New rifles give Army snipers in Afghanistan needed range

[Howard]

The .50 Cal rounds use to be Teflon Coated to make it easier on the bore.

fixed

 

[LTC8K6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM2010

Neat conversion.

7.62X67

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.300_Winchester_Magnum

 

[HybridSquirrel]

that is a good looking rifle, there must be a major overhaul going on. Didn't ground troops just get issued m4 carbines with match grade barrels to replace their m16s? And that starship troopers looking gun get issued recently?

 

[LTC8K6]

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/USA-Orders-499M-in-300-Winchester-Magnum-Ammo-05493/

$50M worth orered...

 

[pontifex]

WTF, no artillery in Afghanistan?

artillery for 1 to 2 guys? Seems overkill and a waste of money don't you?

 

[TallBill]

artillery for 1 to 2 guys? Seems overkill and a waste of money don't you?

And you'd be surprised how far you can see over there. It's kind of ridiculous actually.

 

[Howard]

lol i just noticed that the first pic shows what seems to be a really long wine cork converted into a suppressor

 

[theflyingpig]

We need to leave afghanistan for about a year, and let all of our enemies feel safe and secure, then we need to go back and bomb the shit out of every single town and village we can find. Then we leave. Then we come back in a year and do the same thing. Then we leave. Then we come back in a year and do the same thing. lol. It would be fun. Everyone knows this.

 

[keird]

We need to leave afghanistan for about a year, and let all of our enemies feel safe and secure, then we need to go back and bomb the shit out of every single town and village we can find. Then we leave. Then we come back in a year and do the same thing. Then we leave. Then we come back in a year and do the same thing. lol. It would be fun. Everyone knows this.

We could bomb them into a Julian calandar!

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

No, in the US I don't think there's many courses that are absolutely required to graduate, my school had no physics class, hell we didn't even have anything above pre Algebra for math.

that explains a lot.

 

[Indolent]

that explains a lot.

I don't know what part of the US that quebert is from but I definitely had to take a couple math and at least one physics class to graduate.

 

[MotF Bane]

Congrats to the US army, it only took them 600 years to learn something from the Battle of Agincourt.

That being...?

 

[BladeVenom]

We could bomb them into a Julian calandar!

So bombing them can advance their tech level? Seriously, most of their country is already living in the stone age.

 

[sdifox]

That being...?

longbow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_agincourt

 

[Born2bwire]

I don't know what part of the US that quebert is from but I definitely had to take a couple math and at least one physics class to graduate.

He's from the getto yo! He did his schoolin on the streets.

 

[ebaycj]

No, in the US I don't think there's many courses that are absolutely required to graduate, my school had no physics class, hell we didn't even have anything above pre Algebra for math.

In the US, it's a state-by-state thing. If you grew up in Mississippi or Louisiana or Alabama, the bolded statement above is likely the norm.

 

[0roo0roo]

gravity helps their bullets travel farther??? wtf... ELEVATION, not gravity.


nice looking rifle.

lol, you can't snipe at a 45 degree angle

 

[thepd7]

If you neglected air resistance, then the speed of the bullet relative to a bystander would increase due to the acceleration due to gravity (Potential Energy changing into Kinetic Energy), but the horizontal component of that speed would always remain the same, so it wouldn't travel any farther. Gravity only causes a change in the vertical component of the velocity.

someone paid attention in mechanics!

 

[Kommander_Kink]

It's a shame that a superpower and its allies from NATO have not being able to defeat a rag-tag guerrilla army who is underarmed and underequipped, I lost my respect for the U.S. they are getting their arses whooped, 10 years and nothing to show for? Wow.

 

[waggy]

No, in the US I don't think there's many courses that are absolutely required to graduate, my school had no physics class, hell we didn't even have anything above pre Algebra for math.

what? a US high school with nothing above pre Algebra? sure.

 

[nublikescake]

It's a shame that a superpower and its allies from NATO have not being able to defeat a rag-tag guerrilla army who is underarmed and underequipped, I lost my respect for the U.S. they are getting their arses whooped, 10 years and nothing to show for? Wow.

That's because the U.S. fights with rules. The Taliban have no rules. That would explain the enormously high civilian casualties...oh wait, it doesn't. :hmm: But that's because the Taliban hide amongst civilian populations. That's why what prompts the U.S. to bomb wedding parties. The Taliban love hiding there. :\

 

[slightlyhuman]

In the US, it's a state-by-state thing. If you grew up in Mississippi or Louisiana or Alabama, the bolded statement above is likely the norm.

tack on arkinsaw.

<graduated from ar school. durrrrrrrr.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

artillery for 1 to 2 guys? Seems overkill and a waste of money don't you?

Actually it would probably be cheaper.
I was reading a Guns and Ammo ma type rag on the throne the other day and the article stated that on average for every insurgent/taliban guy that is killed, US soilders fire 250,000 rounds.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...use-250000-for-every-rebel-killed-508299.html

 

[xSauronx]

dont you have to take it to graduate from HS?

nope, i never had to take it

also dont have to take it at uni

/hates math, picked geology

 

[Zargon]

The majority of troops still use the 5.56 mm NATO round, aren't they even more at a disadvantage?

the majority of troops dont need to or wont be effective at those ranges


this rifle was not developed for afghan im sure, its been coming for years, the M24 is old old old old old.

and the m24 is available in 300 winmag.......