior con su ARX-160

[Scutarius]

yo tambien he escuchado que truir es antónimo de destruir ya que estamos...y no es coña

Bueno, por aquí también hay bastante gente (pero bastante) para quien "derriba" es el antónimo de "debajo" . Y vete tú a decirles algo.

¡Un saludo!

[poliorcetes]

Progresos sorprendentes del programa XACTO (munición dirigida del .50)

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... s-progress

DARPA’s Exacto Guided Bullet Makes Progress


The U.S. military has developed a self-steering bullet that can change direction midair to hit a moving target, and now you can see it in action.

The Department of Defense’s research agency, DARPA, releasedfootage on Monday showing the bullet, after completing a prototype in February, as part of DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program. Footage posted to DARPA’s official YouTube channel shows live-fire tests by an expert sniper and a first-time sniper. In both cases, the bullet course corrects in midair, speeding toward a target even if it’s not centered in the crosshairs. An optical guidance system enables the bullet to compensate for weather, wind and other factors that might push it off course.

DARPA hailed the results as the “most successful” live-fire test of the technology to date.

New technologies such as EXACTO and Tracking Point will benefit special operations first, but eventually the technology will become cheaper and it will trickle down and become more widespread.

CNN also covered the EXACTO project with a short video segment embedded in an article on their website.

- See more at: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... i1Xj9.dpuf

[MedalOfHorror]

oye!

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4073

[poliorcetes]

sorry. No me fijé en el hilo de DARPA

En cualquier caso, va más evolucionado de lo que se pensaba

[poliorcetes]

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... -defective

India Replaces All INSAS Rifles In “Red Zones” With AKs, Cites INSAS as “Defective”
Posted 3 hours ago in AK-47 / AK-74 / Everything AK, Guns & Gear, News, Other Gear & Gadgets, Rifles by Nathaniel F with 3 Comments
Tags: 5.56mm, ak, design-by-committee, india, INSAS, rifle

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The troubled INSAS rifle has met yet another stumbling block. Calling the rifle “defective, the Delhi High Court questioned the Indian Ministry of Defense’s and the Home Ministry’s issuance of the rifles, late last month, Indian Express reports:

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Home and the Defence Ministries on a PIL alleging that ‘defective’ INSAS rifles were being given to CRPF and other paramilitary forces.

A PIL filed by retired Lt Col Deepak Malhotra, who fought in the 1971 Indo-Pak and 1999 Kargil wars, has stated that the Defence Minister had informed Parliament in 2012 that indigenous INSAS rifles would be phased out by 2014, as they were “defective and outdated,” but nothing had been done so far.

The PIL alleged that the lack of new-generation rifles had “repeatedly resulted in death and injury to the brave Jawans of the Indian Army and para-military services” while fighting “well-equipped” Maoists and terrorists.

The PIL has asked the court to look into records of the “long-pending decision” to replace the rifles, and has sought orders to phase out the INSAS rifles and replace them with modern firearms.



The Indian Armed Forces use at least two other rifles besides the INSAS, the X-95 (a variant of the Israeli Tavor), and AK rifles in 7.62×39. In response to the High Court’s notice, the Home Ministry announced that all INSAS rifles in the Red Zone (an area in East India that experiences significant Maoist insurgent activity) would be replaced by AK rifles, while 50% of INSAS rifles in Northern Jammu and Kashmir – a region disputed by both China and Pakistan – would be replaced by AKs, as well. The Times of India reported on that announcement three days later:

NEW DELHI: In an effort to enhance CRPF’s capabilities in fighting Maoists in the Red zone and terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir, home ministry has ordered replacement of indigenously built but faulty INSAS rifles that the force uses with AK-47s. All INSAS guns used by the force in the red zone would be replaced by the AK-47 while 50% of the INSAS gun armoury in J&K would now have AK-47.

The home ministry sanctioned the procurement of guns two days ago following a demand from the CRPF which has been pending with the ministry for almost a year. The sanction, however, is partial fulfillment of CRPF demands. The force had sent a proposal to the home ministry last year for 100% replacement of all its INSAS guns with AK-47 rifles in Maoist areas, 50% in Jammu and Kashmir and similar grading percentage for various other theatres. “The sanction is location specific i.e. limited to Naxal-affected districts and Jammu and Kashmir. In rest of the country, the force will continue using INSAS. The decision has been taken according to the operational requirement of the force,” a senior home ministry official said.

