>>512 Did they say anything about rifle grenades?

>>514 The article neglected mentions of it but the MoD and JSDF PR guys talked about how the Berreta GLX-160 Under Barrel Grenade can be used in conjunction with the Type 20. I doubt that the UBG will replace the rifle grenade in JSDF service anytime soon, since it took like 30 years to replace the Type 64 with the Type 89 from front-line service. If anything, if rifle grenades are incompatible with the Type 20, they'll be put into storage for use by the Maritime and Air JSDF, probably for base defence, and maybe it'll be issued to the reserves who still use the Type 64 in some army groups. just realised that TFB had a article up that I could have copied... https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/05/18/first-look-japanese-armys-new-type-20-rifle

>>519 It's just strange that they adopted a rifle grenade in 2006 specifically saying that UGLs are not good enough, only to adopt one a mere 14 years later. Still, it looks like the muzzle device has the gas rings to launch rifle grenades, but that doesn't mean that the rifle is actually designed to fire them regularly. Anything about the bayonet? Is it new or the same old one?

>>525 They're using the Type 89 bayonet still

So Nips went SCAR route with their !notAR18 copy it would seem. Pistol looks like a copy of that Croatian gun that S&W imports and renames could be wrong though, kinda face blind with striker fire polymer pistols.

>>540 It looks like they mashed everything that went into the trials together.

So hows going the NGSW projects going? https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/04/20/vortex-awarded-ota-for-the-us-armys-next-gen-squad-weapon-fire-control-prototype-program/ >Vortex Optics have announced that they have been selected to deliver production ready prototypes of their NGSW-FC optic for trials and evaluations. An OTA is a Department of Defense contract for the development of prototypes, research and production projects. It appears that the optic will be used during the upcoming Soldier Touch Point (or STP) evaluations which see troops use the rifle in field conditions and deliver user feedback. >It is currently unknown if Vortex are the only company to be issued a prototype OTA or if other Fire Control prototypes from other companies will also be evaluated. >It is a variable-power, first focal plane rifle scope that is augmented with an overlaid digital display with what the company describes as ‘Active Reticle™’ which they say “has been proven to increase hit percentage and decrease time to engage”. >Active Reticle achieves this by combining data from a laser rangefinder (with a range up up to 1km), an on-board ballistic engine/calculator and an atmospheric sensor suite which calculates where to aim at a target and then projects this onto the first focal plane using a “programmable active matrix micro-display”. https://www.armadninoviny.cz/utocne-pusky-pro-americke-specialni-jednotky.html Sorry I wasn't able to find a good English information

>>565 Is the sight supposed to be a combination rangefinder/variable power scope? Seems pretty fucky. I know riflescopes can be pretty sturdy with a good mount, but I can't see the electronic elements of this lasting longer than a year in rough conditions.

And here you have some photos of the ngsw-ar's

>>565 I know that SIG's idea is that it's easier to extract a steel-brass hybrid than a pure steel case, but I still can't help but find it to be overall quite retarded. As for GD, if then can make it work then this cartridge seems to be a safe bet. And Textron's cartridge has still too many question marks about it to make a judgement as a layman, yet I can already tell that their rifle is plain retarded. I also have to wonder if the first two are straight-walled or not. If yes, then a P90 style magazine could work wonders, especially with the bullpup. Textron's case is already perfect for that kind of magazine.

>>565 >>568 >>573 Think i’ve been playing a lot of 40k recently because that reminds me of a lasgun.

>>573 Just to be clear, these aren't official. They were made by some Chinese guy on Pixiv from what he could figure out from the patent drawings.

>>565 I just want telescoped polymer 5.56 for civilian use. they should go with that ammunition but put in in a bullpup to piss everyone off though. speaking of telescoped it would be nice to have .500S&W bullets loaded into a telescoping polymer case that could fit into the grip of an autoloader so we can have halo magnums in real life

Do you guys think it would be feesable to hand-press telescopic captured piston rounds like the old PSS had? You might be able to extract them with a normal bolt action rifle

>>2327 Yes, but I doubt they could be reloaded after use. It would be like loading a normal cartridge, but with the added steps of seating the piston and sizing the case mouth. It would be easiest to base it off of an existing straight walled round for brass availability and to minimize the amount of dies that would be needed. You'd also want to anneal the case mouth before necking it down.

