Fubar512

I've shot the BRN-10. It is a really nice rifle.

The 20" barrel on the classic AR-pattern (mimicking either the M-16, M-16A1, or M-16A2), is a nice shooting rifle, with almost no felt recoil, and amazing accuracy.  From what I've see from Chronograph results, the longer barrel also imparts an additional 100-200 fps to the base 55-grain 5.56 or .223 round, over a 16" M-4 pattern rifle.

13 hours ago, RUSTYMORLEY said:

 It looks suspiciously like a heavily modified AK-47 which in itself is just a popular and well known mass- produced, Soviet made assault rifle. Although it  looks like a sniper rifle it probably is just a support rifle. !!!!

From Quora: "Although outwardly they look similar they are different rifles. The AK has a long stroke gas system, two locking lugs on the bolt, a simple trigger, is capable of fully automatic fire, and the forearm is attached directly to the barrel. The Dragunov uses a short stroke gas system, a bolt with three locking lugs for greater strength, a semi-automatic only match grade trigger, and a forearm attachment that relieves pressure on the barrel for better accuracy.". 

It's chambered in the 7.62x54R (rimmed) cartridge, as is the  Mosin-Nagant.

15 hours ago, RUSTYMORLEY said:

Not particularly very good on range if I remember correctly. !!!

From what I've read (and seen on Youtube firearm-specific channels), The SVD was not specifically designed to be a sniper rifle (although they later referred to it as one).  Rather, it was meant to be a "support rifle for designated marksmen." Read what you will into that statement.

Now, using quote, "high-grade" ammunition, it was supposed to be capable of 1.04 MOA (maximum) at 100 meters. I would suspect that with proper match ammo, it would yield sub-MOA groups at that range. It's maximum effective range was reported to be 1300 meters.

7.62x39.  The easy way to tell, is to look at the curvature of the magazine.  The AK-47's 7.62x39 mm has the most curvature, the AK-74's (5.45x39 mm) has less. Also, but not always the case, the 47's have an angled gas block, while a straight one normally signifies an AK-74. Of course, this doesn't necessarily apply to AK derivatives such as the Galil, the Valmet, the Norinco rifles (etc.).

AK-74: 

My AK is nothing special. It's a Century Arms C39V2 with the full Magpul furniture set and a Primary Arms red-dot on the proprietary Century Arms side mount.  Given the checkered past of this brand and model, I check it regularly for head space issues with a set of go-no-go gauges, and keep a close eye on BCG and receiver wear. So far (approximately 1500 rounds in), so good.

It's proven accurate and reliable so far.

Here it is with my Mini-14..

1 hour ago, FalconC45 said:

I went shooting today as well. I did terrible :/. Well its been like 7 years since I last shot. And my mount generator needs to be replaced. Had to do an old school method of string on trigger to shoot my AR. I use a special mount for my wheelchair to shoot. it has a "trigger finger" which when I push a button, it pulls the trigger. The generator for my mount is old and doesn't hold its charge :/. I was all over the place too. Probably from pulling the string and my mount was not really eye level of my POV. I shot about 75 rounds thru my AR when it decided to jam. Now I have to bring it to a gunsmith because with my disablity I can't field strip it to unjam it. But I had fun though if that made sense.

 

Falcon

I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with your AR.  If I lived within reasonable driving distance of you, I would clear the jam and clean that firearm for you.  I have both an AR-15 and an AK-47, and enjoy shooting them both.

4 hours ago, warthog64 said:

One of my favorites! Along with the 1911

It's also one of my favorites...though mine is chambered in 9 mm, so the ammo is about half as expensive as .45 ACP.  

32 minutes ago, Wrench said:

I didn't know that zombie elephants were a thing ... 

One never knows what one might encounter.  Cthulhu, for example...

.50 AE v 9 mm Parabellum

"Why must you insist on carrying a .50 cal desert eagle?" Because they don't make a .60 cal 

1400 HP in an open center-console style boat. What's not to like?

I stumbled onto this old jewel while surfing through Youtube's collection of shooting and firearm-related videos:

1 hour ago, Skyviper said:

Well. That makes sense.

So how high or low was it?

To figure that out, one must know the height of the radar, how its mounted (savvy installers place a wedge under the mounting flange to compensate for a boat's running angle), and the vertical beam width (large span open array radar antennas usually have a narrower beam width, than smaller, enclosed dome antennas).

One boat that I used to run had a 72-mile radar mounted on it's bridge top.  The antenna was about 20 feet above the waterline.  On its 12-mile range setting, I used to see smaller, private aircraft departing from a local airport about 6-7 nautical miles away, and at the 36-mile range setting, military transports climbing out of  joint base McGuire -Dix-Lakehurst (once they cleared the ground clutter).