Over 40% of guns used by the three lakh strong force currently are INSAS guns built by Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO). The development means procurement of over 67,000 AK guns at a cost of Rs 150 crore. While 54,000 AK-47s will be provided to forces in Naxal areas, about 13,000 will go to J&K. In its proposal, CRPF had said the INSAS gun gets frequently jammed at crucial times and is a danger to the life of Jawans during anti-Naxal and anti-insurgency operations. It had said that compared to AK and X-95 guns, Insas fails far more frequently. While the error percentage in AK guns is 0.02%, in Insas it is 3%. INSAS, however, has longer range (of firing) than AK 47. “But that can be compensated with other weapons we have. What we can’t afford is a gun jamming during an encounter. Thankfully, the government has realized that the lives of our jawans are more important than promotion of faulty indigenous technology,” a CRPF officer said.



India’s indigenous rifle has some very serious flaws in its execution. One TFB reader elaborated on the disappointing state of his rifle – which was brand-new. The general experience with the guns has been that they are loaded with superfluous features, are not very reliable or durable, and that they are expensive. This last I cannot confirm, as prices for Indian weapons are difficult to pin down, and it does seem that any INSAS replacement will most likely be more expensive. The Indian government is looking to replace the rifles with a foreign offering, but so far there is no word on how that program is developing.

- See more at: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... fMkX5.dpuf

[poliorcetes]

Más que interesante artículo sobre munición de infantería del siglo XX y el camino hacia un posible nuevo calibre. Interesantísimas aportaciones sobre los desarrollos franceses

http://quarryhs.co.uk/Toward%20a%20600% ... 0round.pdf

[poliorcetes]

Los pilotos holandeses se equipan con B&T MP9. Es un modelo que cada vez va ganando más adeptos, y posiblemente es lo más parecido que vayamos a tener en la OTAN a un PDW completamente funcional

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... thomet-mp9

[poliorcetes]

La mejor explicación que he encontrado del affaire G-36, por un militar británico en activo

From: Guardsman26 11-May 10:47
To: autogun (157 of 169)
6220.157 in reply to 6220.156
I've resisted making any comments on the G36 situation until now, but thought it might be helpful to the discussion to provide a few observations.

Schuersi has captured the essence of the issues very well in various posts: Fundamentally, H&K delivered exactly what the German MoD requested when the weapon first entered service in the 1990s. As he suggests, the problem is not that H&K failed in any way, but that the German MoD specified a low-cost weapon produced for a pre-agreed unit price. At the time, the intention was that the G36 should be good enough, not a Rolls-Royce. After the G11 fiasco, which had previously bankrupted the Company, the last thing the German MoD wanted was an expensive over-engineered weapon. So the G36 was designed to be simple and cheap. Period. Given the constraints placed upon H&K, what they achieved was amazing. The issues that have subsequently arisen were identified more than a decade ago, but were never perceived to be that serious. Anecdotally, I've heard various H&K engineers say that the G36 was conceived as an AK47 competitor not as a precision rifle. So it didn't need uncompromising accuracy, especially since the NATO standard SS109 5.56 mm ammunition was a 4 MOA round anyway. That seems logical, but I wonder whether this point-of-view was ever discussed with H&K or endorsed by the German MoD procurement team. Perhaps the German Government enquiry that has now been convened will find answers to this question?

Further problems with polymer-frame ARs surfaced again with the XM8. Of course, it wasn't until the Bundeswehr subsequently deployed to Afghanistan almost a decade ago, that the seriousness of the problem was fully realised. The truth is they never expected to use their G36s to fire 6-8 magazines in rapid succession during highly kinetic firefights. The corresponding level of performance required to deliver an operationally reliable weapon capable of supporting such intense use was never specified. You would need a much heavier barrel let alone a metal receiver and heat shields.

However, the story gets more complicated. What is not clear is whether H&K changed the formula of the plastic used in the construction of the weapon and whether they did this without telling the German MoD. According to some Press reports, H&K switched production to an inferior grade of recycled plastic rather than the special but expensive heat retardant polymer that they had originally specified. This would have certainly made the basic problem worse. If H&K did change the type of polymer used and didn't tell the German MoD and this was the cause of the weapon failure, then the Company has a lot to answer for.

Under the leadership of Ernst Mauch, H&K became a highly successful and profitable manufacturer of military and law enforcement firearms. It built a blue chip reputation with guns like the MP5, USP, and GMG. Mauch was also responsible for the G36. H&K's R&D department was second to none. The quality, reliability and longevity of its weapons were without equal. When BAE Systems owned the Company, they let it operate more or less independently and it generated significant cash returns for them. The high water mark for H&K was the successful re-engineering of the British SA80 L85A1 to produce the A2 version. Under Ernst Mauch, H&K would never have compromised on anything, so changing the polymer would have been anathema to H&K.