Do we know what the Russkies are currently up to? It's of course hard to keep up with them if you don't speak Russian, and I have no idea if they are actually buying all those fancy new stuff, from the Ratnik to the Armata.

>>4975 As far as can I read they are supposed to be adopted post 2020/2021 https://www.armadninoviny.cz/rusky-tank-armata-vstoupi-do-sluzby-v-roce-2021.html

>>4975 They've been prototype-testing various different stuff in Syria, ranging from suicide-drones to autocanon-tankettes. But with economy shitting the bed that stuff probably isn't going to be that great of a priority.

>>4975 From my knowledge and some guesswork they're having manufacturing problems with the gun. The 2A-82 gun was also supposed to be put onto the T-90 Tagil/Proryv, hence the enlarged turret, but they're only receiving the older 2A-46 series as of now. They also have the BMP-3 Dragoon, an updated BMP-3 with an improved layout and an unmanned turret. If Russia needed more modern fighting vehicles right now they have quicker and easier to implement options so I expect it to be slow going for the new families. As for their infantry, I know they're testing a replacement for the dragunov based on the MA system which will go into mass production 2021-2022. As well as making samples of a modernized MA rifle. They also have the Orsis T-5000 rifles that are being put into service. Russia just seem to be taking their time as they don't have much to worry about.

>>4997 You mean they're actually taking the time to work out most of the flaws in their new equipment before adopting it?

>>565 It's scary how accurate Arma 3 was with what they think NATO will be using by 2030, that Textron gun and optic precisely. >>4997 >russia >precision engineering lol. There's a reason the Spetsnaz uses H&K guns. I imagine those rifles will just be there to sell to the Indians. >>4975 They can't afford any of it, Ratnik might get adopted in small portions over time, the AK-12 is just a AK-74M with rails, Armata is too expensive and they'll just upgrade their old T-72 to T-90 spec ad infinitum. They say 2021, what that means is that it will wait until 2025 until there's more than 50 of them.

The Japanese never fail to make my dick rock-fucking-hard.

>>5044 Thank you for sharing, Strelok.

>>5044 The rifle is an AR-18 roughly beaten into the shape of a blocky AR-15, so this is basically a somehow better-looking SCAR. The pistol is some plastic fantastic HK thingy. Japs can do so much better than this.

>>5092 I say that and accidentally post a nork type 73. On that note, any news from Best Korea?

It looks like the navy is starting work on a new fighter not even that well into the F-35's service life. http://archive.is/zna6R

>>5093 A question regarding the 2nd image, what kind of rifle grenades are those and how come we don't see any forces in Europe and America use them anymore? I heard they were hard to use because they required a blank bullet to use and more training than an under-barrel grenade launcher. Are there any Streloks here that have used rifle grenades?

>>5147 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle_grenade

New Bundeswehr SI rifle to replace the G36 Haenel MK 556 Another Picatinny rail filled AR variant Then again was either that or a SCAR made by HK, the 433. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36433/here-is-the-suprise-choice-to-become-germanys-standard-assault-rifle Is there anything modern and unique anymore?

>>6647 Russian AR with wooden furniture? The chinks do kinda use their own platform. And Slovakia still does use Vz58 and Czechs do have their BREN 2.

>>6702 Up close the chinks rifle looks like one of those cheap plastic toy guns you can buy at funfairs.

>>6647 Fucking von der Leyen and her politics. She had a real hateboner for H&K. The official reason she wanted the G36 out was because it lost accuracy after a couple of mag dumps, but I mean, come on. I remember SZ reporting that active servicemen were real puzzled after the announcement since they never ran into any legit problems with the G36 themselves.

>>6772 Maybe some parts are made in the same factories?

Also what's /k/ opinion on the slovak modernisation of Sa-58? https://www.valka.cz/SVK-Sa-58-MD-utocna-puska-s-dlhou-hlavnou-t96160 https://www.valka.cz/SVK-Sa-58-MK-utocna-puska-s-kratkou-hlavnou-t96158 https://www.valka.cz/SVK-Sa-58-MS-utocna-puska-t96159

>>6773 Wasn't the issue with the G36 underperformance in hot environments? >>6775 Needs more rails When did the future become Black?

>>6773 >hateboner for G36 That's because they are trying to merge Nexter Systems and RM. They want to kill off the FAMAS replacement 416 so that new consitorum can get sweet monies

>>6702 who still considers the type-95 modern? if a gun was designed in the 90s and had basically no meaningful modification, that is still considered modern?

>>6854 Euqenes stoners AR design was made in 60s near every Mbt was made/designed in the 70s-80s, while as far as I know isn't china making a new Assault rifle?

>>6855 Yeah the QBZ has issues **they added a way to drain water from it via the mag by adding holes... Turns out that doesn't work well in the desert or when you have pollution dust everywhere.

>>6857 >QBZ There are more qbzs anon you gotta diffenciate them. Also which chinks use the QBZ-03?

>>6859 Qbz 95 was the one I was talking about. They had a trial mod with that and one of the pistols ( i think qsz 11) which were manufactured with holes in the bottom to drain out water. Obviously its not a good idea for desert. Qbz 03 is most likely issued to western theatre (tibet and Xinjiang) as well as some special units who get the new gear first in the central (beijing) theatre. Usually the western tc gets the newest shit first since hey have the harshest enviorments, and especially some shit just refuses to work (car engines for example) when in tibet at altitude.

I wonder how well would this new 130mm gun would fare if it was used for AA. And I also wonder how hard would it be to adapt various 5" shells to work with this (mostly looking at the Vulcano here).

Best koreans held a march and showed off their modernised army; seems like they got a whole bunch of digital uniforms, NODs, railed AKs, and a whole bunch of vehicles - whether they're more than plywood and green paint, we'll have to wait and see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8dZl9f3faY https://defence-blog.com/news/army/north-korea-held-clone-army-parade.html

>>7102 That for self propelled arty or for that new France-German European MBT nonsense?

>>7393 Why not both? Although, that is probably for the experimental 130mm leo. >>7140 I think the reason why they decided to do this parade at night was precisely because everything is plywood and leds.

>>7393 The story goes like this: >140mm and 120mm smoothbore cannons are developed in parallel >120mm round is basically a shortened and necked-down version of the 140mm one >Armata shows up and Rheinmetall decides that the West needs more penetration right now >so they decide to develop a 130mm cannon that sits right between the 120mm and 140mm ones https://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/12/12/on-the-140mm-tank-gun/#fn-1852-est Most NATO tanks were designed so that they can work with the 140mm cannon, and all three of them use the same basic design for the penetrator. And the 130mm shells is already so long and heavy that you need an autoloader for it, and then it really makes no difference if you use a somehow longer and heavier shell, because the autoloader should be able to handle it. All-in-all, I just don't see the point of choosing the 130mm design over the 140mm.

>>7400 My bigger question is if they have solved loading in seperate ammo types. IIRC that was the big autoloder issue. Maybe just have it load from 2 sides with two different ammos?

>>7393 >self propelled arty Smoothbore guns are inherently less accurate, so you'd need to use at least inertial guidance for accurate long distance shelling. But if you can accept that, then maybe you could use it for that role too. Still, a much bigger problem is that it uses fixed ammunition (the 140mm gun uses semi-fixed), so you can't vary the amount of propellant like in the 155mm NATO guns. >>7418 They solved that problem in the 1950s. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=1KMCOaZ8qlM

>>7563 >Is 6.8 NGSW a meme? There are 3 different projects: one uses telescopic polymer cases, the other two use a normal design. But one of the normal ones has a plastic case with a metallic end, and the other one has a brass case with a steel end. Now that very last one is inherently retarded, because at that point you should go for a steel case and call it a day. With all of that said, I don't understand the premise to begin with: the Army developed a 6.8mm projectile and just told the competitors to make it go sanic fast. If there was a bit of sanity they would have set certain criteria for the projectile (e.g. penetrate this kind of armour at this kind of range) and just let everyone compete to come up with the best cartridge that can deliver this performance. And of course a cartridge should be developed together with a barrel, so that you don't have to figure out the correct length and rifling (if there is rifling to begin with). Once you have the barrel and cartridge you can start designing (or adapting) firearms for them. But this? This is just retarded. And lastly, there is the criteria in question: we just don't know what the hell they want exactly. Actually, it looks like they themselves don't know what they want. Increasing the firepower of the rifleman is a noble goal, but only if you know what you want him to do in a firefight, because then you can figure out what he needs to do his job. All they seem to know is that they have this 6.8mm projectile and they want weapons that fire because overmatch. >If so, what caliber should we have switched to? Pic related in the 1950s, so now we wouldn't have all of this nonsense. Don't get me wrong, this isn't some kind of an Überkugel that got everything right, but it seems to be good enough for the job. We could make much better cartridges now, of course.

>>7564 Thanks for the answer anon! However I think they did tell them what requirements the rounds must meet. I believe they must penetrate level IV plates at 600 meters.

>>7140 That last pics looks like something from C&C 3.

So here's ~2 years later new tank Czech Republic >Size is basically the same. >Crew is still the same from the ol'T-72 >New Reactive/Composite add-on armor "DYNA-Excalibur" the front turret and front of the hull and the back and sides of turret has add-on slat armor >V-84 powerplant of 828 bhp at 2100 rpm >Armament: >Main: >2A46 cannon >calibre: 125 mm >ammunition: 39 rounds >gun stabilizer: not specified >range: >n daytime: 3.11 mi >at night: 2.49 mi >Secondary: >PKT coaxial machine gun >calibre: 7.62 mm >ammunition for coaxial machine gun: 2000 rounds >NSVT remote-controlled machine gun (MGC 01) >calibre: 12.7 mm >ammunition for machine gun: 720 rounds Also some of mine pics of Vydra

>>7625 The new Serbian M-84AS1 looks better

>>7625 This looks like a sensible, well built machine.

Speaking of Eastern Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28Rheinmetall_armoured_fighting_vehicle%29 >On 17 August, 2020 the government of Hungary and Rheinmetall Group signed a contract to start manufacturing the Lynx infantry fighting vehicle family in Hungary. Few other details emerged at the time about the deal, which is part of Hungary’s Zrinyi 2026 rearmament programme launched in 2017. Hungarian Ministry of Defence sources stated to Janes on 19 August that the details of the package, including industrial and procurement aspects, would be worked out within one to two months.[16] In a 2 September, 2020 interview about the new Lynx production joint venture and possible further German-Hungarian-Czech cooperation, Oliver Mittelsdorf, CEO of Rheinmetall Defence explicitly mentioned the existing, long-running manufacturing ties between Rheinmetall's MAN and Rába, a 124-years old Hungarian automotive manufacturing group with an active truck manufacturing plant near Győr, in Northwestern Hungary. A week later, on 10 September, 2020 Rheinmetall and the Government of Hungary held a joint press conference in Budapest and among the details of the new joint manufacturing project they announced that the new factory, along with an almost three square kilometer-sized full-service vehicle test track called ZALA Zone, will be built near Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. [17] [18] [19] Rheinmetall's press release of 10 September, 2020 confirmed that the Hungarian Ministry of Defence had awarded Rheinmetall an order to supply tracked armoured vehicles and related products and services with a total value of more than €2 billion. The contract covers 218 Lynx infantry fighting vehicles fitted with Rheinmetall's manned 30mm Lance turret. The larger/heavier Lynx KF41 has been selected by Hungary. The award also includes nine Leopard 2 based Buffalo armoured recovery vehicles, plus additional products and services that include simulators, training and instruction, plus an initial supply of spare parts as well as maintenance support.[7] During a first phase of production, Hungary is to receive forty-six Lynx plus the nine Buffalo ARVs, with delivery to be complete by the start of 2023. These vehicles will be built in Germany, but for the second production phase an additional 172 Lynx will built in Hungary. To this end, it was confirmed the Hungarian government and Rheinmetall had agreed in August 2020 to establish a joint venture responsible for creating a Lynx production facility in Hungary, to be financed by a local company.

>>7625 >Vydra It's a patria amv again isn't it? Ofcourse it is! Not sure what's the deal with everyone buying AMV's, not like Hyundai couldn't mass produce IFV's for half the cost.

>>7140 you're not pirating windows are you anon?