An airliner from the size of the return.  Too bad it wasn't a video, as opposed to a still, then you'd appreciate how fast the return traverses the display.

It's an aircraft.

Skyviper, you are correct in one respect.  You are looking at a heavy rain storm approaching from the vessel's port side. I happen to know that this boat is tied up at its slip in a small marina.  

Notice the diagonal line near the center of the display ?  That's the land and docks in that marina, and in the surrounding area.  The target at 8 o'clock traces back from a thin line and then gets "thicker" as it goes along. The antenna sweeps every 3-4 seconds.  To make a line like that at that distance (given the sweep interval) requires a bit of headway.  Hint: It's not another vessel.

Anyone care to guess what caused the return at the 8 o'clock position on this commercial marine radar display?  

It's on a 12-mile range setting, so each ring represents 3 miles across.  That places the target 4.5-5 nm out from the vessel carrying the radar.  

Now, I know what it is, from its track (relative to the antenna's sweep period), and by having encountered such targets before.

Witnessed two eclipses  a long time ago (in March of 1970 and July of 1972). Both were partial eclipses in my area, and in the latter event, I set up a telescope on a street corner with a sun projection screen so passers-by could get a safe look.  

What I remember being cool about the 1972 event, was seeing literally thousands of projected images of the eclipse caused by the sun shining through the tree leaves in the area.

The answers to those questions can be found here: http://combatace.com/forum/268-thirdwire-strike-fighters-2-series-knowledge-base/

Admittedly, it may take a bit of searching, but trust me, the answers are there.

Now, do you have other SF2-series titles already installed?  If you do, then you'll find that SF2:NA has merged with them.  What that means, is that you now have access to the IcelandNA terrain, and the SF2NA ground objects (ships), from inside the other titles.  That makes things rather easy, when it comes to modding. 

it will have a 40mm single on the bow and a twin 40mm on the rear  

Uh, no way.

The fore deck on the Elco and Higgens boats were not reinforced for that sort of weight, and field mods were limited to lighter weapons, such as 20 mm or the even lighter (weight) 37 mm scrounged from a P-39 

For example, the Oerlikon 20 mm weighed about 400 lbs fully loaded on a fixed tripod mount, and just over 600 lbs when mounted on a reinforced pedestal. 

A single Bofors L60 40mm weighed in at just a hair over 1000 lbs on its pedestal mount, which is why it was limited to being mounted near the fantail, where the flatter sections of a PT's running bottom would still provide enough dynamic lift to allow the boat to achieve planing speed in a reasonable amount of time, and not adversely affect its top speed. It also required a crew of four to man it.

So that being said, a twin 40 mm mount would probably push 2,200 lbs (or more, as the powered quad 40 mounts on BBs and CAs weighed in at over 25,000 lbs!), and would undoubtedly effect the boat's ability to plane off.

Also, due to the sharp entry on either Elco or Higgens hulls, even a single 40 mm mount would probably cause what's referred to as "bow steer". That's where either hull's sharp entry would catch on a wave, and cause the bow to dart to either side.  

I have some experience with bow steer.  I once ran a 55-foot sports fisherman, that displaced just over 40 tons, or about half the weight of a loaded PT boat. The owner had replaced its original, bow mounted 15 foot RIB, with a 17 foot Boston Whaler, and just that additional 500 lbs on the fore deck was enough to burn out the auto-pilot's steering motor. In fact, the boat ran so much better with no weight on the bow, that I made him remove the dingy completely when we were running out of our home port.

Here's an image of the '109, showing it's stern mounted 20 mm Oerlikon on a reinforced pedestal.  Note the additional deck reinforcement beneath the pedestal itself.

Now, an interesting weapon, was the Elco "Thunderbolt",  which featured quad Oerlikons, with either dual or even quad .50 cals on either side.  Talk about a shit storm!

Should be good enough to beat the Somalian pirates, I think. 

Or sink Japanese destroyers, submarines, and armored Daihatsu barges in the Pacific Theater, not to mention one Nazi Corvette, numerous F-lighters, and at least two Schnell boats in the Med.

Oh, and a brace of PT boats held off a wave of Japanese strike aircraft near the Solomon Islands, in broad daylight, downing at least three of them.

"Motor Mac's" (engineer's) station on an Elco 80 footer.  Talk about being in the hot seat!

The 658's web page:  http://www.savetheptboatinc.com/new_page_9.htm

Hey Kevin,

Here's a late Higgens boat, with a 37 and a 20 mm on the foredeck, the standard 2X twin 50s, a 40 mm on the fantail, an additional  20 mm just forward of that, four torps on lightweight racks, 2 (MK7?) depth charges, and 5" rocket racks, port & starboard!