In 2002, H&K was bought by private financial investors. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the Company has since been saddled with increasing levels of debt. It presently has a high interest bond of €295 million on which it must may 9.5% interest per year. That's €28 million in interest sucking cash out of the Company every year. That was fine when H&K was turning over €200-€230 million per annum during the height of the Afghan conflict. With latest revenue estimates suggesting that 2014 sales are not much more than €150 million, the Company is unlikely to be able to make the payments due. Worse still, it has no profits left to reinvest in R&D, marketing and to replace depreciated assets. Indeed, in late 2014 the US Ratings Agencies (Moody's and Standard & Poor) suggested that H&K would default on bond interest payments this year. At the beginning of 2015, H&K borrowed a further €30 million.

So, if we have a situation where the company is struggling financially, it would hardly be surprising that management would have been forced to cut costs - by reducing raw material costs, getting rid of excess employees, by raising product prices etc. What is clear is that senior management's view of how the Company should be run has differed from that of the owners over the years. In February of this year, the CEO was fired, the previous CEO also left the Company under a cloud in 2011 and, before that Ernst Mauch, was fired in 2006. Now the majority shareholder, Mr Heeschen, has installed himself as CEO (despite being a banker with no experience working in the firearms industry). None of this looks good. With many customers worrying whether the Company will survive, the current financial situation at H&K is actually much more worrying than any problems with the G36.

Ironically, the G36 problem is easily fixed by changing the design of the upper receiver so that it incorporates a metal chassis beneath the polymer exterior so that the gun sight is effectively mounted directly onto the barrel. This is fine, but designing, implementing and validating such a solution will take time and money. Moreover, the HK416 is already a better weapon and is combat proven. It seems that the Bundeswehr wants the HK416, but saying that the G36 has failed may be the wrong strategy to acquire it.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/autogun/ ... g=6220.157

[Ramón]

Antes de nada deberían sentarse y preguntarse cuantas bajas talibán hicieron el día aquel que murieron tres alemanes al pisar una mina su vehículo y preguntarse como con 28.000 tiros no le dieron a nada.

[PelotonRueda]

Buenas.

Antes de nada deberían sentarse y preguntarse cuantas bajas talibán hicieron el día aquel que murieron tres alemanes al pisar una mina su vehículo y preguntarse como con 28.000 tiros no le dieron a nada

Te refieres a este suceso del dos de abril/10, porque a talibanes supuestamente no se cepillaron, pero a seis soldados del ANA se los ventilaron.

"...Militares alemanes mataron este viernes a cinco soldados afganos que se desplazaban en dos vehículos civiles, que no se detuvieron para ser identificados..."

"...Sin embargo, el gobernador de la provincia precisó que fueron seis los soldados muertos..."

"...Estos hechos se produjeron pocas horas después de que tres soldados alemanes murieran, y otros cinco resultaran gravemente heridos, en combates con la guerrilla talibán..."

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/04/03/internacional/1270271452.html

"...Après la mort de trois de ses soldats lors d'une attaque des talibans le vendredi saint, la Bundeswehr a tué par erreur six soldats afghans près de Kunduz..."

"...Ironie funeste: les soldats afghans avaient été appelés en renfort par leurs alliés allemands après l'attaque subie..."

·...les deux véhicules civils des Afghans sont rentrés dans la nuit..."

"...les voitures ne se sont pas arrêtées, et les militaires allemands, très nerveux, ont aussitôt ouvert le feu..."

http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/20 ... istan-.php

"...In April German troops killed six Afghan soldiers in a friendly fire incident..."

"...Gen. Murad Ali Murad, who commands the 209th Corps of the Afghan army, responded angrily when asked about the incident. "Any child can recognize Afghan army vehicles, and the Germans in particular, with their sophisticated technology, should have seen this. Anyone who claims that the Germans didn't make a mistake is a liar."..."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/friendly-fire-casualties-in-afghanistan-german-military-criticized-for-deadly-mistakes-a-697803.html

Y ahora que cada uno saque sus conclusiones, yo las tengo muy claras, la tecnología puede ser nublada por el miedo, y fundir la coraza del tanque apretando el gatillo llegado el caso.

Saludos.

P.D.: ¿ Quien dijo miedo ?,........y el muy cabrito estaba hasta las orejas de m..rda ...Y que conste que yo no estoy exento de ese mal.

[Orel]

AK-47 a cámara lenta: